Antonia Velazquez

"'I don't think you can, foetus.'"Antonia Phoebe Velazquez † was the girlfriend of Hugo Amaya and the lover of Felipe Cortez. She was a known drug lord and part of the drug cartel Hypnos.

History
Antonia grew up in Patras, Greece, to a Greek mother and Spanish father. Throughout school, she was always ranked highly and due to her competitive nature, she always wanted to out perform everybody else, turning even the minor things into a competition. At the age of 5, she became an athlete and competed in many national events, before joining the Greek team when she was 17. Supporting her athletic career, she worked at a casino in Patras. She was seen as a wild child, however was forbidden to indulge in drugs due to her rising career. At the age of 20, while she was working in the casino out of the athletic season, she became involved in a mass robbery, in which a gang broke into the casino and robbed it. Held at knifepoint, she was sworn to keep silent and was frequently blackmailed into laundering money for the group. She began to stray from her athletic career and eventually began taking drugs, with her addictive nature prevailing. She was released from the athletics team after they found steroids in her blood samples. She joined the drug team who had robbed the bank and married their vice leader, Carlos Fleytas at the age of 24.

Joining Hypnos
She enjoyed two years of marriage to Fleytas in which he taught her how to use all the Class A drugs, as well as many more. Her biological intelligence allowed them to create new combinations, experimenting with different ways to take and mix them, especially with alcohol. Antonia tells Cortez while in Exuma of her especially "dark days" and how it's a wonder she's still alive. She notes that her drug days were worse then, and she learnt how to control them over the years. While in Texas, they were caught by the FBI and Fleytas was shot trying to protect Antonia, who was extremely high. Antonia was then taken by the remaining gang and they fled to Mexico City, however she was abused by the remaining men and escaped onto the streets. Amaya found Antonia on the streets, aged 26, and took her in. He treated her with respect and nursed her back to health after she was suffering from withdrawal symptoms. Eventually, the two married and became the formidable leaders - alongside Cortez - of Hypnos.

Trivia

 * Avgeropoulos was originally in line to play Morgana Toscani.
 * Antonia's relationship with Hayes was meant to mean a lot more, with Hayes initally trying to pull Antonia away from the drug industry, however this was cut.
 * Antonia was also meant to be an outsider to Hypnos and was just somebody they used as bait, however it changed in the final script.
 * She lost her virginity when she was 15.