Jenny Quetzal

**Jennifer Elena Quetzal Rodríguez**, best known as **Jenny Quetzal**, is the main antagonist of the second season of *The House of Flowers* and a supporting anti-heroine of the third season, where she's replaced as the main antagonist by Victoria Aguirre and Purificación Riquelme. Although she's part of a side story that unfolds throughout the season, her actions impact heavily on the main characters lifes.

She was portrayed by Mariana Treviño

## Throughout the Series

### La Parvada

Following the death of Virginia de la Mora, matriarch of the De la Mora family in the first season, her body has to be transported from Houston, Texas to Mexico City by her widower, Ernesto. After Ernesto crosses the border, his friend Carlos is supposed to provide him a private plane to transport the body. After some troubles with the documents, Ernesto crosses the border and finally delivers the body to the funeral. Carlos arrives dressed in all blue, talking to the mourning Ernesto. Carlos talks about his new "wife", a woman called Jenny Quetzal who does "courses" of self-improvement and gives Ernesto her book. In despair for his wife's death Ernesto is seduced by the words of "La Parvada" (*The Flock* in English), the name of the followers of Jenny Quetzal. Eventually Ernesto gets more involved and begins to pay to La Parvada to ascend levels and become Diamond level. His three kids (Paulina, Elena and Julián) are worried about him, but they are also having issues with Virginia's will and with some debts from the events of the first season. Also, Ernesto manages to get a friend of his and Paulina out of jail. He met when was imprisioned after being framed by his deceased lover, Roberta Navarro, a former dealer known as "El Cacas" and quickly Ernesto tries to introduce him to La Parvada.

Ernesto takes Cacas to La Parvada headquarters where he is informed of a monetary fee to join, Cacas right away notices the pyramid scheme and refuses, but Ernesto who is too delusional to realize keeps insisting on the following days on which Cacas helps around the house and tries to make some money of himself by trafficking octopuses.

### Meeting Jenny

Finally comes the day for Ernesto to meet Jenny and become Diamond level, but when he's informed by his followers that Jenny's "energy" feels disturbed and unease, Ernesto offers a wedding ring, a relic of the De la Mora family that belonged to Virginia's great- grandmother and have been passed from generation to generation, the followers, pleased by Ernesto's offering accept to take him to Jenny. Ernesto and Jenny meet in person, where Jenny reveals to know personal things about Ernesto, demostrating her "psychic powers" and also pleased by the ring, offers Ernesto more than to be a Diamond level member, but to also be one of his "husbands of light", Ernesto accepts and they "marry" before the cult. However a husband of light for Jenny means a wealthy, widower man in need for love she can take advantage of and slowly convince them of delivering their fortunes and goods to La Parvada.

### The Home Intrusion

In the following days, Ernesto invites Jenny to his house and convinces Ernesto of making his house the new "meditation area" for the followers as she feels a very "calm and familiar energy", Ernesto accepts and the cult moves to the wide garden, first for meditating and gradually they set a camp. Meanwhile the family is informed that their family portrait was sold and replaced by a new one commissioned Virginia before her death, the painting is named after a phrase on it "La vida después de ti" (Life after you), and portraits Julián as a lust-driven individual with his lover Diego Olvera as a monkey puppet with horns (as Diego stealed money from them in the final chapter of Season 1), Elena in a twisted elongated pose in a red dress, Paulina is portrayed with a bottle of Tafil instead of heart and next to her transgender wife, María José Riquelme (portrayed with an open book on her head) and finally Ernesto suurounded by tentacles, Paulina admiring the painting in shock has her first enocunter with Jenny, who reveals her intentions with Ernesto, Paulina, angered by how she has changed her father swears to get rid of her, but Jenny makes notice that there's another character in the painting, a blue-hooded figure behind Ernesto, and Jenny tells Paulina that her mother predicted everything, amazed by this, Paulina.

One night, Micaela Sánchez (Ernesto's daughter with Roberta Navarro) is looking for her pet rabbit on the garden, he finds the followers who invite her to dine with them, they serve her some meat and she eats, but when she finds out that's her pet rabbit, he screams and leaves as Jenny watches grinning from her bedroom inside the house, seeing her the following days in complete sadness, his other kids try to make Ernesto realize his delusion, but in denial he promises to speak to Jenny and Micaela, Jenny convinces Ernesto that the rabbit has "trascended" and that La Parvada must take what the Earth offers them to survive, following this logic, Jenny convinces Ernesto to let the followers use the house as their own, much to their kids anger, mostly Paulina.

Ernesto invites El Cacas to their meditation sesion and Jenny reveals to him, he makes his lack of faith noticeable and convinces him by once again using her "psychic powers" to unveil Cacas past, moved by this, Cacas becomes a member of La Parvada, but in the following days, Jenny seems to show more interest in Cacas than Ernesto. One night, sick of the invasion, Paulina calls on the cops to their house, here it is revealed that the followers are equipped by a suicide pill in case the cult is in danger, however the police chief is friend of Ernesto and convinces him that everything is fine, however they arrest Cacas for octopus traffic. Ernesto then begins to notice Jenny's preference for Cacas.

### The Downfall

After various events on the series, Ernesto confronts Jenny about articles on newspapers denouncing her as a fraud and a wanted criminal but Jenny says those are fake news spread by the goverments of the world to stop La Parvada from revealing the truth to the world, some time after, Ernesto is in need of the great-grandmother's ring, so she confronts Jenny and asks her to return it, Jenny refuses heavily and shows great disgust for the mention of Virginia's name, Ernesto opens his eyes and sees through Jenny's lies as she finally admits she sold the ring, Ernesto leaves and accepts his delusion. As the family is getting ready to watch Micaela's performance in a TV talent show, Ernesto sees on the news that there's a reward to anyone who can give a lead to Jenny's wherabouts, decided to finally support his family, turns Jenny over to the police who chase after her and some of his followers on a black van, but as they are escaping, they crash onto Elena's uber as she was travelling to the show, stopping Jenny's van, the second season ends on a cliffhanger.

### Blue is the New Black

On the beggining of the third season, it is revealed that Jenny survived the crash but lost an eye and it's imprisioned, after the events of the third season, Paulina ends up in jail, and as Jenny's cellmate, where the latter swears to take revenge on Paulina.

In jail, Jenny continues to preach to the inmates telling them that "the great coming" will set them free but first they have to get rid of  Paulina, meanwhile, Purificación, María José's mentally ill sister, travels to Mexico posing as her sister to make sure Paulina never gets out and to make sure she doesn't tell María José, she gives orders to the jail staff to not let her communicate with the exterior. Paulina it's cornered by Jenny's followers when she was trying to make a call, but before they attack her, "La Chiva", a powerful elderly woman amongst the inmates stops her and claims she'll take care of Paulina herself, as she's "an old friend" from her family.

Paulina asks for help to the jail's warden but declines after realizing Jenny's book it's on his desk, meaning he's a follower.

### The Alliance

Feeling helpless, one night Paulina begs Jenny not to hurt her, they argue and thinks escalate, two guards arrive to their cell apparently to take Paulina but they take Jenny instead to the surprise of both and Jenny's taken to an isolated punishment cell.

Paulina decides to try to reason with Jenny and visits her on her cell, where she seems desperate for help, Jenny tells Paulina that the warden it's a sexual predator and she refused to get laid with him, Paulina offers Jenny help with the warden if she helps her reason with "La Chiva", they agree and Paulina with the help of some guards (who are also followers of Jenny) record the warden sexually harassing Paulina, using the recording to extort him and free Jenny, she repays her by returning her the great-grandmother's ring, revealing she never sold it, insted she had swallowed it to get through the border.

### The Great Cominge

Jenny speaks with "La Chiva" telling her that there's a weakness in the compund right in her territory, the she fakes no make an deal with her, if "La Chiva" let's them escape in The Great Coming through her territory, she'll deliver Paulina to her, "La Chiva" agrees, she tells Paulina about the deal and confesses to her that she'll come with them in The Great Coming dressed as an elderly woman.

The night of the escape, inexplicably a tunnel appears underneath the jail, Jenny and her followers are preparing Paulina but time is running short and Jenny tells her to stay close to her, the inmates escape through the tunnel to a mysterious light at the end of it but Jenny realizes Paulina stayed behind, she calls for her but she has already been cornered by "La Chiva" 's inmates, Jenny keeps calling for her but the light intensifies and after a flash, Jenny and her followers disappear into thin air, leaving ambiguous if Jenny was right all along, but is said in further episodes, she and her followers were never found.