#but according to your logic it would've been justified right?

[mxtxfanatic]

Nie MingJue spoke coldly, “If she responded with only silence and not opposition when the Wen Sect was causing mayhem, it’s the same as indifference. She shouldn’t have been so disillusioned as to hope that she could be treated with respect when the Wen Sect was doing evil and be unwilling to suffer the consequences and pay the price when the Wen Sect was wiped out.”

—Chapt. 73: Recklessness, exr

ALMOST LIKE HOW ALL OF YOU SAT BACK WHILE THE WEN WERE COMMITTING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY BUT WERE STILL DEMANDING RESPECT, HUH?????? HOW FUCKING IRONIC!!!

#human reads mdzs: take 2 #god i hate him so fucking much #no wonder y'all were shaking in your boots #thinking wwx was gonna come back and wipe out your whole clans #but according to your logic it would've been justified right? #put your money where your mouth is bitch #righteous my ass #i wish THIS was the part that wwx had seen

[mirabelthemiracle]

Okau but taking that nobody talked or especially gossiped about Bruno around Alma, as she's town leader and her family has magic i do not blame them, I wonder if his sisters knew? I know Pepa is really the only sister to have a "bad experience" with Bruno's visions that was more of a inconvenience seemed worse just coz of her powers, I know there's fanart of them protecting their baby brother, but I wonder if they knew in actuality. Their community values them highly, for Bruno to be ostrized surely somebody would've noticed out of the only madrigals at the time

while i love protective sisters julieta and pepa in fanon bc it is top tier, ik y’all are here for some analysis so this is what i’ve got >.<

i fully believe julieta was also unaware of the things people said about bruno, and my belief is fueled by her distinct absence in WDTAB. keep in mind here that both luisa and agustin are seen during the musical number (though neither of them are shown to be singing along with everyone), even alma is seen she is just shown to be outside of the house. julieta, tho? she is the only madrigal to not be shown on screen throughout the entire song. this feels rather pointed to me, especially because so far in the movie julieta has been the only madrigal shown to not adhere to the "we don't talk about bruno" rule ("my brother bruno lost his way in this family").

now let me switch real quick over to agustin. agustin can be seen in the kitchen setting the table with the rest of the family, however he is quite clearly not singing along with everyone else in the room. to me this represents how agustin is aware of the things that everyone said about bruno, but simply did not listen to or spread any of it around. except, of course, to his wife, when her brother disappears without a trace leaving her heartbroken and confused. i imagine he would have explained how the public did not think very highly of bruno, and how perhaps he had seen something he believed would make everyone hate him for real. like i do really believe on some intrinsic level agustin knew and understood bruno well enough to figure it out, and julieta would see the logic and simply accept it. do her best to ensure the same doesn't happen to her daughter.

which brings me, finally, to pepa. pepa, of course, is among the very first people in the movie to start the bruno slander. clearly, we cannot claim that pepa was ignorant to the way bruno was viewed and treated. according to the movie she was an active participant in the behavior! so i would like to bring your attention to this post. with that analysis in mind, i believe that pepa’s actions and resentful attitude towards her brother are driven, simply, by hurt. she does not believe that bruno is a bad, evil person, but he did leave them all without even saying goodbye. no one, and i mean no one, enjoys feeling abandoned. and we are shown repeatedly throughout the film that pepa is particularly volatile woman, emotionally, so of course she wouldn’t just swallow her pain and deal with it quietly on her own. she would be angry, she would lash out, she would tell herself things that she doesn’t even really believe - like he ruined her wedding day on purpose - in order to justify the ugly, hateful things she is feeling inside because he left. and felix, in trying to be supportive to her in this painful time, would tell her that “you’re right, mi vida, it was all his fault” even if he doesn’t really believe it either because it’s easier. it’s easier to regurgitate the same tired opinions of the people in town that they had never listened to before than to ask why he is gone - easier for them to pretend that bruno is as bad as everyone says than to accept that they didn’t do enough to make him feel otherwise. 

#ask #encanto deep analysis #sad bruno hours #the way i had to pull up wdtab multiple times while i was writing this cuz FOR ONCE i do not have encanto on in the background #headcanons