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Encanto Meta: Mirabel’s True Gift

SPOILERS for the movie under the cut.

it seems like people agree that mirabel didn’t get powers and that this was a good thing because she was in a key position to break her family out of the increasingly toxic downward spiral of stress caused by their exceptionalism and abuela’s overbearing expectations of her family

but the thing is, i don’t think that’s exactly it.

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