#also i think that maybe the inciting instance of the encanto fading may have been bruno disappearing?

[the-meme-monarch]

sorry I’m thinking abt encanto rn . spoilers ahead

i see a lot of people talking abt “so why didn’t mirabel receive a gift?” and like. yeah bruno’s vision abt her not needing one to be special and she uses that to show her family that they’re more than their gifts and also her and abuela being foils but like. i think it was the first sign of the encanto fading. and we see casita is like. kinda sentient? how it like. talks to/responds to mirabel and acts with them all to help them out. i think it couldn’t give mirabel a gift as a child bc the encanto had started to fade and it made sure it didn’t do the same thing to antonio, and that caused it to start breaking that night bc it had exerted itself

#also it seems like casita is. nicer to mirabel bc of not being able to give her a gift? #it might be just bc she’s the main character but it. talks to her most #like how it showed specifically her what was wrong #leading the cracks to the candle #but then fixed itself before anyone else could see #words from the monarch #encanto #also i think that maybe the inciting instance of the encanto fading may have been bruno disappearing? #bc the encanto comes from the madrigal family’s bonds and bruno kinda. disappeared and We Don’t Talk Abt Bruno. like they were trying to cu #cut him out of their lives