In Loving Memory (of all our nonconformity)

“You want to be a part of the crew? Show us you aren’t afraid, Mirabel. Show us you can fly with us.”Mirabel takes her leap of faith. After Mirabel's gift ceremony, things take a turn for the worst, and Alma abandons her outside the Encanto without anybody's knowledge. But she gets a lucky break or two. And then, one day, she sees something she's never seen before. A Circus.They are all giftless. No powers and no candle. But the trapeze can fly and the pyros can eat fire, the tightrope walkers can dance on air and the knife throwers are unable to miss their mark, the stilt walkers are taller than elephants and the contortionists can shrink themselves to fit in any space.And Mirabel, Miracless Mirabel, looks at these people and sees so much hope. Not a single person in the tent has a gift. And yet, somehow, they /made/ their own gifts. Mirabel didn't have a gift. But if all these people could create gifts for themselves, surely she could as well. (Or, Joining the circus seemed like a cool idea when she had nowhere else to go, and it was. Best decision of her life. But then things happen, and years later she must return to the Encanto, and try not to be recognized.)