preliminary sketch
Spoiler:
What is a Proton? It is half of a container that encapsulates an Anti-Electron. You are invited to follow the whole way of how this insight was established.
If you like you can start with a “Build Your Own Nucleus” construction kit. You can download it here:
And yes I mean it: A gluon is simply a “shared” vertice between two Rotons (quarks). Rotons bound together to create a stable geometric figure. In the end the rotating sub-particles will not keep their place in a single Roton, they will change places and travel along the gluon lines. This creates the connection and gluon-forces between the quarks.