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** Mirabel tries to dissuade the kids when they keep asking what her gifts are, and running away from them. Dolores and Abuela drop the bomb that Mirabel never got a gift, as Mirabel is trying to be more tactful. The kids then say insensitively that Mirabel must be so sad and they feel bad for her. Mirabel tells them there is no shame in being ordinary when she is a Madrigal, while hiding her annoyance.

** The local florist delivers a gift to Mirabel since it's time for the next ceremony, and he was worried that she would be reminded of her own botched ceremony where her door disappeared. She appreciates the gesture, but not how he reveals that he called it "The Not-Special Special" because there is "nothing special" about her. Mirabel tucks it into the nursery before trying to help with the ceremony preparations.

** Isabela tends to blame Mirabel for things going wrong, because Mirabel is the only one who doesn't have powers in the family and Abuela encourages this mindset. Case in point: the dinner with Mariano goes wrong {{spoiler|because of Dolores opening her big mouth at the worst time about Mirabel finding a prophecy of her standing in front of the crumbling La Casita}}. When Mirabel tries to go to talk to her older sister, {{spoiler|hoping to subvert this fate and trusting Bruno's new prophecy that hugging Isabela will fix the cracks in La Casita, Isabela tells Mirabel it was her fault that the dinner went wrong. After at first trying to be the better person, Mirabel loses her temper and calls out Isabela for her spoiled attitude, saying that of ''course'' the golden child of the family that Abuela loves unconditionally must have ''such'' a terrible life. And one ruined dinner doesn't mean she'll be single forever, as Mariano would still marry her due to being the "perfect" Madrigal. Isabela then blurts out she doesn't want to marry Mariano. There's a {{Beat}}, as it sinks in for both sisters that Isabela was really angry about the expectations that she has to fill to maintain her golden child status, with Mirabel being an easy scapegoat, and she didn't realize she was miserable until the fight with Mirabel. She then creates new plants out of this rage, that allow her proper catharsis since they aren't neat flowers, and she lets go of her unreasonable anger towards Mirabel}}.

** Just as Isabela and Mirabel {{spoiler|patch things up}}, Abuela comes across them reconciling {{spoiler|while Isabela is covered in different types of colored pollen}}, and starts yelling at Mirabel for being a bad influence on Isabela and causing trouble with {{spoiler|the prophecy of Mirabel causing La Casita's fall being inevitable}}. This is despite the fact that it wasn't Mirabel who disrupted the dinner-- Dolores did with her big mouth and Mirabel was trying to rush the dinner to ensure that Dolores wouldn't blab about {{spoiler|the prophecy she found}}. Isabela has a silent [[Jerkass Realization]] on seeing how she's been treating her little sister and learned it from Abuela, and Mirabel ''snaps''. She calls out Abuela for putting impossible standards not just on her but on everyone in the family, how it led to Bruno running away {{spoiler|and living malnourished in the walls}}. No matter how much Mirabel would try, she would never please her grandmother and would always be a target of her scorn. {{spoiler|Abuela comes to realize that Mirabel is right, that her standards were causing the cracks in the wall, when the house collapses around them}}.