guy who says "FUCK!" to every minor inconvenience x guy who says "oopsie daisies" to earth shattering catastrophes

Kraglin is stronger than any US Marine because he went almost two days committing to a bit that hurt Cosmo’s feelings without an ounce of remorse when Rocket couldn’t even last five minutes under the weight of her puppy eyes AND she got treats when he apologized.

peter and kraglin both repeatedly saying "aw, hell" in the exact same tone yondu always said it cause he's their goddamn dad

canon connections i am interested in exploring further!

kraglin + rocket: kraglin was there during the whole “i know you because you’re me” scene with yondu. did they ever talk about it after yondu’s funeral? or did they just give each other a knowing nod and decide to ignore it ever happened? as far as i’m concerned, kraglin did survive the snap, so i’d also love to explore how their friendship could have grown during those 5 years + their new dynamic with rocket as captain of the guardians team 2.0.

kraglin + nebula: did they ever discuss her level of involvement in the mutiny? like, during the early days post-vol 2 when kraglin can’t help but wonder had she not incapacitated yondu, would things have gotten as bad as they did? would his friends still be alive otherwise? how did they move past that? i’d like to build upon their relationship during the snap years, same as rocket, but i’d also love to expand upon the way they are a direct parallel to peter/gamora, both viewed as second best to their respective fathers + how they differ in coping.

daily affirmations

i am disgusting

i am vile

i am the origin of my own downfall

the rot in my throat is cool

i am off putting and upsetting to be around

no but now that the brainrots back i need to talk abt the holiday special cause it gave me SO MUCH good content. pete and kraglin being confirmed siblings !! peter teaching kraglin about christmas and kraglin genuinely being into it !!! him maybe not totally understanding the reasoning behind it but helping pete gather materials to make a tree regardless !! them working together to make little gifts for yondu and the rest of the crew !! then him getting scolded for being “soft” and being told he should know better and you can literally see the foundation being built!!!! decades of learning to keep his mouth shut, not talk back, internalize shit and move on…. until it explode out of him at the most inopportune time :)

the evolution of kraglin’s nicknames for peter.

for a while he was just the terran brat. in the beginning, kraglin didn’t bother to remember the names of ego’s children. part of it was because he was still a kid himself when they started transporting and in those days, he was more focused on surviving the eclector than making friends with the cargo. however, he also knew they were never supposed to be a permanent fixture. maybe he knew better than to get attached... or maybe he was envious of the opulent life he thought they would have once handed over to a doting father. whatever the reason, that kind of fantasy abruptly stopped once they found out the truth about the monster they’d been serving.

when it was decided they weren’t handing the kid over, it became various teasing monikers of stowaway, orloni / rat, [ insert various monster names here ] bait, etcetera, though more often than not, it was simply little quill. he got away with that for a good few months until the kid finally grew a backbone and fought him over it. despite the bloody noses, the crooked bite marks, and a month of latrine duty, it at least earned the kid some respect in the end. it was easier calling him by name after that, which eventually turned into pete for the majority of their childhood.

the shift back to peter was gradual but unavoidable as they both became young adults and started drifting apart, kraglin focusing on becoming the first mate yondu needed while peter seemed to always have one foot out the door. he’s mononymously referred to as quill once kraglin realizes that yondu still favors the terran even when it becomes apparent that quill will never prioritize the ravagers as kraglin believes he should. this is when the largely one sided animosity krag feels towards peter has reached its peak.

the first time he calls him pete in over a decade is at yondu’s funeral, when kraglin reverts to that childhood bond as the last remaining family tie he has. it’s a lifeline and an apology. it takes a little while to sort through his complicated emotions regarding the other and fully repair the bond they once had, but once they do, capt’n becomes interchangeable with pete and kraglin will continue to use both for as long as pete’ll let him, even long after he returns to earth.

in a weird turn of events, the fallout brainrot i've been living with for the past week has somehow transitioned back into kraglin muse so.... hi :3

babygirl your enormous eyebags and just barely noticeable tremor have captivated me

xandar is largely an oceanic planet with cities build on artificial atolls so you’d assume that water would play an important role in the people’s everyday life…. but kraglin did not grow up on xandar. in fact, he has spent the majority of his life on either an asteroid outpost or a ravager ship in the vastness of open space. therefor i present to you a useless hc: kraglin doesn’t know how to swim.

i recently read a fic that explained kraglin’s absence during iw/endgame by saying he’d returned to xandar to help rebuild after thanos annihilated them and honestly….. that’s kinda cute

girl help we've broken out the garth greatest hits cd

i know kraglin in the comics isn’t the same as mcu kraglin ( since james gunn basically just took the name of a random one-off character and gave it to our boy ) but goddamn….. these panels from the yondu solo are fucking me up 🥺

Ravagers means family <3

kraglin being mistaken for a terran by other terrans until something happens and he ends up bleeding in front of them and the absolute betrayal they’d feel when his blood is blue and inky and definitely NOT what they expected is. v good i think.

Kraglin being the nice, polite Ravager he is, asks Nebula what she’s going to spend her cut of the bounty on, expecting an equally polite reply, and instead got the most terrifying conversation he ever had in his life

i don’t have enough braincells to connect the dots rn but i just know there’s smth to kraglin continuing to wear ravager colors and not having a real matching guardians outfit until the end of vol 3 because his self doubt and insecurity regarding his worthiness of the yaka arrow kept him from feeling like he was truly a useful member of the team until he’d mastered it