Carlos Molina

**Carlos Molina** is a recurring character *Julie and the Phantoms*. He is Julie's little brother.

He is portrayed by Sonny Bustamante.

## Biography

### Early Life

Carlos was born to his parents Ray and Rose Molina in the late 2000's. He has an older sister named Julie and an aunt from his mother's side named Victoria.

At some point he took up playing baseball.

In 2019, his mother passed away from unknown circumstances.

### Season One

Carlos is shown to also be slowly processing his mom's death, willingly setting up a place on the dinner table for a fourth member and hiding it when Tia Victoria arrives.

While at first he made fun of his sister for thinking she saw ghosts (Wake Up), Carlos quickly latched on to the idea that there were ghosts living in the house, especially when he saw the photos his dad Ray Molina took in the garage. The messed up photos of the garage featured three blurs that, unbeknownst to Ray, were actually Luke, Alex, and Reggie. (Bright)

He does research online about ghosts and their weaknesses. In the studio, Carlos tells Julie of his discovery that salt apparently burns out the souls of ghosts. Unaware of the three ghosts in the room, he sprinkles salt around—resulting in nothing happening to Luke, Alex or Reggie. (I Got the Music)

Carlos finds his laptop playing rock music and takes this as further proof that there are ghosts in the house. Julie automatically knows that it was Reggie. Carlos explains that he has been taking pictures around the house with an iPad in order to capture the glints that show up when photographing ghosts. He warns Julie that their dad was further into the house looking annoyed, like when, "Google Maps tells him to turn into the wrong street." (Finally Free)

Left at home with his Tía Victoria, Carlos spends the evening searching for ghosts with his iPad. Victoria exasperatedly tells him that ghosts aren't real, unaware of the three ghosts watching the duo. In an effort to help Carlos, Reggie turns of the lamp, messes with the blinds and finally slips under a white blanket to move around. Faced with this unexplained presence in their house, Carlos presumes that the spirit is his mom, to Victoria's protest. He goes to record everything on video, only for the camera to be in selfie-mode and for his aunt to drag him away in panic.

During his sister's garage party, Carlos is shown filming the band performing Edge of Great, presumably providing a different camera angle for the band's YouTube video. (Edge of Great)

Carlos talks to his dad about a ghost update. It is revealed that Carlos and Ray had a previous conversation about Carlos' ghost-hunting obsession. Carlos had watched a YouTube videos last night because he couldn't sleep and he learned that ghosts have 'unfinished business.' Carlos reveals that he found stuff in the garage that belonged to a chef, who, Carlos supposes had a dream of making a French dip. This prompts Ray to help Carlos make the chef's recipe so that the chef's dream would be realized. Carlos, focusing on the imaginary chef, didn't notice Sunset Curve's demo CD. (Unsaid Emily)

(Stand Tall)

## Background

### Personality

Carlos, for all intents and purposes, has an ordinary younger brother personality. His care for Julie and his family is demonstrated in his small actions, trying to distract Ray when Julie is in trouble, and setting out to hunt and 'protect' her from ghosts. Carlos believes in the supernatural—particularly in ghosts—and he spends most of the season one testing out ghost theories from YouTube videos. His overactive imagination combined with the phantoms' actual presence in the Molinas' house lead him further in his belief in the existence of ghosts.

### Appearance

Carlos has curly black hair and brown eyes.

## Relationships

* Rose Molina † - (mother)
* Julie Molina - (older sister)
* Victoria - (maternal aunt)

Friends* Los Feliz High School
	+ Flynn - (friend)

## Appearances

he was in stand tall there was a code error

## Trivia

* Carlos shares the same first name as the actor Carlos Ponce who plays his dad Ray Molina.
	+ The character was also named after Cameron Boyce's character from Disney's *Descendants.*
* Carlos plays baseball in Wake Up and is seen wearing a baseball uniform.
	+ His baseball jersey number is 7 (Wake Up)
* Carlos has become a ghost hunter and works to prove the existence of the ghosts of **Sunset Curve.**