YONDU UDONTA

Player Information

Name: Winter
Age: 40+
Contact details: Disc: winterferger#4935
Other characters: None

Character Information

Name: Yondu Udonta
Canon: MCU
Canon Point: End of GotG2
OU/AU/CRAU/OC: Voidtrecker CRAU
Age:

World Information: Wiki
Headcanons "Additional Backstory"

Personal History:

Personality: Yondu is the type of man that upon meeting him puts many people immediately on edge. His face is fixed in an almost permanent frown and he wears clothing that's generally imposing. He's relatively average (by American standards) in height, but the way that he carries himself compensates for it; with an intimidating air of authority and unsubtle aggression. When he does smile, he reveals a mouth of jagged teeth, half of them gold. This isn't exactly a comforting gesture, and often a smile comes with Yondu gaining an advantage over someone with pride in Peter Quill, his adopted son, being a rare exception. Yondu is also casually confident in his appearance, not appearing the least bit modest when hiring prostitutes, he's not ashamed of his scars and wear and aware enough that most of his comments about his remarkable looks are just jokes.

His dialog tends towards the threatening, the ridiculing, the commanding, and very occasionally the exhausted. He expresses remorse for a life of ill acts and bad choices, constantly weighed down by the consequences of them. Direct apologies have often been rejected, and he's been left alone. If other people want to be good and kind, let them, but he's seen the worst of how people take advantage of each other. In his opinion, anyone that would try to be kind to him for any amount of time would eventually reject him or cause him problems. Nothing in his life contradicted this, having been rejected by his parents, by his Ravager captain squad, and by Peter Quill (though this changed in their final minutes together).

Yondu cares a lot about his crew (which about a third of them are able to recognize the fact that he does, as evidenced by GOTG2) and he cares most about Peter even if he never really gave him a reason to see it. Even among the crew that mutinied, he could recall Vorkor's sleeping habits. He also did his best to make no one feel more important than the other and was able to maintain the act for a couple of decades.

In order to keep Peter as part of the crew, he had to stick to a narrative that he had kept him rather than taking him to Ego because he'd be useful for theft. He went out of his way to be agitating and threatening, and even if it was meant in good humor in some cases he's never made a point of clarifying that it was a joke to Peter and knowingly let him think the worst. For all that he comes off as an uncaring rogue, he's surprisingly responsible and does his best to look at the big picture. He's a team player more than a lone wolf when facing a problem. Sometimes he'll bypass good scores for a kinder resolution. He's even pretended to threaten people he likes with death because he needs to maintain a show of power with his crew, but patiently waited to be presented with excuses to spare them. But he can also be ruthless, and if opposed he's not afraid to use lethal force to get rid of whoever is in his way. In fact, he favors it.

He's never committed to a romance and it's not a high priority for him. If he had loving relationships in the past, he's not seen fit to mention them in front of anyone nor did anyone notice. His best friend appears to be Kraglin Obfonteri, his first mate, and Kraglin inadvertently betrayed him when he got frustrated with the fact he wouldn't turn on his adopted son in favor of his crew (he was unaware of the depth of Yondu's attachment because he'd hidden it so well). He and Peter seem to be the two most important people in his life, and even Peter he would threaten with death (even if he stalled to find any excuse to not go through with it). Rocket was probably the first person he connected with on a deeper level in years, breaking down and angrily yelling about how he understood him and why he tried to push people away.

While Yondu dislikes people that threaten or abuse him otherwise he doesn't have strong feelings. His bitterness at being a Battle Slave doesn't lean towards his slave-masters, the Kree, but towards his parents who sold him knowing what might happen to him. This is probably part of why, when he discovered that Ego was killing his own children, he hid the last one from him. Once he knew what might happen to him he withdrew from the contract no matter how much money he earned. There's the implication that he went to the other Ravager captains to help him, and upon learning what he'd done rather than lend a hand they exiled him to deal with his own actions.

Some people he can find annoying, especially people he sees as being full of themselves (something he's passed on to Peter) but for the most part he has a neutral "they're there" opinion about most people. He can get drunk and get along with like-minded individuals, and if you save him from a rough spot you'll have his respect. Even people he's friends with he's abrasive towards eventually, using that as a barrier to protect himself emotionally.

He'll be friendlyish with children, often treating them either as little adults or teaching them to protect themselves even at a young age. While he'd make intimidating jokes that might not be funny, he did do things like train Peter to fight and fly a fighter ship as a preteen. Thanks to Yondu's efforts Peter was a competent thief by the time he was twelve. Being that he was sold as a slave at a very young age, he could also have a skewed perspective of what's expected of children.

Yondu's number one focus has been money and maintaining his crew. As far as he's concerned, he's in it for himself. He wants to survive and he wants to enjoy his Ravager life. He mostly sticks to the Ravager code even after having been exiled. He'd love to have relationships like that again, he sees how exceptionally rare they are and often finds the effort not worth it.


CRAU developments: Became more patient with the presence of much of the VT Express's crew and no particular reason to prove himself. Could try and make up for some of his 'necessary' past sins. Served as Blue Team Lead for a while (though that's a passive role) and adopted Kyoko Sakura (Purple) and Raven. Was extremely close friends with Soldat and lived with him for a while. Nearly had romantic feelings for a few people but generally realized in each case they were doomed.

Key themes: Protectiveness hidden behind performative aggression

Continuing/breaking cycles of damage

The dangers of excessive greed

Main Motivation: Loyalty: What he values above all else. Both from and to him.

Skills:

▶Yaka Arrow

As listed in inventory, it's his primary weapon. An arrow made out of Yaka metal (also called Trillium, Trillite, and the 'living metal'), an alloy exclusive to the Centauri homeworld and responds to his fin's psionic control and whistle commands. Yaka metal is highly sensitive to sound and almost as strong as vibranium, capable of withstanding intense explosions and able to pierce the hulls of armored ships.

The fin he's using is the second one in Guardians of the Galaxy. The way it works is it constantly lays out a map of the area around him. He doesn't always have to look at the arrow to guide it, but direct it towards shapes that he detects through the fin's sensors. Visual reference helps for accuracy since a shape doesn't betray many details.

His fin is so integrally connected to his brain and its commands are so unique and exclusive that no one else can use the arrow without extensive training. Arrow demonstrations here.

▶Combat

Yondu is a former battle slave and decent at hand-to-hand combat, even without his arrow. He's not at ninja levels but he could still put a military-style beatdown on someone. He has the usual mortal impairments and limitations, but if provoked into a fistfight with another soldier he could hold his own.

He's excellent with combat vehicles, especially as a pilot in a fighter ship. He can also improvise things like mining ships into actual combat ships.

▶Engineering

Yondu can rewire electronics on the fly, using whatever resources are available to him. He can work under intense fire and high pressure.

▶Leadership

He's a good tactical strategist and given enough information and manpower can plan incredibly effective organized attacks. Up until the end he was an effective captain that maintained command of his crew and led them on many successful missions and heists. Peter Quill was responsible for the failure of a few missions and caused the primary discord among Yondu's crew.

He allowed marginalized parties (he did have gay officers) and disabled individuals (men with damaged eyes and so on) on as crew, though he had a preference for males as crew. I suspect that he didn't particularly like being aggressive towards women if he could help it. He was even able to organize an attack that severely damaged one of Thanos's ships.

▶Plant Manipulation (CRAU from VoidTreckers)

Acquired the ability to grow and change plants. While growing is taking a while to work on and he has to focus more time on it, changing is easier. This ranges from changing the colors of flowers to convincing a plant to grow thorns or cactus spines or mutating combinations of fruit.

This faintly connects to his Centaurian connections to nature that he never developed, and has to emulate a plant that he's actually encountered at some point in his life (this includes some of Groot's traits, like glowing pollen). He can't make up things on the fly. However he's well-traveled and has a lot of options to choose from.

Item:

Sample: first VT thread

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