[ A humorless, caw of a sound. If only he knew. She hadn't been kidding when she said she lost the people she cared for before. With a Snap of his fingers her Father had destroyed half of all the things. The Guardians, the people who became her family, gone in an instant. Her sister, hours prior, sacrificing herself for her. Why? Why? Why? The scrambled question had haunted her for years. ]
[ Because they were sisters, some desperately craven part of her sometimes thought. Because Nebula had been foolish enough to be captured and their father used their reforged relationship against them. As he had so many times before. ]
[ The same man who had ensured so much of her life was nothing but loss and pain. She does not remember her homeworld or ask about it - like so many things she's written it off as a planet her Father had destroyed. No one from it's come looking for her, so it must be true. Any semblance of a happy childhood torn to shreds like the heart that beat in her chest, far more sentimental than her sister's. ]
[ Her body hadn't even been hers for so long - A stranger's body full of pain and modifications. It was only recently that things had began to change - she'd learned to make do and make it her own. Thanks to Rhodey and Rocket. ]
[ But even now. Even now, she's known more loss than life. Had more taken than given. That the question is laughable. ]
I will fight and I will return home.
[ She says it simply. ]
There is nothing this place can take from me I have not lost before.
[ The levity of it means she's serious; Her life, her freedom, her body, her family. ]
If my world is destroyed, I've defeated those odds before. I will reclaim it and this world will find I'm very difficult to put down.
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[ A humorless, caw of a sound. If only he knew. She hadn't been kidding when she said she lost the people she cared for before. With a Snap of his fingers her Father had destroyed half of all the things. The Guardians, the people who became her family, gone in an instant. Her sister, hours prior, sacrificing herself for her. Why? Why? Why? The scrambled question had haunted her for years. ]
[ Because they were sisters, some desperately craven part of her sometimes thought. Because Nebula had been foolish enough to be captured and their father used their reforged relationship against them. As he had so many times before. ]
[ The same man who had ensured so much of her life was nothing but loss and pain. She does not remember her homeworld or ask about it - like so many things she's written it off as a planet her Father had destroyed. No one from it's come looking for her, so it must be true. Any semblance of a happy childhood torn to shreds like the heart that beat in her chest, far more sentimental than her sister's. ]
[ Her body hadn't even been hers for so long - A stranger's body full of pain and modifications. It was only recently that things had began to change - she'd learned to make do and make it her own. Thanks to Rhodey and Rocket. ]
[ But even now. Even now, she's known more loss than life. Had more taken than given. That the question is laughable. ]
I will fight and I will return home.
[ She says it simply. ]
There is nothing this place can take from me I have not lost before.
[ The levity of it means she's serious; Her life, her freedom, her body, her family. ]
If my world is destroyed, I've defeated those odds before. I will reclaim it and this world will find I'm very difficult to put down.