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wikluk · 2 years

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If you want more fanfic ideas;

what about Julieta and Dolores bonding over being the family caretakers? I have a headcanon that becomes of Dolores’s gift she is call on a lot, sometimes it’s to find lost animals or people or to help with darker things (helping r@pe victims), so she and Julieta would cross paths and chat and stuff and what with the whole Bruno in the wall for 10 years it would probably effect Dolores a lot (especially since she was like a child when he first left and she now a adult when he came back) and she and Julieta probably had to help raise their siblings so they can trauma bind over that

Ooooh, I love Julieta&Dolores relationship even though we have nothing with these two in the film lol

But I like to think they get along pretty well. Both are rather quiet, kind and shy, and the oldest siblings, so they're the responsible ones, for sure. Always ready to help, too. To support emotionally, to keep secrets, be someone you may talk to. Hmm, I think she may have a closer bond with Julieta than Pepa, actually. It's not that they don't like each other, they do, they love each other, Pepa is a good mother to her and Dolores admires her dearly. But Julieta is quieter, calmer, and easier to be around for Dolores, I'd imagine. Dolores still goes to Pepa with her problems but when she wants to vent to someone or just needs someone's quiet company, she'd go to Julieta.

But getting back to the ask: (hey, let's agree that bother of them are also gossipers lol but only for silly things that Dolores feels she may actually share). O don't think being the oldest sibling is traumatic per see. In Julieta's case maybe yes, because she didn't have a father and she was kinda like the second parental figure. But in Dolores's case? She had two parents and unless she felt the need to take care of her siblings, I don't think she was forced to adjust to that caretaker role like Julieta. But they still can bond over being the oldest and with the brain cell XD I'd also like to think these two like to drink together. Like - they're besties over the bottle of wine, both showing their playful sides.

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eolewyn1010 · 2 years

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Talking about Encanto - Julieta and Agustín

Admittedly, my initial opinion of Julieta was not the best. Because she's such a typical Disney mom. Kind, sweet, understanding, caring, down-to-earth and... passive. She felt very much like a carbon copy of Moana's mother to me, who is not terrible, you know, I don't hate Moana's mother - she just has very little substance beyond the maternal role, and Julieta looked like she was going much the same way. The stereotype only got reinforced by how the magic screwed her over; just healing wasn't enough, it also had to be combined with cooking to really drive the point home. Imagine being five years old and getting stuck in the role of the town's caretaker forever. Frickin' amazing. (Not a fan of this magic system, tbh. Five years is too young to stick with one character trait to build a role and social career on.)

On the other hand, I myself love cooking, and I have a ton of respect for medics, so that was definitely not my best takeaway, but I would have been pissed at Disney if that was all she ever is. Luckily, she isn't! Oh, she's definitely understanding and caring and all that, but she also manages to be the single most emotionally stable person in this family of chaos, and I can only guess at the inner strength it takes. A strength she gets to show toward her mother - I think very highly of her for calling Alma out on her treatment of Mirabel. I like to think she does that for her siblings, too, perhaps even that she's one of the reasons Pepa developed the confidence to snap back at her mother as well. Also, even in her maternal role, that is, interacting with Mirabel, she's funny and spirited and not passive at all; woman is racing against a magic house that's tossing her out with rock-hard force to get to her daughter. I stand corrected, and I'm glad.

That's because we see her interacting with other people than her kid - as mentioned, she is a stubborn daughter to her mother, and she's also a damn smitten wife to her goofball of a husband and a loving sister to her brother. (That's not to say Pepa isn't; just Julieta might be the more stable support.) Look at her with her arm around Bruno at the end of All Of You. She's so happy to have him back! (I'm soft for all the triplet fanart, both of their childhood and adult life, okay? Okay.)

So, let's talk about her marriage and the aforementioned goofball. Interestingly, I'm pretty sure this is the first Disney marriage with the husband younger than the wife, if only a little. Now, I've read a lot about how the triplets don't look their age, but honestly? Julieta has grey streaks in her hair, mild wrinkles on the forehead and under the eyes and a bit deepened nasolabial folds; she looks aged enough. A tiny bit more so than Agustín (as if he would mind; that man adores everything about her). She is fifty years old, she just also happens to be gorgeous. (Yeah, yeah, I'm being preachy here, but I'm a firm opponent of the notion that a woman can only be attractive until the age of forty at best.) Someone pointed out in a post that Julieta resembles her father a lot, and she does, and it's making me soft.

I also like that she has that subtle sass going on in her interactions with Agustín. How she's just, "beestings? Again? Okay, here, love, have a healing snack..." Openly exasperated, but not in a pissy or uncomfortable kind of way, just a thing she deals with on a daily basis, y'know.

Agustín has my genuine sympathies. Imagine being allergic to bees and having a daughter that makes flowers grow wherever she goes. Shame that, aside from Mirabel, we don't see him in many scenes with his kids in the movie - although he does run after a crying Luisa trying to calm her down, so there's that. But just the way he basically gets heart eyes whenever he's with his wife, that combined with his overall clumsiness and good-natured attitude; I like to think he's an awesome dad. And his daughter inherited his visual impairment. Go, glasses!

I also think he might be a reason why Mirabel isn't really bitter, per se. She's hurting, true, and she does feel excluded at times, but she also obviously loves her family and enjoys life, and she sees herself as having an inherent value as a person that she defends toward Abuela because her father who can't walk down a street without tripping over something (with bees in it) doesn't have a magic spark in his entire lanky body, and he's, like, the best. ...okay, so I might have been on board with Agustín a little easier than with Julieta. Hey, I'm only human, and he makes dorky faces. And the huge cat loves him. And he plays piano; imagine the music nights with the kids. Got your party pants on, anyone? And all those little stories out there how he met and fell (lame pun intended) for Julieta, I love them. Knowing that he was not Alma's first choice for her daughter, I wonder if they had it difficult to marry and get him accepted in the house - and if perhaps that still sours his relationship to Alma and plays into that angry "I was thinking of my daughter!" scene. He does that with Julieta by his side. They're such a good team. Anyway.

I think the reason I can get so much into their relationship, as well as that of Pepa and Félix, is that happy marriages are not actually much of a Disney staple. Or at least, visible, prominent happy marriages. The Disney rule is tragic orphan, single parent (who lost their spouse in a sufficiently tragic way, but Alma might just take the fucking cake with how raw and realistic her loss was), or the parents only feature in their role as, well, parents (hello, passive Disney mom) and so we rarely see how they are with each other. Maybe Disney finally watched Brave and took a page out of Pixar's book about Fergus and Elinor. Like, this dynamic of a competent, clever woman and that "I fucking love my wife" guy? That's great. I'll have more of that, please.

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