#imelda rivera

[vehrabells]

Silly thing I made<3 I’m so back I missed this fandom so much:(

[dazeddoodles]

Turning Red fanart since it's in theaters

[whaleiumsharkspeare]

Male characters taking off their hats while in the presence of a lady, my beloved

[mirrorofliterature]

imelda rivera is an impeccable, dynamic character

our introduction to her is her reacting to her husband's disappearance, in early 1920s mexico, by starting her own shoe business with a young daughter

she loves fiercely. she is so traumatised by her husband's disappearance (which she thinks is abandonment) that she bans all music. yet she does an amazing job raising coco. elena loves her fiercely.

she is stubborn. she is WRONG, serving as an antagonistic force in the first half of the movie, a misdirect from the true villain. she is stuck in her ways, mired in hurt. and yet once she learns the truth and sings again and reunites with her husband she changes. literally overnight. she loves, she fights, she overcomes.

who could ever hate my flawed queen? her character development is delicious. her romance is tragic. widowed but thinking she was scorned.

'and that's for murdering the love of my life!'

'I'm the love of your life?'

'I don't know, I'm still angry at you!'

she has so many feelings. she is competent. her spirit guide is PEPITA. she intimidates everyone.

but oh, how imelda rivera loves her family. she listens. she grows. she heals.

imelda <3

[magicalmadrigals]

SHUT UP, I GET TO SEE HAPPILY MARRIED IMELDA AND HECTOR WITH THEIR GIRL 😭

[imeldaesthetic]

I know we have to wait another 4 years for this movie to actually premiere, but we’re getting Imelda and Héctor happily married and back with their little girl and you have no idea how happy that makes me 😭🤍

[shrinkthisviolet]

Elena is such an interesting character to me. She’s so strict about the music ban, and one of my besties mentioned that she’s likely even more strict about it than Imelda probably was. I was inclined to disagree, but…the more I think about it, the more I actually agree.

Because here’s the thing, right: Imelda believed Hector abandoned them and never came back, and she associated music with him, and that hurt so badly that she banned music forever. But she also loves music! This is canon! Even in the movie, she talks about her (allegedly former) love of music with such passion, she sings La Llorona with so much heart and emotion. She loves music, even after Hector leaves—part of her pain comes from the fact that she loves music, and she hates that she does, because she associates it with Hector, who hurt her. It’s complicated! imo she wouldn’t snap at those who played music, she’d just hide away from it (though she would 100% snap at anyone who played Ernesto’s music, recognizing it as a bastardized version of Hector’s…which would strengthen her belief even more that he sold his soul to music and abandoned her metaphorically, not just literally). It’s Hector she hates for decades, and though she tries to hate music, I don’t think she ever really succeeds.

Coco would go along with the ban, because ofc she’s also hurt, and angry for herself and her mamá. But she also still loves her papá, and she loves music, and she still deep down believes he will come home and fix everything (even in the movie, dementia-ailed Coco keeps calling out for her papá, and she still has his letters 🥺 she is defined by her love for/faith in her papá), so I don’t think she was strict about the ban or as invested in it as Imelda or Elena.

And Elena…well. She’s Imelda’s granddaughter, she’s Coco’s daughter. She’s the first person (other than Julio) to learn about Hector without ever meeting him. The story that Miguel tells about Hector, Imelda, and Coco in the beginning of the movie? That is the story that Elena tells, possibly even the one she heard growing up. It’s not entirely true, but it’s the story of a woman who saw her mother and grandmother’s pain and dedicated herself to the music ban to avenge their pain. She couldn’t go after her grandfather, after all, so enforcing the ban is the next best thing. That’s why she’s so strict and fierce about it, that’s (part of) why she smashes Ernesto’s guitar.

Not enough people talk about Elena Rivera, and that is a mf SHAME

[secondary-colorentimy]

some disneys i doodled in between commission stuff :3