I was rereading some of my seer Julieta posts and now I decided that during the rebuilding of Casita Julieta bonded with her daughters by playing matchmaker with them. They were trying to get Dolores with Mariano and Bruno with Osma.
They even got Augustin to join in too. He was grateful for Bruno’s help during those ten years and now wants to see Bruno happy with the love of his life.
Pepa was a little harder to convice until Julieta said that it looked like it might rain on their wedding day in her vision.
Pepa, who made it her life goal to make it rain on both of her siblings’ wedding days after they flooded her brain on her’s, immediately agrees to help.
Part three! Of episodes I would wanna see in a encanto show
-Julieta is not able to cook at a big event so camilo decides he’ll try doing only that he doesn’t know how to cook
-Beach episode where the family goes for a beach day
-Lusia sisters force her to take a day to relax
-Antonio really wants to talk with bees but they seem to hate him so agustin helps him get in good with them
-Mirabel trying to find a way for the rats to get to bruno’s room. In the end she makes them a little pulley so they can come and go when they want
-The grandkids wanna put on a play and they get bruno to be there acting couch and he takes it way to seriously
-Dolores has her first offical date with Marino and isa gives her a makeover
-A magical infected animal is terrorizing the town so Antonio camilo and lusia decide to take care of it. Antonio wants to take care of the animal peacefully while lusia wants to take a more direct approach. Camilo acts as a moderator
-A traveling animal show comes to town (basically a circus) while the entire town is fascinated by the shows there putting on Antonio is trying to help the animals escape the cruel treatment behind the scenes with the help of Dolores and camilo
-Augustin wants to sell his honey in a neighboring town market so all the other adults decide to go with him as a weekend trip. Alma stays behind to take care of the kids which she struggles with for most of the episode as a b plot
-The family wants to have a surprise birthday party for Dolores but since she can hear them they have to write everything. The majority of the episode is just a parody of old silent movies
-Mirabel makes a friend with a girl in the village only for the girl to actually be after the families power
-Augstin taking his daughters to a family reunion on his side of the family where little know to them they are jealous of madrigal and are very cross with his daughters the entire time and berating to them. When he sees this happening he gets mad at his side of the family and leaves with his daughters they end up doing a activity they all enjoy together
-Mirabel asks lusia to be her emotional support at an accordion audition she has. Lusia try’s to make it to the audition but keeps having people ask her to do tasks she can’t say no to. By the time she gets there the audition is over and mirabel is very upset.
Bonus: bruno makes pop culture references that no one gets since they haven’t been made yet but hes seen because of his powers
(Once again I did not read over these for spelling)
chief requirement to become a madrigal husband: chug a gallon of LOVE MY WIFE juice with every square meal
[ID: a series of drawings of various characters from encanto recreating the meme of will smith presenting his wife. each one is done in vibrant colours against a rectangular backdrop of solid colour, white hearts swarming enthusiastically over the characters’ heads. one: agustin, smiling widely, presents julieta, who swats at him as she leans away, one hand cupping her cheek and the edge of a bashful grin. the background is warm, bright yellow. two:felix, grinning, presents pepa, who throws her head back in laughter, one hand on her hip and the other over her heart, a rainbow arcing behind her. the background is vivid red. three: mariano, sappily smiling, presents dolores, who returns his adoring gaze, leaning closer to him with both hands clasped to her chest. the background is an intense blue. end ID.]
bonus: chief requirement to be a madrigal grandkid: want to be included in everything
[ID: grayscale drawings of the remaining madrigal grandchildren and an additional bruno recreating the meme themselves. one: isabela and mirabel enthusiastically present a flustered but appreciative luisa, who reaches up to touch the flower crown isabela has grown on her head.two: camilo (in the form of nightmare bruno) and antonio present a bewildered and alarmed bruno, who glances between the two of them, hands raised in surrender. antonio actually holds up a rat who strikes the will smith pose for him. three: camilo stands before the portrait of abuelo pedro, pointing at it with his thumb and saying: “do you think i should—” only to be cut off by another speech bubble which says, in all caps: “no, camilo.” end ID.]
chief requirement to become a madrigal husband: chug a gallon of LOVE MY WIFE juice with every square meal
[ID: a series of drawings of various characters from encanto recreating the meme of will smith presenting his wife. each one is done in vibrant colours against a rectangular backdrop of solid colour, white hearts swarming enthusiastically over the characters’ heads. one: agustin, smiling widely, presents julieta, who swats at him as she leans away, one hand cupping her cheek and the edge of a bashful grin. the background is warm, bright yellow. two:felix, grinning, presents pepa, who throws her head back in laughter, one hand on her hip and the other over her heart, a rainbow arcing behind her. the background is vivid red. three: mariano, sappily smiling, presents dolores, who returns his adoring gaze, leaning closer to him with both hands clasped to her chest. the background is an intense blue. end ID.]
bonus: chief requirement to be a madrigal grandkid: want to be included in everything
[ID: grayscale drawings of the remaining madrigal grandchildren and an additional bruno recreating the meme themselves. one: isabela and mirabel enthusiastically present a flustered but appreciative luisa, who reaches up to touch the flower crown isabela has grown on her head.two: camilo (in the form of nightmare bruno) and antonio present a bewildered and alarmed bruno, who glances between the two of them, hands raised in surrender. antonio actually holds up a rat who strikes the will smith pose for him. three: camilo stands before the portrait of abuelo pedro, pointing at it with his thumb and saying: “do you think i should—” only to be cut off by another speech bubble which says, in all caps: “no, camilo.” end ID.]
The Guzmáns are coming for dinner when the sun is already setting. By the time they leave, the sky is dark. It might be partially because of the storm, but it is evening. I don’t know when Colombians typically have dinner or when the sun sets, but we may assume it’s anytime between 17:00 and 19:00.
During the brief transition with Cecilia, Alejandra and Juancho, it is clearly daytime, albeit clouded. Similarly when Camilo is calling Mirabel.
During “What else can I do” the light is softer, as if it the sun were setting again.
When Casita collapses, it is evening transitioning into dusk.
So, either Mirabel and Bruno’s segment took under an hour (for all of this to happen within the same evening) or the whole night and half of the following day. Wasting an entire night seems illogical when the stakes are so high, so it’s all probably the same evening and the “light swings” are the result of Pepa’s distress. Still, the way the light behaves throughout these scenes makes it seem as if somebody turned the time back an hour or two to experience the sunset twice. I am reluctant to give Pepa this much credit. Logically, by the time Bruno and Mirabel exit Antonio’s room, the sun should have already set. It should be night.
My autistic brain is having a processing difficulty.
Also im sorry for the watermarks folks :(, you know i hate putting em but my previous memes has been reposted without credit too many times in too many social medias so yeah hjsnsakjmsak
I’m Antonio. I’m five. I am a Madrigal. I live at the Hotel del Encanto. I have my very own room and a cat with spots like a jaguar. His name is Parce. And a bird. His name’s Pico.
Mirabel is my favourite pima. She’s works in room service. Mirabel knows how much I love. Love. Love animals.
“There’s Camilo. He’s my brother. Here’s what Camilo likes — acting. He wants to be on broadway. But for now, Abuela has him working in the kid’s room.”
“Mi hermana Dolores knows everything about everything. Which is why she works as the concierge. If Dolores has not heard about a new trend, it’s most certainly not cool.”
“Señor Mariano is my tutor. He is a poet. My Abuela is friends with his mother. When we have our literature lesson, he reads about love. Which I think is icky. Icky. Icky.”
(Tell me the Madrigal’s running an enchanted hotel in the gorgeous setting of Colombia told from the perspective of five-year-old Antonio wouldn’t be adorable.)
Everyone: *Listening to the songs of @laureli-amadeus-music and Or3o’s Turn It Down.* These songs slap! At last the Encanto album feels complete.
Me: *Agrees but also… patiently waiting in the shadows for Mariano’s poetic serenade. A song that purpos feels like it’s missing something until the final verse(s) when it’s discovered we’re hearing the song alongside Dolores who adds her vocals and sadness as he writes for Isabela. And her vocals are what makes the whole thing feel complete.
chief requirement to become a madrigal husband: chug a gallon of LOVE MY WIFE juice with every square meal
[ID: a series of drawings of various characters from encanto recreating the meme of will smith presenting his wife. each one is done in vibrant colours against a rectangular backdrop of solid colour, white hearts swarming enthusiastically over the characters’ heads. one: agustin, smiling widely, presents julieta, who swats at him as she leans away, one hand cupping her cheek and the edge of a bashful grin. the background is warm, bright yellow. two:felix, grinning, presents pepa, who throws her head back in laughter, one hand on her hip and the other over her heart, a rainbow arcing behind her. the background is vivid red. three: mariano, sappily smiling, presents dolores, who returns his adoring gaze, leaning closer to him with both hands clasped to her chest. the background is an intense blue. end ID.]
bonus: chief requirement to be a madrigal grandkid: want to be included in everything
[ID: grayscale drawings of the remaining madrigal grandchildren and an additional bruno recreating the meme themselves. one: isabela and mirabel enthusiastically present a flustered but appreciative luisa, who reaches up to touch the flower crown isabela has grown on her head.two: camilo (in the form of nightmare bruno) and antonio present a bewildered and alarmed bruno, who glances between the two of them, hands raised in surrender. antonio actually holds up a rat who strikes the will smith pose for him. three: camilo stands before the portrait of abuelo pedro, pointing at it with his thumb and saying: “do you think i should—” only to be cut off by another speech bubble which says, in all caps: “no, camilo.” end ID.]
chief requirement to become a madrigal husband: chug a gallon of LOVE MY WIFE juice with every square meal
[ID: a series of drawings of various characters from encanto recreating the meme of will smith presenting his wife. each one is done in vibrant colours against a rectangular backdrop of solid colour, white hearts swarming enthusiastically over the characters’ heads. one: agustin, smiling widely, presents julieta, who swats at him as she leans away, one hand cupping her cheek and the edge of a bashful grin. the background is warm, bright yellow. two:felix, grinning, presents pepa, who throws her head back in laughter, one hand on her hip and the other over her heart, a rainbow arcing behind her. the background is vivid red. three: mariano, sappily smiling, presents dolores, who returns his adoring gaze, leaning closer to him with both hands clasped to her chest. the background is an intense blue. end ID.]
bonus: chief requirement to be a madrigal grandkid: want to be included in everything
[ID: grayscale drawings of the remaining madrigal grandchildren and an additional bruno recreating the meme themselves. one: isabela and mirabel enthusiastically present a flustered but appreciative luisa, who reaches up to touch the flower crown isabela has grown on her head.two: camilo (in the form of nightmare bruno) and antonio present a bewildered and alarmed bruno, who glances between the two of them, hands raised in surrender. antonio actually holds up a rat who strikes the will smith pose for him. three: camilo stands before the portrait of abuelo pedro, pointing at it with his thumb and saying: “do you think i should—” only to be cut off by another speech bubble which says, in all caps: “no, camilo.” end ID.]
Isabela was turning 21 her life took a turn from the family and her own expectations.
With Abuela’s suggestion, she and Mariano had been dating with the expectation of marriage, though she liked him as a friend, her interest in him was nothing more than that; this feeling was one sided as he liked her more romantically which did emotionally stress Isabela out as she tried to replicate his feelings more visually; to be the perfect girlfriend for him and it was working.
It had been working well for months into dating until Mirabel had overheard her mutters of Mariano in the less-than-perfect way when trying to compartmentalise on her way back to her room for the upcoming proposal after Antonio’s ceremony. Mirabel thought she could help comfort Isabela at first but Isabela rejected her attempts; needing to cover her personal views than go against what her Abuela wanted but Mirabel was insistent that she should date someone she didn’t like.
Isabela used her gift to stop Mirabel from running off to tell their parents or Abuela by wrapping her up in vines but the situation evolved into an argument between the siblings and Isabela unknowing began to tighten the vines in her rage.
It was the shouting that Dolores alerted the family something was wrong and it horrified mostly Julieta and Abuela to see Isabela not only shouting but Mirabel being unable to breath.
Isabela was broken out of her rage by Abuela’s shouting before the vines retracted and Mirabel struggled to catch her breath that Isabela realised what she had been doing; she had been mechanically asphyxiating her sister by the strength of the vines around her ribs; not enabling Mirabel to breath in. Isabela didn’t need to be told to go to her room but she fled there regardless before Abuela could.
It took hours before anyone came to her; Dolores in that time kept a ear out that she wasn’t hurting herself or attempting to leave before they could decide what to do and to make sure Mirabel would recover.
Isabela was both horrified and remorseful of her actions and guilt-ridden but knew she had to wait to face the conquests of her actions, no matter what they were to be. She mostly cried; her plants around her bed turning from roses to an flurry of others that represented her emotions to the situation. Some just decayed the closest to her
Agustin and Abuela where the ones to come to her. Agustín mostly to see how his eldest was but Abuela was firm to reprimand Isabela for her actions and how ashamed se was in her for hurting their family; that she could have easily killed Mirabel with her gift.
Isabela did apologise to Abuela and planned to apologise to Mirabel when she could but she was confined to her room for the time being so Isabela complied. Julieta bringing Isabela her meals and sat down and had a talk with her.
Isabela was relieved to hear Mirabel was okay and out of bed despite the family insisting the girl should rest.
It took a day or so, and by mostly Mirabel’s insistence that Isabela shouldn’t be treated like a criminal or prisoner, to allow her to eat with the family where they discussion of Isabela’s punishments to be known to the family.
Isabela’s punishments:
Confined to Casita for 1 month, then only escorted if she was to leave.
8 pm Curfew: to be in her room by 8 pm.
No alcohol.
Nullifying her relationship with Mariano
Limiting her use of gifts to inside her room only or to the necessity of requirement of a family member.
No usage of her vines without a reasonable excuse.
Not to be left alone with Mirabel or to seek her out.
Not to go near the nursery or anyone’s room. No one to enter Isabela’s room aside from an adult.
Isabela accepted the punishments as they seemed reasonable and hoped that she’d be able to earn leeway as she atoned for her actions. Mirabel had voiced against restricting Isabela’s gift and curfew as that sounded too much but Isabela politely shut her down from trying; she didn’t want her sister to get her off what she deserved for hurting, and potentially almost killing her.
Mirabel did accept Isabela’s apology and did forgive her actions but the trauma of it wasn’t going to go away and Mirabel wasn’t comfortable with being around her either but she did want to help lighten the burden of guilt that came with acting-out in anger. Mirabel’s forgiveness, Isabela didn’t feel like she deserved it but it helped a little.
Adjusting to the life style was something Isabela did find hard; mostly depressing but made careful plans of her day with it; helping her father and Tio Felix around Casita’s cleaning mostly, an awkward affair but she did her best to avoid her use of gift which was the hardest factor.
It took a few weeks for Isabela to realise she could put her time into studying more in her confinement, seeing how her room was both a mixture of roses and other unfamiliar plants which made her realise there was more to her gift than flowers, so she asked both her mother and Dolores for books on plants and remedies.
Her room was half jungle, half garden, growing plants with both her gift and naturally in the false sky of her room; it became her sanctuary to handle her change of life. That didn’t however stop the starting decay of grief at the edges from disappearing; it was a form of prison after all that she knew. The decay grew and shrank mostly at bed time; when the nightmares of her behaviour haunt her and leaves her feeling that grief.
Isabela kept her façade of being polite and quiet up well when outside her room; her dress clean and she looked as expected. It was soon second nature to otherwise ignore the rest of her family, mostly Mirabel’s attempts to engage her with conversation across the table.
The rot of grief didn’t stick until after she was first allowed to leave with Luisa to go to town to pick up book and stationary supplies that she heard the gossip and cold comments having not realised that Camilo had let slip once that she had almost killed Mirabel to one of the kids. The news had spread but Isabela had no idea until then.
Isabela cut her trip short, despite Luisa insisting to finish but Isabela had no interest to get involved with the town if they were going to be like that. Everyone knew who to blame when most flowers in Encanto withered.
With no favour of her Abuela or of the town, Isabela kept on going. She did earn more trust with her parents, Luísa, Dolores and Tio Felix but the rest, she had no idea what their thoughts were on the matter. She knew Tia Pepa’s stance was clear, given the woman never let Antonio around her any more and Camilo made sure to let her know how unhappy he was with her.
There was no golden-girl replacement in the family but a few of the family issues like Luisa being overworked, was addressed which did lead to Isabela and Luisa spending more time together. Isabela finding this a little more awkward than Luisa but enjoyed the company at the least.
When the time of Antonio’s ceremony came around, about a year after the ‘incident’, nothing had changed for Isabela in the relief of her punishments; none of them had been lifted like she had hoped but she did want to attend.
Abuela, Pepa and Camilo were against her going but Julieta and Agustin fought to let her attend that. Abuela reasoned she could if she helped with decorations (with supervision)
In the year, Isabela’s gift had grown with her experimentation but she found a distaste of floral displays and flowers; otherplants relaxed her. She could create trees, healing herbs, poison and so much more worthwhile plants; pretty things weren’t worth it any more. For Isabela, pretty was just a bad reminder.
Isabela declined going for that reason but watched from her doorway as Antonio received his gift and locked herself from the party and went to bed.
Isabela had hoped to get a few restrictions lifted by the end of the first year, wanting to go to the outside forests; wanting to feel more natural plant life than the magical ones in her room but Abuela wasn’t convinced Isabela had learned the value behind the punishments when Isabela asked her directly; she saw Isabela’s change from perfection in the passing year and ‘out of control’ plants in her room a sign that she had a long ways to go; that she hadn’t tried to resume her ways of being the golden child and hadn’t wanted to help as she used to if she wasn’t making flowers.
That was enough for Isabela to see the weight in the family; that she’d never be free of this inside casita or outside in Encanto, that Abuela or the people in town would bring her back to her actions against Mirabel to shut her up and make her feel bad. This non-forgiveness from half of her family grew a sense of resentment in Isabela in the wake of that revelation. The few flowers she had outside her door went from Begonia to petunia and yellow carnations very quickly.
The rot and decay grew in plain sight inside her room.
Isabela knew she had to leave Encanto. If she was not going to earn her place back in the family, if Abuela wouldn’t let her try, when she wouldn’t waste her strength on the matter. She knew she needed to find hope to keep on going. if she stayed, she knew she’d rot like her room; she knew how to grow poisons she didn’t want herself to consider using them personally. Her sisters and parents didn’t need that guilt and she didn’t want to hurt them in that way.
So, the eve of her 23rd birthday, Isabela snuck out of Casita at night (after dosing Dolores at dinner with a delayed remedy; she didn’t want her to catch her leaving) and into the jungle.
Isabela’s forest in her room decayed fully and her door faded as she left the family.
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Unknown to Isabela, Julieta and Agustín had already been fighting with Abuela after overhearing Isabela asking about lifted restrictions; they had thought that they had already been lightened but Isabela was just sticking to it out of habit, Julieta was furious because she felt Isabela had repented long enough; that her daughter’s self-isolation and distance was going to be harmful and she missed seeing her daughter with the rest of the family. Mirabel needed to get to know her sister again and it had been far too long of a punishment when Mirabel had forgiven her.
Abuela relented after Mirabel herself got involved and it was decided for her birthday that a portion of her punishments were to be removed.
Mirabel had been the one to wake up early on August the 7th to knock on Isabela’s door but the sight of the dark door and smell of decay had her waking the family and scared to see the cause.
The family found the room void of life, plants dead and withered. While no sign of Isabela, they did find her collection of letters to wrote and left behind in a sealed box.
Inside the walls, Bruno wept as he had been too late to stop Isabela from leaving as a new vision tablet showed a very simple thing; Isabela fallen to the jungle floor, face down but lying in the pathway of a huge bolder that had slipped from high on up…
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A vision that came true as Isabela had been attempting to scale up the mountain side with her vines, a tug had caused a cascade of supporting stones to come loose before a boulder became crashing down.
Isabela got caught in the debris which broke her ankle and managed to grow a tree last second to take the brunt and spare her body it’s true weight but her right arm wasn’t spared; leaving her pinned to the jungle floor.
Isabela was quick to pass out from the pain.
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Pariah Julieta and Rana entered the AU in a general sweep of the AU; in part crossing off another Quantum figure for Wanderer Mirabel and to make sure it wasn’t a magical corrupt one.
But she picked up Isabela’s life signs and located her to her current predicament. Seeing the girl’s bag and clear sign she was leaving Encanto, Pariah decided to offer her a way out from her world which Isabela accepted if they could get her free.
Rana had to suggest amputation, given how long it had been; removing the boulder had more risks. So Isabela’s right arm was amputated at the shoulder (the only free part of her arm) and taken to immediate treatment and recruitment to the Watcher services.
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Isabela lost her other arm a few months later on assignment but with Tek’s prothesis and magic, she was able to still use her gift through the new arms. She was given the name Decayfor herself and her AU.
Another Encanto thought I had, I should probably keep the spoilers under a Keep Reading:
I really have to give props to Mariano Guzman (the man Isabela was going to marry).
He comes over at the beginning only for Mirabel to sing to him rapid-fire that Isabela is a “prima donna”, so he’s confused. And we see him gazing lovingly at Isabela during the “golden child” verse of Mirabel’s song, so he does seem to be attracted to Isabela.
Then he comes over for dinner to propose, only for the dinner to go completely haywire. And again he has no context as to why things are going wrong because he doesn’t know about Bruno’s vision, so to him it just looks like Mirabel isn’t feeling well. And he asks her if she’s all right, even though to him it looks like she’s messing up his opportunity to propose to Isabela.
Then he gets punched in the nose by one of Isabela’s plants, and then he gets punched in the nose again briefly during the “What Else Can I Do?” song.
And finally Isabela dumps him, because she never really wanted to marry him in the first place.
But after all that, he still helps the community rebuild Casita at the end of the movie, and he’s still willing to marry a Madrigal when Dolores reveals she’s in love with him.
In conclusion, Mariano seems like a really good guy, so it’s clear why Dolores is attracted to him.
