Mad_Des_Nad

right here where you want me by borzhone

He puts his foot down just the once.

Cuñado by MDJensen

How a brother-in-law becomes a friend.

Series of vignettes, set shortly after Agustín's marriage to Julieta.

Sick With What We Owe Each Other by Capiciously_Terminal

When their mother is injured in an awfully normal way, the triplets Madrigal are left with a sudden reckoning about what they would do without her.

They respond to this, as rational adults do, with an eventual night of drinking under the moon.

But, when a lack of thought leaves them exposed to the elements, all three are left suddenly encumbered by unexpected illness.

And nothing strains a Madrigal's gift like a head cold.

(Aka I combined like three fics in my head. Welcome to the philosophical sickfic with angst).

Another Night (It'll Be Better in the Morning) by vosian_nightmare

It's hard being a triplet. You share your birthday with two entirely other people and sometimes it feels a little crowded. But there are some birthdays where there's nothing you want more than to spend the day with the two people who know you best.

or, two times the triplets celebrated their birthday together and one time they didn't, maybe not necessarily in that order.

Bajo la arena sin poder salir by Princex_N

Bruno can’t let them find out all the ways that he’s been hurt and hurting over the years. He can’t let them see how badly he’s still struggling. Bruno has been the guardian of terrible things ever since he was five years old, and these secrets are nothing new nor different. 

It’s not as easy as it used to be. It’s not as if they aren’t looking, after all, Bruno’s just good at not being found.

He’s been hiding so long he’s not sure how to be honest anymore, and really, that’s no one’s fault but his own.

the first and freshest cut by Serendipity1

Bruno doesn't start out jaded, doesn't start out hated, and despite prophesizing pain, he can't see the backlash ahead until it's too late. A young Bruno accepts an offered day out with friends, and gets a hard lesson in human fury.

Run Boy Run by cedarbranch

It starts with a low rumble that rattles the roofing tiles and shakes through the floorboards. In a corridor between the walls, Bruno freezes. He turns slowly, barely able to turn his eyes to the sight he knows will await him.

It’s been a long time since he’s felt this particular kind of dread, an icy chill that seeps through him and makes the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. He’d hoped he’d never have to feel it again.

Picking Up the Pieces by DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricPolarBears (SupposedToBeWriting)

As Casita is rebuilt, Julieta takes up the role of nurse for her concussed brother. He wakes up and Julieta gets a chance, after ten years, to tell Bruno how much she missed him.

Holding to the Ground as the Ground Keeps Shifting by ThisIsWhyILoveReading

"I understand why you don't want to go to Mama with this. But were you really planning to leave us, just like that?"

(Or: the night Bruno disappears, he has a talk with his sisters.)

Escucharemos y Sanaremos by HereToWrite

Alma’s eyes slide to the figure standing on the outskirts. Watching as he stumbles along with a bucket on his head and chittering rats along his back and shoulders. She watches and realizes, with a pain like ice, that Bruno is someone she doesn’t know anymore.

Oh, she knows the shape of him, the pattern of him, as any mother would. She recognizes the nose of his father, the slouching of his doubts, the muttering of his stories, but it’s like the afterimage of the sun. A once bright light that’s slowly faded to something else entirely. Leaving a stranger stumbling about in her son's body.

Or, Alma and Bruno, like their house, heal in pieces

A Day He Won't Talk About by Capriciously_Terminal

The day that Bruno Madrigal ruined his sister's wedding will be something he's ashamed of for the rest of his life.

But, like most siblings, his other sister is here to help scrape him off the floor.

After all, such a day can't be too significant in the long run. All families have their troubles, don't they?

Reflection by SETI_fan

As the family settles back in and gets ready for their first normal dinner together in the rebuilt Casita, Bruno has to figure out his place in the family now. Especially when it comes to the nephew who only remembered him as a bogeyman.

A Gift So Humbling by PhilipJFright

"Yo I know he never left, I heard him every day."

Dolores has already seen what happens when someone has uncomfortable news to tell the family, so when she hears a familiar voice in the walls, she decides to keep quiet. She's much, much better at keeping secrets than her family thinks.

And Poppy or Charms Can Make Us Sleep as Well by archive_rat

A visitor to the Madrigal home decides to show his gratitude by leaving out food mixed with rat poison.

You know. To poison the rats.

Bruno is still living in the walls.

A Place to Hide by EvieNyx

“...Oh. Your gift is back too, isn’t it?”

She watched his throat bob and he nodded.

She hummed. “All right. Why don’t we go… talk somewhere else. Somewhere quieter.”

OR

Mirabel Madrigal realized, very abruptly, what the return of the magic means for her Tío Bruno, and then she realized even more.

My Home Is Your Home by a_forgotten_note

Follow Bruno as he re-learns how to be a Madrigal while a family full of love, laughter, and music welcomes him home. Being isolated for 10 years can do strange things to a person, and Bruno is no exception. With someone as unique as Bruno, though, there are bound to be some hiccups along the way to reintegrating with the family he loves. He should be fine; everyone seems to have missed him!

... Haven't they?

Don't Worry, I've Gotcha by JustAnotherFan94

Bruno Madrigal is back in society after ten years of isolation. And everything is magically fine again!

...Right?

OR

In which Bruno Madrigal and his nephew, Camilo, come to understand each other a little better.

A Lie More Comforting than Truth by Queen_Mab

On the night of Mirabel Madrigal's failed gift ceremony, Bruno had the worst vision of his life. His mother swore him to secrecy, and the two of them kept the secret for ten years.

Except now Casita is cracking, and Mirabel, now the caretaker of her troubled uncle, is too nosy for her own good.

nunca nada es tan malo como podría llegar a serlo (nothing is ever as bad as it could come out to be) by chaotic_dumbass

An errand into town is simple. Unless your name is Bruno Madrigal. Then it is actually very hard.

La Noche Nos Sigue (The Night Follows Us) by Thornvale

Just over a year has passed since the restoration of the Casita and La Familia Madrigal.

Everything should be just fine, right?

Mirabel can’t help but feel as though something is going to go wrong; mysterious Tío Bruno is behaving more strangely than usual and something about the magic seems to be changing. Not only that, but an old danger is lurking in the shadows of the mountains surrounding the Encanto.

Does Mirabel have any choice about what comes next?

(Mirabel and Bruno focused.)

gravedad by prospective1

If the Madrigals are a constellation, then Mirabel has wormed her way inward to be Polaris, leaving the rest circling around her. It's funny, Bruno thinks. That was always Abuela's place.

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In the aftermath, Bruno seeks out a place for himself in the Madrigal family.

a house built on sand (rebuilt on solid stone) by Ford_Ye_Fiji

Casita falls and Bruno…

Bruno knows Mirabel is still inside.

So he does what he always has. He protects his family (even if it hurts himself).

hindsight and her perfect agonies by fais_do_do

Agustín would never be able to express how grateful, how desperately grateful he was for Bruno and what he had chosen to do for his daughter.

Or, Bruno sleeps, Mirabel confides in her father, and Agustín realizes a conversation between himself and his cuñado is long overdue.

The Madrigal Museum of Love and Loss by TheRatsAreListening

In which Bruno's real gifts are not acting and sand-based clairvoyance, but training rats and failing to communicate with his mother.

it's a heavy lift by cheetour

Bruno moves back behind the walls, Mirabel is determined to get him out, and Antonio is the last bastion between Encanto and rat-induced ecological ruin.

When the Cat's Away by cheetour

Bruno is in charge, and he's banned Camilo and Mirabel from saving Encanto.

to something you lose by borzhone

Bruno moves into the tower.