GarcelloTrace

Garcello is a teal haired smoker, with a brown hat covering up his eyes. He wears a grey/black hoodie with a plain white t-shirt underneath. He has teal pants, brown boots and smokes a green cigarette. The smoke he emits, including the tip of his cigarette, matches the arrows' colors, suggesting it may be some kind of fantasy drug, not tobacco. Similarly, in Release and Fading, his whole body cycles between the individual colors. During Nerves, he states that his chest feels funny, and starts sweating throughout the song. For Release, he just straight up dies, appearing as a ghost connected to the cigarette. He is now able to breathe out smoke. Meanwhile, for Fading, since the cigarette starts burning out, he gains more faded colors, and has an increase in transparency, before disappearing completely.

Trivia

According to the files, "Fading" was originally going to be named "Dip". This is a double entendre, meaning it's two kind of puns at once. One, is that people sometimes say they gotta "dip" when they have to leave. Dip is also a type of drug, named "dipping tobacco".

This mod also has fully animated cutscenes that stray from the game's usual look, making it one of the only few to do that alongside Brightside.

Garcello's final words, according to a file in the files, were "I'm going to the Ghost McDonalds."

Garcello is the first mod character to ever speak in their song, aside from Brightside. In "Release", you can hear Garcello say "Tight bars, little man..."

In a concept art for Garcello, it is shown that he was supposed to be holding the cigarette backwards, "like a dummy". (See concept art below)

During the first two tracks, the smoke that comes out of Garcello's mouth shares the same color as the arrows/notes he hits.

Something similar is shown in the final two tracks, where his color scheme also match the note's colors.

Same can be said about Garcello's cigarette in all 4 tracks.

Before the song, "Release", Garcello states that him dying this way was probably better than what Girlfriend's dad would've done to him. This is not too uncommon in mods. This leaves a possibility that he may know Daddy Dearest or had an interaction with him in the past.

His mod is one of the few that have a song that isn't longer than one minute. His final song, Fading, only lasts 40 seconds.

A possible reason as to why his final track is called "Fading" is that as stories say that if ghosts are happy with their life and can move on, they disappear.

"Nerves" and "Fading" share a leitmotif with "Mediocre" and "Lover" respectively from the VS Annie mod, also created by Atsuover.

Upon death, Garcello became a ghost of his cigarette's own smoke.

When Garcello fades away, he's actually still in his down pose but is smiling like his idle. It's a subtle animation that one may miss.

In addition, his icon fades away with him, leaving the health bar to just have Boyfriend.

Also, because Garcello's cigarette is part of his sprite in Fading, the cigar disappears with him.

Garcello's voice was made using UTAU, a shareware version of the popular Vocaloid software, as well as voice samples from Rageminer.

In Fading, Garcello's neutral icon isn't used, instead his danger icon is used for both his neutral and losing expressions.

Fading is one of the shortest songs in Friday Night Funkin' mod history.

His name is officially pronounced "Gar-sell-o". as confirmed by Rageminer.

Garcello's order at Ghost McDonalds was a Regular McChicken, Large Fries, and a Large Iced/Sweet Tea, as confirmed by Rageminer in a tweet.

According to Rageminer, Garcello's favorite music group is Mystery Skulls, with his favorite song being Ghost, also by Mystery Skulls.

According to this Tweet by Rageminer:

Garcello's tongue color matches the color of the smoke, which defaults to mint green.

Garcello is pansexual.

Cameos in other mods

Note: All of these Cameos are not canon to Garcello story.