This chapter delves into the peacemaking negotiations which constituted the site of the Hispano-Moroccan re-encounter proper, where the contours of the colonial formation began to take shape. Partly as a result of their interaction with Moroccans, the Spanish military and civilians who were on the ground underwent a transformation process which led them to advocate colonial restraint, and to admire, even mimic, and ventriloquise Moroccan—especially Muslim—men, whose virility they likewise praised. I illustrate such gradual transformation and offer a multifaceted explanation thereof, including the impact of Makhzan diplomats, ordinary Tetouanis, and Moroccan cultural practices on the Spaniards. I also dig into the local and trans-local (global) masculinity ideals which shaped the Spaniards’ appraisal of Moroccan Muslim virility, and ultimately the constitution of a Hispano-Moroccan discursive camaraderie—the recurrence of which I go on to trace in cultural artefacts produced during the Spanish Protectorate in northern Morocco (1912–56). This enables to qualify the colonial trope par excellence, i.e. the “Hispano-Moroccan brotherhood” as marked by shared misogyny, and to both transcend the brevity of the events under review and disclose the importance of the occupation of Tetouan in the establishment of the ‘seeds’ of modern Spanish colonialism in Morocco.