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[mylegacy]

Who: Caesar Zeppeli & open
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: None
When: 2/27

Where I come from - or in my family, anyway, and families like mine. You give your child a special name at their baptism, the name of a saint that's meant to protect and guide them in life. It's just sort of a thing that's done, I never questioned it when I was young other than to wonder why my father chose what he did for me.

Mine is Anthonio, after Anthony of Padua. You're supposed to pray for him to find lost things, any kind of lost things, even ones that aren't tangible - lost faith, for example. It's funny but I don't think I ever actually have. Prayed to him. I always wanted to find all the things I lost by myself, which doesn't actually work that well all of the time.

The patron saint of today is Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows. He died on February 27. That's the thing, saint name days are named after the day a saint died on. So Gabriel died on the same day as me. I've been wondering if that's important - if I should recognize it in some kind of permanent way. Or if I should just try not to think about it, except that doesn't work very well either.

The other thing is that I remember having very strong opinions about some of the saints when I was younger. Catherine of Siena defied her parents and cut off all of her hair so she wouldn't be encouraged to marry. I used to think she should have done what they asked of her. Now I think if I ever had a daughter, I'd want Catherine to watch over her.

Comments

[mylegacy]

The ones that are just boys' names with a vowel at the end. Those seem like cheating.

[ragazzina]

So she won't have to worry about being called Anthonia, hmm?

[mylegacy]

No! That's horrible. It doesn't even sound good.

[ragazzina]

Mmmmmmm what about Sophia then???

[mylegacy]

I like that one. It's pretty to write and it sounds like breathing when you say it.

[ragazzina]

I do too, and it means "wisdom" which I think is a good thing for a girl to be named after.

[mylegacy]

True. Although I keep noticing that as a general rule, girls are wiser than us, so maybe it's less a reminder and more a badge of honor in that case.

[ragazzina]

Well, that's because we have to be! otherwise how would we take care of our boys who need it so much??

[mylegacy]

I don't know. We'd be doomed, probably.

At least Jojo would be doomed. [SUZIEEEEEEEEE]

[ragazzina]

I thought of another name I like!!

Estella is a nice name too, hm?

[mylegacy]

Like star. That's good.

I like Maria, but there are so many Marias. And I know everyone names children after relatives but it's better as a middle name, probably, or it gets confusing.

[ragazzina]

ohhhhhhh that's true. And then you have to worry about the people who didn't get picked as namesakes feeling offended, too, mmmm.

Sophia Maria sounds pretty...

[nextlineis]

Oh my God, did you really just say that?

Should I start rummaging around your room for a diary filled with names and reasons why you like them?

[mylegacy]

[AHHHHHHHHHHH]

shut up

[nextlineis]

Oh ho so you HAVE written it down somewhere before!

[mylegacy]

that's none of your business go away

[nextlineis]

Wait a minute...

I was just fucking around. You're serious, aren't you?

[What the fuck? That's so cute.]

[mylegacy]

GO AWAY JOJO

[screams at a pitch only audible to dogs!!!!!!]

[nextlineis]

[Cloudy is Distressed obviously.]

OH MY GOD YOU SERIOUSLY WROTE THIS SHIT DOWN!? CAESAR, WHY DID YOU NEVER TELL ME BEFORE!?!??!?!

[ragazzina]

we are having a NICE CONVERSATION

[nextlineis]

And I'm not allowed to join? ｡：ﾟ(｡ﾉω＼｡)ﾟ･｡

[ragazzina]

only if you're going to be nice too!!!

So what names do YOU like, Jojo? （ʃƪ＾3＾)

[nextlineis]

I'm nice ALL THE TIME, Suzie.

[Jeez. The slander that goes on around here...]

I don't know. I haven't really thought about it. [Or, you know, having kids at all. You weird Italians and your baby craziness.] I always just figured I'd come up with something good once the kid was born if I was going to have any kids in the first place.

[ragazzina]

[Look at least she's with you on the "there is no need to have THIRTEEN CHILDREN" front. One is fine. One perfect child.]

Really? You weren't sure if you were going to have them at all??

(I think you should think about names and come up with one anyway.)

[nextlineis]

[Aces, Suzie Q. Aces.]

Don't get me wrong, I like kids, but it's not like you can give them back when they're starting to be a handful and they're yours. And any kid of mine's going to be a holy terror if they're ANYTHING like me.

[And there's also that whole men in the Joestar family dying young thing that's perpetually hung over his head even with as much as he's tried to ignore it and pushed himself to believe that it won't happen to him. But he's not bringing that up here and now. That's way, way too serious.]

(I'll think about it, okay?)

[No, Joseph "Bullshits His Way Through Everything" Joestar will not think about it. But he'll pretend.]