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Maria DeLuca from Roswell New Mexico is probably my favorite "best friend" character. I planned on making one icon for each season, but there's a bonus season 3 icon because I couldn't decide on my favorite image and that happens to be my favorite season.

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Maria is a great support character for a lot of reasons. The best thing about her character is that she evolves into a main character with her own independent story line by season three. ( Some meta & major spoilers under here. )

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Sliding in with one last RNM post :) Here are some icons I've made of Rosa Ortecho lately.

Rosa becomes so much more than just the drug-addicted older sister as we get to know her in s2 and beyond. ( Major spoilers for Roswell New Mexico )

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A little late, but this post is all about Liz from Roswell New Mexico! First, icons I made this past year:

Thanks to

scintilla10 for the prompt: science! I love that the show is very consistent about Liz's science passion. Liz has the drive to continually make scientific discoveries and push her knowledge forward, and this ambition sometimes gets her into trouble when she uses alien DNA without permission. Her passion for scientific discovery is often at odds with her passion for Max Evans, and sometimes she does choose the science - by avoiding his questions, or by deliberately hiding what she's up to. This is because of what the science symbolizes for Liz.

Science as a discipline is supposed to be methodical, reliable, and rational. She can dive into an experiment, feel completely in her element, and forget all about her personal life. She can always learn something new, even when experiments go wrong or she calculates something incorrectly. Her time is never wasted because her work is always going to be important. Science is also a means of escape for her. She worked her whole life to get good grades and get into a great school and master's program - so that she could land a meaningful research project (and be gainfully employed outside of Roswell). Science gave her a future she might not have had otherwise. People disappoint Liz, but the science never does. That's why it's so hard for her to put her work down - it's a big part of who she is.

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Today I wrote some meta about Charlie Cameron from Roswell New Mexico! Thanks to jocarthage on tumblr for the prompt. Charlie was a bioweapons engineer for the military at some point before canon, and got very good at keeping Government secrets. However, she decided to leak unspecified classified documents, and when her sister Jenna realized what Charlie did, she reported her. Charlie was subsequently arrested and convicted. She eventually escapes military prison, and that's how her character joins the show in season 2.

Her character has many similarities with Chelsea Manning. ( More about that under here. )

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Isobel Evans is the perfect character to talk about for the Moods theme, because she's an empath! She discovers this particular ability during season three, when the Alien known as "Mr. Jones" tells her that she shares this trait with her mother. I wrote a bit of meta about this ability but first, these are all the Isobel icons I made over the past year.

Thanks to

tellshannon815 for the prompt! ( More about Isobel's abilities under here )

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Maria DeLuca owns a bar in Roswell called The Wild Pony, where all the locals gather for a good time. She also does palm readings and is in touch with her spiritual side. She was best friends with Liz and Alex in high school, and in season one of Roswell she gets to reconnect with both of them. She finds herself drawn into alien drama, and in the process she learns more about her family's past.

The Wild Pony is always playing music, and Maria even occasionally takes up the mic. I think she would use her bar to play music from the newest country voices. This playlist captures songs that describe her but also fit the vibe of The Wild Pony. Plus, most of the artists are prominent black voices in the country music scene.

( Tracklist Under Here )

I also made a couple icons featuring Maria in episode 1x09 when she sang at a karaoke night.

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Liz Ortecho is a biomedical researcher who returns to her home town, but keeps up her science skills by doing dubiously ethical alien science research. She actually comes back to Roswell because her research project back in Colorado lost its funding. She works on a research project at Roswell General and for a biomedical engineering company over the course of the show. Her discoveries do save the lives of her friends, but her methods are questionable. Hence why I love her. She's one step away from being a mad scientist and grapples with her own morals at several points during the show. But no one can deny that Liz is highly educated and has some crazy skills!

At the beginning of season 4, she works as a science teacher at the high school for students trying to get their GED. She recognizes herself in a girl named Vanessa, and tries to be a mentor to her. I think it's an interesting nod to the original Roswell series. Here are a few icons of Liz as a teacher!