Just a small piece with gladiator!Yondu
Also I have a couple of headcanons about him:
– Kree replaced his own fin with the electronic one. Because of this they could control him, beating him with current every time he was trying to escape.
– Kree made him wear a lot of jewelry, so when Stakar saved him, Yondu got rid of it and had never wear any jewelry since then.
– Also I think that when Stakar saved him Yondu was about 27 or something. I mean he was in slavery about 20 years, so… he was pretty grownup.
This is such good art and amazing headcanons though! *.*
(I mean, I always went on imagining that Yondu would wear something like, a collar that would electrocute him and / or could explode as a last tactic to stop him if need be, but to think that the fin, the one thing that is at least similar to the culture he lost, is actually the thing that pains him so much – damn. That’s good and painful at the same time.)
i’m like a romanceable npc if you compliment me once per day for a week straight you unlock the dialogue option to marry me
i was going to respond with “i’m this but instead of dating i adopt you and bake for you” and then it occurred to me how cool it would be if there was a game with romanceable characters except instead of romance it’s family
find the sad elf’s lost puppy and she can become your sister
adopt six orphans
just keep calling the grizzled old fighter ‘dad’ until he starts answering to it out of sheer exhausted resignation
So this is the game Peter Quill patterned his life after!
Interesting word choices: Yondu, a career thief, chastising Rocket for stealing batteries “you don’t need”.
I don’t think Yondu steals for fun, though. Yondu steals for money. For him, it’s a job. (And for a former child slave, he’s probably very serious about doing the job right, the first time, because of financial security and Consequences and all that endlessly unpackable stuff …)
Rocket, on the other hand, steals purely for the lulz, and Yondu might really be annoyed about that from a professional standpoint. It’s a risk you don’t need to take, for batteries you probably can’t even fence! It’s dumb! He’d smack Peter upside the head for pulling that kind of unprofessional shit (and probably did).
Also, on some level I guess Rocket could be said to be stealing /from/ the team – risking their client satisfaction (and their lives) for something he may or may not have cut them in on – and we know Ravagers don’t do that to each other.
otoh, Yondu certainly aims to steal more than he or his crew could ever practically need – the orb payout, split, say, 200 ways for the crew, would have left them all more than comfortable, and Peter in vol1 is already slinging around more money than the amount Rocket thinks would make him and Groot rich.
Also, Drax becomes complicit in Rocket’s theft as soon as Rocket shows him the stolen batteries. Drax could have intervened or prevented Rocket from keeping the batteries — instead, he just laughs. I guess this ties in with Rocket’s later reply to Yondu “That was mostly Drax” — he’s, at least partly, rationalising that, if Drax didn’t prevent him from stealing, then the theft must be okay…
Yes. Although I think he certainly knows that he could get away with things with Drax that he could never get past Peter or Gamora in a million years.
mmMM kinda tempted to color this, but I always like my sketches better
father-son portrait tho
“I thought Yondu was your father.”
“What?”
“We’ve been together this whole time, and you thought Yondu was my actual blood relative?!”
“You look exactly alike!”
I am very much here for the idea that Drax can tell because SO MANY of Peter’s mannerisms come directly from Yondu
shit-eating grin included
So am I! And I mean, if you tweak color, age, and hairiness, they actually do look very alike. Like, Pratt is about 35, if I remember right, during GOTG1–and Quill is abducted age eight in 1988, so he’s probably within a year or two of that age.
Here’s Michael J. Rooker age 31:
via Portrait of a Serial Killer.
Here’s a clean-shaven Chris Pratt having hair glued to his chin in a Yondu-esque fashion, age 35:
Here’s Rooker again, age 39:
and Pratt again, age 38.
It’s not even just the mannerisms–they genuinely do resemble each other in facial structure and bone structure! And then you get places where they totally do steal mannerisms, like little sarcastic gestures and the way they deal with idiots and just–
they are surprisingly similar, no wonder Drax got confused!
Ok but consider this: Quill has to go undercover or whatever, and for some reason decides to disguise himself as a Centaurian. He looks into the mirror after he’s been painted blue, and has a bit of a breakdown because suddenly he does look like Yondu.
Bonus: Stakar sees him in his Centaurian disguise, and the look coupled with the attitude and mannerisms Quill’s picked up from Yondu makes Stakar have a bit of a breakdown, too.
OH NO
now I kinda wanna draw that…
GOOD POST especially keigan’s contributions because you made me lip-wibble at 6:24 in the morning
