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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

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

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]

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

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

Everything else will be below the cut

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.

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

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.

Bruno: Put it down, Oscar

Bruno: You sleep with a rat stuffed animal

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