Felipe Gonzalo

*"Someone has to stop this thing. And that someone is you."* - Gonzalo to Swan about stopping Jaxon Taylor's killings

## ❈ Biographical Information ❈

### Age

15 (before cryopreservation), 36 (adopting Swan), 50

### Aliases

Old-Man-Baby (by Miles), Papa (only seldom, by Swan)

## ❈ Relationships ❈

### Family

Unnamed parents, Swan Swagmire (apprentice, adopted daughter/daughter figure)

### Friends

Daryll Dupain (deceased), Swan Swagmire, Miles Meyer

## ❈ Production Information ❈

### Appearances

HM Minis: Murders in Swan Lane, Scarlet Swan

### Quote

"Losing isn't a word in our vocabulary, you got that?"

### (Voice) Actor or Base

Stefan Sanchez

**Felipe Horlador Gonzalo** or commonly known as **Detective Gonzalo**, is the tritagonist of Scarlet Swan, being Swan Swagmire's mentor, legal guardian, and father figure. He's a detective last to hail the Gonzalo surname, and is willing to leave a good legacy behind him, entrusting everything to Swan and Miles Meyer. Gonzalo is also SLPD's senior detective and IRIS' owner.

Stefan Sanchez is the one portraying Detective Gonzalo, both in the webisodes and film.

## **History**

Gonzalo is born with a progeria, a condition wherein a person ages rapidly, and so his girlfriend breaks up with him. In Gonzalo's case, his progeria wasn't present and noticeable until he was about 13 years old, and was forced to cryonics by his parents and Daryll Dupain to at least slow his age down at 15. A certain work of Dr. Dupain, Jaxon Taylor, kills the doctor while Gonzalo was still in cryopreservation, and only knows about it when he was "revived" 19 years later. At the age of 34 while still looking physically 15, he catches up to the world and becomes a good detective in Spain. He then adopts Odette Quagmire, a young girl who lost her parents at a young age, and trains her to also be a detective like him in order to bring her parents to justice.

## **Personality**

He's known to be very strict and uptight, especially when it comes to Swan's health and well-being. He doesn't usually let her in the lab and doesn't allow her to get an IRIS ID card of her own (since she borrows his), but lets her in anyway when she deserves it. Like any father would, he's protective of Swan and would even take a bullet for her.

He isn't that much affectionate and transparent with his emotions like Swan and Miles are because of his previous relationship, but he does care for people he loves in his own way, even if it's hard to pick up on.

Gonzalo learned how to deal with criticisms and rumors about him and his disease, learning how to ignore them and became a detective in such a short time to prove people wrong. He takes his job very seriously and doesn't let Jaxon Taylor out of his sight for killing a lot of people, namely Swan's parents, Marston Meyer, and Daryll Dupain, the doctor who cryopreserved him.

## **Physical Appearance**

Gonzalo has neatly combed light brown hair that is often slicked back (especially when working), and he has dark brown eyes. Despite looking 15, Gonzalo wears a lot of smart casual and semi-formal outfits consisting of waistcoats, dress shirts, and neckties. He's recorded to be 5'5" in height.

Wearing a dress shirt without a waistcoat is considered to be casual wear for him, and isn't normally seen wearing more comfortable-looking clothes like that. For his detective work in the precinct, he adds a waistcoat and necktie to his outfit with black slacks (sometimes jeans) and leather shoes, topping his outfit with a black coat or blazer.

## **Trivias**

* "Detective Gonzalo" just started as a joke when Parker Trinh and Belle Bello were talking, and it slowly became one of the most iconic characters in the franchise.
	+ It was Parker who thought of the name, while Stefan Sanchez himself completed the name with "Felipe" as the first and "Horlador" as the middle initial.

* Although Gonzalo's running gag in the webisode that he's a runway model rivaling Kaela Giddings' alter-ego has been dropped, he *was* a freelance model for magazines when he was younger.
* Gonzalo hates wearing bowties as he says they make him look like a "fancy restaurant waiter", and that he couldn't tie a bowtie.
* He doesn't want to date anyone and just wants to focus on his career. He says it's too late for him to take up on dating, and that Swan is the only one he needs in order to stay sane.