In a hidden town within the mountains lies a budding town it's residents call Encanto. It is a lovely town with a close knit community and beautiful, bountiful landscapes everywhere.
And overlooking it all, on a hill above the town, is a Magic house called Casita, where the only family to possess Magic resides, the Madrigals. Or at least, that's how it usually is.
Near the outskirts of the small town, in a small house built for a family of three, a baby with pale skin, silver hair and ice blue eyes could be seen observing… two ice figurines? And they are fighting?!
MC POV
'It has been a year since i reincarnated with my Gifts and I still cannot get over how fun it is to mess around with my Ice Magic. With my Savant Perk, my artistic abilities are beyond human capabilities which pairs well with my Ice.'
'Watching miniature life realistic ice versions of fictional characters dunking it out with ice replica powers of their usual abilities is both amazing and a great control exerci— *SHATTER*… oops, lost concentration there.'
While the baby was distracted, the two ice figures were fighting intensely, back and forth the spearman, Cu Chulainn, and swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro, fought. Showcasing a level of skill that was beyond normal human comprehension. But, just as the battle was to reach its climax, both figures shattered into snowflakes, causing the baby to frown (pout) showing its displeasure at the sight.
'Aw man, I still can't keep them around and perform high intensity tasks without either focusing on them or giving them agency. I don't want to create living beings yet, even if I do have the assurance that everything I make will be completely loyal and friendly to me without the slightest chance of betrayal or revolting.'
At that moment, the door opens and a good looking Columbian woman who looked to be in her late teens entered the room, cooking at the baby before picking him up.
"Good morning Andres, how is my little man doing this morning? Did you miss mommy? Come here and give momma a hug."
'Ugh, not again. I know you are my mom and I am your son Abigail, but please, stop with the baby talk… is what I want to say but… sigh. It is so weird having a mother younger than me before I died, I used to be a grown man, now I am just a baby, an impossibly powerful baby with the power to cause eternal winter, but still a baby.'
While holding me, mom noticed the snow flakes around the room before looking at me with a raised eyebrow and her brown eyes twinkling in joy and amazement.
"Playing with your Gift again I see, can you show mommy what you made this time? If you do, I take you to visit little Luisa. How does that sound?"
I just looked at my mom, somehow pulling of a deadpan stare, causing her to Coo at my cuteness before i sighed and gave in.
'I know you just want to see Magic up close again… not that I blame you, I can actually use it and I still am amazed by it. But what should I show her? Can't show her any violence or I would lose what little alone time I barely have as is.'
I raised my hand and wave my hand, causing pale blue magic energy to emit from it, before in a beautiful display of elegance, as if a godly artist was sculpting an ice statue at hyper speed in front of our eyes. Within seconds a life realistic ice and snow miniature version of Abigail could be seen relaxing in a recliner on the patio of their house, reading a book while petting their pet dog Sadie in her lap. All of which were moving as if they were alive.
Seeing this my mom squealed in joy and amazement once more at both my powers and artistic prowess, before suddenly peppering my face in many kisses, much to my embarrassment.
"Aww, you did miss me! Don't worry my little Ice Man, I'm here now and not leaving you alone for a single minute!"
I can tell my face showed shock before I pouted and looked away sadly.
'Noo! My alone time! Why did I have to use mom in the figurine! I should have used dad!'
This little comedy sketch continued for the next several minutes before things calmed down. True to her word, after changing my diaper, much to my resigned embarrassment, cleaning me up, feeding me and changing my outfit, the two of us set out for the Casita to have a ,sigh, play date with Luisa Madrigal.
'I need to distract myself. Hm… it's been awhile since I thought about the Gifts that ROB gave me, maybe a quick review will keep me occupied for a moment.'
'That night when I died and was reborn almost an entire year ago was still fresh in my mind, courtesy of the [Peak Condition] Gift. It is a simple but useful Gift, ensuring I am always in peak health, fitness and condition for my age and genetics despite time and a lack of upkeep. It even comes with an infinite memory capacity including perfect memory recall and mental indexing too which is nice, makes learning things much easier anyway.'
As I was thinking, my mother and I made our way through town, with my mom greeting and being greeted by many people while passing by. She was pretty popular because of both her looks and bubbly, kind personality albeit a bit of an airhead, but in no way dumb.
'Then there is [Blue Diamond] and [Savant] which pair together beautifully due to their synergy. [Savant] makes me supernaturally talented and skilled in all artistic endeavors including but not limited to sculpting, carving, drawing, music and black smithing, all while ensuring I also learn and improve in said artistic endeavor exponentially fast as well.'
'[Blue Diamond] however gives me peak human talent and skills in countless things, and even improves all other skills or abilities I knows if I improve in something else, like if I improve my ability to sculpt ice, my ability to sing and dance improves too. A side-effect of this is I instantly master anything new I learn later on as well, like when I learned Spanish.'
'The only caveat is that it only improves the same type of thing, so if I improve a skill, my physical abilities won't improve and Vice versa. This unfortunately also means that to improve my Magic, I need to work on my Magic, although every aspect improves if I work on it. Like right now, I only work on my control, but I can tell my power is improving noticeably every time my control improves as well.'
'Then there is my Ice Magic. My fourth and fifth gift is the ability to use Ice Magic with the combined powers and abilities of the most powerful Ice Users I could think of, along with a protection that nobody can tamper with, steal, copy, suppress or destroy my Magic, specifically my connection and ability to use it.'
'With this combination of Gifts, with very few exceptions, no matter which world I end up in I would be able to protect myself and anybody else I choose to… although in the world of Encanto, this is definitely the definition of overkill and overpowered. Not that I am complaining, I am set to live an easy life with my powers, just sitting back and creating art as my heart desires, occasionally helping out where needed.'
As we finally approached Casita with Ms Julieta already waiting for us outside with a content baby Luisa in her arms, I had just one last thought before sighing a depressed, tired way and resigning myself to the next several hours of entertaining a hyperactive group of chaotic kids that are the Madrigal brood.
'This is going to be a LOOONNNNG day….'