Peter Quill. Star-Lord
I almost made it work. The Guardians were more than I could ever have hoped for. But the universe is also more dangerous than I ever imagined.
“dinner?” gamora asks in mild confusion, tilting her head to the side a little. the real meaning behind it is lost on her - gamora just assumes peter’s hungry, as he almost always is. and he’s become less jerk-ish over the years, so it’s not really all that much of a surprise that he would ask if she needs to eat something at well.
“of course we can have dinner. why are you so nervous about that?” she wouldn’t turn down the opportunity to spend time with him more often than not. especially not with.. how things have developed between them. how her feelings have developed. but her lack of experience in how to handle that is obvious a lot of the time. like now - to gamora, the concept of dining together seems so simple that she can’t understand why peter seems to be on edge about it. “unless you’re going to make me have some more terrible pizza. honestly, what you terrans see in a meal like that is beyond me.”
of course he should have figured the concept would be lost on gamora. not that dating and any of that was really his specialty, but it was clear that he had quite a bit more experience than she did. really, the last thing he wanted to do right now was going into an explanation of what he actually meant when asking her to dinner. “well, i mean like -- dinner dinner.” if that was even helpful or just offered up more confusion. peter didn’t know. flark, why was this so hard??
“hey, hey don’t you start knocking pizza. that’s like the best thing here on terra. aside from their burgers. it’s not my fault your taste is just lacking for some good stuff.” even as he spoke, quill made sure to mentally cross off pizza as an option for dinner. he wanted gamora to enjoy this meal, not absolutely hate it. “look, i just -- i’m nervous ‘cause i was sort of asking you to dinner for a date. one of those things.”
Though Bobby privately thought the Institute had a much homier feel than the Academy, he was reasonably excited about the move anyways. Prof X’s joint was pretty small scale in comparison, and there were only so many times you could foist friendship upon (annoy, prank, whatever) the 15 other teachers on staff before they started to unionize. The Academy provided some much needed fresh meat.
“Here’s to another week passed without accidentally misplacing and/or dismembering a student,” Bobby triumphantly knocks his beer against Peter’s. “Actually, might’ve spoken too soon, I don’t actually know how your week went. Fill me in?”
snickering softly at the toast, he didn’t waste much time to take a sip from his beer. peter was pretty sure nothing out in the galaxy was ever going to top the beer from terra. no matter what concoctions they came up with. not that he’d really know what beer from his home planet had tasted like prior to returning. he’d been a good kid, thank you very much. “oh, ha, ha. funny that you’d even doubt that.” even if it was more than fair for bobby to think so.
leaning back in his chair as he took another sip, quill gave a small shrug. “didn’t misplace or dismember any students which i know is probably a miracle for me. who the flark thought it was a good idea to let me teach has to be a complete moron. might have incinerated a desk or two with my quad blasters. or, element guns i guess is the technical term. it was set to fire, which, my bad.”
“you’ve heard about spotify though, right?” james simply cannot help asking after he’s spent a good five minutes scrutinizing the old-school cassette player in quill’s classroom. which is… okay. vinyl, he can get behind, but where did the man even get a thing like this from? ( he can’t wait to see tony’s face when he sees it ! )
“uh -- can’t t really say that i have.” so maybe he was behind on the whole terran technology thing, what could he say. the closest thing was the zune he had from yondu, but the walkman would always have a special place in his heart.”guessing walkmans aren’t the norm anymore?? i mean, given from the stuff i’ve seen around here i’d guess so. this is classic, man. can’t get any better than it.”
We’re thrilled to have PETER QUILL also known as STAR-LORD, join us as FACULTY of the Academy, to teach ALIEN CUSTOMS, SOCIETIES, and CULTURES! They look at lot like MENA MASSOUD and are 30, going by HE/HIM. They’re said to be PASSIONATE and are able to EXPERTLY SHOOT WITH VARIOUS FIREARMS FROM ALL OVER THE GALAXY & HAVE HUMAN/SPARTOI PHYSIOLOGY. Please join us in welcoming them aboard!
BASICS FOR CHARACTER:
name: peter jason quill
alias: star-lord, prince king of spartax
age: 30
face claim: mena massoud
pronouns: he/him
if they are an adult/parent: do they teach at the school, and what do they teach?: he does teach at the school and his focus is on teaching everyone about alien customs, societies, and culture since he knows a shit ton.
BACKGROUND:
tw: death/murder, guns
born to meredith quill, his life was pretty normal for the most part. from a young age he was interested in sci-fi movies and after a trip to an amusement park, it was decided that he wanted to become an astronaut one day. while his life was pretty normal, quill had a tendency to be bullied and fought back, often resulting in a lot of bruises and injuries. then came the day his entire life changed. washing up for dinner after getting into it with another bully, two badoon aliens arrived and killed his mother in a vow to end the spartoi bloodline. when peter came into the kitchen and saw the aliens and his mother dead. he ran away and found a shot gun and two other devices. using the shot gun to kill the aliens, peter ran outside with the two odd looking objects he had found and was then abducted by yondu and the ravagers.
growing up under yondu and the ravagers, peter learned how to be a thief and mastered the objects he had taken from the closet in his panic. eventually he had found out they were known as quad blasters and they only activated to his dna signature. he learned to live more for himself than anyone else, often choosing more selfish actions and doing as he pleased.
taking the name star-lord, a nickname his mother had given to him. he built up a reputation for himself and eventually decided to betray the ravagers and take a job to steal an orb for himself. this leads him down the journey where he meets gamora, drax, groot, and rocket and the events of gotg 1 transpire. they find they have possession of an infinity stone and stand against ronan to save xandar. the group become known as the guardians of the galaxy and continue on together, saving the galaxy. or sort of saving the galaxy.
down the line he meets his father, j’son. a man that is emperor of spartax and an extremely corrupt person. his father wanted peter to rule beside him as prince of spartax with peter refusing. not too long after the two parted on bad terms, quill was captured by people working for his father in order for him to not only rule by his side, but to pay for crimes against the spartoi empire. peter managed to escape and broadcast to the entire planet how corrupt his father was and it incited a rebellion. his father fled and eventually took on the alias of mister knife in order to get revenge for what his son had done.
without his father ruling spartax, the job fell to quill. he refused to take on the job and instead handed it over to his half sister, victoria. quill didn’t want to rule an empire, he only wished to travel the galaxy and protect it with the guardians.
when he learned about the academy, he couldn’t resist. terrans needed to know about the dangers in the galaxy and what better way to go about it than coming to the academy.
powers and abilities:
human/spartoi physiology: he has a few superhuman abilities and is more durable than most humans due to his alien dna. quill also has longevity from this dna as spartoi live three times as long as normal humans do. due to his hybrid nature it’s unsure how he will age, but it is assumed to be at a decelerated rate.
expert marksman: is able to use any firearm in the galaxy with expertise, though his quad blasters remain his favorite.
martial arts: skilled in many forms of fighting and an expert hand-to-hand combatant.
expert pilot: extremely skilled in piloting ships.
anything else? headcanons? you know what to do
not a headcanon but actually canon, there was a time in his life where peter was trying to stop the fallen one, and came to the realization that the energy of destroyed planets would harm him. in order to save the rest of the galaxy, peter made the choice to sacrifice a kree lunar colony (35,000 lives) in order to stop him. according to the nova corps, peter is considered to be a local threat level as he’s amassed a count of over 350,000 murders.
he’s not a complete idiot all the time. while his plans can definitely seem out there and weird, he really is a talented tactician and strategist.
tends to get overwhelmed by emotions at times. more often than not he bases things off of his emotions rather than his head, especially when they’re personal.
