#miranda blake backstory dependant

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Miranda: Max, what are you doing?

Max: oh, I’m just sorting your mail into three categories

Max: from your parents, death threats, and death threats from your parents

#the mallorca files #incorrect quotes #incorrect mallorca files #miranda blake #max winter #miranda blake backstory dependant

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Max & Miranda: *bickering during a serious meeting*

Inés, glaring at them: I apologise for my children

Max: awww, you think of us as your children!

Miranda: oh cool, at least now I have one parent who loves me

Inés: *long-suffering sigh*

#the mallorca files #incorrect quotes #miranda blake #max winter #ines villegas #palma police family #miranda blake backstory dependant #…kinda? #incorrect mallorca files

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Miranda: I’m making a documentary about my life. Roberto, you should be my dad

Roberto: I do not want to be your father

Miranda: perfect, you already know your lines

#the mallorca files #incorrect quotes #incorrect mallorca files #miranda blake #roberto herrero #miranda blake backstory dependant

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Miranda, looking at her bio family: dysfunctional family (derogatory)

Miranda, looking at the Palma police family: dysfunctional family (affectionate)

#…this was funnier in my head #the mallorca files #incorrect quotes #miranda blake #palma police family #miranda blake backstory dependant #incorrect mallorca files

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Miranda: every time I have to make a tough decision, I think to myself, “what would my parents do?”

Miranda: and then I do the complete opposite

#the mallorca files #incorrect quotes #miranda blake #miranda blake backstory dependant #incorrect mallorca files

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Max: so what was your childhood like?

Miranda: picture a normal, happy childhood with a loving and supportive family

Max: oh!

Miranda: and now tear that picture up into a thousand tiny pieces, and set it on fire for good measure

Max: oh…

#poor miranda honestly #the mallorca files #incorrect quotes #miranda blake #max winter #miranda blake backstory dependant #incorrect mallorca files

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Miranda: it’s a tough job being the family disappointment, but someone’s got to do it

#the mallorca files #incorrect quotes #the mallorca files incorrect quotes #miranda blake #miranda blake backstory dependant

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“Nothing wrong with choosing to be a cop.” (Miranda, s1 ep5)

Ok but I can’t stop thinking about Miranda having to tell herself that same thing over and over again throughout her life, because she’d wanted to be a cop even when she was a kid, but her parents had just ridiculed her for it, saying that it wasn’t a ‘proper career’, especially not for a woman.

Obviously she joined the police anyway, because there was no way in hell she was letting her parents dictate her entire life like they’d more or less dictated her whole childhood. But sometimes she just gets hit with a wave of doubt about her choice, wondering if she should’ve listened to her parents after all, and then she tends to spend ages obsessively trying to imagine what her life would’ve been like if she’d done that

#the mallorca files #headcanon #the mallorca files headcanon #miranda blake #max winter #s1 ep5 #sour grapes #miranda blake backstory #miranda blake backstory dependant

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Max finding out that Miranda’s never made a blanket fort or anything like that, not even when she was a kid, and he’s like, “Unacceptable. We’ll make one now.” And to start with it’s just him making it while Miranda stands there watching with her arms crossed and an unimpressed look on her face, but then he eventually coaxes (or more like irritates) her into helping with it. Then when they’re done it looks so awful, with blankets half falling off and gaps everywhere, but they both go inside it anyway, and Miranda just has the biggest smile on her face because honestly it’d been a really cathartic experience for her to do one of the many ‘childish’ things her parents had never let her do when she was actually a kid

#the mallorca files #headcanon #the mallorca files headcanon #miranda blake #max winter #miranda blake backstory dependant #i guess??

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ASK THE CHARACTERS — which of your parents are you most like?

Max: Definitely my mum. My dad and I… weren’t exactly on the same page about a lot of things. Or even on the same chapter.

Max: You know, it was actually more like he was reading one book, and I was reading a completely different and much less boring book.

Max: Anyway. Your turn, Miranda.

Miranda: Nope.

Max: C’mon, Blakey…

Miranda: I told you not to call me that! And I’m not answering this.

Luisa: Can I also not answer?

Max: No!

Miranda: Ugh, don’t listen to him. You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to. It’s just a stupid game.

Roberto: In that case, I will opt out of this one too.

Max: Oh, come on, it’s just one question—

Miranda: We’re not answering it, Max. And that’s final.

#i’ll get around to sharing my childhood headcanons for roberto and luisa at some point #…probably #ask the mallorca files characters #the mallorca files #ask #ask game #character asks #miranda blake #max winter #roberto herrero #luisa rosa #miranda blake backstory dependant #roberto herrero backstory dependant #luisa rosa backstory dependant

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Imagine Max realising at some point that he’s known Miranda for over a year now, but that in that whole time they never celebrated her birthday. So he asks Miranda about it, and she casually says “oh yeah, it was at the end of November”, and Max just stares at her for a moment before asking why the hell she hadn’t told him, because they’d celebrated his birthday, and Inés’, and pretty much all of the other cops in the station’s, so they should’ve celebrated Miranda’s as well. But Miranda just shrugs and says “uhh, maybe because it’s not actually important, Max” because her parents had never really bothered to remember when it was, so she honestly just forgets it’s her birthday most of the time it comes around

#and imagine max insisting on throwing her an un-birthday party to make up for the one she’d missed #getting her cakes and balloons and decorations and cards and presents #because he realised that something or someone must’ve made her feel that way #and he has a feeling it’s something to do with the childhood she refuses to talk about in any more detail than just a few passing comments #so he makes sure that miranda has an amazing day #and she acts like he’s annoying her with all the attention and stuff #but he can tell she’s actually loving it #and after that he makes sure to never miss another of miranda’s birthdays again #because she needs to know how much she matters #how much she deserves to be happy #and he’s never going to let her feel like she’s not important again #the mallorca files #headcanon #the mallorca files headcanon #miranda blake #max winter #miranda blake backstory #miranda blake backstory dependant

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I absolutely adore the idea of Miranda playing the violin, learning it from a very young age alongside her piano lessons. But unlike with the piano (or most of the other clubs and things her parents made her do tbh), she actually found playing the violin really enjoyable, and it soon became something she did whenever she needed to escape the stress her parents’ impossibly high expectations were causing her. Even after she moved out and went through all her different jobs, she continued to use her violin playing to calm herself, although she doesn’t tell anyone about it (not even Max) because she doesn’t want to risk it getting “tainted” by any bad memories should her relationship with that person turn bad

#the mallorca files #headcanon #miranda blake #miranda blake backstory #miranda blake backstory dependant

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Miranda definitely had one of these swings hidden between some trees in her garden as a kid, and she’d go sit on it and stare up at the sky to calm herself down whenever things got too bad with her parents, or if the stress of all her schoolwork and clubs was getting too much for her

#you can’t change my mind #the mallorca files #headcanon #the mallorca files headcanon #miranda blake #miranda blake backstory #miranda blake backstory dependant

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Miranda’s so respectful of her old boss at the Met because she was the first person after Miranda had left Vice to actually offer her a job instead of just forcing her to move there.

As an extension of this, the reason she’s so argumentative with Inés (especially at the start) is because she’s still trying to deal with the fact that the first person in ages who’d seemed to at least tolerate her had made her “someone else’s problem” (and had pretty much outright said this to Miranda’s face) at the first opportunity, just like all her previous bosses had done

#the mallorca files #headcanon #the mallorca files headcanon #miranda blake #miranda blake backstory dependant

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Currently thinking about what would’ve happened if Inés had returned to her office while Max and Miranda were watching the CCTV in s1 ep1.

She just goes ballistic on them, and Max is at his usual level of ‘oh scheisse, Inés is mad at me’ scared, but Miranda’s absolutely terrified and just trying her best to hide it, because being yelled at like that is bringing back memories of her parents screaming at her for disobeying them when she was younger

#the mallorca files #au #the mallorca files au #miranda blake #max winter #ines villegas #miranda blake backstory dependant #s1 ep1 #honour amongst thieves

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‘Read All About It, Pt. III’ by Emeli Sandé is a pretty much perfect representation of Miranda finally finding somewhere she belongs (Mallorca, obviously) and starting to learn that what she thinks and feels about things really does matter

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