Marcos Maria Ribeira
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| Marcos Maria Ribeira | |
| NA | |
| Status | |
| Nicknames | Cão (Roughly translated to Portuguese, means Dog.), Marcão (big marcos) |
| Occupation | Unknown, Deceased |
| Known relatives | Novinha wife |
| Characteristics | |
| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Unknown |
| Eye color | Unknown |
| Hair color | Unknown |
| Skin color | |
| Unusual features | Unknown |
| Born | c. 1931 s.c. |
| Died | 1970 s.c. |
| Appearances | |
| Speaker for the Dead | |
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Marcos Maria Ribeira, known as "Marcão" ("Big Marcos"), is Novinha's husband. He is known for his fearsome stature, surly temper, and habit of beating his wife, traits which earned him the epithet "cão," dog; he dies a few weeks before Ender arrives at Lusitania, of a congenital disease which caused his glands to turn to fatty tissues. Among other things, this rendered him sterile, and it is revealed during Ender's speaking of his death that none of Novinha's children are actually his, but rather Libo's; the two agreed to this form of cuckoldry before getting married. Because of this Marcos frequently beat Novinha, but she didn't interfere because she though she deserved it.
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- Marcão as a child was described as "The tall boy" "the one who's built like a cabra". He was indeed big, hence the name Marcão or big marcos.
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- Speaker for the Dead
