[ It's definitely something that Luisa is still learning to come to grips with herself - having been almost trained, pretty much most of her life, to be useful. She knows her abuela meant well, but the whole family (or at least, the ones that are still here) were still trying to heal from the hurt that had been caused, intentionally or otherwise. And yet it was still difficult to think of blaming Alma, even if she did have to be held accountable for at least some of it. ]
Pretty much. She's head of the family, and raised her children on her own after Abuelo Pedro died.
[ The rest of the party disappears in the darkness, but Luisa can't help making a face as another memory starts to come to view. ]
I'm not sure if -
[ It's too late, though, as the memory starts to become clearer. And they soon see not just one, but several different memories, displayed against the darkness like visions that encircle around them. There are several of Luisa, at several different ages, going around and performing various feats of strength; as a younger child, there are images of her helping her mother, carrying a table to the spot in the plaza for Julieta's healing stall; another image of her helping her father carrying firewood; but there are so many images of people catching her in the street, asking her to pick up a heavy planter, or a person, or a donkey. These requests are mostly for amusement it seems, many people still finding it entertaining for such a young girl to be so strong, and it feels a lot more like Luisa is putting on a performance, like a show in a circus.
There are also some images of Luisa with other children her age, but some of them are arguing - a disagreement, it seems, about whose team Luisa would be on, since any team she joins would have an unfair disadvantage. Eventually Luisa offers to sit out of the game, and instead watches on the side as the rest of the children play and enjoy whatever game it is without her.
Several images show also Luisa with Alma; one image, still of Luisa as a fair bit younger, being scolded by the older woman for needing to be more careful after accidentally breaking the family's piano; another image, this time of Luisa a bit older, with Alma informing Luisa of how her strength may be needed to protect the entire Encanto, how she may need to fight; in contrast, another image of Alma telling Luisa that she must learn to control her gift in order to not accidentally hurt anyone.
And as the image of Luisa grows older, the requests from the people in town start getting a bit more difficult; asking Luisa to carry a heavy set of bricks, or to retrieve the donkeys that escaped, or to carry a wagon after its wheel had been broken. Eventually Luisa, as the young woman she is, can't take a few steps in town without being bombarded by requests: "Luisa, can you move the church?", "Luisa, the plaza needs to be retiled", "Luisa, can you reroute the river?", "Luisa, the donkeys got out again".
But no matter what age she's seen as, no matter what she's asked to do, Luisa agrees to it with a determined nod and a small smile. And when she returns home, sometimes very late in the evenings, it's only after reporting everything she's done that Alma grants a smile in her direction. ]
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[ It's definitely something that Luisa is still learning to come to grips with herself - having been almost trained, pretty much most of her life, to be useful. She knows her abuela meant well, but the whole family (or at least, the ones that are still here) were still trying to heal from the hurt that had been caused, intentionally or otherwise. And yet it was still difficult to think of blaming Alma, even if she did have to be held accountable for at least some of it. ]
Pretty much. She's head of the family, and raised her children on her own after Abuelo Pedro died.
[ The rest of the party disappears in the darkness, but Luisa can't help making a face as another memory starts to come to view. ]
I'm not sure if -
[ It's too late, though, as the memory starts to become clearer. And they soon see not just one, but several different memories, displayed against the darkness like visions that encircle around them. There are several of Luisa, at several different ages, going around and performing various feats of strength; as a younger child, there are images of her helping her mother, carrying a table to the spot in the plaza for Julieta's healing stall; another image of her helping her father carrying firewood; but there are so many images of people catching her in the street, asking her to pick up a heavy planter, or a person, or a donkey. These requests are mostly for amusement it seems, many people still finding it entertaining for such a young girl to be so strong, and it feels a lot more like Luisa is putting on a performance, like a show in a circus.
There are also some images of Luisa with other children her age, but some of them are arguing - a disagreement, it seems, about whose team Luisa would be on, since any team she joins would have an unfair disadvantage. Eventually Luisa offers to sit out of the game, and instead watches on the side as the rest of the children play and enjoy whatever game it is without her.
Several images show also Luisa with Alma; one image, still of Luisa as a fair bit younger, being scolded by the older woman for needing to be more careful after accidentally breaking the family's piano; another image, this time of Luisa a bit older, with Alma informing Luisa of how her strength may be needed to protect the entire Encanto, how she may need to fight; in contrast, another image of Alma telling Luisa that she must learn to control her gift in order to not accidentally hurt anyone.
And as the image of Luisa grows older, the requests from the people in town start getting a bit more difficult; asking Luisa to carry a heavy set of bricks, or to retrieve the donkeys that escaped, or to carry a wagon after its wheel had been broken. Eventually Luisa, as the young woman she is, can't take a few steps in town without being bombarded by requests: "Luisa, can you move the church?", "Luisa, the plaza needs to be retiled", "Luisa, can you reroute the river?", "Luisa, the donkeys got out again".
But no matter what age she's seen as, no matter what she's asked to do, Luisa agrees to it with a determined nod and a small smile. And when she returns home, sometimes very late in the evenings, it's only after reporting everything she's done that Alma grants a smile in her direction. ]