[ SECRET POST #4014 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4014 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[The Shape Of Water]


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03.
[Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran]


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04.
[Great British Bake Off]


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05.
[Marvel's Runaways]


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06.
[Ursula, The Little Mermaid]


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07.
[Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2]












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Comments

[hamimi_fk]

I think to say that in reference to this particular event is kinda missing the point.

It's a psychological thing, Peter being so willing to eat up his father's bs. He spent his whole life wanting to meet him because it was a final link to his beloved mother. When he felt he had nothing, Peter always had the idea that his dad was out there somewhere waiting for him. It was comforting in his grief.

Finally meeting him is a dream come true and Peter becomes a desperate puppy for his father's attention. It's not because he's an idiot, it's because of the lifelong desire to find what his mother had promised was out there for him - someone who was blood family. Someone who loved him like family. Not realizing Yondu met the qualifications of 'father' and 'family' until his eyes had been opened to the reality that blood doesn't equate 'family'. As well, he realizes the man Peter's mother built up to him in his early years was a figment of her imagination because he never truly existed.

So no, Peter's not a 'royal idiot' for this, he's just confused and psychologically fucked up.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

True, but Peter is a royal idiot whose plans work either because someone else makes them work, or because the universe tends to be even stupider than Peter is.

[hamimi_fk]

Lol. well I don't disagree with that.

[(Anonymous)]

My personal issue was just that Yondu being "the real father" kind of came out of nowhere for me. They didn't seem to have a particularly loving relationship before that, and I was left kind of cold by his death.

[hamimi_fk]

It's implied from the end of Vol 1 that Yondu had a great sense of relief for not bringing Peter back to his real father. I always felt like that was significant.

And you know, Yondu DID raise him. The thing with kids that aren't yours is you really do learn to care and love them over an extended time and constant exposure. I guess that applies to any two people really - constant exposure - positive exposure, at that, and especially shared life events--such as birthdays or important moments--brings people closer. Even when it's bad so long as they went through it together. That's why you tend to see a hero and villain that used to be friends not outright kill each other because of that bonding that happened between them. (Like, for example, Magneto and Professor Xavier in X-Men: First Class.)

And as stated above about psychological stuff, Yondu DID kidnap Peter. That undoubtedly left a lot of traumatic scars on his psyche especially so soon after losing his mother at because of his young age. I'm sure Peter held some contempt toward him, and all this while Peter was still riding the coattails of delusion city about his real father, so I'm not surprised they didn't have a close relationship. That could also be viewed as the rift some fathers and sons go through as the sons get older and form different ideas/feelings about the world/their surroundings. It doesn't mean they stop caring for each though and usually things work themselves out.

In short, lol, I feel that yes, Yondu as Peter's 'real father' made perfect sense.