Driving to work this morning and randomly concocted a total gut punch moment over Throttle and Daisy.
Jessie died when Daisy was about a year old, maybe almost 2. Still very small. Modo has been grieving and then infected and missing since she was about 2 and a half as she is about to turn 4 in the present fic.
While Mama Maverick and Sweep were mostly caring for Daisy at this point and of course would have given her reminders of her mama and daddy pretty regularly, I think the person who keeps Jessie’s memory alive most for her daughter IS Throttle
We know he spent whatever time he could at the Mavericks and that probably meant a lot of time with Daisy specifically. Showing her pictures and videos not just of her daddy and uncles but of her mother. Because Modo couldn’t or wasn’t there to do it. Because I feel like it would have been really hard for Sweep to do it and Mama too.
It’s penance. Imagine Modo going to show Daisy a pic of Jessie one day, expecting her to be confused or the memory to be hazy. But nope. She lights up and says “Mama!”
Because Throttle made damn sure she didn’t forget. He kept her alive for her in the only way he could.