You’ll Do Great
yondu udonta
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) dir. James Gunn
You know, I just thought the look on Yondu’s face is “Hot damn, we survive this, you my daughter now. We both blue, we both batshit crazy, had hard lives–Peter will be your brother, but it won’t be that bad, he’s a little shit but he’s not a bad guy. And I find that steroid using raisin who called you his daughter before I’m gonna light him up like a reaver funeral.”
And then I got sad because that’s never gonna happen.
:sniffles: well NOW I have to edit my dad & daughter yondu-nebula bonding fic to cheer up
I think it’s significant that when giving Yondu’s eulogy, Peter specifically describes him as a ‘pretty cool dad’ in call back to the Mary Poppins y’all moment. That was a moment when Yondu, having shown himself willing to cross the universe and defy a planet-god for Peter, also made himself vulnerable, and Peter recognised it and read between the lines of what he was trying to say. So rather than trying to say that Yondu was a good dad, he reaches back to that moment when they connected and understood each other, and allows that to stand for the relationship, flaws and all.
Y’know, there’s a GOTG thought that keeps coming back to me…
“Zardu Hasselfrau” doesn’t actually sound in the least bit like “David Hasselhoff”, especially not the first part. “Zardu” doesn’t sound like “David”… but it does kind of sound like “Yondu.” So I wonder…
Did Gamora’s translation software, trying to locate the right word for “the man Peter wishes was his actual father” manage to just completely garble the name Yondu instead?
Okay, but
When Kraglin have Peter the Zume and told him it had 300 songs on it, that means that someone had to go through all the music and put them on it. So I picture Yondu sitting in front of a space computer or whatever, cursing at it, shouting in frustration, and asking Kraglin a million times why the damned thing isn’t working.
commission for @rootbeergoddess!
Yondu and Peter’s mom
btw I totally ship it
Didn’t realize that was her at first. XD
One theory that I liked is the reason Yondu has a Southern accent is because Peter sees him as a father figure and thus his translator added the accent like his mom had.
This is a brilliant idea and it’s now my headcanon