Linda

Appearance: Linda is a 23 year old woman with fair skin, green eyes, and short red hair. She wears circular-shaped glasses, a light blue shirt, tan pants, white socks, and black shoes. She used to have pigtails when she was a little girl. She also has wide hips and thick thighs too. —————— Personality: Linda is initially very bookish and quiet, and very devoted and protective of Blu. When she discovers Blu has been kidnapped, she angrily turns on Tulio, blaming him for everything. She seems to be quite trusting; When Fernando tells her that he knows where Blu is, she instantly believes him. During the search, Linda shows herself capable of performing daring feats, such as driving a motorcycle (claiming it is "just like driving a snowmobile") and hijacking a carnival float, later attempting to ram the smugglers' plane with it. When she first met Tulio, Linda seemed nervous when he said he would be with her during the trip to Rio. When they had dinner together, she was flattered by his complimenting her eyes. When they donned blue macaw costumes in order to sneak into Carnival, they became even more attracted to each other. Linda and Tulio seem to have become an actual couple by the end, suggested by their holding hands and then happily married with Fernando as their adopted son. —————— Bio: Linda is first seen as a little girl, at age of eight discovering the crate containing Blu (a Spix's Macaw chick), which had fallen out of a pet store truck and onto the side of the road. She takes the cold, frightened chick in her hands, and promises to take care of him. Over the next fifteen years, Linda keeps Blu as a pet, throwing her and Blu in birthday parties together, taking him with her to spelling bees (and winning one at 14), and even brought him to her high school prom.

As Linda gets older, she opens a bookstore, called Blue Macaw Books, which is the first place that is named on Blu's honor. She also tells her mom over the phone that she can't visit her because no one can take care of Blu. She then hands over hot chocolate to Blu (which is a factual error, in real life, chocolate is toxic to birds). One day, an ornithologist from Brazil named Tulio Monteiro enters the store and tells Linda that Blu is the last male of his kind and that she must take him to Rio de Janeiro so he can mate with the last female and "save the species". Linda is reluctant at first but later agrees. She and Blu take a plane to Rio, where Tulio takes them to his aviary, where the female Spix’s macaw (Jewel) is. Linda and Tulio watch Blu and Jewel through cameras and think that its "going well", so they give them some privacy and go to a restaurant, where they find themselves becoming attracted to one another. However, the dinner is interrupted by a phone call to Tulio explaining that Blu and Jewel were stolen. Distraught, Linda blames Tulio for the birdnapping and spends all night handing out "lost" posters. In the morning, a boy named Fernando tells them that he knows where Blu and Jewel are. He leads them to the smugglers' hideout, where they learn they are going to use the carnival as a cover to get the captured birds to the airport. Linda and Tulio go to the carnival, where they disguise themselves as dancers to get in (with Linda looking quite fine in a macaw dancer outfit). Linda accidentally gets onto a float - mistaken as one of the performers by a carnival organizer - and was told by Tulio to "shake her tushie" (in other words: twerk it), but then spots Blu as he goes into the smugglers' float. As the parade continued, Linda tried her best to get down from the float, and she and Tulio eventually broke free from the crowd and other performers. Stealing one of the vacant floats, Linda and Tulio follow the smugglers to the airport but arrive too late to stop their plane from taking off. Giving up hope, Linda sits on the float with Tulio and Fernando, her head bowed in sorrow as the sun rises. A while later, Fernando sees Blu flying (to Linda's amazement), and carrying the injured Jewel in his talons. She looks on as Tulio tends to Jewel's injury. Later, Linda and Tulio open the Blu Bird Sanctuary where Linda lets Blu go into the jungle with Jewel, sharing a final "fist bump" with him. As he flies off, Linda declares "That's my big, brave boy". Linda was seen hang-gliding over the jungle with Tulio, flying alongside Blu, Jewel, and their three chicks, Bia, Carla, and Tiago. In the end, Linda, Tulio, and Fernando are shown to have come together as a family of sorts, even opening a Brazilian version of Linda's bookstore, Livraria Blu. —————— Other Facts:

• Linda initially blames Tulio for Blu's birdnapping and yells at him in bird language. For some reason, while she was screaming in bird language, she believed she swore and added: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to curse".
• In Moose Lake, she was the owner of a bookstore called "Blue Macaw Books". At the end of Rio, she opened a new bookstore called "Livraria Blu". Linda is also a caretaker at the Blu Bird Sanctuary.
• She has her own bedroom in her bookstore. In fact, her home is on the second floor, while the store itself is on the first.
• When it comes to Spix's macaws, she is attracted to their brains, but not by their fancy feathers, as she describes it.
• Linda is wearing glasses as a child and due to seeing Blu. It is shown she suffers from Myopia, also known as nearsightedness.
• She and Blu lived together for 15 years.
• Linda gave Blu sunscreen and rubbed it on his beak, so he wouldn't get "beakburn". The word is based on "sunburn."
• Linda has wide eyes, like an owl Tulio mentioned, which was his favorite bird.