#my favorite trilogy. probably the best trilogy in the mcu ngl

[anti-spop]

idk if i posted about this but yeah, this is me bringing up the mcu again. but it's the guardians of the g/alaxy, or more specifically rocket (the raccoon).

i would say rocket is like catra but done right. rocket starts out as an asshole that laughs at others' misery or weaknesses. he wasn't a good friend to groot, though idk if that would count as abuse, because it's not like rocket sadistically hurt groot the way catra hurt adora (but you can disagree if you've watched the movies, it's been a while since i saw them). but as the first film goes on, rocket starts caring about the team and he's very distraught when groot sacrifices himself (for reasons we'll see soon). rocket becomes a sort of parental figure to baby groot following this.

in the second movie, rocket is still a dick, but we see more behind his motivations, and he clearly regrets being such an asshole. even if he doesn't explicitly apologize to quill at the end, rocket is very remorseful during the funeral of yondu, and he implies his apology (talking about yondu but in the end applying it to himself), and quill understands. in fact, rocket was the one who arranged the entire ceremony, which shows that he cares despite his sarcastic and mean personality.

and then the third movie actually deeply details rocket's backstory. he was a raccoon taken from earth and experimented on since he was a baby. he was raised by the high evolutionary, who praised him, but still abused him and scared him. rocket could be some sort of "golden child" since the high evolutionary was obsessed with his intelligence, and he couldn't care less about rocket's friends, other animals who were also experimented on. rocket eventually tries to break everyone free, but the high evolutionary (and the other guards) kills his friends. rocket breaks free all on his own. he also claws his abuser's face.

and all that explains why rocket is so afraid of getting close to ppl, or of being vulnerable. he lost his loved ones bc of that. he was mocked for mourning his dead friend. rocket's behavior is explained by these events, but they're not excused. and later he finds a family that accepts those feelings. when he mourns groot in the first film, drax silently relates to him and comforts him (drax also lost his wife and his daughter).

rocket actually grows as a character. in the end, not only does he accept who he is, he becomes the leader of a new group of heroes once the guardians disband in the third movie.

i also like that we see how rocket cared about his first friends, who welcomed him. they had a special bond. the movie SHOWS us that. they liked to dance and to daydream how the world outside the cages would be like. while i watched the third film, it reminded me of how catra and adora could've bonded with the horde trio.

obviously, again, spop is a whole other kind of media, while the gotg trilogy is aimed at older audiences (if a kid watched the third movie, though... they would be traumatized). but still, rocket reminds me a lot of catra, and what she could've been. an asshole but not an abuser. a criminal (i think he was a bounty hunter in the first movie) but not someone who massively kills people. it's not like he ever committed genocide/omnicide.

("ooooh but you hate flawed women and you just like rocket bc he's a man" literally i love gamora and nebula. those two are my favorite characters in gotg, besides rocket and groot. in fact they have a sisterly bond quite similar to adora and catra's, but that's another post)

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lucie herondale for the character ask game👀

Hi!!

My otp for them: Blackdale (Lucie/Jesse)

My brotp for them: Lucie & Cordelia, honestly one of the parts that disappointed me the most about COI was that the two of hem didn't have that many scenes together like let them be parabatai already, Lucie & Thomas, I just think they'd be neat, I hc Thomas giving her piggybacks bc I just think it'd be cute also Lucie is canonically the smallest of the group, and I'd quite like a Lucie & Christopher friendship, bc they both give off chaotic cinnamon roll energy and they'd be so powerful together.

Any other ships: I feel like if James and Jesse weren't in the picture, Lucie and Cordelia would be quite cute as a couple ngl or maybe Lucie and Grace if I didn't hc Grace as aroace??

Their best friend: Cordelia is a badass queen and I love her so much, she's definitely in my top 3 TLH characters and probably in my top 5 TSC characters overall.

My favorite nickname for them: when Will calls her Lulu 😊

My favorite AU of them: ngl I don't read many TSC aus but I quite like her in a modern setting.

My favorite outfit they wear: This one:

Defining color: pastel pink.

Would I date them: hmm maybe?? If I were into relationships.

First impression: ngl I don't remember thinking much about her in GOTSM, I liked her and I'm pretty sure I shipped her with Matthew 🙈 (I dont anymore).

Current impression: I still love her, but I think her character's a bit too centred around Jesse now. However I do like how her character is developing and how we're seeing a slightly darker morally grey-ish side to her, especially as it's rare to see a morally grey heroine especially in YA fiction. Honestly if TLH was longer than a trilogy I'd quite like her to have a hero-turned-villain-turned-redeemes villain arc, but I dont think CC will be able to fit all that into COT, idk I just think it'd be interesting, kinda similar to Wanda from the MCU but different if that makes sense.

Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw all the way.

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