Mirabel Madrigal

Relative(s): Alma Madrigal (maternal grandmother), Pedro Madrigal † (maternal grandfather), Julieta Madrigal (mother), Agustín Madrigal (father), Isabela Madrigal (oldest sister), Luisa Madrigal (older sister), Félix Madrigal (maternal uncle), Pepa Madrigal (maternal aunt), Bruno Madrigal (maternal uncle), Dolores Madrigal (maternal cousin), Camilo Madrigal (maternal cousin), Antonio Madrigal (maternal cousin)

Affiliate(s):

Berbania Forces of National Alliance Administration
United Nations of Reinachos
Royal Society of Musicians
Empirical United States of Dinojerulla Era
Defense International Revolutionary of Discipline, Alliance, Biodiversity, and Environment of Planet Reinachos
Madrigal Family

Likes: Her family, dancing, singing, playing the accordion, butterflies, hugs, the Casita, helping others, being accepted, sewing, handicrafts, taking care of Antonio, children, magic, pictures, vibrant colors, mythology, ecology, magic, without using magic, wildlife

Dislikes: Having no gift (formerly), family issues, Alma's strictness, the magic dying, being seen as a disappointment, not being worthy enough, perfection, being left out, Camilo's antics, Isabela (formerly), rudeness, selfishness, flowers being thrown in her face

Inspiration: fictional

Mirabel Madrigal is the main protagonist in Disney's Encanto, the only child without any use of miracle from Alma Madrigal.

Etymology

The name Mirabel means "wonderous" or "of wondrous beauty". The "Mira" in Mirabel's name comes from the Spanish word mirar, which means "to look". This was an intentional choice for thematic relevance.

Many Latin American viewers believe that Mirabel's name was meant to be Maribel, as Mirabel is not an actual Spanish name and would be a very uncommon name in Colombia. Both Belle and Mirabel have same meaning, but Princess Belle's real name was "Maribelle" or "Maribel" in French and Spanish for "Mary the Beauty".

Physical Appearance

Mirabel is a 15-year-old Colombian girl of a 5'2" height, curly chin-length black hair, thick eyebrows, hazel eyes, and visibly dark shade of freckles on her nose and cheeks. Of her sisters, Mirabel is the one who most resembles her mother, Julieta. She wears lime green round-framed glasses and blue pom-pom earrings, and carries around a mochila bag when going out.

Her attire is a white blouse that has colorful butterfly stitching, with frills of black trimming at the neck and sleeves. She wears a long teal skirt with colorful butterfly embroidery and her name stitched on the waistband, with an indigo petticoat and white bloomers, and sandals with pink linking and black ribbons around her ankles. Mirabel's skirt has many embroidered patterns, like butterflies, flowers, a little version of herself and even some motifs representing her relatives, like a candle (for Abuela), a basket of buñuelos (for Julieta), a chameleon (for Camilo), musical notes (for Dolores), and others. At night, she wears a white ankle-length nightgown with a green ribbon at the neckline.

Abilities

Mirabel is not bestowed a magical gift like the rest of her family. However, she does have a stronger affinity with the Casa Madrigal than most of her family; she communicates with the house (or Casita) like it is a real person, and Casita responds to her prompts and helps with her daily routine.

Both Mirabel and Antonio lose their energies from Candileja, an Elder Dragon that absorbs energy from Bolefuego, a flame spirit of unknown origin commanded and loses miracles; as a result of Antonio lose his own magic. Because of after left her cousins and her sister for forcibly explore in Bogota, Mirabel was possessed by her grandfather and used her own magic as became similar to her family's magic and defeats Candileja and rest of rebellions for peacefully in whole Colombia, including the cities and habitats, she also rejoins Antonio for restore his own zoolingualism for easily controlled an Elder Dragon from Viruñas.

Personality

Mirabel often shows a free-spirited and optimistic demeanor; despite being the only Madrigal grandchild without a gift and an outcast by her family and peers, she is still very much sociable and friendly to those around her. Lacking a gift of her own, she admires her relatives and hold them in high regard. Her lack of gift also does not hinder her from getting along with most of her relatives: notably her parents, her cousin Antonio, her elder sister Luisa, and her uncle Bruno. She also is humble and honest, admitting easily that she and her father are both accident-prone. On top of this, Mirabel appears confident as she claims that she does not need a gift to make herself happy and that she is just as special as everyone else in her family.

Finally fed up with this treatment, Mirabel stands up to Alma and defends her sisters and family by saying that she had always seen her as a disappointment and how no one would ever be good enough for her or her expectations (even with their magical gifts) and how Bruno left because she always saw the worst in him (and to a similar extent, Mirabel), accusing her grandmother of not caring about them. After the destruction of Casita, Mirabel and Abuela have a heart-to-heart conversation away from the family. Though Abuela admits that she had lost sight of what was truly important in her life: her family, and not the gifts they possess; Mirabel, after learning of Abuela's trauma, maturely understood her actions better. Mirabel saw how broken her grandmother was, and forgave Abuela while lifting her spirits by reminding her how she was strong in leading their community and raising her children despite the tragedy she endured. The two then reconciled and mended their relationship. Now, Mirabel is genuinely more confident in her worth, finally seen as an equal in her family (who regain their magic after Casa Madrigal is restored) and community.

Mirabel is depicted as an imperfect, quirky, emotional, and empathetic 15-year-old Colombian girl who is the only member of the Madrigal family who does not receive a magical gift. When their "miracle" begins to fade, Mirabel takes it upon herself to save the magic, learning of her familial troubles.

Background

Born into the Madrigal family, Mirabel is the youngest daughter of Julieta and Agustín, and the younger sister of Isabela and Luisa. In addition to being the niece of Félix, Pepa and Bruno, Mirabel is also the cousin of Dolores, Camilo and Antonio. Mirabel shared the nursery with her cousin, Camilo, who is three months older than her, until he received his gift on his fifth birthday and subsequently moved out of the nursery. On the night of five-year-old Mirabel's gift ceremony, she touched the door handle of her soon-to-be room, excited about what kind of gift she would get. But, her door suddenly faded away, and she didn't get a gift like the rest of her family.

Mirabel first appears as a five-year-old girl listening to her grandmother, Abuela Alma tell the story of how their family was blessed with magic and how the Miracle Candle will grant her a magical gift during her birthday. When it is time for her ceremony, Mirabel asks Abuela what she thinks her gift will be, to which her grandmother responds that she is a wonder and whatever gift she gets will be just as special as her.

This left everyone who attended the ceremony shocked, especially Abuela Alma. Ever since that day, Mirabel has been desperately trying to make up for not having a gift by helping out in an attempt to "make her family proud". Alma and Isabela over the years distanced themselves from Mirabel because she did not have a magical gift and the pressures they carried respectively. Being the only child not blessed with a gift, she is constantly left out by most of her family. Despite this, she genuinely loves her family.

When the house is finally finished, save for the front doorknob, Mirabel is in shock and emotional when she discovers her family made the doorknob for her. Antonio takes her to the front door as she gets emotional seeing that her family is proud of her and of everything she did. When Mirabel adds the doorknob to "her new door" after Alma asks the same question to her that she did back when she was five, a new source of magic is born, bringing Casita back to life, giving back the Madrigals' gifts, but also making a new front door, with all the Madrigals carved on it, with Mirabel on the middle. Casita then brings everyone inside, as Mirabel watches as her relatives use their just gotten back-gifts in ways that make them happy, then Casita brings the Madrigals together for a new family photo, when Casita suddenly brings everyone closer, making an imperfect family picture.

In Weather Dragons and Worldcraft series, Mirabel Madrigal is one of the invasive characters introduced in Trio Origins of LGBT and Nine Realms to Second Gift of Antonio Madrigal as simple main protagonist and minor deuteragonist. She was guided to have relations with Alma Madrigal and her late husband Pedro Madrigal. Rumors about the cause of the violence was Candileja, the Elder Dragon lived in Colombia's Hermosa Fisura, fictional setting resembles both Monster Hunter World's Coral Highlands and Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's Paldea Area Zero.

Despite being born high class or middle class, she was not from the royal family and was an unofficial Disney princess, who comes from Princess Elena Castillo Flores, as the first Hispanic born Disney Princess. Mirabel finds her cousins Dolores, Antonio and Camilo from the harm and believe that between mythology and real-life gone wrong until Joszef and Heloise or Archie and Isabella help her for the end of the situation.

Quotes

" Mirabel is a young girl imperfect and weird and quirky, but also deeply emotional and incredibly empathetic. "
" Mirabel is a young girl who may be imperfect and “weird,” but is also empathetic and emotional. She’s determined to prove that she belongs, denying to everyone, including herself, that she feels all alone even in her own house. "
" i'm a Colombiana who married an American guy named Warren Philip, cousin of Robert Philip for helping the peaceful life of Colombia for Pablo Escobar’s family, the folklore, bilateral, wildlife, traditions and indigenous peoples of Colombia from Viruñas, a demon from Ginnungagap. "
" Well, my little friend, I am not, because the truth is, gift or no gift, I am just as special as the rest of my family. "

Gallery

Updates

1/12/2022 - Mirabel Madrigal was published on this site.
11/24/2022 - Mirabel Madrigal was published on DeviantArt.

Trivia

The reason why Mirabel did not get a magical gift was intentionally left unexplained in the film because the directors felt it was unnecessary since it was not the point of the film, and believed that "she is who she needs to be for a very good reason.
Another theory, and quite popular, is that Mirabel will follow in her Abuela's footsteps, and become the next matriarch of her family and protector of the magic of the Encanto.
She was the second character drawn by Ognimdo2002 who wore glasses, the first being Mahatma Gandhi. 👓
Mirabel is the fourth Disney animated protagonist to wear glasses (after Milo Thatch, Chicken Little, and Lewis Robinson), and is also the first female protagonist to do so.
- Mirabel's glasses are an important part of her design, with production designer Lorelay Bove stating that "one of the film's main themes is perspective — how different points of view can affect a relationship — and having our main character wear glasses was an intentional choice to reinforce that theme.
The first Madrigal has both the same age and height as Camilo Madrigal, but she has youngest siblings along with her sisters named Isabela Madrigal and Luisa Madrigal, but she only doesn't have magic due to a hilariously problem and fear.
The only character has more than one color palette and scheme, due to having drawn her skirt from her students, being a teacher in Colombia.
Mirabel is the first Disney female protagonist to have a number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. She achieved this after "We Don't Talk About Bruno" peaked at number one on said chart.
Mirabel is the second human female protagonist from the Disney Animated Canon to debut in 2021, after Raya from Raya and the Last Dragon.
This marked the first time in history that two human female protagonists from two different Walt Disney Animation Studios films debuted in the same year.
According to technical supervisor Nadim Sinno, Mirabel uses the 3B texture for her curly hair, which the animation department had to learn from making Mirabel’s hair realistic.
Mirabel sweats when she is nervous. At her gift ceremony, she can be seen wiping the sweat off of her hands (or wiping the candle, as some theories say) just before she touches the doorknob. She is also sweating when she is chasing Bruno in the walls of Casita during the movie's climax, as Bruno says that she's "very sweaty" when he is grabbing her hand to prevent her from falling.
Mirabel's favorite food are arepas con queso.
- Like Princess Belle, Camilo Madrigal, Varian and Arianna; both have favorite food besides French, Spanish, Irish, Scottish and Hispanic cuisines and ube-related foods are particularly popular due to the striking violet-purple color it gives to Filipino cuisines (due to connections of Aos Sí and relates).
Mirabel is left-handed.
According to technical supervisor Nadim Sinno, Mirabel uses the 3B texture for her curly hair, which the animation department had to learn from making Mirabel’s hair realistic.
Mirabel and Dolores are the only female members of the family whose names don't end with an "a".