Celia Flores

Celia Flores
In flashback in "Blood in the Streets".
Personal Details
Status	Unknown
Age	Mid 50's
Gender	Female
Actor	Marlene Forte
Appearances
Seasons	Season 2
First Seen	"Blood in the Streets"
Physical Attributes
Ethnicity	Hispanic-American
Hair	Brown
Family
Luis Flores - son

“	This is not apocalypse, this is a beginning	”
	— Celia Flores, "Shiva"

Celia Flores is a character in AMC's Fear the Walking Dead. They first appear in the episode "Blood in the Streets".

Biography

Background

Pre-Apocalypse

Celia has worked for the Abigail family for a long time, reaching a position of managing the Abigail Family Vineyard. She took on the position of a surrogate mother to Thomas after his own mother was no longer around.

Season 2

Celia is first seen in flashback telling Thomas to cover up lest he get sunburn. She shows no like for Victor Strand, who she sees as an interloper, and possible because her son told her how Strand meet Thomas (i.e. Thomas being the victim of Strands money theft scheme).

The first time she appears out of flashback in in Sicut Cervus, where she greets Victor at the gates of the estate and learns the fate of her son, who she is convinced will return.

It is later revealed that she and the staff keep infected housed and fed in the wine cellar, and that she is not worried about Thomas' infection. This is revealed as her near religiously held belief that the infected are not dead but just in another stage of life. She chats with Nick Clarke, where her warm, motherly approach wins him over to her belief system.

She is angry at Victor for shooting Thomas as she believed that Victor murdered Thomas. She angrily slaps him and raises her hand to slap him again, but she is stopped by Madison.

Madison stops Celia from slapping Strand a second time

In order to get Madison to see her point of view, they go to the wine cellar together, where Celia refers to the infected as her "children." She then unlocks the gate and enters the cellar, while Madison locks the gate behind her. She does not seem concerned by this development.

Personality

Celia is presented as a warm, maternal figure to all she meets. Her religious beliefs give her a calm, almost "zen" outlook at what is happening to the world. However, she can be cruel and cold blooded when the need arises. She kills the local Priest and his congregation because they were coming after her (in retaliation for the herd of walkers she kept in the wine cellar). She also banished Strand and his group from the compound knowing it meant certain death for them, because Strand shot Thomas- the love of his life- in the head, rather than let him reanimate. According to Strand, she is also manipulative, seeking out those with either weak personalities or addictions (such as Nick Clarke), in order to exploite them.

The Parish Priest and some of his congregation- victims of Celia's murderous plot

Appearances

Season 2 appearances
Monster	We All Fall Down	Ouroboros	Blood in the Streets	Captive
Sicut Cervus	Shiva	Grotesque	Los Muertos	Do Not Disturb
Pablo & Jessica	Pillar of Salt	Date of Death	Wrath	North