OK BUT FOR REAL THO
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Mable’s reactions to finding out highschool sucked and her friends were going to NOT BE THERE for her birthday and her overall enthusiasm rings to me of a child who’s ISOLATED at home
She was just a little TOO happy to be in a new place where no one knew her, where she had the opportunity to make new friends and completely remake herself, and do it while she was arm in arm with her brother.
Except her brother has been spending all summer doing ‘nerd things’ and she’s felt that distance from him, but she’s been trying to make the best of it. She’s tried to bond with him while he does these things, and that was fun!
But suddenly his role model is there. Dipper is excited and feels important, and he’s moving away from his sister. And that’s ‘fine’. Everything is ‘fine’ so long as she’s not alone. She’s trying hard not to think about the part where they leave. Where her friends, probably the first real friends she’s ever had in her life, aren’t going to be. The only ONLY upside about going home is she’ll be doing it with her brother
because she trusts him to never abandon her
And then he makes a promise to do EXACTLY THAT
Right after she’s made painfully aware that her friends are leaving her behind, that her sunlit hopes for the future in high school were actually going down in flames. That her joyful summer was coming to a close faster than she wanted it to and she couldn’t put the breaks on it.
She’s 12. She’s scared. She sees she’s going to be alone because her friends AND her brother, everything she loves and trusts in this world, are both going to be in gravity falls, where she isn’t. Where she might not be for a long time. Never mind the big question we have where we have no idea why these two pre-teen kids are being sent from their home a whole state away, without their parents, for a summer stay with an uncle they never met before, in a location they probably only HEARD about.
This isn’t a normal thing for parents to do. This is out of the ordinary. This is ODD.
So something is probably going down back in Piedmont. Something their parents dont want them involved in
and she’s headed back to that.
Alone.
And then there’s someone she and her brother helped. Someone she’s decided to give a second chance because he could be a good person, right? And he’s offering her the friendship handshake of hope.
All he asks is one little thing she’s never seen before, and has no information on because Ford made the executive decision that the child that freed the eighth and a half US president and uncovered a huge fucking cover up in GF HER WAY isn’t smart enough to know Jack Diddly Squat about what’s going on under her feet. Because in his eyes there’s a Smart Twin and a Stupid Twin (Never mind the fact that his own ‘stupid twin’ managed to teach himself physics and mechanics and rebuilt his portal and lab by fucking hand.)
So Mable doesn’t know it’s dangerous. Doesn’t know what it is. She just doesn’t want to go home yet. She’s not ready. She’s scared and facing the prospect fo going back to a place where she feels her most lonely and vulnerable. And here’s an opportunity.
Are you seriously trying to tell me that under those circumstances, not knowing the consequences, at fucking TWELVE, you wouldn’t take an offer to extend your time in your safe place?
Because I remember being 12, and scared, and overwhelmed. If someone had offered that to me I’d have snapped it up and never looked back.
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