#my apologies if i'm interpreting everything wrong but i kinda always assumed that was a blatant lie... 😐

[artekai]

I like how the wiki simply takes her word for it

#my apologies if i'm interpreting everything wrong but i kinda always assumed that was a blatant lie... 😐 #come on girl. you weren't born yesterday. you're like THE person people are thinking about when they say gaslight gatekeep girlboss. #who are you fooling girl. please tell me you never believed for one second that far zenith were working class heroes 😭 #not that i think she was lying about pursuing elisabet's dream mind you. #i just have to wonder what her perfect world looks like... for someone who's so controlling and a perfectionist... #i miss my takuto cryo sleep au :/ #i love to make those two interact bc i genuinely believe they could talk for hours on end about their perfect worlds #and not realize that they have two very different things in mind until it's too late lmao #unfortunately it's pretty hard to work on stuff when you hate everything you write so. oh well! #i guess i'll just continue going insane talking to myself alone on main #ramble

[acewithapaintbrush]

I'm always amazed when people insist "We don't talk about Bruno" means that Pepa still holds a grudge and resents her brother over 20 years after her wedding, because… I didn't interpret the scene like that at all!

Mirabel is asking about her Tio, the man who is apparently to blame for everything that ever went wrong. Ever!

And so Pepa tells her about her brother Bruno and about that one single instance where he messed up for Pepa herself. That's really all it is.

I'm a firm believer that Pepa didn't talk or "talked bad" about her brother, because it hurt too much otherwise. Anger is easier than grief. But did you see her when Bruno came back? No anger there! She just pressed her hand over her chest and tried not to cry. And then that hug! Man that hug, that lift-him-off-his-feet hug! Is that the reaction of someone who still resents her brother for a wedding that happened over 20 years ago?

And that's the only instance she can recall for Mirabel, isn't it? An incident over 20 years ago. Doesn't that mean, that it's the only one, maybe? Sure, her wedding was a big deal, but like Felix said, it was still "a joyous day"

Bruno kinda apologizes for that in the end, but what he actually does, is explain what happened, that it was just a stupid joke at the wrong place at the wrong time. Maybe he never told her that part back then and only generally apologized for "ruining her day" and she'd just assumed, all these years, that it had been a prophecy. But I don't think she still holds a grudge. I really just think that it was the first thing that came to mind when Mirabel wanted to know about his reputation (she asks them what happens if he saw something about "you", remember?). Of course she remembers the incident of her wedding, one of the biggest days of her life.

Doesn't mean she spent 20 years hating him because of that one day. I can actually imagine them teasing each other about this later. I talk from experience. My brother (while we were playing Asterix and Obelix, don't ask) once pulled me over the rug by my ankles through the entire apartment and my whole back was raw flesh afterwards (friction, baby!) and that was a HUGE deal back then (my mother didn't leave us alone at home for months, one of us always had to accompany her when she went grocery shopping or something) and very painful for me.

Do I still resent him because of that today? No.

Do I mention it at least once every two months to annoy him and is it the first story I tell his girlfriends upon meeting them to see him squirm? Like any little brat of a sister should? Hell yeah!

Sorry for the rant. It just always baffles me and I wanted to get my thoughts out there.

#pepa madrigal #encanto #bruno madrigal #encanto headcanons #pepa my beloved #bruno my beloved #we don't talk about bruno #But we should talk about Pepa #And how you should leave her alone #She's done nothing wrong #Btw that wasn't even the worst my brother and me have done while home alone #He still insists I was cheering him on #Yeah right #As if #My back didn't have skin anymore cheering you on my a**