guardians of the galaxy
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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AU where Ego couldn’t kill Meredith because she was the only woman he ever truly loved so he gets Yondu to pick her AND Peter up but she’s Not Having It, like ‘HE CAN’T EVEN COME GET ME HIMSELF?? ASSHOLE GOT HERE ONCE DIDN’T HE?? NO WAY IN HELL AM I GOIN BACK TO WHERE HE IS. HE CAN GET ME HIS GOD DAMN SELF.” and she becomes a Ravager too, just a sunshine-y lady with half her head shaved who just kicked a kree with her steel toed boots cos he was soundin’ an awful lot like a white supremacist -flyboyskywalker
YES ABSOLUTELY
She, Yondu, Peter and eventually the rest of the Guardians end up forming their own crew and they travel the galaxy kicking the asses of slavers
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peter shows yondu a picture of her in her full on punk days and he’s like “well shit kid, you really were meant to be a ravager” because its a picture of her at a concert in a leather jacket punching some creep in the face
HELL YES
a selection of meredith quill headcanons that no-one asked for
- she was absolutely a feminist and devoured women’s magazines and literature
- she utterly threw herself into late 60s-70s rock culture, dressed like her favourite bands, went through several different hair colours, took recreational drugs with her friends
- though she wasn’t really aware of the labels for sexuality that we know today, she had flings with both men and women
- her friends would sometimes nickname her ‘merry’ because of her joyful attitude
- she loved how music could be used as a force for change and would loudly sing at protests she attended
- she was not very close to her family. she cared about them, she couldn’t not, but they disapproved of her and it drove them apart
- guys. guys, feminist punk rocker meredith
Peter Quill carries his mother’s legacy out into the stars.
How many aliens know Earth music from the 1970s because Meredith
passed her love of it on to her son? And how many love it so much that they not
only use it for their battle themes, but keep copies of it for themselves?For someone who memorized every song on the radio there
could be no finer legacy.