#Margaret 'Maggie' Joestar-Zeppeli

[ladykailolu]

You wanna experience sadness?

Imagine how hurt Gyro would feel if after finally finding his daughters again,

But they say that they want nothing to do him anymore

Like, bro

Imagine how heartbroken that would make them feel

Even after finding them again, things between them are still broken, and it doesn’t seem like they can be fixed

And he’s spent so much time wanting them back and actually caring about them, so for them to reject him and turn him away would hurt way more that it would’ve if this whole kidnapping thing didn’t happen

(Note, I’m sure this probably wouldn’t happen in the story, I’m just saying hypothetically, if they or maybe just Sadie, we’re too bitter to give him a second chance)

I don't think that everything would be all peachy keen when the girls are reunited with Gyro and Johnny. There's a lot of unresolved tension between Gyro and his daughters that they can't ignore. By the end of the story, Gyro had realized the error of his ways and wanted to turn over a new leaf and apologize to the girls, but they don't just forgive him outright. He hurt each of them quite badly. He abandoned Paxe, he was rude to Maggie, and he brushed off Sadie-Mae! He neglected each of his children because he couldn't admit that he did something wrong.

Remember when I described to you a scene of Paxe being adamant of finding her father again while Sadie-Mae was trying to talk sense into her, warning that Gyro would only hurt her again? Well, Sadie-Mae's words finally sunk into Paxe's thick skull, and she realized all the hurt that she's been through. Her father was alive all this time in America and never bothered to send her a single letter home--he never intended to, anyway. Even when he was still in Naples, he visited her less and less frequently. Now she understands why her mother regarded her father with cold words. It all made sense! He was cruel from day 1 when he refused to do the right thing and marry her mother when Paxe came to be.

And that's not even touching on Maggie's and Sadie-Mae's stories. Maggie's is particularly cruel. It was like he was coerced to take in his own child--he didn't take her in out of love for her but out of shame. Hell, Johnny was more of a father to Maggie, as all of Maggie's best memories of her childhood featured Johnny, and not Gyro. And as Maggie got older, she learned of the truth behind her upbringing--the truth that even Johnny was hesitant to share with her. Unwanted by both her mother and father, she was deeply hurt and fed up with Gyro's irresponsibility and malice towards her.

Sadie-Mae was in a similar boat. Gyro has been rude to her from day 1 and only took her in out of pity. She knew that he didn't give two shits about her back then, and now he comes crawling back for forgiveness? She sees right through it and realizes that she's better off by herself.

It's reasonable for the girls to want to live by themselves in an apartment somewhere for a while and stay away from Gyro until they figure things out. Of course, the girls have no money to support themselves, so they find jobs and do whatever they can to stay afloat and support each other. I like to think that eventually they calm down and can stand to visit both of their fathers, and eventually from there, they learn to forgive Gyro for everything that he's done to them. It's a rocky road, to be sure, and one that requires a lot of work to overcome.

What do you think? I want to include this in the story a little bit--have the girls live together and away from Gyro and Johnny for a little while before they reconcile fully. Before they go their separate ways.

[ladykailolu]

I Just Posted Gyjo Fanfiction!

I just finished up chapter 5 of my newest project, a Gyjo fanfiction that explores the concept of Gyro and Johnny tackling fatherhood post-Steel Ball Run. Here are the details:

Title: Tears on a Rainy Day Chapter 5: The Gentleman’s Secret

Characters: Gyro Zeppeli, Johnny Joestar, JJBA OCs

Ship: Gyjo

Verse: Alternate AU Canon Divergence

Summary:  Nearly a decade passed after the disappearance of Gyro’s daughters. Somewhere in the United States of America, an unassuming man hid a dark secret.  

Chapters: 5/?

Rating: Teen and Up

Warnings: Check the author’s notes at the beginning of each chapter for trigger warnings

Category: Angsty hurt/comfort (with a happy ending!), romance, family, adventure

Notes: This is a canon divergence fic that picks up where JJBA Part 7 Steel Ball Run left off. The sequence of events are mostly the same as in canon SBR, but the biggest notable difference is that Gyro survives the fight against Valentine. Mr. President is still thwarted and the events of the end of the race play out as in canon. Other differences include Gyro and Johnny picking up an extra travel buddy along the way and Gyro hiding some other secrets of his past from Johnny….

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35786983

Shout out to my friend @oreocookiezzz for helping me develop this story! Big ups!

[ladykailolu]

You know... It's kind of gross, but it's something I thought would make sense,

I think in order to earn money Since Sadie Mae is older now and has grown into her hot self (Cause like I said, Adult Sadie Mae is hot, just like her mom)

Sadie Mae would probably try being a prostitute

Not only cause she knows she's hot, but she feels guilty* about Maggie getting assaulted by that creep, and thus would probably conclude she deserves to be violated in retribution.

*Cause running away was her idea

I don't know what the other two would think if Maggie would insist that she didn't do that or if she'd feed into it.

Would Maggie hold a grudge against Sadie? Does she blame her for what happened or would all of that be in Sadie Mae's head?

And would she encourage this?

(I feel like Paxe wouldn't care)

I was planning on writing that into the story as a means of the girls getting some money after they escape. Of course, Sadie-Mae tries to keep it under wraps and doesn't tell Maggie nor Paxe about it. Until they suspicious about all this money that Sadie-Mae is mysteriously getting.

This is an interesting idea, and I can see Sadie-Mae engaging in such a reckless activity. She doesn’t enjoy it, but she might feel that she deserves it. And it brings in some cash to help keep her sisters afloat. She also wouldn’t tell Maggie or Paxe at all about what she’s doing. She knew that Maggie would hate that Sadie-Mae is willing subjecting herself to the same things their captor used to torture and break Maggie. Still, Sadie-Mae feels like she needs to do her part to get her sisters out of their situation of being homeless and clueless on how to get home. It’s a warped-sense of thinking, at best.

Of course, Sadie-Mae’s little escapades at night don’t go unnoticed by her sisters. Maggie is particularly upset because she’s grown dependent on everyone around her, so Sadie-Mae’s absence is a huge gap felt by her. She's worried about Sadie-Mae and wanted her and Paxe to stay with her, or otherwise it feels like Maggie's whole family is falling apart again. Of course, when Maggie catches Sadie-Mae doing all this stuff, she would be horrified and upset, confused that Sadie-Mae would do that to herself and even more confused at her sister’s justification.

Paxe wouldn’t like the idea either. By now, Paxe has learned to care about her sisters more. You can think of it as trauma-bonding. She feels a little closer to her sisters and isn’t as hostile to them, but she does push forward on occasion to find their father above all else, even when Sadie-Mae bitterly disagrees. Even Paxe is disgusted at Sadie-Mae’s actions and asks if the girl has even a shred of pride or dignity left. When Paxe wandered around the USA, she never once stooped so low to be a man’s plaything to earn a bit of money or have a place to stay. Instead, Paxe would go back to her "roots" and find a job as a maid or something to earn some money to support them. I figured that Paxe's mom was a religious lady and came from a very religious background, so prostitution was absolutely off limits. Paxe wasn't ignorant to the presence of prostitutes on the streets of Naples, Italy back when she lived with her mom. She heard her mom talk about it with her relatives, but usually it was in the form of insults in that those relatives called her mom a prostitute, just like those stray women. So, Paxe doesn't take kindly to Sadie-Mae becoming like those women. At all.

Eventually, Sadie-Mae gives it up, especially after one of the men got a bit handsey with her and pushed her around too much. Sadie-Mae used her stand power to get out of there, and while she thinks she can hide it, Maggie can see that she's shaken up by it. Sadie-Mae wasn't expecting this--she wasn't close enough to anyone in her life for them to know her so well, until she met Maggie, who has a talent for sensing Sadie-Mae's true emotions.

And if that guy comes back around to get at Sadie-Mae, big sister Paxe will be waiting...

[ladykailolu]

I miss talking about Sadie Mae and the gang

Sadie Mae would love hanging out with Marigold

Again she’s not half as stand offish as we make her out to be, she’s chill, a bit sassy but she gets along well with other kids. When she feels threatened, yeah she gets testy but normally she’s cool (like Holli Wood but less sexual [though when she grows up she gets hot])

Still though, imagine 18 year old Marigold talking to grown Sadie Mae

Marigold tells Sadie about the getting in trouble for the tequila and not the gummies

Sadie Mae is like: that’s cool, you manage to sneak something by the old man

Sadie Mae is like, screw your dad, you’re a grown woman now, you can do what you want, I heard in other countries you can drink at 18 anyway so who care?

She doesn’t mean to be a bad influence, she really believes that. She thinks independence and rebellion is good to certain extent. And she’s just tryna lift her friends spirits a bit

But her daddy issues kind of cause Sadie to give Goldie some bad advice in terms of parental respect.

Can you imagine when Marigold and Sadie-Mae are about 12 or 13 years old, they sneak out of their houses to go to the park or a restaurant without their parents knowing anything about it. Then let's say that Johnny realizes that Sadie-Mae is nowhere to be found because she's usually with Maggie at home, but neither girl is anywhere in the house or in the huge yard. He asks Gyro first where the girls are, and Gyro has no clue either. So, Gyro calls up Godot and explains that he doesn't know where Sadie-Mae and Maggie are, and he asks Godot this because he knows that his two girls are friends with Marigold, and maybe Marigold knows something about it. Then Godot goes to look for Marigold to ask her directly, and lo and behold! Marigold is not anywhere in the house! I think you can guess what happened next: panic started with Godot then it spread to Gyro and Johnny, and the three men were tryna track down where their daughters went.

And boy....oohhhhhh boy, when they found the girls chillin' at the mall miles away from their homes, all three men were seeing red (yes, including Godot lol). The girls just snuck off and didn't say anything! If anything ever happened to them, their fathers wouldn't know what to do. Marigold tries to plea with her father, but he grounds her effective immediately and indefinitely. He's pissed and can't reason with her right now, so he just punishes her and takes away her freedom for a while until he's calmed down. Gyro does a similar thing with Sadie-Mae but with more yelling. Both Gyro and Godot are a little harsh on their daughters, and it's only because they give a shit about them. Marigold feels terrible and cries about it. She feels embarrassed that she was caught and feels worse for making her father worry so much. While chastising her, Godot got so worked up because he was so afraid of losing Marigold like his lost Mia. It's a little irrational, but knowing his past, you really can't blame him. You can be sure that he keeps her on a tight leash afterwards.

As for Sadie-Mae and Maggie, both Gyro and Johnny are angry with her. Gyro is much more vocal and angry sounding, even shouting at the girls, while Johnny's anger is colder, quieter. He has some curt words to say to them, which causes both girls to cry. Maggie is scared of angering her fathers, and while Sadie-Mae claims that she doesn't care, she's just as scared and begins to cry when Gyro yells at her.

Needless to say, Marigold doesn't see her friends for a little while.

Then the girls turn 18, and are caught drinking so much that they don't even return home that night nor call their parents. And again, their fathers are worried to death. When Godot reaches Marigold and takes her home, he's disappointed with her and while he's not yelling at her, she can tell that he's very upset. He explains to her that he doesn't care what time of day it is--he would much rather hear a call from her at 4am asking for a ride home than a call from the hospital or even worse. A similar thing happens when Gyro and Johnny get ahold of Maggie and Sadie-Mae.

[ladykailolu]

Just

Just hear me out:

Gyro and Johnny get into a little argument one evening out in their great yard away from the ears of their kids as the sun sets.

Johnny wants Gyro to spend more time with his daughters because he noticed that Gyro has deliberately kept his distance with some excuse or other. Moreover, Maggie had talked to Johnny and explained that she felt left out by Gyro and worried if he hates her.

At first, Gyro was having none of it, claiming his daughters were perfectly fine and that he didn't need to baby them. In the end, they agreed to disagree and went on with the night.

So imagine Johnny's surprise when he comes home and finds Gyro sitting at a small table in the kids' room, teacups and little dishes all over the table, the girls dressed in their best, and Gyro rocking some cute braids in his hair. Well, Gyro isn't particularly thrilled about it, but the girls looked happier and invited Johnny to join their little party.

Maggie suggested that they do Gyro's hair up into a messy bun next, and Gyro lets them with an occasional growl if they pull at his hair too hard.

[ladykailolu]

I wanna talk more about Blondie

I feel like she and Mela would get along, they’re both total queens and Blondie also likes to dance, she also loves hot chocolate, ballet, flute music, smooth jazz and classical music, fashion* and fashion design, and afternoon tea parties

*she’d get criticized at her job because instead of wearing a police uniform she’d just walk around in her designer clothes with her badge in her coat or something

(once her name starts to really get out there, she gets quite wealthy, and she usually spends it on clothes or charity stuff, as she does believe in reformative programs preventing crime)

I can see her hanging out with the gang including Godot, cause like, one of them copes with his trauma and sadness by being cryptic and bitter, while she deals with her trauma and sadness by being a little silly

Black Coffee guy and hot chocolate with rainbow sprinkles lady

Home girl and coffee boy are both working in the prosecutor’s office late and as a kind gesture, she makes him a cup of extra dark hot chocolate, cause she thinks he’d like it [she doesn’t know how to make coffee cause she doesn’t drink it, as she’s an insomniac]

“Just something to help get through the night from one late shifter to another”

but I actually ship her with Franziska,

Cause it’s like the sun lesbian* + moon lesbian (*bisexual but whatever)

U know opposites attract

Franziska is this uptight, formal, thin and sharp young woman, who’s secretly cute

Blondie is this bubbly, soft and curvy, quirky slightly older** lady, who’s secretly a badass

** she’s like in her early to mid 30s

And both have near perfect records

Blondie can be Franziska’s pet detective (like got Gumgum is to Edgybaby)

Nah but really they’d be an interesting crime fighting duo, and make great gfs

They both classy hoes (hoes in an endearing way)

What do u think?

I was immediately picturing Blondie making a dirty chai latte or dirty hot chocolate for Godot in that there's coffee in it and she tries to make it dark and bitter to his tasting. And she might even bake him bagels with cream cheese to go with the coffee (or maybe that's just me projecting lol)

She sounds like the generous person who brings in sweets and the like to be enjoyed by the whole detective team, and Gumshoe is just taken by those gestures and has to stop himself from eating the whole thing.

Despite being a dark and bitter cryptid, Godot finds himself smiling more when Blondie's around. The coffee she makes is....well, there's always room for improvement 😊

God just imagine Blondie and Mela getting together over tea and confections, and Mela starts explaining about all the silly, shameful things one of her cousins has been up to. She spills the beans of Gyro's failed love affairs and the mess he's made of them, and Blondie has to stop herself from laughing or she'll get the hiccups. They just roast tf outta him and it is glorious lol!

But how does Blondie react upon seeing Gyro's little bastard girls? I feel like Sadie-Mae might like her. Maggie would like her because she seems fun and nice (much, much nicer than her father, that's for sure), and Paxe is a bit disinterested. As a side note, give Paxe a whip and she'd become a little Frannie lol

I was imagining that Mela would purposefully kick out Caesar and Gyro from the house for a day so she could host a little girls-only get together with Gyro's daughters, her gf Jodie and Blondie. There, Mela dances with Blondie and teaches her this Spanish dance she recently learned. And Blondie makes hot chocolate for the kids.

[ladykailolu]

Apparently, there are A LOT of movies that are rehashes of "Three Men and a Baby", which also is a rehash of a French film, "Three Men and a Cradle". And I guess you could also make the claim that "Full House" is another rendition of "Three Men and a Baby", if not directly then in spirit.

And here I go with my babblings of Gyro x Jake x Godot which in essence is *another* rehash of "Three Men and a Baby"! Hell, I'll even call it "Three Men, Two Babies, and One Little Lady", a charming and wholesome comedy of three bachelors (Gyro, Jake, and Godot) suddenly find themselves strapped with three kids, all Gyro's from three separate affairs, and have to stop their whole lives to raise them. They got Paxe, a five year old little bullish bratty girl who only listens to Gyro, Maggie, who is a clingy older baby, and Sadie-Mae, the youngest who is a fussy younger baby.

Needless to say, the men got their hands full hahaha. None of them have any idea on how to raise and care for a baby, and Godot and Jake are pissed off at Gyro for getting them into this situation. My god, cant he just keep it in his pants???? Where tf is the mom(s)????

[ladykailolu]

@oreocookiezzz

Sadie-Mae putting on a cutesy act, saying that she wants to look like a princess to win over some guy’s heart, to dupe a shopkeeper into giving her what she wants while Paxe is like “Ewww, this is pathetic, be a knight instead”, and Maggie is like “Oh my god, this speaks to my very soul, I wanna be a princess too!”

[ladykailolu]

I finally got around to designing my darling Maggie

How can Gyro not love this cute girl?

OMG She's adorable!!!!!! How could Gyro ever hate a little cute ragazzina like her??? He's a cruel, cruel man to make her cry.

Even worse though, how could Maggie's mother just dump her before she's even a year old???? She missed out on mothering and loving such a cute girl.

Still, Maggie's appearance looks very much like her mother's, and this haunts Gyro. So, she becomes his punching bag for all his insecurities about sleeping around. Aside from that, Johnny is amazed at how little she looks like Gyro--except for her eyes. She inherited her daddy's eyes and goofy sense of humor.

I love this design!!! It's very close to how I envisioned her. She wears a plain dress (she's not as invested in dresses as Sadie-Mae), one that has plenty of room to move around because this girl runs around a lot outside. She wears her thick hair in a very loose braid spilling out, overflowing with brunette hair. It's cute to think that Johnny helps her brush it every morning then braids it before she bolts off, outside to play hopscotch again.

Thank you so much for drawing her!!!!

[ladykailolu]

Imagine Maggie is wearing her new favorite hat (The yellow one with the flowers)

Gyro's already kind of grumpy so he gets angry when he sees her running around wearing yellow

So he starts bitching at her for some made-up reason

Maggie obviously gets sad, but Sadie Mae sees this happening and gets pissed off

At one point, Gyro throws his arms up in frustration, but Sadie Mae thinks he's about the strike her.

So she runs up and kicks him hard in the leg.

This only pissed him off, but Sadie Mae was quick to be in Maggie's defense. Sadie Mae honestly wouldn't put it past him to physically abuse Maggie. He's already is emotional neglectful

It seems like their gonna start fighting.

Where do we go from here?

Sadie-Mae can see that Maggie is very, very close to outright crying. Maggie tends to fidget with her hair and her dress and bites her lip a lot when she's upset. Furthermore, Sadie-Mae can see that Maggie's eyes are glazing up with tears. Something has to be done about that buffoon!

To make things worse, Gyro is irrationally and abnormally angry at her. He raises his voice and charges at Maggie like a bull, snatching her hat off which looks very, very close to slapping her across the face. Sadie-Mae is quite frightened herself, but she's more frightened for Maggie. So she goes up, and like a sacrificial lamb, she kicks Gyro quiet hard in the leg and draws his attention away from Maggie. "Leave her alone!" Sadie-Mae yells and inserted herself between him and Maggie.

She got Gyro pretty good because he caught off guard long enough for the girls to run away. The kids knew trouble was brewing when they caught sight of the nasty angry look on Gyro's face, making them feeling as if they stayed a bit longer they would both be spanked so hard that they wouldn't be able to sit down for days.

So the girls race outside and stay in the yard, always on alert for Gyro, but he never chased them. He's probably arguing with Johnny, who must have caught wind of the situation. Johnny couldn't understand why Gyro bristled at the mere sight of Maggie, and much less how Gyro was so adamant about refusing to buy anything yellow for Maggie. Johnny wanted to understand and protect his daughters, but Gyro never opened up. Instead, Gyro harped on and on and on about how Sadie-Mae had the audacity to kick him and run off like a little brat.

Sadie-Mae knew another "talk" was coming soon, but like the others, nothing would come of it. Gyro would yell and lecture her, and Johnny would lecture here until he gave up. It would be business as usual afterwards.

Outside, Maggie cried a little bit, spooked by the anger in Gyro's voice and face. Sadie-Mae, who swiped her hat off of the floor, gave it back to her and put it on her head. That seemed to cheer Maggie up a bit!

Even so, Sadie-Mae saw the fear all over Maggie's face when it was time to return home. Maggie even snatched her hat off and hid it behind her back and prayed and prayed and prayed that Gyro wouldn't see her try to slip back into her room.

[ladykailolu]

I read about a cute tiktok video about a black 4 year old boy have a little tantrum when he talks to his mom about how much he wishes to be Mexican. His parents aren't Mexican and he's disappointed. Why does he want to be Mexican so much? Well, because he eats quesadillas, of course!!!!

So imagine one of Gyro's bastard daughters (probably Maggie) getting mad and pissy because she wants to be Mexican like one of Gyro's boyfriends, Jake Marshall. And Maggie, like 4 years old at this point, had a little tantrum and it's the cutest, funniest thing Gyro, Jake, and Godot have seen lmao

"I wanna be Mexican!!"

"But you're not Mexican. Your mother's not Mexican. I'm not Mexican. Both your parents are Neapolitan. How are you gonna be Mexican when your parents aren't?"

"...Because I eat quesadillas."

So Jake calls her a "Mexican at heart" and they celebrate with nachos and quesadillas to Maggie's liking. It's almost enough to appease her.

[ladykailolu]

During a summer cookout, Gyro's bastard daughters play together while Gyro works the grill and Jake and Godot get the tables ready.

One of Gyro's bastard daughters: What a load of bull!

Gyro, Jake, and Godot: Hey!!!! 😠😠😠

The daughter: Oop. 😰

[ladykailolu]

Gyro and his boyfriends resting in bed. More specifically, Godot was laying on his stomach, Jake at his side, and Gyro flush against his back--Gyro's chest pressed onto Godot's back. Gyro takes a deep breath, and as he exhales, he slides his arma around Godot's front and hugs him with a lot of force, not enough to hurt of course, but enough to anchor himself to his lover. He squeezes him like he does to his large teddy bears and sighs so deeply that he moans which comes out as a cute growl.

Then the bedroom door swings open. And there was Maggie, a 7 year old girl, holding onto her little teddy bear and looking fretful. "Papà," she called, and Godot felt Gyro freeze like a statue above him. Gyro's weight on his back, which started to feel good, now felt like dead weight aggravating his already tight back. "Papà, what are you doing?"

"Nothing. Go to bed." Gyro fired back, not even bothering to lift his head and look back at the girl.

"But Papà, I need you for something."

"Cazzo...! Girl, if you don't go back to bed right now--" Gyro stopped short when he heard Godot whispering to him. Maggie couldn't hear what he was saying, but whatever it was, it caught Gyro's attention real fast and changed his attitude real quick. "Alright, fine!"

Gyro slid himself off of Godot and the bed and walled towards Maggie, kneeling down to her so that they were eye-level. "What is it, Maggie?"

"You didn't tuck me in or read me a story."

"That's it???"

"Yeah."

Rolling his eyes, Gyro escorted Maggie to her bed, tucked her underneath the covers, and read her story after story until she finally stayed asleep.

But by the time Gyro returned to his own bed where his lovers were, both Godot and Jake were fast asleep! So much for having a little fun before bedtime....

[ladykailolu]

The first time Gyro's misfit bastard daughters call Jake "Pa" and Godot "Papi" would probably hit the men like a truck lol

[ladykailolu]

I do think Jake and Godot could positively influence the three misfits

Paxe loves cowboy/girl stuff so they’d be inclined to hang out with them

It would be great for Maggie to see people with a similar skin tone to her

It’s no secret Gyro treats her poorly cause she has the same skin and hair as her mom,

But to have a positive influence who her father likes but also has darker skin and hair would be great

It’s weird how similar Godot and Sadie Mae are since I made Sadie Mae before I played Ace Attorney

Whiteish hair, covers eyes, is misunderstood and tragic,

So I feel like they’d get along. Sadie Mae having caring adults who understand her is excellent for her fragile Mental health

Johnny is nice but the more the merrier

(Side note: If Gyro’s having an open relationship can M&M be in the poly thing or is it boys only)

I agree!!! I very much think that Godot and Jake could be positive role models for the bastard trio where Gyro falls short. For example, both Jake and Godot pick up on how Gyro is ruder more often to Maggie than to Paxe and Sadie-Mae, which they find weird. Very unusual. They want to investigate it more without setting off alarms in Maggie's head that something serious might be going on. In the meantime, they occupy Maggie's time, helping her with homework, lifting her down from the monkey bars when she's stuck and calling for help, accompanying her on walks in the park (and chasing after her if she ever gets too far or tries to run off by herself).

One detail I try to carefully navigate through is understanding Maggie's reaction when she's around her peers and family members who don't really look like her. Johnny and his children have fairer skin, much like her classmates, and up until now, only Gyro had darker skin like hers, but even his was significantly lighter. Maggie's got darker skin like her mom, and with Gyro's constant mistreatment, she felt like she didn't really fit in. She later questioned if her father didn't like her because she didn't look like him. She favored the mother (in terms of appearance). Then along came Godot and Jake who have skin color of a shade similar to hers, who pepper in a few foreign words her and there like her father, who have darker hair like hers (well, before Godot's turned white lol)...They were like cultural role models for Maggie and helped her feel more comfortable. Coupled with the fact that Gyro really liked these men, they made her feel safer.

But that still didn't answer the question of why Gyro was especially rude to her whenever she wore anything yellow.

And wouldn't it be cute if Jake and Godot taught Maggie and her sisters a bit of Spanish? I think it would be cute. Like, Gyro doesn't know Spanish, so anytime Jake or Godot catches him being standoffish with Maggie, they cheer Maggie up by saying a lighthearted joke about Gyro in Spanish. Maggie understands what they're saying and laughs at the joke, and Gyro is completely clueless lol.

Ok so there's this one scene in Back to the Future Part III where a sheriff is teaching his son how to be sheriff and tough with outlaws. The outlaw tries to get smart with him and tells him to smile because the sheriff is always frowning, and the sheriff replied, "The only party I'll be smiling at is one that sees you at the end of a rope." And when the outlaw walks away, the sheriff tells his son not to give any of these outlaws any ground, and the son replied with, "I will, Pa."

And so the point is, Paxe eventually opens up to the idea that Godot and Jake are coinhabiting HER house (that's right, her house and not Gyro's lol), and she gets curious as children are. She tails Jake around the most, asking him what he does, and he explains in his own way that he's a rogue sheriff, and she's just. Taken by the idea of being a cowboy! So long story short, I can see that scene happening between the two of them, where Jake teaches Paxe how to be tough with criminals, and Paxe eagerly takes in all of the information. And Jake is so proud of her!!!! He pats her shoulder and tells her what a good job she's doing (gruffly, of course) and takes her out to lunch to have spaghetti, which she's not gonna say no to.

Godot taking care of Sadie-Mae is like a ray of sunshine for the girl. She thought that she was all alone in her pain and that she stood out in all the wrong ways. Then she meets one of the guys her buffoon of a father is dating and...she feels seen. There's this invisible connection between Godot and Sadie-Mae that subconsciously draw them together. At first, Sadie-Mae tries to dismiss Godot like she would her father, but he doesn't go away like she wanted. Instead, he stays and plays with her a bit, using her own words against her to poke fun at her. Light fun, and no matter what she says to him to make him go away, her words never hit him. He sits across from her, sipping his coffee, savoring the bitterness of it, and calling her "kitten" and "princess". He's so charming that her frustration kinda burns out, and she finds herself chatting pleasantly with him. He asks her about that favorite porcelain doll she always carried around, and she opens up even more, eventually gushing all about how she loves her doll. And she doesn't even realize it! When she realizes that she's talking to much or just generally sounding silly, she gets all self-conscious and clams up again. He picks up on her sudden shyness and chuckles--it was cute!

The next day, Gyro nearly falls out of his chair when he sees that brat Sadie-Mae run up to Godot after school and immediately ask him for homework help.

Also like....Godot giving Sadie-Mae a piggy back ride, come on now!!! And whenever she says to make a turn or go here or go there, he replies with "As you wish, princess". You know, general dad-daughter cutesy stuff.

But due to their traumatic backgrounds, do you think that Godot would be especially physically protective of Sadie-Mae? Like, sometimes a serious thing happens or appears on TV, and Godot immediately shoo-es Sadie-Mae off, so that she doesn't see what's happening. Same goes for the other girls. When the girls are on the playground and one of them goes out of his line of sight, he's out of his chair looking for them.

And omg!!! Ever hear of a kids game where the kids are playing on a playground slide and tree and pretend that the playground construct is a ship and the ground around them is the ocean? Well, the girls pretend that they're sailors tryna survive on their stranded ship and not get caught by three "monsters" lurking in the water. So the girls run and jump from one end of their "ship" to the other while Gyro, Jake, and Godot slip underneath them and try to grab them from the steps or slide, etc. It's a little pretend game of survival.

And Johnny loves Gyro's children and thinks of them as his own, but he's also got Julia and Marco to worry about. M&M has Reese, so I imagine that all of the adults work together to wrangle the kids.

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So when Maggie grew up, raised by Gyro, Godot, and Jake, she speaks English in the house most days and also learns Italian and Neapolitan to talk with Gyro, and Spanish to talk with Godot and Jake.

So in school one day, Maggie speaks Spanish to one of her classmates, and the teacher did not like that--not one bit. She yells at Maggie, telling her to go back to “whatever Spanish-speaking country you come from”, and when Maggie responded that she learned Spanish from her “honorary” daddies (Godot and Jake) and wanted to practice for them, the teacher snapped back with, “Then you can take your daddies with you back to your home country.”

Maggie was seven years old when this all went down, and she was so confused and upset that the outburst left her in tears in the middle of class in the middle of the classroom. When she got back home that day, she cried to her daddies, explaining that her teacher yelled at her simply for speaking Spanish. Her daddies couldn’t believe it either, but when they found that it was true, they’re weren’t gonna let it slide.

A few days later and the teacher gets a letter saying that she’s being investigated for discrimination and possibly sued. Then it clicked: one of Maggie’s parents is a freakin’ prosecutor, and he wasn’t gonna let this little thing slide either. Godot was gonna make an example out of that bitch.

Maggie, still too young to understand what exactly was going on here, was still just as confused and scared as before. She begged her daddies not to send her back to that classroom. Eventually, the men caved and took Maggie and the rest of their kids out of that school entirely and sought out a new school. Until they find a new, more tolerant school, Maggie and her sisters would be home-schooled.