Could Tara be a Flores?

[Firelady Nemo]

otaru said:

They're not related maybe just friends...

do they even know each other?

[kimburnpotts]

Well, anything is possible, but I really don't think there's any evidence or reason to suppose that they are related in canon...
However, if you write fanfic and have an idea that involves them being sisters, I wouldn't think that there would be anything to stand in the way, or any plot holes to plug up in order to make it work...

[mike]

nemo said:

otaru said:

They're not related maybe just friends...

do they even know each other?

Probably yes, they are in the same school.

[tucsoncoyote]

"I don't start wars.... I finish them." --Tucsoncoyote

Alright I think I am getting tired of such naievete, and cluelessness, that I'm going to put this question to bed once and for all.

After all, if folks think that Tara and Zita ARE related (and since Tara is off to Zita's right), then I'm going to put a picture of Kim Possible's brother..(and it make make me look stupid, but then I'm going to say that naievte and ignorance brought this upon everyone who thinks Zita and Tara are sisters.)

I think In my last post, I thought it was clear that how can two girls who look so "Dissimilar" can actually be sisters? After all, in Graduation we do see the picture of Tara next to Zita in that one shot granted, but remember Barkin had all the students line up alphabetically...

Well then if folks are going to say that Tara is Zita's sister, then I'm going to show you a picture that might make people think twice.. and it's from Graduation (Part 1) as well:

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Meet Kim Possible's third brother.. Sitting right next to her, off to her right. 'Ron' (Reager) Possible.

(Sorry had to do this to put a lot of folks in place, but what had to be had to be..)

Actually for the smart ones, The guy next to Kim is of course Ron Reager. Not 'Ron Possible'.. We all know that due to simple 'Common Sense'. and as you can tell they are quite dissimilar..(But then take a look at the blonde haired girl behind Reager's left shoulder.. (Blue eyes, Blonde hair? This suggests to me that this is either Tara and the other blonde cheerleader that was on the squad..

(if this is indeed Tara, then her name comes well after the letter 'S', as Kim and Ron Reager and Bonnie Rockwaller and Ron Stoppable are all sitting in the same row. (Common sense)...

But then maybe Tara had a brother.. (Who's the guys sittting next to that blond girl, on the left, just behind Kim's right shoulder? Good question. (But still, let's use 'common sense' here and note that no one is absolutely related to no one else.)

Well I'm going to put it all into persepective..

If Tara is indeed Zita Flores' sister, (as some naieve people think), then Ron Reager is Kim's brother, by simple logic that a lot of folks have.

(Go ahead and laugh, but then who's laughing now?)

We all know from "Common Sense" that Reager is in no way Kim's brother, so ergo why is it that some folks say that Zita and Tara are in any way related? Also that picture of the girl next to Zita may look like Tara, but then who's that girl behind Reagers left shoulder? Tara? or the other blonde cheerleader? (Jessica I believe).

I think if folks are this gullible, they've been 'Thinking way too much' into this issue, about Zita and Tara.

So I think I'll stick to my guns and say Tara and Zita are not related, in any way, shape, or form.

(or maybe we should ask the VIP's to clear this up). After all if a VIP or any one who worked on the show said that Tara and Zita Flores are related, we would have found this on our chat talk transcripts.. which we've not.)

But in the end, Tara is not, and I stress the word 'Not' Zita's sister, cousin, or even half sister.. (she might be a friend maybe (as Monique did state in the same episode that she wanted Tara to sign her year book, ergo making Tara, Monique's friend, but still Tara and Zita sisters? Sorry then that's like saying Ron Reager and Kim Possible are in fact a sister/brother act.. or even worse, Bonnie Rockwaller and Ron Stoppable are a brother sister rivalry.)

(*Shudders at the thought of Bonnie and Ron Stoppable being related..*)

So are Zita and Tara Related? no..
Are they sisters? no..
Are they even related? Nope not at all.
But are they two people? Yes,
Could they be friends? Possibly..

But they're not sisters, cousins, or even family-related..

This assumption is more than likely is a quirk in the fact that Principal Barkin had the characters sit in "Alphabetical" order.. and because of this I threw out that idea that Tara has a different name altogether.. (Hence my obviously long winded comment about different names Tara could have)..

After all we're talking "Alphabetical" here not family related.

and that's really all I'm going to say.

Tucsoncoyote--

[ninjanaco]

You only think you've ended a war, tuscon ... just wait for my counterattack!

Anyway, I never said that Tara was a Flores, I simply stated she could be.

(In fact, when I first noticed that the girl next to Zita looked like Tara, I thought ... "
could Tara be, in fact, a Flagg? (i.e. related to Brick) )

True, the blond girl is to Zita's right, but given that we don't know which side of of the line they're seated on, we can't be sure if her name comes alphabetically before Zita's, or after. ("Before" would, of course, be a prerequisite for Tara (if the blond girl is Tara) either being a sibling of either Brick or Zita.)

As for physical differences, I'll admit that they basically exclude the possibility of Zita and Tara being biological sisters. It does not, however, exclude the possibility that they're biological cousins. Given that all we know about the girls' respective families is that Zita's grandmother has bobby pins, it could very well be that Zita is the product of an interracial union, with Tara being a cousin from the "white" side of Zita's family.

I also must admit that my favorite "Tara Flores" theory - that Tara is Zita's adopted sister - is somewhat unlikely, given the girls' voices. Zita speaks English with a definite Mexican/Hispanic accent, while Tara does not. Thinking about this, I came up with a scenario: one day little Tara notices that she's got light skin and blond hair, while everyone else she knows has brown skin and black hair. But then she watches TV and notices that there other people on there with white skin and blond people - other people just like her! So, she decides to imitate the people on the TV while Zita, not having such an identity crisis, takes up the accent and such of her Latin milieu.

It might be a bit of a stretch, but it might not be. In a similar discussion on GJA, cpneb mentioned that as a kid living in West Texas, his parents placed him and his sibling in front of the TV to watch Walter Cronkite for four hours. Why? So that instead of having a regional accent that might hinder them in society, they'd have "normal" American voices.

(If I got anything wrong about cpneb's story - I'm citing it from memory right now - my apologies.)

So, that's all I've got say about that right now. Tara very well might not be related to Zita, but then again, she very well could be.

[DP]

tucsoncoyote said:

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But then take a look at the blonde haired girl behind Reager's left shoulder.. (Blue eyes, Blonde hair? This suggests to me that this is either Tara and the other blonde cheerleader that was on the squad..

The blonde girl sitting behind Kim in that picture is Tara, not Jessica, because Jessica has darker skin, a darker shade of blonde hair, and a different part in her hair than Tara:

[Alexlayer]

I would prefer to put them as a couple instead of sisters, but if I say that I know Ninjy is gonna get mad and...

Ups! ^^U

[mike]

Do you want to end the war here:

Since we can't really tell whether its factual or not , unless asserted by a VIP, then it follows that every single detail that all of us has presented is a logical possibility, but is only a possibility ... In other words, they can happen or they can't happen the only things that differs from one of us is that we tend to look on one side rather than the other.

/* A possibility will remain a possibility unless it is proven by a fact */

[cpneb]

ninjanaco said:

You only think you've ended a war, tuscon ... just wait for my counterattack!

Anyway, I never said that Tara was a Flores, I simply stated she could be.

(In fact, when I first noticed that the girl next to Zita looked like Tara, I thought ... "
could Tara be, in fact, a Flagg? (i.e. related to Brick) )

True, the blond girl is to Zita's right, but given that we don't know which side of of the line they're seated on, we can't be sure if her name comes alphabetically before Zita's, or after. ("Before" would, of course, be a prerequisite for Tara (if the blond girl is Tara) either being a sibling of either Brick or Zita.)

As for physical differences, I'll admit that they basically exclude the possibility of Zita and Tara being biological sisters. It does not, however, exclude the possibility that they're biological cousins. Given that all we know about the girls' respective families is that Zita's grandmother has bobby pins, it could very well be that Zita is the product of an interracial union, with Tara being a cousin from the "white" side of Zita's family.

I also must admit that my favorite "Tara Flores" theory - that Tara is Zita's adopted sister - is somewhat unlikely, given the girls' voices. Zita speaks English with a definite Mexican/Hispanic accent, while Tara does not. Thinking about this, I came up with a scenario: one day little Tara notices that she's got light skin and blond hair, while everyone else she knows has brown skin and black hair. But then she watches TV and notices that there other people on there with white skin and blond people - other people just like her! So, she decides to imitate the people on the TV while Zita, not having such an identity crisis, takes up the accent and such of her Latin milieu.

It might be a bit of a stretch, but it might not be. In a similar discussion on GJA, cpneb mentioned that as a kid living in West Texas, his parents placed him and his sibling in front of the TV to watch Walter Cronkite for four hours. Why? So that instead of having a regional accent that might hinder them in society, they'd have "normal" American voices.

(If I got anything wrong about cpneb's story - I'm citing it from memory right now - my apologies.)

So, that's all I've got say about that right now. Tara very well might not be related to Zita, but then again, she very well could be.

NinjaNaco, you had a very good memory, but there was one thing that I omitted from the discussion, mainly because most of the folks already knew it: I'm African-American, so, for my parents, growing up in the 1930s and Dad in the Pacific in WWII in the 1940s, providing us with as many perceived advantages as they could was critical for them.

My personal fav is the story told to me by my daughter about her freshman year in college (daughter, btw, looks just like me: blonde hair, blue eyes...yes, she's my wife's, but I adopted her and her brother after we got married, and they changed their last names to mine - their choice).

Daughter has a family picture, and her roommate kept staring at it with a confused look on her face.

First, she asked about the pic, and daughter told her it was of her family.

Second, she wanted to know who the 'black man' was in the pic, and daughter said it was her father.

Brain freeze on part of roommate ensued, and she sat quiet for a few minutes, and then asked if daughter was sure. Daughter
affirmed her statement.

Roommate wanted to know how it happened, and daughter stared at her and and told her that I adopted her and brother.

Roommate still looked like deer in headlights, and daughter asked her if she knew what adoption was. Roommate shakes head in the negative, and daughter adopted 'deer/headlights' look.

"Are you serious?" Daughter asked.

"Really: what's adoption?" Roommate replied.

This happened in September 2000, and this is not a backwater school, but a well-recognized liberal-arts private school that has a strong academic reputation.

So, tusconcoyote, anything's "Possible": check her name!

And, NinjaNaco, thanks for the shoutout.