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[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Greer
AGE: 18!
JOURNAL: badumtish
IM: hurghleburlebutz
E-MAIL: kukuhead@live.com
RETURNING: 2! Daniel Rand/Iron Fist and Roronoa Zoro
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Peter Jason Quill, aka Star-Lord
FANDOM: Marvel Cosmic (Marvel 616 in Space)
CHRONOLOGY: Post-death.
CLASS: He's a goddamn hero.
SUPERHERO NAME: Not this shit again Star-Lord
ALTER EGO: Peter Jason Quill. God I don't know what his job will be.
BACKGROUND:
Marvel Cosmic has a lot of alien races, the most significant of which are the Skrulls (who have the ability to shapeshift and have chin ridges), the Kree (scientifically and technologically advanced alien race that lives for battle; their homeworld is Hala), and the Shi'ar (feathered aliens that are also technologically advanced but other than that pretty much Marvel's version of Klingons). Unfortunately, Peter Quill is not any of these alien races because Marvel sucks and thinks only these three exist. In reality, long long ago they created a shit-ton of aliens, including some alien race that lives in a place called Spartoi, which there is literally... no information on anywhere. Which sucks because Pete's dad was Prince Jason of Spartoi.
Now normally Prince Jasons of Spartois don't visit Earth, but this particular Prince Jason did. Because his ship crashed. In the Colorado mountains. CONVENIENTLY near an attractive woman's house. Said attractive woman's name was Meredith Quill and she and Prince Jason fell in ~*love*~ until Jason was like 'LOL SEE YOUR ASS LATER' and flew away on his spaceship. Also he left after finding out she was pregnant with his child (apparently he did it not to 'endanger her' but seriously, he just didn't want a kid come on). Also he kind of wiped her mind of ever meeting him, and Meredith ended up marrying some other Earthling named Jake. But she was still preggers with Prince Jason's kid.
Anyway, she gives birth and names the kid Peter Jason Quill and all is well and good until her husband-who-is-not-named-Jason is like 'waitaminute' and side-eyes the kid because he knows that kid is not his. So like any good father, he took Peter outside with the intention to kill him, but then suffered from a convenient fatal heart attack and died. And then Pete's mother turned into the cliche frail and weakened mother and he pretty much raised himself and got really interested in space and shit.
Then when Pete was 11 more aliens came, this time with the intention to kill both the Quills and Pete was like 'what'. As was his mother. But what his mother was like doesn't matter because right after the aliens arrived they killed her so she was dead. Like any good plot device. So Pete does the whole NOOOO MY MOTHER I WILL GET VENGEANCE thing and then gets put into an orphanage. Which he runs away from at age 13 and eventually becomes a NASA astronaut. Eventually, he got sent up into space to man NASA's "first permanently manned space station", named Eve.
Fast forward a few months to when the crew of Eve witnesses this apparition thing that shows up and is like "lol hey guys i'm star-lord who wants to be the galaxy's policeman". Now obviously Pete was all "OOHOOHMEPICKME" but the apparition was like "no you suck" and picked some guy that Pete didn't get along with. Pete had a violent reaction to that and NASA discharged him for it. But Pete was all "fuck that" and stole a spaceship from Cape Canaveral, flew back to Eve, transported himself to the appointed Star-Lord Choosing Spot, jumped ahead in line of his rival candidate, and showed up in front of the Master of the Sun. Which is pretty much just like his name describes. Anyway, Pete spilled his heart out to this guy and was "transformed" (aka given a stupid costume and a ship, cleverly named "Ship") into Star-Lord, THE POLICEMAN OF THE GALAXY!
So he and Ship go on some crazy wild adventures which really have nothing to do with his modern characterization and will therefore be left out. His last adventure with Ship is when he discovers Galactus's first Herald. Galactus, Marvel's super-giant, super-powerful guy that goes around and literally eats worlds, has these guys that work for him called Heralds, which go out and scope out a planet to see how tasty they are or something. Anyway, Galactus' first Herald, aptly called The Fallen One, went rogue and started doing shit so Pete was like "Aw hell naw" and chased after him. This eventually led to a standoff kind of situation where Pete managed to defeat The Fallen One just as the guy was about to like. Destroy the whole universe or something.
Unfortunately, Pete had to sacrifice the lives of 350,000 people in order to do so.
Most of the universe at this point didn't really care because they weren't the ones dead, but Pete did and was haunted by guilt for pretty much the rest of his life. Shortly after he defeated The Fallen One, he turned himself in to the Klyn Interstellar Prison, which was pretty much inesapable and shit. By this point he has cybernetic implants because it's the 90's now and he needs to look cool. Anyway, while in the prison, he meets a ton of guys, most notably meeting the Shi'ar Gladiator (real name being Kallark) and Thanos, Marvel's favorite cosmic plot device.
Thanos is a super-strong, super-intelligent Titan, which is another one of Marvel's aliens. He is one of Marvel's biggest villains and also happens to be the Avatar of Death, meaning he works to appease his mistress who is pretty much Death herself.
Anyway, while in the Klyn prison this super-strong cosmic entity named The Maker came and once again put the whole universe at risk. Gladiator and Pete, along with a few others, came up with a plan to use Thanos to pretty much defeat The Maker, which worked because its Thanos. After all of this, Gladiator was freed and accepted back into the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, which is the highest Shi'ar fighting force there is, and dragged Pete with him.
Pete remained int he Shi'ar Imperial Guard until Marvel's Annihilation event. Annihlation is about an overwhelming insectoid alien military force pretty much attempting to take over/wipe out the entire galaxy and doing a pretty good job at it. The army, known as the Annihlation Wave, start off by taking out the Marvel version of Green Lanterns: the Nova Corps. Which means they pretty much destroy a planet or two. The day this happens is referred to as Annihilation Day and it's after this that Pete leaves the Shi'ar and joins the anti-Annihilation forces, led by the only remaining Nova Corps member, Richard Rider. Pete is his second-in-command and pretty much just... second-in-commands the entire event, but manages to earn the respect of Richard, Phyla-Vell (aka Quasar) and some other folks.
Directly after Annihilation, while the universe is recovering from massive collateral damage of a huge inter-space war, Pete finds himself in the care of the Kree, under the rule of Ronan the Accuser, who is pretty much judge, jury, and executioner along with Ruler of the Kree. Pete has been hired by the Kree to pretty much be the head of security or something weird like that, and, on revealing a new security measure to the Kree, he accidentally lets in the newest threat to the universe: The Phalanx. Which are these techno-organic alien things that are the "children" of Ultron (Ultron is the leader of the Phalanx). Anyway, he lets them in accidentally and they pretty much immediately take over the Kree homeworld of Hala and start shit. This is the start of Marvel's event Annihilation: Conquest, in which Peter plays a pretty damn important role.
So right from the onset, Peter is in Ground Zero of the first attack. He manages to survive it without being taken over by the Phalanx because part of what they do is pretty much ASSIMILIATEASSIMILATE people into their techno-organic army. So yeah he survives that and then one way or another ends up in the custody of the Kree, who take out his cybernetic enhancements and pretty much put him in charge of a suicide mission as punishment for letting the Phalanx in.
The suicide mission is one where he's put in charge of a group of Kree prisoners (so basically normal people/aliens because the Kree laws are insane) and sent off back to Ground Zero on Hala, where the Phalanx has set up their headquarters and erected a big control spire called the Babel Spire or something. The people on his team consist of a raccoon with near-genius-level knowledge as the strategist/weapons expert named Rocket Raccoon, a precog green girl named Mantis, a human superhuman named Captain Universe, a crazy Shi'ar chick named Deathcry, a perverted kung-fu bug alien named Bug and a tree that walks and talks and is actually royalty, named Groot. And as a final punishment for Pete, the Kree force him to lead them and take up his old title (which he has since tried to remove himself from), Star-Lord (who is pretty damn legendary in the Marvel Cosmic universe). So anyway, all these guys go off to stop the Phalanx by crippling the Babel Spire and quickly lose two members, Deathcry and Captain Universe.
The team finally infiltrates the Babel Spire, only for Pete to be discovered and tortured, first by Phalanx lackeys and then by Ultron himself. After being bloodied up pretty damn well, he is rescued by Bug, Mantis and Rocket. Groot is too busy pretty much growing throughout the entire Spire as that is Mantis' plan. It works, and Groot sets himself on fire somehow, taking the Babel Spire with him. The rest of the gang jump off a high part of the spire just as the fire starts, and promptly plummet to their deaths only to be saved by Groot as his dying act (luckily, if you save a branch from him and water it, he will regrow!). Groot sets them down and they mourn him for like 2 minutes before realizing he can just grow back at which point they're all HOORAY WE DID IT! And then Mantis is all "also ultron is about to teleport in and kill me" which make Pete do a double-take JUST WHEN ULTRON DOES IT. So Mantis is down and Ultron continues to totally decimate Pete's troops by batting away Bug and Rocky. So then Ultron's like "I SHOULD HAVE KILLED YOU ON THE TORTURE TABLE" and pete just... puts his fists up. Because he doesn't have his guns. :(
AND THEN RICHARD RIDER SAVES THE DAY! AND DEFEATS ULTRON WITH THE HELP OF SOME ALIEN FRIENDS HE'S MADE! Meanwhile Pete finds out Mantis isn't really dead and carries her away from the fight with the help of Bug and Rocket. Ultron is defeated after that, and Pete and the gang become big damn heroes for taking out the Phalanx's control spire.
It's directly after this point that Pete decides to form the Guardians of the Galaxy, which is an interstellar team of losers heroes to be proactive in defending the galaxy, instead of reacting to crises when they happen. The group contains Adam Warlock, a magical douche of epic proportions, Mantis, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Drax the Destroyer, who is pretty much the universe's assassin for Thanos, the super-sexy and deadly Gamora, and Captain Marvel's sister and new Captain Marvel/Quasar, Phyla-Vell. Pete leads the team as Star-Lord. Together, they base their operations in the head of a giant robot head thing that floats through an area of space called Knowhere. It has a teleportation system and a psychic russian dog named Cosmo as head of security.
As a side note, it is revealed later in the series that in order to get people to join a group like this, Pete actually... kind of had Mantis "nudge" their brains in the right direction (aka a lighter form of brainwashing).
The Guardians' first mission takes them against the Universal Church of Truth which is pretty much an evil Church that is super-powerful due to their reliance on "Belief Batteries", which is a power source gained from the devotion and faith of their followers. So pretty much anything they believe will become true. So they're annoying to fight. But the real mission ends up taking them to like. This floating iceberg comet thing where they dig up an old Avengers Mansion and a guy with Captain America's shield who calls himself Major Victory and says he is part of the Guardians of the Galaxy and that's... about all he remembers.
The team brings him back to Knowhere and then go off on another mission to save some folks from certain doom, but it goes bad because of the Universal Church of Truth showing up again. Because they're dicks. When they get back from that, they find out that Skrulls have infilitrated Knowhere which is bad because Skrulls are bad. A skrull hunt happens, with Drax going rogue and running around the base and the Knowhere security force that doesn't really like the Guardians (aside from Cosmo) chasing him. It ends up with Drax momentarily killing everyone on the base in order to have the Skrulls drop their disguises. Which then reveals that they are Skrull refugees who Cosmo has kept in hiding at the base because he is a good sweet dog. People decide that that really isn't all that big a deal and the guaridans go back to their business.
OR DON'T. Since during this whole mess Drax discovered that Mantis and Pete had brainwashed them all to join and told the rest of the guardians this, resulting in an extremely hostile tension thing after which pretty much all the guardians split up.
Pete goes off on his own to investigate something in Kree, only to be caught by Ronan the Accuser who is still sore about that whole Phalanx thing happening. He finds Pete guilty and banishes him to the Negative Zone, which is basically an empty dimension that is full of creepy things and criminals because Civil War happened in Marvel and they built a prison there. And now that prison is being attacked by one of the many people Pete has pissed off-a guy by the name of Blastaar, who proclaims himself as King of the Negative Zone.
Unfortunately for Pete, Blastaar finds him right off the bat and forces him to go to the Prison (called 42) and negotiate their surrender. To make sure Pete doesn't try any tricks, he strips him of his clothes which I am seriously not complaining about even though it still doesn't make sense to me. My own perversions aside, Pete winds up in front of one of the leaders of 42, a small-time hero from Earth named Jack Flag. Who is like. The lamest person ever. Jack takes Pete to meet the other heads of the prison (they are all prisoners who have just pretty much taken over) and Pete tells them not to accept surrendering as that would mean that Blastaar would gain control of 42's portal to Earth and attempt to control it. In order to convince them further, he and Jack knock them out and handle the situation.
Blastaar finds out about this treachery and attacks 42, putting Pete in serious danger as he is, once again, without guns. And therefore useless. Luckily while all this has been happening, Rocket Raccoon has been assembling his own team which includes Mantis, Bug, Groot, and Major Victory. Pete finds a telepath to send an SOS to Mantis, she receives it, and Rocket's team teleports down to save Pete and Jack Flag. They teleport back to Knowhere.
A bit later Quasar, who in her own travels with Drax has become the new Avatar of Death, rejoins the team after waking her girlfriend, Moondragon from the dead. She, Moondragon and Drax return to the Guardians, shortly followed by Gamora and Adam Dick Warlock who inform the team about the War of Kings, which is ANOTHER Marvel event. The event centers around the Shi'ar Empire fighting the Inhumans, a superhuman alien race, and the Kree. The Guardians split up in order to stop the war from getting out of control. Star-Lord takes Bug, Gamora, Jack Flag, and Phyla-Vell (who used to be Quasar, and now is named Martyr) to visit the Kree/Inhumans side of things and try to talk the Inhumans down from their war. Black Bolt, the king of the Inhumans, denies Pete's request so Phyla-Vell snaps and takes one of Black Bolt's relatives hostage. OBVIOUSLY THIS CAUSES THE INHUMANS TO DISLIKE THE GUARDIANS and they chase after them when they teleport back to Knowhere with the hostage in tow (against Pete's protests). At the same time, the other team leads the Shi'ar to Knowhere, and a big fucking fight breaks out. Eventually the Inhumans retrieve their relative and withdraw back to the Kree homeworld. The Shi'ar are forcibly teleported off Knowhere.
Following this, Star-Lord, Mantis, Jack Flag, and Cosmo are taken to the 31st Century by Major Victory's future Guardians of the Galaxy. They're warned about an energy rift that will destroy everything called The Fault. The Guardians manage to warn Adam Dick Warlock about it, as his group has stayed in the Guardians normal time. Adam manages to put a spell to contain the fault, but the stress of the act is too much and he reverts to his stupid evil side which happened some time when Pete wasn't there. After being rescued by Kang the Conqueror, a guy with really advanced technology who conquers things and time travels, the Guardians are dropped off right when Adam changes to his evil self, Magus. In like, five minutes, he effectively kills every Guardian that attacks him, save for Pete, who, with the help of an item called the Cosmic Cube (which has the ability to stop time and also get rid of Adam Warlock's evil personality). With Warlock weakened, Pete was forced to shoot him in the head in order for him to quit being a douche and killing all his other friends.
HOWEVER ALL OF THAT WAS A LIE and Adam Warlock is really alive and all the Guardians that died were really just captured and they stay that way, unbeknown to Star-Lord and the surviving members until Phyla-Vell wakes up and frees them, and then proceeds her streak of crazy to free Thanos again. Star-Lord and the remaining members of the Guardians save the ones thought to be dead and then take down Thanos, but Phyla-Vell is presumably killed. The Guardians return to Knowhere.
AND THEN IT'S THE HOMESTRETCH, meaning the Guardian's last story arc. Marvel has another event, the Thanos Imperative. The Fault that the Guardians were warned about is back to endangering the entire universe as Star-Lord and the Guardians decide what they should do with the now imprisoned Thanos they've got. Mantis, Moondragon (who is also a psychic/precog), and Cosmo predict something horrible happening and elsewhere an alternate, evil version of Captain Marvel shows up and declares that he's going to cleanse the universe of death. Which sounds pretty sweet but then you see where he comes from, a universe without death, that has so many creepy gross bad things in it that it even canonly gets called the Cancerverse. Then you realize that a universe without death is a pretty bad place man.
Which sucks because the Fault is getting wider, like a tear in space itself, and it's like opening up a giant door for the Cancerverse to slip through. Knowing that a) Thanos is the Avatar of Death again and b) that he seriously wants to die, Star-Lord enlists his help to go into the Cancerverse and stop all this shit. So he and the Guardians and Thanos teleport into the Cancerverse and are met by the evil alternate Defenders (another team of Marvel Superheroes from way back when). They dispatch them quickly, only to figure out that the only person who can really kill anyone in the Cancerverse is Thanos, since he's the Avatar of Death. So they get rid of those guys and continue on their way until they meet the Cancerverse's Vision (aka that Robot that the Scarlet Witch fell in love with way back when) and he helps them out a bit.
Until Drax goes crazy and kills Thanos, which is like THANKS DRAX GOOD GOING until Thanos resurrects because he can and kills Drax instead. Which alerts the evil Captain Marvel to where the Guardians and Thanos are. And since he's been spending this whole time looking for the Avatar of Death so he can kill said avatar and get rid of Death in the non-Cancerverse, he hops over to where Star-Lord and the rest are and is like HEY WASSUP. ALSO LOOK, I BROUGHT MY EVIL ALTERNATE AVENGER LACKEYS ALONG. And then there's a fight. Meanwhile Nova/Richard Rider realizes his BFF Star-Lord is in trouble and zooms over to the Cancerverse to help. Back at the fight, the evil version of the Scarlet Witch turns out to not be evil and teleports the Guardiansa dn Thanos away from the battle and at the site where the Cancerverse's Avatar of Death was killed. Mar-Vell and his evil Avengers quickly follow, however and Thanos turns himself over to them BECAUSE HE IS A DICKWAD and wants to die. Asshole. So Thanos gets stabbed by Mar-Vell but... doesn't die because while this was happening apparently Death herself snuck into the Cancerverse and pretty much destroys Mar-Vell. This causes the Fault itself to collapse and the Cancerverse to kind of destroy itself. Thanos, pissed off that his girlfriend Death has let him live AGAIN gets angry and threatens to take his rage out on the whole universe to which Pete and Richard Rider are like WELL SHIT we gotta do something.
So they trick the other Guardians into teleporting out of the Cancerverse while they stay behind to contain Thanos, knowing that they'll die because a) the universe is collapsing around them and b) it's fucking Thanos. Pete whips out the Cosmic Cube again, since that's really the only weapon that actually works on Thanos, and the two of them are last seen running head on to hold back Thanos.
And then the universe they were in collapses.
THE END
PERSONALITY:
GUILT. Guilt is one of the largest parts of Pete's personality, and is often mentioned in canon (LOOKING AT YOU STAR-LORD MINISERIES) as the driving force behind some of his actions. Why did he stop being Star-Lord? Guilt. Why did he turn himself in? Guilt. Why did he once hate being called Star-Lord? Guilt. Why did he form Guardians of the Galaxy? Guilt. Pete's life is just one big guilt-trip, mostly spurred on by Pete's tendency to either be caught in tough situations (SAVE THE UNIVERSE BUT YOU HAVE TO KILL 300,000 PEOPLE situations) or make big, catastrophic mistakes (allowing the Phalanx to start conquering everything in the universe). Either way, he feels guilty for them and will always take responsibility for any action he's made. He does not run away from the consequences of his actions. Except for that one time he brainwashed everyone into joining Guardians of the Galaxy.
That being said, Pete can obviously make pretty bad decisions. Morally, he's pretty gray and believes in sacrificing things for the greater good. Or rather, he used to. Throughout the series Guardians of the Galaxy, we see Pete moving farther and farther away from that ideal as he grows closer to his teammates. This means that Pete is still willing to sacrifice things for the greater good, but he'll be reluctant about it. And if it's anyone on his team/any of his friends, he'll put up a fight and try every other available option before resorting to lolfrienddying. This culminates in the series finale, so to speak, in the Thanos Imperative, where he tricks his friends into teleporting away while he and his bro Nova sacrifice themselves to save the universe from Thanos.
Of course, Pete isn't really what one would call a social butterfly. In fact, he seems to aggravate a great many people. Being one of the most experienced heroes in the Marvel Cosmos realm, he does demand respect and often acts like a general would. He's a good strategist, though his plans tend to be on the risky side. He's been on the battlefield to know how to manipulate an enemy's weakness and he damn well knows how to sacrifice things. But I already talked about that. Anyway, Pete is often a bossy, sarcastic man who often cracks jokes in terrible situations. Like when everyone's going to die. Most likely, it's how he's used to coping with the circumstances. He's pretty cynical, having seen first-hand the terrible things all life-forms can do, and his cynicism is very evident in his everyday attitude. Pete can also be pretty cocky, which is shown in canon by how he blatantly disrespects any authoritative figure. It's pretty much anyone who hasn't earned his respect, actually.
Being constantly stuck between a rock and a hard place, Pete's used to making the decisions no one wants to make. He's used to close calls and sacrificing big, but that doesn't mean he likes it. However, after being in so many situations, he is probably the best person to make any world-changing decisions. He's not afraid of disapproval, he's accustomed to it. Nevertheless, there's a large part of him that wishes people would realize what was at stake and empathize. This does not mean he's looking for praise, since canon has shown that he seems to despise praise, especially when he's being hailed as a hero. It all goes back to his guilty conscience.
To put it simply without reiterating myself further, Peter Jason Quill is pretty much a veteran vigilante working for redemption. He will keep saving the universe until he thinks he's made up for all the mistakes he's made.
POWER:
Pete's main power will be immortality. Or rather, invincibility. Which is pretty self-explanatory, but in case you're wondering how it works, I will explain. Instead of that 'invisible shield' kind of invincibility, where bullets bounce off/don't phase the person with the power, Pete will get the version of the power where he just... doesn't die after something deadly happens. For instance, if he shoots himself in the head, the wound will still be there for a few minutes before magically healing up. In those few minutes he will not be affected by the wound as someone normally would. He'll be perfectly fine and still be able to carry on a conversation. However, he will still feel pain.
In addition to his invincibility/immortality/whatever, he'll have a super-fast healing ability so that he doesn't walk around all the time with whatever horrible fatal injury he's acquired. For a gunshot wound to the head, it should take at most 5 minutes to heal. A broken leg should take at most 3, etc.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
So I know there's some d'ast scientific reason as to why I'm here, but for the sake of my sanity I'm just going to say the cortex continuum misfired. And for the sake of everyone's sanity, I'm just going to say that I'm not in some alternate reality whozzawhatsit because that would just be messy. And no one here likes messy, right? Right.
Gotta say, though. Earth looks like shit. I've seen images of New York. Gotta wonder just how far that little war against all you heroes went.
Speaking of which, next time you guys think building a prison in another dimension is a good idea, please turn on your common sense and think again. I almost died because of you idiots.
Well. Not really.
[A pause.]
Conversation aside, I'd really like to be fixing that mishap with the cortex continuum. Knowhere, as well of the rest of the universe, is in need of its saviors right now. Which means I gotta get back to lead them. So, if anyone out there knows of a decent time machine, that'd be great.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Since his arrival back on Earth, Peter Jason Quill found himself at a loss of things to do. There was no cosmic war to stop, no fissures to seal, no team to lead. There was nothing except petty crime. Petty crime that was easily handled by the cops or other self-proclaimed heroes. There was simply no room for a Star-Lord in a place below the stars.
Pete wasn't sure how he felt about that. Part of him loved it. A part which had yearned for vacation time way back during Annihilus, but never got it. Well, he was getting it now. Although living in some superhero version of the projects wasn't exactly his ideal vacation spot. At least he wasn't dealing with crisis after crisis. At least here he had time to actually catch his breath.
But that was the part of this whole situation that the other part of him hated. He felt useless here. He had no powers and he couldn't afford all the gadgets he needed to become Star-Lord again. In the meantime, he was stuck being himself, something which once-upon-a-time he had wished for, he now resented. Because being himself meant being without guns. And being without guns meant being without badassery and saving the world. Which, in all honesty, was something he had grown accustomed to.
Coming to Earth was like losing his purpose, or rather the means to pursue his purpose. He still knew what he wanted to do, and he still wanted to do it. The problem was he couldn't, or failed to see how he could. Pete still tried of course (how else would he redeem himself?), but for the most part he would garden.
Peter hated gardening.
It was a punishment of sorts. A punishment of getting teleported or kidnapped or whatever happened when he was brought to this dimension. It was a punishment for having brainwashed his teammates. It was punishment for bringing in the Phalanx. It was punishment for just about everything he had done. After all, if he couldn't redeem himself through heroic actions, he might as well punish himself instead.
Not that he'd ever admit it.
Of course it should be expected that Peter could never shake his bad luck. On some occasions, he found himself placed yet again in awkward situations. Once he was even forced to break a cop's arm (not one of his crowning moments). Sometimes things would happen that even he had no explanation for.
Which was what was happening right now. Except this time it wasn't a cop chasing after him, or a granny beating him up. This time it was a giant Godzilla-type monster. Made entirely of the daisies from his garden. Briefly, he wondered how exactly the flowers from his garden had come to the decision to form a giant monster and attack the city. He came to the conclusion that he didn't really care how it happened, and promptly turned to borrow his crazy neighbor's flamethrower. After all, duty called.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Pete is going to be the grumpiest person ever here.
NAME: Greer
AGE: 18!
JOURNAL: badumtish
IM: hurghleburlebutz
E-MAIL: kukuhead@live.com
RETURNING: 2! Daniel Rand/Iron Fist and Roronoa Zoro
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Peter Jason Quill, aka Star-Lord
FANDOM: Marvel Cosmic (Marvel 616 in Space)
CHRONOLOGY: Post-death.
CLASS: He's a goddamn hero.
SUPERHERO NAME: Not this shit again Star-Lord
ALTER EGO: Peter Jason Quill. God I don't know what his job will be.
BACKGROUND:
Marvel Cosmic has a lot of alien races, the most significant of which are the Skrulls (who have the ability to shapeshift and have chin ridges), the Kree (scientifically and technologically advanced alien race that lives for battle; their homeworld is Hala), and the Shi'ar (feathered aliens that are also technologically advanced but other than that pretty much Marvel's version of Klingons). Unfortunately, Peter Quill is not any of these alien races because Marvel sucks and thinks only these three exist. In reality, long long ago they created a shit-ton of aliens, including some alien race that lives in a place called Spartoi, which there is literally... no information on anywhere. Which sucks because Pete's dad was Prince Jason of Spartoi.
Now normally Prince Jasons of Spartois don't visit Earth, but this particular Prince Jason did. Because his ship crashed. In the Colorado mountains. CONVENIENTLY near an attractive woman's house. Said attractive woman's name was Meredith Quill and she and Prince Jason fell in ~*love*~ until Jason was like 'LOL SEE YOUR ASS LATER' and flew away on his spaceship. Also he left after finding out she was pregnant with his child (apparently he did it not to 'endanger her' but seriously, he just didn't want a kid come on). Also he kind of wiped her mind of ever meeting him, and Meredith ended up marrying some other Earthling named Jake. But she was still preggers with Prince Jason's kid.
Anyway, she gives birth and names the kid Peter Jason Quill and all is well and good until her husband-who-is-not-named-Jason is like 'waitaminute' and side-eyes the kid because he knows that kid is not his. So like any good father, he took Peter outside with the intention to kill him, but then suffered from a convenient fatal heart attack and died. And then Pete's mother turned into the cliche frail and weakened mother and he pretty much raised himself and got really interested in space and shit.
Then when Pete was 11 more aliens came, this time with the intention to kill both the Quills and Pete was like 'what'. As was his mother. But what his mother was like doesn't matter because right after the aliens arrived they killed her so she was dead. Like any good plot device. So Pete does the whole NOOOO MY MOTHER I WILL GET VENGEANCE thing and then gets put into an orphanage. Which he runs away from at age 13 and eventually becomes a NASA astronaut. Eventually, he got sent up into space to man NASA's "first permanently manned space station", named Eve.
Fast forward a few months to when the crew of Eve witnesses this apparition thing that shows up and is like "lol hey guys i'm star-lord who wants to be the galaxy's policeman". Now obviously Pete was all "OOHOOHMEPICKME" but the apparition was like "no you suck" and picked some guy that Pete didn't get along with. Pete had a violent reaction to that and NASA discharged him for it. But Pete was all "fuck that" and stole a spaceship from Cape Canaveral, flew back to Eve, transported himself to the appointed Star-Lord Choosing Spot, jumped ahead in line of his rival candidate, and showed up in front of the Master of the Sun. Which is pretty much just like his name describes. Anyway, Pete spilled his heart out to this guy and was "transformed" (aka given a stupid costume and a ship, cleverly named "Ship") into Star-Lord, THE POLICEMAN OF THE GALAXY!
So he and Ship go on some crazy wild adventures which really have nothing to do with his modern characterization and will therefore be left out. His last adventure with Ship is when he discovers Galactus's first Herald. Galactus, Marvel's super-giant, super-powerful guy that goes around and literally eats worlds, has these guys that work for him called Heralds, which go out and scope out a planet to see how tasty they are or something. Anyway, Galactus' first Herald, aptly called The Fallen One, went rogue and started doing shit so Pete was like "Aw hell naw" and chased after him. This eventually led to a standoff kind of situation where Pete managed to defeat The Fallen One just as the guy was about to like. Destroy the whole universe or something.
Unfortunately, Pete had to sacrifice the lives of 350,000 people in order to do so.
Most of the universe at this point didn't really care because they weren't the ones dead, but Pete did and was haunted by guilt for pretty much the rest of his life. Shortly after he defeated The Fallen One, he turned himself in to the Klyn Interstellar Prison, which was pretty much inesapable and shit. By this point he has cybernetic implants because it's the 90's now and he needs to look cool. Anyway, while in the prison, he meets a ton of guys, most notably meeting the Shi'ar Gladiator (real name being Kallark) and Thanos, Marvel's favorite cosmic plot device.
Thanos is a super-strong, super-intelligent Titan, which is another one of Marvel's aliens. He is one of Marvel's biggest villains and also happens to be the Avatar of Death, meaning he works to appease his mistress who is pretty much Death herself.
Anyway, while in the Klyn prison this super-strong cosmic entity named The Maker came and once again put the whole universe at risk. Gladiator and Pete, along with a few others, came up with a plan to use Thanos to pretty much defeat The Maker, which worked because its Thanos. After all of this, Gladiator was freed and accepted back into the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, which is the highest Shi'ar fighting force there is, and dragged Pete with him.
Pete remained int he Shi'ar Imperial Guard until Marvel's Annihilation event. Annihlation is about an overwhelming insectoid alien military force pretty much attempting to take over/wipe out the entire galaxy and doing a pretty good job at it. The army, known as the Annihlation Wave, start off by taking out the Marvel version of Green Lanterns: the Nova Corps. Which means they pretty much destroy a planet or two. The day this happens is referred to as Annihilation Day and it's after this that Pete leaves the Shi'ar and joins the anti-Annihilation forces, led by the only remaining Nova Corps member, Richard Rider. Pete is his second-in-command and pretty much just... second-in-commands the entire event, but manages to earn the respect of Richard, Phyla-Vell (aka Quasar) and some other folks.
Directly after Annihilation, while the universe is recovering from massive collateral damage of a huge inter-space war, Pete finds himself in the care of the Kree, under the rule of Ronan the Accuser, who is pretty much judge, jury, and executioner along with Ruler of the Kree. Pete has been hired by the Kree to pretty much be the head of security or something weird like that, and, on revealing a new security measure to the Kree, he accidentally lets in the newest threat to the universe: The Phalanx. Which are these techno-organic alien things that are the "children" of Ultron (Ultron is the leader of the Phalanx). Anyway, he lets them in accidentally and they pretty much immediately take over the Kree homeworld of Hala and start shit. This is the start of Marvel's event Annihilation: Conquest, in which Peter plays a pretty damn important role.
So right from the onset, Peter is in Ground Zero of the first attack. He manages to survive it without being taken over by the Phalanx because part of what they do is pretty much ASSIMILIATEASSIMILATE people into their techno-organic army. So yeah he survives that and then one way or another ends up in the custody of the Kree, who take out his cybernetic enhancements and pretty much put him in charge of a suicide mission as punishment for letting the Phalanx in.
The suicide mission is one where he's put in charge of a group of Kree prisoners (so basically normal people/aliens because the Kree laws are insane) and sent off back to Ground Zero on Hala, where the Phalanx has set up their headquarters and erected a big control spire called the Babel Spire or something. The people on his team consist of a raccoon with near-genius-level knowledge as the strategist/weapons expert named Rocket Raccoon, a precog green girl named Mantis, a human superhuman named Captain Universe, a crazy Shi'ar chick named Deathcry, a perverted kung-fu bug alien named Bug and a tree that walks and talks and is actually royalty, named Groot. And as a final punishment for Pete, the Kree force him to lead them and take up his old title (which he has since tried to remove himself from), Star-Lord (who is pretty damn legendary in the Marvel Cosmic universe). So anyway, all these guys go off to stop the Phalanx by crippling the Babel Spire and quickly lose two members, Deathcry and Captain Universe.
The team finally infiltrates the Babel Spire, only for Pete to be discovered and tortured, first by Phalanx lackeys and then by Ultron himself. After being bloodied up pretty damn well, he is rescued by Bug, Mantis and Rocket. Groot is too busy pretty much growing throughout the entire Spire as that is Mantis' plan. It works, and Groot sets himself on fire somehow, taking the Babel Spire with him. The rest of the gang jump off a high part of the spire just as the fire starts, and promptly plummet to their deaths only to be saved by Groot as his dying act (luckily, if you save a branch from him and water it, he will regrow!). Groot sets them down and they mourn him for like 2 minutes before realizing he can just grow back at which point they're all HOORAY WE DID IT! And then Mantis is all "also ultron is about to teleport in and kill me" which make Pete do a double-take JUST WHEN ULTRON DOES IT. So Mantis is down and Ultron continues to totally decimate Pete's troops by batting away Bug and Rocky. So then Ultron's like "I SHOULD HAVE KILLED YOU ON THE TORTURE TABLE" and pete just... puts his fists up. Because he doesn't have his guns. :(
AND THEN RICHARD RIDER SAVES THE DAY! AND DEFEATS ULTRON WITH THE HELP OF SOME ALIEN FRIENDS HE'S MADE! Meanwhile Pete finds out Mantis isn't really dead and carries her away from the fight with the help of Bug and Rocket. Ultron is defeated after that, and Pete and the gang become big damn heroes for taking out the Phalanx's control spire.
It's directly after this point that Pete decides to form the Guardians of the Galaxy, which is an interstellar team of losers heroes to be proactive in defending the galaxy, instead of reacting to crises when they happen. The group contains Adam Warlock, a magical douche of epic proportions, Mantis, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Drax the Destroyer, who is pretty much the universe's assassin for Thanos, the super-sexy and deadly Gamora, and Captain Marvel's sister and new Captain Marvel/Quasar, Phyla-Vell. Pete leads the team as Star-Lord. Together, they base their operations in the head of a giant robot head thing that floats through an area of space called Knowhere. It has a teleportation system and a psychic russian dog named Cosmo as head of security.
As a side note, it is revealed later in the series that in order to get people to join a group like this, Pete actually... kind of had Mantis "nudge" their brains in the right direction (aka a lighter form of brainwashing).
The Guardians' first mission takes them against the Universal Church of Truth which is pretty much an evil Church that is super-powerful due to their reliance on "Belief Batteries", which is a power source gained from the devotion and faith of their followers. So pretty much anything they believe will become true. So they're annoying to fight. But the real mission ends up taking them to like. This floating iceberg comet thing where they dig up an old Avengers Mansion and a guy with Captain America's shield who calls himself Major Victory and says he is part of the Guardians of the Galaxy and that's... about all he remembers.
The team brings him back to Knowhere and then go off on another mission to save some folks from certain doom, but it goes bad because of the Universal Church of Truth showing up again. Because they're dicks. When they get back from that, they find out that Skrulls have infilitrated Knowhere which is bad because Skrulls are bad. A skrull hunt happens, with Drax going rogue and running around the base and the Knowhere security force that doesn't really like the Guardians (aside from Cosmo) chasing him. It ends up with Drax momentarily killing everyone on the base in order to have the Skrulls drop their disguises. Which then reveals that they are Skrull refugees who Cosmo has kept in hiding at the base because he is a good sweet dog. People decide that that really isn't all that big a deal and the guaridans go back to their business.
OR DON'T. Since during this whole mess Drax discovered that Mantis and Pete had brainwashed them all to join and told the rest of the guardians this, resulting in an extremely hostile tension thing after which pretty much all the guardians split up.
Pete goes off on his own to investigate something in Kree, only to be caught by Ronan the Accuser who is still sore about that whole Phalanx thing happening. He finds Pete guilty and banishes him to the Negative Zone, which is basically an empty dimension that is full of creepy things and criminals because Civil War happened in Marvel and they built a prison there. And now that prison is being attacked by one of the many people Pete has pissed off-a guy by the name of Blastaar, who proclaims himself as King of the Negative Zone.
Unfortunately for Pete, Blastaar finds him right off the bat and forces him to go to the Prison (called 42) and negotiate their surrender. To make sure Pete doesn't try any tricks, he strips him of his clothes which I am seriously not complaining about even though it still doesn't make sense to me. My own perversions aside, Pete winds up in front of one of the leaders of 42, a small-time hero from Earth named Jack Flag. Who is like. The lamest person ever. Jack takes Pete to meet the other heads of the prison (they are all prisoners who have just pretty much taken over) and Pete tells them not to accept surrendering as that would mean that Blastaar would gain control of 42's portal to Earth and attempt to control it. In order to convince them further, he and Jack knock them out and handle the situation.
Blastaar finds out about this treachery and attacks 42, putting Pete in serious danger as he is, once again, without guns. And therefore useless. Luckily while all this has been happening, Rocket Raccoon has been assembling his own team which includes Mantis, Bug, Groot, and Major Victory. Pete finds a telepath to send an SOS to Mantis, she receives it, and Rocket's team teleports down to save Pete and Jack Flag. They teleport back to Knowhere.
A bit later Quasar, who in her own travels with Drax has become the new Avatar of Death, rejoins the team after waking her girlfriend, Moondragon from the dead. She, Moondragon and Drax return to the Guardians, shortly followed by Gamora and Adam Dick Warlock who inform the team about the War of Kings, which is ANOTHER Marvel event. The event centers around the Shi'ar Empire fighting the Inhumans, a superhuman alien race, and the Kree. The Guardians split up in order to stop the war from getting out of control. Star-Lord takes Bug, Gamora, Jack Flag, and Phyla-Vell (who used to be Quasar, and now is named Martyr) to visit the Kree/Inhumans side of things and try to talk the Inhumans down from their war. Black Bolt, the king of the Inhumans, denies Pete's request so Phyla-Vell snaps and takes one of Black Bolt's relatives hostage. OBVIOUSLY THIS CAUSES THE INHUMANS TO DISLIKE THE GUARDIANS and they chase after them when they teleport back to Knowhere with the hostage in tow (against Pete's protests). At the same time, the other team leads the Shi'ar to Knowhere, and a big fucking fight breaks out. Eventually the Inhumans retrieve their relative and withdraw back to the Kree homeworld. The Shi'ar are forcibly teleported off Knowhere.
Following this, Star-Lord, Mantis, Jack Flag, and Cosmo are taken to the 31st Century by Major Victory's future Guardians of the Galaxy. They're warned about an energy rift that will destroy everything called The Fault. The Guardians manage to warn Adam Dick Warlock about it, as his group has stayed in the Guardians normal time. Adam manages to put a spell to contain the fault, but the stress of the act is too much and he reverts to his stupid evil side which happened some time when Pete wasn't there. After being rescued by Kang the Conqueror, a guy with really advanced technology who conquers things and time travels, the Guardians are dropped off right when Adam changes to his evil self, Magus. In like, five minutes, he effectively kills every Guardian that attacks him, save for Pete, who, with the help of an item called the Cosmic Cube (which has the ability to stop time and also get rid of Adam Warlock's evil personality). With Warlock weakened, Pete was forced to shoot him in the head in order for him to quit being a douche and killing all his other friends.
HOWEVER ALL OF THAT WAS A LIE and Adam Warlock is really alive and all the Guardians that died were really just captured and they stay that way, unbeknown to Star-Lord and the surviving members until Phyla-Vell wakes up and frees them, and then proceeds her streak of crazy to free Thanos again. Star-Lord and the remaining members of the Guardians save the ones thought to be dead and then take down Thanos, but Phyla-Vell is presumably killed. The Guardians return to Knowhere.
AND THEN IT'S THE HOMESTRETCH, meaning the Guardian's last story arc. Marvel has another event, the Thanos Imperative. The Fault that the Guardians were warned about is back to endangering the entire universe as Star-Lord and the Guardians decide what they should do with the now imprisoned Thanos they've got. Mantis, Moondragon (who is also a psychic/precog), and Cosmo predict something horrible happening and elsewhere an alternate, evil version of Captain Marvel shows up and declares that he's going to cleanse the universe of death. Which sounds pretty sweet but then you see where he comes from, a universe without death, that has so many creepy gross bad things in it that it even canonly gets called the Cancerverse. Then you realize that a universe without death is a pretty bad place man.
Which sucks because the Fault is getting wider, like a tear in space itself, and it's like opening up a giant door for the Cancerverse to slip through. Knowing that a) Thanos is the Avatar of Death again and b) that he seriously wants to die, Star-Lord enlists his help to go into the Cancerverse and stop all this shit. So he and the Guardians and Thanos teleport into the Cancerverse and are met by the evil alternate Defenders (another team of Marvel Superheroes from way back when). They dispatch them quickly, only to figure out that the only person who can really kill anyone in the Cancerverse is Thanos, since he's the Avatar of Death. So they get rid of those guys and continue on their way until they meet the Cancerverse's Vision (aka that Robot that the Scarlet Witch fell in love with way back when) and he helps them out a bit.
Until Drax goes crazy and kills Thanos, which is like THANKS DRAX GOOD GOING until Thanos resurrects because he can and kills Drax instead. Which alerts the evil Captain Marvel to where the Guardians and Thanos are. And since he's been spending this whole time looking for the Avatar of Death so he can kill said avatar and get rid of Death in the non-Cancerverse, he hops over to where Star-Lord and the rest are and is like HEY WASSUP. ALSO LOOK, I BROUGHT MY EVIL ALTERNATE AVENGER LACKEYS ALONG. And then there's a fight. Meanwhile Nova/Richard Rider realizes his BFF Star-Lord is in trouble and zooms over to the Cancerverse to help. Back at the fight, the evil version of the Scarlet Witch turns out to not be evil and teleports the Guardiansa dn Thanos away from the battle and at the site where the Cancerverse's Avatar of Death was killed. Mar-Vell and his evil Avengers quickly follow, however and Thanos turns himself over to them BECAUSE HE IS A DICKWAD and wants to die. Asshole. So Thanos gets stabbed by Mar-Vell but... doesn't die because while this was happening apparently Death herself snuck into the Cancerverse and pretty much destroys Mar-Vell. This causes the Fault itself to collapse and the Cancerverse to kind of destroy itself. Thanos, pissed off that his girlfriend Death has let him live AGAIN gets angry and threatens to take his rage out on the whole universe to which Pete and Richard Rider are like WELL SHIT we gotta do something.
So they trick the other Guardians into teleporting out of the Cancerverse while they stay behind to contain Thanos, knowing that they'll die because a) the universe is collapsing around them and b) it's fucking Thanos. Pete whips out the Cosmic Cube again, since that's really the only weapon that actually works on Thanos, and the two of them are last seen running head on to hold back Thanos.
And then the universe they were in collapses.
THE END
PERSONALITY:
GUILT. Guilt is one of the largest parts of Pete's personality, and is often mentioned in canon (LOOKING AT YOU STAR-LORD MINISERIES) as the driving force behind some of his actions. Why did he stop being Star-Lord? Guilt. Why did he turn himself in? Guilt. Why did he once hate being called Star-Lord? Guilt. Why did he form Guardians of the Galaxy? Guilt. Pete's life is just one big guilt-trip, mostly spurred on by Pete's tendency to either be caught in tough situations (SAVE THE UNIVERSE BUT YOU HAVE TO KILL 300,000 PEOPLE situations) or make big, catastrophic mistakes (allowing the Phalanx to start conquering everything in the universe). Either way, he feels guilty for them and will always take responsibility for any action he's made. He does not run away from the consequences of his actions. Except for that one time he brainwashed everyone into joining Guardians of the Galaxy.
That being said, Pete can obviously make pretty bad decisions. Morally, he's pretty gray and believes in sacrificing things for the greater good. Or rather, he used to. Throughout the series Guardians of the Galaxy, we see Pete moving farther and farther away from that ideal as he grows closer to his teammates. This means that Pete is still willing to sacrifice things for the greater good, but he'll be reluctant about it. And if it's anyone on his team/any of his friends, he'll put up a fight and try every other available option before resorting to lolfrienddying. This culminates in the series finale, so to speak, in the Thanos Imperative, where he tricks his friends into teleporting away while he and his bro Nova sacrifice themselves to save the universe from Thanos.
Of course, Pete isn't really what one would call a social butterfly. In fact, he seems to aggravate a great many people. Being one of the most experienced heroes in the Marvel Cosmos realm, he does demand respect and often acts like a general would. He's a good strategist, though his plans tend to be on the risky side. He's been on the battlefield to know how to manipulate an enemy's weakness and he damn well knows how to sacrifice things. But I already talked about that. Anyway, Pete is often a bossy, sarcastic man who often cracks jokes in terrible situations. Like when everyone's going to die. Most likely, it's how he's used to coping with the circumstances. He's pretty cynical, having seen first-hand the terrible things all life-forms can do, and his cynicism is very evident in his everyday attitude. Pete can also be pretty cocky, which is shown in canon by how he blatantly disrespects any authoritative figure. It's pretty much anyone who hasn't earned his respect, actually.
Being constantly stuck between a rock and a hard place, Pete's used to making the decisions no one wants to make. He's used to close calls and sacrificing big, but that doesn't mean he likes it. However, after being in so many situations, he is probably the best person to make any world-changing decisions. He's not afraid of disapproval, he's accustomed to it. Nevertheless, there's a large part of him that wishes people would realize what was at stake and empathize. This does not mean he's looking for praise, since canon has shown that he seems to despise praise, especially when he's being hailed as a hero. It all goes back to his guilty conscience.
To put it simply without reiterating myself further, Peter Jason Quill is pretty much a veteran vigilante working for redemption. He will keep saving the universe until he thinks he's made up for all the mistakes he's made.
POWER:
Pete's main power will be immortality. Or rather, invincibility. Which is pretty self-explanatory, but in case you're wondering how it works, I will explain. Instead of that 'invisible shield' kind of invincibility, where bullets bounce off/don't phase the person with the power, Pete will get the version of the power where he just... doesn't die after something deadly happens. For instance, if he shoots himself in the head, the wound will still be there for a few minutes before magically healing up. In those few minutes he will not be affected by the wound as someone normally would. He'll be perfectly fine and still be able to carry on a conversation. However, he will still feel pain.
In addition to his invincibility/immortality/whatever, he'll have a super-fast healing ability so that he doesn't walk around all the time with whatever horrible fatal injury he's acquired. For a gunshot wound to the head, it should take at most 5 minutes to heal. A broken leg should take at most 3, etc.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE:
So I know there's some d'ast scientific reason as to why I'm here, but for the sake of my sanity I'm just going to say the cortex continuum misfired. And for the sake of everyone's sanity, I'm just going to say that I'm not in some alternate reality whozzawhatsit because that would just be messy. And no one here likes messy, right? Right.
Gotta say, though. Earth looks like shit. I've seen images of New York. Gotta wonder just how far that little war against all you heroes went.
Speaking of which, next time you guys think building a prison in another dimension is a good idea, please turn on your common sense and think again. I almost died because of you idiots.
Well. Not really.
[A pause.]
Conversation aside, I'd really like to be fixing that mishap with the cortex continuum. Knowhere, as well of the rest of the universe, is in need of its saviors right now. Which means I gotta get back to lead them. So, if anyone out there knows of a decent time machine, that'd be great.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE:
Since his arrival back on Earth, Peter Jason Quill found himself at a loss of things to do. There was no cosmic war to stop, no fissures to seal, no team to lead. There was nothing except petty crime. Petty crime that was easily handled by the cops or other self-proclaimed heroes. There was simply no room for a Star-Lord in a place below the stars.
Pete wasn't sure how he felt about that. Part of him loved it. A part which had yearned for vacation time way back during Annihilus, but never got it. Well, he was getting it now. Although living in some superhero version of the projects wasn't exactly his ideal vacation spot. At least he wasn't dealing with crisis after crisis. At least here he had time to actually catch his breath.
But that was the part of this whole situation that the other part of him hated. He felt useless here. He had no powers and he couldn't afford all the gadgets he needed to become Star-Lord again. In the meantime, he was stuck being himself, something which once-upon-a-time he had wished for, he now resented. Because being himself meant being without guns. And being without guns meant being without badassery and saving the world. Which, in all honesty, was something he had grown accustomed to.
Coming to Earth was like losing his purpose, or rather the means to pursue his purpose. He still knew what he wanted to do, and he still wanted to do it. The problem was he couldn't, or failed to see how he could. Pete still tried of course (how else would he redeem himself?), but for the most part he would garden.
Peter hated gardening.
It was a punishment of sorts. A punishment of getting teleported or kidnapped or whatever happened when he was brought to this dimension. It was a punishment for having brainwashed his teammates. It was punishment for bringing in the Phalanx. It was punishment for just about everything he had done. After all, if he couldn't redeem himself through heroic actions, he might as well punish himself instead.
Not that he'd ever admit it.
Of course it should be expected that Peter could never shake his bad luck. On some occasions, he found himself placed yet again in awkward situations. Once he was even forced to break a cop's arm (not one of his crowning moments). Sometimes things would happen that even he had no explanation for.
Which was what was happening right now. Except this time it wasn't a cop chasing after him, or a granny beating him up. This time it was a giant Godzilla-type monster. Made entirely of the daisies from his garden. Briefly, he wondered how exactly the flowers from his garden had come to the decision to form a giant monster and attack the city. He came to the conclusion that he didn't really care how it happened, and promptly turned to borrow his crazy neighbor's flamethrower. After all, duty called.
FINAL NOTES ABOUT YOUR CHARACTER:
Pete is going to be the grumpiest person ever here.