Oracle. Another term that might technically apply to him too but that felt far too grand. Though he suspected this Dominic wore it well; he seemed like a confident sort, also in contrast to Bruno.
"I didn't know that magic like ours was something you could teach," he said. "Everyone in my family has different gifts, so none of us could really teach the others. Not that way, anyway. Our madre always taught us to use our gifts to help our family and our community though." He looked down at the candy Dominic had given him, toying with it between his fingers. "That was... easier for some of us than others."
"And I wouldn't call what those people wanted idiotic. Well, except for maybe the last one; for something like that you definitely want to talk to a healer, since they might actually be able to do something about it. But the rest of it... well even if it seems like it's not much to you, it's probably important to them, you know? It's not fair to judge people like that if you don't want them to do it to you too." He'd always tried to live by the golden rule, after all, even if he hadn't always been successful.
"I didn't get chased out though." He wasn't sure anyone could be chased out of the Encanto. He looked down at the candy in his hands again, fiddling with it awkwardly. "It was my niece, Mirabel, see. When she was five, she was all set to get her own magic gift, just like all the other kids in the family. Except for her the ceremony didn't work. My mom- Abuela, by then- was worried, and begged me to look into the future and see what it meant. And I saw our magic in danger; our house, breaking. And Mirabel in the center of it all. The vision kept changing though, and there was no solid answer, no clear fate... But I knew how it was gonna look, cause I'm Bruno and everyone always assumed the worst. So I just... left. Kinda."
And also didn't, kinda. He'd never been good at making big decisions like that. He finally popped the candy into his mouth, in part to have an excuse not to talk for a moment. It was... interesting. Sweet obviously, but not a flavor he'd ever had before. There weren't any maple trees in the Encanto, after all. Finally he continued. "I just... I didn't want her to get hurt because of me, you know? And I didn't want to make things any harder for my family than I already had."
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"I didn't know that magic like ours was something you could teach," he said. "Everyone in my family has different gifts, so none of us could really teach the others. Not that way, anyway. Our madre always taught us to use our gifts to help our family and our community though." He looked down at the candy Dominic had given him, toying with it between his fingers. "That was... easier for some of us than others."
"And I wouldn't call what those people wanted idiotic. Well, except for maybe the last one; for something like that you definitely want to talk to a healer, since they might actually be able to do something about it. But the rest of it... well even if it seems like it's not much to you, it's probably important to them, you know? It's not fair to judge people like that if you don't want them to do it to you too." He'd always tried to live by the golden rule, after all, even if he hadn't always been successful.
"I didn't get chased out though." He wasn't sure anyone could be chased out of the Encanto. He looked down at the candy in his hands again, fiddling with it awkwardly. "It was my niece, Mirabel, see. When she was five, she was all set to get her own magic gift, just like all the other kids in the family. Except for her the ceremony didn't work. My mom- Abuela, by then- was worried, and begged me to look into the future and see what it meant. And I saw our magic in danger; our house, breaking. And Mirabel in the center of it all. The vision kept changing though, and there was no solid answer, no clear fate... But I knew how it was gonna look, cause I'm Bruno and everyone always assumed the worst. So I just... left. Kinda."
And also didn't, kinda. He'd never been good at making big decisions like that. He finally popped the candy into his mouth, in part to have an excuse not to talk for a moment. It was... interesting. Sweet obviously, but not a flavor he'd ever had before. There weren't any maple trees in the Encanto, after all. Finally he continued. "I just... I didn't want her to get hurt because of me, you know? And I didn't want to make things any harder for my family than I already had."