Tatum Mendoza

Tatum, a character in the Foreign Affairs series, is your personal bodyguard and one of your love interests. He is first mentioned in Chapter 1 and makes his official appearance in Chapter 2.

Appearance
Tatum has tan skin, brown eyes, and black hair that's long on the top and slicked back. He wears a suit with a black tie, and an earpiece.

Personality
Before he left for the army, he liked to crack jokes. He also knows how you feel about your mother and would offer his shoulder to cry on. When he came back from the army, he takes his job as your bodyguard very seriously and doesn't joke around like he used to, although you do get him to crack a few times. However when he was playing poker with the other bodyguards, you see him act like how he was when he was a teenager.

Foreign Affairs

 * Chapter 1: First Term Jitters (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 2: Political Partying
 * Chapter 3: Revisionist History
 * Chapter 4: Champagne Socialites
 * Chapter 5: Horse Race

Your Character
You and Tatum were best friends since childhood, however you lost contact when he left for the army five years ago. You two are reunited when Tatum is assigned to be your bodyguard, but he is very different than he was. You try your best to get him to talk to you like normal, but your attempts mostly fail. If you decide to get a breath of fresh air with him at the Soiree of Nations party, he tells you that he never wanted to come back, that the post of guarding you isn't what he would have chosen for himself. However, being a Presidential Guardsman is a "cushy" job compared to some of his other options so he makes the best of it.

You try to remind him about how he liked to joke around, and you even get him to smile when you bring up when McDermonts got rid of their rib sandwich. He is also aware of how you feel about your mother never having the time to say goodbye and used to let you confide in him and comfort you.

In Chapter 4, he invites you to play poker with him and the rest of the bodyguards, which you can accept. After the game, he tells you how he and you were always on the same page and were equals, despite his dad being a driver for your mom. But when he came back from the army, he realizes what you’ve been surrounded by the past few years and how the army is nothing like it.

Trivia

 * The name Tatum is of Old English origin and means "Tate's homestead" or "Cheerful, bringer of joy".
 * The surname Mendoza is of Basque origin and means "Cold mountain".
 * He shares the same surname as the Mendoza family (Anna-Marie, Percy and Juliette) from the Big Sky Country series.