AUTHOR'S NOTES: So, as an 'in between' project while I'm working on my Encanto/Coffeehouse Mysteries crossover, I want to do a series of one-shots based on some of the Encanto headcanons I have come up with.
So, if you all would please be so kind as to tell me which of the following headcanons you would like to know about, please leave a review! OR, if you have an HC of your own you'd like me to tackle... ditto!
Thank you!
ENCANTO HEADCANONS
-At Isabela's request, Antonio trained several coatimundis to braid his cousin's hair. They did such a perfect job that Pepa started having them do her own braid.
-Mirabel reminds Bruno of his sisters on a regular basis. She's constantly trying to involve him in family events (like Pepa) and she's always trying to take care of him (like Julieta).
-Agustin and Felix made the mistake of letting the kids in on card games with Bruno. Dolores knows everyone's tells. The rats tell Antonio what everyone has. The only honest person is Camilo.
-You know those three other prophecies mentioned in 'WDTAB'? That wasn't ACTUALLY Bruno. It was Camilo just pretending to be his tio shortly after getting his Gift. He did apologize to everyone after Bruno came back.
-On the inside of Bruno's ruana is a large pocket for his rats. Stitched on that pocket is the first initial of each of his nieces and nephews.
-Out of all the Madrigals, the one who uses the most swear words is Luisa.
-After seeing how much Mirabel was pushed aside after not getting her Gift, Dolores asked her parents if they could 'adopt' Mira. Julieta was so upset that Pepa had to explain that families didn't exactly work that way.
-Antonio convinced Bruno to put on a production of Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' for the town starring the rats and Antonio's animal friends. The family couldn't remember ever seeing Bruno so social... or so happy.
-Since Julieta's cooking only heals PHYSICAL ailments and injuries, she keeps a book of the comfort foods of everyone in town (and her family) and makes those recipes when someone is having mental or emotional issues.
-During the rebuild, Agustin was astounded by how much Mirabel tried to take care of the family. It was the first time he really saw everything that his daughter did to compensate for not having a Gift.
-While getting settled in his new room, Bruno discovered that Julieta set up a cabinet for him filled with headache remedies, sleeping tonics, etc.
-Pepa RARELY hits people with lightning ON PURPOSE. Often times, it's by accident and only when she's VERY on edge. She still feels guilty for zapping Camilo as she realized that she could have unintentionally killed her own child.
-When Camilo REALLY wants to mess with people in town, he and Bruno team up. Bruno trades off being Hernando and Jorge while Camilo does the same thing.
-While the rest of the family was a little slower in getting behind Isabela's new look and attitude, Felix, Mirabel, and Pepa were in her corner 100%.
-For Mirabel's 16th birthday, Agustin and Felix collaborated with the village to make a scrapbook of all the times Mira had helped someone...even though she didn't have any magic.
-Pepa and Agustin were best friends when they were kids.
-Sometimes Luisa just disappears for an hour or so so that she can enjoy a hot bath in her new room. When she gets out, she always feels rejuvenated and ready for anything.
-During the house rebuilding, Bruno was consulted many times about the casita's interior layout. Having hidden in the walls for so long, Bruno was able to map out the entire house from memory.
-When Mirabel got chicken pox when she was 9, Camilo 'declared war' on ALL of the village's chickens in retaliation for getting Mira sick.
-While clearing out the rubble of the house, the townspeople offered numerous apologies for taking advantage of the Madrigals and not doing more to help out. Osvaldo personally apologized to Mirabel for being so insensitive.
-When the house was rebuilt, Alma had new family plates made with new decorations. Bruno's plate had four-leaf clovers; Isabela's had cactus flowers, Mirabel's had milkweed, etc.
-Casita pays close attention to when someone gets grounded and limits the magic in the person's room, making it look more ordinary.
-One of Dolores's favorite hiding spots is a bluff just past the coffee plantations. It's far from the town and there's a waterfall nearby. Being there helps when she gets overwhelmed by hearing everyone talking in town.
-Julieta has a special 'meal' for Bruno if he's been dealing with migraines or too many visions: plain tortillas, coffee, hot chocolate, and a combination of orange juice and coconut water.
-When the magic came back, Julieta started taking weekends off. She'll still cook something in emergency situations, but mostly she spends the time relaxing and bonding with her family again.
-There is a 'chore wheel' in the new house so that the Madrigals don't all get stuck with doing the same tasks every day.
-When Mirabel was little she was the Queen of the puppy-dog eyes. Bruno was especially vulnerable to the look and could never resist a request from his youngest sobrina.
-Pedro was always a very emotional person and he unknowingly passed that trait on to Pepa. In fact, Pepa's first rainbow came when she was talking to her father's portrait about her new powers.
-Until she was about 13, Dolores was very clingy when it came to Felix. As a baby, she only wanted her father holding her and as she got older, she'd start crying if the two were separated for too long.
-Parce has a truce agreement with the rats and the rest of Antonio's animal friends: No trying to eat, maim, torture, or bully one another upon penalty of permanent expulsion from the house.
-When the triplets were kids, Pepa would get teased for being a redhead and she'd beg Julieta to 'cure' her. When someone suggested that Pepa was adopted, Bruno would tell her "So what if you were adopted? Mama still picked you, didn't she?"
-After reuniting, the triplets started making semi-regular visits to the river to 'talk' to their father. They tell him about the family and what's going on in their lives.
-When Pepa discovered that Antonio and Bruno like to lay out in the yard and create stories about the animals they see in the clouds, she started creating more distinctive cloud shapes.
-When Abuela started having trouble remembering where she put her reading glasses, Antonio assigned one of the coatimundis to find them for her.
-When Bruno gets a high enough fever, he rambles... a lot.
-One of Isabela's pet projects is custom coffee plants. She'll grow samples of the new varieties and if the samples work out, she'll plant them by hand for cultivation.
-Before he left, Bruno was an expert at calming each of the kids when they were fussy as babies. It was one of the things Pepa and Julieta realized they had taken for granted when Antonio was born.
-Pedro would entertain Alma with tales about what their children would be like when they grew up: Pepa would be an actress. Julieta would be a fortune teller. Bruno would be a well-known healer.
-Camilo is something of an adrenaline junkie: he LOVES doing dangerous things for the fun of it. He did dial it back when Pepa threatened to lock him in his room.
-For Luisa's 20th birthday, the whole Madrigal family journeyed through the mountain pass and to the coast to see the ocean for the first time. On the way home, Luisa kept saying that she'd never seen such a peaceful place.
-One of the things Casita restored when the magic came back was Bruno's vision of Isabela and Mirabel hugging. The vision was sitting on Isa's bed when she first entered her new bedroom.
-Julieta has a burn scar on her forearm from the Casita's oven. It happened when she was pregnant with Isabela because she was distracted by feeling her daughter kick for the first time.
-During experimentations with growing different plants and hybrids, Isabela discovered that she is HIGHLY allergic to poison ivy.
-For the triplets' 51st birthdays, Mirabel enlisted the rest of the family to make identical patchwork quilts for her mother, tio, and tia.
-Before getting her Gift, Dolores was prone to ear infections.
-Pedro's gift to Alma on their last wedding anniversary (together) was a pocket watch because for all his wife's virtues, punctuality was NOT one of them.
-Whenever Julieta wants to test out a new recipe, she always enlists Luisa and Dolores. Camilo is unreliable as a taster because he declares anything Julieta makes 'Delicious!'
-When Pedro and Alma were dating, Alma had the cutest snort when she laughed really hard. Pedro would make an effort to trigger this as often as possible.
-When the triplets were babies, Bruno was always the most fussy, even when there was nothing wrong with him. However, his cries usually coincided with his sisters needing fed or changed.
-Bruno befriended his first rat while hiding in his room after some of the kids in town started teasing him. When he 'disappeared', the rats basically adopted Bruno while he lived in the walls.
-After losing her Gift when the house fell, Dolores discovered that she loved the sound of people laughing. When the magic came back, laughter was one of the few sounds that didn't seem amplified to her.
-Luisa picked up some new hobbies after the magic came back: cooking, woodworking, and crocheting.
-Bruno found it funny that the capybaras and coatimundis enjoy joining the rats in acting out his telenovelas. The coatis in particular are really good at dramatic scenes.
-Julieta's favorite food to eat is simply grilled pork with tortillas. Her favorite food to make is arepa con quesos because the mixing and forming are meditative acts for her.
-Pedro was often asked why he fell in love with Alma. He would tell people "I found the part of my heart and soul that I didn't even know I was missing."
-Julieta tried teaching Bruno and Pepa how to cook when they were younger. Pepa is a menace in the kitchen, but Bruno became rather good at it.
-Dolores has three favorite sounds: the falling sand in Bruno's room, her mother's rain showers, and Parce the jaguar's purring.
-After the house was rebuilt, Mirabel started 'taking days off'. No chores, no sewing, nothing. Sometimes she'll read a book, but mostly she'll just chill in one of the courtyard hammocks.
-Alma, Bruno, Camilo, and Mirabel collaborated on an illustrated book based on the origin of the encanto and the fall and resurrection of their casita.
-When she saw her younger sister standing up to Abuela, Luisa realized that Mirabel was REALLY the strongest member of the Madrigal family.
-Isabela took up beekeeping in the new house. Her plants get pollinators, her father doesn't get stung as much(Thanks, Antonio!), her mother gets honey for cooking, and Dolores enjoys the noise-canceling buzzing sound.
-Camilo likes to have 'jump scare' competitions with Parce the jaguar. Dolores, on the other hand, enjoys staring contests with Chispi the capybara.
-Pedro was the one who insisted on bring his and Alma's wedding candle when they fled their village. He knew the journey would be full of unknown dangers, but that his love for his wife and children would light the way.
-Casita made hidden rooms for each of the Madrigals when the magic came back. For example: Bruno is still 'kitchen adjacent' with his den in the walls, Mirabel's space is a loft that overlooks the town, and Antonio has a cave which houses a small family of bats.
-Mirabel actually DID get a Gift on her 5th birthday: love. She just never got powers to go with it because she didn't NEED magic to help her show her love for the family.
-With tourism to the encanto increasing due to the mountain gap, Felix opened up a small souvenir stand in town. Offerings include stuffed animals, initial doorknobs, and flower wood carvings.
-Bruno had Luisa 'rat-sitting' one afternoon while he and Antonio went exploring the encanto. They came back to find Luisa napping in a hammock with the rats cuddled up to her.
-When Bruno doesn't eat much at meals, Dolores and Julieta trade off leaving snacks for him in various places. Casita makes sure that Camilo doesn't pilfer anything.
-Pollen allergies and hay fever used to be common seasonal problems until Isabela really understood her powers and what kinds of plants she could grow.
-For the first week and a half after the house fell, Pepa insisted on 'triplet sleepovers' every night because she was afraid Bruno would disappear again if he was left alone for too long.
-Ever since he was a boy, Felix loved fixing things. Everyone would come to him for repairs on fences, toys, clocks, etc.
-When Isabela's Gift came back, she took up the habit of following Bruno when he was exceptionally anxious and creating small clumps of four-leaf clovers in front of him.
-Camilo was born with perfect memory recall but, because of all the shapeshifting, he sometimes can't remember which memories and characteristics are actually HIS and which belong to other people.
-Antonio's closeness to Mirabel is due to imprinting. When Pepa was pregnant, Mirabel stuck to her like glue, talking to her unborn cousin constantly. When Antonio was very young, Mira's voice was the first one he recognized.
-Pepa wanted Antonio's middle name to be 'Bruno', but her mother was firmly against the idea. So Pepa went with 'Pedro' instead.
-When Julieta and Pepa saw that Bruno's door had faded, Pepa assumed that their brother had run away, but Julieta thought that he had died.
-Julieta had a very rough pregnancy with Luisa and the family thought that they might lose one or both of them. When Luisa was born premature, Alma prayed that her granddaughter would be strong enough to make it to her 5th birthday.
-When Dolores and Isabela were babies, Alma spent hours in the nursery telling them all about their Abuelo Pedro. Pepa, Julieta, and Bruno often sat outside the door, listening to the stories as well.
-When she was 4, Mirabel liked watching Bruno when he'd use the nursery to repair his clothes. After Mira asked, he showed her how to sew by hand and how the sewing machine worked.
-After 6 months of discussing baby names for their daughters (Dolores and Isabela), Pepa and Julieta gave the decision to Bruno. He wrote down all of the suggestions and a few of his own, put them into a hat, and asked his sisters to pick out two each.
-When Pepa and Julieta were married, they both asked Bruno to walk them down the aisle since their father was dead.
-Julieta wasn't that interested in Agustin until she ended up sick with the flu and he surprised her by bringing her some of his own homemade chicken soup. It didn't have any magic, but it still helped Juli feel better.
-Dolores hears the difference between her mother's 'angry' storm clouds and her 'sad' storm clouds. When Bruno left, Pepa was always sad when she stormed over hearing her brother's name.
-Camilo and Bruno are afternoon nap buddies. The family has often found the two sacked out in some area of the house, usually in sprawled, contorted positions.
-Luisa's favorite companion when doing her chores is her Tio Bruno. Sometimes he'll use his personas, Jorge and Hernando, to make even the most mundane tasks seem like grand adventures.
-With Pepa and Felix, the good/bad parent dynamic changes depending on who is in trouble. Pepa is a soft touch with her sons and so Felix has to be the tough one. It's the other way around with Dolores.
-Mirabel and Parce have a 'joint custody' arrangement with Antonio. If Mirabel is away for a while, Parce is on full protection detail. If she's home, the jaguar usually chills in Antonio's room or in the woods behind Casita.
-As a 'welcome home' gift, Julieta gave Bruno a rosary that was engraved with 4-leaf clovers.
-During a cook-off to see whose arepas were the favorites, Luisa came in first place followed by Mirabel and Bruno. Isabela's arepas had too much salt and Pepa nearly burned down the kitchen.
-Julieta was the inspiration for Bruno's 'knock on wood' ritual. Pepa was the one who suggested that her brother start throwing salt over his shoulder to ward off bad luck.
-Felix has two sisters (one older and one younger) and an older brother. Their parents died a few years after the creation of the Encanto and Alma took them in.
-On Pedro's birthday, Alma asks Isabela to grow his favorite flowers and Julieta to make several of his favorite foods. During dinner, Alma shares stories of her husband with her family and for a little while, he's alive again in their hearts.