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You tell me that your parents don't understand you, but you don't understand them
Elsewhere triplets growing up
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(Title from translated lyrics of the song Parents and Children)

There is so much about their parents that was confusing. It was hard to miss, when nearly everyone would comment about it the moment they introduced themselves.

"Vaesteri? What a pretty name. Where is it from?"

Their parents told them that they have been born in Brazil. So they said it was from there. The triplets own first names were fairly common Portuguese-or-Spanish names. Fernando, Felix and Thomas. Fairly normal.

But their parents name weren't.

Dal-Estare and Dal-Nateiran. Hyphened, and they made a point of not accepting nicknames or short versions.

People really wanted to know where those came from. Often with raised eyebrows. The triplets wanted to know too.

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They asked, of course they did, the easiest thing for small children to do. They would ask where in Brazil they are from? What was like there? And why are their names so weird?

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The problem is that they couldn't really tell them the truth, not while the triplets are so young.

The truth is that they didn't come from Brazil and instead came from another world. Not in the sense of a different planet in this universe, but an entire different universe with magic.

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And that would be the easiest part to talk about. Even years later, their mother couldn't find the courage to talk why they decided to come to Earth.

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Eventually, they decide to reveal that their parents aren't from Brazil. The triplets were born there before the family settled in the United States.

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(It is always good to know when your parents have lied to you)

But why everything else?

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Their religion forbids them to falsely claim their names...

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Their religion?

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What religion?

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Which religion?

(The triplets have at one point or other mentioned something about religion and got non-answers. They were okay with this, mostly because their experience with classmates talking about religion implied that it involved a lot of boring Sunday mornings).

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It is complicated. But nothing the triplets have to worry about.