The Heirloom & The Morning
A flashback shows Maya as a kid at her grandparents' place before coco and mymy were adopted into the family. They show her an old but well taken care of Dutch military jacket. Little Maya looks in awe saying “what’s that?” Her grandparents talk about how it’s a military jacket from her grandma's father and that she’s going to be given a jacket as an heirloom. And little Maya is a little stoped about this going “wow!” And reaches out to touch it. She then says “Can I wear it please?” And then her grandparents put the oversized jacket on little Maya as she looks at it happily. The grandparents then giggle and say that they will pass it down to her when she’s big enough for it to fit her. (It being a military jacket could probably be the reason why they gave it to Mymy when Mymy got adopted instead, as she’s into stuff like that a little bit. At least more than Maya is.)

Then, it cuts to Maya in the kitchen eating breakfast. Coco and mymy show up. Mymy is wearing the jacket as Mayas sneaks a few scornful glances at the fact mymy is wearing it. Looking at it and away and then back at it again. coco and Mymy don’t notice when she does this. Mymy looks at coco then coco looks back at her before Mymy says that they will be going to the park and if Maya wants to join them. Maya says no. Coco tries to tempt her with her favorite snack but Maya points out how shes literally eating breakfast right now. Then coco tries to think of something else to convince Maya but like just takes the next five seconds thinking saying ummm and trying to think of anything else that could convince Maya but don’t think of anything. Then she goes from happily thinking to concern as she looks at something behind Maya, that something being mymy sneaking up behind Maya. Maya looks at coco confused trying to figure out what she’s looking at but before she can turn to look she hears mymy ripping a piece of duct tape. Then it cuts to Maya “kidnapped” and tied up and looking a little peeved with duct tape on her mouth as coco is goofily carrying her with one arm like a surf board.

So they go to the park together. When they get there Maya is getting the restraints taken off but still has the duct tape on her mouth. she watches as mymy is greeted by Kiki who complements the jacket as Maya looks on.

(With Kiki saying something like. “Wow mymy! You’re really looking a true Führer!” With mymy saying “aww shucks yo-“ then going stone faced, then looks at Kiki with narrow eyes and says “so your calling me a Jew huh!?” As a reference to mymy thinking Hitler is controlled opposition in this series)

Maya looking on thinks about how mymy always gets complemented whenever she wears it. Whether when it’s at school, in a store, and even in a park. She thinks about how the jacket that was meant to be hers is now in the ownership of mymy and even benefiting her with compliments Maya would much rather have directed at her. Then her thoughts suddenly get cut with coco ripping the duct tape from Mayas mouth. With coco then apologizing as Maya covers her mouth in pain of course. All of this inner monologue stuff would be shown in a similar way to the inner monologue Maya had in the official pilot episode. Which will be the case for most of Mayas thoughts though out the episode.

The Park & The bridge
Later Maya is shown sitting under a tree watching Coco and Mymy playing a Dutch game involving throwing something (idk I will do my research to figure out what sport I want to use) while hawfinchs call on the distance.

(when an episode is specifically centered around a sister, a certain animal is subtly present at one point. Maya has hawfinches, a bird described similarly to how Maya is. And tied into a backstory involving Maya and a hawfinch nest in the backyard of the house which ended tragically with all the chicks dying due to the tree they where in needing to be cut down in order to build and add mymys room to the house after she was adopted. Mymy is cicadas: out of place in the Netherlands, loud and annoying, always bugging people, and also rooted in Japanese culture since Mymy is Japanese. And Coco is dogs. Friendly and kind, and thinks everyone is her friend, but also naive or dumb (and can have outbursts, like how Coco has anger issues).Everyone likes them surface-wise, but if it’s not specifically your dog, you wouldn’t give it much thought seeing it abandoned and alone out in the streets. Like how Coco thinks everyone loves her, but there’s only a handful of people that truly care about her),

Mymy is still wearing the jacket

(Btw she had been shown wearing it before in past episodes occasionally, and having it show up it in her room. But this episode is the episode that finally explains the jacket, which before would be thought of as just another piece of clothing Mymy has, which now shows all of that was foreshadowing for this episode. (P.S. The sisters usually don’t wear the same outfit and clothes each episode for realism and variety (though Maya usually wears similar clothes or her hoodie often), which is why Mymy occasionally features the jacket in her outfit.)Also, in previous episodes, whether Mymy is wearing the jacket or if it’s in her room, if Maya is present, she would gaze or look at the jacket. Not every time it’s around, though. But this shows a subtle link between Maya and the jacket, which is foreshadowing for this episode and is explained in this episode.).

Maya looks on with scorn. The sports object gets thrown and hits Maya comically. Mymy comes over, sweating from the jacket, to retrieve it and asks Maya what’s up, saying that she’s been feeling her stare a hole in the back of her head the whole time they have been here. Maya says it’s nothing, and as Mymy leaves, Maya brings up how the jacket was originally for her that their grandma promised it to her. Mymy offers it to her, saying how it’s too hot to wear it anyway, and Maya rejects it, saying so many of her clothes are already hand-me-downs as her gaze lingers on the jacket

(Some of Maya’s clothes are hand-me-downs from Mymy and Coco, such as socks from Mymy and some of Coco’s old clothes. This has been subtly established in past episodes, along with Maya’s resentment toward receiving hand-me-downs and the way it makes her feel unloved in comparison to her sisters. Because of this, Maya sometimes refers to clothing gifts from her sisters as “hand-me-downs” out of resentment, even when they technically aren’t. This establishes that she has a genuine grudge against the idea of hand-me-downs.This is important for this scene because Maya doesn’t actually believe the jacket is a hand-me-down. When she calls it one, she is using that as a way to reject it, despite secretly wanting it. Her reaction is rooted in the larger belief that her parents don’t care about her as much as they care about Mymy and Coco. There is some truth to her feeling that her sisters receive more attention, but Maya tends to interpret everything through that resentment and exaggerate the worst parts of it. In reality, her parents do care about her. When Maya does receive the occasional hand-me-down, her parents often put extra effort into making them feel like her own, such as recoloring them to suit her. And it’s not like most of Mayas clothing are hand me downs. As her parents also buy her new clothes, and most of her wardrobe consists of her regular clothes rather than hand-me-downs. But Maya doesn’t focus on those things. She fixates on the fact that some of her clothes came from her sisters and acts as though most of her wardrobe consists of hand-me-downs, even though that isn’t true. This fits her tendency to exaggerate the negative aspects of situations. To Maya, though, the distinction doesn’t really matter. She sees her adopted sisters as taking up the attention and affection that should belong to her as the biological child, so even small things like hand-me-down clothing become part of that larger resentment. All of this hand me down stuff is subtly shown/dialogue of Maya complaining in previous episodes.).

Mymy looks towards the direction coco is at, and she tries to be nice and be like, “But if you want it, it’s ok, you can have it,” and, “It’s not a hand-me-down. It’s yours. Oma said it was yours after all, right?” and Maya says, “I said no!” she says angrily. Mymy says okay, and as she walks away, Maya is still looking at the jacket with a sorta sad or melancholy look.

Later, after more things happen (like there’s going to be more stuff between then and next. During this coco leaves the park for some reason leaving just mymy and Maya in the park), eventually Mymy offers it again, and before Maya can say a word Mymy just shoves it into her arms saying “look just take it ok? It’s yours now Maya! Enjoy!” (Not in an annoyed tone) and then mymy walks away immediately after before Maya can reject it. Leaving Maya to enjoy the jacket by herself. She wears it and her mood starts to brighten up. Later she’s by herself while on a small stone bridge, enjoying the jacket and wearing it, calmly happy, and even almost hugging it. But then, Maya suddenly gets intrusive thoughts being fed by her imaginary friends. And just like intrusive thoughts, it comes out of nowhere, feeds into itself, and gets worse the more it’s ruminated on.

(which show up in episodes before and after this, being basically Maya's own negative thoughts translated into them, her own mindset of ideal friends but twisted into her own self-hatred. Throughout the series, they start out as basically normal-ish, like in the official pilot Ongezellig episode, with them only being slightly antagonistic. But as the series goes on and as Maya slowly gets worse and worse, the more antagonistic and more like intrusive negative thoughts they become. The more they get like this, the more it shows their eyes.Kinda like progression, since the pilot episode never showed their eyes. But remember, at the end of the day, they are not real characters. They are Maya's own thoughts said through the lens of imaginary friends.)

She thinks about how her grandparents don’t care about her, since from what she has seen, they didn’t even care enough to keep their promise with the heirloom, instead giving it to her sister. She thinks more about how no one else cares about her, and probably not even her parents, as she progressively gets more and more intensely rageful as her imaginary friends egg her on. As Maya thinks on how no one cares for her, each example gets approved by the imaginary friends as the thoughts get faster and feed into these thoughts. They say things like “Yeah,” and “They don’t,” and “Why should you?”. And other things like  “They only care about mymy and coco not you”

The animation gets a little erratic and red as her expression gets angry, her pupils go small and jitter, and she looks around. She then throws the jacket into the river, and the imaginary friends are gone. Before she threw it, Maya says out loud, "Why would I care about this jacket when my grandparents don’t even care about me!" And then she throws it.

The Mad Dash & The attempted Apology
Mymy comes back with ice cream, trying to be friendly to Maya, but sees the jacket in the river. Mymy snaps, talking about how she wanted to be nice and have Maya like her and try to make her happy. Mymy also says how she tried doing what Coco always tries to do, and how Coco tried to direct Mymy to make Maya happy. Since Mymy loves Maya just like how Coco does, she looked for help from Coco on how to help Maya in any way she could.

(Which is shown in the last few episodes by showing background dialogue or dialogue between moments in previous episodes of Coco and Mymy talking about this and her asking for advice. But it isn’t directly stated or said that Mymy was getting advice on making Maya happy and trying to help her until now. And the three episodes before this have Mymy trying to be nicer than usual to Maya instead of having her usual teasing or bullying attitude; with there being a week or less between episodes, that means she kept this up for a month, and for it to just lead to nothing and no progress. Which, for Mymy, is very frustrating, showing that Mymy has been talking to Coco about this and has been trying from previous episodes. Which is the type of slow-burning, subtle foreshadowing that will happen a lot in this series.)

And she also goes on about how Maya wanted the jacket, but then didn’t want it, and how it meant so much to her (which it did. Not just because it was a promise and memory of her childhood, but also because of the feeling Maya had that her grandparents cared about her enough to give her an heirloom, clinging to that thought of something meaningful passed down to her), and for her to just throw it into the river like an autist! And says, "What am I even supposed to do, Maya?!"

She then also says a little on Mymy's part, saying she just wishes Maya would like her for once. But something slips. She also says how she wants anyone to like her. She wants people to like her in general, as everyone finds her annoying besides Kiki. Which is Mymy's unsociableness. Just like Coco's unsociableness is thinking everyone is her friend, when in reality she’s just popular and only has a handful of true friends that actually are her friends (Cleo, Zoey, and Yfki,). Since Coco is very emotionally intelligent (not so intelligent in other ways), she knows this, but chooses to lie to herself and convinces herself otherwise as much and as convincingly as she can.

When she lets that part slip out, she is looking a little away from Maya with watery eyes before catching herself from that confession. She quickly pivots and turns that into more anger, and then looks back at Maya with narrow, mad eyes. She then goes on to talk about how all of Maya's problems are caused by Maya herself instead of Mymy and Coco (which is technically not true, as Coco and Mymy have indirectly made Maya's life worse overall, but they never meant to) (and more mean Mymy-like things she says).

During this, the ice cream (Maya's ice cream, and not the cone) accidentally falls onto the stone floor of the bridge because of her hand expressions. Then Mymy says, "Nothing I do is ever enough for you! Nothing anyone does is! I’m done with trying to make you happy! You can stay miserable for all I care!" In the middle of her saying the last part, she purposely throws the cone into the river while in her angry rant. Kinda like how Maya threw the jacket into the river, but unintentionally linked. As Mymy is snapping at Maya, after the slip of Mymy saying how she just wants anyone to like her, Mymy starts stepping towards Maya, pushing her back a little dramatically against her shoulder, pushing her back and back more and more as she rants. All through this, through the whole rant and snap, Maya gets distraught, wide eyed and tearing up. Maya doesn’t say a word as Mymy rants.

Mymy storms off after pressuring, talking shit, and snapping, dropping the ice cream she got for Maya. At first, Maya only gets angrier and sadder, thinking about how Mymy doesn’t know anything about how she feels or how Mymy and Coco are the cause of all her misery, basically rejecting what Mymy told her and deepening her thoughts on how everyone is out to get her. But these angry bitter thoughts get interrupted when she thinks that she did want the jacket so much, and how after mymy gave it to her after maya rejected it so much only to throw it away and rejecting it again, as she looks at the jacket floating away.

And then she looks at the dropped ice cream that was meant to be hers on the floor. And while looking at it, she thinks how Mymy was trying to be kind, and how she made Mymy mad and upset after Mymy tried to do something for her.Thinking this gave her a thought/vocal flashback of the time Coco gave her a Valentine’s Day card after she got nothing from anyone on Valentine’s Day. How Maya thought Coco was insulting her with it, until Coco later told Maya that was not the case and she just wanted to brighten Maya's day, and how she also gave everyone else a card so she wasn’t singling out Maya. During that time, Maya felt so guilty she skipped meals for three weeks straight.

(All of that is official lore from Studio Massa, by the way. The whole Valentine’s Day stuff will be shown more and explained more in a previous or future episode, so the audience that doesn’t know about this official lore will still be able to fully understand the Valentine's story. Though it’s only mentioned here in this episode with those few audio flashbacks of Coco, so FYI, this doesn’t bloat the episode with the whole Valentine's explanation.)

The vocal flashback is specifically of when Coco explained her intentions to her. And thinking of when Coco said, "I just wanted to be kind and make you happy, Maya. To brighten up your day!... you know me and Mymy lo-" Maya stops and flinches away in anger, as if physically dodging Coco saying love.

(This thought only takes a few seconds and starts at Maya looking at something that would remind her of this memory, which is the ice cream, with both being similar, and to help pivot her gaze to the jacket to forward the plot. So this memory sequence fits well.)

Not believing anyone, especially her sisters, love her... but the flinch and turn away made her look at the jacket again. And Maya has a rare moment of thinking about how she did something wrong, and she feels guilty for it. She feels extremely guilty and covers her face with her hands, almost crying. As guilty as she did during that Valentine’s Day and the three weeks after. I don’t want it to seem like Maya is fully realizing or accepting the thought that her sisters are not out to get her and how they just want her to be happy. But this should be just enough to have Maya go on a mad dash and search for the jacket to try and retrieve it as a sort of amends.

She spots the jacket about to float away and quickly goes, “I HAVE TO FIX THIS!” She makes a mad dash to the jacket. After Finding it on the other side of the drain, she tries to get it with a stick as it floats through the stream. Her leg sinks into the mud, and the stick breaks. And a goose snatches the jacket and flies off a little ways off to the other side of the stream. She jumps to the other side of the bank, missing a little as she chases after it, the goose apparently dropped the jacket near its goslings and now the goslings are walking all over it. Maya then tries to get the jacket back and away from the geese and gets attacked by the goose protecting its goslings. As she runs away getting chased with the jacket in hand she trips and falls, dropping the jacket back into the water. She goes after it, going into the ditch, and sees it’s about to go into another drain that has no end in sight. She tries to get it, but it’s too far for her arm to reach. She realizes she has to dunk her body into the water in order to reach it, just as it is about to get unsnagged from the rock holding it from drifting further. She gets it. She’s all wet and dirty, and so is the jacket. All of this is played slightly comedic. But the comedy doesn’t water down the previous scenes and ties into them a little as Maya is very desperate throughout it all. Trying her absolute hardest to try to get the jacket as some way to do anything to even prove to mymy that she isn’t beyond hope and to make it up to her no matter how minuscule it would even fix things.

The Walk Home & Series Aftermath
Mymy is then seen waiting for Maya by the parks gate. Tapping her singers impatiently, then gets a text notification on her phone from coco. Some of the texts are about how Mymy is giving up on Maya, being very mean about it, with Coco trying to convince her that Maya needs help. Especially these days (since Coco is emotionally intelligent—more so than Mymy, but that doesn’t mean Mymy loves Maya less—she would know that Maya is miserable and wishes to help). With a possible chain or text of coco saying “have you tried to be nice?” With Mymy saying “yea” and coco saying “ummm. Then try being nicer!:)” but also more importantly and at the bare minimum there would be Coco telling Mymy to at least walk home with Maya so she doesn’t have to walk home alone at night (it’s late evening during the jacket chase scene), with Mymy texting she isn’t going to (even though shes already waiting for her) and Coco saying, "please Mymy. You still love Maya, right?"

Mymy sighs and agrees to walk Maya home. Though she has reluctantly agreed after she has already been waiting for Maya. Showing it was already mymys plan to do so despite her anger making her feel reluctant to do so. Then Maya shows up. She brings it back to Mymy. Mymy is still pissed because the jacket is dirty. But this is far from being just about the jacket. She’s mad because of Maya's actions in the first place. About how she’s trying as hard as Mymy could, and yet Maya is still so hard to work with and so unmovable about her self-loathing and the hate she feels for her sisters.It isn’t about losing the jacket.

But she does get a little less angry after Maya tries to say how she tried to get it back to make up for it, but is looking away, shaking, and almost crying. Mymy says, "Oh, so you think this is only about the jacket then?" Thinking Maya only got it back because Mymy is assuming Maya only has a surface level grasp on why she’s mad at her. But Maya says no as she shrinks back, looking away more, trembling, and almost crying. Maya struggles to say how she feels, going, "I ummm... I... I just thought.. if.. I.. don’t know... uhh... I’m... sorr... I... didn’t know what to... How I could... I don’t know..." she says, progressively getting closer to crying and bawling her eyes out (stopping herself from saying sorry). Not knowing what to say or how to articulate her feelings

But mymy starts to Understand now. At least as much as a mymy could seeing this and hearing her try to explain. She understands now that Maya gave it back not because she thought it was just about the jacket. Mymy, forgiving Mayas very slightly and slightly softening her tone says, "Wow. Can’t remember the last time you went out of your way for something like this before." then Mymy says, "Well, it needs to be washed. And you too. Let’s just go home, Maya." As Mymy gets up and walks away, Maya looks towards her after a little and wipes a tear from her eye, but still feels just as sad and guilty.

The slight forgiveness does not stop Maya from feeling guilty and self-loathing for the rest of the episode. Though at the end, she thinks a little about how awful she feels. How she keeps on doing this. And she thinks about how she always hurts everyone around her who is trying to be nice and just makes things worse for herself. But before she can finish that thought, her imaginary friends come back. The girl one puts her hand on Maya's shoulder and says, "Wait, hold up, wouldn’t it make more since to blame them?” Maya turns away as she scowls a little . They then say “why should you even feel guilty about this? She doesn’t even care about you." Maya shakes her head no and thinks no, kinda fighting back against these intrusive thoughts for the first time in the series. The other friend talks about how no one cares for her, not her parents, and especially not her grandparents. Maya says nothing. But then they say how she would not have to deal with the pain of guilt, or any pain, if no one was there to make her feel it. And Maya starts to cave into this thought, looking down, saying, "I... I guess..." Making it clear she’s trying to reject the other thoughts, but the fact is that technically yes, she would not feel so awful right now if they never existed.

Then they say none of this would have happened if she didn’t have sisters in the first place. And she shakes her head yes, and thinks to herself, saying, "Yeah, I wouldn’t..." Turning the energy of pain and guilt back into her usual train of thinking. During this, her grip tightens against herself, but slowly loosens as she caves into these thoughts. In the official pilot, Maya mentions how she’s stuck. Even though it’s played as a literal joke with her being stuck in her anti-Coco signs, I think she also truly means it as a metaphor for her emotions. So, I will play into the fact that she is stuck in this emotional loop, and also how she gets worse and worse throughout the series.

And the episode ends showing Maya and Mymy walking home with a very late sunset. Though, after this episode, Maya would very rarely and occasionally be wearing the jacket (after it got washed, of course, and more commonly around winter or autumn. But I will only have her wear it in a handful of episodes after this, and only for one outfit if she changes outfits throughout the episode instead of wearing it the whole episode), but more often it will be seen in the background of her room or wardrobe.

With her shyly and slightly hiding it with her arms while wearing it, or taking it off when around Mymy. Not out of fear or worry that Mymy would take it from her, which Mymy wouldn’t do, but out of the guilt (which is still there even after the imaginary friends turned the guilt into more resentment) and emotions from this episode she still can’t process. This isn’t treated as her not giving the jacket attention even though it was shown to mean so much to Maya. It isn’t treated as the jacket being an afterthought after showing the emotional weight of it. It’s showing that the fact Mymy still gave it to her, Maya still keeping it and accepting it, and even her wearing it (which is a big thing for Maya) even after all of that is a huge deal in the case of Maya. (And Mymy too, kinda, as it shows she forgave her enough to follow through with giving Maya the jacket.)