#that year Casita was being rebuilt was probably the best year of her entire life

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I think it’s so much fun to give Pepa all the unhappy angst in this fandom, bc she’s the perfect avenue for it. Not only would she be going though shit, but she can’t even react to it. And not just in a ‘I’m a strong stoic woman and I don’t feel emotions bc emotions are for women and I am a badass character and therefore I’m supposed to act like a man’ kind of way, but she’s a VERY emotional person who feel things SO incredibly deeply, but she literally can’t act on any of it or else she risks hurting people or embarrassing her mother or destroying their food source... Even when others aren’t at risk and the clouds just overhead her, she still gets told to repress her emotions bc Alma likes things to be perfect and traditional and respectful. And she can’t even lie about rather or not she’s okay bc the weather will give her emotions away.

Teenage Julieta’s boyfriend is an asshole and breaks up with her for something stupid and makes her feel bad. She goes and cries in her room like any other normal girl, eats some chocolate, and it’s fine. Pepa can’t do that. She either is gonna destroy the fields, getting MORE people mad with her, or else she has to keep it all bottled up inside her and can’t even talk about it really bc that’ll just make her upset

Bruno gets sick and tired of his gift ‘hurting people’ and draining him, he can stop. Same with every single member of the family except Dolores, but at least she has soundproof areas in her room she can go and unwind under and decompress. They can tell someone ‘No I won’t do it anymore’. Granted with all the issues that family goes through I don’t see them telling Alma that, but if they really wanted too they could stop it, or at least take a day to sit down, relax, unwind, take a breather when it’s clear they’re about to have a breakdown over this. Again though; Pepa. Can’t. Do. This. She is ALWAYS always always affected by her weather, even when she’s in her room. She CANT ever take a day off. Hell even if she’s having a good day and suffers the tiniest annoyance that anyone would forget 1 second layer, she still gets a cloud.

Thinking about @pepa-madrigal AU; Bruno and Julieta will be allowed to cry and feel and be sad and upset, even if they do desperately try and want to push everything down and pretend everything’s fine. Pepa can’t. She can’t have that release of just screaming at the top of her lungs while sobbing bc it’s all too much for her because her hurricane might destroy the villiage, she isn’t allowed to feel. Even while she’s being hurt, she’s still going to have to worry about the weather hurting the Encanto and hurting her family and making it impossible for a search party to come out bc of the weather, but getting more upset bc she knows her husband is going to be out there in this weather looking for her and it will take 8 grown men to pull him away no matter how dangerous the weather is and she has to try to repress her own emotions during her own torture and kidnapping.

Like idk, she’s just amazing and perfect and I love her but she really is the perfect person to put through shit in a fic bc of how her emotions play into it.