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I had an idea for some connected short stories that I was thinking I could try to hammer out for Nanowrimo. As usual though, as soon as I had some background characters for the main one to bounce off of, I fixated on them instead. It happened with the Besnicks. Marco and Yvette are the son of the trailer park landlady and the local tattoo artist, respectively. I got a friend who does research help me see what sort of imagery would be appropriate for them. Marco's grandparents came from Rimavska Sobota and Yvette' s great-great grandparents are from Haiti, but she's closer to her heritage than he is.

I tried to base their faces on Jennifer Hudson and John Leguizamo, but I don't think they look much like them. Marco was smitten at first sight with Yvette. He courted her with Victorian flower language, going to the tattoo parlor with symbolic flowers. He would tell her what they meant while she tattooed them on him. It didn't seem like he was getting anywhere until he realized she had tattooed on a rose leaf that he hadn't asked for . He had to look it up, but a rose leaf turned out to mean 'you may hope' and that was it. Marco had always been a mama's boy and pursuing a girl she didn't approve was the first time he had ever gone against her. Yvette got the blame for that, of course, but she let Marco name the twins after mom-in-law's parents and that soothed a lot of it. First draft of tattoo ideas for Marco before I got the idea to group the flowers into the skull image.