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YONDU UDONTA ([personal profile] yondu) wrote in [community profile] voidtreckerexpress 2021-03-21 03:15 am (UTC)

He flicks the collar to the coat he's wearing.

"I'm somethin' called a 'Ravager' back at home. Meanin' I'm part of an organized fleet that doesn't ally with any empire-" he'll just omit an important detail as he usually does "-an' usually we steal from those empires."

Basically, she's right. She could skip all the school she wanted and the most he would say is, 'make sure you can read and write and do math and figure out the rest from there'. He's a space pirate.

"So we all had these kinda uniforms, custom made to suit us. Usually outa this kind of leather. But I gotta order me the rest of it an' I gotta get my badge back. I mean, it's petty, but to me bein' a part of that life was the most free I ever felt. I need a bit of it back, even if it's just bein' in the right skin." Because that's what that uniform felt like, another layer of comfortable protection that defined him. Sure part of that persona was unwilling, but the part of it he earned gave him strength.

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