#its great that mirabel has a chance to fix her relationship with her family

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idk man but i really do not understand how anyone can look at abuela's character in encanto and have a definite straight forward answer that she is either good or bad because??? thats?? not??? what was going on???

this isnt me defending her or anything because like i said she isnt completely good and she isnt completely bad either.

to elaborate abuela went through absolute hell and lost everything she had in a matter of hours. Her sense of self, her home, the love of her life, her entire village, stability and her freedom were taken away from her not even in a complete day.

She was 25 years old with the responsibility of her three children and the entire village and she was all alone. Sure she probably had help but she was the leader and the lives of all those people were on her.

When she gets her miracle she does everything in her power to keep it. To make sure that no one ever loses the one thing that saved them.

Now, all this being said the way she treated her family was fucked up. Alienating her son and granddaughter was terrible. The generational trauma was on her fifteen-year-old grandchild to break. And like the vision said it was on Mirabel and it wasn't helping that Abuela was terrified of what she was doing.

Still, abuela's character is not totally evil and it is not purely innocent. She's a morally grey character. It's kinda unsettling how violent people want to get with her.

Mirabel has all the right to not forgive her but she did and Abuela genuinely wants to get better and break the cycle that has been going on for fifty years. The end scene was like one day obviously not everything is going to be rainbows and butterflies immediately the important thing is that they're all trying.

you can disagree with me and say what you think but im not touching this subject again bc i feel like if i did thered by an argument but just, consider it. I respect your opinion and I'm sure people who have this opinion on abuela have a reason. But idk it just doesnt make much sense to me if you take into account everythings that happened in the story.

#this isnt defending her its just: why do people want to get physical with her #thats not going to help them #mirabel did what was right for her family bc she thinks that abuela is capable of changing #she knows that she has love for all of them but theyre relationship was toxic #at the end of the movie abuela realizes this and knows she messed up and apologizes and shes changing #when theyre rebuilding their house theyre also rebuidling their relationship with the family #im saying this as someone who does have generational trauma #it happens with a lot of first/second gen immigrants #its great that mirabel has a chance to fix her relationship with her family #im not saying that everyone has to forgive #to make it clear #mirabel had every single right to not forigve and i think a part of her will stay unhappy #encanto #encanto spoilers #alma madrigal #encanto meta #this isnt salt bc ik a lot of ppl who think this way have a reason but it smore of a critique i think #not ml