Headcanons for Dolores and Mariano with anything music related <3
[claps hands] yes yesss you got it anon <33
dancing!! i love dolores dancing and i can see her being the more graceful and better coordinated dancer between the two of them
mariano isn't as good as dolores when it comes to dancing but he always claps to support her <33 (it’s his way to cheer her on~).
it wasn't shown with that wrecked engagement dinner but i imagine that mariano is a good pianist, it's the talent he's best known for (he and agustín bond through it and play together sometimes)
dolores was the one that introduced mariano with playing music on glass (you know the one. glasses filled with varying amounts of water and using your fingers to create a melody)
dolores’ super sensitive hearing helps her with tuning instruments (she helped mariano with his guitar a couple times and every time she tunes it, it’s perfect <33)
as the poet between them, mariano also makes some songs (dolores is his muse with his more recent pieces [swoons])
mariano gives me vibes that he also knows how to play the guitar and in with dolores softly singing beside him when mariano plays an instrument, they perform the best delicate songs (think like sweet lullabies and heartfelt serenades)
i couldn't not make an encanto animatic from this scene from The Gay Deceivers (1969). sadly, i don't have a better quality copy on hand (everything was filmed & edited on tektak) so to prove that i made it, here are some stills:
also for some reason, t/umblr couldn't open any link to the video (believe me, i tried everything), so just copy this instead: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSdXLmMbG/?k=1
EDIT: THANK GOD MY FRIEND SAVED A COPY FOR ME DHJSHDKS THANK YOUUU 😭😭😭
fun fact: this was my very first animatic too (/^v^)/
The moments Dolores and Mariano share before Casita broke down.
(Previously named: Moments in Between.
Age references of timeskips are provided at the end notes in Ao3)
Author’s highlight (author’s favorite part/ part they liked writing the most or found most entertaining):
“Dear Mariano, have you met our wonderful Isabela?”
Abuela introduces Isabela to Mariano, sharing praises and attempting to be subtle with her matchmaking. Setting up a foundation of interest for the pair. It was then that her Tio Bruno’s words came back to her. His vision about her being in a complicated situation with the future love of her life.
From then on, she does her utmost best not to be attached to the kind and musical boy. But if she were to look back behind her that night, to even take a glimpse of the young boy trying to pay attention to the Madrigal matriarch, she would have seen a disappointed Mariano wishing to ask her for a dance.