#Drax the dad

[raccoonfallsharder]

rewatching gotg volume one (again; shut up; i'm very normal about this) and i am once again reminded of the similarities between lylla and drax

volume three lylla: it really is good to have friends. volume one drax: it is pleasing to once again have friends.

anyone who says drax is "just comic relief" isn't looking

uhhhh here are some thoughts about drax & mantis if you needed more

[malvo-ish]

Drax: *lifting weights*

Adam: Wow… He's so intense!

Mantis: I wonder what drives him.

Drax, internally: Oh I am going to be SO good at giving hugs.

[hjbirthdaywishes]

January 18, 2024

Happy 55 Birthday to Dave Bautista.

[louisetaylor]

Wherefore art thou, Romeo?

Them: Where is Romeo? You: I'll do you one better. Who is Romeo? Me: I'll do YOU one better. WHY is Romeo?

[wolvier1ne]

OH MY GOD

Drax The Destroyer can’t see you if you stand still for too long that’s why Groot freezes when drax falls infront of him in volume 2 and why he thinks you can’t see him if he moves slowly

[mobilerafie]

Body Art

I love Drax so much! Dave Bautista is the man!

[extraordinary-heroes]

Drax Vol 1 #6 (Cover art by Scott Hepburn)

[lokisivy]

Hellooo, can you do one with peter quill. When Quill has amnesia and the reader tries his best to make him remember.

Come and get your love - Peter Quill

you were on a mission trying to find stolen batteries from the sovereigns. during the fight between some aliens, one of them managed to wipe Peters memories, causing him to have a temporary amenisa.

Rocket said that we have to try to make him remember by telling him memories that can reset him back to default until he tries to figure out how to fix him.

you were both hopelessly in love with each other. you were with him since he was a ravenger.

Peter was sitting on your shared bed back at nowhere. You guys moved together a month ago.

you enter the room, causing him to look up from the picture he is looking at. it was polaroid of you and him. you smiled at him

"Oh, so you're the mystery lady." he says. you giggled a bit, making him smile.

"What is your name, mylady?" he asked. You know it wasn't his fault he does not remember anything, but it made you upset that he doesn't know your name.

"It's Y/N." You sat next to him.

"We took this polorid at Xander after we broke out of prison with the rest of the guardians and saved a whole ass planet together."

"Im sorry, but I dont remember." he sighs

"It's alright."

"How about we dance to a song," you said, standing up

"You want to dance? with me?" he is surprised

"I know im way out of your league, but come on." You joked

you played the song "Come and get your love" by redbone.

"You love this song." you said, putting your hands on his shoulders while his was creeping on your waist.

"We were singing this while we stole the orb containing an infinity stone."

he was turning you and spinning you to the melody. you giggled at how he liked the song.

he felt like he's done this before which clicked back some memories. his eyes closed reliving the moments again.

"peter? Are you okay?"

"Yeah... I remember."

[cartoontees]

everybody's tough in the movie theater until the character who lost his daughter and was so devastated by his grief that he became a war machine hell bent on revenge, learns to open up his heart again despite the fact that he believes there is nothing left for him and in turn ends up with an entire miniature planet full of daughters to love and care for for the rest of his life

[highfivemachine]

Just pointing this out there that when Mantis says she’s leaving Drax asks who will protect her. Kind of like how she’s been a daughter to him for a bit.

[madness-on-the-milano]

Name of the Game Chapter Thirty Eight Is Up!

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Drax gives Rocket one of his 'pep' talks. Stakar does his duty as captain.

The First Line

The incident at the hospital had left its mark. Rocket was still quiet, unnervingly so, and there was a distant yet defeated look in his eyes Drax had not seen before. Drax might have calmed him down from the panic attack, but drawing him out of his own mind was another matter entirely...

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[raccoonfallsharder]

drax && mantis

okay maybe i am behind the curve and everyone else has already processed this but it's my first time i guess

so many people think drax is the "joke" of the guardians (honest question: who is not the joke of the guardians??) and i've definitely rambled and raved about how much i disagree before (the guardians would not have had a chance against ego without drax's relationship with mantis, and he is the first and maybe only person to offer rocket comfort after groot's death)

but since i was thinking about mantis thanks to @hyperjorts ' ask earlier, here is also this:

Drax: Those pools, they remind me of a time… when I took my daughter to the forgotten lakes of my homeworld. She was like you. Mantis: Disgusting? Drax: Innocent. Mantis: Drax? There’s something I must tell you.

for me this originally read as a point of empathy. mantis reaches out to drax and she is overwhelmed by his quiet sorrow and the depth of his loss. she weeps with him. she has been utterly alone for her entire life with only ego as her father, her ruler, her god - but she is moved to betray him because of what she feels in drax, and how much his grief touches her.

and i think this is true. i think i have always believed that sorrow is the place where our ability to empathize with each other has the most potential to be powerful, and i think this happens here between mantis and drax as equals and as friends.

but i think another thing is also happening here. because until now, mantis - stolen from her home planet in her larval state and, as far as she knows, orphaned by her family (though she only knows this because of ego, and i'm not sure he ever tells her how she was orphaned, if ya know what i mean; im just saying that if he killed his river lily he sure as hell isn't wasting scruples on anyone else) - mantis has only seen fatherhood as manifested by ego. she only knows of fathers as those who make and then use you, who discard you when it benefits them to do so, who have no care for the loss of your life beyond their disappointment in their progeny.

she only knows of fathers who create mass unmarked graves of their children.

and here's drax, who has made his entire life into a memorial for his stolen daughter. who mourns her still. who loves her still. whose every breath aches with the loss of her, and the loss of all the things she had yet to do, to see, to experience.

in this moment, mantis doesn't just empathize with drax. she sees everything that fatherhood is supposed to be, and everything ego lacks. she sees her dead siblings not as fodder for their father's plan but as children who were meant to be loved, children who were failed by someone who was meant to cherish them, children who were lost to their own real mothers and fathers throughout the universe.

she touches drax and she knows how a person is meant to love their offspring, meant to love their partner.

and she know that ego has only ever murdered his.

and now, for maybe the first time, she knows that it's wrong.

drax is so important. drax is so important. he always has been. i fucken love both of these precious little babies so much

[malvo-ish]

Rocket: I think I'm hallucinating because I’m pretty sure I just heard your biceps mocking me.

Drax: No, that’s possible. My biceps mock a lot of people.

[madness-on-the-milano]

Name of the Game Chapter Twenty Five Is Up!

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Hank talks with Blackjack about grief. Rocket talks with Drax about matters of the heart.

The First Line

Even on the enormous ship, finding Blackjack was the easiest part. The difficult part was figuring out how to tell his son what had happened to his sisters. The thing Hank found hardest to bear was the idea that Snap, Poker and Gofish had huddled around their sister’s lifeless body, nudging her, calling her name in hope she would wake up. How long had they stayed like that until they’d been found? From what Gax had told him, they’d been found very quickly after Uno had died.

Read the rest here!

[madness-on-the-milano]

Name of the Game Chapter Twenty Four Is Up!

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Hank learns what became of his daughters. Rocket finally gets to spend time with Drax.

The First Line

"I can't believe you're mad at me when I was the one who got stabbed!"

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[madness-on-the-milano]

Name of the Game Chapter Twenty Two Is Up!

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Drax with Mantis and Rocket. Stakar and Aleta talk about Kylam with Martinex.

The First Line

It was silent on their ship, located in the Jotarasitahn’s shipbay. Drax was anything but as he walked through it, searching for the children fate had thrown his way. He felt as if he would go mad if he spent one more second apart from them. He knew they were somewhere onboard, he’d seen the pod haphazardly left by the ship’s entrance, but the last time they’d disappeared together…

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