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          he’s not around when tony returns,  so the large spaceship in the front yard is a bit of a fun surprise when he pulls up to the compound.   he can’t say that it’s really all too shocking though,  considering the war they’ve been losing.   he’s quick to unholster his weapon,  unsure if its friendly and assuming it’s not.   he sees movement and draws down on the target,  unfamiliar to tyler’s eyes,  but it looks human.   “ hey, ”   he barks out,  coming around the ship,   “ who the fuck are you,  mate? ”

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          “ who the fuck am i ??? “

infinity war au.

          peter doesn’t get snapped.  he joins tony and nebula on their attempt to float back home by using the benatar to get back.  since, apparently, it was somehow on titan according to the mcu wiki.  don’t remember that bit.  but anywho.

DANCE MIX: randomize !  always accepting PLAYING: “ move an inch and I'll lodge my knife in your throat." ( wow good first impression nat. im loving it. ) ” CHANNEL: @romcnovc​

          “ whoa whoa whoa, “  hands fly up in the air so fast peter gets dizzy for a fraction of a second.  between a beautiful woman holding a knife pointed in his direction and the anxiety of impending violence he can feel a slight shake in his fingers.  can’t let anyone see the weakness, though.  got to be cool as a cucumber to make it out of this one.  the number of situations he’d talked himself out of was pretty impressive, if he did say so himself.  this would be no different.

                    because he’s awesome like that.

     tony has never hated space more. 

     for years these unfamiliar stars have haunted him, dreams of undefeatable armies, chitauri and more, of death and something WORSE. he’d known what they were heading for the moment bruce had started his story about thanos and his army from space; it still hadn’t been ENOUGH. ( peter’s dead, he’s gone, and tony promised—- he can’t afford to think about whether anyone on earth is still left alive. ) 

     tony won’t lie —- having quill’s company is infinity preferable to being alone out here. 

     they’re not the worst team, either. in spite of rocky beginnings, the plan they’d made together had come SO CLOSE to succeeding. even now, tony might be the superior mechanic but this is technology and systems he’s never seen before, quill at least has experience of space travel, of fixing spaceships and how the fuck they’re MEANT to work.

     his progress is stunted by the stab wound in his gut anyway. tony’s not in danger of dying anytime soon, not from that, they’ve patched him up as best they can—— no, they’re just gonna die because they’re stranded in fucking SPACE. 

     has he mentioned that he hates space?

     “if i had, we would be moving,” tony points out, voice muffled from where he’s half hidden behind a bulk of engine. at least trying to fix the engine has given him a purpose. to not focus on the crushing guilt. he shuffles out to look at quill, too tired to really be annoyed with him. “trial and error’s not a particularly effective method when error could blow us out of the sky.”

             “ sometimes it’s hard to tell, “ a genuine smile spreads across the thief’s lips.  it’s not funny.  nothing about their situation was funny but, still, he found himself smiling.  his shoulder pushes off the console he’d been leaning against so he could squat down closer to where tony was working.  “ they don’t show you that.  in the movies, i mean. “  bright eyes glance around at all those blinking lights he still wanted to punch into submission.  somehow the smile manages to widen.  his life had mostly been a shitshow and he knew that.  but, somehow, he’d finally managed to find a family in the stars and in that moment he wondered what his mother would’ve said about that.

           “ sometimes the stars are so far off you can’t tell you’re moving closer or farther away from them.  jumps are the only sure way.  it was a dumb question.  i know it was a dumb question but sometimes this stuff just falls out of my mouth when i’m... “ nervous.  scared.  “ there’s also no sound out there.  i was bummed to find that out.  star wars was one of my favorite things back on earth. “

DANCE MIX: hcs PLAYING: “ favorite video game ” CHANNEL: @valiancedefined​

           peter didn’t have a specific favorite.  they didn’t have a console in the house since it was too expensive.  but, he did visit the arcade every chance he got.  sometimes his mother drove him and sometimes he walked after classes.  

          by the time he’d been abducted at eight years old the idea of video games was cathartic.  he didn’t have a dad. his mother had been sick.  being able to escape into different worlds was a pass time he had a hard time refusing.

growing up showing too much emotion was seen as weak , and for the most part the god of thunder can hold in the massive amounts that has been rolling over him as of late .  that is where the humor comes from  , tuck it under some well placed defense mechanism and he could be good as new .  right now though , its harder than ever with the amount of LOSS he’s had to face  . his own brand of guilt though weighs the most , how he’ll ever dig out from underneath it though  ?  he’s not sure  . 

❝ i do appreciate your kindness , ❞ he says with a slight shrug of his shoulders . being away from the others seems to have opened up a new side of this ship captain  . well it is still in debate of whether this one or the rabbit are in control  . his bet is still on the rabbit  . a hand absentmindedly lifts to his hair to run through the shortness of it .  sometimes the loss of it as well . a sense of PRIDE lost with the locks he so tenderly grew out over the years , taken away on sakaar  . 

❝ your sense of self was threatened . your territory intruded upon .  i cannot say i blame you one bit . i’d have done the same  . ❞ two strong egos can tend to clash together but it takes real MEN to be able to push them aside as they both are now  . fingers grip at the blanket around his shoulder and the gaze of one eye lifts .  ❝  i had no choice .  i know we are all not carbon copies of our relatives  . you would not believe how different me and my brother are … were  . ❞

          “ it wasn’t threatened, “ peter immaturely belts out before he can stop it.  eyes close so he can take a breath and hold it in for a few seconds.  he’s so used to lashing out.  he’s so used to being on a ravager ship and having arguments with grown children.  oddly enough, it was times like this when he missed his mother the most because he always wonders what kind of adult he’d be if  either she were around longer or his feet stayed planted down on earth.  at eight life turned into a game of survival.  no one taught him what was right or wrong, just told him what to steal.  being smaller and tinier they pushed him around.  so, what did he have?  a voice to push back with.

             “ i am a real man and i will push everything aside by trusting you won’t take my family from me.   which means i can stop being a dickhead.“  peter huffs out all the air he’d been holding in, completely ignoring what he just said.  being around everyone else ( well, maybe not drax ) helped him realize a few things about himself.  finally learning who and what his father was also helped.  didn’t mean he understood how to better himself quite yet.  he was trying, though.

SONG SELECTION: celestial powers pt. one

          after going through the movies again and after doing a lot of thinking i say that this portrayal of peter quill will retain his celestial powers.  by the end of gotg2 he’s still learning.  ego only showed him a handful of things before everything went to hell in a handbasket so powers won’t be prevalent in any threads ( unless there’s a desire to plot with them ) but he’s always actively learning.  more than likely it’s away from everyone else so there’s no possibility of getting hurt.  all he knows about his own potential is pieced together by what he’s seen ego do, what ego showed him, and what he’s done before.  

          part of those powers include enhanced durability.  he was able to contain some of the power stone’s power/energy/whatever you want to call it because of his celestial blood.  it flowed through him.  but, due to only being half celestial it still took a toll.

         ❝ and here i thought you weren’t fond of me . to what do i owe such a gesture ??   ❞

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