The Captain's Daughter
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nautiaMarin is the daughter of Captain Nemo and his beloved Nautilus, a sea nymph belonging to the rolling waves. She is the product of what brief time Nemo and Nauty (as he called his beloved) had together produced this child, and just before Nauty was called back to the waves after a year upon the sands with Nemo, she birthed Marin (June 8th, 1860) making Nemo swear to love Marin as much as Nemo loves Marin's mother. With Nemo's vow secured, Nauty disappeared into the ocean's deep, leaving Nemo alone with his daughter, whom he names Marin, after the sea.
Nemo raises Marin on land to the best of his single fatherhood capabilities, but finds himself disgusted by imperialism composed upon his country by Britain, fearing that Marin may grow up to be as passive to imperialism as Nemo's own father. When Marin is six months old, Nemo wakes one night in a cold sweat, heart aching for Nauty as well as the India of the old. And so, for the next two years, he constructs the Nautilus -- a large, metal submarine which he plans to use to find Nauty, as well as be a safe home in which Nemo may raise Marin away from the troubles of British imperialism and the double-crossing standards of civilization.
Marin is given the privileges most girls of her time are not allowed. She sups knowledge from the books in her father's library, and learns to read and write all before the age of five. Her lessons revolve around the beauties of the ocean, and while most children would learn from books, Marin learns with first-sight and first-touch, traveling outside the Nautilus alongside her father in diving suits. She keeps a healthy interest in journaling everything she experiences alongside her father so when she finally sees her mother, they can catch up on lost times.
While Marin and Nemo search for Nauty, they and their crew encounter piracy on the high seas, and they become secret freedom fighters, disabling enemy ships from below and sabotaging attempted raids on cargo ships. They are never caught in the act and always make a clean getaway -- and at Nemo's request, Marin stays aboard the Nautilus during the final preparations of the plans.
Nemo raises Marin on land to the best of his single fatherhood capabilities, but finds himself disgusted by imperialism composed upon his country by Britain, fearing that Marin may grow up to be as passive to imperialism as Nemo's own father. When Marin is six months old, Nemo wakes one night in a cold sweat, heart aching for Nauty as well as the India of the old. And so, for the next two years, he constructs the Nautilus -- a large, metal submarine which he plans to use to find Nauty, as well as be a safe home in which Nemo may raise Marin away from the troubles of British imperialism and the double-crossing standards of civilization.
Marin is given the privileges most girls of her time are not allowed. She sups knowledge from the books in her father's library, and learns to read and write all before the age of five. Her lessons revolve around the beauties of the ocean, and while most children would learn from books, Marin learns with first-sight and first-touch, traveling outside the Nautilus alongside her father in diving suits. She keeps a healthy interest in journaling everything she experiences alongside her father so when she finally sees her mother, they can catch up on lost times.
While Marin and Nemo search for Nauty, they and their crew encounter piracy on the high seas, and they become secret freedom fighters, disabling enemy ships from below and sabotaging attempted raids on cargo ships. They are never caught in the act and always make a clean getaway -- and at Nemo's request, Marin stays aboard the Nautilus during the final preparations of the plans.
