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Nov. 30th, 2023 at 6:55 PM
Bruno Madrigal
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Bruno's dreamer form has warped over the years, taking on traits of the dark rumors surrounding him as his own self-perception deteriorated. He is, in fact, literally seven feet tall! He wears a hooded cloak, tattered at the edges, in an emerald green shade that is about as dark as Dreamer outfits can go. There seems to be some magic about the hood that makes it impossible to really see him no matter the lighting conditions. If he pulls it back, though, he looks...a lot more like his regular self, actually. He might even shrink!
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- Bruno, who together with his sisters was born around the same time that Dreamers first began to emerge, awoke as a Dreamer alongside Julieta and Pepa at a young age. They very quickly became the first well-known Dreamer team in Latin America (maybe just Colombia idk).- Bruno, known at this time as Dreamer Hourglass, was the Sentry of the trio. This mostly relied on his ability to predict the future; in battle he could foresee where attacks were about to land and either warn or shield others.
- His power of prophecy also allowed him to foresee where Torments and Nightmares were going to form before they did, and he came under a lot of pressure to try and prevent them from forming in the first place. His powers don't work that way, though; anything he sees is pretty much going to happen. However, those expectations and his attempts to first meet them and later deny the possibility made a rather sinister reputation begin to grow up around him. For one thing, he was just a general prophet of terrible things going to happen; for another, the fact that Torments and eventually Nightmares are born from the dark thoughts of others meant that he had at times an uncomfortable amount of insight into other peoples' lives and innermost feelings! Which he was encouraged to try using to stop bad things from happening, so very quickly Everybody Knew that he knew things he shouldn't!
- Rumors began to spread that he spied on peoples' thoughts and dreams through the Dream Sphere for his own dark purposes, to curse them with Torments and Nightmares. Maybe he's even some kind of evil Dreamer variant! He sees your dreams and feasts on your screams!
- Of course none of this was true, but the growing pressure of existing in such a public role while being generally feared by everyone outside his immediate family began to wear on him, and Bruno started to generate rather a number of Torments himself. This did not help his reputation! Especially within his family, who were the people who inevitably had to deal with them! Eventually he ceased going on missions with his sisters, especially as their children also began to awaken as Dreamers and carry on the new family legacy. They had younger, better and more useful allies now. They didn't need him. He started to retreat from public life in general, becoming more reclusive and anxious. Which also did not help his reputation.
- I DON'T KNOW IF I WANT TO PUT THIS IN STONE IN CASE OTHER MADRIGALS APP BUT IDK IF THAT'S EVER GONNA HAPPEN ANYWAY but let's say that perhaps Mirabel was attacked by a Nightmare as a child, around the age when Madrigal children typically come into their power, and failed to waken as a Dreamer. Bruno was pressured into searching the future to see if she would ever do so, or if maybe the Madrigal Dreamer legacy was failing, and instead had a confusing vision of her at the center of some kind of massive Nightmare event in their hometown. Terrified for what might happen to his young niece if he shared this, and knowing full well that he wouldn't be able to keep this secret from his family, Bruno finally snapped and disappeared entirely.
- This probably went down officially as one of those Mysterious Dreamer Disappearances that sometimes happen. Really, he mostly just moved into the Dream Sphere full-time. From there, he could easily hide and disguise himself well enough to still watch over much of the family's activities without ever being spotted. In his waking life, he basically became a vagrant, only flickering back to reality long enough to see to his own basic needs. The only real thing keeping him anchored to the waking world are his pet rats.
- He'd been committed to sticking around until the mysterious incident with Mirabel happened, in case he could help with that in some way - even if only by taking the blame for it afterwards. Instead, after a decade of waiting, he received a vision of himself in Yumemigaoka. The reason was unclear to him, but given how his visions work he was guaranteed to end up there so he decided to just go under his own power. That took a bit of time since he's been legally missing and/or dead for a decade. He probably broke some laws regarding international travel? Maybe stole a guy's identity? it's fine it's whatever don't worry about how he got on all those planes
- He has been operating in Yumemigaoka much like he did in the Encanto, which is to say that he's been a mysterious hooded and cloaked figure lurking around in the Dream Sphere and occasionally appearing to lead other Dreamers to dangerous Torment hordes or emerging Nightmares. He will help in these fights as well, to a degree! He usually makes a pretty concerted effort to flee these encounters afterwards, but it's entirely possible for people to have caught or cornered him and thus talked to him that way - plus, if it's generally friendly, he's a lot more willing to stick around and chat a little bit with those Dreamers again afterwards.
- His Dreamer form no longer resembles what he looked like as Dreamer Hourglass, which was known to the general public if probably not so much in like, Japan. If caught and forced to give a name, he's now referring to himself as Dreamer Omen.
- Also as far as irl goes I guess he's probably squatting in an abandoned building with rats. what's self-care literally never heard of it.
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