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[Intro] My mom Julieta, here's her deal
WHO: Julieta Madrigal and you!
WHERE: The Labyrinth and then all over
WHEN: February 13th
WHAT: Mamá Julieta has come to join the Madrigal arrival
WARNINGS: None at this time
A: She can heal you with a meal [Labyrinth]
B. 001 Video; UN: Beekeeper
- and I just press this button here? [Someone with her mentions that she's already recording and Julieta smiles.] Gracias, no no, thank you for showing me how to use this. Please enjoy the aborrajados, eat eat. This won't take me long.
[Finally Julieta turns to look at the camera.]
¡Hola! My name is Julieta Madrigal, I am new to this city. [... Some... how. No one has answers on that yet.] Por favor I am looking for my family.
We are a very big family, so listing them all may take a while, so if you just happen to know someone with the last name Madrigal, and point me in their direction, or them to mine, I would be very grateful.
[The person with Julieta asks if she has anymore and Julieta pulls another bit of food from her pocket, handing it to them.] Of course of course, eat eat.
WHERE: The Labyrinth and then all over
WHEN: February 13th
WHAT: Mamá Julieta has come to join the Madrigal arrival
WARNINGS: None at this time
A: She can heal you with a meal [Labyrinth]
When Julieta wakes up, she looks around at the absolutely massive kitchen she suddenly found herself in, her mortar and pestle next to her head, and she was sitting on a stool. No wonder she was so uncomfortable! However, as sleep left her mind more and more, she realized several things very quickly.
This is not her kitchen.
This is not Casita.
Her family is not here.
Is she still dreaming? She pinches herself and then winces.
She takes a deep breath trying to calm down. She takes a few more to be sure. Alright, time to think Julieta. She begins pacing in the giant kitchen. She is in a kitchen, not only is she in a kitchen but there are enough supplies to feed the entire Encanto. She had her mortar and pestle, and her apron and dress, which is not what she went to bed in, to be sure.
Julieta examined all the instruments in the kitchen, this was... not a traditional kitchen. Pots, pans, those were the same sure, but the whole thing was incredibly impersonal, stainless steel everywhere.
... Alright, she couldn't resist liking the oven.
She examined everything, opening all the doors and discovering she now quite liked the size of the refrigerator as well.
Maybe this was a dream! DOUBLE ovens with stovetops! Aaaah not a dream, heaven!
Still, she needed to figure out what to do. After examining everything, she found a door. Rather than it opening it up to a building, she immediately was faced with a long corridor going off in either direction.
She tapped her lips in thought, closing her eyes. Alright, she had food, she had water, the sinks were working, she checked. So she could make a plan if this took several days. The first rule of being lost was to stay put.
Were there others in this place? Were there wild animals? Maybe monsters or spirits? Her fingers tapped along her lips as she kept thinking. She then snapped her fingers, a plan in mind. At the very least, she should have something ready if she got hurt or found someone who was. Plus, she couldn't leave the room to venture out without food. She had no idea what was out there.
Grabbing a sack of flour, she propped open the door to the kitchen and got to work cooking, she had already categorized what food she recognized and what she didn't. She'd save the food she didn't know for last for rations if needed. Plus, she would need to actually cook something for her Gift to work. She chose recipes that would yield a lot of results with few ingredients. Arepas were the obvious choice.
Julieta rolled up her sleeves and washed her hands to get to work.
Soon, smells of food filled the air and Julieta was glancing at the door every now and then. She didn't know if she would attract help or harm, she glanced over at the frying pans and knives she had at the ready. She wasn't even sure this would attract any company at all, but she would give it a day or two before she even ventured out into the labyrinth. And she'd have cooked food that could heal her if needed. She heard footsteps and moved to slicing vegetables so she could have a knife in hand, not that she knew how to use it for anything OTHER than cooking but she didn't know who just walked in. She kept her back turned for the moment, trying to stay calm and casual.
"¡Hola! You're just in time, the food is almost ready, here come in, come in."
B. 001 Video; UN: Beekeeper
- and I just press this button here? [Someone with her mentions that she's already recording and Julieta smiles.] Gracias, no no, thank you for showing me how to use this. Please enjoy the aborrajados, eat eat. This won't take me long.
[Finally Julieta turns to look at the camera.]
¡Hola! My name is Julieta Madrigal, I am new to this city. [... Some... how. No one has answers on that yet.] Por favor I am looking for my family.
We are a very big family, so listing them all may take a while, so if you just happen to know someone with the last name Madrigal, and point me in their direction, or them to mine, I would be very grateful.
[The person with Julieta asks if she has anymore and Julieta pulls another bit of food from her pocket, handing it to them.] Of course of course, eat eat.
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¿Qué? A net and electric mice? [Even for Bruno that's... an odd one. Maybe he's dipped too much into his telenovelas?]
Did... this electric mouse vision come true?
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[It’s a little scary to think about.]
It did come true but it ended up being more of a squirrel than a mouse….
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Did that mean... could that mean... papá could come here, of all things? She has to talk to Bruno, she has to ask him. She focuses on everything else for now.]
... Mirabel, did this... electric mouse, did it hurt you? Do we need to set out mouse traps?
[The catch and release kind, Bruno would never forgive her for hurting his rats.]
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[It's... kind of uncomfortable to think about. How it just scooped up the majority of her family and dropped them here with weakened Gifts. How it can bring back the dead. How it can...
Well, she can think about it all she wants, but it won't really change anything. They still don't know how it works.]
Ahhh... it gave me a little bit of a zap? [She's downplaying it, she's not gonna worry her mom.] But they're staying in a different world than ours, so we don't really have to worry about them here in the city? Zodiac wanted us to go investigate these strange creatures with magical abilities, and the electric mouse was one of them.
[That reminds her!]
Oh, and mamá! We were allowed to bring one of these creatures back with us? I found a black sheep [... get it], and Tio Bruno found a purple rat!
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[Julieta rolls her eyes because of COURSE her brother found some sort of weird magical rat. There could be one rat left in all of the existence of the galaxy and Bruno would not only find it but befriend it. She shakes her head.]
Well, that's wonderful you have a pet sheep now, Mira! We'll have to look into what this sort of sheep needs for food in case it is different than a regular sheep. Do you think we will have to shear it for springtime? [She's never sheared a sheep before, she might need all hands on deck for that one.] Maybe I'll find a creature for myself too, yes?
[Although, Julieta's mind was merely thinking about how Bruno and his rats, Mirabel and her sheep are now more mouths to feed, potentially UNIQUE mouths to feed if they're from another world.]
Maybe I'll go with you next time to explore this world, yeah?
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I didn't really think about springtime... maybe I could use her wool to make something!
[She's a little concerned about taking her into the Pokemon world, especially since that squirrel incident went... pretty badly. BUT she's learned from it, she'd make sure her mom doesn't get hurt.]
I could take you! Since you know, I'm already pretty experienced...
[In getting electrocuted that is.]
To Action?
Who knows how long we'll be here, mija. And if we have a surplus of wool, maybe we can even sell it. [Now that they need to make, you know, actual money.]
Ay! Mi corazon, I think I see you! [Julieta waves her arm in the air and stands up. She's not hard to miss in all blue like she is.]
Action!
[She sees her! Mirabel puts her device away, and breaks into a run. It's supposed to be a touching reunion, really it is - but Mirabel trips halfway there and faceplants on the floor before she can quite reach her mother to give her a hug.]
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[She gets up, thanks the person she was with who had been sitting at the other table in helping her use the device before she ran over to Mirabel, wrapping her arms tight around her.]
Mira! I'm so glad you're okay!
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Mamá! I'm glad you're okay too! Were you in a maze before...?
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Luisa got me out. I only wish I could have saved some more of the supplies in the kitchen I was in, it'd have lasted us months.
[She soothed, trying to make light of the situation.]
I wanted to get some coffee to help me focus and maybe learn a bit more about this place. [Cafes were ALWAYS the place to go for town gossip.]
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[She remembers Luisa's maze. Her own didn't have monsters in it, but the fact that they can is a little alarming.]
What did you find out so far?
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[She smiled as she held up the device.]
Well, I learned how to use this thing. And I have found out these poor souls are dealing with some of the weakest coffee I have ever tasted. [Julieta will never cease dragging Starbucks.]
I have learned that there are a number of the family here. Bruno, you, and Dolores seemed to be here first and then your sisters and I quickly followed.
I have also learned that we are in the United States about 70 years or so into the future.