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Help[Games] Re: Darkest Congrats Round Three
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Posting Name: Octavia (4)
Surname: Malley
DH: Keegan Miller David "Dave" (36) (documentarian)
DW: Antonia Sabina Maddalena (37) (exciting political journalist)
DD: Maria Claudia Angelina (10)
DS/DS: Gabriel Francis "Gabe" / John Maximilian (7)
AS: Carlo Ignazio Salvatore Mantovani (4) "Iggy"
Question: Can I use the Italian forms of some of the names in the namebank? It would fit with the story better.
After Dave and Nikolai's Baguadian shenanigans, the family remained in Italy for a few more years. The Malley children, to their parents' delight, are growing up bilingual. When Maria turned 6, Dave and Antonia also made the decision to homeschool their children, since they had no real long-term plans about where they were going to live. Antonia's family is very large; she is the second of eight siblings, and all of them but her still live in Italy. Her parents, Carlo and Donatella Arcangeli, are a very powerful and proud family locally, and Antonia's marriage to an Englishman and subsequent moving away caused her to lose some favor with the rest of the family. Now that the Malleys are living in Italy, though, and the Arcangelis have met Dave, they are beginning to warm up to them again. (The fact that the Malley children are bilingual feeds the Arcangelis approval.) [Man, tense tension runs rampant through this excerpt!]
Anyway, the youngest Arcangeli daughter, Rachele, has always been the most reckless of the bunch. When she was 17, she had a brief physical relationship with her employer Salvatore Mantovani, an extremely handsome, wealthy, and married man more than twice her age for whom she filed papers. When Rachele became pregnant, Dr. Mantovani flatly denied his paternalism, fired Rachele, and moved to Milan. Carlo and Donatella were appalled at Rachele's reckless sexual abandon and disowned her. To irk the two men who had messed her up, Rachele gave her son both of their names, but called him Ignazio because that one was her favorite name ever! She also made Antonia and Dave Ignazio's godparents, because Antonia was the second blackest sheep in the family, and Dave had expressed the opinion that they were all treating Rachele a bit rudely.
Rachele had taken off with Ignazio quite early in the Malley's term of livinginItaly, and she hadn't occupied much of their thoughts since. One day--I don't know, how do people learn these things?--someone dropped Iggy off at the doorstep. Poor Iggy announced that Rachele had died recently from an overdose on heroin or something, and now Antonia and Dave were his legal guardians. They were slightly shocked and puzzled. Donatella was suddenly extremely remorseful of her decision to disown Rachele and became nearly hysterical for days. She insisted that Rachele have a proper funeral in the family cemetery, with all the proper rites, and so the Arcangeli family all attended a highly awkward funeral, complete with disgruntled priest. After the funeral, the dynamic was altered significantly: Carlo was grouchy and disgruntled at his wife's infinite weeping, and took out his anger on Antonia, calling her a shame to the family, marrying a foreigner and taking in a bastard child. Dave and Antonia scooped up their children and said a quiet goodbye about two weeks after acquiring Iggy, moving this time to Cambridge, Massachusetts, because Dave and Nikolai wanted to make a film about the psychology behind being a Harvard student.
Maria, Gabe, and John were all completely baffled by the move--mostly by the fact that everyone spoke English instead of Italian, but the fact that Antonia's family wasn't around was also upsetting, along with several other cultural differences I can't talk about, having never been to Italy. Maria was especially upset, as she had become close to many of her cousins and their friends. Besides, John and Gabe had each other to play with, but Maria had lost all of her tweenie female friends. She had become a very intelligent and outspoken young lady, and was found very charming by adults, but wasn't satisfied by their company and resented their condescending attitude towards her. All adults but her parents, she found, especially in America, were extremely condescending to her. Gabe and John are growing to become foils of each other: Gabe is quieter and more inquisitive, while John is boisterous and rough. Nevertheless, they have been getting along quite well. Neither of them will pass up an opportunity to be silly and boyish. The sudden addition of Iggy into the mix has puzzled both of them. Iggy is a quiet, dark-featured boy, who only speaks Italian when he speaks. He doesn't show much interest in his surroundings and just watches Gabe and John while they play. He puzzles Dave, too, who simply doesn't know what to do with him, but Antonia and Nikolai both get along well with him--that is, silently, watching flowers or fish or trees and not asking questions.
Maria:
John:
Gabe (pre-haircut):
Iggy:
Rachele (pre-Ignazio):
Number 1-10: 3
Do you want any more children from the original family?: Nope!
Surname: Malley
DH: Keegan Miller David "Dave" (36) (documentarian)
DW: Antonia Sabina Maddalena (37) (exciting political journalist)
DD: Maria Claudia Angelina (10)
DS/DS: Gabriel Francis "Gabe" / John Maximilian (7)
AS: Carlo Ignazio Salvatore Mantovani (4) "Iggy"
Question: Can I use the Italian forms of some of the names in the namebank? It would fit with the story better.
After Dave and Nikolai's Baguadian shenanigans, the family remained in Italy for a few more years. The Malley children, to their parents' delight, are growing up bilingual. When Maria turned 6, Dave and Antonia also made the decision to homeschool their children, since they had no real long-term plans about where they were going to live. Antonia's family is very large; she is the second of eight siblings, and all of them but her still live in Italy. Her parents, Carlo and Donatella Arcangeli, are a very powerful and proud family locally, and Antonia's marriage to an Englishman and subsequent moving away caused her to lose some favor with the rest of the family. Now that the Malleys are living in Italy, though, and the Arcangelis have met Dave, they are beginning to warm up to them again. (The fact that the Malley children are bilingual feeds the Arcangelis approval.) [Man, tense tension runs rampant through this excerpt!]
Anyway, the youngest Arcangeli daughter, Rachele, has always been the most reckless of the bunch. When she was 17, she had a brief physical relationship with her employer Salvatore Mantovani, an extremely handsome, wealthy, and married man more than twice her age for whom she filed papers. When Rachele became pregnant, Dr. Mantovani flatly denied his paternalism, fired Rachele, and moved to Milan. Carlo and Donatella were appalled at Rachele's reckless sexual abandon and disowned her. To irk the two men who had messed her up, Rachele gave her son both of their names, but called him Ignazio because that one was her favorite name ever! She also made Antonia and Dave Ignazio's godparents, because Antonia was the second blackest sheep in the family, and Dave had expressed the opinion that they were all treating Rachele a bit rudely.
Rachele had taken off with Ignazio quite early in the Malley's term of livinginItaly, and she hadn't occupied much of their thoughts since. One day--I don't know, how do people learn these things?--someone dropped Iggy off at the doorstep. Poor Iggy announced that Rachele had died recently from an overdose on heroin or something, and now Antonia and Dave were his legal guardians. They were slightly shocked and puzzled. Donatella was suddenly extremely remorseful of her decision to disown Rachele and became nearly hysterical for days. She insisted that Rachele have a proper funeral in the family cemetery, with all the proper rites, and so the Arcangeli family all attended a highly awkward funeral, complete with disgruntled priest. After the funeral, the dynamic was altered significantly: Carlo was grouchy and disgruntled at his wife's infinite weeping, and took out his anger on Antonia, calling her a shame to the family, marrying a foreigner and taking in a bastard child. Dave and Antonia scooped up their children and said a quiet goodbye about two weeks after acquiring Iggy, moving this time to Cambridge, Massachusetts, because Dave and Nikolai wanted to make a film about the psychology behind being a Harvard student.
Maria, Gabe, and John were all completely baffled by the move--mostly by the fact that everyone spoke English instead of Italian, but the fact that Antonia's family wasn't around was also upsetting, along with several other cultural differences I can't talk about, having never been to Italy. Maria was especially upset, as she had become close to many of her cousins and their friends. Besides, John and Gabe had each other to play with, but Maria had lost all of her tweenie female friends. She had become a very intelligent and outspoken young lady, and was found very charming by adults, but wasn't satisfied by their company and resented their condescending attitude towards her. All adults but her parents, she found, especially in America, were extremely condescending to her. Gabe and John are growing to become foils of each other: Gabe is quieter and more inquisitive, while John is boisterous and rough. Nevertheless, they have been getting along quite well. Neither of them will pass up an opportunity to be silly and boyish. The sudden addition of Iggy into the mix has puzzled both of them. Iggy is a quiet, dark-featured boy, who only speaks Italian when he speaks. He doesn't show much interest in his surroundings and just watches Gabe and John while they play. He puzzles Dave, too, who simply doesn't know what to do with him, but Antonia and Nikolai both get along well with him--that is, silently, watching flowers or fish or trees and not asking questions.
Maria:
John:
Gabe (pre-haircut):
Iggy:
Rachele (pre-Ignazio):
Number 1-10: 3
Do you want any more children from the original family?: Nope!
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