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REUNION WITH IVANKA, JAKOV & ANA

Frühjahr 2011 vielleicht

Mello isn’t in a hurry to get in contact with his family post-canon. Matt probably pressures him into it like “they prolly think you’re dead or something, at least say Hello so they know you’re still alive. The way I know your mum, the last couple years must’ve been hell, not knowing where precious beban is haha”. When he calls Ivanka, she has a meltdown over the phone. She insists they meet and she forces Jakov and Ana to the meetup. Mello asks Matt multiple times “bro do you really want to go, you don’t have to” “are you fucking kidding me, I’m not letting the opportunity to meet your family pass, hello??” “it’s gonna be awkward, it’s gonna be all kinds of weird, it might end in tears, shouting and we might leave early, are you aware of that?” “We’ve been to worse mafia sitdowns, so yeah, sounds fun :3 - and besides: if everything goes south…?” “yeah yeah, I’mma shoot us outta there”

The scar causes general shock but Ivanka is all over the place throwing herself at Mello, sobbing, showering him with kisses “MY SON HAS RETURNED HOME” etc, you get the picture while Mello is juts like “Mhm :/”

Jakov changed a lot, he’s a bodybuilder now (???) and he and Mello just go “Woah.” “… sick scar, dude. Now your face is finally staring to look presentable” “… did you eat my brother or why do you look like that”

Ana is an indie software developer now and too cool for that shit. Just goes “Hey, long time so see, fuckface. Were you too scared to show up here alone or why did you bring that guy?” “Missed you too, pisspot.” “But seriously, who is that, your boyfriend? Pfff” “Yep.” and everyone goes lolololol yeah sure and Mello repeats “everyone, this is Miles, my boyfriend.” and there’s this incredibly awkward silence, Ana and Jakov seem to be amused, first and foremost but Ivanka seems to struggle with the information a bit. She’s like “Uhm okay I mean, if he makes you happy then that’s okay??” “I’m not here to get your approval. If you have a problem with that, I can leave.” and Ivanka goes “NO NONO IT’S FINE…” but you can hear her struggle. The whole visit is pretty tensed up.

REUNION WITH NIKOLA

The meeting with Nikola is way after the meeting with Ivanka+.

Nikola doesn’t know the details but he followed Mello’s criminal activity from a distance. So he knows what’s up and he’s pretty proud, I can imagine. There is one clash between Nikola and Mello in a shady bar, where Nikola is chilling with his criminal buddies. Mello doesn’t beat around the bush and introduces Matt as his boyfriend - to a whole table of old white slavic gangsters. I don’t need to tell you how insanely provocative this is. A heated argument between the two breaks out (Nikola shouts in Croatian, Mello in English) where Mello makes it clear how he lost all respect for Nikola, how he’s never been there for the family, how he doesn’t deserve to have kids in the first place etc etc. Matt pressures Mello to just leave before things happen, Mello spits on the table as a last statement and leaves.

CROATIAN FAMILY NAMES

→ https://hr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodbinski_nazivi

And to answer ur question, you mean like- what nickname they might give Matt (that's a play on his English name). Matiša sounds like it would fit! While it is a real name technically, the more common spelling (that's more used/modern) is Mate (pronounced similarly to Matt)? Here when someone is called Mate, kids sometimes say Matiša as a joking nickname. Matiša is also an oldie name mostly fallen out of use but ofc there's still young ppl called that. I just noticed "Matiša" being a common joky nickname kids named "Mate" (Croatian ver of Matt basically) get called. I knew two even growing up xD

Usually boys tend to use it in the context of like "ahh my bro matišaaa" dudebro type nickname honestly xD

IN CASE u are referring to like- actual familial titles ppl get called by the siblings of someone they married there's a few lemme think (while it's true I've lived my whole life in Croatia by Croatia do be a lil rusty bc I talk in English a lot both irl and online- perks of all my friends being art students LOL)

OK I actually didn't know this (I asked my mom and she didn't either!) but a brother-in-law would be a "zet" https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/zet it also means son-in-law

I didn't know it could be used to refer to a brother-in-law I usually hear it being used to mean son-in-law

Oh my god I'm so dumb I actually can't read today it seems.(I completely misread the sentence, idk why I thought you were talking abt how Mello's siblings would refer to him instead of Jakov's kids I can't read omg sorry!) Ok Jakov's kids would refer to Mello as their "stric" but I am not sure how they would refer to Matt. I'll try to translate a page from the Croatian Wiktionary bc I am also not good at this

Ok so !! I actually had to look this up bc ykno sometimes native speakers also aren't using the correct terms but basically!!

"Ujak" -> my mother's brother ("ujko" would be an endearing spelling of that!) A wife of an "ujak" is called "ujna". This doesn't apply to Mello and Matt tho bc they are both men and we are talking abt how Mello's brother's children would refer to the two

So! "Stric" -> my father's brother. Sometimes kids call their stric "strijo" as an endearing term but not often. A wife of a "stric" would be called "strina" but this is strictly feminine. So I think Matt would still be a "stric" even if he's an in-law following the naming logic

So Jakov's kids would probs call both Mello and Matt with "stric". Plural of "stric" is "stričevi". Honestly if I was a kid and my stric had a boyfriend/husband called Matt I'd call him "stric mate". If I was Jakov I might goof around nad call Matt "Matiša" as an nickname. It can be both endearing nad mocking depending on the context

Jakov's kids would probs say: "Stričevi Mihael i Mate!" ("Uncles Mihael and Matt!") Or "stric Mate" when talking abt Matt or "striče Mate" when directly talking to him.

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