BruMira

BruMira is the family ship between Mirabel Madrigal and Bruno Madrigal from the Encanto fandom.

Canon
On the night Mirabel wasn't didn't a gift and the candle that contains the miracle showed signs of going out, Bruno was asked by his mother to look into the future to see what it means. After Bruno's many visions caused him to devolve a bad reputation, he knew what everyone would think from the vision of Mirabel. Even though the vision was of their home crumbling and the candle going out while Mirabel is placed in frost of their cracked house, the cracks disappearing and then reappearing got Bruno to wonder if her future wasn't decided yet. Instead of informing his mother of what he saw, Bruno decided to keep it a secret and destroyed the green glass frame of it before disappearing from sight. Knowing that it was the only way to protect Mirabel and hid himself with the Casa's walls so he'll remain close to her and the rest of the family they love.

Even though Mirabel was very little memory of tio Bruno her being proud to be a Madrigal has her mentioning him in the "Family Madrigal" song, despite been told by the villagers to never talk about Bruno. Being treated at the black sheep of the family like Bruno was got Julieta to worry that Mirabel would end up leaving them as well, as she asks her daughter to not lose her way like he did. When the cracks finally started to appear Bruno worked on fixing them, while Mirabel was trying to reveal them before deciding to uncover the cause of them. Leading to her discovering the existence of Bruno's final vision and goes into his towner to find it. After she did so and saw the green glass pieces that show an image of her, she begins to wonder why she was in his vision. Mirabel tries to ask Pepa about Bruno, despite knowing that the mention of his name angers her aunt, she believed that Bruno and his vision were the key to saving the miracle. When Félix told her that only bad things come from Bruno's visions Mirabel defends him, believing that people might have simply misunderstood him and what he saw. In order to stop Mirabel from talking about him, Pepa, Félix and few other members of their family, as well as the town's people, tell her the bad out comes from his visions and making him seem like a bad person. Mirabel didn't believe them until she reassembled the vision and saw the horrible sight of her standing in front of the cracked Casa. Making her believe that she was the cause of them.

Through the crack Bruno uses to see his family at the dinner table he learns that Mirabel had found his vision and that everyone now knows about. After Mirabel saw the rats Bruno had sent to retrieve the vision, she follows them to the inside of the Casa's walls. Where she comes across her long lost tio Bruno, who appeared to be terrifying in the flashing lights from the lighting outside, but still went after him. Wanting to ask Bruno questions that only he could answer about the vision he had years ago. When it looked like Mirabel was going to fall to her death, Bruno arrives just in time to save, before their combined weight causes him to fall and for Mirabel to keep him from falling. Bruno was thankful for Mirabel quick reaction, but after cone of his rats climbed up her arm she ended up letting out of him. Luckily it wasn't as deep as it appeared to be and Bruno climbs back up unharmed, before saying "bye" to Mirabel as he walks away from her. Confusing Mirabel before she starts to follow him again, leading her to discover that he had been fixing the cracks and him creating two personas to do so got her wondering how long he had been living in the walls.

Bruno brings Mirabel to his makeshift room that he shares with the rats, while the room itself tells Mirabel that Bruno had never left. Bruno explains that he had left his tower and the surrounding mountains make it back impossible to leave Encanto, before showing her the perks of living within the casa's walls. Mirabel exploring the room allowed her to find the plate Bruno drew on the table next to the small hole in the wall that allows him to see everyone at the dinner table. Her tio Bruno saw her looking at it and confirms her suspicion of him caring about their family. Despite the trouble that his gift had caused them. Mirabel understands where Bruno was coming from and has tried her best to make them proud as well. Her fear of somehow being a danger to them was what convinced Bruno to answer her questions of the vision he tried to keep her from seeing. After Bruno fills her in on the events that got him to foresee it and the decide he made to protect her from it, he tells Mirabel that the fate of the miracle and Encanto will depend on her, along with him wishing that he could have seen more as he leads her out. Without meaning to Bruno gave Mirabel the idea of them seeing what else the vision has to show them, despite Bruno's choice to never look into the future again and the fact that Mirabel ended up damaging his vision cave. Even though Mirabel has an idea on how Bruno may feel about the unlucky outcome from his powers, she needs his help and getting him out of the walls would do him a lot of good.

Thanks to Antonio offering the two his room for the vision, Bruno and Mirabel were able to set things up for it. Sensing that they were running low on time has Mirabel asking Bruno if he could speed things up, he informs her that they can't hurry the future. He was also worried that Mirabel wouldn't like what she sees and blame him, like everyone else does after seeing their futures. Mirabel reassures him that she doesn't believe that he makes bad things happen and family weirdos like them just happen to bad wraps, making Bruno feel a bit better about himself.

Fanon
BruMira is a very popular and beloved family ship within the Encanto fandom. The way Bruno felt to protect Mirabel has got people to believe that the two might have been very close to one another when she was young. Inspiring people to commonly draw Bruno with child Mirabel, as well as Camilo, in their fanart of them. Fans of the two Madrigal also like the way that of them are the black sheeps of their family and how it helps Mirabel to know that she wasn't the Madrigal to be treated as an outcast.

During the lead up to the film's release, people had thought that Bruno would have been the villain Mirabel faces in her mission to save the miracle, that Bruno wants gone. From how his gift had brought him nothing but misery and wanted to be rid of it, while assuming that Mirabel would seize the chance to longer be the odd one out in their family. This theory was mostly due to Bruno being placed in the shadows and his door poster being boarded making appear to be a dark person. While this idea had been seen in a few dark AU's, fans where happy with how Bruno turned out to be Mirabel's odd tio who loves his family as much as she does.

In the "Papa Bruno" AU, where one of the Madrigal grandkids, Mirabel is one of the most common choices, much like Camilo, to be placed as Bruno's biological child instead one of being his sisters' children. Though most people depict it as a full-on alternate timeline rather than being canon-compliant, even if Bruno had a wife to call their mother. Some work around this issue by saying that Bruno had gone into hiding before either could remember him, thus having Julieta raise Mirabel as her own in his absence. People gravitate towards Mirabel and Camilo to be Bruno's children since all three of them have similar haircuts, a trait none of the other family members seem to share.

Because Mirabel is commonly viewed as a Luz-like character in an AU of The Owl House, they have Bruno serving as her Eda. Even though he has Lilith than Eda-like traits, both Mirabel and Bruno being see as the weirdos of their family had them be placed as two of the main weirdos of Owl House. There have also been times when the AU has the two and the rest of their family as witches from the Boiling Isles, while being placed in the covens that references the nature of their gift's abilities. Just as Mirabel is commonly placed in the multi track, Bruno is sometimes given a rat version of Eda's owl beast curse.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Variations

 * Madrigal Family refers to the familyship between the two, Alma Madrigal, Pedro Madrigal, Julieta Madrigal, Agustín Madrigal, Pepa Madrigal, Félix Madrigal, Isabela Madrigal, Luisa Madrigal, Dolores Madrigal, Camilo Madrigal and Antonio Madrigal