Little(s) : Carlos Madrigal, aka concept art!Camilo (age : 1-5 years)
Caretaker(s) : Camilo Madrigal
AU : Twin AU, Camilo and Carlos are twins, Camilo turns into people, Carlos into animals

Plot : Camilo loves his brother and his smile is what he wants to see from him. He's ready to go to any lengths to make him smile and safe.
Request for : None! I know that I'll never write a proper "Story of Evil" fanfic, but I still want Camilo being protective of Carlos! So I decided to make him a Little!

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Camilo walked into the room, to find his twin brother sitting down, doing nothing, but hugging his toy. Even if Carlos didn't like having separate clothes for his "quiet time", he was Little, Camilo could tell. And Camilo wanted his time while regressed to be happy, carefree, not sitting down with depressed look.

Camilo just stood there, thinking, what he could to change it, before he got an idea. Something, he'd do with bunch of town's babies, when they missed their parents. In just a second, he was an image of their mother, walking to Carlos, wrapping his arms around him.

"Eep!" The boy squealed, looking back at Camilo. "Mamí?!"

Camilo chuckled, revealing his voice to Carlos, but he just stayed put.

"I see, somebody's upset in here~" Boy said, raising his eyebrow. "So I thought you could use a little motherly touch in here~" He then lifted Carlos into the air, before throwing him into the air, getting a squeak from his brother. "Or maybe Little Carlos wants to be with his Papá?" Then he turned into Félix, placing his brother on his hip.

When it came to Dolores, Isabela or Luisa, Carlos couldn't help the giggle at his brother's silly acts. But when Camilo turned into Mirabel, the Little couldn't hold back the laughter.

"No! No, no, Cami!" Little put his hand on his brother-turned-cousin chest, pushing away from him. "Wan' you! Wan' Cami!"

Camilo smiled behind, as he put Carlos back down, turning around to shape-shift back into his normal self, smirking. Carlos giggled again, looking at his smug looking brother.

"Silly Cami!"

"You know I'd do anything for your smile, Mi Sol!"

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"Cami!"

Camilo turned away from the sky to look at his brother. He sat up to have a proper sight on Carlos. The day was nice and warm and whole family was in the Casita backyard relaxing and simply bonding with each other.

"Yes, Carlie?"

"For you!"

Camilo was confused, before Carlos lifted his hands, putting something on his head. A flowercrown. Camilo gasped.

"C-Carlos?"

"Mira helped me!"

Then Carlos put the crown on his brother's head for Camilo's eyes to widen. The whole family let out a collective 'awh...' from that. Camilo was shocked and ignored his mother's yell for the camera, and just looked at Mirabel, who nodded to him. Camilo turned his gaze to Carlos, who was smiling brightly. Camilo smiled back.

In the moment, he didn't care for anything else. The smile of his brother shone brighter than Sun on the brightest day.

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Camilo was in the village, doing his normal thing, playing with kids and bringing joy to villagers. It was something, he always enjoyed himself. The smile wouldn't disappear from his face for whole day.

Well... it wasn't until they heard crying towards them.

Crying... that made Camilo's blood boil.

The boy sighed, before looking at the kids, he was playing with.

"Alright, niños. Go and find Mira. She'll tell you a story!" He said, trying to sound cheerful, instead of angry, ready to maul everything in his way.

The kids smiled, before running off to find Mirabel. Ay, she was gonna kill Camilo for that! But he didn't care. He had a Little brother to comfort.

As soon as kids left, Carlos threw himself onto his brother's arms, crying into his ruana.

He's two... Camilo thought to himself. Carlos was always very sensitive in baby space.

"Cami... bad! Bad kids caww me bad fings! 'ey say 'm bad!" The Little cried into his brother's chest, burying himself deeper into him.

Camilo was ready to destroy anything, who hurt his brother. He knew Carlos wasn't the best loved Madrigal, but Camilo was NOT going to stand that! But he wanted to comfort his brother first...

Camilo lead Carlos to more closed off area of Encanto, where he let his brother lay on his chest, to let him cling himself like a small child, he felt. Camilo stroked his brother's hair, gently singing a tune, he knew would calm down the frightened Little.

"Cuantas cosas nuestro destino nos dará
Toda nuestra vida siempre lamentaré
Hasta el fin del mundo mi alma te cuidará
Y el verte feliz, siempre desearé!"

The song was important for the twins. Camilo wrote it the very day, he found out of Carlos' regression and became his Caretaker. That song was Camilo's promise to love and protect his brother from anything and everything in the world, that would come to hurt him.

And he was not going back on it.

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It was a sunny day. Carlos was sitting down in Casita backyard, playing hide-and-seek with Camilo, when a figure came over him.

"Well, hello there, mijo" The voice clearly belonged to a woman, and, before Carlos could say anything, or move, she grabbed him and closed his mouth and nose with a cloth. It had some sickly sweet smell, that made him nervous. Before he knew it, she was tying it around his head. "There we go~. Let's go home now~"

No matter how Carlos struggled, the woman had no trouble dragging him to a cart, hidden in the trees, before she put the boy inside.

"You have no idea, how long I've been waiting for you, chico precioso~. You're going to LOVE your new home~"

Carlos felt his limbs numb, as she started dressing him into diaper and babyish clothes. He HATED them!

Before he knew it, they started moving, he couldn't move almost at all. The tears started spilling from his eyes, when a thunder rumbled nearby and he heard the voice, he wanted to hear.

"Leave my kid alone!" It was Pepa! His Mamí was here to save him! And... she wasn't alone...

"CAMILO!" Carlos yelled. He was clearly OUT of regression at the moment.

The younger twin was pulled out of the cart, while their mother was thundering and screaming on top of her lungs at the woman that tried to kidnap one of her children. And while of that, Carlos couldn't stand it, taking Camilo on his back, to carry him back home.

Once inside of his room, Carlos helped his brother to dress up into his normal clothes, crying all the way.

"Camilo... oh Dios mio, Cami, WHY!? Hermano, you idiota! WHY DID YOU DO THIS!?" Tears spilled from the boy's eyes, as Camilo smiled gently at him.

"She was gonna take you. What kind of brother would I be, if I let this happen?"

"Cami..." Carlos choked on his tears, noticeably slipping, for Camilo. "Cami... don' do that again..! I don' wanna loose you!"

Camilo placed his hand on his brother's cheek, gently rubbing it with his thumb, before carefully holding a red chameleon pacifier into his reach. Carlos took it immediately, before again nuzzling into his brother's chest.

The mentally older twin gently laid his brother down to hum the familiar for him comfort tune, as he gently changed him into comfortable sleeping clothes. Carlos always got sleepy, when he cried a lot in baby space. And Camilo knew how to tell his brother's Little age. Right now, he knew Carlos was 1 and he really needed cuddles and nap with his big brother.

Camilo then let Carlos on his chest, when the Little's eyes started to close, while the older one was gently playing with his hair, softly speaking with him.

"Shh... don't worry, Principito... you will never loose me. Our story will only end one way. And until then, I'll play my part. I'll love and protect you from everything in that world, that will try to hurt you. So just that you may shine, my Sun"