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Bruno Madrigal and José Guzmán had grown up together; sometimes they were friends, most times they were rivals, but they always knew their places as the respective only and eldest sons of two prominent families. One day, prompted by a vision of the future, José left the Encanto to become a priest. His return some thirty years later with a fresh group of refugees stirs feelings both long forgotten and never before considered.
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- Part 1 of Apocrypha
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Antonio is helpful. José is indulgent. Bruno wants to get this over with. The rats were told there would be snacks.
Prompted by RamblesandDragons.
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When Pepa experiences her first heartbreak at seventeen, Bruno comes up with a plan for revenge. As he ropes Julieta in to help pull it off, she faces a dilemma: maintain the integrity of the Miracle, or aid her sister in her hour of need?
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Pepa's nerves are shot while she's pregnant with Antonio. This gives the rest of the kids a reason to make themselves scarce from Casita, spend time with their other families, and dig up dirt on their parents, Abuela, and that guy they can't talk about. Shenanigans ensue.
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- Part 6 of The Madrigal In-Laws
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...they kissed on the corner of A1A and 21st streets, and Bruno was so happy and so distracted that for a moment he forgot he wasn’t just a guy out on a date with his gorgeous man. He didn’t notice the woman with the camera on the opposite corner.
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- Part 2 of Seda's Madrgaydays
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Bruno had spent most of his life not caring about sex, or relationships, or things related to either, but with a new relationship comes a few new discoveries.
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- Part 1 of Seda's Madrgaydays
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Pepa gets a note from Antonio's teacher. Bruno has some explaining to do. Theology ensues.
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Growing up in the close-knit community of the Encanto, Bruno Madrigal is many things to many people: a dutiful and difficult son, a loyal, irritating brother, a shining star, a lurking menace, a dear friend, a familiar mystery, and an object of scorn. Shouldering the burden of all these contradictory roles, he struggles to find his place in both the town and his family.
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- Part 5 of The Madrigal In-Laws
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“I sleep down here sometimes,” Isabela confessed.
Bubo rocked side to side, experimenting, and the whole lily pad swayed. “Seems like it would be comfortable, until you roll off it.”
“I’m a very sound sleeper.”
“Like Snow White?” Bubo wiggled her eyebrows. “Gotta be woken up with a kiss?”
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- Part 3 of Apocrypha
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“Don’t you think girls are pretty?”
"Of course I do. But I- Pepa, I don’t want to kiss any of them.”
Color rose in her cheeks, and a few nervous raindrops pattered down. A miniature, startling squall. “Wh-why not?”
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Pepa realizes there is something different about her, then figures out that "different" does not mean "wrong", and over time passes the lesson on.
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When the miracle's twentieth anniversary ends in violence, Félix does his best to smooth things over and make sense of it all. A visit with an old friend leaves him with the usual "more questions than answers".
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- Part 7 of The Madrigal In-Laws
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They don't have Gifts, they don't have a miracle, and they definitely don't have a house, but Camilo soon figures out one thing that can pull his family together: the fact that they're all storytellers at heart.
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Five times Bruno got squeezed too hard...and one time he didn't mind it.
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Singular moments can lead to tremendous changes. A collection of drabbles inspired by the Encantober prompt list, following the Madrigals through time...and sometimes across universes.
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A new group of refugees has arrived in the Encanto, and Isabela has decided to keep an eye on them. Turns out, one of them already has eyes on her.
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- Part 2 of Apocrypha
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“Mamá is always telling us we need to manifest what we want in the world, and I think you need to manifest getting this part.”
“...that’s really sweet, kid, but this kind of stuff doesn’t really, y’know, work.”
“Not with that attitude it doesn’t!"
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Everyone in the Madrigal family is famous, but historically Bruno has been notorious for all the wrong reasons. When a chance to revitalize his career presents itself, Mirabel encourages him to take it.
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She continued to be attentive, to smile, to nurture, to hold everyone close and assure them that everything would be alright and they would be stronger for this, but with each passing day it became harder to believe it herself.
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After the death of the Miracle, Julieta realizes she is angry. Her brother makes an easy - but also very complicated - target for that emotion.
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For how many years did she long for this, for her house filled with her family? Why was it only happening now, why had it been so much to ask for before?
“What…” she rasps around the tightness in her throat. “Wh- what did…I do wrong?”
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The death and life of Agustín's mother.
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- Part 4 of The Madrigal In-Laws
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If she could help it, there would never be a union between the Guzmáns and… la familia Madrigal. No. Absolutely not.
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Mariano's abuela has so many judgey opinions about so, so many people.
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- Part 3 of The Madrigal In-Laws
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He was not the last man to take Alma’s hand and assure her that he did not wish to supplant her late husband, nor her place in the Encanto, he just wanted to help carry the burden, help her raise her children. He was, however, the first to accept her refusal with grace and step aside with nothing but fondness in his heart.
Maybe that’s why his sobrino had such luck courting one of the Madrigal daughters all those years later.
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Forty-ish years of a miracle through the eyes of Félix's uncle.
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- Part 2 of The Madrigal In-Laws