Carlotta Valdez, also known under her alias as Vera Cruz is the mother of Carmen Sandiego and was the partner of Dexter Wolfe before his demise. After Dexter's death, she went into hiding and was assumed to have also died two weeks prior to her husband's death, she was born in 1971 and supposedly died in 1999 at the age of twenty-eight though was found to be alive by her daughter after Carmen found the grave to be empty.
Physical Appearance[]
Carmen believed her mother to be a tall woman with a red trenchcoat, matching hat with an orange band, yellow scarf and long brown hair with strands covering her eyes, she wore black boots with red lipstick.
When pictures of Carlotta were examined by Julia Argent, the former wore mainly purple, accessorised with a lavender sun hat, purple lipstick, she was also photographed with auburn hair and always smiled. In other pictures of her that were examined by the A.C.M.E agent, Julia notes how Carlotta resembled Carmen in her younger years.
After the downfall of V.I.L.E, she was tracked down by her daughter where she had much darker hair that had strands of gray and tied into a ponytail, she also wore a long sleeved red shirt with blue jeans and a black belt that went through the hoops of her jeans.
History[]
Carlotta Valdez was born in Veracruz, Mexico in 1971 to two unknown parents. Later in life, she encountered and fell in love with a man named Dexter Wolfe eventually learning of his affiliation with V.I.L.E. though continued to stay with him. Sometime later, she mothered a young girl who eventually grew up to be Carmen Sandiego though unbeknownst to her.
Wanting a new life now that she and Dexter had a child, Carlotta and Dexter devised a plan that involved moving elsewhere upon learning that Coach Brunt, Dr. Bellum and Professor Maelstrom had discovered of Dexter's intention of defecting from V.I.L.E, Carlotta agreed to go into hiding under the assumption she had died with Dexter going as far as to have a gravestone made claiming she had died two weeks prior to his defection in 1999 at around the age of twenty-eight.
Unaware Dexter had been killed one night, Carlotta went by her alias of Vera Cruz also unaware that her house had been burned down and that her daughter had been taken away from the incident. Around two decades later, her coffin was located by Carmen and Shadowsan, the man who rescued Carmen as a baby, upon being opened, Carmen discovered her mother was still alive due to the empty box.
When Carmen resolved to find her mother, the former discovered that Carlotta had spent a year living in Veracruz, Mexico before putting herself back into hiding, Carmen's plans to locate her mother were then halted in order to stop V.I.L.E.
When Carmen continued to work on taking down the organisation that had raised her, The Chief began her own search on Carlotta by looking at evidence that showed Carmen in banks. The latter then called for a meeting with The Chief where she offered a trade that she would give her information on V.I.L.E so long as she was given information on her mother in return, the deal was agreed and Carmen discovered her mother's origins, learning that Carlotta and Dexter had agreed with each other to not be seen together in public with photos of the two showing them in the same location with neither never acknowledging the other. Eventually, Carmen discovered that six months after her father's death, Carlotta opened an orphanage in Buenos Aires, Argentina with hopes that she could see her daughter again
Needing more answers, Shadowsan broke into the orphanage where he found items belonging to Carlotta including pictures of Dexter with Carmen and the Matryoshka doll that was missing from the set Carmen had kept growing up, after V.I.L.E was taken down and its members imprisoned, Carmen travelled to her birth country where she found the orphanage using files of information given to her where she reunited with her mother
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Trivia[]
- Carlotta's design in Carmen's memory is reminiscent of Carmen's designs in other iterations.
- Her alias comes from the Mexican city of Veracruz.
- She also went by several other codenames as mentioned in "The Luchadora Tango Caper".
- Shadowsan and Ivy believed her to have also been a thief though The Chief ruled out any assumptions noting how Carlotta had no other direct connections to V.I.L.E.
- Due to her hair graying as of her appearance in "The Dark Red Caper", it can be assumed she is in her late forties, nearing her fifties suggesting that 1971 is indeed when she was born.
| Carmen Sandiego (2019) characters | ||
|---|---|---|
| Team Red | Carmen Sandiego • Player • Zack • Ivy • Shadowsan • Sonia • Hideo | |
| A.C.M.E. | The Chief • Chase Devineaux • Julia Argent • Agent Zari • A.C.M.E Agent | |
| V.I.L.E. | Faculty | Professor Maelstrom • Coach Brunt • Saira Bellum • Countess Cleo |
| Operatives | Crackle • Tigress • El Topo • Le Chevre • Dash Haber • Paper Star • Mime Bomb • The Cleaners • Cookie Booker • The Captain • Lady Dokuso • Roundabout • The Mechanic • The Driver • Neal the Eel • Moose Boy • Otter Man • Spinkick • Flytrap • Marta Contreras • The Troll | |
| Others | Dr. Pilar Marquez • Miro • Dr. Jeanine Dennam • Sharkhead Eddie • Trey Sterling • Sterling Sterling • Ibrahim Al Sibaq • Commander • Interpol Supervisor • Dexter Wolfe • Vera Cruz • Lupe Peligro • Huang Li • Xifeng • Oxtail | |