#sonny in the heights

[whizzvin-welcome-here]

#I’m back #in the heights #robin de jesus #lin manuel miranda #tony awards #musical theatre #broadway #sonny in the heights

[jarmes]

Check out my newest video essay!

#in the heights #blackout in the heights #benny in the heights #sonny in the heights #lin manuel miranda #hamilton #video essay #politics #breadtube #looting

[ithcorrect]

sonny: while you were being heterosexual, i studied the blade

#ith #in the heights #in the heights incorrect quotes #sonny de la vega #sonny in the heights #mod spoop #source: tumblr

[lapseinart]

I do really liked Sonny’s plot line of being a DREAMer I will give them that

#lapse watched in the heights #sonny in the heights #daca #dreamers #in the heights movie #in the heights #ith

[itzmoss]

hi i just saw a professional production of in the heights

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OH MY GOD IT WAS FUCKING AMAZINF

im so normal i swear (lie)

sonny i love you, you have my soul, his actor was the silliest ever

also yolanda’s actor was amazingggg they were so pretty and just when they danced i was just 🧍💕‼️

#in the heights #in the heights sonny #sonny in the heights #sonny #yolanda in the heights #im normal i swear #im normal #sonny ith #sonny de la vega

[poemgender]

usnavi y sonny! en washington heights^__^

hiii ! i did a collab with a friend on instagram! their handle is : @prinnylostashoe !

it was really fun drawing sonny. they drew usnavi!

#in the heights #fanart #usnavi de la vega #in the heights art #lin manuel miranda #sonny de la vega #robin de jesus #in the heights obc #poemgender

[kornocreep]

Wes Borland interviewed on MusiquePlus ; 2006

#black light burns #from first to last #limp bizkit #emo #nu metal #wes borland #sonny moore #canada #french #“nope we're done” wes can you ever make up your mind? /hj #the height comparison between sonny and wes is so cute yet funny to me

[whenyourehome]

#in the heights #musicals #in the heights musical #musical theatre #usnavi de la vega #vanessa in the heights #sonny de la vega #benny in the heights

[samlover4evr]

can't stop thinking about the emo sam headcanon cuz truly this dude would love from first to last so much ... he would def copy Sonny's old look. the short black hair with red in it

#ok but would sam be going through his emo phase as a younger or older teen #if younger then sam was probably the same height as sonny in this image lmfao #5'4 😭😭😭 #god this headcanon is so good

[goddess-of-magic]

Sonny: I don’t always make great decisions under pressure

Usnavi: What the hell is that?!

Sonny: An alpaca! I got the last one

#in the heights #lin manuel miranda #usnavi de la vega #Usnavi #anthony ramos #sonny #sonny de la vega #robin de jesus #greg diaz iv #incorrect quotes #modern family quotes

[mimi-croissant]

BOOP they are silly

#my art #in the heights #sonny de la vega #graffiti pete #yayyy

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: Days pass, people come and go, the world keeps moving. For the residents of Washington Heights, however, sometimes that's a hard pill to swallow.

Author: byoomgothegunboi

Note from submitter: I read this when I was 11 and it changed me forever

#official fic poll #haveyoureadthisfic #pollblr #fanfiction #fanfic #tumblr polls #fandom culture #internet culture #fandom poll #Gotta Keep Moving #hamilton musical #hamilton the musical #in the heights #musical #Lams #bennina #Pete x Sonny #george x martha #adrilaf

[meowchickameow]

The Sonny profile is banging

#sonny ith #in the heights #ith #lin manuel miranda

[thisstableground]

Hi, I'm curious about something and you're like the one person I know who knows both characters so what would a meeting between Usnavi and Bruno be like? Just wondering

(this is broadway usnavi btw, i haven’t seen the movie)

okay! so, i actually think that bruno and usnavi have way more in common than you’d think just from a quck glance.

usnavi is clearly deeply loved by his community, whereas bruno is shunned by his, but (at least before usnavi’s character arc in the show) both of them feel on the outside of things. it’s probably not a coincidence that usnavi’s the only one breaking the fourth wall in ITH. he’s really no more the main character than, say, nina, but he is the one who chats with the audience directly, and i think that reflects the fact that he feels, like the audience, that he’s watching everyone else’s lives rather than participating himself. the world spins around while i'm frozen to my seat. and isn’t that so similar to bruno, sitting isolated in his room, watching visions of everyone else’s lives but never getting out himself, or putting on his rat plays in his space behind the wall? they both view themselves more in the role of narrator or observer, not a character with their own arc.

it’s obviously got a different vibe. i don’t think usnavi realises quite to what extent he’s loved by the people around him (he seems absolutely baffled by sonny and vanessa being upset about him leaving) but he definitely does not feel unloved. i think bruno also doesn’t realise how loved he is, but in his case he also has very good reasons to feel unloved, and is much less welcomed by the wider community (though perhaps when he was younger, this was different). and i definitely get the impression that usnavi’s relationship with his parents was an affectionate one, not a fraught one like bruno’s.

but there is that sense, for both of them, of having lost the thread of their individual identity under all the pressure of legacy and lost parents and their role and duty to their community. and both of them are stuck. they're living a life that isn't where they want it to be, there are things they want and relationships they crave but they can't move out of the place they're trapped in. there is also the sense that some part of is their own subconscious doing.

i always interpret usnavi’s as a result of anxiety that largely comes from losing his parents, a past that he can't change but wishes he could: what if he makes a wrong choice and something else bad happens, what if he loses someone else or loses his memory of his parents? better keep things exactly the same, to be safe. and bruno's as a result of seeing futures that he can't change but wishes he could, and what if he is cursed? what if he is the reason things go wrong? better knock on wood, hold your breath, spin in a circle, to be safe. when your life throws you a pain that you can't control, you create a routine that you can control, even if it eventually takes over and controls you.

usnavi's goal for a long time is to go back to the dominican republic, apparently, but until abuela claudia wins the lotto it really doesn’t look like he’s got any intention of taking steps towards that. and bruno is very similar - doesn’t actually manage to run away, because he’s too connected to his home and his family, but he doesn’t know how to change things so he just hides, stays the same, watches everything else grow and change without him. i’d bet that usnavi and bruno have had similar thoughts so many times of like “oh i’ll ask vanessa out, i'll sell the store, i'll move to DR. one day. probably. not yet.” and “i’ll talk to my sisters, i'll leave the encanto properly, i'll go outside. at some point. probably. not yet.”

and part of that pressure is external circumstances, but part of it is self-imposed, as a defense mechanism. if you lose yourself in your work or your duty to that extent, if you hide behind the things that are honest about it, then you always have an excuse to tell yourself for the rest. someone does always need coffee or a vision or a stable job or to be protected, that's true, so you can pretend that you're putting that big plan off because you're just too busy with all that other stuff, not because you're scared to do it. stay in the store. stay behind the walls. part of it is kindness, or duty, or practicality, yes. part of it is fear.

oh and speaking of abuelas! (though, again with a very different vibe depending who we're talking abut) i think both of them are very led by their love and respect for the respective maternal figures in their lives, but that this clouds their own desires/goals. claudia says to her own mama, "i spent my life inheriting dreams from you", and i think that without meaning to, the same happens with her and usnavi about moving to the dominican republic. as soon as it was him making the choice alone, he realised that it wasn’t what he wanted. i think there’s always some part of him that does want that a little, i doubt claudia picked that up from nothing, but it’s possible that she read usnavi's vague ideas of going to DR more strongly through her own experience of missing where her family came from, the part of her that regrets not going back to cuba, and didn’t recognise that the indecision probably meant part of usnavi felt it wasn't right for him.

and that’s so similar for alma, though it's much more harsh and hurtful in this instance: she parents her children and grandchildren based on her own history and regret and fear and wishes. she wants a safe place to hide, she wants outsiders not to find them or cause them harm: bruno lives up to that and then some when he goes into the walls. and he convinces himself it's the best choice for himself and for the family, but it isn’t. they probably don’t even realise that it’s something he learned from her example.

neither claudia nor alma mean any harm by this, they try their best, and they sacrifice for it: alma locks away her own grief and her trauma to build a whole community from the ground. claudia could use her lotto money to go back to la vibora after days into weeks into years away from home, but it’s puerto plata that they’re getting a plane ticket for, usnavi's island, not hers. they’re both misguided, their own pasts biasing their perception, but they do love their kids.

anyway!! you asked what it'd be like if they met, not for a list of things they have in common or for an extensive meta about abuelas. tough shit i guess you got that too.

so. i think that usnavi may see the similarities between himself and bruno, but he doesn’t strike me as the kind of person who dislikes people who he can see his own flaws/insecurities in. if anything it just makes him reach out to them more. i think he would want to help. he’s been scared and lonely and saddled with too much responsibility from too young an age and felt like he lost everything before, too, but he’s doing so much better now, and he'd want to extend that hope to anyone else who is struggling similarly. and what bruno needs more than anything is to be shown kindness and acceptance, both things that usnavi can very easily give. i also think usnavi has absolutely no concept of people being weird, he’s extroverted and makes friends easily but he’s not exactly Mr Social Cues himself. bruno could say the most absolute batshit thing you’ve ever heard and usnavi would just be like “lmao yeah i get u :)))"

bruno, on the other hand, probably would struggle to like someone who he felt was too much like himself, but i don’t think he’d see usnavi that way. someone who has struggles, fears, insecurities that bruno does relate to, but who unlike bruno is also bubbly and bouncy and chatty, and who is trying so, so hard all the time to be positive (even when it would be healthier to let themselves feel angry, or sad, or hurt, even when it's blatantly obvious that they are feeling those things), someone who helps other people when they're in the middle of their own crisis and who thinks of themselves as just a totally unremarkable, ordinary, nothing-special person because they don’t see the way that everyone gravitates towards their warmth and kindness. he’s not going to see himself in usnavi. he’s going to see mirabel.

they’d get along great.

#character: usnavi #character: bruno #fandom: in the heights #fandom: encanto #ended up just character analysis instead of what a meeting would be like sorry #the meeting would be a lot of coffee and conversations with 20 different tangents that neither of them are quite following #but theyre having a nice time. neurodivergent solidarity #usnavi would love the rat telenovelas #mirabel and usnavi would also get on so well #this does however increase the risk of sonny and camilo meeting and i think that would be hell for everyone else #edit: i just realised too that i think the way i characterise my versions of usnavi's parents #have kind of a julieta and agustín vibe #usnavi should hang out with the madrigals i think he'd have a lovely time

[i-have-boobs-so-dean-doesnt]

You cannot convince me that when Sonny came out to Usnavi and told him that he was dating Pete, Usnavi wasn't like: Oh no. Ew. And Sonny was so offended, and asked: What? are you homophobic? And Usnavi, the biggest ally just: No, i just FUCKING HATE THIS LITTLE PUNK.

#in the heights #gay #usnavi de la vega #graffiti pete #sonny de la vega

[pika-ace]

In case you still doing the AU Thingy.

Zorro AU with Usnavi as Alejandro, Vanessa as Elena and in the second movie Sonny as Joaquim. 🙏🙏🙏

Awwwww family of masked vigilantes fighting together X3c

And Usnavi being super nice and mild-mannered as himself but being secretly badass as a masked hero is something I didn't know I needed until now.

But OOF! Vanessa being blackmailed into breaking up with Usnavi in order to keep him safe and his identity from being revealed. She would do that to protect him, and probably because she knows Usnavi would've done the same for her...

Also Sonny would absolutely sneak away from a field trip and sneak onto the bad guy's cart to try and help. But at least he gets to ride a horse and divert the train track instead of being a hostage the whole time. Win some, lose some XD

#in the heights aus #legend of zorro #zorro #usnavi de la vega #sonny de la vega #vanessa garcia