Yondu Udonta

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Character: Yondu
Age: 60-70, probably
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Canon Point: end of Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 seconds before death

Background: wiki!

Personality: Yondu Udonta is a hard, often cruel man. He's greedy, he's rude, he's more than a little murder-happy, and his idea of a funny joke is threatening to eat a terrified eight year old. He's also extremely sad, and he holds tight to the sort of pain you only get from living out a lifetime of poor choices and regrets. His heart might be bigger than he'd like to admit, but he keeps it well hidden.

A lot of his tough guy attitude comes from the fact that he's a Ravager captain and feels like he has to be that way to keep the loyalty of his crew. Considering even in the first movie they're accusing him of being soft on Peter Quill, he might be right about that. He sees the other Ravagers like his family, in some ways, but he lost the good version of family when he broke the code and took the deal with Ego, so he's stuck with the Ravagers that stood by him through all that. That leaves him with assholes like Taserface who have even less honor than your average Ravager. Sure, there are some guys like Kraglin who actually have loyalty, but for the most part, it's be the biggest, baddest asshole around or lose what power he has.

He does have limits to what he's willing to do. He may have broken the code and traded in children, but he didn't know that the kids were going to be hurt. He thought they were just going to their father. Of course, he also didn't look very closely for a long time, since the money was too good for him to want to question, but once he figured it out, he did stop, and that's why he kept Peter rather than delivered him to Ego. He's an asshole and a bastard and he'll kill you without a second thought, but his parents sold him into slavery. He wouldn't knowingly hurt a child, even if he also wouldn't necessarily go out of his way to save one.

He is extremely intimidating when he wants to be. He has the power to back it up--his arrow is legitimately terrifying--but for the most part just the suggestion of it is enough to keep people in line. While he can and certainly has killed people without so much as flinching, more often he will just pull back his coat to reveal his arrow, maybe make it light up, or at worst, have it hover right in front of the person he wants to intimidate, making it clear just how easy it would be for him to kill them rather than actually doing it. It's brutally effective. Even his love of cutesy little toys and knicknacks he can line up on his dashboard or tendency to mock people in ridiculous immature ways can't make him any less scary. Even when his crew finally does start questioning his authority, they only do it in hushed voices where he can't hear them for the most part since he can be super murdery if he wants to be.

This determination to be tougher than everyone else means he has a tendency to lose the people he actually cares about. He sees Peter Quill as a son, but spends most of the first movie antagonizing him, even going so far as to beat him up and threaten death if Peter crosses him. Unsurprisingly, this leads to Peter crossing him and then running off to form the Guardians of the Galaxy. He treads a pretty fine line with Peter, who he does not want to hurt, but who he can't actually just let go.

Unsurprisingly, Yondu can't maintain his rule over the Ravagers through threats and fear alone, especially since he's an actual person with emotions, and when shit hits the fan, it hits hard, and Yondu's left floundering. He's lost Peter, he's lost his old Ravager family, and now he's lost even his crew, leaving him with nothing but his bad choices. If it hadn't been for Rocket hanging around and making an ass of himself, he probably would have let himself lose his life as well. He didn't have much fight left in him, and all of his loyal crew (except for Kraglin) were dead. Did he really deserve any better?

It's only with Rocket's help that he is able to snap out of it and look back at his life and his mistakes and see that just maybe it doesn't have to be like that. Rocket is a kindred spirit, always pushing people away and acting mean so that no one notices how scared and hurt he really is. Yondu's an old man without much hope left, and he feels like it's too late for him. It isn't too late for Rocket, though, or Peter, and to find those paternal instincts he's never been great at and become, for however short a time, a Guardian of the Galaxy. Yondu is capable of great love and doing the right thing, but he doesn't discover that about himself until it's almost too late.

Yondu is a man of many layers who has very recently had many of them peeled away. He's used to paying the badass pirate captain, and has too late figured out just how unhappy that made him. He knows right from wrong but keeps choosing wrong anyway. His final act was to do something good, do right by his son, and that was what killed him. It turned out that his actions weren't irredeemable, and his Ravager family (and Guardian family) all celebrated him in death, but he'll never know. In the end, it's not what matters to him anyway. He did right by his kids, even the raccoon one he semi-adopted hours before his death, and that's what's important.

Abilities: He has an arrow he controls through whistling and the fin he wears on his head. It's pretty insane.

Alignment: Yondu will be aligned to Elios! At his canon point, he is sacrificing himself out of love for his adopted son, and his entire life has been an exercise in self-loathing. The struggle between the love he craves and feels for and from others and the hatred he thinks he deserves has defined himself and his many terrible choices for his entire life.

Other: Yondu's arrow was broken in the fight with Ego, but he'll have the pieces with him. He'll also have an aero rig.


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