#i named him taggart because he bogarts the tag. thats it thats the whole reason

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whole bunch of taggart sketches from earlier this year, and then some

as far as design notes go, basil covers the "cute scruffy mysterious recovering asshole" department so taggart covers the "cute soft sweetheart who is just a little bit unhinged on closer inspection" department.

taggart facts™

his first name is jomar but he hasnt really gone by it since public school-- at home his family uses endearing nicknames exclusively (marmar...) and everywhere else he's just taggart the wrestleguy. which is fine by him, he doesnt like it when people inevitably shorten his name to joe anyway. thats his dad's name. he thinks thats weird.

his parents have had ample time to come to terms with the fact that all taggart wants and likes to do is wrestle, and by this point are supportive of the endeavors of their sole remaining child. its fine. its fine. he has a good relationship with his family (which is more than i can say for basil).

he owns a house (it was originally his uncle's house, which his parents took over/bought, which was then transferred to him for tax reasons). most of his extended family uses it as storage, so few of the things at the house actually belong to him. he's been renting out a room to basil for years now.

he loves wrestling. hes loved it ever since a neighbor teen introduced it to him as a kid. its his entire life and everything. when he turned 18 he finally got to do official™ wrestling alongside that same neighbor teen-now-adult-childhood-friend-established-wrestler. unfortunately taggart had to take a step back from wrestling to help save the family business (bakery), an arrangement that lasted a little bit longer than he wouldve liked. when he was able to return to wrestling, he took a class at wrestleschool to get some formal training from a cool wrestleguy. hes really, really happy to be back at wrestling.

he's actually, surprisingly very techy (his mom is/was a programmer) and has an insane NAS storage setup (you know. for all the wrestling). he also knows a lot about setting up and running audio/video stuff, but downplays this after an incident where a local promotion desperately needed an a/v guy to run stuff and kept stringing him along because he was more useful to them backstage than in the ring. bro he wants to WRESTLE

taggart secretly runs a prolific wrestleblog that he posts reviews/waxes poetic on, but doesnt tie it to himself on purpose so people don't get weird at him for saying something critical about their match.

did i mention taggart loves wrestling? well, he does. and, you see, there was this guy at wrestleschool, who didn't know much about wrestling to begin with, but was invested in it enough to end up moving into the intermediate/advanced class that taggart was in. and he was very receptive to taggart talking his ear off about everything that had to do with wrestling, and taggart got to see something beautiful, in the form of someone liking wrestling in the specific same way he did with a similar amount of intensity. he saw a familiar spark in this guy's eyes, and then he'd go on to see that spark mysteriously hindered for reasons unknown to him. and he'd really like for that to change, even if he doesn't know how. also this guy lives in his house and is named basil