#we accept no Maddie Buckley slander here

[briinstardust]

1/2 Maddie keeping the secret from buck wont have been easy at all for maddie to do, she in an impossible position, probably worrying whether it was the right thing, if its crueler tell him and or to keep it. But she wouldnt keep buck from knowing/meeting the person the secret involve so ie if adopted they're died when he was a baby, she wouldn't keep a living person from him) Only wanting to protect buck but as bucks sister she shouldnt have been put in that position, telling or

2/2 keeping that secret should only be the responsibility of their parents. It does sound seem like maddie tells chimn with the line "Its not you I'm trying to protect" and chimn struggling to keep all the secrets when they arrive. But I dont think maddie even if she tells chimn she will have told him lightly or even on purpose, she probably needed a new perspective from someone who knows buck but isnt involved.

You have made several points and let’s talk about them!

So yes, Maddie is in an impossible situation, but I would also like to make it a point that whatever the secret is has to do with their childhood. soooo Maddie was a child too whenever this was going on. Whatever she knows she’s held onto for this long, don’t care if you wanna argue she was a teenager, she was older, whatever. she was a minor, whatever happened to them, they were both children and Maddie should not be responsible for handling whatever this is we’re talking about.

Now I will say that I’ve been on the fence about the whole adoption thing, I don’t think that’s it anymore... I mean it could be I suppose. I suppose we could still be dealing with a situation where maybe something happened to “real” parents, and they’ve been adopted, one or both of them. and maybe that is what we’re looking at. I’ve personally been leaning more towards maybe another sibling. I’m not completely sure, to be honest, there is plenty of merit with both of these theories.  but like these are all just theories at the end of it you know. we still gotta wait 2 more weeks to find out for sure and it’s killing me!!!!!

Maddie is seen saying she’s trying to protect someone. we don’t know for a fact it’s Buck, but I think most of us have made an inference that it’s Buck. But I’d like to just make it clear that Maddie doesn’t say it’s Buck she’s trying to protect.

But We know that Maddie has done nothing but protect and care for her brother since we’ve been introduced to her character, and we know that even before when they were younger, we’re given plenty of context clues to make, at least me, feel comfortable saying that Maddie’s always put her brother’s care and well being above any trivial thing and that she would do anything within her power to protect him.

now. Maddie should have never been put in a situation where she was meant to be telling or keeping secrets. you said it Nonnie and you are correct! whatever the secret is, is not Maddie’s responsibility. It is the responsibility of their parents. We need to be looking at and asking why the fuck their parents aren’t telling Buck whatever it is, and asking ourselves what could be so serious that Maddie feels like she needs to take it upon herself right now, to tell Buck whatever it is, when she should not be having to deal with whatever this, but bc their parents are choosing not to, so Maddie is taking responsibility and taking it upon herself when it really should not be something she has to do.

so like idk what to think about the Chim stuff. part of me thinks okay she could have told him. part of me thinks that maybe the secret isn’t even about Buck and that we’re maybe taking the Chim part of it out of context. like the “protecting” thing might not have anything to do with Buck. we have not enough context, or any context really for these lines. so I can’t even really speculate on this part of it if we’re gonna try to apply it to the childhood secret bc we don’t have the context to do so properly. and yeah it’s all speculation at the end of the day but like this is getting sticky.