Star-Lord - Peter Quill
Planet of Origin: Earth
Date of Birth: June 6th, 1983 (35 years old)
Height: 6'2"
Hair: Dirty Blonde
Eye Color: Green
Relatives: Unknown father; Merideth Quill (Mother, deceased)
After his mother fell in love with a man who later disappeared, almost immediately after being told he was going to be a father, Meredith Quill gave birth to her first and only child, Peter Jason Quill. For the next 12 years, Peter would grow up in St. Charles, Missouri, with his mom and her side of the family, never having the faintest clue of who his father was. Throughout his life, his mother would share music with him and this was one of the ways they would bond. She even made a playlist of music for him that he would listen to every single day. One of their favorite pastimes was listening to music and stare at the stars. He was her star lord.
When Peter was 11, his mother contracted cancer and the next year was absolute hell for him. Peter started acting out and getting in more trouble, much to his mom's disappointment. Unfortunately, his mother's cancer was fatal and she passed away a month after his 12th birthday. He continued to act out to try and cope with his mother's death, but 3 months after the funeral, he saw a white light and left to investigate it.
What Peter found would change his life forever. It was a spaceship that had landed right in his backyard. He went inside and checked out just what the heck it was and why it came to his house. Unfortunately, as soon as Peter was inside, the ship locked up and started flying upward into space. He tried to escape, but he could only watch from the window as his home disappeared.
To keep his mind at peace, and from having a panic attack, Peter began to see what was on board the rather small ship. The only real item of interest was a single gun, around the size of an earth pistol. Peter would luckily get a chance to use the gun when his ship would be hijacked by a group of space mercenaries known as the Ravagers. After being able to defeat the small raiding party that boarded his craft, Peter impressed the group's leader, Yondu Udonta.
Yondu would take in Peter and raise him as his own, with Peter learning many lessons from his adoptive father. One day, the Nova Corps requested the Ravagers' assistance with an interplanetary conflict of an attacking alien race. That day ended in victory, but at terrible cost. The combined effort of the two groups won the battle, but nearly every member of the Nova Corps was killed, with less than a hundred living members left. Peter, seeing how devastated the corps was, joined them and left the Ravagers.
Peter quickly rose among the ranks of the Nova Corps, mainly because he didn't have much competition, but also because he was a very trained pilot and marksmen. When the Nova Corps found out about an impending threat by their previous attackers, Peter was chosen to create a team that will pretty much be going on a suicide mission to destroy the enemy's main attack ship. And who'd he choose? A bunch of criminals.
