Mantis defense squad…because apparently biding your time, facing your abuser (aka the only person you’ve ever known and the one who conditioned you from a young age), knocking out a planet sized god-being, being a damn empath on “let me kill all my children” world, fighting an impossible force in the face of certain death, following a strange new group into a life you know little about, and just being overall accepting and gentle just isn’t bad-ass enough.
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Hey so your most recent fic on ao3 has me low-key shipping Nebula and Mantis and i don’t know what to do? You’re a really great writer :) -silentgirlspeaksout
Aww thank you! Very much! :D
I loved that little bit of the fic. I think they’d be good for each other, because someone as non-judgemental and accepting as Mantis is is just what Nebula needs in this point of her life, really. God knows, it’ll probably never be canon, but it’s one of my favourite little rarepairs at the moment. c:
what i say: i’M FINE
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what i mean: i’m crying because i noticed how, in guardians of the galaxy 2, during the scene where they all find out about ego’s plans gamora tackles and holds up mantis in a chokehold and the first thing mantis manages to get out is: ‘you’re scared’ and i started to think ‘yes of course gamora is scared she’s worried and doesn’t know what’s happening’ and then i saw the next scene with gamora how horrified she looked and she was looking at her hands and saying in such a terrified tone ‘what did you do to me’ and it made me wonder how often, or even if ever, gamora acknowledged her fears, if she ever faced them head-on because she grew up under thanos; she’s the last of her race and was raised by it’s murderer and when being trained and beaten to become a weapon she’s had to suppress that part of her so much just to be where she is today, she had to become ruthless and terrifying all for the sake of being thanos’ daughter and being his weapon, she had to suppress her rage and fear and grief because if she made one false move, she was dead and as a result she never had the chance to come to terms with herself and everything she’s experienced and had to become.
[via ofst4rs]
So, Guardians of the Galaxy 2 kind of maybe owns my soul a little bit now? Here’s a fanfic filling in some blanks.
Title: Goodnight
Fandom: Guardians of the Galaxy
Rating: PG13 maybe? There’s nothing in here worse than in the movie
Summary:
“And Darth Vader… I suppose he can’t stand the idea of a world where people like him and the Emperor live and people like Luke Skywalker die. So he picks up the Emperor and kills him, so that Luke can survive, even though it kills him too. And all these little teddy bear things that live on the moon below the Emperor’s Death Star, I forgot to mention all of that, they have a big party with fireworks and stuff.”
Peter and his family before, during and after the funeral.
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