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Mirabel knows the stories about her family’s past — her abuelo cut down by a power-hungry witch, her young tío tragically lost in the river during their escape. Over the years, she’s watched the Madrigals fracture at the edges because of Abuela’s fear of magic and the evil it attracts. All she wants is to fix things, and maybe visiting that long-abandoned village hidden among the mountains will show her how. She doesn’t expect to find someone living in the ruins — a skittish stranger with missing memories.
Maybe he doesn’t seem to have the exact same magical gift, and maybe she doesn’t quite believe it herself, but what if…Mirabel just assumes he’s her long-lost Tío Bruno anyway? She’ll teach him all about being a Madrigal, bring him home in time for Abuela’s birthday, finally put some of her family’s deep-rooted pain to rest, AND help a sweet, lonely man feel like he belongs somewhere too. What could possibly go wrong?
OR: Where Mirabel, sick of waiting on a miracle, decides to create one. And then she stumbles headfirst into a real one. Oh, and she also accidentally awakens a slumbering evil that still wants to kill her family and steal their magic. Whoops!
(OR: A loose Anastasia (1997 movie) AU.)
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04 Jul 2022
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What if Mirabel had met Bruno before the engagement dinner?
What if she took away the lesson that her presence and efforts would only hurt the family?
What if she started to withdraw, to stay away so that she didn't ruin anything else?
What if someone noticed and decided to do something about it?Pepa had missed the signs that led to her brother leaving them.
She refused to see the same happen to Mirabel.Series
- Part 1 of Extended Family is Still Family
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27 May 2022
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Through a miracle of his own, Pedro survived the attack. He spends his life on the other side of that mountain range and is as unaware of his family's survival as they are of his own.
50 years later, on his annual visit to the river to pay his respects, there is suddenly a gap in the mountains.
Old man he may be, but he never lost his sense for adventure. And what he finds in that village, hidden behind the mountains, will change everything.
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- Part 1 of Your Eyes aren't Rivers (there to weep)
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21 May 2022
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How Bright You Burn (How Brave You've Been) by Sokkas_First_Fangirl
Fandoms: Encanto (2021)
14 Sep 2023
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“Run. Run and don’t look back. God go with you, mijo,”
His birth father had been bent over him, trying to shield him, trying to keep him alive. Juan had walked to his certain death to distract them from Bruno and his damn curse, a curse Juan hadn’t even known about until tonight.
So Bruno followed that last instruction, that last plea: he ran and he didn’t look back.
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Found in the river as a baby, Bruno has only one clue about his family: the blanket he was found wrapped in, embroidered with his name and a caterpillar. Finding them has never really been a dream of his; after all, they're surely dead, just like his father.
But when his village is destroyed, he unknowingly follows his parents' footsteps and finds himself in a hidden village, saved by a magical family.
Surely this is too good to be true. As Bruno waits for the other shoe to drop, for some catch to reveal itself, mysteries are unearthed and secrets are revealed. It seems the Madrigals are missing someone too.
Maybe, just maybe, he has a family after all.
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21 May 2022