I really like Mariano as a character because the movie could’ve made him a jerk just to make us more sympathetic to Isabella’s reluctance to marry him, but in reality he’s a very sensitive guy with a huge crush who only wanted to sing Isa a song and marry her and writes poetry and when he gets rejected he’s never bitter about it, just sad, and during the dinner he’s sweet and he’s the only one at the table (other than Alma) who addresses Mirabel and actually asks if she’s okay when she starts acting nervous and weird and later he’s leading the towns people when they come help rebuild casita... I just think that he’s neat