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Let’s talk about the unidentified people on the Rivera family’s ofrenda for a bit. I want to have a go at figuring who’s who.

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First of all, there’s these two – an old man who looks remarkably like

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Franco, and a woman who has visibly darker skin than the average of the Rivera family. I’m 99% sure these were Papá Franco’s parents, it’s so easy to see their features in him.

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This man seems tall and has a stocky build, rather similar to Abel – they even have the same jaw. That makes me think he was Tía Carmen’s father.

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This photo confuses me? It looks very old, but a lot more candid than Imelda and Héctor’s family photo. And I can’t really point out a family member who resembles this lady. Maybe it’s an old family friend who was almost like family to the Riveras and they put her on the ofrenda? Maybe it IS a family member I simply cannot place?

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Before the end of the movie, this is the only photo on the ofrenda that is in color. It’s not as crisp and clear as Mamá Coco’s photo, but it doesn’t look too old. I want to say they’re Luisa’s family, if only because there’s no one on the ofrenda that obviously resembles her. I thought at first that they’re Luisa’s grandparents, but the woman looks elderly and the man looks middle-aged at best. Maybe it’s Luisa’s father? Then where would her grandfather be?

Coco: Treasure Planet AU

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Part 2: Details on the AU up until before the mutiny.

Buckle in folks, this post is gonna be a long one.

I’ve been thinking about this AU, and how to make it work (where it stays similar to the canon storyline and where there needs to be changes), a lot over in the cocolocos discord.

Two key things to know before I go into the mostly full, kinda messy, breakdown of the story:

Coco is Jim’s character in this AU. Filling that role of the teenage protagonist with an absent father and a mother who runs her own business (Imelda and her shoe shop of course), with her younger twin brothers.

Hector is Silver. However, instead of turning to piracy and seeking Treasure Planet under his own power, his role as a pirate captain is very unwilling. Hector has had a very rough past 10 years. He’s working under the orders of a pirate general of sorts who runs a criminal network primarily based around piracy and smuggling. Hector is essentially a puppet leader of the crew, who would willingly turn on him if he showed indication of betrayal. He’s been placed in charge of the Treasure Planet mission as a test, and ‘trusted’ with leadership of the crew. Hector has to play his role as pirate captain to survive his current environment and circumstances, that he has been trapped in for the past 10 years. Here is a link to the backstory of what happened.

Story Breakdown: (This is still kinda patchy and under-developed in some areas but bear with me)

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Coco: Treasure Planet AU Part 1

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Im gonna post my concept for this au within the plot of Treasure Planet, but before that I feel like I need to make this post establishing some important backstory for Hector (who is Silver in my AU, though with some key changes). Feel free to tell me what you think!

Ernesto and Hector: Before the Story.

I haven’t really worked out some parts of the backstory yet. I imagine they both were still musicians but perhaps their big ambitions were set on something else in this au – Ernestos at least.

Either way Ernesto during the time of the film is probably living it up as some popular and likely powerful person on some planet or in some system far from where Hector’s family live. He’s rich and well loved but for sure has some shadiness going on. Definitely has connections to pirates.

I’m thinking for his getting rid of Hector it was either very premeditated – Ernesto staging everything by ensuring that pirates will attack the ship he and Hector are on and hector is “accidentally” left behind when he and as much of the crew as he can “heroically rescue” get away – Ernesto probably believing that the pirates will do the rest of the job for him OR it was an act of opportunity, seizing his moment (most likely this one). He probably had been planning to get rid of Hector somehow it hector kept talking about going home/etc…whatever motive Ernesto has to want hector dead in this au. But instead an opportunity arises when pirates really DO attack the ship they are on.

Ernesto again carries out a rescue/escape during the attack but…realises when he sees hector that actually…this is an opportunity to get rid of him in a way that can easily be written off as bad luck and not look suspicious.

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He leaves hector behind.

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