#Encanto OC event

[meepxii]

week 1: introduction

Background

Her full name is Verónica Itzel Fontana Aguilar, she's a mexican-colombian girl. Her parents arrived at El Encanto when they were kids with the group of people in which Pedro and Alma were. Her father's family, the Fontanas, are horsemen from Sinaloa, and fled Mexico during the Porfiriato. Her mother is from Yucatan, and unfortunately, was orphaned shortly before arriving in town, and she and her younger sister were adopted by the Fontana family. They work raising horses and selling them. Their business is well established in the town, and they're one of the most important families in there. Anyways, they're not friends with the Madrigals, and only interact with them whenever they need something. Itzel is the eldest of two children in the Fontana-Aguilar family.

Despite having a normal childhood, Itzel was a lonely child. Her father worked all day in the stables, so he didn't spend time with her; her mother only worked until noon 'cause she's a teacher, but she just couldn't stand her own child, and sent her to her room to keep her away from her. Itzel was a restless and energetic girl, so this affected her a lot, making her look outside her family circle for the attention that she wasn't given at home.

Itzel's parents in their twenties.

Personality

Itzel is a kind person and has good feelings, but she's very disconnected from her own emotions and her environment, which makes her quite impulsive. Even so, the emotions Itzel feels are very intense, and is a hopeless romantic. She collapses easily, and crying is her way of channeling her anger, happiness, or sadness. She's also a theater kid, and tends to unconsciously create her own problems by believing herself to be the protagonist of her own soap opera/novela. She really likes to grab the spotlight, and knows she's pretty, so she takes advantage of this to get what she wants. Sometimes this attitude of hers gets her into trouble.

Her savior complex and her lack of judgment when in love always make her get into toxic relationships.

Her theme song:

Occupation

Since she was a child, Itzel showed special interest in art and knew she definitely wanted to be an artist. When she expressed her desire of devoting her life to art, her parents objected, arguing that a woman couldn't choose that occupation. However, they didn't stop her either, she did what she wanted, and fulfilled her dream anyway. She is the town muralist, and makes oil paintings as well. Her parents began to support her when they saw that she could actually make a living from it.

Outfits

Age progression

i'm super late for week one 😭 i had to fix some things on her character sheet, but here she is!

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[sassmasterintraining]

Had a pretty hectic week, so I'm a little late with my first post for @encanto-extended-edition ENCANTO OC APPRECIATION

WEEK ONE: INTRODUCTION!!

Meet Efi! The OC that's been living rent free in my head for almost 3 years now! If you want to read about her and a certain green-eyed prophet, I'm also writing a fanfic about there than you can read here!

[overly-dramatic-artist]

Week One: Introduction!

@encanto-extended-edition

OMG how have I never done a proper introduction of my girl??? Anyways…

Full name: Angela Leilani Yaamil Morales Estrada

Age at the time of the movie: 48 years old (December 8th, 1901)

Angel was initially a name holder for the reader insert in my fic, “Why did it have to be me?” She was never intended to become a full fledged OC, but thanks to several supportive friends, Angela evolved into what she is now.

Angela is born to parents Guillermo and Anamaria in 1901, and shortly after childbirth, Anamaria sadly passes away, leaving Angela to be raised primarily by Anamaria’s parents, Quinuama and Raymundo. She is the youngest of six cousins on her maternal side, and she knows very little about her father’s extended family. The passing of Anamaria puts Guillermo in an inconsolable depression, leaving his daughter to be brought up by her grandparents due to his emotional absence. Her family owns and runs a tailoring shop in the Encanto, renowned for their fine fiber arts and beautifully crafted clothes. Angela is best known for her impressive bead work and crocheting, as she enjoys fixating on tiny details.

At age five, she befriends the Madrigal triplets, the four of them becoming close companions, but especially between Angela and Bruno. The two of them grow close over the years, considering the other to be their best friend. I’ll save the juicy details of their companionship for Week two, but to summarize, their friendship takes a dramatic twist following the breakup of Angela and her fiancé when she is 19.

Following in her mother’s footsteps, she joins the church choir at a young age, and quickly blossoms into a vocal star, devoting her time to organizing musical events and writing songs. Later in life, she takes to traveling outside of the Encanto, something inside her yearning to know more about the world and escape the limitations she feels trapped in. She gains herself a notable reputation as a performer in multiple social clubs and lounges, her name taking her across South America, and eventually across the sea.

Angela’s personality and mannerisms are based a lot on my own. She is extremely caring and compassionate for others, but often has a hard time deciphering her own emotions, and will usually bottle up her complicated feelings to save herself from causing trouble. She is often lovingly criticized as being overly dramatic by her family and friends, causing her to become extremely cautious and anxious about how she presents herself to others. Sometimes, something small will set off her temper, and she gets very cold and unresponsive as a defense mechanism, or if something makes her deeply upset after a buildup of repressed feelings and stress, she will fall apart into tears. Often times, her stimming gets interpreted as flirtatious behavior, and her attempts at masking usually have the same effect (hair twirling, too much eye contact, smiling and nodding).

A few little bits of information and trivia:

The bracelet she is almost always seen wearing was gifted to her on her fifth birthday. It had originally belonged to her mother. It is made up of pearls, jade, and a thin gold chain. Her rosary is constructed of similar materials.

Leilani was her intended name in canon, as Guillermo wanted to name her after his mother, but Anamaria immediately called her baby ‘her angel’ when she was born, so the name Angela was chosen instead and Leilani was bestowed as her second name.

I imagine her voice sounding like that of Angela Aguilar when she’s younger, and evolving into a vocal powerhouse like Beyoncé or Selena.

She is terrible at cooking. Her grandmother and aunts had tried to ingrain the kitchen skills into her at a young age, but it stressed her out because she wasn’t naturally gifted in it. She can make a good cup of coffee, but it’s best to leave to crafting of fine foods in the hands of someone more capable and confident.

💖Some amazing art from some amazing people💖

@prophetic-hijinks @egofan4evr @lvnamuraart @dororoxpenana 💖

[encanto-extended-edition]

✨️Bienvenido, everyone! Thank you all for your patience with this event, we are so excited to share this with you! ✨️

To start, we are your lovely hosts for the Encanto OC Appreciation Event:

Amanda @overly-dramatic-artist & Pena @dororoxpenana!

You may recognize us in the Encanto OC community already with our OCs Angela Morales Estrada (Amanda) and María Madrigal (Pena), but you’ll find out more about them during the event! 💖

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♡ The main goal and drive of this event is to spread some much needed love and appreciation to our fellow OC creators! You are all such a gift to this fandom, and it’s more than time to recognize each other! While we will be reblogging everyone’s creations on to this blog, this event will only work as intended if you all interact with each other! We can speak for almost everyone when we say that it is entirely welcome for you to go feral in the tags and comments. Share your enthusiasm. Go wild. If someone says something kind to you, you are legally required to pass that on ten-fold (Just kidding, but please please interact with each other!). ♡

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✨️The Prompts!✨️

👋🏼 Week One (October 1-7) : Introduction. Time to share the lore of your OC! For this week, we are looking for your OC’s backstory, what connects them to canon, and who they are as a person! This can include detailed character sheets, a written backstory, drawings of them through stages of life, how you developed this character, even a ‘slide show’ of their background; literally anything pertaining to who they are.

❤️ Week Two (October 8-14) : Relationships. Let’s take a deep dive into the interpersonal relationships of your OC! Family, friends, lovers…enemies? For this week, share any works that give us a look into who your OC is connected to; it can be a family tree, drawings of them with friends, their wedding; as long as there is some form of connection, you’re golden!

🌟 Week Three (October 15-21) : Extras and Add-Ons. Have an AU? Or two? Or ten? All you full of bits of information and side stories? Share it all! This week is for you to share anything and everything you want. Any sort of obscure alternate timeline, a detailed overview of their sense of fashion, pieces of trivia like their favorite food or weather, what their handwriting looks like, comics you’ve been wanting to share. Anything and everything is game!

🫂 Week Four and a Half (October 22-31) : Share the Love. Spread around the appreciation for your fellow artists and writers! Send head-canons or thoughts about someone else’s OC, or maybe some artwork or a one-shot! Or even express your delight for another person’s creativity. We highly encourage you to engage with people you may not be super familiar with.

You are more than welcome to use older material for this event, especially for the first three weeks, but we just ask that you make a new post with this blog tagged so we know to reblog it! New creations are greatly encouraged, but we understand that making art and writing is time consuming 💖 You can also make multiple posts for each week if you have a lot to share, don’t feel pressured to cram everything into one post!

‼️Rules regarding the event:‼️

🔴Please refrain from comparing OCs against each other or to canon characters in a negative manner. This event is meant to appreciate everyone’s efforts, we’ve all dealt with enough negativity already. Be kind.

🔴We want to keep this event friendly for all ages in the fandom, so we will not be reblogging any blatant NSFW content on to the blog. You are welcome to share things of adult-theme, but just know we won’t be sharing it from our platform (we’ll drop a like though).

🔴Any content of incestuous nature will not be allowed whatsoever. This is a one strike policy. Don’t do it.

🔴No tracing or stealing works from other artists/writers. If you have commissions or artwork made by other people for you, that is more than welcome, but do not steal someone else’s work.

🔴No content made using AI

🔴Keep in mind this is not a contest or a competition; please be kind to other artists and writers. We are all on equal ground here.

✨️Please tag our event blog (this one!) as well as using the hashtag ‘encanto oc appreciation’ & 'encanto oc event' as we want everyone’s work to be shared on our blog like an archive of love!✨️

💖If you have any questions, please feel more than welcome to reach out! We want this event to be as fun as possible! 💖

[prophetic-hijinks]

@encanto-extended-edition submission for week one!

Follow the tale of Elena and Bruno in my comic Prophetic Hijinks!

[pepa-brainrot]

Week one of oc appreciation part two <3

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More detail under the cut <3

Trigger warnings!! Breif mention of death of a parent

Talk of emotional and physical abuse (little detail)

Armida had a relatively good childhood. She grew up on a flower farm of sorts, where her family would grow flowers and process them into oil and dye. She was particularly close to her dad, who taught her how to play her first instruments, and passed down his love of music to her. Something that she never gets rid of. Her mother was more strict, but still just as loving. She was an only child, her mother having fertility issues (that would be passed down)

She grew up in a close knit town. She was a shy kid, who watched kids play more than she joined them, but she was pretty much content with that. Until she met Carlos, who offered to sit with her. He was the first boy, or really kid, to pay her any mind, and they became fast friends.

When she was 14, her father passed, and Carlos became her main support system.

Having Carlos be by her side through all of this caused Armida to fall for him, and by the time they were 15 they started officially going out. Both her father’s death and Carlos created strain in her relationship with her mother, and Armida grew up despising her despite her good intentions.

The first time Carlos hit Armida they were 16, and after Carlos threatened to hurt himself if Armida left him. She stayed playing it off, because she was happy with him.. most of the time anyway. When she started showing up around town with a bruise or two, it sparked rumors. Armida’s mother threatened to forbid her from seeing him. Frustrated, she vented to Carlos, who convinced her to run away with him.

At 16 they ran away together, only planning to go a town over, they accidently stumbled across the Encanto. There they set up there new life on a small farm, where Armida started to take commissions as a seamstress.

They were quick to learn about the Madrigals, Armida watched the three triplets from afar. She admired them, even Pepa and Bruno, who had bad reputations with the town. She not only thought their powers were cool, but she loved the way they interacted with each other. It was then she really started to see their personalities. 

By the time Armida turned 18, she had befriended the triplets, spending time with them when they were not busy, and slowly they started to notice little details. Things that made them question her relationship with Carlos. She also started to develop feelings for Pepa- who at that point was already with Félix

Unfortunately Carlos noticed as well, he noticed her slipping away- not even his threats of harming her or himself could make her stay. Feeling desperate, he crossed a line. Badly hurting Armida both mentally and physically, she fled to Casita hoping to escape him, and after learning of the incident Alma banned Carlos from the Encanto.

Now free, Armida starts her healing. It's rough at first, with frequent nightmares and a lack of trust of any strangers (something she'd sadly carry for many years) however she does slowly start to get better. After a while she starts to realize she has a crush on a certain redhead who can control the weather.. but she pushes it down, nowing she's with Félix and still fearing relationships. But her crush only get worse, as she starts to crush on Félix as well. More time passes and eventually confessions happen- and she takes a chance and joins them in their relationship. It starts a bit rough as well, with Armida used to having certain "rules", not knowing how to navigate a healthy relationship. But they are patient with her, even with her at her lowest at points, and eventually the three decide to get married.

[greenvillainredemption]

Last prompt of @encanto-extended-edition I decided to divide this into parts, this one is OCs whose stories I was already familiar with prior to the event (including my own), and part two will be OCs I got to know through this event! :D

Elena - @thecrazyashley-blog

Claudia - mine

Razili - @impossiblefangirl0632 & @optimistic-violinist

Lucía - @16magnolias

Esme - @emi-g

Yeah both part 1 and 2 will be Bruno gf OCs because that’s just what I’m more drawn to (I like seeing bfs too but y’all know it’s hard for me to get invested in male-centered stories lol). Part 2 will unfortunately be very delayed since my phone screen is broken and I’ll have to wait to fix it or get a new one.

[encantoisawesome]

Name: Elizabeth "Elisa" Silvio

Age: 16ish

Height: 5'1

Weight: 76kg with her ruana on, 44kg without

Personally: Happy-go-lucky, friendly, forgetful

Likes: Having friends, her pet puna teal duck Greenie, having people to talk to, music, climbing trees, mud sliding

Dislikes: Being lonely, headaches, the static in her vision, taking food from people

Fears: The jaguar lady, her dreams, remembering

Backstory, told by Elisa

"Hmm, well, I've been alone in the forest for as long as i can remember, nothing but me and the trees since the fall. i do sometimes make visits to the town but only if i'm bored or if i need food and can't find any, gets kinda quiet in the trees when the static gets too bad, then my hand starts itching. Its all good though! i found a good tree to sleep in and Greenie sometimes drops by too. Still need to work out how to talk to people without scaring them away though"

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poor kid doesnt really remember her past, maybe thats for the best

during her story, she does meet antonio after saving him from a vicious anaconda, and later meeting mirabel after she and antonio went out to look for elias, only for mirabel to accidentally headbutt elisa in the nose after elisa hung upside down from a tree to see what was going on without mirabel noticing her. the three of them end up bonding over their like for birds, and music. everything is good... until elisa starts to remember something

i'm looking forward to seeing eveyones OC's for this event!

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[dororoxpenana]

My little baker, María Garcia 😭💚 ✨️ (Part 1/3) @encanto-extended-edition

Week 1: Introductions

Backstory:

25 years before the canon movie events, María García (23) lived in Encanto her whole life and worked at her family's recently formed bakery. While trying to gain attraction to the hidden business, María got the opportunity to meet the Madrigal triplets (25).

Intrigued the most by Bruno, she made it her mission to become his friend. Once their friendship is established, María accidentally develops deeper feelings for her best friend and desperately tries to hide her unwavering crush.

Their friendship almost dismantled when María witnesses Bruno performing his gift and becomes frightened by it. Upon encountering Bruno then apologizing profusely and begging for forgiveness, their friendship is rekindled (however she never lets herself forget her hurtful actions.) After some assurance, comfort, and a surprise kiss the two end up confessing and begin dating.

While their relationship is seen as not truthful at first, they prove the accusations wrong. Their new relationship is blissful, until Bruno has an involuntary vision of María's bakery burning down with her along with it. The two desperately try to figure ways to save her family's livelihood but in the end it is all for naught as the cause of the fire was by a cruel third party individual, completely out of their control. While María manages to live, she has recurring nightmares and flashbacks of the fire.

During the rebuilding of the bakery, the persecutors were held accountable and life slowly went back to normal. Once Bruno and María marry after 5 years of dating, María did her best to help support Bruno as he struggled in the family but her efforts weren't enough as all his disparity lead up to his disappearance.

For 3 years María wallowed over Bruno and became a much more reserved version of herself, until she ended up finding him one night sneaking around Casita. Despite being upset with him, she agrees begrudgingly to help keep his secret but in return she distances from the family and becomes estranged. He promised to write letters whenever he could via rat postage.

Due to the discovery and overwhelming guilt knowing where Bruno was hiding, María tried desperately to distance herself from the Madrigals.

They kept in contact through notes via rat postage and did a few visits in the beginning but they had to stop due to the immense pain that also came with them. One day, her young sobrina Mirabel visits her and asks about her Tío Bruno.

María guides her to look for the vision, despite going against her promise towards her husband, she had faith in Mirabel. When Casita falls, María helps the family but is horrified at the notion that Bruno may have been killed.

Returning to her home for supplies, Bruno is there and they are reunited for a bit.While María joins to family to search on foot, Bruno rides off to look for Mirabel Once everyone is back together, María finally reconnects with the entire family alongside her husband.

♡ Outfits ♡

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[bluecherryblossom8]

For week 1 of @encanto-extended-edition I present my main Encanto oc! Johanna Engel. Everyone calls her Hanna. She is a love interest for Camilo and the second main character to my Encanto fanfiction! She is the best oc I have ever created and I love her so much! 🩵

🩵Full name Johanna Roslyn Engel

🩵 German-Colombian

🩵 she/her

🩵 March 5th

🩵 5’3’’

🩵 Blue eyes, light skin, golden brown hair

🩵 bubbly

🩵 observant of others

🩵 Hanna is seventeen when first introduced in my story and is the youngest in her family. She developed a keen sense of how other people around her may be feeling and becomes very observant of them because she would spend a lot of time alone watching them. But this was not by choice because her father would occupy a lot of her sister’s attention.

🩵Parents are Cal and Marie Louise Engel. Cal often neglects Hanna and spends more time with Amalia. He is psychologically abusive. He gaslights Hanna and doesn’t take much pride in her talent or intelligence .Marie is more attentive to Hanna but she is also an enabler. Amalia is Hanna’s older sister. She is the one family member Hanna feels closest to despite Cal’s favoritism. (I don’t want to spoil too much)

🩵 Hanna would spend most of her childhood trying to be just like her sister Amalia just to please her father. It wouldn’t really work but she was always hopeful. Eventually when she enters her teenage years, she starts giving up on trying to be like Amalia, but it caused her to have an identity crisis. When she meets Camilo she is struggling to find out what kind of person she really is.

🩵 When she was ten, she received her first instrument. A hand carved quena (a wooden flute). It was originally a birthday gift for Amalia given by an acquaintance to the family, but Cal did not like the way it sounded and gave her a violin instead. Marie insisted that Hanna can have the quena. Cal agreed but under the condition that Hanna can not play it inside the house. Hanna would end up playing it in the horses stable instead. It seemed to her that the horses liked her music. But because she would always play for horses, she only felt comfortable playing music by herself or in front of animals. This later changes when Camilo helps her to gain more confidence in herself. In turn, she helps Camilo to understand that he is not alone with the things he struggles with, and makes him see that he is more loved and needed by others than he believes.

Thank you for taking the time to read about Hanna 🩵✨

[egofan4evr]

@encanto-extended-edition

WEEK 1: OC INTRODUCTION

You can read my Bruno x OC fanfic on Tiktok at SneezyArtFitsVids! The series is called Picking Up the Pieces.

Days before his 15th birthday, Bruno chases after a troublesome individual who stole one of his bad visions right under his nose. Conney and Bruno try to get through life's brutal beat downs together, separated and reunited over and over. Loving and losing. Picking up the pieces and starting chapters. Is it salvagable?

[aeshnalacrymosa]

Julieta y la bruja

Aya la bruja shows Julieta Madrigal a Psilocybe columbiana and a limón mandarino to make lemon tek with.

“I think mamá gave Tío Bruno mushroom tea. She learned it from Aya la bruja when she was younger. In very small doses, it can ease melancholy.”

Aya la bruja started out as just a name. I had no intention of developing her. When I wrote that for Chapter 6 of "Viñetas," this was the kind of image I had in mind. Julieta's gift is one of the most captivating ones for me because of its resemblance with the magical element in the Mexican novel Like Water for Chocolate. Whereas Tita's emotions affect her cooking and the people that eat her food, Julieta heals physical injuries and presumably illnesses with her food. I wondered how Julieta developed her gift. Since Alma does not have her own gift and is busy running the Encanto, did anyone teach Julieta how to attend to people's health?

I recalled the Clarissa Pinkola Estés' interpretation of Vasilisa the Wise in Women Who Run with the Wolves: that in the title character's stay with the witch Baba Yaga, she learned the ways of the wizened ones from the crone. I thought perhaps there was a witch in the Encanto that could guide Julieta. Much like the Cut-Wife and Vanessa Ives in Penny Dreadful:

It didn't take me long to come up with the name. Aya comes from ayahuasca because I was looking into psychoactive substances for depression at the time. (For context: In "Viñetas," Bruno suffers from depression, insomnia, and migraines after the events of the movie.) But as I continued writing, the character of Aya la bruja would change before I got to describe her appearance. Look out for the next entry, @encanto-extended-edition 🖤

[teawizard]

Hi! Meet my Encanto OC for @encanto-extended-edition: Daniela Serrano :)

Full name: Daniela Alejandra Serrano (& Madrigal in the future) Age (movie): 52 Height: 172 cm, 5'8'' Weight: above average Hair type: black, fairly curly Eyes: dark brown Birthday: 8th of May 1898 Details: a big, hooked nose, wide eyebrows

Daniela is a kind, creative and reserved person. She doesn't usually initiate social communications but is always ready to keep up a conversation. She has two close friends and otherwise doesn't have any people she lets herself be vulnerable with. Her diary knows more about her than any person alive.

She plays a couple of instruments and knows different thread craft.

She is sometimes very stubborn and rebellious because this way she reminds herself that she's still in charge of her own life, even when she doesn't have any strength for it.

Daniela is the youngest child in Serrano Venezuelan-single-mother-and-children-family. Her mother is called Maria and her older twin-siblings - Luis and Carmen.

She is a former 'gifted kid' who rebels against her mother when she's 18 and quits weaving. Daniela tries to find a new place in the community but fails A LOT, even if she works hard (which she doesn't usually do). She then drunk on freedom makes A LOT of bad decisions and has to be brought to her senses by her sister and best friend. At 24 she returns to weaving very disappointed in herself. She leaves Encanto at 35, after a particular person tells her to maybe change her life. She then returns home at 52 and sorts out her relationship with her family.

As a result, her Biggest Problems are: relationship with her mother, her perfectionism, avoidance of conflicts, rarely considers her own feelings and desires and poorly describes them, rarely opens up to people.

This is the shortest summary of her story, and I hope the least confusing one :)

You can notice green lines and numbers on the character sheet. These things indicate intervals when she and Bruno were dating (yes, this is oc x Bruno - I wanted to explore one thing I don't usually see in oc x Bruno fanfiction, which I'll talk about later, but this can as well be due to the reason that I don't actually read them that much).

Also, you can notice that all the phrases above all four Danielas are about her mother(s). Well, there is no reason for that at all.

I made her almost a month ago and I feel like I still don't have a clear image of her in my head, but I guess it will all come together when I start writing the actual story...

Also, tried to make a character inspiration sheet:

I haven't watched that much different media, so the sheet might be not that accurate but I tried :)

(Tiana from The Princess and the Frog Fleabag from Fleabag Evelyn from Everything Everywhere All at Once Kaguya from Kaguya-sama: Love Is War Eleanor Shellstrop from The Good Place)

[overly-dramatic-artist]

Week Four: SHARE THE LOVE 💕💕💕

Here are a handful of the little sketchy portraits I’ve done for the @encanto-extended-edition event

It’s been so lovely getting to meet some new people and learn about their amazing OCs 🥳

María @dororoxpenana Elena @thecrazyashley-blog Fifi @neon-green-eyes Nayelli @sharknadoslutt Conney @egofan4evr Efi @ursakursa Elena @prophetic-hijinks Itzel @meepxii Noelle @noellemadrigal

Love you all so much!!!!

[coolunclebruno]

Week one of @encanto-extended-edition;

Please welcome; the new and improved Miguel Herrero! (I decided to delete the original introductory post cause I wasn't satisfied with it.

Pronouns: He/Him

Age during movie: 51

Eye Color: Hazel Brown

Hair Color: Black with silver streaks

Height: 5'6

Occupation: Ceramicist/Potter

Miguel is a very extroverted and friendly, yet sensitive soul. He's always willing to lend a hand to whoever is in need, and can start a conversation with just about anyone and is good at listening. However, he has a tendency to take things to heart.

3 interesting facts about Miguel are;

He loves chickens and even has a chicken coop in his backyard.

He is horribly afraid of spiders.

He cut off the tip of his finger in a carpentry accident.

Rough Bio underneath cut!

Miguel’s father, Alejandro, died when Miguel was five, leaving his mother, Michelle, to raise him, his brother, Vicente and his sister, Fatima. Miguel doesn’t remember his father much, but his mother took good care of him and his siblings. 

Miguel’s brother, Vicente, was a hard-working and ambitious young man, and was also Miguel’s best friend. Unfortunately, while out on a hunting trip, his family received a vision from Bruno foretelling his death, and he would die after falling from his horse entering back into the Encanto, at the age of 24. Miguel’s family was devastated, and Miguel harbored a deep resentment and hatred for Bruno for some time, before something happened that made him see the seer very differently. Soon, the two would unexpectedly become good friends, Miguel teaching the man to let go a little, and Bruno teaching Miguel how to appreciate quiet and solitude. 

In his mid-thirties, Miguel would become an apprentice for Hugo Aguinaldo, one of the best ceramicists/potters in the Encanto. Hugo would teach Miguel everything he knew, and would treat him like a son. He was even the first person Miguel would come out to. When Aguinaldo passed away, Miguel was heartbroken, but would be forever grateful to the man. 

Miguel is very happy to have Bruno back, but with his return, comes some new feelings to bubble to the surface…

Art belongs to my friend Jay on twitter, @overly-dramatic-artist and lord_madmyth on insta! Thank you guys so much!

[atarahderek]

For the Encanto OC event, though given I'm trying to keep up with Inktober, I can't guarantee I'll have something ready for every week.

You can find the info for the event here, hosted by @encanto-extended-edition.

My fan character for Encanto is also a fan character for Wolfwalkers. He's depicted here in the style of Wolfwalkers, but will also appear in a style more similar to Encanto. The construction lines won't appear in the latter style, and they'll be much more subtle in future depictions in Wolfwalkers style.

Name: Séamus Goodfellowe-MacTire

Age at introduction: 17

Birthplace: Kilkenny County, Ireland

Bio: Séamus is descended from Bill Goodfellowe and Moll MacTire. He is, as far as he's been able to discern, the last surviving wolfwalker. His family has struggled with their identity since the extinction of the Irish wolf in the late 18th century, and has taken to breeding Irish wolfhounds since then. But after Séamus was orphaned and his secret came out, he was run out of Ireland, bringing a few of his family's dogs with him. He took refuge in Spain for a while, laying low among a Calé community in Galicia, who were sympathetic to his plight. They taught him Spanish and some Galician, and he was able to pick up a few words and phrases in Caló, though they never taught him their language directly, as he wasn't a full member of their community. Eventually, a combination of persecution against the Calé and suspicion surrounding an uptick in wolf activity in the region resulted in the Calé community having to relocate, and they strongly encouraged Séamus to move on, for his own safety as much as theirs.

Séamus had to leave his Spanish wolf friends behind, which deeply hurt, as they were the first actual wolves he'd ever met. But his dogs remained by his side. He decided to try his luck in Mexico, where he knew there would be wolves, and where many Irish had chosen to emigrate during the last great Irish diaspora. He took a boat from Lisbon, Portugal across the Atlantic, but storms forced them to make port in the Caribbean. Through a series of events Séamus considered bad luck initially, he wound up in Cartagena--well south of his intended target. The conflict happening in Colombia forced him further and further inland, and Séamus and his dogs all felt as if they were being pulled somewhere deep into the Andes. Along the way, Séamus ended up picking up a pack of bush dogs, who absolutely delighted him and the wolfhounds. They were the closest things Séamus could find to wolves in that strange land.

Séamus spent most of his early days in Colombia camping in the forest. Every night, he and two of his hounds would scout the trail ahead. And every night, they felt inexplicably pulled in a particular direction. So every following day, Séamus would gather his pack and head in the direction of the mysterious force.

And that's how they ended up in the Encanto.

He met Antonio first, thanks to the bush dogs. Later that same day, he met Mirabel, by then 16. His first night in the Encanto, he accidentally bit Mirabel, transferring the magic of the wolfwalker to her. Thus Mirabel became the first Colombian wolfwalker, and the only other wolfwalker in the world that Séamus knew of.