#ava is so so smart much smarter than people give her credit for

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Adriel was his own down fall. Remember that scene in his tomb where he's trapped and Ava offers the halo to him and she even has her back to him? But he says to her 'I won't leave you here my child'. He had Ava's consent to take the halo. He had her fooled completely because she only knew what the OCS history books told her. But even tho he's not a man, he isn't very far from human behavior. He isn't satisfied with getting away with his plan, he wants, NEEDS Ava to believe every lying word he's spouting and for her to be convinced he's grandiose and forgiving and merciful. So he doesn't take the halo right then and instead lays a hand in Ava's shoulder and unintendedly gives Ava a vision of what really happened. It's then that Ava realizes something is very wrong with this guy. She needs more info asap without making too obvious that she distrusts him. So she asks him what he intends to do with the halo and he goes into that bullshit about how he'll bring light into the world and go back to being an angel, and then touches Ava again, and she goads him to keep him talking to touch him back and get another vision, and she discovers the truth. And now he has to try to rip the halo out of her through her fucking chest. He's such a douchebag he just had to make Ava have the best possible image of him even tho he was going to rip the halo out of her anyways, and she would have died thinking he was an actual angel and good. But he kick started his defeat, because he's just that self fucking centered and egotistical, that was narcissistic behavior plainly

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♔ STARK, allison → introduction 🍸

❝ 𝚒 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚜𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚢 // 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚢 𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚗, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚊𝚖 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚏𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚍 // 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚎𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚢𝚘𝚞, 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍, 𝚒𝚗 𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛 ❞ 

♔ ELIZABETH GILLIES?, NO, THAT’S JUST ALLISON STARK! THEY’RE THE TWENTY-FIVE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF TONY STARK ( IRON MAN ) & PEPPER POTTS. THEY ARE ALSO A LAW STUDENT AND TEACHING ASSISTANT AT PARAGON. I HEAR THEY’RE PASSIONATE & INDEPENDENT BUT TEND TO BE ARROGANT & HEADSTRONG. HER FILE SAYS THAT HER POWER IS GENIUS LEVEL INTELLECT [ pinterest: xx ] [ playlist: xx ]

HELLO FRIENDS I’M REDOING THIS INTRO BECAUSE I TOTALLY HALF ASSED THE FIRST ONE. SO I’M RE-INTRODUCING YOU GUYS TO MY LITERAL CHILD, ALLISON STARK.

her full name is allison virginia stark potts, but only her family, steve and j.a.r.v.i.s. call her that.

just call her alli.

she was born on january 3rd, 1993. she’s a capricorn. 25 years old.

she’s tony stark ( iron man ) and pepper pott’s firstborn, aka “ the first accident “. she has two younger siblings, hugo and pandora, who are twins.

her godparents are steve rogers and betty ross. clearly the two most responsible people in the starks’ lives.

she grew up around the avengers, so she considers them her family, especially steve and the banners. she was really close to the bartons at one point, but. well. we’ll get to that.

when she was a little girl, she met kurt rogers, who’d just been adopted by steve. she basically forced her friendship on him cause he was just a scared kid and pretty much decided that they would be friends and didn’t really give him a choice. it’s been a wild ride since then.

shortly after they met, they became best friends, and not long after that, alli developed some pretty strong feelings for the eldest rogers. it started as a crush, that she was quick to deny ( and continued to deny well into her 20s ) , but developed into something more. it’s been pretty on / off since then, but the hetero feelings for kurt rogers are strong.

the daughter of two working parents, alli split her time between her dad’s workshop and her mom’s office. that’s just where she would hangout. tony taught her everything he knows ( well, he taught her a lot ). so while she’s not a science™ kid, she does know more about engineering than the average person ( she’s a stark, there’s nothing average about them ). she’s just kinda bored with it, honesty.

she also felt right at home over at stark industries. every since she was a little kid, she loved watching her mom work, and she loved to boss people around. she was just very comfortable in that office environment. she knew from a pretty young age that, basically, that was what she wanted to do. boss people around.

as she grew older she just fell in love with the political side of her parents’ business. negotiating, making deals, networking, lobbying, paperwork. she was way more interested in her mom’s work than her dad’s. that crushed tony, but he’s still proud of her.

she was very close friends with ava barton, who was a few years older than her. while she’s friends with all the avenger kids ( the babyvengers, as i like to call them ), ava was alli’s best friend. she was like an older sister to her. she was the “ bad influence “ in alli’s life. they were partners in crime. they would sneak out and go to parties together, they both dreamt of being lawyers ( alli’s interest wasn’t due to an unwavering sense or right and wrong, nor any sort of moral or social responsibility she felt, she just felt a law degree would send the ultimate message: no one tells allison stark what to do ). alli looked up to ava, and wanted to be as cool as her.

for alli’s 15th birthday, the girls got matching tattoos. a tiny hand with its fingers crossed. this was a symbol of their friendship, and how close they were. it was a good luck charm. it was a say of saying “ the rules do not apply to us. whatever you tell us to do, we’ll do the opposite “. it was done by a professional that ava knew. alli paid for it. she could afford to pay a little extra for him to tattoo two underaged girls.

later that year, they snuck out to a frat party. they were having a great time, until some frat boys got them to leave the party and hangout at this bonfire, away from everyone else. these boys moved in on them, but they were no match for ava. alli did what she could to defend herself, but it was ava who made sure the 6 of them backed off. one of them was a mutant, who injured ava the most. in her rage, she put one of the boys in a come. he still hasn’t woken up from it. 

alli was shaken. both by the men, and ava’s response. seeing ava attack someone like that terrified alli, so when she had to explain what happened to her very concerned and angry parents, she threw ava under the bus. she played up how aggressive ava, and how much that scared poor little alli.

the frat boy’s dad was furious, and sought justice for his son ( completely ignoring the fact that his son had tried to take advantage of two teenage girls ). he wanted to try the girls for what they did to him. thanks to her money, as well as the fact that she didn’t have the strength nor the training to actually put any of those frat boys in a coma, alli got off scot free, and ava was sent to juvie. it’s been 10 years, but alli still feels guilty about this. but because guilt = vulerability, alli externalizes it as anger and contempt towards ava, blaming her for what happened.

after that, ava was out of her life and alli repressed that shit. repressed it way down. she hasn’t really thought about it in a decade.

academically, high school kinda bored her. there just wasn’t any real challenge, and she got restless. she didn’t finish faster because this is when she met most of her closest friends. she didn’t speed through high school because she wanted to enjoy her time with her pals.

like i said, high school made her restless, and she got into trouble by being a smartass, talking back to her teachers and just being difficult in general. she would often correct them if she saw the smallest mistake.

she was oppositional. defiant. confrontational. argumentative.

alli truly believes she’s smarter than everyone else. it’s the one thing she’s actually confident about. everything else, she’s been faking. being so smart made her extremely competitive, because she knows she'll win. she’ll do everything in her power not to lose. she hates losing. she can argue her way out of a paper bag. she can’t stand being wrong, and in her eyes, she never is.

she had, and still has, a really hard time keeping her mouth shut. she always speaks her mind because she really believes her opinion is just that important.

so you just know she was the captain of the debate team, and everyone hated her guts.

during this time, she dated lilith moone-hellstrom. this was alli’s only actually “ relationship “. even thought they were in high school, alli can honestly say she took the relationship seriously, and that she even fell in love.

as she got closer to graduating, alli’s obsession with being academically superior alienated her from the rest of the world. she was oblivious to everything around her, and didn’t even realize she and lily were growing apart. the relationship ended amicably, and they’re still friends.

she definitely feels the pressure to be perfect. she wants and needs to live up to her parents’ legacy. she needs to be better than everyone else. she rarely shows any sign of vulnerability. she sees caring too much as a weakness, which is a shame, because she cares a lot.

she compensates by acting superior to everyone, which makes her a little hard to love. she won’t dumb herself down just because she intimidates someone. she won’t soften up to make others comfortable. she’ll take care of others, but she’ll make it seem like she’s getting something out of it.

those who are actually friends with her have probably learned to see right through this. alli cares she just shows it in unconventional ways and it too proud to admit it. she would actually die for every single one of her friends and is kind of in awe that they’ll even tolerate her because she knows she’s not easy.

she started accumulating college credits in high school, and later double majored in political science and mathematics, along with a minor in public policy. the maths degree was really to appease her father, who wanted her to be well-versed in his field.

it was during this time that alli became a bit of a partier. the incident in high school scared her for a few years, but once she started college, she let loose. the stress of being the perfect daughter, the perfect heiress to the stark legacy ( pressure that was placed on her by no one but herself ), drove her to drinking. first a drink or two every now and then, just to let go of those thoughts.

this escalated to the point where she would sometimes show up to class drunk. she still aced all her classes, but she started using alcohol as a crutch. she made sure to hide this from her parents, so she wasn’t aware of how deep seated her problem was ( is ).

after she finished undergrad, she enrolled at mit to get her master’s in mechanical engineering. tony wanted her to go to his alma mater, and she can’t stand the idea of disappointing her father ( what kind of privileged, genius rich kid bullshit, going to mit like it’s no big deal what the fuck allison virginia, what the fuck is up ).

she breezed through it with a lot of black coffee, very little sleep, and a lot of alcohol. away from home for the first time, alli ran wild with her self-destructive tendencies. she’d party all night, drink during the day, go on long benders and still somehow make it to class and make her professors wonder if she’s the one who’s supposed to be teaching them.

with time, she’s learned to control her vices. she’s still very much an alcoholic, just a high functioning one. she can stay ( mostly ) sober for long periods of time, and then get absolutely plastered and wake up days later in some stranger’s bed. alcohol is what gets her through periods of high stress, and, well. her life is a long period of high stress. she has trouble getting through the day without having at least one drink. the tricky thing is she knows when she can and can’t drink. she won’t show up drunk to class ( at least not anymore ), but you’ll notice her speech is a little slurred if you call her late at night.

after graduating mit like it was nothing, she moved over to nyu to get her mba, because she’s really that bitch. if she’s going to run a business ( and she’s convinced that one day, she will ), she needs to do it well. she needs to be the best.

after that, she came to paragon to finally pursue a law degree. she’s been at it for almost three years now, so she’s taking the bar this summer. after that, who knows what she’ll do. probably keep collecting college degrees so she can be the best™ ( at what ? who knows. everything ).

she can be selfish brat, but that’s just because everything has always come easy to her. she’s actually very selfless and self-sacrificing when it comes to her friends or her family. she pretends she doesn’t care about anyone but herself, but the truth is that she cares too much. she cares so much it weighs her down. she feels like she needs to take care of her friends and her younger siblings, and sometimes that gets to be a little too heavy for her. she forgets to take care of herself ( she doesn’t really care about her own wellbeing ).

she lowkey hates herself, but she’s very proud of her academic achievements, and will not let people tear her down. the only person who’s allowed to put allison stark down is allison stark ( and she does it well ).

she’s sarcastic, and mean, and doesn’t really think before she speaks. she hates herself, but will always put up a front and act like she’s the best.

she would literally die for her friends and family. she just won’t say it.

unless she’s drunk. when she drinks, she loves everyone in this bar school.

RELATIONSHIPS !! 🥂

tony stark / iron man ( dad ) alli adores her dad and wants nothing more than to make him proud, and one day carry on his legacy. she knows she’s not an innovator like he is, but she does want to protect stark industries so other innovators like him can continue his work. she doesn’t realize just how much like him she is.

pepper potts ( mom ) alli adores and admires her mom more than words can say. she just respects her and looks up to her so much. she wants to be just like her. honestly, you can’t be more perfect than pepper pott’s in alli’s list.

hugo stark ( brother ) alli loves both of her siblings, but they’ll always be babies in her eyes. she’s always felt like she needs to protect hugo, even now as an adult she feels like sometimes she needs to baby him because he can’t take care of himself. they share their self-destructive tendencies, but alli worries that hugo still hasn’t grown up.

pandora stark (sister ) just like hugo, pandora will always be a baby in alli’s eyes. she doesn’t worry as much about her because she’s always been able to take care of herself. however, alli knows that sometimes, she needs her older sister and when that happens, alli’s there for her.

steve rogers ( godfather ) alli looks up to steve so much it’s almost like he’s her second father. he’s the one person she can really let down her guard with. he’s the person she calls when she’s too drunk to get herself home, and the one she cries to when she’s in the passenger’s seat. steve knows most of alli’s secrets because of this, but she trusts him. she’s his ta, and he’s the best boss she could ask for.

kurt rogers ( best friend / crush ) alli’s feelings for kurt are deep, and still scary for her to fully admit. in any context, alli doesn’t know where she would be without him. he’s always stood by her side, even when she thinks she’s the worst person in the world.

OTHERS:

josephine todd ( best friend ) they’ve been friends forever even though they’re total opposites. alli will fite anyone who hurts josie. she’s too pure and must be protected.

naomi dane-díaz ( best friend / former fling ) they’ve been friends forever because they’re pretty much the same person. they had a brief fling in high school but now they’re just pals. part of the alli / kurt / stevie / naomi trash skwad.

elliott danvers-drew ( best friend ) alli’s geeky friend. he worries about her and takes care of her ( and her fish ), she makes sure to corrupt him and get him drunk. she has plans of hiring him at stark industries one day.

stevie wilson ( best friend ) she’s an avengers kid, so they’ve been pals forever. she knows about kurt and alli’s feelings for each other so she’s just trying to get them to stop being stubborn and get together part of the alli / kurt / stevie / naomi trash skwad.

ava barton ( former friend ) the history is long with this one. they used to be best friends, now they really miss each other but are both too stubborn to admit it. one day, though. one day.

lilth moone-hellstrom ( ex girlfriend / good friend ) alli’s only “ serious “ relationship. they were a total power couple in high school, and only broke up because alli was too much of a workaholic to notice the relationsip wasn’t really working anymore. they’re still pals.

cassie lang ( good friend ) cassie’s like a little sister, since she’s been around the family for so long she’s almost a part of it. she helps alli not be an immature idiot sometimes.

nathaniel lance-queen ( friends with benefits ) this relationship ended due to alli being in love with kurt and hugo being in love with nate, but alli and nate used to sleep together on the regular. now they’re just good friends cause they’re very similar and don’t judge each other’s bad decisions.

meg fury ( squad mom ) she’s ava’s best friend and stevie’s ex so alli doesn’t really trust her, but she respects her. they’ve also uh. maybe slept together once or twice. we don’t talk about it.

ALSO FRIENDS WITH: winnifred banner, peter parker, mia luthor, isabelle barnes, miriam maximoff, daniel thorson, jasper harkness.

POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS !! 🍷

ex fling(s) alli hasn’t really been able to commit to relationships in the past ( except for lily ), but she’s definitely had flings. could be any gender. they could still be friends. this is pretty flexible, honestly. i’m open to there being more than one.

former friends with benefits again, she’s a commitmentphobe, but she definitely has an active sex life, so this is open to pretty much anyone.

one sided crush someone who’s probably had a crush on her for a while, but it’s totally one sided. could be friends, open to any gender.

intellectual rival someone who’s in the same field as her ( either political science, business, or law ) that’s kind of an annoying know-it-all in class that’s just a thorn on alli’s side.

childhood friends she’s got a few, but i’m always down for more !