Soledad " Solaire " Hilaria Portales (22) is an acquaintance of Ira’s due to being one of Vee’s roommates. An international student, having been born in Mexico City, Solaire chose to study abroad to give herself more independence. She loves her family dearly but being the third of four children means she received a heaping of protectiveness from both her parents and her older siblings, so striking out on her own is something she’s desired for a while; but she’s clear there’s no resentment from her to her family and won’t let anyone talk poorly of or make assumptions about them. While her dad especially was anxious to see her go to a new place by herself, Solaire’s loving her new environment, and this has helped minimise stress back home, with her visiting over holiday periods (and sometimes as a surprise if she’s got some spare money from her job at an exotic animal rescue centre).
She’s the biology major of the trio, although truthfully she hasn’t decided on a specialist area of study yet and instead is exploring all her options. Solaire’s job is making her feel animals might be what she’s going to focus on, but absolutely nothing vet based, as she’s too sensitive to put down animals - having been devastated when her last family dog, Danilo, passed away when she was 16. Photos of their current dog - Ludmila the Springer Spaniel - are absolutely precious to Solaire, who will bombard her roommates with them at all hours; with Vee and their resident lawyer making her a collage for a joke gift at Christmas. There’s talk of them getting a pet to be co-owned by all three of them, but nothing’s been confirmed yet as they’d like to adopt one from the shelter where Solair works - probably an iguana or bearded dragon - but space needs to be made for accommodation.
While she jokes about having been put off dating due to her cousin having the most dramatic, chaotic and stressful wedding imaginable, Solaire started seeing someone recently and she’s found herself falling pretty hard. Her significant other is someone she feels comfortable being fully emotionally vulnerable around, as Solaire hates people considering her weak for how strongly she feels about things and one ex would make fun of her for it: leading to some creative nicknames being assigned by her friends when she explained this story. Solaire and Vee also might be matchmaking together too, as there were blatant sparks when a friend of her’s from Mexico came to visit and they met their lawyer roommate - but Solaire absolutely knows how stubborn her old friend is about admitting crushes and has enlisted Vee’s help to give her a chance at finding happiness.