If you cut me do I not bleed

I was blown away by the response to my first post about this! (Read the first part here!) I went back through the two books and wrote down every tiny thing I could find. I think I won’t have any more until Disney releases a new book about Encanto, which hopefully they’ll do soon!

• Pepa and Agustín call Mirabel “Mira.”

• Bruno, if not the rest of the family, is Catholic (he crosses himself when meeting Antonio’s jaguar.)

• Abuela is considered the heart of the Encanto.

• Casita grows and expands to fit all the family members.

• Agustín and Félix are very close and are constantly talking.

• Isabela sometimes thinks it would be nice if she didn’t have a gift.

• While they’re both twenty-two, Isabela is older than Dolores.

• Antonio snores.

• The last time Abuela hugged Mirabel was before her failed Gift ceremony.

• The roof is Mirabel’s favorite spot in Casita.

• Casita likes being touched.

• Agustín is a pianist.

• Isabela always carries a handkerchief.

• After Luisa got her gift, she spent the rest of the night doing tricks with it for the townspeople.

• Luisa doesn’t care what she wears as long as it’s comfortable.

• Isabela drinks café con leche.

• Luisa’s ears turn red when she’s embarrassed.

• The man who told Luisa that the donkeys got out is named Señor Rendon, and he’s described as “sometimes careless.”

• Three other townspeople are named Señora Ruiz, Señora Flores, and Señora Uriarte.

• Luisa never took naps before the events of the movie, believing that “nighttime is for sleeping, daytime is for getting things done.”

• Casita is very gentle when playing with the younger Madrigals.

• Isabela never gets in trouble.

• Isabela thinks Mirabel and Camilo are too old for toys.

• Abuela and Señora Guzmán have a somewhat tense relationship- described as a “battle of politeness.”

• Mirabel’s palms sweat when she’s worried.

• Luisa loves bright colors.

• Mirabel sneezes around things like sand or dust. Or salt.

• Félix rarely worries about anything.

• Isabela has a pond in her room filled with water lilies.

• Camilo and Pepa are both able to pick up and carry Antonio. Antonio especially likes to ride on Pepa’s shoulders.

• Isabela never wears her shoes on her bed.

• Luisa has panic attacks.

• While Isabela doesn’t love Mariano, she does hope to marry someday.

Note: I don’t know if the two books I read are considered entirely canon, so take all of this with a grain of salt. I read the Encanto Deluxe Junior Novel and Encanto: A Tale of Three Sisters to find these little things. (Now has a part 2 here!)

• Bruno’s room has a picture/sculpture of him with the eyes scratched out.

• Señora Guzmán is Mariano’s abuela, not his mother, and she has a reputation for being very proper.

• Isabela actually broke Mariano’s nose during the proposal.

• Bruno carries a gilded case of matches in his ruana (and the book actually called it a ruana!)

• I’m slightly unclear on this one, but the junior novelization seems to imply that Bruno’s gift can be physically painful for him to use.

• Pedro was a shopkeeper when he met Alma.

• Pedro could sew.

• The candle is Pedro and Alma’s wedding candle.

• Dolores ends up marrying Mariano.

• Mirabel eventually gets a door, which the whole family has decorated with something that reflects them.

• Mirabel owns and can play an accordion.

• The horsemen were apparently bandits.

• Isabela secretly wishes that her gift was more useful.

• Mariano often sent presents- chocolates, trinkets, and bouquets of flowers- to Isabela before he proposed.

• Pepa sometimes worries about the fact that Antonio doesn’t talk very much.

• Everyone loves Luisa’s hugs.

• Isabela made Luisa a flower crown to wear when she had her Gift ceremony.

• Antonio used to hate baths.

• Antonio has a river dolphin in his room.

• The candle never melts or drips, as well as never going out.

• Isabela doesn’t like messy foods, in case she spills them on her dress.

• Abuela’s room is very basic, not like the magical ones.

• Luisa’s room has weights, pulleys, ropes, and bars in it.

• Luisa likes hummingbirds.

• The townspeople refer to Abuela as “Doña Alma.”

• Camilo loves playing football with Casita. (Note: football in Colombia is what Americans call soccer.)

• Antonio has a box full of seashells.

• Julieta has a favorite hat that has peacock feathers on it.

• The fish lady’s name is Señora Osma. (Maybe Pezmuerto is her last name?) Update: Señora Osma/Ozma is actually the lady who asked Luisa to reroute the river. The fish lady is Señora Pezmuerto.

• Camilo often shows up at meals as someone besides himself.

• Bruno’s ruana is three sizes too big.

• Antonio used to have nightmares, and Mirabel would sit on the edge of his bed and put her hand on his arm to calm him down.

• Antonio can be a tiny bit scary- Bruno asks in Antonio’s room if the jaguar is going to eat him, and Antonio’s reply is a shrug and “not today.”

• Bruno doesn’t wash his underwear. (Update: this has been confirmed to be a joke.)

• Antonio likes to catch and release butterflies.

• Isabela thinks Mirabel is Agustín’s favorite.

• Félix can get fed up with Camilo’s shapeshifting into him- he’s described as looking “ready to box Camilo’s ears” in one scene.

• Isabela’s room has fireflies in it.

• Isabela doesn’t like to have anything in her room out of order.

• Luisa is afraid of the dark.

• Abuela used to call Pedro “Pedrito.”

• Camilo doesn’t like it when Pepa and Félix get mushy in front of him.

Chapters: 49/49 Fandom: Encanto (2021) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Bruno Madrigal/Original Male Character(s) Characters: “Abuela” Alma Madrigal, Julieta Madrigal, Agustín Madrigal, Pepa Madrigal, Félix Madrigal, Camilo Madrigal, Dolores Madrigal, Antonio Madrigal, Mirabel Madrigal, Luisa Madrigal, Bruno Madrigal, Isabela Madrigal, Casita (Disney: Encanto), Pedro Madrigal Additional Tags: Whump Bruno Madrigal, kiddnapping, Rescue, Mirabel has good ideas, Protective Camilo Madrigal, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide Attempt, Lots of Crying, Bruno falls down a lot, Torture, Psychological Torture, Mutilation, Bullying, Humiliation, One-Sided Relationship, Hurt Bruno Madrigal, Emotional Manipulation, Dreams and Nightmares, Nightmares, Hallucinations, Rape Recovery, Protective Agustín Madrigal, Protective Félix Madrigal, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat Summary:

Bruno looks into the future for Andre, a man from town. Andre is looking for his future partner and inadvertently falls in love with the prophet. But then Bruno goes missing for 10 years, and when he returns, Andre swears he will never let his beloved go again. Cue a kidnapping and the Madrigal Family’s desperate search and rescue.

Mind the tags please. This story features elaborate adult themes, violence, and murder. Only OCs die. OCs are to help drive the plot, the main focus is Bruno and his family. 

This story is from amazing author named MoonImp. Feel free to read it. She or he was very kind to let me post this story. 

completed story grief

That feeling you are left with when you have finished a long project - whether it is long because it contains a lot of words, or long because it took you a long time to write, or long because it took you a long time to start writing it - when you’re happy because you finished it but empty because it is finished. You took out all of the words that were inside of you, at least all of the ones that pertain to that story, and the relief that follows such an action can be devastatingly exhausting.

On top of just the empty feeling, there follows that bittersweet sense of understanding that this thing which has for so long been your companion is no longer just your companion, and that you have in some ways severed the ties with it, because you will not be writing it anymore. You might write other stories related to it. You might write stories in the same world. Or stories with the same characters. But THAT story is finished. That story has been taken out of you and put where it can be a part of everyone that reads it. That is unimaginably happy and sad at the same time.

Mirabel: