Y’all know how Alma calls Bruno “Brunito” at the end? I know it’s supposed to just be her calling him an affectionate nickname (pretty sure she calls Antonio “Toñito” earlier, so it’s probably just an abuela thing), just a sweet little thing to show she’s welcoming him back into the family and trying to be kinder with them all, but I just realized something
Bruno was specifically named “Bruno” by the writers because it ends in “No” — in WDTAB, when the cast sings “Bruno, no, no, no,” you get the sense that Bruno heard a lot of “Bruno NO!” over the years. It’s to show he’s been shut down, essentially
When Alma calls him “Brunito,” the no is gone
adding -ito to the end of a noun in spanish is kinda like calling something little (usually referring to children, like how baby chicks are called pollitos) so the fact that she calls him Brunito reflects how she is beginning to treat him like a son instead of a villain
