Carlos Cortez

**Carlos Cortez** is the main character and protagonist of *Ghostmates*.

## Biography

He often speaks to the viewers about how he gets around Leon's often-supernatural household, the insane antics of his roommates and other
things he's doing.Along with Melanie, he's the quietest of the roommates.

## Personality

Carlos is an enthusiastic and charismatic boy. Although in some
occasions he can be somewhat sarcastic, he is a good-hearted boy, that is
always looking for fun. As the family nerd (along with Inez), Carlos is
 an avid fancier of haunted books, manga, video games, fantasy, and
horror fiction stories, which are typical interests for a child his
age.Most of the time Carlos is quiet and relaxed, but sometimes he gets
upset when he is annoyed, or something goes wrong. Also he has proved to
 be very patient, especially with his roommates.Something that Carlos has showed is that he is a multi-faceted boy. By
living with ghost-mates with a different personality each one, he is
adapted to them, so he can communicate with any of them and help them
with their activities without a problem.The segment "The Fifth Sense"
 showed he's a medium, and has an ability to see and talk to the dead just like a timid orphan and later adopted child of a mexican family named *Consolación Cortez*, that he
doesn't really need a therapist, unlike his roommates.

## Appearance

Carlos has short medium length black hair.A black newsboy cap covers his head. He has an long red nose, noticeable bags
around his eyes, and black mustache.Carlos usually dresses in an black suit,a white dress shirt with a black tie,white socks and black shoes.

## Relationships

### His ghost-mates generally

Despite supernatural and stressful antics from his roommates,
 he loves them deeply and takes cares great care of them, for the most
part, he has fun being a part of their chaos and doesn't mind being the
only boy.

### His parents

Carlos also loves his parents and they love him too.In Spectrophobia,Guillermo decides to call Carlos' parents so they will deal with this.However,the doctor say there's nothing wrong with his brain.

### Kahlo Family

#### Guillermo

Guillermo is Carlos's best friend and both have a good relationship.

#### Mr. and Mrs. Kahlo

Carlos has a good relationship with Guillermo's parents.

### Penalosa Family

#### Maricruz Peñalosa

Maricruz is Carlos's current friend.He is initially bothered by her scaring him in "The Maricruz Witch Project", but after she say her first word Carlos, Carlos begins to see that it's only a urban legend after all.In "Funeral Cusine",
Carlos tells his workers at a funeral home that he would rather call Maricruz's mother, but his snobby workers mocked Carlos for calling her single mother.
Unfortunately, Maricruz overhears them saying this and is worried
about it, which makes Leon angry.Leon then forces Carlos to be suave by going on a funeral date with María Teresa and Maricruz. While Maricruz is still worried at
first, she understands his gift, stating that she has the ability to talk to the dead. Near the end, Carlos and Leon performs a Filipino funeral dance in front
of his workers and Maria Teresa.The next day,Maricruz scaring Carlos and Leon which causes their brains popped out of their skulls.In " Scary Filipino Prank Rules",
 Maricruz is coming over on Filipino Prank Day, the day Crisanto *Santo Rosario*becomes a vengeful spirit of a prankster and sets up cruel pranks around the house. To protect
her, Carlos ends up waking Crisanto up and the ghost rises the zombies from the dead,but Carlos felt fine and started dancing with the zombies and Crisanto.Maricruz then comes to the house and saw Carlos dancing and laughs at him and accidentally scares Crisanto.In "The Headless Baby", Carlos learns that a mexican baby girl who never stop crying until her horrid mother chops her head off.However,when Carlos is dressed as a funeral woman and ends up dancing with a ghost baby with her head reattached.

#### Luiza Penalosa

Carlos and Luiza are polar opposites:Luiza is sunny,but not the brightest bulb while Carlos is sarcastic and intelligent.

## Trivia

* It is currently unknown why Carlos' skin color is milky white.Daneboe has confirmed that it is not a result of vitiligo.However, it is revealed

that he got his psychic abilities from his aunt.

* Even though Carlos is technically the lead character, there have been three segments where he is not the main focus of their stories.

* Catalina
* Inez
* Leon
	+ He is the quietest of the roommates, along with Melanie.

* In Carlos Crawling,he got his pale skin tone from his mother and black hair from his father.