I read a post by someone pointing out how in gotg vol.2 Yondu goes from “Right. I deserve to go back to the Krees.” To killing all of his mutinous crew and blowing up his ship just to protect Peter.
I wanted to catch the resignation prior to the badass escape.
This reminded me why I sort of stopped drawing.
I’m slow, I can’t color (in 5 fucking years of comics/illustration art school I learnt how to become a graphic designer, technically, but nobody sat me down and thaught me how to color with any media. How the fuck do people self teach themselves?!) and when I get stubborn about finishing a picture I ruin it.
Please do not pay attention to the fucked up “background”.
He keeps them safe in his cabin. Sometimes they take up too much of the bed, and then there’s no room for Kraglin.
I LOVE THIS OKAY
so favorite things in no particular order
1. Peter’s ‘skeptical face’
2. height difference I LOVE GROUCHY SMOL YONDU SCOWLING UP AT HIS TOL SON
3. the fact that Yondu just carries a collection of assorted toys at all times, apparently
4. Yondu looking like a startled cat when Peter just hangs him upside down by his boots
5. Yondu’s angry anime face
6. that Yondu sleeps with his favorite treasured toys until they take over the bed. now I’m wondering just what exactly does Kraglin do to stubbornly take his big spoon space back. and how inured he’s gotten to hundreds of little blank plastic eyes staring him down when he’s trying to rail Yondu into the mattress
Kraglin tries to do a Big Tough Dominant Manly Statement that he ain’t giving up his half of the bed, and dramatically sweeps a whole load of the toys onto the floor while glaring Yondu in the eye.
Only for Yondu to freak the fuck out and check each one individually to make sure it isn’t broken, and banish him to the proverbial couch (so: the floor) for a week.
After that Kraglin sucks it up and wiggles into whatever gap he can find. He likes to pretend all the little eyes don’t bother him, but he absolutely turns a few around when Yondu’s not looking, and keeps getting into accidental staring contests with the rest.
I know I’ve nattered about this before on the discord but :shameless self projection ahead:
I. Really want something where after a whole bunch of stresses (Quill’s dating a kree chick, Quill got stabbed by the kree chick and I had to stitch the dumbass up, Kraglin got shot and I know he’s gonna be fine but for a moment I didn’t, crew needs food before they start eating each other, Stakar’s blacklisted me from another old merc-work client, Quill almost got himself dead AGAIN) Yondu’s lying in bed like the Tired Dad™ he is after yet another day of running around after his leather-clad murder-ducklings and just. Tears. Start coming out. Pouring out, actually. And they don’t stop.
Understandably, Yondu is very freaked out because ‘WTF IS HAPPENING WHY AM I LEAKING’. It’s just that his brain has finally overloaded from having too many feefees stored up in it with 0 outlet, and the dam has finally burst.
And just once every few months he has a big fucking ugly cry where absolutely nobody can see him, purges all those tamped down emotions (frustration and misery and fear and so much freaking love). Then he goes back to being his usual asswad of a self the next day, and no one’s ever the wiser.
And maybe Kraglin finds a damp pillowcase he forgot to hide and is like…. ‘wtf is this’
And Yondu doesn’t know what to say so he just blurts ‘I PISSED MYSELF’ and flees
“You better not fucking tell anyone about this, Kraglin,” Yondu growls.
“I’d never do that, captain,” Kraglin says. “Urine good hands.”
Was watching favorite bits of Guardians 1 again, and it hits me…
Yondu goes down in the battle over Xandar, not because he’s a worse pilot than Quill… But because he’s hanging back and purposely covering the Milano. He takes out several pursuers, pulling up to shoot them down, before taking a hit because he’s not watching his own butt.
I personally love the headcanon that Yondu is a bad pilot, and is endlessly irritated that Peter was flying circles around him age 11, and it’s one of those things the Ravagers all know but don’t mention for fear of their lives, and only Peter dares get up in his face and say ‘buddy, you need flying glasses, accept it!’ But that’s just a headcanon. This is such a good point and now I have to watch this scene again to appreciate Yondu’s first attempt at being a self-sacrificing dad. :clutches heart:
I love that headcanon too! Which is probably why I missed this the first 75,000 times I saw it… Like, “oh, Yondu’s just a shit pilot…” But noooo… *cries* Peter probably thinks Yondu’s a shit pilot, though, because his shenanigans have always made Yondu’s job harder!
