Encanto stories, AUs, and oneshots

Guardian AU

making a new AU, this one is where their gifts are like in the movie, but theres still monsters that try to enter encanto, less than in DBS, and Luisa secretly fights them, becomning Encantos Silent guardian.

There were a lot of words you could use to describe Luisa, her Abuela would say strong, Isa would say stubborn, her mama would say beautiful, her tia Pepa would say loud, Camilo would say serious, Dolores would say humble, and Mirabel would say sensitive.

a word that was certainly never used to describe Luisa was violent, she could be intimidating yes but Mirabel was sure she had never thrown a punch in her life, she'd been in between more than her fair share of bar fights but they resulted with bear hugs until the perpretrator calmed down, she had never lost her temper or really raised her voice often, she wasn't confrontational.

Luisa was gentle and sensitive, much more than people realized, but people often talked as if she weren't there within earshot, she just blended into the background of daily life, like right now she was moving the donkeys while senora Diaz was talking to senor Juan about Dolores, about how creepy her gift was, and she completely ignored the ten year old who could hear her quite clearly despite the donkeys pressed against her ears, and she frowned at the unkind words, Lola didn't want to hear them and intrude but she literally couldn't help it, and it didn't help that abuela often asked her to take time out of her day just to listen for people saying anything suspicious.

Lola heard unkind words about people in her family often, but learned soon that those comments were unimportant, and if they were threatening the magic or abuela to tell her, she had even said that they could learn from the harsh words of the townspeople so they knew what they were doing wrong and could remedy their flaws, perfect themselve in the eye of the townspeople.

It wasn't easy for her to block out the nasty things people said, she had broken down in her room crying a few times from the insults to her family and herself, but she regained composure before abuela walked in, she couldn't show weakness in front of abuela.

Luisa moved the donkeys back to their pen and looked at the fence latch, it seemed solid so she wasn't sure how the donkeys kept getting out, but before she could inspect further she was called to yet another chore, this time it was to lift a pile of bricks to a new house being built.

she had missed lunch already but resolved to eat a big supper, her appetite had grown exponentially in the past few weeks and the weight gain was starting to become noticable, she squished her side and saw how far her finger sunk in and frowned, she had been lectured by abuela about her eating but she couldn't help it, she was just so hungry all the time and mamas food tasted amazing.

soon the sun was on the horizon and Luisa started to head back to casita for dinner, she tried to limit herself, she really did, but hunger always won and she would pile meat and bread and sides on her plate, good thing she always cleared her plate or else that would give abuela another reason to be angry at her.

abuela always claimed she loved all of her grandkids but if you watched for a while it was easy to tell who she disliked, she always avoided or ignored mirabel in the hall, and, strangely enough, Luisa too, before and even after Luisa had got her gift she would often talk down to her while her parents weren't around, and it made Luisa desperate to know what she was doing wrong, she knew abuela loved Isabela so she tried on one of her dreeses one time but abuela yelled at her that she was going to dirty it up.

after she got her gift abuela seemed to tolerate her, no longer verbally abusing her and sometimes a compliment slipped out of her mouth, it spurred Luisa on and Luisa learned that as long as she worked all day and did everything people asked and carried her own weight and didn't take too much she could get a tightlipped smile from abuela, Luisa wanted nothing more than to make her family proud, unfortunately the way she was taught to do it was by working herslf to exhaustion and having no healthy way to relieve stress.