#rocket:thread

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( @latverionstarters​ ) ROCKET RACCOON & ANYONE !

sure, he’d been observing them for awhile while being nestled up behind a few cargo boxes and pretending to read a file on astrophysics. was it a crime to follow people and observe whatever it was that they was doing? he didn’t think so. groot was back on the guardian’s ship so that meant that whatever he was doing was going to be well-spent. that and the person who he was following had what looked like something shiny. before he could slink off and find another angle, however, rocket’s foot slipped and he ended up tripping and spilling out from the cargo - his entire form and the article splayed out onto the ground with him looking up into the face of the person he was following. “uh...” he paused and then pulled a full-toothed smile, “i was just admirin’ the boxes? what? you can’t prove anything - how much for the shiny thing?”

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( @latverionstarters​ ) rocket raccoon & anyone !

“fifty doombucks, take it or leave it, pal.“ rocket stared over his inventory list at his current customer - waiting for them to accept the outrageous price. or for them to haggle, he loved it when they haggled. when the guy started to argue, rocket held up his paw and shook his head. “that was the discount, now yous gotta pay twice that but also add a few extra zeroes and throw in your pocket watch.” with sharp teeth, he grinned and as soon as the guy tried to do anything, groot stepped in from behind him - pulling the unruly customer up by his feet and slinging him across the room and away from them towards the exit.... right past a potential new customer. “what can i do for ya? ignore the last thing you saw, it was nothing, just groot taking out the trash.”

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( @ghmora​ ) ROCKET RACCOON & GAMORA ZEN WHOBERI BEN TITAN

“no, don’t touch that one - “ rocket warned as he gave groot a stern parental glance. he was taking inventory of his mystery boxes and he truly didn’t want anyone aboard to have an issue. as he slowly walked his way through, rocket took pause when he noticed gamora off to the side seemingly by herself. “kinda thought it was just me and groot on the ship right now, didn’t really expect anyone - you okay?” a lot had happened and rocket remembered too much of it. but it didn’t stop him from approaching her - after all, this was probably his last chance to have the real gamora back with them. “if you want to know, nobody has taken the boxes they shouldn’t.”

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( @gloriannnna​ ) ROCKET RACCOON & MEGGAN PUCEANU

it was early enough in the morning for rocket to have already been spending a few hours working on his next latest contraption when he decided to check the community-based chats. groot had been sitting in the corner eating his breakfast when rocket declared to them that they were going to make a trip over to arcadia and to bring the fabrics he didn’t really want - or felt like kids would like. “i am groot?” “yeah, its for tiny humies and not-humies - a puppet show, i think? i don’t know but we gotta go over and bring the safe glue guns and i promised fabric.” “i am groot,” “oh yeah, that’s smart very cute of you.” at that, groot tossed over a stuffed bear he’d found as rocket caught it and began to clean it up.

when they arrived, rocket let out a low whistle at how atmospheric it was to see all the beauty that the lighthouse location - and the cottage - really was. “man this place really makes latverion almost worth it, okay come on groot - ” with a grunt, rocket turned to look over his shoulder as groot carted a giant stuffed bag full of things - with the stuffed bear’s head poking out. stepping up to the door, rocket knocked and cleared his throat before loudly announcing himself and groot. “uh, hello? we’re rocket and groot - swinging by like we said we was with the glue gun and fabric and well, groot found a few more things you might like too?”

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( @ofstarspangledman​ ) ROCKET RACCOON and STEVE ROGERS

rocket had a distinct habit of finding what he thought was abandoned places to practice his new tools and weapons on. more often than not, he practiced them a little too well and even more often the things he was practicing on tended to blow up. the positives of the situations were always: his stuff worked. always. and groot had become incredibly good at dodging and picking necessary things up. the negatives were... well, sometimes people got hurt. but how was he supposed to know they were gonna be behind that ugly wall? as he held up his ‘boomstick’ he aimed it carefully before taking a moment to pause and call out loudly “if anyone is behind this ugly wall i would advise you to move your butts because they’re about to get boomed.” he smirked and glanced over at groot, “you got five seconds and i don’t count very good.” groot chimed in with a helpful ‘i am groot’.

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( NIMBLE FINGERS QUICKLY MOVING ACROSS EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL, A NASTY DISPOSITION GUARDING A VULNERABLE SOUL, A REFUSAL TO DO ANYTHING THAT HE DIDN'T COME UP WITH FIRST - BUT DOES IT ANYWAY )▸ welcome to latverion, ROCKET RACCOON. it’s time to be gracious, for in this vast multiverse, you have been saved by emperor doom. according to records you are 10(56) and use HE/HIM pronouns. emperor doom expects you’ll enjoy your career as a WEAPONS TECHNICIAN AND DEMOLITIONIST, or else. excellent. we look forward to your contribution. ( cgi raccoon )

ABOUT BASICS

FULL NAME: rocket raccoon

ALIAS: rocket

AGE: 10(about 56 in humie years)

AFFILIATIONS: guardians of the galaxy, groot

GENDER AND PRONOUNS: lil raccoon man, he/him

FACE CLAIM: cgi raccoon (but think with bradley cooper’s voice from the mcu)

IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS

POINT OF ORIGIN: he comes from the mcu, mostly - but i sprinkle in his halfworlder life and layla to give him more depth !

ABILITIES/SKILLS: enhanced senses, enhanced intelligence, enhanced strength, enhanced durability, enhanced agility, enhanced reflexes, expert marksman, skilled combatant, accomplished tactician and strategist, pilot, demolitions and weapons expert.

HAVE THEY BROUGHT ANY FAMILY OR PETS WITH THEM: rocket has groot with him (who is a teenager at the moment) - where rocket goes, so does groot.

ANY HEADCANONS YOU WANT OTHERS TO KNOW: i personally love the one where rocket tried to make “blam! i murdered you!” his catchphrase - he may try to bring that back. rocket moves about and doesn’t have a specific place he stays while working - but he does deal heavily with the killiseum and repairs and...uh.. “enhances” the weapons almost weekly. he also does some underground work, but it’ll cost you. doom has tried to imprison rocket on the regular but he keeps biting the guards he sends - or dismantling the bots. he thinks its funny and hopes doom will keep trying.

QUESTIONNAIRE

HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER FEEL ABOUT EMPEROR DOOM? oh he thinks its hilarious - because if he didn’t, he’d cry. doom is just like any other humie in history who thought they were the big cheese. eventually he’s gonna go bad and they’re gonna have to throw him out like the garbage he is. it’s stupid and rocket’s more mad he didn’t think of this idea first.

HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER FEEL ABOUT THE BATTLES? ARE THEY TRYING TO AVOID THEM? OR ARE THEY EAGER TO JUMP IN? are you kidding? he’s making A PROFIT OUTTA THIS. he knew one day his ability to assemble tech into weaponry would pay off big time. he doesn’t want to fight, nor will he let groot - but he has no problem fixing things up for the killisium and ensuring he gets paid for it. he also will give free “enhancements” to things too but, you know, they don’t always work the way they probably should. most explode.

WHY HAS YOUR CHARACTER ACCEPTED THEIR JOB POSITION? WILL THEY USE IT TO GET CLOSER TO DOOM? OR WILL THEY USE IT EXPLOIT HIM? OR DO THEY SIMPLY LIKE THEIR JOB? rocket loves weapons. rocket loves things that go boom. but most especially, rocket loves money. he’s making bank doing this and it’s something he loves. but still, he isn’t heartless - he works with those against doom and will give discounts when he feels like it. he wants doom gone too, he just doesn’t want to be without an escape plan. and escape plans requires money.

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( @rouxvision​ ) ROCKET RACCOON & THE VISION

“so...“ rocket started, looking up at groot for a confirmation that they were actually talking to someone who looked like a humie but.... likely wasn’t. it was the way they smelled. when groot nodded, rocket’s lips curled into a twisted grin. “you smell funny, like not a humie-type funny.” for emphasis, rocket leaned closer to him and began to sniff, when he pulled back he jabbed a thumb at groot, “i’m askin’ for groot because he seems real confused but that’s usually just his normal state of mind, still he wants to know and so do i, so what are you?” rocket took a step back and eyed him carefully before turning back to groot. “you think he’s something valuable?”

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( @illyanarxsputina​ ) ROCKET RACCOON & ILLYANA RASPUTINA

“you look like someone that i could employ often,” rocket spoke up, looking up at the blonde with a toothy grin. groot leaned forward and ushered a soft “i am groot” before giving illyana a smile and a nod and backing up - making rocket sigh and roll his eyes. “okay i guess it’s weird to say it like that, sorry. what i meant is, you look like you can handle yourself in the middle of literally anything and i would very much like to hire you for jobs i run sometimes in places like the roxxon mines.” he elaborated, giving a shrug of his shoulders. rocket was a very fair boss, or at least he believed he was - so he really didn’t see what the problem could be.

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( @fromcomics​ ) ROCKET RACCOON & LOGAN HOWLETT

rocket’s nose itched and he soon let out a loud and uncontrolled sneeze, wiping his snout with the back of his paw as he looked around for somewhere to wipe his arm off. with a shrug, he reached over and wiped it against the wall before pausing when he felt eyes on him. eyes that weren’t groot’s. “what?” he nearly barked, throwing his arms out to the side before pointing up at the starer. “you don’t sneeze? something got into my nose okay? mind ya business.” rocket’s ear twitched as he watched the person - only to sneeze again. “oh buddy i think i’m allergic to you, what are you?”

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( @numyths​ ) ROCKET RACCOON & PETER QUILL

a snicker escaped him as he scuttled out from underneath quill’s bunk, satisfied with the box of unused tapes he’d found and feeling, given that groot is his look-out and hadn’t said anything, that he’d once again gotten away with something. that was until he finally got everything out and he was sitting on the floor and saw the shadow of what was most definitely peter quill-shaped. “uh-oh.” he muttered, slowly looking up and over at quill, widening his eyes and wiggling his nose to be as cute and harmless looking as he possibly could. “it’s supposed to be a surprise for you, but now you’re gonna ruin it - and you too groot, don’t think i’m letting you off on not telling me he was here!” rocket barked, looking around quill at groot who merely shrugged and began to chomp on some grass. typical.

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( @marvelling​ ) ROCKET RACCOON & CAROL DANVERS

“whoa okay MUCH bigger of a problem then i ever anticipated,“ rocket stopped dead in his tracks as his eyes widened at the newly remodeled hell-death-inferno hole that the roxxon mines had become. he dropped his large sack of goods and turned to look at groot before hearing carol above, shaking his head at the anticipation of what they were going to have to do. “hey carol, you get this stupid letter too? i don’t read cursive so i had to get groot to read it to me, what’s a mine of moria?” he called out, holding the letter up as groot let out a gasp of excitement at seeing carol and chewie. “also we’re gonna melt our tails off, chewie. this place is hotter than drax’s seat after a night of movies.”