#thank u opal and iris for feeding my brainworms.

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ok after seeing encanto with a couple friends one of them was like “if dolores could hear bruno the whole time and therefore probably knew about the vision i don’t understand why in the beginning she told mirabel that she was the only person worried about the magic” and my other friend pointed out how much of dolores’ character is about stepping aside and prioritizing what other people need (ex. letting isabela marry the man she loves bc it’s what’s “best for the family”), so she probably either knew that bruno was trying to protect mirabel or she knew that mirabel needed to discover what was going on for herself

and i thought that was a rly good insight but also answers a question i had been thinking about for a while, which was: if dolores was so bad at secret-keeping that as soon as she heard mirabel tell augustin about the vision she immediately spilled to the entire family... how the hell did she keep bruno a secret for ten years?? 

and i think obviously part of that is that she knew what bruno was trying to do and understood the need to keep secrets for the good of the family, but also part of it is that she’s not bad at secret-keeping--she just realized that she finally had PERMISSION to share pieces of a secret she’d been keeping for a decade. mirabel knew about the vision and had told augustin, it was all coming out, dolores wasn’t the only person who knew anymore and therefore she could finally let go of the Exhausting burden of having no one to talk to about it all. ofc she spilled the beans at first chance. that wasn’t her being bad at secret-keeping, it was her being so good at it that she was relieved it was finally coming out, and that it was coming out at no fault of her own! she could speak freely without having to feel guilty about betraying her family!

#thank u opal and iris for feeding my brainworms. #encanto #dolores madrigal #dolores encanto #madrigal family #encanto disney #encanto meta #n.txt