Ego and Yondu as foils, part 2 [part 1]
(guest starring Meredith)
ego the living planet
smile
What follows here is not a nice story (although we know how it ends, luckily) but I sort of wanted to have a shot at telling it.
Title: Smile
Fandom: Guardians of the Galaxy
Characters: Mantis, Ego
Summary: Mantis’s life under Ego.
Rating: Um. PG13? It’s not graphic, it’s just… unsettling.
Warnings: Well… this is a story about abuse, and its effects. So there’s gaslighting, and physical violence, and trauma, and… slavery, essentially. Mantis is a slave, even if she doesn’t know it. Plus a sort of vague, menacing misogyny in the background. Also, y’know, it’s partly about Ego, possibly the most casually evil creature the MCU has conjured up.
If you think you can handle it, click here to read on AO3, or,
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