base info

• miguel
• he/him

memories

• my last name ended with -era. it might’ve been “rivera,” but “primavera” strikes me more, even though i’m pretty sure that’s not a real last name.
• i was a lot less white than i looked in the movie. i was from spain for fuck’s sake
• since tulio and i were from spain, and the people of el dorado were not, there was an intense language barrier between us.
  • this led to a lot of difficulty and misunderstanding. i don’t think we ever knew what was going on aside from "oh we’re gods now okay."
• tulio and i were both bisexual with a male preference (though he leaned harder than i did). we were in a relationship.
• el dorado was situated on then yucatán in mayan territory. however, it was an offshoot of the society; there was, like, actual magic there. the city was legitimately enchanted, instead of just connected to mayan religion.
  • this explains the volcano thing and the giant animals.
  • however, things like language and the base religion were still the same.
• tzekel-khan was a fucking nut.
• the bed in the temple was in a shallow hole (it was sort of like a conversation pit), and always very cool compared to then heat of el dorado.
  • i remember stripping down and tangling myself in the blankets and LIVING in how cool it was against my skin. it was so refreshing
• we stayed in el dorado for two or three months. i don’t remember ever leaving, actually, but that could just as easily be me having a bad memory.
• i also don’t remember chel having as active of a role in the falling-out as she did in the movie. she was there at the beginning, but then the problem mostly lay in tulio’s own selfishness.
• i think we were less expected to be the gods and more to be a way that the gods visited earth. we were, like, vessels or forms, i think.
• i’m gonna be honest the whole movie just feels sliiiightly wrong in a way i can’t articulate for the life of me.
• i had a really bad habit of uncontrollably smiling when tulio and i had those joke fights.