video, un: Mariposa

[nonmagical]

WHO: Mirabel and the network
WHERE: Casita's kitchen
WHEN: 5/1
WHAT: Butter No Jutsu
WARNINGS: Too much butter is bad for you

[It's an evening post with Mirabel! She... doesn't look very amused.]

So uh, I got one of those Furby things? It's long and it showed up in my room and scared me half to death. I've been getting a lot of stuff lately for no reason?? I got something called "Baja Blast" and it's a drink of some kind?

Also...

[She moves the camera. It's a tiny butter version of the Encanto! Like, shockingly accurate detail. There's even a tiny butter Casita! And townspeople! And the family! Look, once you find out you can magically make things out of butter you gotta see how far you can go with it okay.]

I can do this now? Uh... don't ask me how.

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Video: UN: BRUNO

[wedonttalkabout]

[LONG FUCKING PAUSE.]

Well. I'm glad to see you're...uh... expanding on your art, Mira? It's... a very realistic butter model. It must have taken you hours.

[Why are you like this, Mirabel. He feels he should add something encouraging here, hmm.]

...I'm proud of you?

Video: UN: Mariposa

[nonmagical]

[As much as she wants her uncle to be proud of her, this... isn't something she can really take credit for as an art project.

Also why is her whole family assuming that she would take a bunch of butter and make a tiny Encanto out of it...

It's because she's Mirabel isn't it.]

As much as I'd like to take credit for making this, it's um... the butter is magic? I can make magic butter things? Look at this.

[And poof! A butter version of one of Bruno's rats appears out of thin air on the table!

... This is the worst power.]

[wedonttalkabout]

...Well. That's sure a thing that just now happened.

[BUTTER. MAGIC.]

So. You've...got a gift now.

...

And it's butter.

[nonmagical]

[Mirabel just. Buries her face in her hands.]

I refuse this.

[Can she do that. Can she just refuse the Gift?? No>]

I mean... it's weird? It's weird! I shouldn't be able to do this!

[wedonttalkabout]

...Corazón, we don't get to do that. If we could do you think I'd still have mine?

[If it was that easy he would have ditched his when he was her age. Probably before that, honestly. ]

And seeing into the future or hearing everything or growing flowers isn't weird? It's just part of you, Mirabel- it doesn't make you weird. It's just... the Gift you got, is all.

[nonmagical]

[That’s… we’ll crap, he does have a point. In her teenage butter-related angst, it didn’t even register how much her uncle didn’t want his.]

Sorry, tío… that was insensitive of me.

[And he has a point. She knows she shouldn’t be unhappy about getting the one thing she’s always wanted but…

Well, she just imagined it being a bit different than this.]

I guess you can make a lot of things out of butter? Mami will never run out of it for her restaurant?

[wedonttalkabout]

[He waves a hand vaguely, a touch dismissive, in an I'm used to it sort of way.]

Don't worry about it, Mira. It's ok.

[He's fine. He's totally fine.]

Well, you don't have to look for a use for it, either. We're not supposed to be doing that anymore, remember?

[nonmagical]

[It’s not okay if her complaining ends up making him feel bad. He’s made it clear before he doesn’t like his Gift and the problems that came with it. It’s not like he picked it…

… it’s not like he picked it.

Like how she didn’t pick hers. Like how none of them did.

…….

Something inside her makes her want to laugh - she’s not exactly sure what kinda laugh. But it made sense, didn’t it? A weird Gift for the family weirdo, in a family that was just a little strange themselves.]

In a weird way, it’s kind of works for me, huh?

… Watch. I can make something really cool.

[With a little bit of concentration, a new, small butter statue appears.

It’s Bruno.]

[wedonttalkabout]

[See? She can just laugh about it and it'll be fine.

So long as it's healthy laughing.

Not the hysterical kind.

He leans forward to watch, his eyebrows raising as the Butter Bruno is brought into existence.]

Oh wow, look at that. A little Buttery Me. That's adorable!

[nonmagical]

[She sighs, deflating a little. The adults in her life are trying their damn best to be supportive, no one is calling her weird for it, but she just...]

It's... gonna take some getting used to, I think.

I had a whole list made up, the week before my Ceremony. Of what kind of Gift I would have - being able to fly, being incredibly fast... never would've guessed butter was an option.

[wedonttalkabout]

Well, there's always a learning curve with gifts. Your tía caused several snowstorms before she realised her gift was connected to her emotions.

[And he's not even going to talk about his own learning curve. Mostly because it's like a learning rollercoaster bend. ]

I don't think anyone would have guessed that. But hey, it's yours and you can do whatever you want with it.

[nonmagical]

Did she? I guess I'm glad that this isn't emotions-based... I think? That'd be way too much butter.

[It does seem to just will into existence if she thinks about it too hard, though. A buttery, thinking Mirabel poofs on the table just as she finishes that sentence... as if to prove a point.]

Ah yeah, it is mine now. I have no idea what I'll do with it, but it is mine now.

[An odd gift for an odd Madrigal.]

[wedonttalkabout]

That would be so much butter. You've got those...teenage emotions right now. It'd be so messy.

[LOOK, he remembers when he and his sisters were teenagers. It was a bad, bad time.]

Well, you don't have to figure out what to do with it right now- it's okay if you never do. You know that, right?

[Don't fall into the USEFUL trap, Mirabel!!]

[nonmagical]

I don't have that many teenage emotions.

[SHE'S HAVING TEENAGE EMOTIONS RIGHT NOW.]

I know - I know I don't have to use it. Or figure out what to do with it, I just...

["Make your family proud" has been her mantra for 10 years, it's hard to shake it that easily.]

... I guess I've got some some learning to do about what to do and not to do with a Gift now.

[wedonttalkabout]

...Oh, corazon, you're drowning in them.

[Mirbael you have SO MANY.]

You'll figure it out. Just do it at your own pace, and remember the only person who needs to like what you're doing with it is you.

[nonmagical]

[Nooooo she is a cool and mature teen!! She totally isn’t being completely swallowed by her 16-year-old feelings.]

Well, I know if I ever forgot that lesson, I’ve got you and the rest of the family to keep me in line.

I’ll try to find my way with my new Gift.

[Even if it is a silly Gift.]

[wedonttalkabout]

[Mirabel, you're still baby. ]

Exactly. Maybe we just...need to keep each other in line with it? Time to time?

[Between ALL OF THEM, they might work this out!!]

[nonmagical]

Yeah, I think... all of us together can keep each other in line.

You keep me in line with my new Gift, and I'll... do the same for the rest of you.

We'll figure this all out together.

[wedonttalkabout]

We sure can! We'll be able to work this out together. As a family. It'll be fine, Mira.

[nonmagical]

Yeah, we can do this. As a family.

We got this.

[Optimism!!]

And now I guess... we have butter?

[wedonttalkabout]

There you go!

[They're tyring their best!]

Sure! And now we have butter, and that's...well. You'll figure it out.