Bruno Madrigal/Mirabel Madrigal

Bruno/Mirabel, more often called Brumira (or sometimes Brumi for short), also known by the emoji name ⏳🦋, is the non-canon pairing of Bruno Madrigal and Mirabel Madrigal from Encanto.
==Canon==
In the film, Mirabel has grown up not knowing much about her uncle Bruno, who disappeared ten years earlier when she was just five years old. In the opening musical number, she sings that "They say he saw the future; one day he disappeared". After learning that a vision of her uncle's may hold the key to the fate of the miracle that gave her family their magical Gifts, she sets out to find it; a search that eventually leads her to Bruno, who has been secretly living within the walls of the house for the past ten years.
Mirabel quickly forms a connection with Bruno, both of them able to relate to each other through their status as outsiders in the family. It is also revealed that Bruno left the family in order to protect Mirabel, whom he saw in his vision, knowing that if the vision's contents became known, they would likely have caused the family (and others) to view her with fear and suspicion. Later, Mirabel vows to bring Bruno home, out of hiding and back into the family.
When Mirabel helps Bruno do a vision, she blushes and tucks her hair behind her ear in a gesture that has been likened to that of Anna in Frozen which is used to indicate Anna's crush.
At the end, Bruno rides in on a horse and faces his mother — something he spent the last 10 years not doing — in order to defend Mirabel.
==Fandom==
The Brumira fandom exists primarily on Twitter.
===Hourglass Butterfly===
Bruno sometimes referred to with the hourglass symbol (⏳), and Mirabel with the butterfly symbol (🦋). In mediums that allow for more flexibility, the butterfly is specifically yellow.
As a ship name, they are called "⏳🦋" just as often as they're called "Brumira".
For a broader discussion of character-emoji symbolism in the Encanto fandom, see here.
===Color coding===
Bruno and Mirabel are connected via colour coding: Mirabel's glasses are bright green, while Bruno dresses in green and his eyes glow a bright green when he has a vision (which also becomes imprinted onto green glass). Fans have interpreted this to mean that she sees the world in a way that lets her relate to Bruno, or simply that the colour unites them as the "family weirdos". "except mirabel's glasses frames are green; similarly to Bruno, it shows that she sees things differently from the rest of her family, and aligns herself with Bruno as the 'family weirdos'"
===Rat telenovelas===
Bruno writes telenovelas, and one canonically has the following plotline:
In particular, much has been made of the specifics of it being an aunt/nephew relationship. The line just as easily could've been about — for example — siblings. But it wasn't; it was instead about the same relationship as the characters having the conversation, just gender-flipped.
Fanworks often invoke Bruno's rat telenovelas after some fashion. In fanfic, the characters often use the telenovelas as a way to indirectly broach the topic, while retaining plausible deniably. It also makes amnesia a popular trope for the pairing.
===100 Years of Solitude===
Encanto draws symbolism from 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. The most obvious example is the yellow butterflies. More broadly, both stories are generational sagas where main characters are the family who founded their town, and are town leaders.
100 Years of Solitude also contains a repeat thread of incest. Adoptive siblings José Arcadio and Rebeca Buendía marry. Arcadio lusts after the woman who is is mother, though he does not know she's his mother. Aunt and nephew Amaranta and Aureliano José Buendía engage in sexually frustrated bedsharing, and Aureliano José wants to marry her. (This in particular is thought to be what Bruno's rat telenovela is a reference to.)
This opens the door for more incest, and is a source to draw symbolism and references from.
===Pedro/Alma parallels===
===More popular tropes in fanworks===
* Bruno has a prophecy of their relationship and, feeling guilty, tries to prevent it.
* Time Travel, where their age difference is circumvented.
* Hades/Persephone AU: The family reject uncle, who has a good heart but a bad reputation, and the joyful, light-up-a-room niece.
* Role Reversal, with Tía Mirabel.
* Succubus Mirabel (Succubel) and Priest Bruno
* Pregnancy, the Brumira fandom is absolutely ravenous for pregnancy kink. It commonly involves the pair having triplets (see Pedro/Alma parallels)
* Virginity, fic frequently espouses that both of them are virgins. More rarely only one of them is. Almost never are they both sexually experienced.
* At some point earlier in movie's development, Bruno's name was Oscar. In fanfic, Oscar is used as an alias for Bruno, a pen name, a name for a telenovela character that metaphorically is him, or other such things. Mirabel's other name, though less commonly used, is Mariana.
* Ship Parallelism
==Additional Content==
==="It's Complicated" Merch===
On account sells merch featuring a picture of Mirabel and Bruno, captioned with the words "It's Complicated". The graphic is available on a range of products.
This merch is much beloved by Brumira shippers.
===Let's Dance tango===
On the Swedish dance TV show, Let's Dance (a show in the vein of Dancing with the Stars), on April 9, 2022, Eric Saade and Katja L. Engelholm danced a tango to the song "We Don't Talk About Bruno" as the characters Bruno and Mirabel. The performance can be seen here.
Brumira shippers were delighted because it depicts Bruno and Mirabel holding each other in the suggestive ways that tango dancers do.
It sparked a wave of dancing-themed fanart and fics.
File:Ydktun - Now kiss.jpg|by @Ydktun
File:Hope74528946 - brumira tango.jpg|by @hope74528946
File:Webosduros1 - brumira tango face skirt.png|by @webosduros1
File:Tabebooyahh - dance with me, baby.jpg|by @tabebooyahh
File:Tamara salazar jerez - linda coreografia.jpg|by @tamarasalazarj1
File:Nerfbunni congrats-to-eric-and-katja.png|by Nerfbunni
==Events==
* Brumira Valentines Week
==Controversies==
* Incest: Uncle/niece. Some argue that this is mitigated somewhat by Bruno's 10-year self-imposed exile, which means they didn't know each other while Mirabel was growing up. In 1948, approximately when the movie took place (or a few years before), Julio César Turbay Ayala, future president of Colombia, married his then 15-year-old niece Nydiahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_C%C3%A9sar_Turbay_Ayala#Personal_life. It was obviously not a political career-ending move, though was the talk of Colombian high society for awhile - and again many decades and four children later when they got the Catholic Church to annul the marriage on grounds of consanguinityhttps://www.elespectador.com/actualidad/de-turbay-belisario-y-otras-movidas-matrimoniales-article-585810/. Avunculate (uncle/niece or aunt/nephew) marriage is apparently still legal in Colombiahttps://www.elespectador.com/judicial/la-union-marital-puede-ser-oculta-article-558161/, and very occasionally accepted by the Catholic Church ("with difficulty"), which was the main arbiter of who could and couldn't get married in 95%+ Catholic 1950s Colombia.
*Age Difference: If you accept the filmmaker's tweets on the subject as canon (see Word of God), they are 15 and 50 and thus have an age gap of 35 years. Some argue that contextual clues in the story (such as Pepa's age when she had Antonio) point to a slightly smaller age gap, perhaps in the range of 25 to 30 years. Others have argued that both Mirabel and Bruno — like many animated characters — they don't really feel their supposed ages. Sometimes De-Aging and/or Aged Up tropes are used to shrink the age gap as well. Colombia's age of consent laws (age 14) also also sometimes cited.
==Fanworks==
===Fanfic===
===Not!fic===
* by Coze
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===Fancomic===
File:Chiniko0 1477891954214113282.jpg|Dramático igual as telenovelas dele by @chiniko0
File:Mirabrunononono 1478573035263303685.png|Casual confession by @mirabrunononono
File:Tokami na 1481681072127868929.jpg|"What am I doing..." by @tokami_na
File:Sepalais 1483645841399328771.jpg|People don't know how much he loves his little and lovely family by @sepalais
File:Nerfbunni 1506972476898570243.png|"we dont need to..." by @nerfbunni
File:SillyStringsMan 1561684173986746369.jpg|When you lose your virginity to your precious niece and you get all emotional about it by @SillyStringsMan
File:GoodMorning01.jpg|"Good Morning" 1/4 by litel27 (2022)
File:Litel27 GoodMorning02.jpg|"Good Morning" 2/4 by litel27 (2022)
File:Litel27 GoodMorning03.jpg|"Good Morning" 3/4 by litel27 (2022)
File:Litel27 GoodMorning04.jpg|"Good Morning" 4/4 by litel27 (2022)
File:Litel27 PatienceMiAmor01.jpg|"Patience, Mi Amor" 1/2 by Litel27 (2022)
File:Litel27 PatienceMiAmor02.jpg|"Patience, Mi Amor" 2/2 by Litel27 (2022)
* by @yanderepriest
* by @ninastopcrying
* by Litel27
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* by @jennuay2929
* by WelpIam
* by @shumkaki
===Vids===
*Mr Sandman by CoiledDragon
===Meta===
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===Memes===
File:Bruno Pro-Shipper.png
File:Every brumira fic be like.jpg|Every 🦋⏳fic be like
File:Permit from Gabo.jpeg
File:IsThisPlausibleDeniability.png
File:Meme the entire Brumira nation right now.jpg|The entire Brumira nation right now
File:Brumira tango on the mind.jpg
File:Brumira running away or facing things.png
File:Brumira alma screams meme.jpg
File:Bruno pullout meme.png
File:Brumira merch meme.png
==Art Gallery==
File:Mirabrunononono - softest touch.jpg|Softest touch by @mirabrunononono
File:Double bIind - a dangerous prophecy.png|A dangerous prophecy by @double_bIind
File:Brumira ksyjkydaka.jpg|You are a miracle by @ksyjkydaka
File:Nerfbunni - brumira.jpg|by @nerfbunni
File:Chiniko - Brumira.jpg|by Chiniko
File:Buttersandlove - his sunshine.png|His sunshine by @buttersandlove
File:AWretchedThing_-_The_Kiss.png|The Kiss by @AWretchedThing
File:FapyxQrVQAEfmmy.jpg|[artist unknown]
File:Allienaneilla - dos oruguitas enamoradas.png|dos oruguitas enamoradas by @allienaneilla
File:Um_OL_S Brumira.jpg|Couple's Day by @Um_OL_S
File:Cakyye - Dancing in a blaze of flowers.png|Dancing in a blaze of flowers by @cakyye
File:Infj crezz - brumira got married.png|⌛🦋 GOT MARRIED !? by @infj_crezz
File:DewiidropArt - Heart went boom.png|Heart went boom by @DewiidropArt
File:JaquezMaynez - Brumira Wedding Day.png|Brumira Wedding Day by @JaquezMaynez
File:Ydktun - In dark days, you are the only light.png|In dark days, you are the only light by @Ydktun
File:Turningsin - This is my new acc.jpg|by @turningsin
File:Tabebooyahh Brumira.jpg|by @tabebooyahh
File:Ppoppochichi Brumira.jpg|by @ppoppochichi
File:GentleGreenGlow - You'll be the death of me.jpg|“You’ll be the death of me.” by GentleGreenGlow
==Resources==
*Archive of Our Own tag: Bruno Madrigal/Mirabel Madrigal
*Ficbook tag: Мирабель Мадригаль/Бруно Мадригаль
*Twitter tag: #brumira
==References==
Category:Het Pairings
Madrigal
Category:Encanto