au where the madrigals from encanto are mermaids
The Madrigals would be Amazon River Dolphin mermaids 🐬 💗 ! Keeping with the whole Colombian setting 🇨🇴 🧜♀️ 🧜♂️ . Also known as the boto.
In Amazonian folklore, boto dolphins are highly revered and thought to have magical powers. What better animal to represent the Madrigals. Also just like the Madrigals, Botos have been known to help people (by herding fish into nets or leading fishermen to fish). So in that vein the Mer-Madrigals would regularly help humans , as well as other merfolk. All while living in the secret underwater city known as Encante
While they’d still have their same gifts from the movie, Camilo could be the only one who can shapeshift into a human . He’d disguise himself as a human to either help human villages or cause mischief. Mer!Camilo is basically like a boto encantado
Like Bruno, legend says the boto can also give you terrible visions, mostly nightmares. So Mer!Bruno can not only see horrible visions, but make other people see horrible visions too. Not doing any favors for his social life.
Instead of a magic candle , their gift is stored in a magic lotus. If the lotus dies they lose their gift.
As for the in-laws…
Felix could be a manatee:
Agustin can be an arapaima:
That’s all I got for now 🙂!