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Character Name: Rocket (Subject 89P13)
Series: Guardians of the Galaxy (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Timeline: Post-movie.
Canon Resource Link: Here
Character History: According to Word of God, at one point Rocket was just an average Terran raccoon, though he has no recollection of this (or can even place a name to his species). The details of how he came to end up on Half-World are unknown, though it's likely, given context clues, that he was abducted, though whether or not that was specifically for the illegal experiments that would make him into what he is today or for another purpose isn't clear yet.
Rocket's origins occurred through severe torture and genetic engineering. He claims that he was "ripped apart and put back together over and over again," a matter that left him deeply emotionally scarred. To cover up his trauma, he became caustic, belligerent, embittered and prone to violent temper fits whenever someone attempted to treat him as a "lesser species," likely because his creators rationalized what was done to him because he was a lower lifeform and thus not worthy of respect, decency, or mercy. This gives him something of an inferiority complex, which makes him aggressively dominant and a bit of a thug.
Likely unable to find a place in society due to his unique nature, Rocket used his status as an outcast to become a criminal, working as a bounty hunter and occasional thief and attracting enough attention to be arrested and sentenced to jailtime twenty-two times before the start of the film. He escaped every prison he was placed in, a matter he considers a point of pride- he firmly believes there's nothing he can't get out of with his wiles and his skills, which is why multiple convictions don't discourage him from continuing his life as a career criminal- it's a minor inconvenience, but nothing that bothers him for any length of time, especially given he understands the prison system, itself, as well as he understands escaping from it.
At some point, he met Groot and the two became partners, though Rocket was loathe to outwardly admit that Groot was anything but his flunkie, often calling him an idiot or belittling him at every opportunity. Like most of Rocket's belligerence, this, too, is a front as he considers Groot to be his truest and best friend and deeply loves and cares for him. In a lot of ways and for a very long time, they were all each other had and that does mean something to him.
By the time the movie begins, Rocket and Groot are doing their bounty hunting thing, which forces them to cross paths with Peter Quill, who has a bounty of 40,000 units on his head. Unfortunately, Peter is also in possession of a mystical object called "the orb," which makes him a target for master assassin Gamora, as well. The four of them get involved in a huge scuffle on the streets of Xandar- Gamora trying to get the orb, while Rocket and Groot try to get Peter- and are eventually arrested by the Nova Corps and placed in the Kyln, a maximum security prison. Once there, Rocket takes full control of the situation by claiming he isn't worried about what's happened, and that he'll be escaping and claiming his bounty on Peter as soon as possible, showcasing extreme confidence and more than a little attitude. He even proves he has the muscle to back it up when a prisoner attempts to make Peter his bitch and Rocket has Groot make short work of him.
Unfortunately, Gamora has a less than stellar time in the prison, due to her affiliations with Kree extremist Ronan The Accuser. While Rocket is content to keep an eye on Peter and plot his escape, Peter's sympathies fall towards keeping Gamora alive in the hopes that she can figure out where he can sell the orb (and also because he likes her)- this conflict of interests, of course, means that Rocket ends up blindly following Peter into danger, because if Peter gets killed he doesn't get his 40K and that would be terrible. Said danger manifests in the form of Drax the Destroyer, who Peter convinced to spare Gamora, because she can lead him to his true enemy- Ronan.
Gamora reveals that the person she was hired to get the orb for is willing to pay four billion units, which convinces Rocket to ditch his desire to turn in the bounty on Quill in exchange for splitting the reward on the orb between himself, Groot, Gamora, and Peter. Because more money is always better. The next day Rocket hatches a plan to escape involving a battery, a security armband, and a prosthetic leg, which he lays out for Gamora and Peter, explaining that under no circumstances should the battery be obtained first.
Naturally, Groot gets the battery first and all hell breaks loose.
As the prison breaks into a riot, Gamora and Peter get the other components for the plan, while Rocket works off some of his pent-up aggression with large weapons. Eventually, the group comes together (now with Drax, who is determined to stay with Gamora at all times) and they take the watchtower of the prison, where Rocket declares that he didn't actually need the prosthetic leg- he just thought it would be funny to take it. Because he's a dick. Joking aside, Rocket demonstrates an amazing ability to hack under pressure and overrides the artificial gravity for everything outside of the watchtower and commandeers a few security drones to effectively turn the watchtower into a makeshift ship, which they use to flee to the Milano, Peter's ship.
Peter sends the group on without him, needing to stay in the prison to retrieve his beloved Walkman, and Rocket loses his patience with Peter's shit and suggests they just leave him before they get blown to bits by the Kyln's security. The rest of the team agrees but they are thwarted in this plan by Peter keeping the orb with him. He eventually returns and Rocket sets to work dismantling anything he can find on the ship to make weapons and bombs out of, much to Peter's chagrin.
The group arrives on Knowhere- a hive of scum of villainy, where Gamora's buyer makes his home. Unable to go in to see him just yet, they end up spending time at a bar, where Rocket gets good and drunk and starts a fight with Drax. Just before it turns into a bloodbath, Peter and Gamora arrive to break it up, where they find Rocket having a breakdown because of the way he feels he's been treated by everyone else (because they've been calling him "vermin" and "rodent") and drunkenly admits that he didn't ask to be made and turned into some little monster, and that he fears everyone is always laughing at him for what he is. The emotions just make him angrier and he threatens to shoot them all, until Peter calms him down by reminding him of the money. Rocket backs down reluctantly, but claims that he can't promise that once he gets it, he won't still try and kill them.
Fortunately, Gamora's buyer- The Collector- sends a representative to get them, preventing more violence and failed diplomacy. The Collector reveals that the orb holds an infinity stone, which he talks about at length, much to Rocket's annoyance, who just wants his money, already. Before The Collector can pay them, however, his oppressed assistant grabs the stone and destroys herself and a good chunk of The Collector's collection. Rocket is horrified when Gamora and Peter step out of the wreckage with the orb in hand, claiming that thing is too terrifying to be in their hands and they should ditch it, regardless of the consequences of it falling into the wrong hands and refusing Gamora's option of taking it to Xandar, because they're wanted by the Nova Corps. All through this, Rocket expresses deep disinterest in saving the galaxy due to feeling like he's been kicked around and he has nothing to gain from protecting it, but before more ethical debate can happen, Ronan's army descends on Knowhere, brought there by a drunk dial from Drax.
Gamora takes the orb to shake Ronan's agents off and Peter and Rocket follow her in engineering pods, which they use to destroy the enemy crafts to buy Gamora time to escape. Unfortunately, she ends up trapped and has to flee into open space, where her craft is destroyed and the orb is stolen. She survives, but she's left in the void of space, where Rocket reveals she'll die in seconds and tries to coax Peter to be reasonable and come back with him. Peter refuses to listen, despite Rocket's begging and Rocket's forced to leave him and Gamora to be taken by the Ravagers, Peter's old employers who put the bounty on his head in the first place.
Rocket returns to Knowhere where Groot is tending to an injured Drax and proceeds to blame Drax for what just happened, because he had to challenge Ronan's entire army. Drax admits it was his fault and attempts to justify his actions by explaining his grief and desire for revenge, which Rocket is blatantly unsympathetic about, much to Groot's shock. Unapologetic about his cruelty, Rocket suggests they go to the other side of the galaxy and hide out and hope Ronan's warpath doesn't reach them. Groot refuses, claiming they need to save Peter and Gamora, because they're the only friends they've ever had. Rocket is unconvinced, because any plan to save them would mean the two of them going up against an army of Ravagers, but Drax throws his lot in with Groot and, outvoted, Rocket is forced to concede. He is not happy about it. He beats up some grass.
Rocket's plan to save Peter and Gamora turns out to involve a large demolitions weapon (called the Hadron Enforcer) and threatening to blow up the Ravager ship if they don't turn their friends over. Luckily for everyone, Peter and Gamora had already worked out a side deal with the Ravagers that, unfortunately, involves 12% of a plan and handing the orb over to them at the end of it. Rocket is unimpressed with Peter's plan (as are Gamora and Drax), but Peter manages to win them over by pointing out that it's high time they stopped being outcasts and losers and started giving a shit. One by one, they all stand beside Peter, until only Rocket remains. Although skeptical still, he confesses he doubts he has that long a lifespan left anyway, so what the hell? And he stands up. And hangs a lampshade on their fellowship of the orb.
The group works out a plan with the Ravagers to protect Xandar from Ronan, who plans on using the infinity stone inside the orb to destroy the planet. Rocket engages in a dogfight alongside the Ravagers and the Nova Corps, who join into the fray after a call from Peter, and goes out of his way to protect the civilians and is even shown to be quite shaken up when Ronan begins decimating the Nova Corps officers. This eventually leads him to DIVEBOMBING RONAN IN THE FACE with his ship, which unfortunately doesn't kill Ronan and just effectively starts to crash Ronan's entire ship with their team still on it. Seeing that they're all likely going to be killed, Groot shields the group with his body, which shocks Rocket, who tells him not to do it, because he'll die. Groot, however, considers the sacrifice worth it, and once the ship crashes, Rocket finds himself sad and surrounded by Groot's twigs, despairing over the fact that he treated Groot horribly.
AND RONAN STILL WALKS OUT OF THAT WITHOUT A SCRATCH ON HIM. Enraged, Rocket attempts to attack Ronan head-on in Groot's name, but Ronan tosses him away casually, and he ends up landing by the broken remains of his Hadron Enforcer, which he quickly tries to fix while Peter distracts Ronan with the power of dance. Drax and Rocket use the weapon to destroy Ronan's warhammer where he's been keeping the infinity stone, releasing it. Peter grabs for it to keep Ronan from getting it and as the power begins to consume him, the other living members of his team grab hands with him, allowing them to share the stone's power (at great personal risk to their lives) and use it to kill Ronan. At the last second, Gamora seals the stone inside the orb again and the day is saved.
Except Groot is still dead and with the battle over, Rocket has time to break down crying over his friend. Drax comforts him by petting his head, which he accepts because sometimes a cute fuzzy animal needs to be a cute fuzzy animal and fuck you, he's having emotions. Those happen sometimes.
At some point, someone must have informed Rocket that Groot can possibly be regrown from a twig, because when we next see Rocket, he has a pot with one of Groot's twigs planted in it. Anyway, the newly formed "Guardians of the Galaxy" are praised by the Nova Corps for protecting Xandar and their criminal records are expunged, so long as they never commit another crime ever. Rocket, being a little shit, tests the limits of this by claiming that if he wants something more than a person, it entitles him to it. Gamora, however, drags him off before he can get too deep into the debate.
The Guardians board the newly rebuilt Milano, Groot wakes up as a baby sapling, and they set off for new adventures. Yaay.
Abilities/Special Powers:
Rocket possesses above average strength for his species (though it's relatively normal for a human), as well as heightened durability, due to his cybernetic skeleton. He is extremely intelligent, possessing what appears to be a genius IQ that enables him to understand and build advanced electronic and mechanical devices, as well as come up with elaborate tactical schemes on the fly.
He has the normal advantages a raccoon has- a sensitive sense of smell, touch, and hearing, and he is extremely fast and agile, preferring to rely on his speed rather than his strength. He might be strong, but he's still small, and he relies on his size and agility to keep him ahead in a fight.
He's an expert marksman, adept at handling just about any firearm he picks up. He's also an accomplished pilot, demonstrating skill piloting a variety of spacecrafts, even in combat situations.
Third-Person Sample:
The Milano didn't crash.
Rocket knows that, because as much as that ship belongs to Quill, he'd like to think he and the little rust bucket have an understanding, as well as anyone can have an understanding with a piece of reconstructed Ravager scrap. The understanding basically amounts to "You stay in the air and I'm allowed to borrow some of your extra parts every now and then."
Crashing is a violation of that agreement. And he thought he and the Milano had something special.
Needless to say, there were other reasons to eliminate that theory- the lack of flaming rubble, for one. The sound of Quill and Gamora arguing over whose fault it was was also suspiciously absent. Actually, whatever happened there should definitely require an argument of some kind, shouldn't it?
He groans, feeling a sudden wave rise up to lick him under the chin, soaking his fur. Gritty, moist sand under his paws as he tries to scramble back to his feet sends his brain into tactile overload and if his cybernetics were a little more advanced, he could probably have seen the RED ALERT signs behind his eyes. This is wrong. They weren't supposed to be anywhere near a freakin' beach.
He manages a sitting position, scooting out of the way of the creeping tide and glances around. This is no resort planet- there goes wishful thinking. Hell, it's not any planet he can think of and he's been to enough to either know a good chunk by sight or pull off the geographical equivalent of "if you hum a few bars, I can fake it."
He blinks steadily and then panic rises in his chest. Lack of arguing means no Gamora, Quill, or Drax. Lack of those idiots means no Groot, because no one is gonna leave him unattended in his present state. And being the sort who would rather make an irrational leap than try to think things through, Rocket comes to only one conclusion- abduction. One he doesn't recall and somehow avoided, but it would explain why they're not here and he is. Because obviously they didn't leave him.
He growls and stands up, brushing sand off his jumpsuit. His gun's still on his back and he has a feeling he'll be using it before the day is out, because someone is gonna pay for this.
First-Person Sample:
[Hello, Wonderland.
This is an unfeasibly large gun.
In fact, that's pretty much the entire broadcast right now- the four barrels of an unfeasibly large laser cannon. Off-screen, presumably wielding said unfeasibly large cannon, a Brooklyn-accented voice speaks up.]
I've been here two hours and I ain't heard any demands, so I hope I'm not stealin' your thunder if I skip the theatrics and move right on to the negotiation process. Oh, who am I kiddin'. I don't give a shit about your thunder. You took somethin' what belongs to me. Four somethings actually. They go by the names Peter Quill, Gamora, Drax, and Groot. They are completely helpless without me, so I get why you'd think they were the ones to kidnap. This will still go down in history as the dumbest move of your lives, so way to think strategically, you d'ast imbeciles.
Here's my terms. If I don't see all four of 'em alive 'n breathin' in the next six seconds, I'm gonna put a round in this communicator just for the hell of it. And then I'm gonna put about eight more rounds in your face. And after that I'll get real creative.
[The gun is lowered. And there is one pissed off raccoon now staring into the camera.] Do I make myself perfectly freakin' clear?
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undealtCharacter Name: Rocket (Subject 89P13)
Series: Guardians of the Galaxy (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Timeline: Post-movie.
Canon Resource Link: Here
Character History: According to Word of God, at one point Rocket was just an average Terran raccoon, though he has no recollection of this (or can even place a name to his species). The details of how he came to end up on Half-World are unknown, though it's likely, given context clues, that he was abducted, though whether or not that was specifically for the illegal experiments that would make him into what he is today or for another purpose isn't clear yet.
Rocket's origins occurred through severe torture and genetic engineering. He claims that he was "ripped apart and put back together over and over again," a matter that left him deeply emotionally scarred. To cover up his trauma, he became caustic, belligerent, embittered and prone to violent temper fits whenever someone attempted to treat him as a "lesser species," likely because his creators rationalized what was done to him because he was a lower lifeform and thus not worthy of respect, decency, or mercy. This gives him something of an inferiority complex, which makes him aggressively dominant and a bit of a thug.
Likely unable to find a place in society due to his unique nature, Rocket used his status as an outcast to become a criminal, working as a bounty hunter and occasional thief and attracting enough attention to be arrested and sentenced to jailtime twenty-two times before the start of the film. He escaped every prison he was placed in, a matter he considers a point of pride- he firmly believes there's nothing he can't get out of with his wiles and his skills, which is why multiple convictions don't discourage him from continuing his life as a career criminal- it's a minor inconvenience, but nothing that bothers him for any length of time, especially given he understands the prison system, itself, as well as he understands escaping from it.
At some point, he met Groot and the two became partners, though Rocket was loathe to outwardly admit that Groot was anything but his flunkie, often calling him an idiot or belittling him at every opportunity. Like most of Rocket's belligerence, this, too, is a front as he considers Groot to be his truest and best friend and deeply loves and cares for him. In a lot of ways and for a very long time, they were all each other had and that does mean something to him.
By the time the movie begins, Rocket and Groot are doing their bounty hunting thing, which forces them to cross paths with Peter Quill, who has a bounty of 40,000 units on his head. Unfortunately, Peter is also in possession of a mystical object called "the orb," which makes him a target for master assassin Gamora, as well. The four of them get involved in a huge scuffle on the streets of Xandar- Gamora trying to get the orb, while Rocket and Groot try to get Peter- and are eventually arrested by the Nova Corps and placed in the Kyln, a maximum security prison. Once there, Rocket takes full control of the situation by claiming he isn't worried about what's happened, and that he'll be escaping and claiming his bounty on Peter as soon as possible, showcasing extreme confidence and more than a little attitude. He even proves he has the muscle to back it up when a prisoner attempts to make Peter his bitch and Rocket has Groot make short work of him.
Unfortunately, Gamora has a less than stellar time in the prison, due to her affiliations with Kree extremist Ronan The Accuser. While Rocket is content to keep an eye on Peter and plot his escape, Peter's sympathies fall towards keeping Gamora alive in the hopes that she can figure out where he can sell the orb (and also because he likes her)- this conflict of interests, of course, means that Rocket ends up blindly following Peter into danger, because if Peter gets killed he doesn't get his 40K and that would be terrible. Said danger manifests in the form of Drax the Destroyer, who Peter convinced to spare Gamora, because she can lead him to his true enemy- Ronan.
Gamora reveals that the person she was hired to get the orb for is willing to pay four billion units, which convinces Rocket to ditch his desire to turn in the bounty on Quill in exchange for splitting the reward on the orb between himself, Groot, Gamora, and Peter. Because more money is always better. The next day Rocket hatches a plan to escape involving a battery, a security armband, and a prosthetic leg, which he lays out for Gamora and Peter, explaining that under no circumstances should the battery be obtained first.
Naturally, Groot gets the battery first and all hell breaks loose.
As the prison breaks into a riot, Gamora and Peter get the other components for the plan, while Rocket works off some of his pent-up aggression with large weapons. Eventually, the group comes together (now with Drax, who is determined to stay with Gamora at all times) and they take the watchtower of the prison, where Rocket declares that he didn't actually need the prosthetic leg- he just thought it would be funny to take it. Because he's a dick. Joking aside, Rocket demonstrates an amazing ability to hack under pressure and overrides the artificial gravity for everything outside of the watchtower and commandeers a few security drones to effectively turn the watchtower into a makeshift ship, which they use to flee to the Milano, Peter's ship.
Peter sends the group on without him, needing to stay in the prison to retrieve his beloved Walkman, and Rocket loses his patience with Peter's shit and suggests they just leave him before they get blown to bits by the Kyln's security. The rest of the team agrees but they are thwarted in this plan by Peter keeping the orb with him. He eventually returns and Rocket sets to work dismantling anything he can find on the ship to make weapons and bombs out of, much to Peter's chagrin.
The group arrives on Knowhere- a hive of scum of villainy, where Gamora's buyer makes his home. Unable to go in to see him just yet, they end up spending time at a bar, where Rocket gets good and drunk and starts a fight with Drax. Just before it turns into a bloodbath, Peter and Gamora arrive to break it up, where they find Rocket having a breakdown because of the way he feels he's been treated by everyone else (because they've been calling him "vermin" and "rodent") and drunkenly admits that he didn't ask to be made and turned into some little monster, and that he fears everyone is always laughing at him for what he is. The emotions just make him angrier and he threatens to shoot them all, until Peter calms him down by reminding him of the money. Rocket backs down reluctantly, but claims that he can't promise that once he gets it, he won't still try and kill them.
Fortunately, Gamora's buyer- The Collector- sends a representative to get them, preventing more violence and failed diplomacy. The Collector reveals that the orb holds an infinity stone, which he talks about at length, much to Rocket's annoyance, who just wants his money, already. Before The Collector can pay them, however, his oppressed assistant grabs the stone and destroys herself and a good chunk of The Collector's collection. Rocket is horrified when Gamora and Peter step out of the wreckage with the orb in hand, claiming that thing is too terrifying to be in their hands and they should ditch it, regardless of the consequences of it falling into the wrong hands and refusing Gamora's option of taking it to Xandar, because they're wanted by the Nova Corps. All through this, Rocket expresses deep disinterest in saving the galaxy due to feeling like he's been kicked around and he has nothing to gain from protecting it, but before more ethical debate can happen, Ronan's army descends on Knowhere, brought there by a drunk dial from Drax.
Gamora takes the orb to shake Ronan's agents off and Peter and Rocket follow her in engineering pods, which they use to destroy the enemy crafts to buy Gamora time to escape. Unfortunately, she ends up trapped and has to flee into open space, where her craft is destroyed and the orb is stolen. She survives, but she's left in the void of space, where Rocket reveals she'll die in seconds and tries to coax Peter to be reasonable and come back with him. Peter refuses to listen, despite Rocket's begging and Rocket's forced to leave him and Gamora to be taken by the Ravagers, Peter's old employers who put the bounty on his head in the first place.
Rocket returns to Knowhere where Groot is tending to an injured Drax and proceeds to blame Drax for what just happened, because he had to challenge Ronan's entire army. Drax admits it was his fault and attempts to justify his actions by explaining his grief and desire for revenge, which Rocket is blatantly unsympathetic about, much to Groot's shock. Unapologetic about his cruelty, Rocket suggests they go to the other side of the galaxy and hide out and hope Ronan's warpath doesn't reach them. Groot refuses, claiming they need to save Peter and Gamora, because they're the only friends they've ever had. Rocket is unconvinced, because any plan to save them would mean the two of them going up against an army of Ravagers, but Drax throws his lot in with Groot and, outvoted, Rocket is forced to concede. He is not happy about it. He beats up some grass.
Rocket's plan to save Peter and Gamora turns out to involve a large demolitions weapon (called the Hadron Enforcer) and threatening to blow up the Ravager ship if they don't turn their friends over. Luckily for everyone, Peter and Gamora had already worked out a side deal with the Ravagers that, unfortunately, involves 12% of a plan and handing the orb over to them at the end of it. Rocket is unimpressed with Peter's plan (as are Gamora and Drax), but Peter manages to win them over by pointing out that it's high time they stopped being outcasts and losers and started giving a shit. One by one, they all stand beside Peter, until only Rocket remains. Although skeptical still, he confesses he doubts he has that long a lifespan left anyway, so what the hell? And he stands up. And hangs a lampshade on their fellowship of the orb.
The group works out a plan with the Ravagers to protect Xandar from Ronan, who plans on using the infinity stone inside the orb to destroy the planet. Rocket engages in a dogfight alongside the Ravagers and the Nova Corps, who join into the fray after a call from Peter, and goes out of his way to protect the civilians and is even shown to be quite shaken up when Ronan begins decimating the Nova Corps officers. This eventually leads him to DIVEBOMBING RONAN IN THE FACE with his ship, which unfortunately doesn't kill Ronan and just effectively starts to crash Ronan's entire ship with their team still on it. Seeing that they're all likely going to be killed, Groot shields the group with his body, which shocks Rocket, who tells him not to do it, because he'll die. Groot, however, considers the sacrifice worth it, and once the ship crashes, Rocket finds himself sad and surrounded by Groot's twigs, despairing over the fact that he treated Groot horribly.
AND RONAN STILL WALKS OUT OF THAT WITHOUT A SCRATCH ON HIM. Enraged, Rocket attempts to attack Ronan head-on in Groot's name, but Ronan tosses him away casually, and he ends up landing by the broken remains of his Hadron Enforcer, which he quickly tries to fix while Peter distracts Ronan with the power of dance. Drax and Rocket use the weapon to destroy Ronan's warhammer where he's been keeping the infinity stone, releasing it. Peter grabs for it to keep Ronan from getting it and as the power begins to consume him, the other living members of his team grab hands with him, allowing them to share the stone's power (at great personal risk to their lives) and use it to kill Ronan. At the last second, Gamora seals the stone inside the orb again and the day is saved.
Except Groot is still dead and with the battle over, Rocket has time to break down crying over his friend. Drax comforts him by petting his head, which he accepts because sometimes a cute fuzzy animal needs to be a cute fuzzy animal and fuck you, he's having emotions. Those happen sometimes.
At some point, someone must have informed Rocket that Groot can possibly be regrown from a twig, because when we next see Rocket, he has a pot with one of Groot's twigs planted in it. Anyway, the newly formed "Guardians of the Galaxy" are praised by the Nova Corps for protecting Xandar and their criminal records are expunged, so long as they never commit another crime ever. Rocket, being a little shit, tests the limits of this by claiming that if he wants something more than a person, it entitles him to it. Gamora, however, drags him off before he can get too deep into the debate.
The Guardians board the newly rebuilt Milano, Groot wakes up as a baby sapling, and they set off for new adventures. Yaay.
Abilities/Special Powers:
Rocket possesses above average strength for his species (though it's relatively normal for a human), as well as heightened durability, due to his cybernetic skeleton. He is extremely intelligent, possessing what appears to be a genius IQ that enables him to understand and build advanced electronic and mechanical devices, as well as come up with elaborate tactical schemes on the fly.
He has the normal advantages a raccoon has- a sensitive sense of smell, touch, and hearing, and he is extremely fast and agile, preferring to rely on his speed rather than his strength. He might be strong, but he's still small, and he relies on his size and agility to keep him ahead in a fight.
He's an expert marksman, adept at handling just about any firearm he picks up. He's also an accomplished pilot, demonstrating skill piloting a variety of spacecrafts, even in combat situations.
Third-Person Sample:
The Milano didn't crash.
Rocket knows that, because as much as that ship belongs to Quill, he'd like to think he and the little rust bucket have an understanding, as well as anyone can have an understanding with a piece of reconstructed Ravager scrap. The understanding basically amounts to "You stay in the air and I'm allowed to borrow some of your extra parts every now and then."
Crashing is a violation of that agreement. And he thought he and the Milano had something special.
Needless to say, there were other reasons to eliminate that theory- the lack of flaming rubble, for one. The sound of Quill and Gamora arguing over whose fault it was was also suspiciously absent. Actually, whatever happened there should definitely require an argument of some kind, shouldn't it?
He groans, feeling a sudden wave rise up to lick him under the chin, soaking his fur. Gritty, moist sand under his paws as he tries to scramble back to his feet sends his brain into tactile overload and if his cybernetics were a little more advanced, he could probably have seen the RED ALERT signs behind his eyes. This is wrong. They weren't supposed to be anywhere near a freakin' beach.
He manages a sitting position, scooting out of the way of the creeping tide and glances around. This is no resort planet- there goes wishful thinking. Hell, it's not any planet he can think of and he's been to enough to either know a good chunk by sight or pull off the geographical equivalent of "if you hum a few bars, I can fake it."
He blinks steadily and then panic rises in his chest. Lack of arguing means no Gamora, Quill, or Drax. Lack of those idiots means no Groot, because no one is gonna leave him unattended in his present state. And being the sort who would rather make an irrational leap than try to think things through, Rocket comes to only one conclusion- abduction. One he doesn't recall and somehow avoided, but it would explain why they're not here and he is. Because obviously they didn't leave him.
He growls and stands up, brushing sand off his jumpsuit. His gun's still on his back and he has a feeling he'll be using it before the day is out, because someone is gonna pay for this.
First-Person Sample:
[Hello, Wonderland.
This is an unfeasibly large gun.
In fact, that's pretty much the entire broadcast right now- the four barrels of an unfeasibly large laser cannon. Off-screen, presumably wielding said unfeasibly large cannon, a Brooklyn-accented voice speaks up.]
I've been here two hours and I ain't heard any demands, so I hope I'm not stealin' your thunder if I skip the theatrics and move right on to the negotiation process. Oh, who am I kiddin'. I don't give a shit about your thunder. You took somethin' what belongs to me. Four somethings actually. They go by the names Peter Quill, Gamora, Drax, and Groot. They are completely helpless without me, so I get why you'd think they were the ones to kidnap. This will still go down in history as the dumbest move of your lives, so way to think strategically, you d'ast imbeciles.
Here's my terms. If I don't see all four of 'em alive 'n breathin' in the next six seconds, I'm gonna put a round in this communicator just for the hell of it. And then I'm gonna put about eight more rounds in your face. And after that I'll get real creative.
[The gun is lowered. And there is one pissed off raccoon now staring into the camera.] Do I make myself perfectly freakin' clear?