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okay so
I did a thing
and now it’s my hobby
Just some kids goofing around, stressing out their mamá
Encanto Spoilers!!
You know, everyone talks about Julieta and Pepa’s (I know they have accents my laptop keyboard is a BITCH) reaction to Bruno come back to the family after the events to Encanto. Everyone talks about how the sisters felt about his disappearance and why they don’t talk about him and their reasons, etc, etc.
You wanna know what I wanna talk about? Abuela.
She doesn’t have a verse in We Don’t Talk About Bruno, just like Julieta doesn’t either, but hasn’t anyone wondered how she felt about him disappearing?
Because this is making me lose my damn mind, I have some fucking feelings about this. Like the whole point of the movie is The Madrigal’s have a lot of generational familia issues, but oh my god. His wall era must have been absolutely devastating for her.
Think about it like this, I rewatched the scene where we see Pedro, and Bruno looks nearly identical to his father. Alma must’ve been really attached to Bruno because he looks like her dead love and he’s canonically the youngest triplet. He’s her weird estranged baby boy and she puts a lot of standards and expectations on him because of their miracle, their gift, their casita, because of Pedro’s sacrifice. (Just as she puts on Pepa and Julieta, but with Bruno its different because of how much he looks like Pedro and because of his heavy gift.)
The last time she really see’s her son as far as we know, she’s demanding him to look into Mirabel’s future because she is terrified about losing everything she sacrificed for. I think the scene would have been a lot more harsh and frantic, and Abuela said some choice words. And then next day, for the first time since Casita was formed her son’s door is no longer glowing.
Do you know how terrifying that could be?? She has literally no idea if he just left or if he’d dead since the glow is gone. Her husband and her son are gone for her, and she probably blames herself so much. For years she just carries this unfathomable weight of the guilt of shunning her son so much that he either finally cracked and left his family behind or something far darker happened. I feel like one of the reasons no one wants to talk about Bruno is because Alma would get so achingly sad and appear so much older and it makes everyone feel terrible.
You can see the love and sheer relief in her body when Bruno confronts her in the final act. He finally stands up to her for the sake of Mirabel but she’s just overjoyed he’s alive and standing before her again.
Same with Pepa and Julieta, the moment they see Bruno behind their mother every single thing they could be annoyed/mad/weired out about disappears because querido Dios he’s alive! Sure that apology was way too quick and should be done in more depth (ahem, disney give us a tv show i swear) but in that moment, every thing was behind them. I am overanalyzing and I can’t shut up someone help </3
I swear every time I watch Encanto I cry harder then I did the last time.
Encantamiento au!! Aka my main encanto au
And I’m sorry I held on too tight
Just so afraid I’d lose you too
ENCANTO (2021) dir. Byron Howard and Jared Bush
Sometimes family weirdos get a bad rap.
Encanto (2021)
Encanto head canon:
After Casita fell, Isabela got a lot more observant.
She notices every time a family member is picking at their wrists or skin in general around her
Every time she sees this, she sends a vine towards their hand to pull it away from their wrist
She turns it into a bracelet of their favorite flower to not draw attention to it even though everyone but Abuela, Antonio, and herself has gotten at least one bracelet
Bruno has the most
Mirabel second
Camilo third
Pepa fourth
Dolores fifth
Julieta and Luisa are tied
Agustín and Félix only have one
Antonio, Abuela and Isabela have none
(Antonio is a small child, Abuela doesn't do that, and Isabela doesn't draw attention to herself)
so I was making my mom watch Encanto because I’m actually obsessed now, and she made the most obvious most glorious point about mirabels gift. It’s like mirabel didn’t rlly get a gift at the end, she just brought the magic back but there was no animal talk or super strength. I thought that was fine and cool because Mirabel saved them so she’s still the greatest. But then my mom said “oh it’s because she’s taking over grandmas position” Abuela didn’t have her own gift she carried the miracle, so it’s being passed on to Mirabel so they can keep the Encanto!!! Was this obvious?? Maybe. Or maybe it’s an epiphany. Either way it makes the movie 10x better for me.
Me: I LOVED ENCANTO WOW I will just casually look up Mirabel on Tumblr bc she was my favorite character and totally normal things will happen :]
Literally every single thing in the Encanto tag being... like that AND FUCKING MIRABEL X HER OWN UNCLE BEING ABOVE THE ENCANTO TAG IN RESULTS??????? THAT SHOULDN'T EVEN BE THERE WHY IS IT AT THE TOP:
So anyway here's a good reminder that
- Everyone in family Madrigal is related to each other.
- Mirabel (and Camilo) are 15.
Abuela Alma: So, if everyone was an animal, what would they be?
Bruno: A unicorn because no one believes in me.
Abuela Alma, eye twitching: Very imaginative!
Being Camilo’s Twin Would Include…
A/N : I can’t think of anymore right now so here’s what I got. My friends did help me with some stuff. Reader is GN.
first of all, you’re gift would be duplication AKA cloning
second of all, ever since you got your gift Camilo’s never been able to know which you is you
it frustrates him to no end and you love it
you were born before him so you call him Hermanito
you also call him ‘Milo, Cami, Tramposo (trickster), Mi Hermano (my brother), Calaca (skeleton), Lobo (wolf, implies sly person)
your personalities are rather similar
you both love teasing each other relentlessly
your gift ceremony was on the same day each of you getting a door right next to each other
your door had you in the middle with multiple other yous surrounding the background
you look really similar to each other and everyone confused you too (especially if Camilo shifts into you)
he’s a drama king, so are you. it’s inevitable
making duplicates of yourself to distract everyone so you can get seconds at breakfast
Camilo shifted into you once to try and get you in trouble at breakfast once so you made duplicates of yourself and when they disappeared back to you, you hit Camilo on top of the head
“Ay, I’m not a clone.”
“I know.”
like your sister, Delores, you know way too much for your own good
your duplicates are a part of you so once they return you know what they know
your struggles are feeling like you have to be everywhere at once and having to be there to help everyone
and it’s draining to make so many duplicates of yourself as well
you have many jobs of just helping the townspeople with whatever they need and extra set of hands for
you mostly watch after children like Camilo, you play hopscotch, jump rope, double dutch, etc.
you love your family to death and would do anything for them
when you were five you and Camilo snuck down to the kitchen to get some arepas and found Bruno who (in your five year old minds) looked like he was 7 feet tall with rats along his back
you love dancing
your eccentric like Camilo
you both help each other the most out of the family
you both swear up and down with your family that you guys have an extra gift and that’s it’s twin powers
your family denies it all the time and repeatedly tell you twin powers don’t exist
Antonio believes you both though
Abuela: you have to stop, Mirabel!
(Storms off)
Isabela: what did you do now?
Mirabel: I was breathing. Breathing .
Isabel: smh. Novice. Do not talk, do not breath-
Mirabel: uh-
Isabel: do not make friends, do not listen, do not see anything she may not like-
Mirabel: ???bitch you okay???
GUYS, ARTISTS, ENTHUSIASTS. IN THE FANDOM WIKI THERES A CHART WITH ALL THE SKIN TONES AND COLOR PALATES OF THE CHARACTERS. NO MORE PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT WHITE WASHING. SPREAD THE WORD GUYS. I HOPE THIS HELPS AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK <3