exploring thorquill (spoilers ahead)
I may not seriously ship Thor and Peter, but I find it fun trying to explore different relationships and what they could bring to the table. The following is my personal take on Thorquill if they were a couple, not implying it’s the only one I agree with.
Thor decides to stay with the guardians because of how broken up the Avengers are, and because he doesn’t really have anything on Earth left for him. Anywhere really, after he lost almost everyone and everything he loved: Asgard, his entire family, friends.
He feels that he could do more for the universe by traveling everywhere and helping people not just from Earth, he could help prevent what happened in Avengers, Thor: Ragnarok, and Avengers Infinity War. Plus, he feels accepted by the guardians, who almost all seem to enjoy his company (ahem, Peter) and are like one big family.
I could only see Thorquill happening if Gamora wasn’t around, so this would be set in the universe where Gamora doesn’t come back to life. All of the guardians are taking her loss real hard, especially Peter.
Peter is prone to being emotional, and he would definitely be emotional about Gamora’s death (rightfully so, as he loved her). Peter would probably be in a depressed and angry state, perhaps not talking to anyone and crying alone a lot. He’d maybe isolate himself from everyone, and the guardians would allow him that space, except for Thor.
Thor would be the one I think Quill would have an outburst at (considering how Peter already didn’t like him), and Thor would get into a heated argument with Quill. In turn, he would say something that stepped over the line, and then try to reconcile with Quill, and for the first time, emotionally open up to Quill. From then on, Peter slowly allows Thor to get closer to him, who only wants to care for Peter as someone who can empathize about loss.
All the guardians try to take care of Peter’s health of course with making sure he eats and doesn’t try to deal with everything alone, but it’s Thor who has a bit more leverage with it after the outburst and reconciliation. Plus, I can see Thor taking responsibility for taking care of Peter and allowing the rest of the guardians to mourn over Gamora, for the same reasons he would empathize with Quill. Gamora was important to them as well, and I think Thor could understand that they also need to care for themselves first before helping anyone. Even though Thor himself is in the exact same position as them.
Time passes and everyone is less affected by Gamora’s death, but not completely. Peter starts to gain his humor and bantering spirit back for brief moments, but there’s still many more moments of him being quiet, lost in thought and missing Gamora. Thor would try to tease out the Peter before this, and try to pep talk him. Telling him that the universe needs its Star-lord to protect the galaxy, that the guardians need their true leader. That Thor could never take Peter’s role, as insecure and inferior Peter feels compared to this Asgardian god of thunder.
By this point, Thor has probably started to care for Quill and the rest of the guardians as a friend (not just as a person who relates), seeing how much time he’s been with them now. Plus, Thor has seen the drastic change between the first encounter he had with the egotistical, annoying, snarky Quill, to the heartbroken, lamenting, softer version of him. Thor sees Quill more than just what he saw in the beginning, and recognizes that he too can and has been deeply wounded; he is only human after all.
I think Thor and Quill would spend many nights in the cockpit of the Milano looking up into the deep abyss of space, lit only by supernovas and far away galaxies, sharing deep and raw conversations. They talk about Peter’s life on Earth with his mother, Thor’s adventures in Asgard, life, death, and everything in between.
Contrary to what most would believe, I think their strongest attraction towards each other would be mostly emotional and not purely sexual/physical attraction. Thor would be the one who falls first for Peter during one of their deep talks, and there does Thor decide he’d wait a million lifetimes for Peter to heal and love again. ‘Perhaps not me,’ he thinks, ‘but as long as Peter is alongside someone who makes him happy, that’s enough for me.’.
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