Oh no

laylainalaska:

The post I just reblogged about Stakar and Yondu’s surrogate father/son relationship echoing Yondu and Peter’s made me realize that Yondu’s “They were the only family I had” to Rocket in the cell in GotG 2 (talking about the Ravagers casting him out) is a possibly intentional echo of Peter’s “He’s the only family I have” about Yondu at the end of the first movie (speaking to Gamora, after he’s just burned all his bridges with the Ravagers as far as he knows). Two space pirates losing their space pirate families, except one was due to his fatal flaw, and the other was because of doing the right thing …

And let’s not even start on Yondu telling Peter “We’re Ravagers! We have a code!” in their first scene in GotG1. After what happened to him, it must have been even more important to him to bring up Peter “properly”, by space pirate standards. Trying to prevent Peter from suffering the same fate, and maybe on some unconscious level, trying to make Stakar proud even after Stakar won’t have anything to do with him anymore. Or at least modeling the kind of mentor relationship he had at one time with Stakar.