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player information
● name: Karin
● age: 28
● contact:

lampshading; discord: kanoodle#6449
● other characters: none!

character information
● name: Peter Jason Quill
● canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe / Guardians of the Galaxy
● canon point: post Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
● age: 34

● (canon) background: There’s another name you might know me by!

● abilities:

~~Lying~~ Charisma: Despite his tendency to babble, he’s frequently able to talk his way out of most sticky situations. Failing that, he plays the part he’s expected to play, feigning ignorance, weakness, or ineptitude long enough to set his hastily cobbled-together plans into motion. He’s a pretty good actor when the situation calls for it, slipping into roles and changing his speech and mannerisms as needed: with a businessman, he’s polite and complimentary (though he can never quite repress his tendency to be a smart-ass); with a blood-thirsty killing machine, he points out his own battle-scars; with a Ravager, he mimics their speech patterns and speaks the language of cold, hard cash; and with the High Priestess of a pretentious, self-aggrandizing alien species, he’s deferent, polite, and charming.

Enhanced Durability: Peter is largely human, but his half-Celestial side allows him to withstand conditions a normal human couldn’t. He recovers quickly from what appear to be devastating blows (getting thrown into stone walls, falling from several stories, being slapped out of midair by a weird tentacle monster, just to name a few examples). He’s also shown to endure and survive the vacuum of space for a short time, and he’s able to withstand the power of an Infinity Stone without assistance for far longer than any mortal before him.

Combat: While he might not have top-of-the-line training, Peter is able to fight his way through ostensibly overwhelming odds. He's quick on his feet and resourceful, and what he lacks in formal training and brute strength, he makes up for in speed and utility.

Dexterity: Peter is adept at sleight of hand tricks, swapping items for duds, swiping items from under someone's nose -- tricks that require misdirection and quick hands. He can pick locks, as well.

Marksmanship: He's shown using a variety of firearms with impeccable aim. Pew pew.

Piloting: Peter is knowledgeable on different types of ships and is capable of piloting them with a high amount of skill. At one point in the first film, he’s shown to pilot a construction/mining ship, and then using the gripping claws of that ship to pilot a second ship. Peter is also able to fly his preferred ship, the Milano through a pitched battle, and (to an arguable degree of success) through a quantum asteroid field.

Aside from that, though, he’s a normal human — for the most part, anyway. At the end of the second film, the abilities granted by his Celestial ancestry (molecule manipulation; self-healing; self-augmentation; immortality) have been stripped away, though he still retains his above-average strength and durability.

● strengths:

Brave: Peter is frequently shown putting his life on the line for others - leaping into the vacuum of space, diving to push others out of the way of an crashing spaceship, putting his life on the line for an entire galaxy. As a child, Peter had always been the type to stick up for the little guy, even if he wasn’t much to look at, either. That tendency stuck with him, despite the Ravagers’ apparent attempts to snuff it out, which leads to Peter repeatedly putting himself in the line of fire and taking up the mantle to, as the title suggests, safeguard the galaxy.

Confident: Peter has faith in his skills, which translates to the way he holds himself and the way he speaks with others. He has a swagger and charm that speaks to his confidence, which helps all the more when he needs to turn on the charisma. While he acknowledges that he may not be as strong or as durable as his new teammates – he accuses Gamora, at one point, of preferring that he be “the weak one” – he’s at least comfortable enough in his position to (un?)officially lead the team.

Resourceful: Peter is shown putting his wits to good use, spotting weaknesses in his opponents and figuring out how to use them to his advantage, or using the tools at his disposal to get himself out of tricky situations. He knows the various uses of his weapons and gadgets, which allows him to utilize them in unexpected ways. A gravity mine meant to extract items can just as easily be used against people, a jet-attachment can give his jumps more power and can easily be used to shove enemies away or to empower his kicks.

● weaknesses:

Reckless: Peter’s bravery teeters more often than not into recklessness, judging by his fondness for Heroic Sacrifices™. He has a tendency to talk or act before he really thinks on the consequences, which leads to Peter leaping before he looks more often than not.

Proud: Peter’s confidence can teeter into the wrong side of pride. While he’s not so proud as to not ask for help, or to not recognize the skills of his teammates, in certain matters, he refuses to budge. For instance, while trying to escape an enemy fleet, Peter refuses to allow Rocket to pilot their ship through a quantum asteroid field. He feels his own piloting skills far exceed Rocket’s, and rather than concede and allow Rocket to pilot, Peter stubbornly puts his foot down, fighting for control and putting the entire ship at risk.

Selfish: Raised among Ravagers who hardly seemed to care about his well-being (and oftentimes seemed to prefer him dead), Peter’s spent a great deal of his life looking out for himself. Now that he has a team, it’s a bad habit that he is trying to rid himself of, but it stills rears its head occasionally. He is often shown trying to fulfill his own wishes and desires without listening or heeding his teammates, though he manages to snap himself out of that line of thinking with particularly dire wake-up calls.

● job skills (optional): Resourcefulness, piloting skills, and marksmanship. (But Peter would also happily expound on anything listed in abilities above. He’s generous and forthcoming like that.)

● housing (optional): with his bff Gamora, please!

● network username: star.lord

● network sample: June TDM

● prose/action sample: PSL sample