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“Once upon a time, in the small far away village of Santa Cecilia, lived a young woman named Imelda.
Now Imelda, she wasn’t like the other girls of her village. She was fiery tempered, independant and iron-willed, which made it very difficult for her parents to find her a husband, as no man wanted to risk incurring her wrath if they so much as took a misstep around her.
They much preferred the other pretty women of the village, who fell for their charms without much of a fuss.
Imelda did not care, for she had greater dreams than courting men who couldn’t keep up with her.
She wanted to explore and have adventures, which her mother always found very unladylike. Her brothers Oscar and Felipe however, found it to be an admirable trait. They always did support her in all her plans.
One day, while taking a stroll on the outskirts of town, she found a small little bean among the pebbles. Curious as to where it came from she looked around, but saw neither a vendor’s cart nor any merchants to be found.
Thinking nothing of this, she carried on to her path towards the river, where she decided to plant the bean as a personal marker.
Much to her amazement however, the tiny green bean quickly sprouted into a gigantic beanstalk that rose up into the clouds.
Not one to leave her curiosity be, she decided to climb up and see just how high the beanstalk had grown.
After making sure the long curling stalks were secure enough, Imelda began her ascent up into the clouds above, where she came upon the most amazing of sights.
Up in the clouds were several houses! And not just any kind of house either. Cottages as big as mountains! With barrels and carts that would dwarf even the village church!
She’d stumbled upon the Kingdom of Giants.
As she marveled at her fantastic discovery, the ground bellow her began to shake as a huge shadow fell upon her.
Looking up, Imelda quickly noticed the gigantic person that was currently peering down at her. So very tall that she could not make his upper half, which was hidden by shadows.
She tried to run, how could she not when a behemoth stood right above her?
But running got her nowhere if not in the grasp of the giant that had found her.
Imelda surely thought it would be her end there and then, but to her surprise she was not being crushed nor was she being dropped into the maw of a hungry colossus. Instead, she was being held very gently and raised to meet the giant’s gaze.
Kind chocolate eyes looked at her with curiosity and worry, and the giant spoke to her in a gentle tone which sounded as sweet as honey-milk to her ears.
Before her was not a monster but a friend. A gentle man the size of two cathedrals stacked one upon the other, and yet nothing of him spelled the workings of a brute.
Imelda had very quickly made a friend out of Hector, a simple bard who lived in the Kingdom of Giants.
Days passed. Imelda would leave home early in the morning to climb up the beanstalk where her friend would await her arrival.
The two bonded, joked, and talked about everything and nothing.
They became very close, close enough that love began to blossom between them. But how to make it work? Surely a human woman could never be with a giant?
Hector had the answer. A good friend of his, a potionsmith named Chicharrón, would brew for him an elixir that could make him temporarily small. That way Imelda wouldn’t have to be the one to visit all the time.
And for a while, this was the norm.
It became less frequent for Imelda to climb up, and more frequent would she see her lover climb down in his smaller size, which was still taller than her but quite twiggy and silly looking compared to the brutes that tried to court her before she put them in their place. She did not care, to her Hector was the most handsome man she’d ever met.
With time, things became more serious between the two. So serious in fact, that Hector asked Chicharrón one day if perhaps he could make a potion that would permanently change him into a human for all eternity, so that he could remain with Imelda.
His friend told him that such a thing was possible…But just as he’d agreed to do so, the door to his shop opened-
There stood Ernesto, a long time friend of Hector’s and the ruler of the Kingdom of Giants.
Now, unlike Hector, Ernesto had a great hatred for humans, viewing them as inferior and nothing more than pests. So hearing that his friend and favorite bard was leaving to be with one forever? It angered him to no end!
No matter how much Hector explained that he loved Imelda, Ernesto would have none of it. Instead, he promised that if Hector were to leave, then he would climb down the beanstalk himself and destroy her village and all who lived in it, including Imelda herself.
Horrified at this, Hector begged for his friend not to hurt anyone.
Seeing that he had Hector right where he wanted him, Ernesto patted his friend on the back and said that, if Hector were to ensure Imelda would never return, then no one would ever be hurt.
With a heavy heart, Hector agreed to these conditions.
On the next time that Imelda came to visit, Hector tried to persuade her to give up on the idea of marriage. Upset and confused, Imelda asked why he would change his mind, when they’d both been so invested in starting a family together.
Too scared to explain the situation with the king, Hector kept trying to make her leave, to no avail. Imelda would not budge…Which left him only one option.
Raising a massive hand, Hector slammed it down near his lover and screamed at her that he could never love something akin to vermin.
Terrified, Imelda ran and climbed down the beanstalk, leaving behind the heartbroken bard. She never got to tell him that she was expecting a child.
Twelve years later, a young Coco Rivera always felt like she never quite belonged. Her mother was known around their village to be cold and unloving, hating all that brought joy to one’s life, specially music.
All she knew how to do was making shoes.
Coco wondered what had made her mother so bitter and sad. She also wondered why she did not have a father, but those were two questions she’d never gotten an answer for.
She was on her way to the market to buy supplies for her mother’s shop, when an old beggar came to her holding a bag.
The beggar took out one singular bean and told her where to bury it. If she did so, answers would come to her.
Coco was much like her mother when she was young. Adventurous and curious, so she accepted the gift and ran to the location she was told to plant the bean in. There she found the remnants of a very big withered old beanstalk, which looked to have been chopped down many years ago.
She planted her bean beside it and watched in amazement as it grew upwards into the clouds.
She did not hesitate to climb up.
Answers would come, one way or another…”

—{AU Plot}—
The story takes place after Imelda and Hector parted ways, with a very young Coco struggling to belong in the village of Santa Cecilia.
All her life she’s wondered what caused her mother such heartache, and why she never had a father.
One day a lone beggar gives her the key to answering her questions: A tiny green bean that, when planted in the right location, grows into a gigantic beanstalk that leads into the Kingdom of Giants.
Being the adventurous girl she is, Coco climbs up and winds up getting chased by Ernesto’s guards, who ensure no human ever sets foot in the land above the clouds.

Coco ends up hiding in one of the gigantic cottages. She tries to leave when she thinks it’s safe but ends up running right into a giant’s foot.
She scrambles back in terror and hides under a piece of furniture. When the giant doesn’t give chase and instead crouches down and asks if she’s ok, she’s very obviously confused.
One moment ago she was being hunted, and now on of the beasts is offering her kind words. What an odd day.
She ends up on top of a massive table, being offered small pieces of food (which are quite big for her still) and discovers that the giant’s name is Hector and that he’s spent the last twelve years keeping an eye out for humans so as to keep them out of trouble.
He explains his king hates humans and that he decreed that should any climb into the Kingdom of Giants’s territory, then they’ll be killed immediatly.
This didn’t settle well with Hector, thus he became a sort of protector for any confused humans he came upon.

Coco tells her tale, about how she’s always felt like her village doesn’t at all seem like home to her, and that her mamá has lived a life of heartache and bitterness. She also explains she doesn’t have a papá and that the only people in her life are her mother, her twin uncles and her their house cat Pepita.
She tells Hector that the person who gave her the bean told her she’d find answers in the Kingdom of Giants.
Hector is perplexed but after a lot of consideration decides to consult Chicharrón on the matter. Being one of the oldest people he knows, he might know what to do to help her.

The whole ordeal becomes an adventure, where Hector and Coco slowly bond and find out they are family, while Ernesto tries to thwart them and Imelda frantically searches for her daughter only to see a massive beanstalk out in the distance. This AU promises a lot of sad moments and genuinely cute Papá Hector moments (Because when you’re a giant and you’re trying to protect a tiny 12 year old, you are bound to act like a papa bear)..

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“Once upon a time, in the small far away village of Santa Cecilia, lived a young woman named Imelda.
Now Imelda, she wasn’t like the other girls of her village. She was fiery tempered, independant and iron-willed, which made it very difficult for her parents to find her a husband, as no man wanted to risk incurring her wrath if they so much as took a misstep around her.
They much preferred the other pretty women of the village, who fell for their charms without much of a fuss.
Imelda did not care, for she had greater dreams than courting men who couldn’t keep up with her.
She wanted to explore and have adventures, which her mother always found very unladylike. Her brothers Oscar and Felipe however, found it to be an admirable trait. They always did support her in all her plans.
One day, while taking a stroll on the outskirts of town, she found a small little bean among the pebbles. Curious as to where it came from she looked around, but saw neither a vendor’s cart nor any merchants to be found.
Thinking nothing of this, she carried on to her path towards the river, where she decided to plant the bean as a personal marker.
Much to her amazement however, the tiny green bean quickly sprouted into a gigantic beanstalk that rose up into the clouds.
Not one to leave her curiosity be, she decided to climb up and see just how high the beanstalk had grown.
After making sure the long curling stalks were secure enough, Imelda began her ascent up into the clouds above, where she came upon the most amazing of sights.
Up in the clouds were several houses! And not just any kind of house either. Cottages as big as mountains! With barrels and carts that would dwarf even the village church!
She’d stumbled upon the Kingdom of Giants.
As she marveled at her fantastic discovery, the ground bellow her began to shake as a huge shadow fell upon her.
Looking up, Imelda quickly noticed the gigantic person that was currently peering down at her. So very tall that she could not make his upper half, which was hidden by shadows.
She tried to run, how could she not when a behemoth stood right above her?
But running got her nowhere if not in the grasp of the giant that had found her.
Imelda surely thought it would be her end there and then, but to her surprise she was not being crushed nor was she being dropped into the maw of a hungry colossus. Instead, she was being held very gently and raised to meet the giant’s gaze.
Kind chocolate eyes looked at her with curiosity and worry, and the giant spoke to her in a gentle tone which sounded as sweet as honey-milk to her ears.
Before her was not a monster but a friend. A gentle man the size of two cathedrals stacked one upon the other, and yet nothing of him spelled the workings of a brute.
Imelda had very quickly made a friend out of Hector, a simple bard who lived in the Kingdom of Giants.
Days passed. Imelda would leave home early in the morning to climb up the beanstalk where her friend would await her arrival.
The two bonded, joked, and talked about everything and nothing.
They became very close, close enough that love began to blossom between them. But how to make it work? Surely a human woman could never be with a giant?
Hector had the answer. A good friend of his, a potionsmith named Chicharrón, would brew for him an elixir that could make him temporarily small. That way Imelda wouldn’t have to be the one to visit all the time.
And for a while, this was the norm.
It became less frequent for Imelda to climb up, and more frequent would she see her lover climb down in his smaller size, which was still taller than her but quite twiggy and silly looking compared to the brutes that tried to court her before she put them in their place. She did not care, to her Hector was the most handsome man she’d ever met.
With time, things became more serious between the two. So serious in fact, that Hector asked Chicharrón one day if perhaps he could make a potion that would permanently change him into a human for all eternity, so that he could remain with Imelda.
His friend told him that such a thing was possible…But just as he’d agreed to do so, the door to his shop opened-
There stood Ernesto, a long time friend of Hector’s and the ruler of the Kingdom of Giants.
Now, unlike Hector, Ernesto had a great hatred for humans, viewing them as inferior and nothing more than pests. So hearing that his friend and favorite bard was leaving to be with one forever? It angered him to no end!
No matter how much Hector explained that he loved Imelda, Ernesto would have none of it. Instead, he promised that if Hector were to leave, then he would climb down the beanstalk himself and destroy her village and all who lived in it, including Imelda herself.
Horrified at this, Hector begged for his friend not to hurt anyone.
Seeing that he had Hector right where he wanted him, Ernesto patted his friend on the back and said that, if Hector were to ensure Imelda would never return, then no one would ever be hurt.
With a heavy heart, Hector agreed to these conditions.
On the next time that Imelda came to visit, Hector tried to persuade her to give up on the idea of marriage. Upset and confused, Imelda asked why he would change his mind, when they’d both been so invested in starting a family together.
Too scared to explain the situation with the king, Hector kept trying to make her leave, to no avail. Imelda would not budge…Which left him only one option.
Raising a massive hand, Hector slammed it down near his lover and screamed at her that he could never love something akin to vermin.
Terrified, Imelda ran and climbed down the beanstalk, leaving behind the heartbroken bard. She never got to tell him that she was expecting a child.
Twelve years later, a young Coco Rivera always felt like she never quite belonged. Her mother was known around their village to be cold and unloving, hating all that brought joy to one’s life, specially music.
All she knew how to do was making shoes.
Coco wondered what had made her mother so bitter and sad. She also wondered why she did not have a father, but those were two questions she’d never gotten an answer for.
She was on her way to the market to buy supplies for her mother’s shop, when an old beggar came to her holding a bag.
The beggar took out one singular bean and told her where to bury it. If she did so, answers would come to her.
Coco was much like her mother when she was young. Adventurous and curious, so she accepted the gift and ran to the location she was told to plant the bean in. There she found the remnants of a very big withered old beanstalk, which looked to have been chopped down many years ago.
She planted her bean beside it and watched in amazement as it grew upwards into the clouds.
She did not hesitate to climb up.
Answers would come, one way or another…”

—{AU Plot}—
The story takes place after Imelda and Hector parted ways, with a very young Coco struggling to belong in the village of Santa Cecilia.
All her life she’s wondered what caused her mother such heartache, and why she never had a father.
One day a lone beggar gives her the key to answering her questions: A tiny green bean that, when planted in the right location, grows into a gigantic beanstalk that leads into the Kingdom of Giants.
Being the adventurous girl she is, Coco climbs up and winds up getting chased by Ernesto’s guards, who ensure no human ever sets foot in the land above the clouds.

Coco ends up hiding in one of the gigantic cottages. She tries to leave when she thinks it’s safe but ends up running right into a giant’s foot.
She scrambles back in terror and hides under a piece of furniture. When the giant doesn’t give chase and instead crouches down and asks if she’s ok, she’s very obviously confused.
One moment ago she was being hunted, and now on of the beasts is offering her kind words. What an odd day.
She ends up on top of a massive table, being offered small pieces of food (which are quite big for her still) and discovers that the giant’s name is Hector and that he’s spent the last twelve years keeping an eye out for humans so as to keep them out of trouble.
He explains his king hates humans and that he decreed that should any climb into the Kingdom of Giants’s territory, then they’ll be killed immediatly.
This didn’t settle well with Hector, thus he became a sort of protector for any confused humans he came upon.

Coco tells her tale, about how she’s always felt like her village doesn’t at all seem like home to her, and that her mamá has lived a life of heartache and bitterness. She also explains she doesn’t have a papá and that the only people in her life are her mother, her twin uncles and her their house cat Pepita.
She tells Hector that the person who gave her the bean told her she’d find answers in the Kingdom of Giants.
Hector is perplexed but after a lot of consideration decides to consult Chicharrón on the matter. Being one of the oldest people he knows, he might know what to do to help her.

The whole ordeal becomes an adventure, where Hector and Coco slowly bond and find out they are family, while Ernesto tries to thwart them and Imelda frantically searches for her daughter only to see a massive beanstalk out in the distance. This AU promises a lot of sad moments and genuinely cute Papá Hector moments (Because when you’re a giant and you’re trying to protect a tiny 12 year old, you are bound to act like a papa bear)..