Paola Madrigal

Paola Madrigal is a character in Disney's 2024 animated feature film Encanto 2: A New Generation. She is the youngest child of Cali and Marcos Madrigal, and sister of José and Hazel. Described as “overly emotional”, Paola’s gift creates music from thin air everywhere she goes, and it changes depending on her emotions.

Background
Born into the Madrigal family, Paola is the youngest daughter of Cali and Marcos, and the younger sister of José and Hazel. In addition to being the cousin of Mateo, Rosa, Rico and Faye, Paola is also the granddaughter of Mirabel and Lorenzo. Paola lived in the nursery with her older siblings, until both of them moved into their own rooms. From that point on, she lived with her younger cousin Rico, who is 3 years younger than her. When Paola was five, she received the gift of being able to create music everywhere she went that changes based on her emotions, and she moved out of the nursery into her new room.

Official Description

 * "Paola is José's younger sister who is very emotional about everything. You can always tell how she's feeling about something based on the music that plays when she's around."


 * "Paola is a walking talking music machine, and she is very emotional. She gets really happy, sad, angry, and more at pretty much anything that happens."

Development
As with the rest of the new Madrigal family, Paola was designed to reflect members from the original Madrigal family, while also appearing as a family member everyone can relate to. As in the final production, the studio created Paola from the start as the overly-emotional sister, who is constantly having mood swings based on her current situation. For her appearance, she was designed to appear young and a little wild, with her hairstyle reflecting her uncontrolled emotions, and her dress reflecting her music making powers with music notes across her skirt.

Paola's voice actor, Ava Michelle, described her character: "Paola is a pretty unstable character, but she's not mean or resentful. At least, not on purpose. You can tell that she just wants to keep things smooth and happy, but all it takes is one bad hair day, and you got Metallica playing all throughout the house."

Personality
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Physical Appearance
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Powers and abilities
Paola has the power of Empathetic Music Creation; she can create a musical tune from thin air through her emotional state. When she feels happy, an upbeat, chipper tune will play, whereas sadness will play a slow and melancholy tune consisting of string instruments or pianos. If she gets angry, a rock or metal tune will play, and fear can cause unsettling music to follow her around. When she's asleep, a soft music box lullaby will play to keep her asleep. Depending how strong the emotion she is feeling, the music will become bigger and louder. And due to her over-emotional behavior, this is an issue that persists quite often.

She has no real control over her gift, as she cannot control her emotions well, and she cannot make the music stop playing. And should anybody ask her to do so, she will become very angry at them for wanting her to do so. Because of the nature of her gift, she does not see it as very useful, and secretly wishes she had a completely different gift. But with the help of her brother, she learns that she can accept her gift for what it is, and despite how it may seem, it is still very useful to the family.

Encanto 2: A New Generation
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