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Bruno’s son Oscar

For starters I am not Colombian nor will I claim to be.

Meet Oscar, Bruno’s adopted son. (This may not be his final design I just needed to try and figure out what the kid looks like) More about him under the cut

Oscars Gift/Room

To put it simply Oscars gift if copying

He copies gifts to be exact

If he makes skin on skin contact with one that has a gift he can thus use it for 24 hours or until he touches someone else

He can only copy one gift at a time

Copying gifts will give him a massive headache for a little bit especially those that would change his body (Luisa’s strength with the muscles, Dolores’ super hearing with the now really sensitive ears)

If he copies a gift without meaning to it will be uncontrollable from anywhere to a few minutes to a couple hours

Except for Julieta’s

Since hers is healing with food he can’t really loose control of it hence why it’s his favorite power to copy

If he purposely copies a gift it will be in his control instantly, headache remains though

The reason he has this gift, because I can’t remember who said it but they had a whole list of everyone’s gift and how it matches up with their personality/how they cared before the gift, is because he’s adopted

Let me explain

Oscar has the constant feeling of he doesn’t belong

Let that be because of what the villagers say

Or because of the fact that he knows he is not blood related to any of the Madrigals

But because of this sense of not belonging, he craves to fit in

So the Casita gave him the gift of copying, so that he could fit in perfectly with the family

He can be just like everyone else literally

Now onto his room

His door is a image of himself holding an infinity sign

The room itself though will change either depending on what gift he has at the moment or what his emotions are

Sometimes it’s a giant playground, other times it’s an extremely confined space

There is always a wall of books though

Oscar is afraid of his room

He sleeps in the nursery or with his papí most nights

Until he can’t

I was going to add more about when Oscar is growing up and his ceremony and stuff but it’ll be to long. I’ll post the rest tomorrow.

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Crash

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So quick thing, sorry for just up and vanishing. Life shot happened. But we are coming back with more Oscar and all about his life so buckle up!

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As known Oscar would sleep in the nursery most nights because he hated his room.

Well a few months after Bruno left, Oscar just so happened to find a book about Morse code totally not suspiciously on his bed.

So he starts to read it, because he loves to read fun fact, and slowly learns Morse code.

He practices it out on the walls of Casita after Maribel has fallen asleep and a few weeks later was when he got his first response

It scared him enough to where he didn’t do it for a few nights. Though he reasons in his mind that it was Casita speaking back to him.

So for years he would spend the nights away tapping on the walls and telling ‘Casita’ about his day.

One of the most common phrase coming back was mi pequeño rato (which I hope translate to my little rat) which was what Bruno would call Oscar.

It always made Oscar feel safe and as if his papí was still there

Little did he know it was actually Bruno who had left the book and who was co versing with him through Morse code. Not that he would actually tell Oscar this, especially when the good nights from Oscar would range from “Goodnight Casita” to “Goodnight papí”

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Kinda of a rewrite of gay one scene of Wil Smith yelling about his dad to Uncle Phil but Will is Oscar and Phil is Julieta

For context this takes place after Casita is rebuilt and everyone is working towards rekindling relationships and working towards forgiving/forgiveness

Julieta: [after Bruno left the room without saying anything to Oscar] I'm sorry, Will.

Oscar: You know what? Actually, this works out better for me, you know. I get to focus on my own projects without interference you know...

Julieta: Will, it's all right to be angry.

Oscar: Hey, why should I be mad? At least he’s here now. I just wish I hadn't wasted my time making him this stupid present.

[places a rauna with patters of rats and such on the table]

Julieta : I'm sorry. You know, if there was something that l...

Oscar: You know what, you ain't got to do nothing, Tía Julieta. Ain't like I'm still six years old, you know. Ain't like I'ma be sitting up every night asking you, "When's Papí coming home?", you know. Who needs him? Hey, he wasn't there to teach me how to use my gift, but I learned, didn't I? And I got pretty good at it too, didn't I, Tía Julieta?

Julieta: Yeah, you did.

Oscar : Got through my first nights in my room without him, right? I learned how to grow, I learned how to shave, I learned how to move past him. I had ten great birthdays without him. He never even sent anything!

[turns toward the kitchen door]

Oscar : [shouts] I don’t need him!

[long pause as Oscar struggles to regain his composure]

Oscar: I ain't need him then and I don't need him now.

Julieta : Oscar...

Oscar : No, you know what, Tía Julieta? I'ma keep growing, I'ma be the best me I can, I'ma marry me a beautiful honey, and I'ma have me a whole bunch of kids. I'll be a better father than he ever was, and I sure as hell don't need him for that, 'cause ain't a damn thing he could ever teach me about how to love my kids!

[long pause; Oscar starts to cry]

Oscar: How come he doesn’t love me?

[Julieta rushes forward to hug Oscar, and Oscar breaks down sobbing]

I’m going to write an actual scene for this now

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Don’t know who remembers but in one of the posts I compared Oscar’s view of his and Bruno’s relationship after Bruno comes back as quite similar to the scene with Will Smith and Uncle Phil about Wills dad.

Well I found the script and such for what was said for the scene so next post is going to be that slightly changed up to fit the narrative

Love making happy Oc’s then giving them trauma

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Oscar doesn’t have OCD like his dad but he did pick up some of the patterns he does (he did become superstitious though but a lot less) and most of them happen when he gets overwhelmed, anxious, and of course when it would normally call for it

For example

The knock on wood mantra and actions

Holding his breath for a certain amount of time

Walking in and out of a room multiple times

There are some habits that Oscar picked up himself

Oscar does this hand motion, it’s hard to explain but I’ll try

It starts with an open hand

Then first the pink comes towards the palm, then the ring finger, and so on

But they don’t come one at a time

It’s like a ripple, the pinky starts it and the rest follow

As they move towards his palm his thumb rubs against ears of the fingers

Reopen hand and repeat

I’m sorry if this doesn’t make since

Will pop his knuckles and just about any bone he can

Tw: some self harm underneath the cut

If he gets overwhelmed in a negative way he will use the butt of his palm and hit himself in his head

Scratch at his wrists

Or dig his nails into his arms

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I’ve mostly talked about Bruno and Oscar, so let’s do a post about Oscar’s relationship with everyone else!

If there is any relationship you want me to go more in depth with, just ask!

Everything else will be below the cut

We are finna go from oldest to youngest (all current ages in the movie except for Camilo who is still 15 but was born on the same day as Mirabel they are still twins though)

Abuela Alma (Grandmother)

Of course

Oscar does have the respect for his Abuela of course

And he does love her, it’s just a very stressed and on thin ice kind of love

He has always known that he wasn’t exactly what she wanted

After all he hear her say herself “How can he be helpful in the village”

Thanks to Dolores gift

He tries his hardest to show that he is of use

No matter how much he acts like he doesn’t care

Let’s just imagine, for the sake of it, that instead of Mirabel standing up to Abuela, it’s Oscar

One of the bits of the conversation would of course go onto the topic of Bruno

“He left his this family, he betrayed the miracle!”

“He left because you made him feel useless! A burden like me!”

And of course the

“You act as if your the only one who lost him! You may have lost a son but I lost my papá!”

It’s a lot more in depth but I don’t know how to word it

It does take a while for Oscar and Abuela to see eye to eye

If you couldn’t tell I don’t really like Abuela

Julieta (Tía/Aunt)

She is the adult that Oscar is closest to after Bruno leaves

He is constantly found in the kitchen with her cooking, while using her gift of course

Because it is his favorite to use due to the fact he can’t loose control of it

She is also the person that he goes to for comfort and being able to talk to people

She would be the closest to a parent figure he has after Bruno leaves

Oscar will sometimes refuse to eat some of her cooking when he has small injuries or something that came from a funky story

Because he thinks the scars are neat

Agustín (Tío/Uncle)

Oscar and him get into trouble a lot

More or so physical trouble

Oscar isn’t even that much of a clutz

But Agustín rubs off on him

Julieta will roll her eyes when she sees the two boys coming to the house covered in small injuries

But it always ends in laughter

Pepa (Tía/Aunt)

Honestly they have the average tía relationship

Like nothing big

Sorry

Felíx (Tío/Uncle)

Same as Pepá

Though Oscar will come to him for a more man to man talk

Bruno (Papá/Papa)

I mean

I’ve talked about this so much

Before Bruno left the two where really close

He was the best dad no questions asked

After Bruno came back though they where a lot farther apart

Bruno would want to talk to Oscar but ya know, living in the walls for ten years on top of already a lack of social knowledge kinda left him lacking

It would be kinda the same thing for Oscar

He wanted to be able to talk to his papa but he still had bottled up anger and resentment

It’s a relationship that’s on thin ice right now but it’s slowly being built back up

Dolores (Prima/Cousin)

Literally the person he is closest to

Even before the gift ceremony

He would actually sneak into her room to sleep when Antonio was born so that he wouldn’t have to be in his room

Since he couldn’t stay in the nursery anymore

Because of the fact that Oscar has used her gift a few times he knows how much she can get overwhelmed

They spend nights together just chatting

They both learned sign language so they they could communicate as well as Morse Code but Oscar learned that for a different reason

On the Morse code note they will communicate from across the room whenever he copies her gift

The two are basically inseparable whenever he isn’t helping in the kitchen

Isabela (Prima/Cousin)

Kinda treats Oscar the same way she treats Mirabel in the beginning of the movie

Since she sees Abuela doing it

At the end of the movie they start over and slowly become closer as cousins

Luisa (Prima/Cousin)

Big older sister vibes

Even if she isn’t his sister

They don’t dk much together but if Luisa sees someone disrespecting Oscar

You may have to deal with the donkeys yourself

Post movie Oscar with copy her gift so that she can have a break

Camilo (Primo/Cousin)

Sides with Mirabel

This will make more sense

A lot harsher than she is though

After singing about Bruno in “we don’t talk about Bruno” he puts in a small verse about Oscar but doesn’t say a name

Everyone knows it’s about Oscar though

Maribel (Prima/Cousin)

Now

You would think that oh the two black sheep of the youngest generation

They would get along quite well

Nope!

This will be expanded on in its own post

But one of the rumors about Oscar is that he stole Mirabels gift

Since he was adopted and the next ceremony after his was Mirabels and Camilo’s

Mirabel touched her door knob a second before Camilo so while his flashed hers went into the wall

So while she still is nice to Oscar

She does kind of resent him

He has what she wants, a gift

A she has what he wants, no gift

Very fun

Post Movie they become closer like Oscar and Isabela

After the door knob scene and Oscar explains that when he tried to copy her gift he felt closer to Casita the two come to understanding

That her gift is becoming the next holder of the candle (like Abuela) and being connected to Casita

Maribels gift is of course a head cannon of mine

Antonio (Primo/Cousin)

Oscar is like Antonio’s second older brother

Literally the only thing Camilo and Oscar agree on is keeping Antonio safe

If you see the two of them teaming up on you for hurting the kid you know you messed up

Post-movie Antonio, Oscar, and Bruno all work together on the telenovas by Oscar being the second rat interpreter with Antonio’s gift

Note that I used a translate for the few Spanish words I used, I don’t speak Spanish

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As I work on my nightly long post I give you the mind image off

Tiny Oscar wearing Bruno’s rauna to help him calm down before and after his gift ceremony. It was about the only time you would see Bruno not wearing it.

After Bruno comes back and Oscar is still unsure about his dad, one of the first alone time interactions they have is Bruno draping his rauna over Oscar. No words where said but none needed to be.

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So first off, I am not a songwriter nor am I any good at it. But I wanted to try and get an idea o for what Oscar’s verse in “We don’t talk about it Bruno” would be.

It would start off with anger, talking about how Bruno left him parentless and how after getting his gift wouldn’t even give Oscar a hug without gloves, which while Bruno was doing it to protect him Oscar saw it as him being afraid/ashamed of him and his gift.

But it would change from less anger and resentment to a more longing tone. Kid just wants his dad back and wants to do father son activities.

I don’t know if that makes sense but that’s how it is

If you know how to write lyrics and need something to do, go ham

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Growing up Oscar knew very well that he was Bruno’s kid. He was reminded of it everyday from the whispers and glances in the village.

This of course builds up some resentment towards his papa, the man who had supposedly ran off and left his only child to be parentless.

Why am I saying this? Well because you know that one clip of Will Smith where he is talking about how he never needed his dad? Yeah. That’s Oscar before Bruno comes back. Imma do a post all about that video here soon.

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Oscar grinning: I have a knife

Bruno: Put it down, Oscar

Oscar: Make me! *sprints away*

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If anyone wants to hear about my hcs about OG Encanto or the Replica Au (Oscar) do an ask or something because I honestly need one push and I will share it all

Especially about Oscar. I want to talk about the boi

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Oscar: Honestly, I am so evil. So full of darkness. I feed off the souls of the living I strike fear into-

Bruno: You sleep with a rat stuffed animal

Oscar: He’s my sECOND IN COMMAND IN MY ARMY OF DARKNESS!

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Let’s talk about Oscar’s ceremony! I’m not gonna go into that much detail on his gift but if you wanna read that I have a post for it I don’t know how to link posts on mobile

No one was sure on if Oscar would get a gift

Since technically he wasn’t blood related to the Madrigals but he did join the family before he was five

Bruno didn’t want to look into the future because he ha dander a promise to himself that he would experience everything with his son, not through some vision

So it’s Oscar’s fifth birthday, technically the day they found Oscar but that was the best they could do

They had a party with the family

No one from the village was there

And as Bruno was bringing Oscar back to the nursery for him to go to sleep, a door materialized, all shiny and shimmery

Of course he instantly calls for the rest of the family and they can all only assume that it’s for Oscar

Since he’s the only one ‘of age’

So they go through the whole steps, Abuela doing the little speech and story on how the candle came to be

Finally it’s time for Oscar to open the door

He looks at his dad who gives him a reassuring and eager nod

Oscar reaches for the door and the image that appears on it is him holding and infinity sign

Nothing big happens like Antonio when he talks to the toucan or when Dolores got overwhelmed with the new amount of hearing

That is until Bruno picks him up

Bruno may not know what his sons power is but he’s still gonna be the supportive dad

So he picks Oscar up and hugs him

Of course this leads to skin on skin contact which triggers Oscar’s gift

Just like when Bruno does a vision the wind picks up and Oscar’s eyes begin to glow

The vision that Oscar sees is actually the same one that Bruno sees in the movie

The one of Mirabel standing infront of a broken Casita

Now imagine seeing that at age five, the home that adopted you being broken and a person you don’t even know standing in front of it

More and more visions, more minor in importance than the first one, happen non stop for a few minutes but it feels like hours

When they do finally stop the silence is almost louder than Oscar’s crying

With just a look from Abuela, Bruno takes his son to the nursery and little Dolores follows

Bruno lays Oscar down, goes to give him a kiss on the forehead but of course stops

After all the skin on skin was what triggered it

Bruno leaves to go talk with the rest of the family, Dolores stays in the nursery, Agustín and Felíx put the remaining kids to bed

Oscar eventually stops crying and Dolores gives him a hug

She’s six, she doesn’t fully understand what happened

This leads to Oscar suddenly getting Dolores’ power of course

Not only is he suddenly able to hear his heartbeat, his lungs frantically expanding and shrinking

But he can hear the grownups talking

About him

Not all being use to this gift though he wasn’t able to understand everything that was being said

“We’ve never had someone with the same gift”

“Mami we don’t know if it’s the same”

“His door is different”

“We all saw it, the wind, the glowing eyes”

“There’s a way to explain it”

“How will he of use to the village?”

The last phrase is was sends Oscar into a whole new fit of sobs

Which only causes his ears more pain which leads to more crying

Dolores is able to get enough out of the boy to understand that he just used her gift, while she was also hearing it

Not knowing what else to do she runs to where the adults are and tells them that Oscar used her gift and was also currently in pain

Bruno is the first to reach Oscar who is clutching his ears to try and muffle the noises

It takes quite a few hours but eventually Oscar was soothed to sleep and put to bed

At the same time of when Bruno is soothing Oscar Pepa and Felíx is with Dolores asking her what all happened and reassuring her that it wasn’t her fault

At the end of the night the grown ups say back down to talk about everything that happened

After the two experiences it became a bit more clear what Oscar’s gift was

And the fact that skin on skin causes it

Abuela still wasn’t sure on how this would help the family and village but Bruno was quite happy

His son wouldn’t be held to just one gift

He would be able to experience so much more than anyone in the family could

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Bruno talking about Oscar when he was a kid: The first time Oscar opened a box of Cheerios and looked inside he yelled, “OH WOW! DONUT SEEDS!”

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Oscar is that nice and unhealthy mix of anxiety and low self esteem and feral gremlin energy to where he just is