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UNIVERSES;
THE REDEMPTION!VERSE
THE VILLAIN!VERSE
THE REDEMPTION!VERSE
THE VILLAIN!VERSE
A Man of Science or a Man of Faith?
[There are not a lot of places where you can go when you are effectively exiled from Hala, from your people. One of the few places in the galaxy where you could go is Sakaar - the place where people are collected who are lost, broken, alone - and Genis Vell preserve him Yon-Rogg thinks that maybe it's the only place he could go.
And he's won some critical acclaim. He's nowhere near the great champion but he's famous for deadly fights and leading teams of gladiators to fight against other teams, working with animals, before he goes home and...
and...
He is made for duty. Not glory. Not for the men and women he could summon at any moment, not for battling the champion. He doubts he will but when the grandmaster summoned him to his apartment he can't help but feel a twinge of ...annoyance. It's a long time since he came from Hala as an agent of the empire, a representative of his people to...here.
Clad in a loose fitting robe and bare feet, he's on his feet polishing one of the weapons that his...master - used. The fight allowed him to stew against Vers, against Terra. And to think as well of the intelligence. To think about if she was right.
So he is polishing on his weapons and rises formally when the Grand Master summons him.]
Grandmaster.
[He can't help but feel like he'd be better suited to be a scrapper. Or a guard.
Perhaps now it's the time to bring it up to him.]
And he's won some critical acclaim. He's nowhere near the great champion but he's famous for deadly fights and leading teams of gladiators to fight against other teams, working with animals, before he goes home and...
and...
He is made for duty. Not glory. Not for the men and women he could summon at any moment, not for battling the champion. He doubts he will but when the grandmaster summoned him to his apartment he can't help but feel a twinge of ...annoyance. It's a long time since he came from Hala as an agent of the empire, a representative of his people to...here.
Clad in a loose fitting robe and bare feet, he's on his feet polishing one of the weapons that his...master - used. The fight allowed him to stew against Vers, against Terra. And to think as well of the intelligence. To think about if she was right.
So he is polishing on his weapons and rises formally when the Grand Master summons him.]
Grandmaster.
[He can't help but feel like he'd be better suited to be a scrapper. Or a guard.
Perhaps now it's the time to bring it up to him.]
A basic Kree Primer - or "So you want to get to know space aliens.
So I really liked the idea of "Friends turned enemies" as far as the Kree go, and out of some other rivalries in fandom in the MCU (IE SHIELD vs HYDRA) Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden really illustrated that the Kree have their own class and structure and Yon-Rogg may have been a bad guy - but like Zangief they didn't make him a bad guy. Consequently, for those threading with him, I'm gonna give a basic primer about just what to expect from threading with Yon (I also have another secret Kree journal who'll be jumping around once the movie's been out for a month.)
WHO ARE THE KREE
Movie Kree
Comic Kree
Mostly they're a big race of blue and pink assholes. The different skin color is important. We'll get to that however.
Class and Society: Comics wise we basically see lots of Mar-Vell, Mar-Vell's descendants, but day-to-day life is a mystery. Since they're based on actual imperial societies (and since Jude Law spoke with particular annoyance when asked to find something good about the Kree in regards to them colonizing planets) they're essentially England with some hard core "pure genome/better then you/sparta" style breeding habits. They come in two different shades, Pink and Blue. We're gonna pretend the Ruul don't exist cause nobody got time for that.
( TW: Kree and a very familiar and very sad/upsetting dynamic between oppressed classes and the quest for power. )
So now that we're out of the nasty empire dynamics, let's talk about why Captain Marvel is the gayest movie since Thor: Ragnarok. Everybody in the Movie is Queer
In the comics, the Kree believe that the best way to know someone is to have sex with them. Yes, you read that correctly. Hence the "Have sex with my clone" line. While their whole attitude is very Sparta their attitude canonically towards love - is a lot like Athens, Thebes, and other Greek City states.
The Sacred Band of Thebes, a separate military unit reserved only for men and their beloved, is usually considered the prime example of how the ancient Greeks used love between soldiers in a troop to boost their fighting spirit. The Thebans attributed to the Sacred Band the power of Thebes for the generation before its fall to Philip II of Macedon, who was so impressed with their bravery during battle, he erected a monument that still stands today on their gravesite.
The Kree in the comics are pretty loose, super bisexual, and consequently have probably all slept together in an effort to boost morale. Consequently Yon-Rogg has slept with his team individually and is pretty sexually fluid. If he needs to get to know you, he might offer to sleep with you, Man, Woman, whatever.
(pretty common for imperialist states and conquerors come to think of it. Hm.)
Is it Love. No. The Kree don't believe in love and their sense of breeding is essentially all about mating to preserve themselves. (sigh.) so while Kree are encouraged to experiment, when it comes time to get marriage. If they love people it's their family members.
I'm A Carol Player What Does This Mean For Me? Jude Law has said their relationship was platonic. Which, thank GOD because this could have easily been a "Kreep" who was basically bemoaning possessing Carol and wanting her to be only his. That made their fight more relevant since while maybe there was some attraction but it was passing. (More on this later.)
Given Kree habits in the comics I usually tend to play I'd assume he offered. Feel free to say yes or no to that happening if we thread.
( Kree, Blood, Agents of SHIELD, weird genetics. )
WHO ARE THE KREE
Movie Kree
Comic Kree
Mostly they're a big race of blue and pink assholes. The different skin color is important. We'll get to that however.
Class and Society: Comics wise we basically see lots of Mar-Vell, Mar-Vell's descendants, but day-to-day life is a mystery. Since they're based on actual imperial societies (and since Jude Law spoke with particular annoyance when asked to find something good about the Kree in regards to them colonizing planets) they're essentially England with some hard core "pure genome/better then you/sparta" style breeding habits. They come in two different shades, Pink and Blue. We're gonna pretend the Ruul don't exist cause nobody got time for that.
( TW: Kree and a very familiar and very sad/upsetting dynamic between oppressed classes and the quest for power. )
So now that we're out of the nasty empire dynamics, let's talk about why Captain Marvel is the gayest movie since Thor: Ragnarok. Everybody in the Movie is Queer
In the comics, the Kree believe that the best way to know someone is to have sex with them. Yes, you read that correctly. Hence the "Have sex with my clone" line. While their whole attitude is very Sparta their attitude canonically towards love - is a lot like Athens, Thebes, and other Greek City states.
The Sacred Band of Thebes, a separate military unit reserved only for men and their beloved, is usually considered the prime example of how the ancient Greeks used love between soldiers in a troop to boost their fighting spirit. The Thebans attributed to the Sacred Band the power of Thebes for the generation before its fall to Philip II of Macedon, who was so impressed with their bravery during battle, he erected a monument that still stands today on their gravesite.
The Kree in the comics are pretty loose, super bisexual, and consequently have probably all slept together in an effort to boost morale. Consequently Yon-Rogg has slept with his team individually and is pretty sexually fluid. If he needs to get to know you, he might offer to sleep with you, Man, Woman, whatever.
(pretty common for imperialist states and conquerors come to think of it. Hm.)
Is it Love. No. The Kree don't believe in love and their sense of breeding is essentially all about mating to preserve themselves. (sigh.) so while Kree are encouraged to experiment, when it comes time to get marriage. If they love people it's their family members.
I'm A Carol Player What Does This Mean For Me? Jude Law has said their relationship was platonic. Which, thank GOD because this could have easily been a "Kreep" who was basically bemoaning possessing Carol and wanting her to be only his. That made their fight more relevant since while maybe there was some attraction but it was passing. (More on this later.)
Given Kree habits in the comics I usually tend to play I'd assume he offered. Feel free to say yes or no to that happening if we thread.
( Kree, Blood, Agents of SHIELD, weird genetics. )