too-many-beautiful-things:

why is no one talking about the possibilities of the madrigal family lowkey being cryptids like???? encanto gothic is RIGHT THERE

• it’s sunny. suddenly it isn’t. suddenly it is. suddenly it’s raining. hard. lighting is everywhere. you’re terrified to step outside
• your future has been seen. you cannot do anything to change it. it’s known. it is out of your hands. there’s nothing you can do, except hold the green glass in your hands
• you break your hand. you eat an arepa. your hand is working again. perfectly. too perfectly.
• you whisper a secret. you know she’s listening. you know she knows, and she knows you know. you look at her across the town and ask her under your breath to not tell a soul. she knows everything you’ve every said
• the rock is 10 times your size, and it’s flying into the air, like a feather. she catches it and snaps it because it is a feather in her hands. it’s a rock, and if you tried to catch it, it would snap you
• you look across the street and see yourself, walking the other way. talking to other people. you hear your own voice in your ears. you disappear in the crowd
• there are flowers everywhere. between the cracks in the sidewalks and inside walls and busting outside of pots. you’re afraid to touch it in case it’ll break. it grows bigger and stronger and taller than you
• the birds are flying in a perfect pattern. they dive in synchronization. it’s too perfect. they land in order. they chirp and he answers. he’s sitting on a tiger. the tiger looks at you and you walk away

the-subcon10ent:

My favorite things about Dolores’s character:

• The fact that she’s very soft spoken and is constantly whispering because she has enhanced hearing
• She covers her ears before the fireworks go off at Antonio’s gift ceremony

• Her saying that the only ones worried about the magic was the “rats in the wall,” which she knew was true because she could HEAR BRUNO’S RATS
• The fact that she knew Bruno was still there because she could hear him but kept his secret
• And the fact that her description of Bruno was the most truthful and accurate

palpalbuddypal:

Rating the Madrigals on how likely I could beat them in a fight

Alma: 9/10. She’s an old woman and is very fragile, I could probably body her without hesitation. The only reason she’s not a 10/10 is because I would feel guilty about it. The reason she’s 9/10 is because I wouldn’t feel that guilty.

Pepa: 4/10. Once I land a hit I’ll probably get struck by lightning and end up fucking dead. Not a good way to go. If she didn’t have her gift I could probably get a few good hits in, but she seems pretty feral. Would try to tear my ears off.

Julieta: 7.5/10. I have fought both verbally and physically with people who love to cook on several occasions. As long as she’s not in the kitchen, I win this fight. Points taken off because if I hurt her Luisa will probably rip my spine out.

Agustín: 100/10. I swing on him. He dodges and tries to swing back. Somehow he punches a beehive instead. Victory is mine.

Félix: 5/10, he looks pretty hardy and honestly it would probably come down to who lands the first hit.

Luisa: 3/10. It’s likely that if I challenged her to a fight she’d refuse, and therefore I would win. But if I did fight her it would be over embarrassingly quick. She could tear a grown man in half, I wouldn’t stand a chance.

Dolores: 10/10. She seems like the type to try to pull hair during a fight which would leave her torso wide open, and her gift probably wouldn’t help her that much. Unless she can hear the punch coming, which I doubt. Also I could probably just yell at her and watch her crumble from how sensitive her ears are.

Isabela: 1/10. She’s definitely been waiting for a chance to go apeshit. Visualize this: I swing, I punch a cactus. Then she’s growing monkshood directly from my spinal cord.

Camilo: 5/10. Just like his father it’s likely going to come down to who lands the first punch, and if he gets like. The strength of whoever he changes into. If I land a hit before he gets to shapeshift, we’re good. But if I don’t and he turns into Luisa— welp. I’m dead.

Antonio: 1/10. I drop-kick the child and immediately get gored by a rhinoceros.

Bruno: 6/10. I wish this one was a 10/10. He looks like he weighs 100 pounds soaking wet. He looks like I should be able to hit him with the one two buckle-my-shoe and watch him go down like a sack of potatoes. But no. This motherfucker is agile, parkouring through the walls of Casita. And he was living with rats for ten years. He’d probably give me bubonic plague bc I know he’d bite me if I swung on him. Would I win? Probably, but it would be hard.

Mirabel: 3/10. I could probably very easily beat the shit out of her, but she seems like the type to never go down. She’s got endurance and is probably scrappy as all hell from growing up with no powers. Like when the person you’re roughhousing with can change shape, you fight dirty. She’d probably hit me with homemade pepper spray. She’d put a bucket on my head like I’m a Skyrim NPC then bash my kneecaps in. She’s unhinged.

Casita: 0/10. Motherfucker it’s a house??????? How do you fight a house????????????

dailyencantohcs:

Every Madrigal has a sort of, side effect, to their gifts.

Camilo has to eat twice as much as normal and sleeps a ton because of all the energy shapeshifting needs. He also has to carry around a picture of himself, since he forgets what he looks like.

Isabela doesn’t do well in the dark. She’s slow and tired, and while she doesn’t need to eat much she does drink a lot more than anyone else.

Dolores gets overstimulated super easy, that much is obvious. After being overstimulated, however, everything goes completely silent. She can’t hear anything. Even years after it started happening she still panics.

Julieta can’t feel pain. She’ll be cooking for hours and come out of it with burns on her hands and wrists, unable to feel it. Her own cooking also doesn’t work on her as well as it would someone else. While another person’s cut will dissapear completely with her food, if she had the same cut it would simply scab over.

Bruno gets mini visions throughout the day, just small flashes of a possible future or action. He’s physically incapable of telling the difference between these mini visions and real life. He’ll be going to ask Abuela a question only to see a mini flash or her getting upset and he gets upset in turn, only for it to turn out he still had yet to ask his question. He also has frequent migraines

Pepa is physically incapable of feeling anything mildly. For her emotions it’s either all or nothing. She can’t feel just a little upset that her favourite dress has a new tear, she’s devastated to the point that everything’s flooding. She can’t be just a bit happy with the gift a family member has painstakingly made her, she’s overjoyed to the point the encanto experiences a mini drought.

Luisa doesn’t feel tired. Whether it’s the fatigue from working/exercising or even just generally feeling tired at the end of a long day, she doesn’t feel it. It’s resulted in multiple pulled muscles and passing out from lack of sleep.

Antonio has long periods of time where he can’t understand anyone but his animals, like the people around him are all speaking in a completely different language.

nogoandbees:

*during Madrigal’s family dinner*

dolores: *listening Bruno’s rats soap operas while drinking water*

rat 1: sorry, but our love is impossible

rat 2: but… why? i… i love you

rat 1: because … the truth is that… I am your aunt

dolores: *spit out the water* WHAT????? THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE

mirabel:

camilo:

antonio:

abuela:

literally the whole family:

bruno from the walls: I KNOW RIGHT???????????????