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Julián Navarro was Born in Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina on March 12, 1968. In the summer of 1970, he and his mother, Isabel Navarro, moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina. He worked as the mascot for the 1978 World Cup at 10 years old, regularly performing as Gauchito. Isabel was his biggest supporter, as well as his loving stage mom.

Isabel’s parents immigrated to Argentina in 1937 from Andalusia, Spain in order to escape persecution under Francisco Franco. The identity of Julián’s father is unknown, though he is likely of Italian descent. Julián has never met his father, and Isabel has no interest in finding his identity. She’s not bitter, she simply never knew him very well. Julián is content with this fact.

A natural-born performer, Julián is notably graceful in his extroversion. He’s flamboyant, genuine, witty, and well-spoken. He’s known to greet everyone he meets with a hug, tilt his head back when he laughs, and habitually sings while doing tasks. He’s known and adored by people of all ages in his neighborhood, especially women. Julián is the source for all of the neighborhood gossip. He and his mother recap said gossip over dinner every night. Julián has nearly fallen out of his chair laughing on multiple occasions, and countless forks have been dropped.

Julián has thick, dark brown hair with a slight wave to it, thick eyebrows of the same color, a light golden complexion that always tans well, high cheekbones, a narrow upper body, thick thighs, and wide hips. He inherited the aforementioned features from his mother. His buck teeth and snubbed nose were possibly inherited from his father, but Julián considers the features uniquely his. At 167cm and 59kg (~5’6” and 130lbs), Julián is quite petite for a man.

Julián knew that he was gay by the time he was 7 years old. According to Isabel, she knew before he was born. She fully supports and loves him all the same. He noticed how appealing some boys in his school seemed to him, and that he never had crushes on any of the girls. Due to the dictatorship and the homophobic environment, he has had to refrain from publicly dating or discussing his love interests with others (besides Isabel). He was bullied in school due to his femininity, and would be called slurs by other students. Teachers seldom intervened.

Julián met his long-term partner, Matías Lucero, in 1995 (at 27 years old) while working together. They were married in September of 2010. Julián was 42.

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Sjoerd (pronounced “shoort”) “Tap” Feddersen was born in Bremen, Germany on June 3, 1961. He worked as one of the official mascots of the 1974 World Cup in West Germany, alongside his best friend, Tip, when the duo were 13 years old.

His native language is German. He’s fluent in Frisian and Dutch, but is quite challenged in his English skills. His English vocabulary is decently vast, but his grammar is abysmal.

He was given the nickname Tap from his father as a toddler. He was a hyperactive child who became a life-of-the-party adult.

Tap’s chin is just… Long. Natalie Nunn, but not Jay Leno. He’s got a lot of space there, as well as a strong jaw. His father also carries this trait, albeit to a lesser extent.

I’ve decided that those little lines on his and Tip’s faces are laugh/smile lines. I very much hc Tap as being more of an extrovert than Tip (not that Tip isn’t), therefore, Tap’s are more prominent.

Claudia is Tap’s girlfriend, who he ends up marrying around 1985. She was born in Bremen to a Tanzanian father and German mother, and was raised Lutheran in a religious household. She loves Tap, and loves to pick on him. The bullying, though, is mutual and out of love. She occasionally refers to him as her ladder.

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I finally got a day off from work, so I’ve been switching between this and a WIP of Gauchito during my free time.

I’ve gotten into the habit of only using 2 specific pencil/brushes and it’s a little detrimental, since I’m never satisfied with lineart anymore. Maybe I’ll have enough time to do some actually clean-looking lineart one day.