As a chronic emotion bottler…
I know I’ve nattered about this before on the discord but :shameless self projection ahead:
I. Really want something where after a whole bunch of stresses (Quill’s dating a kree chick, Quill got stabbed by the kree chick and I had to stitch the dumbass up, Kraglin got shot and I know he’s gonna be fine but for a moment I didn’t, crew needs food before they start eating each other, Stakar’s blacklisted me from another old merc-work client, Quill almost got himself dead AGAIN) Yondu’s lying in bed like the Tired Dad™ he is after yet another day of running around after his leather-clad murder-ducklings and just. Tears. Start coming out. Pouring out, actually. And they don’t stop.
Understandably, Yondu is very freaked out because ‘WTF IS HAPPENING WHY AM I LEAKING’. It’s just that his brain has finally overloaded from having too many feefees stored up in it with 0 outlet, and the dam has finally burst.
And just once every few months he has a big fucking ugly cry where absolutely nobody can see him, purges all those tamped down emotions (frustration and misery and fear and so much freaking love). Then he goes back to being his usual asswad of a self the next day, and no one’s ever the wiser.
And maybe Kraglin finds a damp pillowcase he forgot to hide and is like…. ‘wtf is this’
And Yondu doesn’t know what to say so he just blurts ‘I PISSED MYSELF’ and flees
“You better not fucking tell anyone about this, Kraglin,” Yondu growls.
“I’d never do that, captain,” Kraglin says. “Urine good hands.”