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General discontent; “You don’t think we’ll turn out like Ford and Stan, do you?” (The Tale of Two Stans) 

Guilt; “Well, i guess I do make fun of Dipper a lot, and I did just shatter a window…” (The Last Mabelcorn) “You got me… you got me.” (Dungeons Dungeons and More Dungeons)

Hopelessness; “I just want to be good like you!” (The Last Mabelcorn)

Loneliness; “I found my people” (Double Dipper) “I thought I was being charming, but I guess people just see me as a big joke.” (Irrational Treasure)

Sadness; Pick a scene, any scene. Mabel has cried more than anyone else in this series.

Emotional distress; “I want to believe you, but…” (Not What He Seems), “Who would sacrifice everything they’ve worked for just for their dumb sibling?” (Sock Opera) “It’s not my fault you’re a bad person” (The Last Mabelcorn)

Agitation; “He’s still Stan and he loves us, and we love him too, right?” (Not What He Seems), “Are you going to go to sleep? You’ve been saying dork words for hours.” (Dungeons Dungeons and More Dungeons)

Mood swings; She went from sad to being full of enough rage to punch a unicorn in the face and rip the embroidery off her home made sweater. (The Last Mabelcorn)

Social isolation; “But, Mabel–” “Just leave me be!” (The Last Mabelcorn)

insomnia; She laid awake all night in both The Tale of Two Stans and Dungeons Dungeons and More Dungeons 

Excess sleepiness; She was trying to go to bed during both those scenes as well. 

Excessive hunger; “I just ate a bag of cheese puffs without using my hands!”, the snack ramps (Dungeons Dungeons and More Dungeons) 

Repeatedly going over thoughts; “Come on, Mabel, that’s not good enough!” (The Last Mabelcorn)

Also please remember that a lot of depressed people will put on the happiness act so as to not worry their friends and family.

perfectlylogicalexplanation:

General discontent; “You don’t think we’ll turn out like Ford and Stan, do you?” (The Tale of Two Stans) 

Guilt; “Well, i guess I do make fun of Dipper a lot, and I did just shatter a window…” (The Last Mabelcorn) “You got me… you got me.” (Dungeons Dungeons and More Dungeons)

Hopelessness; “I just want to be good like you!” (The Last Mabelcorn)

Loneliness; “I found my people” (Double Dipper) “I thought I was being charming, but I guess people just see me as a big joke.” (Irrational Treasure)

Sadness; Pick a scene, any scene. Mabel has cried more than anyone else in this series.

Emotional distress; “I want to believe you, but…” (Not What He Seems), “Who would sacrifice everything they’ve worked for just for their dumb sibling?” (Sock Opera) “It’s not my fault you’re a bad person” (The Last Mabelcorn)

Agitation; “He’s still Stan and he loves us, and we love him too, right?” (Not What He Seems), “Are you going to go to sleep? You’ve been saying dork words for hours.” (Dungeons Dungeons and More Dungeons)

Mood swings; She went from sad to being full of enough rage to punch a unicorn in the face and rip the embroidery off her home made sweater. (The Last Mabelcorn)

Social isolation; “But, Mabel–” “Just leave me be!” (The Last Mabelcorn)

insomnia; She laid awake all night in both The Tale of Two Stans and Dungeons Dungeons and More Dungeons 

Excess sleepiness; She was trying to go to bed during both those scenes as well. 

Excessive hunger; “I just ate a bag of cheese puffs without using my hands!”, the snack ramps (Dungeons Dungeons and More Dungeons) 

Repeatedly going over thoughts; “Come on, Mabel, that’s not good enough!” (The Last Mabelcorn)

Also please remember that a lot of depressed people will put on the happiness act so as to not worry their friends and family.

perfectlylogicalexplanation:

It’s so, incredibly interesting that people
are asking where Mabel’s “goodness” has gone and whether or not she’s becoming
dark and I’m just incredibly fascinated by this. Kids are so interesting
because they’re mirrors, they don’t over think things like adults do and Alex
has written Mabel and Dipper exactly how twelve year olds are; some want to
grow up, others are just enjoying the moment.

Mabel and Dipper are the most fascinating
characters I’ve ever seen, particularly in character development but, for right
now, I’m focusing on Mabel.

Where has
Mabel’s goodness gone? Is she truly growing to become morally ambiguous?

Yes, she is becoming more morally
ambiguous. Of course she is. Everyone
on this site is older than Mabel (if you follow the ‘must be over the age of thirteen’
rule), that means that we have all
been through more lessons, more experiences, more everything than she has.

She’s twelve.

Twelve.

You know what I did when I was twelve? I
broke about six windows, lit my backyard on fire, and did a whole bunch of
stuff that would probably get me in huge trouble (and land me in prison) now
that I’m an adult including trespassing, graffiti, and damage to private
property.

Mabel is a pretty tame child compared to
the hellion that I was. But here’s the massive difference between being twelve
and being an adult; you know when things are wrong. When I broke those six
windows I wasn’t trying to break
them. I was simply trapped inside and my siblings thought it would be fun to
play hockey/football/cricket/baseball and other such games in our basement.

Does that make me a horrible person for
breaking the window on accident? I should hope not.

Plus, our parents started the hockey in the basement. My mother and father played it with us. So if they did it, why couldn’t we?

Now, let’s look at Mabel. Mabel and Dipper
get the tie in “The Stanchurian Candidate” from Ford and Dipper shows an amazing amount of maturity when he says:
“This is amazing! And ethically ambiguous!”

At that moment he’s questioning whether or
not they should actually use the tie. Dipper sees a problem with it, turns to
an adult (who he really looks up to) and asks ‘is this okay?’ and the adult
(Stanford Pines) gives him the other tie
and says “use it responsibly”.

Dipper is twelve.

Dipper has a faint idea that mind control
is bad but his hero, his Grunkle,
just gave him a tie that said Grunkle
designed and said ‘go for it’.

How is this any different than when I broke
six windows?

Therefore, Dipper runs upstairs, hands the
tie to Mabel and she controls Soos. We, as the audience, know that this is a very very bad thing. Mabel and Dipper?
They don’t. Someone said they can do
it. An adult gave them permission. That is
why Mabel doesn’t bring it up in front of the unicorn. Grunkle Ford gave them
the supplies and permission to control people’s minds so of course they’re not going to see anything wrong with it.

Even when Gideon says “you two have gotten
much eviller since I last saw [you]” they don’t fully comprehend it. Stanford said they could do it so it can’t be
bad, right? A tear is going to come between them at this. Someone is going to
realize that, no, the adults are not always right and we see that seed planted
in “The Last Mabelcorn” when Mabel finds out that Stanford is wrong about the unicorns, but I’ll get
to that some other time and on some other post.

Now, knowing that Mabel and Dipper don’t
see what they’ve done as truly bad in “The Stanchurian Candidate”, “The Last
Mabelcorn” is interesting. Mabel is told that she’s not a good person by a
creature she has deeply admired from childhood and, instead of giving up, she
tries to make herself better.

She does one thousand good deeds okay. One
thousand. This child is freaking dedicated to being a good person. And she’s
worried about it. Mabel is terrified of not being good (“if I’m not
a good person, then who am I?”). That’s a pretty nice sign of a good person; if
you wonder if you’re doing bad or if you’re evil, chances are that you’re
probably not.

And the unicorn tells her that doing good
deeds to make herself look better is bad. First of all, that was rude as fuck,
second of all, how are people supposed to be good then? Mabel does one thousand good deeds. The unicorn sits in
front of a flipping rainbow at three o’clock and poses.

That’s not the finishing move, though.
Mabel does do the thousand good deeds to make herself better, but she’s
conscience of it. You know how she’s a good person? Wendy, Grenda, and Candy
knock out queen bitch of the unicorns, are about to steal her hair and what does Mabel do?

She stops them.

Because it’s wrong.

That is what makes Mabel a good person. Not the one thousand good deeds,
not her glitter filled blood stream. When Mabel knows something is wrong, she
puts a stop to it. She just needs to learn what is wrong, just like the rest of
us. We’re not born with a conscience radar in our brains; we learn from the
people around us.

She is twelve.
She’s still learning all of this. But from what she knows; Mabel is a good person. She’s kind and nice and gives people
second chances even when people (*cough* Dipper *cough*) don’t believe said
person deserves it.

Where has Mabel’s goodness gone, then?

Nowhere. It’s just hidden behind things
that she believes is okay because people
told her it was.

THIS THIS THIS

perfectlylogicalexplanation:

It’s so, incredibly interesting that people
are asking where Mabel’s “goodness” has gone and whether or not she’s becoming
dark and I’m just incredibly fascinated by this. Kids are so interesting
because they’re mirrors, they don’t over think things like adults do and Alex
has written Mabel and Dipper exactly how twelve year olds are; some want to
grow up, others are just enjoying the moment.

Mabel and Dipper are the most fascinating
characters I’ve ever seen, particularly in character development but, for right
now, I’m focusing on Mabel.

Where has
Mabel’s goodness gone? Is she truly growing to become morally ambiguous?

Yes, she is becoming more morally
ambiguous. Of course she is. Everyone
on this site is older than Mabel (if you follow the ‘must be over the age of thirteen’
rule), that means that we have all
been through more lessons, more experiences, more everything than she has.

She’s twelve.

Twelve.

You know what I did when I was twelve? I
broke about six windows, lit my backyard on fire, and did a whole bunch of
stuff that would probably get me in huge trouble (and land me in prison) now
that I’m an adult including trespassing, graffiti, and damage to private
property.

Mabel is a pretty tame child compared to
the hellion that I was. But here’s the massive difference between being twelve
and being an adult; you know when things are wrong. When I broke those six
windows I wasn’t trying to break
them. I was simply trapped inside and my siblings thought it would be fun to
play hockey/football/cricket/baseball and other such games in our basement.

Does that make me a horrible person for
breaking the window on accident? I should hope not.

Plus, our parents started the hockey in the basement. My mother and father played it with us. So if they did it, why couldn’t we?

Now, let’s look at Mabel. Mabel and Dipper
get the tie in “The Stanchurian Candidate” from Ford and Dipper shows an amazing amount of maturity when he says:
“This is amazing! And ethically ambiguous!”

At that moment he’s questioning whether or
not they should actually use the tie. Dipper sees a problem with it, turns to
an adult (who he really looks up to) and asks ‘is this okay?’ and the adult
(Stanford Pines) gives him the other tie
and says “use it responsibly”.

Dipper is twelve.

Dipper has a faint idea that mind control
is bad but his hero, his Grunkle,
just gave him a tie that said Grunkle
designed and said ‘go for it’.

How is this any different than when I broke
six windows?

Therefore, Dipper runs upstairs, hands the
tie to Mabel and she controls Soos. We, as the audience, know that this is a very very bad thing. Mabel and Dipper?
They don’t. Someone said they can do
it. An adult gave them permission. That is
why Mabel doesn’t bring it up in front of the unicorn. Grunkle Ford gave them
the supplies and permission to control people’s minds so of course they’re not going to see anything wrong with it.

Even when Gideon says “you two have gotten
much eviller since I last saw [you]” they don’t fully comprehend it. Stanford said they could do it so it can’t be
bad, right? A tear is going to come between them at this. Someone is going to
realize that, no, the adults are not always right and we see that seed planted
in “The Last Mabelcorn” when Mabel finds out that Stanford is wrong about the unicorns, but I’ll get
to that some other time and on some other post.

Now, knowing that Mabel and Dipper don’t
see what they’ve done as truly bad in “The Stanchurian Candidate”, “The Last
Mabelcorn” is interesting. Mabel is told that she’s not a good person by a
creature she has deeply admired from childhood and, instead of giving up, she
tries to make herself better.

She does one thousand good deeds okay. One
thousand. This child is freaking dedicated to being a good person. And she’s
worried about it. Mabel is terrified of not being good (“if I’m not
a good person, then who am I?”). That’s a pretty nice sign of a good person; if
you wonder if you’re doing bad or if you’re evil, chances are that you’re
probably not.

And the unicorn tells her that doing good
deeds to make herself look better is bad. First of all, that was rude as fuck,
second of all, how are people supposed to be good then? Mabel does one thousand good deeds. The unicorn sits in
front of a flipping rainbow at three o’clock and poses.

That’s not the finishing move, though.
Mabel does do the thousand good deeds to make herself better, but she’s
conscience of it. You know how she’s a good person? Wendy, Grenda, and Candy
knock out queen bitch of the unicorns, are about to steal her hair and what does Mabel do?

She stops them.

Because it’s wrong.

That is what makes Mabel a good person. Not the one thousand good deeds,
not her glitter filled blood stream. When Mabel knows something is wrong, she
puts a stop to it. She just needs to learn what is wrong, just like the rest of
us. We’re not born with a conscience radar in our brains; we learn from the
people around us.

She is twelve.
She’s still learning all of this. But from what she knows; Mabel is a good person. She’s kind and nice and gives people
second chances even when people (*cough* Dipper *cough*) don’t believe said
person deserves it.

Where has Mabel’s goodness gone, then?

Nowhere. It’s just hidden behind things
that she believes is okay because people
told her it was.

THIS THIS THIS

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Siblings don’t always share the same interests

Sometimes, no one in the family likes something that one of the members loves

Sometimes, one sibling might even tease the other over what they like

Tease them a lot

They might even continue teasing them after it’s clear that they’re upsetting their sibling

They might even involve other people in making fun of the thing they love

Or say unkind things about it

It happens

Sometimes

…Just to be 100% clear, I don’t mean this as some indicator that there’s anything wrong with Dipper, or that either twin is “worse,” or whatever. Look through the show and you can find plenty examples of both twins teasing each other, usually affectionately.

Both of them sometimes get on each others’ nerves, sometimes they’re a little mean to one another, and sometimes they don’t like the same things. They’re a couple of twelve year olds and neither of them is perfect.

thesnadger:

Siblings don’t always share the same interests

Sometimes, no one in the family likes something that one of the members loves

Sometimes, one sibling might even tease the other over what they like

Tease them a lot

They might even continue teasing them after it’s clear that they’re upsetting their sibling

They might even involve other people in making fun of the thing they love

Or say unkind things about it

It happens

Sometimes

…Just to be 100% clear, I don’t mean this as some indicator that there’s anything wrong with Dipper, or that either twin is “worse,” or whatever. Look through the show and you can find plenty examples of both twins teasing each other, usually affectionately.

Both of them sometimes get on each others’ nerves, sometimes they’re a little mean to one another, and sometimes they don’t like the same things. They’re a couple of twelve year olds and neither of them is perfect.