Otherwise known as: who is the least likely to fight Casita? And why would they fight Casita?
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Julieta sneaks down the stairs, smiling. This is it! A solo adventure, void of her nosy siblings and overprotective mother! She is free to do whatever she wants!
As she reaches the doors, she hears tiles clicking behind her. She freezes and slowly turns around, eyes wide.
Casita taps its lowest stair, as if stomping its foot, waiting for an answer. Julieta gulps.
“Casita, please, you have to let me go. I promise I won’t use your furniture as a step stool for the next month if you let me out,” Julieta whispers.
Casita’s window sill squeaks. Oh? Is there a reason for the bribe?
“You’ll understand later, ok?” Julieta says. “Just let me through, please.” She reaches for the doorknob, only for the tiles underneath her to slide away from the door.
“Casita, no!” Julieta hisses. She makes for the door again, only for the boards on the lowest step to snatch her skirt. Growling, Julieta yanks her petticoats out of Casita’s grip and stomps over to the door, only for a wave of tiles to knock her off her feet and away from the door.
Julieta wails in frustration and stands up. “Alright, Casita, I admit it! I’m seeing a guy tonight! Agustín Rojas, the tailor’s dorky klutz of a son! I can’t help it, he’s so cute and so stupid and I want to take his face and smush into mine! Are you happy now, Casita?! The one chance I have at finding true love, and you’re ripping it out of my fingertips like taking candy from a baby!” She slams on the front doors. “Please, Casita, just let me see him!”
“Agustín Rojas? You’re the one he’s been talking about snogging all this time?!” a voice hisses. Julieta’s stomach drops and her blood runs cold. She slowly turns her head to see Pepa and Bruno peeking out from behind the bannister, sharing the same shocked look.
About five minutes later, Alma awakens to the sound of screaming as Julieta chases down her siblings, swinging her shoes. Casita simply watches in delight as the eldest rages at her siblings, half-begging, half-threatening to keep her love life a secret.
If Casita had a voice, it would be chuckling right now. It was starting to get a little boring inside her walls.
In the process of writing Mirabel’s Super Secret Adventure, I slowly realized that house was always going to come down. Like no matter what they did, unless they chose to continue the cycle, the house was always going to crumble. The whole idea is that the miracle, the village, the family dynamic, all of it, was based in Alma’s trauma; if the family moves past that trauma, they have to rebuild everything from the ground up.
I have no idea how I’d do it, but I kinda want to write a story where everybody does everything right, and Casita still falls. Isabela speaks up about not wanting to marry Mariano, Dolores steps in and mentions that she does, Luisa doesn’t overwork herself, Bruno advocates for himself instead of hiding in the walls, Mirabel doesn’t get side-lined, and Alma takes steps to acknowledge and work through her grief. And Casita still falls. Because it has to! If the family loves eachother, if Alma is going to heal, if they are going to work through their problems, Casita has to be torn down and rebuilt. They need that new foundation!
But again, no idea how this would work as a story. It’d probs just be a one shot. Actually, has anybody written this yet? If so, drop the link.
Summary: Bruno doesn’t make it out of the house in time to escape. The collapsing rubble around him feels somehow lighter than his mothers words.
“Bruno didn’t care about this family.”
Mirabel just wants to bring him home.
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Chapter 4 “Haunted” is out!
“The matriarch of the Madrigals had stood up at Mirabels call. She was in disbelief at her youngest granddaughters words, her son was alive! ‘For now’ a dark voice whispered to her, winding its way to the front of her mind. Dios, her little boy…”
Hey, Casita, I found out you only have one bathroom. How could such a big house only have one bathroom? Can't you make another one?
Come to think of it, that’s an excellent point? Why do we only have one bathroom in such a big house? What gives, Casita? Necesitamos más baños.
Technically, Casita can make more bathrooms if we like it, but we’d have to ask Abuela first since, after all, it’s her house.
Camilo: Okay then. Abuela?
Si, I heard... and the answer is no.
Camilo: (disappointed) But Abuela, I’m tired of cueing up every morning just to do my “business”.
Abuela Alma: Camilo, Mirabel, more bathrooms mean more frequent use of the water. We need to conserve whenever possible. Especially during the dry season and when Pepa cannot do anything about it. (I’m starting to see her limitations.) But if you don’t want to wait to do bathe or do your “business”, you could always go do it in the forest with the other animals.
Or could just come to my room. The animals do their “business” there all the time. It’s even got a waterfall we go swimming and bathing in... Probably shouldn’t have mentioned the bathing part out loud.
My room has a beach. Of course, nothing beats a nice, relaxing sand bath.
I know what you mean... Don’t ask how I know.
Don’t look at me. My “private shower” if just for me and Félix... Which reminds me... Félix!
(with bath supplies) I’m way ahead of you, mi vida.
>They both make gushy faces at each other.
Camilo: (grossing out and being sarcastic) Thanks for the mental picture, you two.
Y’all ever think about how Mirabel, in what she thought were her final moments, only called for Casita? Not her mother or father, who we were shown to adore and dote on her, not Alma or Camilo or even who she thinks in her Uncle a few feet ahead. Not even her sisters. Her house. Because Casita has always been there for Mirabel.
And she doesn’t call just once, she ONLY calls for Casita. But Casita doesn’t answer, it can’t. And she was going to fall, alone and abandoned by the one thing she thought would always have her back.
imagining what if Castle Oblivion’s Weirdness still stuck around after it was restored to the LOD so now there’s like. entire extra floors that were not there before. stairs spawn and disappear over night. ventus’ room moves from the left wing of the castle to the right. the wayfinders are confused as all fuck but sometimes when terra’s hungry the kitchen appears right next to his room, and whenever aqua wants to catch a breather the couch has mysteriously appeared behind her. an entire cat tree just spawned in the throne room for chirithy. thank god no one’s losing their memory but. it’s becoming harder not to believe the castle is alive somehow. influenced by those who were in Castle Oblivion’s walls, or maybe the spell that turned it to Oblivion in the first place. at least it wants to protect the inhabitants more than anything.