#so dolores learns to listen for her name and relay messages & isa learns to grow one pretty flower and practices growing it as best she can

[cariocake]

raising a bunch of super powered children is hard enough and I know alma is like a layered character with a lot of different reasons for why she does things but I think making sure her kids were "useful" was just a way to idk manage their abilities at first

like just solely focusing on getting pepa to practice being sunny instead of exploring the full extent of her abilities bc she still had to take care of bruno and julieta and the whole village and she didn't have time to figure out how big an area Pepa could affect or what types of weather she could do or if she could maintain multiple different forecasts across a large area

it was confirmed on Twitter that bruno's little ritual is just how he centers himself when he's looking into the future back to back and he was probably just taught to identify something and hand the vision over and move onto the next person in line which of course isn't a healthy thing to put a child through but alma didn't have any time to practice bruno's vision or find out how far into the future he could see so he just focused on finding one thing and moving onto the next person

once julieta's gift was finally determined she definitely got a little more attention than her siblings bc having someone that can magically heal anything in the new town you're building is probably very useful, but alma still probably just practiced some toddler safe recipes with her for awhile bc she was FIVE and then julieta learned the rest of her recipes and herb knowledge from the chefs and botanists in the village

#and then the first set of grandkids come along snd theyve already settled into this routine at this point #so dolores learns to listen for her name and relay messages & isa learns to grow one pretty flower and practices growing it as best she can #luisa lifts whatever anyone needs and no one bothers to see if theres a limit to what she can do bc they just assume so she keeps trying #camilo's gift is hard to put a use to #but he probably spends a lot of time studying people of different shapes and sizes and practices how they move themselves so he can adjust #and then theres poor mirabel who was born into a family that only knows how to identify one trait and base everything off of it #and her defining trait just has to be not having one #encanto #disney #camilo madrigal #disney encanto #bruno madrigal #encanto spoilers #pepa madrigal #mirabel madrigal #isabela madrigal #dolores madrigal #julieta madrigal #luisa madrigal