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Screaming crying throwing up this beautiful Christmas morning 😭😭😭
Thank you @sketchnwhatevr for this gift of Bruno and Gustavo! It’s been a joy meeting you this year and getting to know you more through mod work for the Encanto Big Bang ❤️ I’m looking forward to more adventures and memories with you in the new year!!
Now excuse me I have a case of the zoomies now 😭❤️ This is way better than a PlayStation!
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THE PRECIPICE IS NOW COMPLETE
THE EPILOGUE HAS BEEN POSTED!
It’s been a wild ride you guys. Thank you for everything and wish me luck on my next writing journey
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CHAPTER 24 - HOME IS NOW LIVE!
Oh wow 🥺❤️ These kinds of comments mean the world to me - you guys don’t understand!!
I’m pinning this one to my vision board while I work on my novel 🥺❤️
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Chapters: 25/26 Fandom: Encanto (2021) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Bruno Madrigal/Original Character(s), Bruno Madrigal/Original Female Character(s), Agustín Madrigal & Julieta Madrigal, Félix Madrigal & Pepa Madrigal, Bruno Madrigal/Original Male Character(s), Bruno Madrigal/Gustavo Pinheiro (RinnySega) Characters: Bruno Madrigal, Pepa Madrigal, Julieta Madrigal, "Abuela" Alma Madrigal, Original Characters, Madrigal Family (Disney), Other Character Tags to Be Added, Félix Madrigal, Pedro Madrigal, Gustavo Pinheiro (RinnySega), Hernando Cavazos (RinnySega), Paola Felipe (RinnySega), Chepe Velasco (Lethal_Amigos), Anne Pinheiro (RinnySega), Agustín Madrigal, Priest (Disney: Encanto), Mirabel Madrigal, Camilo Madrigal, Dolores Madrigal, Luisa Madrigal, Isabela Madrigal Additional Tags: Origin Story, Drama & Romance, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Character Death, Death, Mental Anguish, Bruno Madrigal Needs a Hug, Religious Imagery & Symbolism, Catholic Guilt, Suicidal Thoughts, Abuse, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Religious Bruno Madrigal, Family Issues, long chapters, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Bisexual Bruno, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Anxiety, Bruno Madrigal Has Visions, Obsessive Behavior, Forgiveness, Bruno Madrigal Needs Therapy, Survivor Guilt, Comfort, Generational Trauma, Some Explicit Sexual Content in Later Chapters, Bruno Resents Pedro, Bruno Madrigal Angst, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Polyamory, ghosts and hauntings, Redemption, morally grey Bruno Madrigal Summary:
. . As sorry as he was when he confessed his sins, he was still so troubled. No assigned penance or Act of Contrition would bring him the comfort he was so desperate to receive. Even in Absolution he felt drained of his soul, completely unforgiven, and empty of spirit by the time he bowed his head and made the Sign of the Cross. . .
(A timeline of moments that led up to the first cracks of the Casita and how Bruno prayed for his own miracle.) Rated M for content in future chapters.
Current place in time: Bruno is 71
It was a peaceful morning that day on Sunday, July 16, 1916.
On his knees, a sixteen-year-old Bruno Madrigal wept on the ground while high up, near the edge of the precipice, Hernando Cavazos and Gustavo Pinheiro had taken a pause in their scrap of a fight - both of them scratched up and bruised, panting and tired.
Paola Felipe, still young and innocent to the events to come, held onto him as he cried.
Gustavo’s chest heaved with his breathing - his eyes fixated on the Madrigal boy clinging to some green glass that formed with his vision. He heard him - how he begged for them to stop. The tears in both his eyes and his voice were hard not to notice.
Hernando was the first to move between the two of them. He turned and went down to his friend as Gustavo’s eyes followed him. He bent low, his arm held out for him to take…
And oh, how that angered Gustavo. With one impulse of his anger, he kicked a rock toward him that set off a chain event that ticked down the minutes the poor boy had left upon the Earth. When Hernando felt that rock, he looked at his adversary in anger, ready to fight him again, and Gustavo only spit on the ground and turned to walk away.
By his one step, those minutes turned to seconds.
A sensation he felt, unlike anything he’d ever experienced before, rushed through his body.
He was falling.
He was falling fast.
He had stepped off the edge, and he couldn’t go back.
His breath left his body as the wind gave way beneath him. The world seemed to be in slow motion as he fell - his back to the ground when he turned about in the air. He looked up at the safety of the cliffside - ignoring the blinding of the sun as he searched for the safety where he’d just been. He was just there! He was just there!
A whine escaped him as he held his hand out for that safety - desperate to reach it. To hold it. To cling to it.
To live.
Please. Please, God, it was a mistake. Please! I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die!
It was a long way down. He wouldn’t make it. Not with the rocks and the boulders so far below to catch him. Nothing to break his fall but hard, unforgiving stone. He didn’t even have time to envy the birds that flew above him as he succumbed to the gravity. He panicked - his heart in a vice as he arched his back, trying again to reach out to the ledge as it went further and further out of view.
Fear swelled in his head as he lost all thought. All conscious thought of who he was or what he had been doing in the seconds it took for him to walk right into the path of his death.
Who was he? Where had he come from? What was his own name?
All he knew was one thing.
I don’t want to die!
And maybe one more thing.
Bruno!
Bruno he could remember. Bruno was a Madrigal. He would save him, wouldn’t he? That family was known to be helpful saviors. Where was he? Why couldn’t he help him?
Bruno! Bruno! Don’t let me die! Save me! Help me!
And upon his begging of the heart, there he was - Gustavo’s wish granted - as against the light of that morning sun that glistened his tears, he saw Bruno look down upon him from that cliff. He had come for him.
Bruno!
He held his hands for him.
Help me!
A soft expression on the other’s face played against the fear on his own. Yet, it wasn’t mocking him. It didn’t mock him for the cruelty that Gustavo had shown him. It didn’t give pity for him as the fool who stepped into the trap of his own demise. It was a comfort that made Gustavo cry harder - his tears falling above him, suspended in the air - as Bruno held out his hand for him. In that gesture, through his cries, Gustavo could hear him say -
Do not be afraid.
Bruno, please. I’m scared.
Do not be afraid.
I don’t want to die.
Do not be afraid.
I don’t want to die.
Do not be afraid.
Gustavo let out one last whine from his throat as Bruno presented his arms forward to take him into an embrace. Arms like his own mother who he looked upon on his first day of life when she held them out to hold and comfort her baby in his crib.
He put his faith in those arms - in those hands - and he stared into Bruno’s eyes when he came close enough to hold him. Gustavo reached for him, and in their embrace, he heard him say again -
Do not be afraid.
And then it was over.
The Precipice Ch 21 - What Do You See out August 31
Hi! Can you tell us about Gus? I can’t concentrate very long on reading but I’d like to know about him!!
It’s ok! And I know my chapters can run long 😅 you’re absolutely fine!
In short, here’s a quick rundown on Gustavo:
1. He is the son of a brick maker named Jorge Pinheiro. He once had two older brothers but they were taken when the Pinheiros had to leave their home before joining Pedro’s group. Gus was roughly 2 at time and is their only surviving child.
2. Gus’ dad and Chepe’s dad are friends due to their hardworking laboring nature, so from an early age, Gus and Chepe were forced to hang out together. Gus as a child was very shy and meek which Jorge hated. He hoped a rambunctious kid like Chepe would essentially peer pressure him into conforming into what a boy should be. On that same note, Chepe’s dad hoped Gus would be a good influence on Chepe and make him more empathetic and kind. Spoiler alert: It didn’t. The boys just fought all the time and Chepe’s anger rubbed off on Gus. So Gus grew into a bully as a preteen/teen.
3. During Gus’ preteen and early teen years, he was Bruno’s bully (which was Chepe’s influence as well as just being generally dissatisfied with life). In The Precipice, Bruno confronts him to prove to himself he is a good Madrigal and it ends with him getting his first same sex crush.
4. During their teen years, Bruno kept a journal writing fanfic of him and Gus being a romantic couple without Gus’ knowledge. It was his way coping with new budding feelings. In the AU he lets go of these feelings over time and no longer has an interest in him anymore than just a friend.
5. Bruno has a vision that Gus will fall off the edge of a great cliff. In the Precipice, that comes to fruition in one way while in the Rough Love AU, it happens in another. In the AU he has his fall when he is 33 and is left permanently disabled - his right leg and hip are irreparable. He did not get to Julieta in time to heal this injury. He was stranded in the jungle with his injury for several days before being discovered and carried to the village.
6. Gus wants to be a painter and an artist. After his injury, and he cannot do the work his father demands of him, he follows his calling and creates his own art studio. (We headcanon he is the one who painted the Madrigal mural from the film)
7. He and Chepe have a complicated relationship that will be explored in the Lethal Amigos fic coming soon. But for now, he is his only friend that he can be open and vulnerable to because Gus is loyal to him and he knows he would never hurt him. This annoys Jose who wishes Chepe could be that way for him.
8. Fun Fact - Gus was the best man at both of Chepe’s weddings!
That’s all I have for now ❤️
Out of Context “The Precipice” feat. The Simpsons
Inspired by @ursminor
