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Mantis has always been afraid to show how she felt. She's more comfortable just feeling other people's emotions. So it becomes harder when she falls for someone who never shows how she feels.
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Lonely Hearts Club by dykeriots
Fandoms: Guardians of the Galaxy - Fandom, Marvel Cinematic Universe
31 Aug 2018
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Mantis, a freshly orphaned child, is presented before Thanos to be executed after a presumably manageable mission drastically fails and an asset is lost.
It is later discovered that she possesses rare abilities considered vital to the Titan’s cause and, due to this, is spared.Mantis and Nebula develop a strangely powerful friendship that transforms into something more as they mature.
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After the war, after the dust, after the return, Mantis can feel the combined staggering relief, joy, confusion, and terror of half of the universe popping back into existence and the other half celebrating. It's too much.
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So as Nebula closed herself up and stood, she did not immediately stalk from the room as she had planned to.
She turned to the also rising woman and said, from between half clenched teeth, “I enjoyed your company.”
Then she stalked from the room.
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Love, like wildflowers, can be found both right outside or in the most unlikely places.
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A series of Nebula-centric oneshots taking place between GOTG Vol 2 and Infinity War. Expect lots of variety in length and content, but mostly just a lot of fluff.
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just add mistletoe by orphan_account
Fandoms: Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
09 Oct 2019
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"'What is it?', she asks, voice the same as it had been the first time Nebula shared her rations with her. She holds the ornament up to the light, and an intricate dalliance of orange, black, and green blossoms throughout the room. If possible, her eyes grow even wider, and her antennae bob, glowing a pleasant yellow.
'It’s like mistletoe', Nebula says, feeling her cheek grow warm with heat. She shifts, the bed dipping as she tugs her legs closer to her. She shrugs, still avoiding her gaze, and bites her lip. 'You know. That...that festive thing from the other Terran holiday.'" -
not ugly by ancientglowstick
Fandoms: Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies)
20 Dec 2019
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Mantis and Nebula converse on the golden steps of Ego's house, during the events of GOTG Vol. 2. They find they have more in common than they believed, and that if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they are both Aphrodite.
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quaking underneath the force of you by orphan_account
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies)
17 Jul 2020
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"There’s a bounty out for her rearrest. 20,000 units.
'Sitting with the big kids now', Nebula says as they’re lounging about in her ship one day. She’s missing three new fingers on her good hand, and there’s a panel of machinery sticking out from the left side of her head. She’s colder now. But it’s the same cold she’s always had, and it’s a cold Mantis has always found comfort in.
Her frozen soul could breathe fire into her yet again, if Mantis would will it.
'I’m twenty-three years old', she whispers, arms wrapped comfortably around Nebula’s waist. 'I’ve been a ‘big kid’ for years now.'
Nebula presses closer to her, content as she rests against Mantis’s chest, and smiles. She’s not listening. She’s...happy.
Mantis closes her eyes, trying to lose herself in the rare rays of sunshine emitting from behind the cloudied skies of her friend."
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I Was An Island by synthesizstar
Fandoms: Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
25 Jul 2021
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Over the course of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, Nebula learns what love is
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It was all an annoying problem. Nebula still does not know what the hell love is.
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Late tides by sugarcane_is_okay_iguess
Fandoms: Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
24 Jun 2023
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Those emotions came in surges big and small, sometimes springing leaks in her walls and her bodily crevices. They'd shatter into salty foams and outlive the needless thoughts that started all the problems in the first place.
Some would leave her terribly shivering and drenched.
Some would begrudgingly wander off by themselves with an uncertain promise to return.
It was unnerving for her to do nothing but watch herself erode.
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完全是在瞎编搞笑的一篇，雷到人我负责，骂了我可就不许骂我产品了。
星卡/虫云⚠️
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兄妹俩做饭吃饭然后顺便解决一下和各自女朋友的问题。3w+
星卡/虫云⚠️
可能会有让人不舒服的吞食描写⚠️- Language:
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For a while, Mantis is Ego's daughter. Then she isn't.
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and she dreams through the noise, her weight against me by questionsthemselves
Fandoms: Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies)
20 Sep 2017
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Neblua touches her, and there’s a galaxy exploding in her mind, and dizzying, churning oceans in her eyes, and she falls a little in love. She’s often a little in love with the people she touches, feeling the tangled kaleidoscope of the very best and worst that person could be. But this…
Before she can stop herself, she’s whispering, “You’re beautiful,” and then she’s clapping a hand over her mouth, hand springing back away from the perfect smooth seam where synth flesh met skin.
For Mantis, learning to people is hard but somehow being with Nebula never is.
Bookmarked by GrazingBeltedGalloway
14 May 2019
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a cute rarepair
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“I don’t think we’ll have any problems with him,” Ego tells Mantis as he tucks her up in bed.
“I am happy for you,” Mantis says. Her mind is racing. “Will he live here with us?”
“Of course he will. And then you can finally have a brother. Haven’t you always wanted a brother?”
Mantis gives a one-shouldered shrug. “Will I be able to leave my room?”
“We’ll see, Mantis,” Ego says and kisses her forehead. “Good night, Mantis.”
“Good night, Ego,” Mantis says.
“I love you, Ego,” Mantis says.
The lock clicks behind him.
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- Part 3 of we should become more adventurous
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tumbling down by SkyRose for ElasticElla
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies)
27 May 2020
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Mantis was always mindful of where she touched Nebula.
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- Part 9 of Queer Literature Quotes Prompt Table
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not ugly by ancientglowstick
Fandoms: Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies)
20 Dec 2019
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Mantis and Nebula converse on the golden steps of Ego's house, during the events of GOTG Vol. 2. They find they have more in common than they believed, and that if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they are both Aphrodite.
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“Hello! I am Mantis!” the peppy bug-eyed empath jovially informs her, those characteristic fleshy antennae (either stem protruding from just before her hairline) bobbing sparsely with each syllable.
(Nebula refuses to find it even remotely endearing.)
“I know,” she hears herself reply, short and crude and noticeably lacking in any degree of warmth—all in all, displaying her typical degree of standoffish indifference: arms folded rigidly against her chest, jaw clenched tightly, the ghost of a scowl upon her features even as she feels the strangest fluttering sensation in her stomach and her head starts to feel just little bit lighter, like maybe she doesn’t want to scowl any longer… like maybe she wants to smile instead.
(She’s well aware that that’s probably the craziest thought she’s deigned to have since… ever, really.)
Or: Thanos falls. Nebula remains (and meets a couple friends along the way).
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to the stars (that we never really owned as ours) by dharmainitiative
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies)
21 Jun 2023
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“I think Nebula hates me,” Mantis announces one morning.
“She hates everyone,” Rocket says. “Don’t take it personal.”
Mantis isn’t taking it personal, per se. In fact, if asked, Mantis would probably say that not taking it personal is both a startlingly accurate summary of herself and something she should probably work on. It’s just that Nebula seems to tolerate everyone except for her, in her own little way.
“Just give it some time,” Rocket says. “Eventually, she’ll start to pretend to tolerate you like she does the rest of us.”
Or: four times Mantis thinks Nebula hates her, and one time she realizes she doesn't.
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a thankless child (and proud of it) by juurensha
Fandoms: Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
18 Jun 2023
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“Whenever Peter comes back, I am making him go with Drax for storytime,” Nebula mutters under her breath, scowling as a picture from Peter appears in her inbox.
(Alright, so technically it’s all their faults that Knowhere is now overrun by tiny psychic children.
But still, all the other Guardians besides Mantis and Peter have been back to pitch in and help, but noooo, these two had to run off and “confront their pasts”/”find themselves.”
It’s those damn Living Planet genes, she’s sure of it.
Fucking Celestials.
At least Peter had sent a picture, Mantis hadn’t sent her anything.)
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- Part 5 of do we not bleed
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Nebula’s eyes slit open—even with Mantis’s powers working overtime to soothe the pain and tension from her body, she still can’t quite bring herself to give in to Mantis’s powers all the way.
Mantis is smiling up at her, still gently rubbing circles into her knuckles.
“How do you feel?” she asks quietly.
“Peaceful,” Nebula breathes, letting her eyes shutter close once again, and Mantis smiles.