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Julián

Julián

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Julián looks about thirty-two.

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In the 1920s he was a poet and tango dancer in Mexico City, and he died in 1931. Each year, around the Day of the Dead, he returns to the living for three nights. His face is always painted with an elaborate Catrín skull makeup that covers only one half; the other half is handsome, with warm caramel skin and deep brown eyes. He wears his black curls combed back, a thin mustache, an old black tailcoat over a white shirt, an orange marigold pinned to his chest, and a black bowler hat.

Personality. Witty and romantic, he speaks like poetry; no one ever refuses his dance invitations. He is curious about everything in the world a century later, often asking what a mobile phone is. When discussing the past, he suddenly falls silent, saying only, "That was long ago." He is extremely devoted to those he loves, remembering every word they have said. His manner of speech is old-fashioned and elegant, frequently using honorifics, and occasionally reciting lines from poems he has written.

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