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driftfleet2016-02-28 10:13 pm
mylegacy) wrote in driftfleet2016-02-28 10:13 pm
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Who: Caesar Zeppeli & open
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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.
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.
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So what names do YOU like, Jojo? （ʃƪ＾3＾)
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[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.
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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.)
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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.]
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I don't think that's a bad thing, though, I think it's the sign of someone who'd make a great papa. σ(≧ε≦ｏ)
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[There is a noticeable delay because how can he recover from this? Spoilers: he cannot.]
You're just saying that.
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Nooooooooo I mean it!! That's really what I think.
And I also think you can do anything so being someone's papa is definitely no exception. (ʃƪ✪ω✪｡｀)
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And what about you? You're going to be put all the other mums to shame. (。･∀･)ﾉ
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Not ALL of them!! That's a lot to live up to!!! (*ﾉωヾ*)
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It's a lot.
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I bet she will though. Maybe even more. She'll consider you the granddaughter she never had.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
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I'D REALLY LIKE THAT A LOT
[oops, slipped and left the caps on, so much for playing it cool.]
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You're really something special, Suzie. If I can see that, I know Granny's going to right away.