Miguel Rivera at Auradon Prep
Because I’m bad at coming up with titles but I had to call this something.
I like crossing over random things with Descendants, I guess. I did it with Encanto, and now I’m doing it to Coco.
Descendants officially takes place twenty years after the Disney movies.
But all the Disney movies? All of them took place at the same time? Maleficent was defeated and Jafar attempted his takeover and Frollo burnt Paris down and the Evil Queen tried to kill Snow White and Ariel married Eric and Cruella stole all those Dalmatian puppies - all of them within the same year or two? That’s a little unlikely, isn’t it?
So while many of them did take place then, some of them did not.
The events of Coco took place only a few years before Descendants. Miguel traveled to the Land of the Dead, returned, sparked his great-grandmother’s memory and cleared his great-great-grandfather’s name.
When Auradon found out about his adventure - maybe some magic users like the Fairy Godmother detected the magic on Dia de los Muertos or something - it was decided that he had to attend Auradon Prep (never mind how he felt about it) with others who had also had magical experiences. Or, in most cases, the children of those who had had magical experiences. He would learn how to cope with his past adventures….and what to do if it ever happened again.
So a couple of years after Coco - just about a year after the epilogue - Miguel, instead of starting high school in Santa Cecilia, traveled to Auradon City to attend Auradon Preparatory High School.
And….he ended up on the tourney team.
(I know, it’s not a very good picture. It’s the only one I could find of the tourney team member clearly displaying the name “Miguel” on his shirt.)
This is where I got this entire idea from - the existence of a kid on the tourney team named Miguel.
He also joins the school orchestra, and takes music class as an elective, where he excels. He’s already far beyond his grade level, beyond the next grade level too - a descendant of Hector Rivera who taught himself to play the guitar solely by secretly watching videos in his attic is going to be very talented at it.
He writes home letters for two-year-old baby Coco, who can’t even read, nearly every day, just like his great-great-grandfather did for his baby sister’s namesake.
At some point, Abel and Rosa decide to drive up to visit and surprise him.