#margaret 'maggie' nichole joestar-zeppeli

[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]

@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]

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.

[ladykailolu]

jfc I was thinking about Godot and Jake being dads (against their own wills lmao) to Gyro’s bastard girls because their boyfriend is irresponsible and it’s not fair to have the kids suffer, and then this scenario came to mind:

It’s a parent-teacher meeting for Maggie’s highschool, and Gyro refuses to go. So, Godot steps in, and not only does he play the role of Maggie’s dad, he’s also gotta keep the secret that there is no “Mrs. Zeppeli” and that Gyro wasn’t involved with two other men. Based off of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air:

Teacher: Will Mrs. Zeppeli be joining us?

Godot: Uh, no, I’m single. I mean, um, Maggie’s mother ran out on us. Maggie was but a mere tyke at the time. I had to be both Mommy and Daddy. We went from training wheels to training bras. They both came off too soon, didn’t they, kitten?

[ladykailolu]

Toddler Maggie/Sadie-Mae: *getting into trouble*

Godot: I find you in contempt of court, young lady! *slams down his coffee mug* 20 minutes behind bars!

The toddler: ...

Godot: *places the toddler in her crib and raises the gate* Can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.

[ladykailolu]

Jake and Godot tryna change a diaper on baby Maggie and baby Sadie-Mae

Godot: How could something so small...create something so disgusting?

Jake: Beats the shit outta me.

Godot: Hand me the other diaper.

Jake: Shouldn't we wash her?

Godot: We'll wash her later. Get me the cotton.

Jake: Here it is *hands over a fuck ton of cotton balls*

Godot: Just give me a little cotton. I don't need a package. Get me the cotton wipes. This is disgusting. It's all over and it's sticky. We're gonna need some kind of cleaning fluid to get it off.

Jake: How about after shave?

Godot: Come on, Jake, just get me a diaper.

Jake: *hands over a huge diaper*

Godot: *opens up the diaper* Do these tapes go in the front or back?

Jake: How am I supposed to know? These are way too big! What size did you get?

Godot: They're ultra absorbent! The more absorbent, the better.

The baby: *squirming around*

Godot: Hold her! She's going crazy.

Jake: I don't want to.

Godot: Come on, Jake! *tries to get the diaper closed*

Jake: You're going to rip it.

Godot: I'm not going to rip it.

Jake: Yes, you are!

Godot: *rips the diaper* Get me another diaper. I'll use the tape. I'll use the tape from the diaper and I'll tape it up.

The baby: *squirming around, cooing*

Godot: Take it easy, kid. *tapes the diaper on the baby* There, see? It's working. Piece of cake. Yeah. *lifts the baby up*

The baby: *diaper immediately falls off*

Jake: Nice job, Godot.

The baby: *pees on the couch*

Godot: The little insect was just waiting...for that diaper to fall off.

Jake: I think we're in trouble.

Later

Jake: *scrubbing the pee from the couch* I'm going to kill Gyro. I'm going to kill him.

Even later

Godot: *holding the baby over the sink filled with soapy water* Here's the deal. Jake?

Jake: *dabbing at the baby with a soapy sponge* What?

Godot: You're going to have to wash where the poop was. Come on.

Jake: All right. *squirts soapy water at the baby with a turkey baster*

Godot: You're not getting anything off that way.

Jake: *dabs at the baby with a soapy sponge* There you go. That's clean.

Godot: I'll rinse her.

Jake: Rinse her for a little bit.

Godot: *lowers the baby into the soapy water* There we go.

Jake: *grabs a bottle of baby lotion* This is for moisturizing...

Godot: Don't use the baby lotion now.

Jake: It says, "prevents chapping"

Godot: Just wash her.

Jake: I'll put some in just to make sure.

Even later

Godot: *swaddles the baby in a blanket without a diaper then carries her*

The baby: *poops*

Godot: ...

[ladykailolu]

It’s bring your kid(s) to work day, and Gyro wants nothing more than to prevent his daughters from wrecking their usual havoc in his work space. So....he tries to give them over to Godot and Jake for the day. The girls want to see at least what one of their fathers do for a living and won’t accept anything less, but there’s a little problem. Godot is prosecuting a trial for a heinous crime--the girls shouldn’t see any of that. And a police precinct with dangerous criminals and shady suspects are no place for children either.

So it backfires, and Gyro is saddled with his daughters at work lol! They can’t come into patient rooms with him, so he keeps them in a central break room with all the toys and books to distract them. It’s a looooooooong day.

[ladykailolu]

Gyro was away at the hospital, participating in an OBSCENELY long surgery which kept him at work literally overnight. In the meantime, Paxe, Sadie-Mae, and Maggie came home from school with homework, and Sadie-Mae had long division homework to work through. But she can’t do it by herself. So she asked Godot and Jake for homework help, and they try their best, but neither of them went to math school and they were kinda stumped. In the end, while Jake read through the textbook for clues, Godot searched on Google for the answers, and they managed to help Sadie-Mae finish....five minutes before her bed time. Oof.

[ladykailolu]

*Gyro, Jake, and Godot take their daughters Paxe, Maggie, and Sadie-Mae out to a restaurant one day*

Waitress: What can I get for you?

Maggie: Do you have a penis?

Paxe and Sadie-Mae: *giggle*

The dads: *shocked silence*

Godot: Can we hear your specials, please?

Jake: This table is a little wobbly...

Gyro: Uh, give us a minute, please.

Waitress: *leaves*

Godot: That is a very adult word, princess. Where did you hear it?

Maggie: Dorothy said that her father and her brother have a penis. What is it?

Godot: Gyro, you’re the doctor. Why don’t you explain it to her?

Gyro, nervously: The...penis is the urinary and copulatory organ of the male mammal. It’s composed primarily--

Godot: Thank you.

Gyro: What?!

Jake: Did you memorize that?

[ladykailolu]

Diego/Godot: *reading a law book to baby Maggie and Sadie-Mae*

Jake: What are you reading her?

Diego/Godot: It doesn’t matter what I read. It’s the tone that I use. And they don’t understand the words I’m using anyway. Now, where were we?

[ladykailolu]

Broooooooo

Come on now, I’m imaging Gyro being dickass Gyro and ignoring the needs of his infant daughters Maggie and Sadie-Mae (they’re close in age but were born to two different mothers) yet again and so Jake and Diego are running themselves ragged. Holy shit! These girls didn’t just shit their diapers again did they??/ Are they hungry, when did we last feed them, maybe they need to be burped???? Hey, they stopped crying as soon as they saw us, what could this mean??? And so on and so forth.

So Jake has this mental checklist to go through every time one of the girls cry or make a fuss. Ergo, Jake handles the babies.

The other menace on their hands is Gyro’s *other* daughter. THe menace to society. The miniature Gyro. The little bull herself. The little Italian (Neapolitan) girl with a super mad bad attitude. Paxe Amalia Zeppeli.

Diego does more than wear a little cinnamon-scent spice scent. He’s also a bit spicy with his attitude. So the little bull is charging at him? No problem, his people were born to be bullfighters!!!! Olé !!!! He makes quick work of the bull and sends her in her pen (bedroom) when she tries to poke him with her horns. Off you go to bed, little girl!!! And so, Paxe dreams of the days when she can charge at and launch Diego into the air.

And all the while, what the fuck is Gyro doing??? He’s either working or shirking his work as a father!!! Diego and Jake search the house looking for him, each carrying a squirming baby, and Gyro is nowhere to be found.

Then he comes home a little later than usual and is drunk as a skunk. “Where the fuck have you been? The girls have been shitting everywhere, they just vomited today, they’re crying and won’t stop!!!!”

But Gyro doesn’t give a shit, really. Out of the three, Paxe is the one he cares about most. Matter of fact, Paxe is so close to Gyro that she instantly pacifies when Gyro is near. In other words, she don’t fight, she don’t back, she don’t dig in her little heels when something don’t go her way. No, no, no!

Then Jake and Diego start nagging in Gyro’s ears when all the kids are asleep. “What kind of a father are you?” “What kind of a MAN are you?!” “Leaving your little baby girl out like that...!” “You’re a monster!!” And things like that!

And Gyro finally, finally wises tf up and thinks, “Yeah, what the fuck am I doing, my baby daughters need me...” And he makes an effort helping Diego and Jake care for the girls. I mean really, sometimes, Diego needs some quiet time in the evenings and nights to further work on his case or take care of some legal matters. Usually, he takes care of this in his office where he knows it’s quiet, but with these three kids, oh my god, there’s no way that he can keep this up!!!! He has to work on his homework from home!

The home has an office room that he could use, and he does use it, but those kids are still a handful. Many times, he’s heard Jake pace up and down the hallway by the baby screams Diego hears through the walls. Jake was struggling to pacify all of them and kept shuffling up and down the corridors. Diego couldn’t work that like. No. Way. Every goddamn five minutes, he was interrupted from his attempt at navigating the most difficult of law!

They needed more help. By god, they needed more help!!! Maybe one other person to help lighten the load. Jake became detective by day and devoted dad at night, flitting here and there to check up on each kid. But he disliked working with Paxe because she would charge him and every opportunity and only found his presence revolting. So Diego had to step in and set things straight. He’s much strict and stern and hard-attitude spicy like her father, but unlike him, Diego wasn’t her father! And he never would be! So that is why she is easy to fight him, to charge at him like a bull. But like a bullfighter, he evaded and humiliated her.

And the other thing is that Diego quickly found himself holding a baby in his arms and soothing her while looking over some business stuff on his home computer. He could no longer separate work from family matters.

They needed Gyro and his help. And so when he helped, he could balance running around, pacifying each kid individually, and pacify Paxe when the little bull stirred and wanted attention and affection. Admittedly, Gyro only needed to keep Paxe at bay. Jake could easily deduce what the babies needed and spring into action. And Diego got used to and even liked the feeling of a baby sleeping soundly in his arms after a fight, while he reads documents for work.