Do you think Maria's kids would use Uncle or Tio for Joel? Given their casting I think the Millers are meant to be Spanish in decent (Pedro's Chilean but Gabriel's Mexican I think?) so I'm curious as to what they'd go with culturally. Sarah said Uncle though.
i think they’d use both! at least that’s what i’ve personally imagined and written in some of my fics—i will say tho, i’m not bilingual nor do i speak spanish, so if someone with more cultural reference and authority for this would like to chime in, i’d take their word over mine!
i just personally think that in jackson, maria and the community would be encouraging the kids to learn as much as they can and pickup as many skills as they can, including speaking multiple languages. i think it’d be so so so cool for the school to have like little languages classes where jackson community members that speak something other than english teach classes to whoever wants to learn, from kids to adults
so from this line of thought, it’s my personal little headcanon that baby miller LOVES learning languages, loves listening and babbling and eventually saying new words. so maria and tommy and joel and ellie take turns taking ‘em to all the language classes they can, pretty much like 4 nights a week for years and years. by the time baby miller is five, they speak an impressive a bit english, spanish, french, portuguese, and tagalog. before they know it, they’ve unintentionally raised a little polygot!!!
so they’re really not just limited to using uncle and tío, but also calling maria and tommy and joel and ellie endearments and their family titles in every language they know
