December 25th, 2017
My name is Marvel.
I used to say these words with pride, expecting the person in front of me to recognise and congratulate me. And they did, at least for a while, in scientific circles, where people knew about my work. But outside? There was hardly anyone who knew of me. Even my own family never understood the magnitude of my achievements, and continues to think of me as the "one who didn't follow their mould."
The only one in our family who ever had any kind of claim to fame was my great-grandfather, Mr Thomas Marvel. He didn't do anything of his own, of course. All he did was tell stories at his inn. Granted, his stories were based on truth, but it was still no credit of his. He had just had the (good?) luck of meeting a very interesting man who changed my great-grandfather's life. In return, Mr Thomas Marvel made sure the man died. Of course, when he told the story, he painted it in completely different colours. One of the many people he recounted this tale to, turned out to be a famous author. Said author, in turn, embellished the story even further and published it as his own. Great-grandpa didn't mind, oh no. He loved it and made sure to tell our whole family that he was in a book.
The tales of his great deeds are still passed down, growing farther and farther from the truth with each generation that tells it. Nonetheless, I know that there is a grain of truth in them somewhere. Mainly in the old, musty books my grandfather keeps in his safe, refusing to let anyone touch his father's secret. I caught a glance of them once, so i know they are real. If they are what the book and my grandfather says they are is another matter altogether. But I'll find out. I'll have those books for myself and I will decipher what my great-grandfather couldn't. What's more, I will replicate and perhaps even improve upon what my predecessor did. I came home this Christmas with one purpose only, and that was to acquire the books.
This journal shall be the evidence of my success. They will all know me, then. I will be, the invisible woman.
A/N: My first ever multi chapter! Well. Let's see how it goes. Reviews make my day! :)