Antonio Madrigal

Antonio Madrigal is a major character in Disney's 60th animated feature film .
He is the son of Pepa and Félix and the younger brother of Dolores and Camilo. He is the current youngest member of the Madrigal Family and has the gift of communicating with animals.
He is voiced by Ravi-Cabot Conyers.
==Personality==
As of the start of the film, Antonio is very shy, insecure, and introverted. Despite interacting with his family very well, he's afraid of big crowds, as shown during his gift ceremony, and feels insecure of himself, and afraid of not getting a gift. 
He looks up to Mirabel, considering her a big sister, because of her optimistic and happy nature, in spite of not having a gift. After he receives his gift, Antonio gets over some of his insecurities, as he dances among the crowd during his ceremony, and interacts in a more extroverted way with the other characters from then on. 
He's also very caring towards his family and is very helpful, as when he offered his room to be used as a place to Bruno to have his vision.
==Biography==
Antonio is the youngest son of Pepa and Félix Madrigal, and was born a few years before the start of the movie. He is the youngest brother of Camilo and Dolores, and, before his gift ceremony, and, by extension, his own and customized room, Antonio lived in a normal looking room, along with his cousin Mirabel, the only Madrigal that didn't get a magical gift. They get along very well, and enjoy each other's company. Antonio is also said to like animals.
On the day of his gift ceremony, he was being prepared by his grandma, Alma Madrigal, but apparently disappear, which makes his entire family go looking for him, with the only person knowing where he was being Mirabel, as Antonio was hidden under her bed in their room, scared that his ceremony will fail just like Mirabel's did. Mirabel tries to cheer him up with a gift, a stuffed toy jaguar, so he'll have something to hug when he's in his new room, and she knew that he liked animals. Casita then interrupts them by saying that it is time to go. Antonio meets with his parents and siblings, before going behind a curtain, waiting for the ceremony to start.
After Abuela tells the story of the magical candle, fountain of the magic in the family, the curtains opens up and reveals an afraid Antonio, that, too nervous to climb the stairs alone, he asks for Mirabel's help. She initially refuses at first, knowing that Alma will disapprove but then reluctantly agrees after he says that he needs her and then climb the stairs up with him (which also causes Mirabel to have painful memories from the night of her failed ceremony). After making an oath, promising to use his gift to help the community of Encanto, Antonio touches the doorknob of his door, that starts to shine, and then, a toucan flies onto him and lands on his shoulder, and starts to talk with him, asking if more animals could come to his new room, and Antonio understands him, much to his surprise. Many animals from the forest comes to the house and enters his room and explores it along with Antonio. Antonio enjoys the rest of the party, acting less shy now.
During the breakfast scene, he ask for some coatimundi to sit on his grandmother's chair, so it'd be very warm for her. Later in the movie, he interrupts the conversation between Mirabel and their uncle Bruno, about the possibility of the latter having a new vision so they could know how to save the magic, because of the rats that told him. He then offers his room to be used as a precognition altar, as it had a lot of space. Before Bruno started using his powers, Antonio gave him his stuffed toy jaguar to help him if he felt insecure, and left. He later appears during the destruction of Casita, as all of the animals in his room ran from the destruction, and Antonio himself is almost smashed by a falling wardrobe, but was saved by his father. After the Casita is completely destroyed, and Mirabel reconciles with Abuela, Antonio discusses with Camilo about Bruno, helps to rebuild the house and gives Mirabel the doorknob to her to place in the door. As she does so, everybody's gifts comes back, including Antonio's as the animals get back to the house again. During the final family photo, Antonio sits on his jaguar, before casita rumbles the ground and make everybody stumble, the jaguar jumps and run, with a smiling Antonio attached to it, making an imperfect, yet beautiful photo.
==Trivia==
*In real life, it is illegal to have exotic natural animals as pets, such as some Antonio has during the movie, like jaguars, toucans, and capybaras.
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