Camilo Madrigal/Relationships

The relationships of Camilo Madrigal.
==Pepa Madrigal==
Pepa is Camilo's mother. Since they both have dramatic personalities and have powers connected to their emotions, their mother-son relationship is described as very close. Although their interactions in the film are minimal, Camilo clearly loves his mother and tries to help her when she needs it. Unlike how he constantly teases his father, Camilo never teases his mother and is very sweet to her, affectionately calling her "Mami" and being nicknamed "Mama's Boy". After Pepa is upset about Mariano and Isabela's failed proposal dinner and nervous that the miracle is in danger, Camilo escorted her to her room to try to calm her down with a cup of tea and attempted to lead her through calming breathing techniques while talking to her affectionately, with Pepa watching in horror as he accidentally hurts him with lightning. When Pepa realizes that the Miracle Candle is about to fall out of a window as the Casa Madrigal was collapsing, Camilo in response rushes to save the candle in an attempt to save the magic despite the danger. As Pepa held a grudge against Bruno for ruining her wedding day and abandoning their family, Camilo is visibly confused when she, along with most of the family members, run to greet him when he returns after a decade.
==Félix Madrigal==
Félix is Camilo's father. He likes to tease and mock his father, while Félix is the one who interrupts most of the jokes or pranks that Camilo pulls. Before Antonio's gift ceremony began, Camilo shapeshifts into a miniature version of Félix and repeated his words amusingly in a mocking way, causing his father to give him a silent scolding and then pick him up in his arms for him to shut up. While Félix can cow Camilo's mischievous behavior, the latter is not seen to be very upset when his father discovers him transformed into Dolores just so he can have seconds during breakfast. Even though he constantly interacts negatively with his father, deep down he is very fond of him and is shown to be close to him. During the proposal dinner, Camilo, after being told by Dolores, informs his father of Bruno's vision. After the house collapses and the magic dies, Camilo leans on his father for comfort, expressing his sadness over losing his gift and worry for Antonio who had as well. He also stays near to his father when the family gets together and got angry when Félix elbows him for reminding the optimistic Agustín about not having a house.
==Dolores Madrigal==
Dolores is Camilo's older sister. Unlike their similarly aged cousins Mirabel and Isabela, the two get along quite well and have a healthy sibling relationship despite their opposite personalities and different ages, showing that their different roles in the family have not negatively affected their close bond. Camilo enjoys his sister's company and joking with her. Dolores is very protective of him and immediately prioritizes his safety over her own in dangerous situations. She also sometimes trusts him to tell him the gossip that she hears with her super hearing and she doesn't get upset when Camilo performances with them to fun, showing that she enjoys his theatrical and dramatic personality. In the film, most of their appearances are side by side. After Antonio's ceremony is successful and he receives his gift, Camilo happily exchanges glances with Dolores and together looking proudly at their little brother. 
When Camilo pretended to be her at breakfast, Dolores and Félix stared at him, but his sister didn't look upset or scold him, unlike their father, which implies that Dolores doesn't care much with Camilo's pranks unlike much of the family or that she is used to his antics. At Mariano and Isabela's dinner proposal, Camilo is the first person Dolores trusts to tell the secret of Bruno's vision and the magic was in danger, either this or because cause she sat between Antonio and him, and thought he would have a better understanding. During the fall of Casa Madrigal, although it is very fast and a little blurry, Dolores' first instinct is to put her arm around Camilo to try to protect him, although she can't stop him from running off to try to save the candle that was about to fall from a window. In "All of You" when everyone gathers in the ruins of the house and Bruno returns to the family, Dolores says she knew their uncle Bruno never left and heard him every day before she gives Camilo a jab that turns out to be harder than she thought. Camilo looks at her bewilderment, either for the blow or her secrecy.
==Antonio Madrigal==
Antonio is Camilo's younger brother. Antonio is one of the closest people to him and it is shown on several occasions that Camilo has a soft spot for his younger brother. Throughout the movie, although he likes to play jokes on their cousins and sister, Camilo never does so with Antonio and is very affectionate with him. In a family photo, not only does he lower himself to his brother's height for the photo, but he also has his arm lovingly around him. Before his gift ceremony, Antonio was nervous and Camilo approached his brother to transform into a miniature version of their father to cheer him up, lovingly caressing his face. Camilo is visibly excited and whoops with delight when Antonio gets his magical gift. He is also quite impressed when Antonio mounts his jaguar around in his new room for the first time and looks at it with pride along with Dolores. When the family loses their powers after the house collapses, Camilo is scared and heartbroken, but he immediately pushed passed his own pain of losing his gift to worry over how Antonio was feeling. In "All of You", like with Dolores and the other adults' behavior, Camilo is bewildered by how casual and familiar Antonio is towards their uncle Bruno's sudden return.
==Julieta Madrigal==
Julieta is Camilo's maternal aunt. Despite their limited interaction in the film, the two are shown to be very close to the point of seeming like mother and son. Camilo loves his aunt, since he is noticeably closer to her than to any of his uncles and never plays pranks on Julieta or shapeshifts into her, he enjoying eating the food she cooks and constantly repeating huge plates at meals. Julieta also loves Camilo very much, she seems to have a soft spot for him since although he has a mischievous personality, of all Pepa's children, she is noticeably closer and more affectionate with Camilo, treating him like a son. During Antonio's gift ceremony, Julieta takes his hand and has her other arm lovingly around him like a mother would. As his aunt hugs him, Camilo’s face has a gentle smile instead of his trademark cocky grin, which may indicate that she is a voice of reason and comfort to him. At the celebration in Antonio's new room, he's happily talking with Julieta before the party is interrupted and sits near her at breakfast the next morning. In various print materials, Camilo enjoys spending time with Julieta and his aunt smiles when she sees him happy.
==Isabela Madrigal==
Isabela is Camilo's oldest cousin. Like his sister and their other cousins, he has lived in Isabela's shadow for most of his life and because of this, as he grew up, Camilo ended up developing a certain envy towards her due to her role as the golden child of the family and status as their Abuela's favorite. In the present he acts like an annoying younger sibling towards his cousin, since of all the family members, Isabela is the person he enjoys teasing the most, much to her frustration. She doesn't get along with Camilo and doesn't like being around him. Due to her previous pursuit of perfection to make the family proud and try to fulfill Alma's expectations, her calm and elegant personality constantly clashed with Camilo's loud and fun nature, causing some friction between them. In the same way that she treated Mirabel, Isabela is cold and dismissive towards Camilo and attacks him with flowers when he makes fun of her.
Throughout the film, one of the things in which Camilo makes fun of Isabela the most consecutively is for her engagement to Mariano and every time he is near her, he shapeshifts into the man to annoy her. During breakfast, Camilo listened with an amused smile to Alma's announcement regarding Mariano's proposal to Isabela. Sitting next to her, Camilo shapeshifts into Mariano and made kissy faces to tease his cousin, to which Isabela became visibly angry and responded by flicking flowers into his mouth. Another moment when Camilo makes fun of Isabela is near the end of "We Don't Talk About Bruno", where he hilariously yells to his cousin about her fiancé's arrival at the house before again morphing and flexing as Mariano. Despite their differences, deep down they do care about each other as family. After they lost their gifts during their attempts to save the Miracle Candle and had to be saved by Casita, their first instinct was to look at each other with concern.
==Luisa Madrigal==
Luisa is Camilo's second oldest cousin. Unlike the more complicated relationship he has with Isabela, whom he enjoys teasing and making fun of, Camilo is on good terms with Luisa and loves her very much. Both being the middle children of their respective branches, despite being opposite in terms of appearance and personality (he is bombastic and mischievous whereas Luisa is quiet and reliable), although they do not interact in the film, in the graphic novels it is shown that Camilo gets along very well with his cousin and enjoys her company. Given her loving and caring nature towards their family, it is implied that Luisa can be protective of Camilo and treats him as if he were a younger brother. Before Antonio's gift ceremony began, Camilo joined Luisa to share the task of greeting and kindly serving the guests at the entrance of the Casa Madrigal. He is close to Luisa when the ceremony begins and they listen to Abuela Alma's speech about the Miracle Candle that blessed their family. When Mirabel goes to help Antonio to his door when asked by him, Luisa places her hand lovingly on Camilo's shoulder as they watch Antonio walk to his new door to receive his magical gift, reassuring Camilo when he is nervous that his brother's ceremony will fail.
==Mirabel Madrigal==
Mirabel is Camilo's younger cousin. While Camilo and Mirabel don't interact as much in the film or show a rapport parallel to their sisters Dolores and Isabela, the two seem to be on good terms given that they shared the nursery together for their first five years before Camilo received his own gift and moved out. Camilo never treats Mirabel badly and does not show irritation towards her at any time like Isabela does. Mirabel for her part has a good opinion of Camilo and describes him positively to the Town Kids in "The Family Madrigal", calling him someone who likes to make others smile. Despite the good opinion she has about him, like much of the family, Mirabel is annoyed by Camilo's antics or jokes as seen during breakfast or in "We Don't Talk About Bruno" when he tries to gleefully scare her with his monstrous impression of Bruno. Camilo joins Mirabel and Isabela in trying to save the Miracle Candle when the house was collapsing and as they rebuild the Casita in "All of You", Camilo and Mirabel are seen happily working together.
==Alma Madrigal==
Alma is Camilo's maternal grandmother. Although it is unknown what relationship he has with his grandmother, Camilo being her first grandson and the only boy in the Casa Madrigal with magic for a decade, Camilo's relationship with Alma is described as difficult (possibly contributed to him reminding her of Bruno's disappearance). In the film, due to his gift being not very useful to the community like the rest of their relatives, Camilo seems to be one of the members of the family with the fewest responsibilities imposed on him by Alma, possibly implying their interactions similar to the ones she has with Mirabel in a lesser extent. Like the rest of the family, Camilo respects Alma a lot and she is one of the few people he does not play pranks on. While preparing Antonio's gift ceremony, Camilo quickly obeys his grandmother when she tells him to help José hold the banner that hangs over Antonio's door. After Alma mentions the plans of Isabela's proposal the next day during breakfast, Camilo waits for his grandmother to finish talking before starting to make fun of Isabela, showing he knows when to behave somewhat around her. As the house collapsed, Camilo tried to save the candle because all his life Alma has said that it is the most important object in the Encanto, showing that he was pursuing Alma's previous ideals. In "All of You", Camilo is working on rebuilding Casita alongside his grandmother, suggesting that they have become closer.
==Bruno Madrigal==
Bruno is one of Camilo's uncles and the only one by blood. Because Bruno was reserved even before moving into the walls of the Casa Madrigal and had very little contact with him as a kid, Camilo would have no recollection of his uncle when he finally disappeared. Knowing very little about Bruno due to the fact that nobody liked to talk about him and everyone believed that he ruined Pepa and Félix's wedding, apparently the only thing Camilo had to be able to establish an idea of Bruno were the some rumors that others told him as he grew up. While it is unknown what Camilo thought of his long-lost uncle before and after he left, being the only boy in the family with magic in the house for his whole life wasn't easy for him since he didn't have someone to turn to for advice, indicating that Camilo wanted Bruno to be present in his life. In the film, Camilo enjoys dramatizing Bruno as a creepy and evil monster, though given his prankster nature they are possibly not out of any truly malicious feeling towards him, although it is ambiguous if Camilo ever got upset with Bruno for abandoning their family or if he has a neutral opinion about him. 
In "We Don't Talk About Bruno", Camilo describes Bruno as a bogeyman-like figure for fun while he shapeshifts into a version of Bruno with shining green eyes, with an evil grin and surrounded by rats, moving in sinister ways. During "All of You", Camilo is revealed to be the only one of his siblings who had no idea that Bruno actually never left and still lived in the house within the walls, so he was initially confused by his presence as well as they and the adults' joyful interactions with him. As everyone rebuilds the Casa Madrigal in the graphic novel, Camilo has a quiet conversation with Bruno after he returns, showing no annoyance talking to his uncle. In the family photo after the Casita is rebuilt, Camilo is right next to Bruno, showing he has a better view of him and properly sees him as a member of their family. In the books, Camilo has changed his dramatization of Bruno to be more like the original and praises Bruno's acting talent after seeing him act as Hernando and Jorge.
==References==
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