#td jose

[wetterfishguts]

the people have spoken

[mirrorofliterature]

the burromuertos are a dysfunctional family

So, I've been seeing an influx of 'the Burromuertos are a healthy family' and hi. No the fuck they are not. It's subtext. No one with a functional family acts remotely like Alejandro does.

Firstly, the most obvious:

No one in Alejandro's family appears remotely concerned that their son/brother was sealed in a robot suit after being fatally injured for a year. The first time we see any member of his family is when Jose comes onto the show to beat him up. That screams healthy family dynamics.

His reaction to being called Al is far from normal. It is a sign of Jose bullying him - it reads like a trigger. It is an encapsulation of Jose's disrespect towards Alejandro and how he is always second place.

His competitive streak and how he prioritises winning over interpersonal relationships

How this man does not know how to navigate interpersonal relationships in a genuine and authentic ways.

Okay, those are my claims. But where's my evidence?

Gestures at Alejandro's whole schtick. But also:

"José always have to win, always, he live to make me miserable! ... He punches me in the arm and called me Al just because I hate it!"

These words speak of a deeply antagonistic brotherly relationship that is incredibly competitive - it is implied that Alejandro's parents pit the two of them against each other, resulting in an incredibly unhealthy sibling dynamic, akin to the al-Jamil's in The Good Place.

It is also (more indirectly) implied that Alejandro has had his food restricted - given that his 'body is a temple' and he refuses to eat the candy, giving it to Cody instead. Again, this feeds into the idea that Alejandro's parents raised him with the expectation to be perfect, in mind, body and spirit - and that is unhealthy. Like, having a little bit of candy won't kill you, I promise. The expectations that Alejandro's parents put on him are clearly crushing and destroying his ability to interact with his peers normally outside the context of a competition. That boy needs therapy and a healthy support network, stat. He cares about his achievements at the expense of his health and personal relationships.

That is learned behaviour.

Anyway. We (the dysfunctional burromuerto writers) are not making it up for the sake of angst. We are extrapolating a valid interpretation from the text by interpreting subtext and implication and sometimes, quite frankly, the shows' literal lines.

[real-total-drama-takes]

I understand why people write Alejandro's family the way they do, considering José and all.. but I really think some people overexaggerate how bad his family really is.

Unless I'm misremembering, it seems like José is the only family member of his that acts the way he does to Alejandro.

Alejandro even mentions his mother in one of the episodes in World Tour, saying she calls him sweet. If we go based off of this, and José's childish behavior, the most we can say about his family is that it's a bit neglectful towards bullying. But other than that, Alejandro is well cared for by at least one parent.

I'm not saying people can't write his family in the ways they do, though. Just when I see people go about it as if it's canon his entire family hates him, it makes me a bit sad. He's a total mamas boy, let him be the sweet youngest son he is to her.

[sadamitusw]

"Look, I draw a dark, fucked up, older and abusively evil version of Alejandro from total drama...welcome to my dark fantasy world of characters design..."

josé posting

[constellaj]

WHERE is the ridonculous race Burromuerto team. WHERE is the carlos content (alejandros brother who is a professional football/soccer player). WHERE in the world is carmen sandiego

[tdtylerenjoyer]

ermm ahehajw hhhgh

[fizzyxapple]

Nocose bonding /hj

@criminalcinnamon @wetfishguts

And technically @cherryvorchard even tho she isnt in picture :D

[horrorgeoff]

@mary-kasexual shittens

[dollarsignc]

hihihi i see you taking request, may i ask for for malejandro orr maybe some José annoying Alejandro? bye

KABOOM

HELLO THANK YOU FOR THE REQUEST, SO SORRY I TOOK LIKE A MONTH TO DO IT

how about some baby burromuertos family photo

can you tell i don’t draw kids often

bonus: dramatic shading + alejandro’s version

kaboom 💥

[criminalcinnamon]

Y'all weren't prepared for my José redesign.

[chris-mclean-has-me-by-the-neck]

The biggest fight of all time

[wetterfishguts]

bugs when you lift up a rock or something. i dont kbow

[mirrorofliterature]

words vs intention: burromuerto sibling angst

or, jose burremuerto, vis a via alejandro, in the wake of the total drama finale. .

jose wonders where he went wrong.

when did he cross the line?

when did alejandro start to hate him?

yes, they were competitive. they were always competitive. that is the only way jose knows to be, but, but...

but to hear that his baby brother hates him -

on international television -

he knows that he has screwed up.

he looks at al - alejandro, he hates that nickname, it's not just something to tease him over, not anymore - and wonders if his brother will ever stop hating him.

he never wanted his life to turn out like this, freshly eighteen and brotherless.

but here he is, alone.

his parents' words are cold comfort.

when he was little, and alejandro was even littler, he had been jose's shadow

jose never meant to make him feel like he was stuck in second place it had simply been - the rite of a younger sibling, to be two steps behind he went through it first

maybe he should have realised that things weren't quite alright when alejandro signed up for total drama

maybe that should have been a red flag

but all his life, red flags have simply been a go ahead, not a stop, not a slow down

that's why he's here, now, trying not to cry because, because -

his baby brother hates him

and there is nothing -

nothing

he can do to fix that

it. it is all too late, too final.

jose's little brother hates him, announced it for the whole world to hear.

and that is irreversible.

[real-total-drama-takes]

All Aleheather antis are José in disguise

.

[camp-vamps-radio-b1tch]

I absolutely love thinking about the relationship between Alejandro, José and Carlos

Like we’ve never even seen Carlos but you can already tell Alejandro is so much fonder of him than José

I like to think that Alejandro admires Carlos and feels like he needs to have his validation because he doesn’t want to come off annoying (because that’s how José feels about him)

I actually haven’t thought much about just José and Carlos but I think Carlos wouldn’t approve of the bullying and teasing that José does to Alejandro

And we can tell the relationship between José and Alejandro and I believe that Alejandro like genuinely hates him

(also I swear I remember Alejandro saying something about José being the favorite. Is that true or not? 😭 someone please confirm)

Not the typical sibling hate like ‘I hate you but at the same time I’d take a bullet for you’

No Al would let the bullet hit José lmao

[kinderartifact4]

TD Hidden Magic AU: About the Burromuertos

(This is just a bunch of information I thought of for them, most of it was written because I was bored and waiting for a plane. I might write more, but I can’t really think of anything else rn. Some of it is lore, and some of it is random information)

Their dad is the High King, top of the demon hierarchy, and he is a bad enough king that there’s a rebellion.

Their mother is no longer in the picture. Her death was human related, and their dad blames Alejandro for it. It’s obvious, even if he never says it.

The boys were each assigned a babysitter after the incident, to watch them during the day to make sure they don’t do anything they’re not supposed to.

Their father says it’s to keep them safe, but only two out of the three have combat/defence training (I’m sure y’all can guess whose caretaker doesn’t).

Their parents both have mixed blood from different demon subspecies.

Their mother is less mixed, primarily Ajror with a small bit of Plant Tokë.

Their father is primarily Zjarr, but he has a bit of Hije, Vetëtimë, and Rock Tokë. The Vetëtimë is the most distant and is almost completely stamped out, but it’s still there.

In terms of magic, the boys all take after their father and are just as fireproof as he is, but they still have other types of magic.

Carlos' Zjarr magic is stronger and he has great control of it. Carlos has some Hije magic, and some self-taught healing magic.

José doesn’t have very strong Zjarr magic, his strongest magic is Ajror. He has a small bit of his father’s Tokë magic, most he can do is move the ground a bit.

Alejandro has strong Zjarr magic as well, but he has much less control over it, in the sense that it’s very emotionally driven and can get very out of hand very fast. Additionally, he has a bit of Tokë magic from his mother.

José and Alejandro were born with wings (like their mother), Carlos was not (like their father).

When they were younger, José had attempted to teach Alejandro how to fly. His method was to take him high up in the sky and just drop him. Luckily Carlos was around to call for their mother.

Alejandro loved flying, after he actually learned how. He still mourns that loss, now that he can’t.

Demon children tend to act a lot more feral, running around on all fours and climbing anything they can, and are typically non-verbal save for noises (growling, hissing, squeaking).

Carlos was the most behaved out of the three of them. He started walking and speaking earlier than his brothers, tricked his parents into thinking more children would be easy.

José was a climber. He always got into high up places, and it got so much worse when he figured out he could use his wings to get to harder to reach areas. Trying to get him off the chandeliers was not fun.

Alejandro was easier to handle than José, but he was also a biter. José was the primary target, and he genuinely wanted to file his teeth down. He even threatened to do so.

There was a time when Alejandro and José got along really well, things started changing for the worse after their mother passed.

José had a bad habit of pinning things on Alejandro, mostly his own mistakes, it’s one of the main reasons they don’t get along anymore.

Their father already doesn’t like Alejandro that much, so it doesn’t take much for José to convince him that Alejandro is at fault.

Alejandro’s attempted execution, assumed to be successful, was entirely José’s fault.

His “death” was viewed as a tragedy by the public, a murder. He was twelve.

The aforementioned rebellion really ramped up after this incident.

The brothers are all separated. Alejandro is presumed dead and currently resides at an unknown location, Carlos ran away and joined the rebellion, and José cannot leave.