Guzmán Nunier Osuna

* Season 4
* Season 3
* Season 2
* Season 1

**Guzmán Nunier Osuna** (**October 29**, **2002**) is a main character through Seasons 1-4 of the Netflix series *Elite*, serving as one of the two deuteragonists (along with Rebeka) of its first overall story arc and one of the two overarching protagonists (along with Samuel) of its second overall story arc. He is a student attending Las Encinas. His sister was Marina. He is portrayed by Miguel Bernardeau.

## Biography

### Background

Guzmán is the adopted son of Laura and wealthy businessman Ventura Nunier. His biological parents died ten years ago from drug overdoses. Since he was a child, Guzmán has been best friends with Ander and Polo. He is regarded as the leader of this friendship group and is loyal and supportive of his friends, but his actions can lean towards controlling at times. Guzmán attends Las Encinas. Prior to the pilot episode, Guzmán's sister, Marina, was infected with HIV from a fellow classmate, Pablo. This puts a strain on their family. It also influenced Guzmán to become more protective to his sister and friends. Over time, the protectiveness fades away and he's able to show more of his vulnerable side.

## Throughout the Series

### Season 1

When Nadia, Christian and Samuel arrive at Las Encinas, Guzmán is the primary culprit in trying to belittle them and make them feel small. He is derogatory towards Samuel referring to him as a waiter, and aggressively rude towards Christian who he finds particularly irritating. At the beginning of Season 1, Guzmán has a friends-with-benefits relationship with Lucrecia and the two of them are caught having sex in the school showers by Nadia. Worried that Nadia will use this against them, Guzmán and Lu attempt to befriend Nadia, and Guzmán even attempts to seduce her to ensure that she stays quiet. At Marina's party later that evening, Guzmán continues to slag off the new students.

When Nano arrives and shouts angrily about the inequality and unfairness in society, Guzmán reacts strongly and threatens to have Samuel expelled for the outburst. However, Nadia threatens him, saying that should he do so, she will expose both himself and Lucrecia to the Principal for their promiscuous behavior. Although this saves Samuel from expulsion, it also puts Nadia in Guzmán's direct line of vision and both him and Lu decide to get revenge. Lu suggests that they publicly humiliate Nadia by making her fall in love with Guzmán and then exposing her to the whole school. Guzmán agrees to this.
The first episode also reveals the strain in Guzmán's family life. His sister Marina is HIV+, who was infected by Pablo, a former scholarship student at Las Encinas. Guzmán's hatred towards the scholarship students is largely due to his belief that they are all similar to Pablo.

Although Guzmán goes along with the plan to seduce Nadia, his affection towards Nadia gradually becomes genuine. When given the chance to take advantage of Nadia while she is drugged, Guzmán refuses to go through with it. Feeling repentant, Guzmán apologizes to Nadia and even visits her parents to ask their forgiveness, but Nadia stops him, but eventually decides to forgive him. His friendship with Nadia grows increasingly steady, much to Lucrecia and Yusef (Nadia's father)'s dismay. He confesses to Lu that he has fallen in love with Nadia, and she walks off in disbelief. After Yusef forbids Nadia from seeing Guzmán and from continuing her education at Las Encinas, he makes a deal with Yusef: he will end his friendship with Nadia so that she can stay at Las Encinas.

After Marina's death, he reaches a dark place and drunkenly tries to jump off a bridge, but fortunately, Lu caught him in time, and talks him off by telling him it wasn't what Marina wanted and the two still in grief get back together.

### Season 2

Throughout Season 2, Guzmán struggles with his grief over the death of his sister. It is revealed that he spent the summer away with his grandparents and with Lu, who was by his side trying to help him grieve. However, when he returns to school, his anger resurfaces and he behaves violently towards Samuel and anyone who is seen to be fraternizing with him.

He and Lu break up in the middle of the season at the Halloween party, recognizing that the only reason she was at his side was to help him get over his sister, and they reconnected out of pain rather than love.

Nadia and Guzmán's relationship continues to blossom. Nadia becomes much more open with her feelings for Guzmán and is evidently worried about him when he turns to drugs and alcohol as a way of escaping the pain of his sister's death.

### Season 3

Guzmán and Samuel's friendship begins to develop in Season 3 as they unite and work together to get revenge against Polo for murdering Marina.
At the beginning of the season, Guzmán is clearly still very angry in particular with Ander who he feels betrayed him by not revealing that Polo is guilty of murdering his sister.
At first he is sure that Polo will be convicted of murder as soon as the murder weapon is uncovered, but it is nowhere to be found. Things go from bad to worse when Carla withdraws her statement in an attempt to protect herself and her family.
When Polo returns to school Guzmán reacts violently and punches him in the corridor. Samuel and Guzmán plot a number of ways to try and get Polo to confess or to tell them the whereabouts of the trophy.

On one occasion, Guzmán tricks his classmates including Samuel into believing that he believes Polo. He apologizes to Polo for not believing him sooner and invites him over after school to 'play video games' like old times. In reality, Guzmán plans to interrogate Polo and he gives him a beer that is drugged and knocks him out, he then ties him to a chair and then calls Samuel and reveals his plan.

Although uncomfortable with the plan, Samuel backs Guzmán up. They wake Polo up and interrogate him until Polo admits to killing Marina 'by accident'. Enraged by this admission, Guzmán attempts to strangle Polo. He is stopped by Samuel who sets Polo free. Samuel and Guzmán also torment Polo by creating a fake Twitter account under his name and confessing to the murder. Ander begs them to stop and explains that the reason he didn't come forward with Polo's crime was because when he threatened Polo, Polo attempted to commit suicide. Guzmán plans to use this as further ammo but doesn't when Samuel says that it would be going too far.

Guzmán is outraged when Polo and Cayetana show up at the various school events and parties. At one party, Omar begs Guzmán to ease up on Ander, who has just been diagnosed with leukaemia. Upon hearing this Guzmán rushes to be by Ander's side and the two begin to work on repairing their relationship. Guzmán even shows up to some on Ander's treatment sessions.

Season 3 is an unlucky season for Guzmán in the romantic sense as it initially appears as though Nadia has decided to move on with Malick. It is clear however that Guzmán is still in love with her and can't take his eyes off her when he sees her in the club. He is also jealous of Malick when Nadia introduces them to one another.

When Nadia does poorly in an exam due to working extra hours in her parents' shop, Guzmán goes to them and tells them that they are jeopardizing her education and her chances of attending Columbia University in New York. Her parents are outraged by this accusation but Guzmán offers to work in her place. He finds the work difficult but is willing to do it for Nadia. However, he does not have to do it for long as Nadia's father eventually decides to close the store earlier to give Nadia an opportunity to study. At Lu's Valentine's Day party, Guzmán tells Nadia that he loves her. She tells him that she loves him too but that it is not enough. Following this rejection, Guzmán considers returning to Lu but decides against it, and the two finally unite as friends.

Guzmán feels betrayed by Ander once again when he witnesses Polo and Ander hanging out and talking after the truth about Ander's diagnosis is revealed to his true classmates. He walks away from both of them and the following day he acts bitterly towards Ander. However, Ander makes him see sense when he points out that life is short and that he needs his friends by his side. Thus, Guzmán and Polo are forced to put their differences aside when they go with Ander to his final treatment session.

Guzmán later tells Polo to leave the graduation party. Polo asks if Guzmán can ever forgive him, but Guzmán remarks that he cannot. Later, Guzmán witnesses Polo fall to the dance floor below but is powerless to stop it. Guzmán rushes to the dance floor to attend to Polo, but he is badly injured and it becomes clear that he doesn't have long left. Guzmán holds Polo's hand and tells him that he forgives him whilst shouting for someone to call an ambulance. Polo dies moments later in Guzmán's arms. After Polo's funeral, he and Ander sit by Polo's headstone, seemingly having returned to old times.

### Season 4

In Season 4, Guzmán and Nadia are in a long-distance relationship, but the time difference makes things difficult. They keep trying to call and miss each other. Eventually, Nadia hints that the distance may be too hard to sustain and Guzmán eventually ends it because of that.

Guzmán is also interested in Ari, the new girl in school. She seems interested in him too and they start to date, even though she is having a side fling with Samuel. Guzmán is upset that Ari has been with both of them and initially turns on both her and Samuel, although after her accident, he acknowledges that Ari loves Samuel before ultimately leaving with Ander to travel the world and recover from the trauma of his murder of Armando, who tried to harm her.

## Mentions

### Elite Short Stories: Samuel Omar

He is mentioned by Omar to Samuel when discussing their friends' availability in assisting with the money Samuel owes to pay for the rent of his apartment. Aside from Carla, Rebeka and Ari, Omar mentioned that they can't ask Guzman and Ander for help due to them being out of the country.

## Season 5

He is mentioned by Samuel after Armando's body resurfaces from the lake when discussing who was involved with the murder to Omar. Samuel told the detective that he and Guzmán haven't spoken to each other for two months.

## Physical Appearance

In Season 1, Guzmán has dark blonde hair and blue eyes. He is fairly pale and has freckles on his face. In Seasons 2 and 3, he gets a buzzcut. In Season 4, his hair is grown back. He is the tallest of his group of friends (Polo and Ander). He smiles often.

## Personality

Though he comes off as snobbish and arrogant, Guzmán is a charming, kind character with huge affection for those he value. Guzmán seemed to have affection for even those that he did not know, as when Lu bet him to take Nadia's virginity, he couldn't follow through as he started getting feeling for her.

Not many people see the softer side to him with the exception of his sister, Marina, his best friend, Ander, and his crush, Nadia. He is very protective of his sister, and loses his temper when any form of danger comes her way, as seen when he brutally beated a schoolmate, Pablo, for infecting Marina when she was 14, and when Guzmán initiated an attack on Nano when he found out that Nano had impregnated Marina. Even though he was adopted, he is the favorite child and would to anything to keep his loved ones safe.

Despite his kind and caring nature, Guzmán is also harsh and does not think. Guzmán had no issue with bullying, and then kidnapping Polo and holding him hostage. Despite this, he was able to settle his differences with Polo and forgive him eventually. He also has an insecure and possessive side underneath his assertive nature as shown in the short stories, he had doubt about Nadia thinking she's cheating on him when she's in New York. Then in Season 4, he showed jealousy over his new girlfriend, Ari due to her fling with Samuel before they're dating as he's recognized himself, he manipulated Samuel afraid to lose Ari.

## Relationships

### Guzmán and Lu

Guzmán and Lu were in a relationship in Season 1 and Season 2. After Marina's death, they spent a significant amount of time together at Guzmán's grandparents' house over the summer break.

During the Halloween party in 63 hours missing, Guzmán confessed to cheating on Lu with Nadia and revealed that he didn't love Lu. They broke up.

(*See more: Lu and Guzmán*)

### Guzmán and Nadia

In the beginning of Season 1, Guzmán disliked Nadia and felt that she was too confident. Under the advice of Lu, he attempted to take Nadia's virginity in an attempt to humiliate her. After the party in Sábado noche, Nadia goes to Guzmán's house and he attempts to hook up with her. However, upon realising that she was drunk, he stopped and sent her home in a taxi. Later, Lu became increasingly jealous of their friendship and revealed to Nadia the truth. Guzmán followed her into the changing room to apologise, but she was too disgusted and slapped him. To get her forgiveness, he tried gifting Nadia a hijab, however she claimed that his gift was merely a sign of his wealth, not his sincerity. In an attempt to get him to stop trying, she claimed that he must apologise the Muslim way - by apologising to her parents on his knees. However, Guzmán took it as a challenge and showed up at Nadia's house unannounced.

In Todos mienten, Guzmán and Nadia argued over Nadia's lack of support for his sister after her HIV was revealed. Angrily, he revealed to Nadia that her brother, Omar is gay and a drug dealer.

Later, they rekindled their friendship. In Todo estalla, upon hearing that Nadia's father, Yusef wanted to take her out of Las Encinas, Guzmán talked to Azucena about convincing Yusef to let Nadia continue her studies there. However, the conversation became awry and Yusef grabbed Nadia in the middle of an exam, and forced her to leave Las Encinas. Guzmán attempted to stands up for Nadia, but to no avail. In Assilah, he made an agreement that Yusef that he would stop talking with Nadia to convince Yusef to let her continue studying at Las Encinas.

In Season 4, it's been revealed that Nadia and Guzmán have been in contact with each other over the 5 months since she graduated from Las Encinas. They tried to balance her life in New York with the time zone in Madrid. But it ultimately failed as Guzmán felt that they would never work out and decided to let her go via text message.

(*See more: Guzmán and Nadia*)

### Guzmán and Samuel

Guzmán and Samuel started off with a tense relationship. At the beginning ofSeason 1, Guzmán had an immediate disgust for Samuel, as he thought that all scholarship students would be like Pablo, the student who infected Marina with HIV. He often referred to Samuel as Waiter (or el camarero in Spanish) and told him to go back to his town. After Marina Nunier Osuna's Death, Guzmán's disdain for Samuel grew as he believed that Nano killed Marina and that she would not have been murdered if not for Samuel attending Las Encinas.

In Season 2, Samuel realized that Polo was Marina's killer and passed this information to Guzmán. At first, Guzmán dismissed this information believing that Samuel was simply trying to help Nano. However, after noticing Ander and Polo's strange behavior, he realised that Samuel's theory had appeared to make sense. Later, after a party, Samuel and Guzmán agreed to meet up at Guzmán's grandparents' house, where Samuel ended up hiding. Guzmán helped Samuel stay hidden and left "evidence" of his death. This disappearance ultimately forced Carla to reveal Polo's involvement in Marina's murder. After this, Guzmán and Samuel started to develop a friendship.

## Trivia

* Nadia is the first girl he has ever truly fallen in love with and reciprocated the feelings back unlike his exes who used him for his physical attributes and charm.
* Guzmán is adopted. His biological parents died of overdoses when Guzmán was six.
* Between his group of friends (Polo and Ander), he is the only one who does not have any romantic interest in men.
* When Guzmán finds out that Pablo Ruiz infected Marina, he, along with Ander and Polo, beat him to within an inch of his life.
* He has been to multiple countries due to his adoptive family's wealth.
* He doesn't know his real birthday. His "birthday" is simply a date that his adoptive parents, Ventura and Laura, chose for him.
* Guzman, along with Ander, are the second known school dropouts, the first being Valerio.
* Guzman becomes the sixth main original cast along with Ander to leave after Marina, Christian, Polo, Lu, Nano and Nadia.
* He is the third person to commit murder. However, unlike Polo and Lu who killed unintentionally, Guzman killed Armando on purpose for harming Ari.
	+ He is also the second person to leave unharmed after covering up the crime following Lu.
* Guzmán drives a red Citroën car with the licence plate 0812LFN, as seen in When Lies Dance with Temptation.

## Appearances

* "Deseo"
* "Sábado noche"
* "El amor es una droga"
* "Todos mienten"
* "Todo va a salir bien"
* "Todo estalla"
* "Assilah"
* "34 hours missing"
* "36 hours missing"
* "59 hours missing"
* "63 hours missing"
* "66 hours missing"
* "84 hours missing"
* "0 hours missing"

* "Samuel and Guzmán"
* "Cayetana and Valerio"
* "Lu (episode)"
* "Ander (episode)"
* "Rebeka (episode)"
* "Nadia and Omar"
* "Polo (episode)"
* "Five Seconds"
* "When Lies Dance with Temptation"
* "I'm a..."
* "Reintegration"
* "I Love You All Wrong"
* "Before I Go (Part I)"
* "Before I Go (Part II)"

* "Guzmán Caye Rebe: Part 2"
* "Guzmán Caye Rebe: Part 3"
* "Nadia Guzmán: Part 2"
* "Nadia Guzmán: Part 3"

## Gallery

* Season 1
* Season 2
* Season 3
* Season 4

## References

1. ↑ *Sábado noche*
2. ↑ *59 hours missing*
3. ↑ *66 hours missing*
4. ↑ *Lu*
5. ↑ *Guzmán Caye Rebe: Part 3*
6. ↑ *The New Order*
7. ↑ *Todos mienten*
8. ↑ *Polo*
9. ↑ *El amor es una droga*
10. ↑ *Todos mienten*