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So, any headcanons on what happens when each of the madrigals get sick? Maybe weakened/out of control powers?

I think it varies depending on the familt member.

For Julieta, Luisa, and Antonio their gifts start just, cutting off. If she's trying to heal someone when she's sick Julieta's food has a 50/50 chance of not working, and Antonio will occasionally find himself unable to understand his animals. Luisa will go through much the same as she did in the movie where her powers are fine one second and then the next she can't lift a potted plant.

For Camilo, Isabela, and Dolores they can't control their gifts and said gifts get a bit wonky. Camilo will unconsciously shapeshift with every cough or sneeze, Isabela keeps having sneezing fits that leave the house covered in all kinds of dangerous and prickly plants, and Dolores will have random periods of time where her hearing is cranked way up and she's unable to do anything about it.

And then Bruno and Pepa just have their powers work overtime. Bruno gets vision after vision of all sorts of things, and most of the time it's of stuff fr centuries in the future and he can't do anything to stop it. When she's sick Pepa causes a sort of permanant storm and the weather gets way stronger and more "crazy". Like, she'll cause a hurricane and then 2 seconds later its a blizzard and 2 seconds later there's a drought.

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Did you ever find out what book this image was from?

I’m not sure, but I believe @artofdisneyfairies is the one who initially posted the illustration on tumblr, so she might hve an idea where it came from!

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Building onto my last ask, how do you think all the madrigals react when they get sick? Also, do you think julieta’s cooking can heal something like the common cold?

I honestly would like to apologize in advance because this is- its really just a mash and mess of ideas? I'm writing this at like 3am and I'm not proofreading so,,, just a warning. English also isn't my,, 1st language so some things'll sound awkward?

Okay so like- first things first Julieta. In my mind her food can only heal like,,, natural injuries? If that makes sense? She can't heal disabilities or stuff you're born with, since there's nothing to "heal" there, but it would take away the pain for some time. And like, if it's serious enough like say,, appendicitis she can't heal that either. I would say she couldn't heal anything inside the body but broken bones are still okay so like?

Essentially no, pretty much. Stuff like flus and colds aren't affected by her cooking, though it would get rid of the worst of the symptoms for a few minutes. Honestly at this point I think i should make a mini?? Thing where I just explain how I think each Madrigal gift works? I have a lot of feelings and thoughts about them so like,, maybe thinking too much of it? I don't know. It's whatever

Anyway, Mira, Abuela, and the husbands aren't included because like- well, i dont have a real reason just,, they weren't included in my last post so they're not included here.

Julieta - Antonio - Bruno -> They're the like,,, tired type? Like they get sick and they're just so so tired, tired enough that it exhausts them to just get out of bed. They tend to sleep most of it off with like, the occasional time for a small snack or a sip of water

Pepa - Isa -> Like the- i guess- angry ones?? I dont- I dont know how to explain it but the ones who blame everyone else for getting them sick and they'll like,,, overexaggerate how bad their symptoms are and just bitch through the entire time they're sick

Dolores - She just kicks back and takes the opportunity to relax for once. She will try to sleep most of it off though, since the sneezing and coughing and blocked nose and stuff like that bothers her more than anything

Luisa - Camilo -> They don't like being sick and will like, refuse to acknowledge it. They still go out to try to help the town, despite the fact that their powers aren't working probably. It usually results in quite a few injuries (both on townspeople and them) and their family pretty much tying them to their beds to get them to rest

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For another question: what time period do you think Encanto takes place in? And P.S. I WOULD like to know Mirabel’s Abuela’s and the husbands reactions to being sick…though it’s completely up to you. It’s your blog, not mine. If you DO feel like doing it, you can do it on your own time. I won’t push it.

Gonna use this to answer the 2nd half! The first part is gonna be a seperate post I'll tag you for. I haven't written it yet (obviously since I just got the question lmao) but it is gonna be sorta long and rambly and most definitely veering off topic a few times. I just have a lot of thoughts

Mirabel and Abuela are much like Luisa and Camilo in which they'll still try to help, but for different reasons. Abuela still tries to help because she doesn't like staying in one place. She feels,,, bad? Wrong? When she stops. When she stops moving and helping her mind goes to when she and Pedro had to flee their home and his death and it forced her to actually acknowledge and face what she's been through and she hates it. Bc like, in my mind she throws herself into the encanto and all the work and trying to manage her family because she doesn't want to acknowledge what happened to her. And the moment she does she's going to break and she knows it. I figure when you're raising 3 kids on your own on top of building and managing a town it doesn't leave a lot of time for grieving.

Mirabel keeps trying to help because she's sorta just internalized the idea that if she's not helping to the best of her ability and more then she's useless. That she's doing something wrong if she's just "lazing around". Abuela did try her best with the family, and she went through a lot of shit, but she still messed her family - especially Mira - up bad. Because of all that, Mira has this idea that since she doesn't have a gift to fall back on or help "normally"? That to make up for that she has to help 24/7, no breaks.

Augustin tries to go about his day normally, but like 3 seconds atter waking up he sneezes and accidently throws himself over the balcony, breaking several bones and is instantly tied to his bed.

Félix doesn't get sick often, and when he is it typically isn't that bad, so he ususally just goes about his day doing the chores and the like. Though he does check out early to relax and rest.

This is like, more boring than the other one, but it was still fun. Maybe I like analyzing the characters of this disney movie just a smidgen too much lmao

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Also what do you think is the most common talent, if there is one? Both in the books and the movies?

It’s impossible to say definitively, because there’s no hint given in canon as to how many members are part of any individual talent. But I can just make a guess and explain my reasoning.

I have two ideas, depending on how you wanna parse talents.

If we consider kitchen talents as a whole group, and each other more specific variant under that umbrella as a sub-talent, I would guess that they have the highest number. The kitchen is bustling with fairies performing their work before, during and after every meal of the day, from prep to clean-up.

If all the talents involved count as kitchen talents, they might just be the most populous one in Pixie Hollow. But if we don’t wanna interpret it that way, then....

I’m gonna say dust talent! Within the books, the fairy-dust talents have a lot of work and I imagine it would take quite a lot of them. From the task of grinding feathers into dust, to delivering it...because there are a lot of fairies who need dust every day.

Dust talents aren’t fast-flyers or messengers, but they are the ones who hand-deliver each cup to each fairy. To get that done in good time through the morning, I imagine there would have to be plenty of dust talents to handle the job.

And in the movie universe: the way Terence reacts to Tink knowing his name in the first film is telling--he acts as if being “just a dust-keeper guy” is unremarkable, unmemorable, perhaps...common? Maybe they’re not generally seen as very important individually because there are a lot of them.

That’s just my guess, anyway, bye!!!!

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Random question, what do you think each of the main 8 (main 6 plus peri and zarina) are like when they’re sick?

Tinker Bell: When Tink gets sick, she goes through a whole denial period; she absolutely hates not being able to be productive, so if she starts feeling under the weather, she just powers through and pretends nothing is wrong. When she really can’t push through--potentially after her friends force her to relax and recover--she’ll take to resting among fluffy pillows and treating herself with lots of hot tea. Her symptoms tend toward fever and cough.

Silvermist: Sil thinks staying hydrated will cure everything and anything, and honestly she’s right. But she’s also sensible enough to take the advice and prescriptions of healing talents when she’s sick, so she’ll follow their directions for what to take or how best to rest. She’s prone to a runny nose and glassy eyes--she goes through so many leafkerchiefs tbh. And she’ll basically eat soup for every meal if she can manage it.

Iridessa: Iridessa doesn’t get sick very often because whenever she feels the slightest itch of a symptom coming on, she does everything in her power to prevent it and stay healthy. But when she can’t help an illness from getting her, she’s using every remedy to become healthy. For a while her attention isn’t on her talent work and keeping organized, but getting her body back in shape because she can’t do anything else to the best capacity if she’s not feeling 100%. When she has congestion, her voice gets all stuffy sounding and it’s adorable, but you can’t tell her that and you didn’t hear it from me.

Fawn: Fawn is usually the one who has so much energy and is very active no matter what, so when she’s indisposed and can’t be flying around playing games like usual, she’ll get very bored. It’s not the symptoms of being sick that bother her so much as the boredom, so she’ll usually bunk down with some animal friends who can’t catch her fairy illness and listen to stories and take naps until she gets well enough. Like, she goes into hibernation I guess.

Rosetta: Oh, Ro definitely hates being sick. She’s very concerned about appearances, so if she feels gross she won’t have any confidence, but anyone else would look at her with her rosy cheeks and these tiny, adorable sneezes into embroidered handkerchiefs, and be like “😮 how does she look gorgeous even now?” She doesn’t want to go out or be seen at all when she’s ill, but she also hates to miss social events so it’s a real conundrum. But otherwise she’s using all sorts of fancy home remedies and routines to make herself feel better.

Vidia: Vidia rarely gets sick, but when she does, she doesn’t want anyone else to know really, because she thinks it puts her in a state of weakness. She prides herself on being the best and fastest flyer, and it would damage her esteem if anyone were to catch her not at her best. So she’ll hole herself up for as long as she’s sick if she can, unless it gets really bad and she absolutely has to resort to going to the infirmary for treatment. Usually people don’t miss her when she “disappears” for days at a time because she doesn’t spend much time around other fairies to begin with. Prilla is probably the one who would notice and bring her something to feel better!

Periwinkle: A little bit similar to Tink, but on a lesser scale: Peri doesn’t like to put her work aside so she’ll try to ignore and push past when she starts getting sick. Mostly when it’s the winter fairies’ turn to bring the season in, she doesn’t want to have to leave her portion of work to the others, but she’s also easier to persuade that the faster she rests and gets better, the sooner she can be productive again. She has a quirk where she’ll accidentally make a burst of frost when she sneezes (think Elsa in Frozen Fever with the snowgies)

Zarina: Zarina being sick is a danger to herself and others. She pretty much has the notion that she can do anything she sets her mind to, so she’s not gonna let a little cold keep her from go-getting. The problem is that if she ever has a sneeze as a symptom, she can NOT work with pixie dust, so she has to take her talents elsewhere. Usually spending some time around other fairies, interviewing them or learning about their talents so she can work on her alchemy. Just picture her talking to a baking-talent fairy, being like “Okay, so tell me about how you plan the recipes for ea-AH-AHCHOO! ahem...for each day’s meals?” and they’re just like “👀”

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Also I LOVE the song that the music fairies played during the Queen’s Review. Do you have any idea who composed it or what song it is or what? I would love to hear a clean version.

The composer for the first film was Joel McNeely. You can buy the full soundtrack here, but I think the specific track your looking for is called “Tinkering” which you can listen to on @artofdisneyfairies‘s blog right here.

It starts when Tink is making her first inventions and then goes into the Queen’s Review scene!

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As you’re most likely aware, Tink and Periwinkle weren’t the ONLY (or first for that matter) set of siblings. There was also Sparkle, Helios, and Glory in “Fira and the Full Moon.” Would you mind doing an analysis on that? Like in the book verse, do they call triplets as fairies born on the same day or from the same laugh or what? Do they tend to be of the same talent or can they be different as evidenced in Secret of the Wings?

Also: what are your thoughts on fairy lifespans? I know they can be killed by stuff (like disbelief or hawks) but assuming nothing happens...can fairies live forever? Or can they die of old age like humans? Speaking of that, I personally headcanon that when a human says the forbidden words, the fairy that came from their first laugh is the one that starts fading. Also what do you think is the effect on a fairy’s body who starts dying from disbelief? Do they just fade into nothingness? How long does it take? I know it has to do with their “light going out” or glow fading. What about when Tink died in Return to Neverland?

Finally: a bit of a personal headcanon: I know that canonically, dust keepers don’t sneeze. However, I think that’s only partially true. They DEFINITELY don’t sneeze on the job (due to the precious nature of dust) or when they’re healthy. But when they’re sick, THAT’s when they do it. Not only does it give them an “oh no...” moment, but it lets them know EXACTLY what’s happening...plus it still stays MOSTLY true to canon. Speaking of sickness: my headcanons for Fluttering Flight and Fairy Flu are as follows: The former causes twitching wings/wing spasms, so that when the affected fairy tries to fly, they can’t control their flight pattern. And the latter is pretty much human flu, but it also deprives the fairy of his or her talent and ability to fly. Thoughts?

Okay, let me take these one at a time! Starting with fairy siblings.

Siblings are those fairies who arrive from the same laugh. It doesn’t matter if they were born on the same day if they’re from different laughs--then they just have the same arrival day, like two humans born on the same day who are otherwise unrelated.

The fairies at the arrival of the light talent triplets seemed surprised both that there were 3 in the set of siblings, and also that they all had the same talent. Fira considered it lucky, in fact, because the light talents were in need of some extra help at the time. (I have a headcanon about this that I’ll get into in a bit.) So this implies that fairies who come from the same laugh do not necessarily always have the same talent, or it would have been expected as soon as Helios and Glory arrived once Sparkle had announced her talent that they would have fallen into the same one.

There are a pair of music talent twins in the books as well, who are named Ariette and Lyra. I’m not sure of any other siblings within the series besides Tink and Peri, but to me the light triplets’ arrival was enough to demonstrate within the books universe that they don’t automatically have to have the same talent.

Also, within the movies, they play it out as though Tink and Peri are the only fairy sisters who have arrived in hundreds of years, because even Dewey the keeper of all fairy knowledge had only read about the sparkling wings rather than ever seeing it for himself. In the books the impression is that twins/triplets are uncommon (as they are in human life tbh) but not unheard of.

Back to my headcanon about the arrival coming at the perfect time. The same thing happened with Prilla--her talent was brand-new when she arrived in Never Land, and she came at just the right time to go on the quest which ended up saving the whole island, because she was able to blink to the mainland and get children to clap for their belief in fairies and Never Land.

It was “lucky” timing.

In the universe of the books, the island itself has some level of consciousness, and personality. It’s alive in a way--it has whims of its own. And at the beginning of the book, it was shown that the island could prevent entry to whoever it deemed unfitting. The laugh that became Prilla was trying to make her way into Fairy Haven, and the island had the ability to block her out, but decided to let her in.

So, what I mean to say is that Never Land CHOOSES which fairies can make it there, and when. And it specifically allows those that might come in handy real soon, like right about now, for whatever is going on or about to go on. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

That’s my headcanon.

I’ll answer the rest in separate posts and tag you so this doesn’t get too long!