I know this movie is recent-ish, but the lack of an Encanto series is still crazy to me.
Like, it doesn't even need crazy magical lore, it can be episodic, it's so simple:
Family dynamics not seen in the movie
Why doesn't Mirabel have a gift (theory of her being the next matriarch being the most obvious one)
Seeing the other rooms
Bruno's new interactions with the townspeople and the family
FERAL ISABELA!!!
Dolores and Mariano
Unexplored trauma with Dolores and Camilo, GET THEM THEIR SOLO SONGS!!!!
The dads' sides of the family
Abuela Alma trying to do better
Childhoods of the triplets
On that same note, how the couples met each other.
More on Alma and Pedro. Etc
And if you wanted new stuff, HAVE THEM OPEN THE ENCANTO TO LET MORE PEOPLE IN, new technology that Encanto doesn't have access to, new ideas and cultures - it can even bring drama if the new people try to do bad things and the family goes all x-men on them.
It's so many possibilities that if they never do it it's a damn shame.
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my encanto analysis/headcanon that no one asked for
so, i was just looking through some encanto fanart and headcanons and came across this piece (artist: https://mobile.twitter.com/ye_enc):
abuela had triplets - julieta, pepa, and bruno. both julieta and pepa had three kids - isabella, luisa, and mirabel for julieta, and dolores, camilo, and antonio for pepa.
what i noticed is that for each batch of three, each individual falls under a certain category, and it seems to follow by age.
julieta was, as this lovely fanart shows, likely depended on quite frequently for her ability to heal via her cooking. her gift would have been the most useful and therefore she likely would have been praised the most as “the perfect one”.
this, of course, next falls to isabella, who we see this with the most frequently. abuela very clearly is living the life she wished she could have lived through isabella, and is viewed as the perfect golden child by everyone around her.
dolores is a little different, but i believe she still fits the trope. she is basically the physical embodiment of “seen but not heard.” she keeps quiet on the things she knows would upset her family and doesn’t make herself heard, even when she is in pain, whether physical or emotional. she doesn’t tell anyone that she knows bruno has been living in the walls for the ten years he’s been missing; she doesn’t tell anyone about her feelings for mariano, because she knows that will upset abuela and her cousin’s “perfect for the encanto” arrangement; and one can only imagine how loud certain things are to her, that are endurable for us (fireworks, for example).
next are the middle children: pepa, luisa, and camilo. all of them have some kind of pressure on their shoulders. (and - just a fun thing i noticed - while luisa’s literal pressure is the many things she carries, pepa’s pressure is atmospheric pressure, because she controls the weather. but anyway, lol).
all three of these characters are told in one way or another to bottle up their emotions and keep them buried inside. with pepa, we see this very directly as she is constantly told by the other characters (especially abuela) to, as the fanart above shows, calm down and essentially turn off her emotions because of the damage she can cause with her weather powers. this kind of reminds me of the “conceal, don’t feel” thing that elsa had with her gloves. both pepa and elsa demonstrate the same growth throughout their movies, too - learning to accept themselves and their abilities and thus being able to control them instead of being controlled by them - but, i digress.
luisa, by contrast, is indirectly told to keep her emotions at bay. she is treated as something of a useful tool, both by the town and by abuela, and seen in a very masculine light despite her relatively feminine personality. because of this treatment and the expectation that she will always be strong that comes with it, she falls into the same category as pepa.
camilo, like dolores, is a little different, but still fits. we don’t see much of him in the movie, but i imagine he is depended on as being the funny one. if anyone reading this is into k-pop or bts, think of camilo as like the j-hope or the jin of the group. he’s always expected to be funny and smiling, lifting everyone else’s spirits - but who lifts his spirits?
and lastly, we have the youngest siblings - bruno, mirabel, and antonio. they fit into the roll, of course, of the scapegoat, of family disappointments.
bruno was rejected by the town and by his family, seen as a harbinger of chaos and horror, a bad omen - all because he can see the future, something that he obviously cannot control. but, of course, it’s easier to simply blame someone else than accept the truth or take responsibility for your own actions.
mirabel, of course, is treated in much the same way. she is seen as a bad omen, as well, and is quite literally feared to be the one who will destroy the family and the encanto, because of bruno’s vision.
antonio does not quite fit into this category, but i think if he had not gotten a gift, he would have been shunned in much the same way as bruno or mirabel. it can also be argued that his gift isn’t really very useful, and we can see abuela struggle for a moment to think of how they could put his gift to use at the breakfast at the beginning of the movie (”i told them to warm up your seat”).
anyway - this is all to say that each of the siblings in each of the batches of three appears to fill (or almost fill) the same rolls. i’m sure someone else has already noticed this and i’m just late to the party - but i thought it was cool.
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im very much sure someone already pointed this out before and we all know how everything mirabel mentioned she'd do in waiting on a miracle, she was actually able to do it in the end, but these two scenes just really emphasize it
similar positions, same pride and happiness in her family's eyes, and even in the first pic, there's a space for bruno!!
like, damn, she really set out to do what she said she'd do
and her desperation and longing in the first pic…in the end, she got what she wanted and more
god i love this movie
sister (heh) posts:
surface pressure what else can i do sister angst
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Encanto TV show requirements (will be added on to as I get more ideas):
Cleaning day episode
Prank war episode
Singing, lots of singing
Solo songs for everyone
Actually talking about everyone's trauma
Cute couple moments
How things have changed in the encanto
One-on-one interactions between every possible pair of Madrigals
Christmas special
Mariano and Dolores getting married
Pedro lore
LGBTQ characters who aren't regulated to the background
Either a rewritten Family Madrigal or Columbia, Mi Encanto is the theme song
Someone not forgiving Abuela for... well, everything (Isabela seems like the most likely)
I kind of want to see how all the adults act while drunk
Can we get to know some characters outside the family?
Adding onto that, there's no way none of them have any friends. Let's meet these friends.
You can't tell me that everyone loves the Madrigals either
I'd like to meet Agustin and Felix's families
Triplet shenanigans!
THE OTHER ROOMS
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A List of Disney Characters I Will Always Defend
Anna: The way a lot of you come after her and nitpick her behavior pisses me off, especially because so many of you refuse to acknowledge she’s traumatized. Because through the perspective that she was traumatized, a lot of her behavior makes a lot of sense.
The Madrigals: All of them. Every single one. Even Abuela. This isn’t to say I will defend all of their behavior, because they all caused each other trauma- that’s the whole point of the movie. However, acknowledging that it was trauma that caused the pain, and that none of them are actually “villains” is something I wished more people did.
Aladdin: Well, against some criticisms. Not all. Again, I am not going to sit here and defend everything he did. The lying and trying to trick a princess into marrying him is fucked up, but alot of critiques of him are just… classist? “I can’t believe Jasmine married a low-life thief!” He was literally stealing to survive, which was explicitly stated in the film, in the same way Jasmine stole an apple to feed starving children.
Cinderella: Well all of the classic princesses, but mostly Cinderella, because the amount of victim blaming I have seen towards her is disgusting. She wasn’t “too weak” to defend herself. She was in an abusive situation, had no money to leave or anywhere to go.
Asha: Asha was right, you guys are just too attracted to Magnifico to realize what he was doing was bad. Every ounce of hatred of this character has completely misrepresented the events of the film or have just been extremely nitpicky.
Ariel: For the last time, she never exchanged her voice for a man, she exchanged her voice to explore land- something she always wanted to do.
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