#encanto headcaons

[the-sisters-madrigal]

Hi! Love your blog! My sister and I love love love Encanto (me more so) and it's my favourite ever Disney movie ever!

I have the headcanon set in modern times that after seeing the barbie movie, Luisa buys herself an emotional support barbie so she gives herself the childhood she didn't get. Also in relation to this, after the events of the movie, Pepa and Isabela bond over the trauma of having to suppress their gifts and being seen as perfect to keep up appearances. Isabela finds her old dolls from when she was a kid and seeing how she's not that girl anymore, she goes ham in destroying them and essentially pulls a Sid from Toy Story. Pepa helps in this therapy by using her lightning and its beautiful.

Other hcs include...

Mariano still being a himbo! One Christmas, Alma says they had an important visitor and Mariano deadass asks if it's Santa. It's padre fransico from a neighbouring church. This one is based off my sister at work, who, last Christmas, asked if the special visitor they were getting was Santa as 'christmas' and 'special visitor' usually means him. It was safeguarding people.

Behind the donkey shed is a popular place for couples to have alone time together. Both Pepa and Luisa can attest to this.

Dolores was adamant about wanting a baby sibling for Christmas, to the point where she held the baby who was the baby Jesus in the nativity hostage. Pepa and Félix did not think that negotiating with a three year old would be on their parenting duties and yet there they were.

Antonio is an oops baby. Very much welcomed, but an oops baby nonetheless. Pepa and Félix swore that after Camilo, there was to be no more. Cue Dolores' quinciñera where they had too much to drink and figured they were too old to need protection. The morning sickness five weeks later proved otherwise.

Thank you so, so much! I love me some Encanto, too 🥰 I took a little break for a while, but I'm back on it now 😂

And my goodness, these are some awesome headcanons!! I'll address each of these and number them so I can keep track 💗💗💗

I have honestly never much considered an modern AU for this group, but I have to admit, that's a really intriguing idea! And Pepa and Isabela bonding is pretty awesome, too, even if it's something I've never thought a lot about either (a lot of my thoughts belong to the three sisters 😅) However, I have to admit, the thought of Isabela destroying Barbie's in Sid-like fashion is the stuff that horror movies are made of 😂 However, I could very much picture it 🤣

I absolutely love Mariano being a himbo. He is literally the sweetest and he's got the spirit, but idk 😂

Now all I'm picturing is Luisa walking up after a hard day of gathering donkeys that she shouldn't have to gather in the first place and coming upon Pepa and Félix back there behind the donkey shed 🤣 Poor baby Luisa gonna be scarred for life

My goodness, I could definitely see Dolores wanting a baby sibling 🥺 And holding the nativity Jesus baby hostage is hilarious 😂💖 The question is did she want a boy or a girl or was she good with whichever? I kinda picture her being cool with either, but that might be based on my own experiences as a little kid wanting a sibling.

And my gosh, it's crazy you say this because I was literally telling my dad this the other day. I was forcing him to look at some of the Encanto characters (as you do) and I was looking at those kids thinking, "Dang, somebody done had an oopsie." 🤣

Thank you for sharing these delightful headcanons! 🥰💗💗💗

[midnightlee25]

Yandere Reaction: Hearing that their darling is getting married

Dolores Madrigal:

Was the first one to hear about and therefore before the next day already had made plans.

She did hear everything after all so why would everyone not believe her if she said she had heard a few things the ‘would be life partner’ was saying and or doing.  

Even if her darling didn't believe her, their family would.

That's really all she needed for the wedding to be stopped.

There's a chance she won't be her darling's favorite person after but then again, she's not really known to lie so they will come around at some point.

Hate her or love her she will stay by her darling and make sure any would-be suitors don't last very long.

Camilo Madrigal:

Either heard by it from his sister or just around town and he was not happy but he did have an easy solution.

He is going to make his darling fiancé look like the worst person to ever walk the earth and he is going to make sure everyone sees it.

Now sure he could easily just break off things but where the fun in that?

He needs to make sure that there won't be any chance of his darling going back to them.

After everything is said and done everyone in town is going to shun the person as well as his darling hating their guts. It really will be a win win.

[demigod-or-almost]

I've seen more than one person complain that 'people are so focused on making Encanto a queer allegory that they forget the true meaning of the movie', and I don't think that's quite the case. I think people connect with the film by spreading their experiences into the narrative, and there's nothing wrong with that.

The main thing about the movie is intergenerational trauma, and that's why queer people are so connected to the movie, because older generations have problems accepting younger ones when they fall outside the expected pattern for their time.

Of course, the film is also about desplazamiento forzado, and the pain of losing your home and fear of losing it again — which is an issue that is still common in Colombia and many other countries —, but I don't understand much about this subject, and the vast majority of people who have seen the movie don't either, and that's why I'm not going to delve into it, I'm going to understand that it's there, and I will understand that it is as important to the story as anything else, but for me, a person who has not been through this, and a person who doesn't know anything about it, this part won't mean as much to me as Mirabel not being accepted by her own abuela, because I have personal experience with this subject, so it hurts me more than anything else in the movie.

Obviously, I'm not saying that Abuela's story isn't important, and that what she went through doesn't matter, of course it does, it's just that it will matter a lot more to someone familiar with the subject than to someone ignorant of the topic like me — I don't know the pain of having to leave my home because of violence, so I sympathize with Abuela and I feel for her, but I don't connect with her, but I do know the pain of not being accepted by your own family, so of course Mirabel will get my attention.

I just think that as long as we don't forget the real meaning of the film, as long as we don't trivialize the movie and its message, it's all right to have different interpretations.

It's okay to see yourself in Mirabel's place, as the rejected one, or Isabela, as the one forced to be perfect, or Luisa, as the insecure one, or to see your family as the Madrigals in some way. Because movies are like that, art is like that, each one has a personal interpretation, each person will see the film differently, and there's nothing wrong with that.

The movie remains what it is, its message remains the same, the rest, each person's personal interpretations, well that's a bonus, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

And yeah, I know, it sucks when people only talk about the characters' sexualities and ignore everything else, I understand, but I'm not talking about headcaons or sexuality, I'm talking about how the movie can be seen from the perspective of a queer person without having its meaning changed.

[cutepastelstarsalior]

Encanto Headcaon:

post-movie, Isabela really gets into fashion, especially using her plants to dye her clothes. Mirabel end up teaching Isabela the history of fashion and how to create them. While Isa enjoy it, she much preferred to be the designer then the maker. She and Mirabel do a bunch of collaborations.