De Castigo! is a story arc from the Monica and Friends series. The arc's name comes from the Portuguese term for "From Punishment!" It features a story where Cascão is punished when Lurdinha Antenor discovers the house getting dirty and loses her temper over it.
Plot[]
The story begins as Lurdinha shouts that her son, Cascão, had done it this time. When he asks that she explains what got her angry, she explains that Cascão got the house dirty... again. He tries to reassure his mother that the house is theirs to stay in, and that she should not blow up about it. However, she counters his rebuttal by banishing him to his room, much to his shock.
Cascão is angry that his mother stripped him of his time, claiming that he was just having fun. Outside, his friends invite him over to play some ball, only for his mother to force him to decline their offer as per his punishment when she barges in unexpectedly. However, he tries to make up for this by inviting his friends to join him in his room, an offer that Cebolinha declines for another idea: leaving him to suck his finger. Cascão declines, preferring his own idea.
Cascão then starts to play with the Star Wars model ships he got, only to drop his Millennium Falcon model. Lurdinha then barges in and coerces him to stay inside, trapping the model ship outside of the house, giving another boy a chance to steal it even as Cascão tries to stop him.
Xaveco and Jeremias run by, believing that a sorveteiro won the lottery and is distributing ice cream. The fact that Cascão has been trapped inside by his mother after she got mad at him for soiling his house also causes him to lose his chances of getting gifts from Santa Claus himself (possibly in a hallucination) and meeting with his friend Maria "Dustine" Cascuda as she gave up on waiting for his arrival and decided to hang out with someone else. She leaves with her new boyfriend before Cascão can tell her that he was trapped inside the house.
Now reflecting upon his past deeds, Cascão decides that Lurdinha has been correct after all. This gets him to apologize to his mother for soiling the house, and she lifts his punishment. Now free, he makes up with Cascuda. However, a thunderstorm causes a buzzkill. Cascão, being a hyper-aquaphobe, decides to go back, which his mother finds to her surprise.
Characters[]
- Cascão Antenor
- Lurdinha Antenor
- Cebolinha Cebola
- Titi
- Nimbus
- Humberto
- Unnamed boy who steals Cascão's ship.
- Xaveco Lorota
- Jeremias
- Cascuda
- Unnamed boy who dates Cascuda.
Trivia[]
- Lurdinha is portrayed at her worst for this story, making sure Cascão stays in his room, not allowing him to play with his friends or retrieve his fallen model ship when he drops it, and also taking his chances of meeting with Cascuda away from him.
- However, she DID do it for moral reasons.