Casita DID Give Mirabel A Gift, (Her REAL Powers REVEALED!)

Can we say that the Casita is the real MVP. Even as it's dying it focuses on protecting the family and helping Mirabel

Mirabel's gift was pretty clear even from the start of the movie. She's the next Matriarch. She prepared Antonio for his ceremony like Abuela did for her, at the end of the movie she waves at Casita like Abuela did when Abuela first greeted Casita, her door was the front of the house with her in the middle of the family and she guided each of her family members to better things, therefore, strengthening their characters. She is the gift for sure.

Mirabel's actual gift is sweeping people up into spontaneous bouts of extremely well-choreographed song and dance.

Also supporting your connection between Mirabel's outfit and the butterfly on the candle, we see Abuela and Mirabel surrounded by butterflies at the exact moments when Dos Oruguitas changes to Dos Mariposas. Two butterflies - two matriarchs. Mirabel is the next matriarch. Her gift was everything - la Casita, the family, the candle - all of it. She isn't given a room in the house because she is given the entire house, which we see evidenced by her door being the front door at the end of the movie.

I felt that her gift was pretty clear in the movie, she was the only person in the family that had a relationship with Casita, everyone lived there, but she seemed to have more control over it, being able to use Casita as an extension of herself in multiple situations. I felt like she was the next chosen Matriarch.

I thought it was so unfair how she never got her own door. Now I think it was because her door was always meant to be the front door of the casita

When she opens the door to the repaired home, it suddenly lights up and glows like the magic gift doors. It seems implied that Mirabel's door wasn't a bedroom, it was to the entire Casita, which reignited her family's powers, without a new candle, thus her gift was always the living source of their power.

At first It seemed as Bruno’s vision was about embracing Isabella but, I realized the vision was about the family EMBRACING MIRABEL. Notice how Isabella embraced Mirabel, casitas cracks were reversing and the candle got brighter. At the end when the whole family embraced her…Casita came back and everyone got their powers.

Did anyone else notice that when casita was falling apart, everyone was basically thrown out by casita except Maribel? Instead Casita helped her to get to the candle

At the end of the movie my take on it was similar, that Mirabel became the next Abuela and that Casita chose her to lead the family once Abuela passed on. She was given the gift of leadership, which worked so well with her naturally hopeful disposition that there really wasn't a change. Mirabel acts like a leader for the family in how she sees what's wrong and takes charge fixing it. She is the matriarch that Abuela should have been. In the future, when Mirabel nears the end of her days, there will likely be another child who 'doesn't get a gift' but this time they will know what it means.

Pedro was Casita. His spirit took hold of the candle and became Casita, hence his picture falling so dramatically as soon as the house began to crumble. The cracks started when Mirabel, the key, voiced her pain, as the house itself and its spirit of her grandfather were hurt by Mirabel's dismissal, and Abuelas abuse of the gift she was given and how this impacted her loved ones.

Mirabel's outfit has more than just butterflies, it has EVERYONE'S symbols! It has the candle, flowers, it has rain drops, it has sound waves, it has herbs, it has a jaguar and a macaw, and it has a strong fist raising a dumbbell to the sky.

Mirabel’s lack of a gift was meant as a wake up call to Abuela. The Miracle was trying to test her by presenting her with a child who lacked a power. Abuela needed to learn to see her family as people and not as tools, so she was given a child who was not useful to her as a tool.

I believe Mirabel IS the gift. Plus, the fact that she did indeed get her own door at the end. She was in the center of the whole family as it showed on her door which clearly says that she's destined to lead the family when the time comes. I watched the movie 3 times to finally understand everything

Mirabel's gift is not just hope, it's the ability to see and value people for who they really are. That's what she does for everyone in the family, and that's why she causes so much disruption, because she sets people free to be their real selves, which messes up the controlling, perfectionist dynamic Abuela has unwittingly set up. So the family sees her as dangerous but in fact she's fixing things, not breaking them. It's a super interesting story in a lot of ways.

I felt Mirabel’s gift also had to do with her obvious talent, embroidery. She was the thread that kept the family together. Abuelo Pedro was the embodiment of the candle and he burned brightly when the family felt their unity breaking. In the end Pedro became the butterflies when the family found that they could do more when they worked together with or without magic.

Lemme save y’all 12 minutes: Mirabel’s gift is better communication with the house, being the source of the candle, and hope. Mentally though, the gift is just support and existing.

This would also explain why Mirabel's door disappeared. Everyone's room was made to be specialized for their gifts, but if Mirabel is the gift itself, her "room" would be the entire Casita.

I think that Mirabel's gift is in getting people to communicate - especially via the fantastic and impossible song and dance numbers. Luisa didn't want to talk about how she felt, but she sang about it ONLY with Mirabel. No one wanted to talk about Bruno, but they sang about it with Mirabel. Bruno wanted to hide away, but he couldn't resist Mirabel. Mirabel even got her own song singing about what she was hiding even from herself.

Mirabel also has a design for each member of the family on her dress along with the butterflies that you mentioned.