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acts_of_tekla) wrote2011-09-21 11:48 pm
acts_of_tekla) wrote2011-09-21 11:48 pm
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Fic: Animorphs -- "Mar y Sol"
Fandom: Animorphs
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Marisol (GB!Marco)
Series: Animorphs GB AU
Summary: Marisol would like you to know that she does not brood.
Notes: Inspired by this conversation with and post by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
joking
Takes place during #4, The Message.
Mom always said that she named me after the ocean. ‘Mar y sol’ – it means ‘sea and sun’ in Spanish. That’s not the official meaning you’ll find if you in a baby name book, but it’s how she meant it.
I looked out over the water as we travelled. It can’t really be called sailing when you aren’t using sails – my Mom was always very clear about that. We used to have a sailboat, a real one, and even though it had an engine we were hardly ever allowed to use it. Mom loved going out on the water. We usually went out on the boat as a family, or sometimes just the two of us if Dad was travelling for work, but I know Mom went out on her own too sometimes, because she’d still smell like salt when she picked me up from school. My Dad used to joke that she loved the boat almost as much as she loved us
It still seems insane sometimes. My Mom was an experienced sailor; she would never take the boat out in a storm. Maybe she thought it was clearing, or that it wouldn’t be so bad. Maybe bank robbers had put a gun to her head and forced her to sail for Mexico. I’d come up with hundreds of scenarios in the days and weeks and months after the wreck was found, but in the end I had to accept the obvious.
My mother died from something she’d loved. In the kind of book we’re forced to read in English class, this would be a painful irony of the hero’s tragic past, tying in with the author’s complex thematic use of water symbolism. The hero would probably agonize about how he too was named for the thing that killed his mother. Luckily, I’d rather joke than brood.
Another lesson from my Mom.
[[Officially, Marisol is a contraction of ‘Maria’ (i.e. the Virgin Mary) and ‘Soledad’, which means solitude and is one of the Virgin Mary’s titles (Maria de Soledad = Mary of Solitude), so Marisol is really just another name for the Virgin Mary.]]
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Marisol (GB!Marco)
Series: Animorphs GB AU
Summary: Marisol would like you to know that she does not brood.
Notes: Inspired by this conversation with and post by
jokingTakes place during #4, The Message.
Mom always said that she named me after the ocean. ‘Mar y sol’ – it means ‘sea and sun’ in Spanish. That’s not the official meaning you’ll find if you in a baby name book, but it’s how she meant it.
I looked out over the water as we travelled. It can’t really be called sailing when you aren’t using sails – my Mom was always very clear about that. We used to have a sailboat, a real one, and even though it had an engine we were hardly ever allowed to use it. Mom loved going out on the water. We usually went out on the boat as a family, or sometimes just the two of us if Dad was travelling for work, but I know Mom went out on her own too sometimes, because she’d still smell like salt when she picked me up from school. My Dad used to joke that she loved the boat almost as much as she loved us
It still seems insane sometimes. My Mom was an experienced sailor; she would never take the boat out in a storm. Maybe she thought it was clearing, or that it wouldn’t be so bad. Maybe bank robbers had put a gun to her head and forced her to sail for Mexico. I’d come up with hundreds of scenarios in the days and weeks and months after the wreck was found, but in the end I had to accept the obvious.
My mother died from something she’d loved. In the kind of book we’re forced to read in English class, this would be a painful irony of the hero’s tragic past, tying in with the author’s complex thematic use of water symbolism. The hero would probably agonize about how he too was named for the thing that killed his mother. Luckily, I’d rather joke than brood.
Another lesson from my Mom.
[[Officially, Marisol is a contraction of ‘Maria’ (i.e. the Virgin Mary) and ‘Soledad’, which means solitude and is one of the Virgin Mary’s titles (Maria de Soledad = Mary of Solitude), so Marisol is really just another name for the Virgin Mary.]]