The Problem With Encanto Headcanons

The problem with Encanto headcanons

As a Colombian I LOVED Encanto, but I know people have headcannoned Isabela as lesbian and Mirabel as bisexual among other characters. The issue with that is..

There is no issue.

In 2020 this was such a prominent issue to people and even 4 years later I have no idea why so many people took issue with this. It was fine for people to headcanon Elsa as lesbian, it was fine for people to headcanon Merida as lesbian, but all of sudden it's "forcing representation" and "taking away from the main story" if Isabela gets headcannoned as lesbian?? NOBODY is saying this for Max Goof and Bradley Uppercrust III when the movie was trending. NOBODY was saying it was forced representation when people shipped Bill Cipher and Ford Pines (even though the fact its gay isn't the issue but the fact it was a very manipulative relationship was but many people ignored that). And it's not bad to headcanon any of these things for any of these characters. I just don't understand why it was such an issue when Isabela (who's whole arc is honestly very WLW coded) gets called a lesbian. And its the fact its coincidentally a Hispanic character (I'm not implying ANYTHING.)

Overall, as a Colombian while i dont speak for every Colombian it never was and still isn't offensive to headcanon any Encanto character as queer since many people figured it was. Both the story and the headcanon can coexist. Acting this way won't get you approval from homophobes and transphobes! They still hate us stinkabutt 🤞

TL;DR : there was nothing wrong with headcanoning an Encanto character as queer in 2020 and there still isn't anything wrong with it in 2024.

Knots au info because I realized I have all the aus I need to talk about

TW: Abuse

Do you remember how Isabela in au was drawn with long sleeves?

That's because Pedro. He has a habit of randomly touching her (Not in a weird way! Just arms and shoulders) way too tight. To the point when he actually bruises her. Most of the time he's not doing it intentionally. It's more of her simularity with Alna that Makes Pedro afraid Isabela would leave him too. He normally stops/loosens his grip once he realizes he's too rough. But he also doesn't feel really guilty/don't apologize

Tho Pedro is more likely to use physical force on Isabela if he wants to force her to do something. Simultaneously holding her too tight and bruising her.

Isabela herself doesn't tell anyone because she feels it's not something serious enough and that she's too old to coomplain to her parents anyway. But she sneaks to the kitchen to heal herself from time to time

Luisa: Who decided that adding handles on a cup is a good idea? Nobody uses those, it's too small!

Isabela: Not everyone in here is a giant who's finger is bigger than the handle, you know?

Camilo: If your best friend committed a murder, would you help to hide the body?

Luisa: I would slap you.

Camilo: WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO WITH THIS?

Luisa: Because the only way Mirabel might kill somebody if it's shapeshifted you who tries to frame her.

Camilo: I would much rather choose you for physical strenght if I had to frame somebody

Luisa:... fair

Camilo: And you, Isa number one?

Isabela: I would be very pissed off.

Isabela: How dare she commit a murder without me?!

Nobody:

Me when seeing Blue and yellow colors together in literally anything and anywhere: OMG UKRAINE!!!

Okay, but luanna sickfic! I mean, Norway is far colder than Colombia, which lies near equator. So I can imagine Luisa catching cold simply because she's not used to the temperature/wasn't prepared good enough when visiting Arendelle