Peter "Starlord" Quill

OUT OF CHARACTER:
Name/Handle: Ang
Contact: hopepunk on Plurk, WondaMeerkat#4372
Other characters: Clarice Starling & Aeon Flux
DF Alum: N
Reserve: N
Referral: Already gave it <3

IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Peter "Star-Lord" Quill
Character journal: puddledancer
Series name: MCU / Guardians of the Galaxy
Canon notes: After GotG2, pointedly before Infinity War. Cough cough.
Species: Human (aka Terran)
Age: 34
Arrival Condition: A little bruised up but physically in decent shape!

History: Here be yon Wiki. TL;DR: Soft Midwestern boy abducted by aliens the night his mother dies, becomes space-pirate Jerk With A Heart of Gold, leads space D&D party full of jackasses.

Personality:

• Sympathetic: At his mother's deathbed, he confesses he fought with boys at school because "they were hurtin' a little frog that didn't do nothin'." This trait, whether he wants to admit it or not, follows Peter into his adult life, and it shows in the way he recruits all the other Guardians to help recover the Infinity Stone from Ronin - he believes in profit, but not if it genuinely gets other people killed. His blasters are electrically-charged and non-lethal: the only people he actively kills are those who have presented him with no other choice. He also placed Gamora's life before his own when she was in danger above Knowhere, giving her his oxygen mask in the vaccuum of space without knowing his half-Celestial blood would allow him to survive.


• Roguish: In just about every sense of the word. Peter is an accomplished thief, pickpocket, cheat, liar, and flatterer. He can con his way out of a number of situations, though at times he's a little obvious about it and gets away with things on sheer charisma and dumb luck alone. He's the kind of lovable idiot who crashes on your couch, eats all your food, makes a mess, and yet somehow genuinely convinces you it's a good idea to let him stay, because he has his moments.


• Reckless: Even if he only has approximately 12% of a plan, Quill will feel confident enough that he can carry something off. He's done it on far less, for that matter. He's so used to the people around him being either (a) equally reckless (b) too stupid to care (c) jaded pirates with death wishes or (d) all of the above, that it doesn't even occur to him most of the time that Bad Ideas are actually Bad Ideas. This is even more true if Doing The Right Thing is involved (see Sympathetic and/or Loyal).


• Immature: This is largely a product of Quill's dubious upbringing, and spending his formative years on a ship full of space pirate himbos, with only his imagination and memory of favorite movies and shows to keep him company until he was old enough to become a space pirate himbo in his own right. Quill refers to an alien as "Ninja Turtle", relates the importance of music and self-expression to Gamora by telling her the story of "a hero named Kevin Bacon" in Footloose, and has the emotional maturity of a kumquat, preferring to chicken out and turn what was supposed to be a confession of love into a humblebrag at the very last second. Another prime example is when he swindles Yondu out of the Infinity Stone at the end of the first Guardians movie, swapping it out for a Troll doll. Also ... see user name.


• Loyal: Though Quill will cheat his friends out of a piece of treasure or two from time to time, he will defend them from enemies to the death (see above example re: Gamora). Once someone has earned his trust, he will go to bat for them over just about anything, even as he's arguing with them over something else. In Quill's book, you prove you love your friends by giving them hell and having their back in equal amounts: something he learned by Yondu's example while growing up with the Ravagers. Yondu was, as Quill recounted at the funeral, his "real" father, and while he spent a large part of his life thinking the Ravager didn't care, he picked up on more of his leadership qualities and concepts of loyalty and fellowship than he was aware of, adapting almost exactly similar styles with his own Guardians. Tough love isn't quite the right way to describe it: he's more like everyone's older brother. You know: the one who gives you wedgies and noogies and teases you relentlessly, but will kick your bullies' asses if they even look at you wrong.

Abilities: Any superhuman resilience he had is gone now that Ego is dead, so - he's just a garden-variety squishy human... with a LOT of tall tales. Lying and/or conning isn't an ability, right?

Personal Item: His Zune mp3 player. Because the logical thing would be his awesome and practical space helmet, but no, a boy's gotta have his tunes.

Samples: 
• TDM TL with Cobb & Ezra
• TDM thread with Moonshade
• TDM thread with Elias