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marvellegends · 1 year ago
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IRON MAN 3 (2013) dir. Shane Black
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rebelmeg · 2 years ago
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Rebelmeg Drabbles - Chapter 25: Cycle of Shame
Summary: Tony's first conscious thought that he wants to break the cycle of shame.
Notes: For my @tonystarkbingo square T5 - anger issues!
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Clank.
“Not a good idea—”
“Whoops.” The kid looked up sheepishly, holding the armor’s finger.
“What are you doing? You’re gonna break his finger? He’s in pain, he’s been injured, leave him alone.”
“S-sorry.”
“Are you?”
As soon as the flood of sharp words were out of his mouth, Tony wished he had bitten them back. His swell of anger had been unreasonable, and the kid didn’t deserve that. No kid ever deserved that. And he wanted to be… different than what he’d been raised with. He hadn’t really realized it until now.
“Don’t worry about it, I’ll fix it.”
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wise-writer-girl · 11 months ago
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Men in suits just ahhhh
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tony stark + suits
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marvellegends · 1 year ago
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IRON MAN 3 (2013) dir. Shane Black
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soliloquent-stark · 15 days ago
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yo, listen up, here's a story about a little guy that lives in a blue world...
💙 @giftober 2024, day 27: blue 💙
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robertdowneyjjr · 2 years ago
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there's nothing quite like seeing tony stark in a tank top.
but here's the question.
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wise-writer-girl · 1 year ago
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It's the Stark Effect
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doesnotloveyou · 7 months ago
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re-analyzing mcu female characters now that i'm no longer a fan
look. they gave male writers a bucket of manly action figures and a baggie of female characters as accessories. fem chars were written like a list of tropes except with all the "icky sexism" ones crossed out. they were rarely written as, y'know, people (willing to argue that many of the male characters were barely allowed to be anything more than plastic action figures either)
Somehow though, despite being used as a fangirl stand-in (which are often derogatory caricatures imo) Darcy Lewis is an excellently written female character.
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She is always herself. She doesn't care what professional men, hot men, authoritative men, extraordinary men, or even what any woman thinks of her. Not in a Hollywood "watch me not care and be so feisty and empowered while I do it" way, but in a chill "that's cool but imma be my own person" way
She is kind but doesn't put up with mistreatment
She is smart but doesn't need men to brag about her intelligence
She is savvy but doesn't need men to point it out
She is beautiful but neither a man nor the camera ever needs to realize it, and she dresses to be comfortable while also perfectly confident that she's gorgeous
She is fearful but she deals with it without needing a man to comfort her
She is firm in her opinions and her decisions without needing a man (or anyone) to approve of them
Best of all she cracks jokes for her own amusement and knows she's funny even if no one laughs
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the writers (accidentally???) created a perfect every-woman by deciding to create a woman without making her Love Interest Material. they made her the Attractive Girl's Friend trope, yeah, but at least the friend gets to be herself instead of constantly wondering if the space viking will come back and sweep her off her feet
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they made a strong female character in 2010, and when they brought her back in Wandavision she didn't even need a hot girl bestie as an excuse to be on the screen. their continuity reflected that she was now the most experienced person in her field. even the audience trusted her to be reliable in unreliable circumstances the same way a hero is meant to be reliable
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every time Marvel tries to make a "strong female character" they do something hyper-stereotypical that bends in the other direction. "We can't be sexist, see? we converted his secretary into his assistant and then we made her the CEO of his company" or "we showed her punching out a misogynist in her first scene" or "canonically she's a maneater but we're afraid of how that will look so we'll make her have no romances instead while also being The Only Girl trope." and on and on and on
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meanwhile, Darcy was great, and I give a lot of credit to Kat Dennings, but I would also like to know if there was a female, or even male, writer in the room who kept her all to themself and said "I'll write this character, I know them perfectly."
there must have been because she felt knowable. she also felt like a fun example of what being a normal human might be like in a universe where caped heroes fly around saving the world from aliens
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gunsandspaceships · 7 months ago
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Tony’s Childhood. Part 1: Identifying facts
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In the MCU, Tony sometimes acts like a kid. There is a reason behind every behavior, so I wondered what it was like for him when he was a real kid.
So, the questions of the day: what do we know about Tony's childhood? Did he have one? And, most importantly, how did it affect him?
Let’s first list what we know from the movies:
At age 4 Tony built his first circuit board (IM1)
At age 6 built his first engine (IM1)
Was sent to a boarding school by Howard (IM2)
Cracked the Pentagon’s firewall in high school on a dare (AoU)
Had a nanny until the age of 14 (IM3)
Went to college at 14 (IM1)
Built Dum-E and U when he was there (IM1)
At 17 graduated summa cum laude from MIT (IM1)
Continued his education until his parents’ death (CW)
Tony’s genius gave him two things: the brain and the pain. And by the pain, I mean that instead of interacting and bonding with his parents, enjoying life, playing, having fun, making friends, taking care of pets, and all the other things children do to gradually prepare for adulthood and grow up "healthy", he got this list of achievements. That doesn’t make a person normal.
Parents
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We know his relationship with Howard was complicated. Howard loved him in his own way. He had too many things to do to be a good father: SI, S.H.I.E.L.D., scientific projects, trying to build a better future with clean energy, etc. All good, except when you want your child to love you back. Especially if in the tiny amount of time you spend with him, you don’t show him any signs of affection.
What do we know about Maria? Her name, what she looked like, that she played the piano, and died at Winter Soldier’s hand on Dec 16, 1991. That’s it. She didn’t spend much time with Tony either. Remember, he even had a nanny, instead of a mother. Tony's words about her showed that he loved her, but he didn't talk much about her. Because she wasn’t present in his life enough. Why? Because…
School
Howard sent Tony to a boarding school.
Here’s in the S.H.I.E.L.D.s file we have this information about the school:
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“Phillips Academy, Andover, MA 1977-1984”
This means he was there from age 7 to 14. Howard sent him to a boarding school when he was SEVEN.
Phillips Academy Andover serves grades 9-12 only (it is a college preparatory school). Thus, either this is a mistake by the creators of the film/file, or Tony, due to his genius, became an exception. Since the early age he was already at school was also mentioned in IM2 tie-in comics, and in Earth-616 that was also 7, we can mark 1977-1984 as valid.
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Think about it again: Tony was sent to boarding school in another state when he was 7 years old. He spent another 7 years there, alone, among high school-aged teenagers. No parents around, no peers.
For example, even Hogwarts accepts 11-year-old children, and they live with their peers. Now imagine Harry Potter, at the age of 7, is thrown into a dorm with 7th-year students and locked there. Doesn’t make a person normal either, does it?
Nannies and Jarvis
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Since Tony was at the boarding school, there are two options for how he could have a nanny (mentioned in IM3) and spend time with Edwin Jarvis:
1) He was at the boarding school with a nanny. There is almost no possibility that the nanny was Edwin Jarvis because Jarvis was Howard’s butler and had other responsibilities.
2) He had a nanny at home in the summer and during short school breaks. In this case, his parents couldn’t even give him this little of their precious time.
In any case, he could only see Jarvis at home, a few months a year at most.
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Note: There is a date error in IM3, stating Tony was 14 in 1983. This is clearly an error and we can omit this detail.
Bullying
Remember this dialog between Tony and Harley in IM3?
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0:45:15 – Harley asks him how he knew he was being bullied at school. Tony doesn't answer. He gives him a non-lethal flash thing to "discourage bullying."
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We see that Tony knew exactly what was going on with Harley at school. Because that’s exactly what happened to him there. Harley reminded him of himself. Brilliant kid with no friends and practically no parents. He was bullied by 9th-12th graders.
If he had a nanny with him at the school, that probably made things even worse. He would be bullied because he has a nanny, and despite he has one to look after him.
In Part 2 we will discuss how all this affected him. Stay tuned.
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mostly-marvel-musings · 5 months ago
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I think Iron Man 3 was when I really fell in love with Tony. I already liked him a great deal before, but seeing him be so human, so fragile and flawed but at the same time so resilient and strong and amazing made me really love him, ya know.
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He was so good in IM3 🥹🤍 Look at Dum-E in the back filming him!
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wise-writer-girl · 1 year ago
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Greatest mind of his time
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— I thought you were a futurist! I am. To my core. That means I respect the future. I believe in the future. I worship at its feet.
TONY STARK + GREATEST INVENTIONS
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nessieart · 1 year ago
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Teeth pt. 6
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|| Bare Your Fangs ||
WC: 3.6k
AN: thanks for being patient! here’s part 6! 
Warnings: Canon level violence, (and there’s so much in IM3 like what?) made up fantasy elements prob’ly, cursing, no y/n used.
Summary: It’s just Iron Man 3, really.
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There's a faint beeping in the room as you wake, subconsciously squeezing the hand that was in yours.  When you open your eyes, Happy is connected to a ventilator, half his face and his left hand are covered in bandages.  He peeks at you from the corner of his uncovered eye, squeezing your hand with his right gently. 
"I'll be right back, ok?" You say quietly. He's barely conscious when you go to get up and get a coffee from a vending machine down the hall. 
When you return, you take your seat to the right of his bed, the lights are dimmed and you sigh into your drink.  
You must have zoned out, staring off into the void, your coffee long since gone cold.  There's a soft knock at the door and you turn to see Tony standing there.  He's wearing a pair of blue shades on his face.  He has a split lip, his eyebrows are drawn down as he puts his hands in his pockets.
You sniff, you can barely smell, the explosion messed with you more than you thought.  You stare at each other for a long moment before he makes his way into the room.  Behind you there’s a sink and he turns it on, after a moment he’s standing next to you, and then he kneels down and puts his shades on top of his head.  And you’re staring into his whiskey brown eyes.  He takes your cold coffee cup and sets it down, then he takes your chin gently in his hand and brings a cloth to your cheek.  You haven’t seen yourself after the explosion, too preoccupied with what was happening to Happy that you ignored your injuries and appearance.
As Tony wipes away the dirt and soot from your face, his eyes are focused on his task and you can examine his face up close. The bags under his eyes are still present, at least it looks like he's showered.  You don't realize you've brought your hand to his face until his fingers touch your wrist. 
Your thumb grazes the cut on his lip and his eyes close.
"I'm sorry I never told you about Pepper," he says quietly.  His thumb is absently stroking your pulse point on your wrist. 
You hum, you don't think you could forgive him, not yet, but you acknowledge what he said.  
"What happened?" He asks, and you take your hand away from his face to place it in your lap.
"I don't know, it all happened so fast," you say.  Tony wipes the last bit of soot off your face, but he stays kneeling in front of you. "One minute they were arguing and then the next, Happy was protecting me from an explosion."  You look up into his eyes, "Something isn't right about this, Tony, I can feel it."
Tony sighs and stands up, pacing away to the other side of the small hospital room, “I don’t want you getting involved in this, it doesn’t concern you.”
You scoff, “Doesn’t concern me? Tony, I don’t know what’s going on, but I’m involved now!  I decided to run in and put myself in harm's way because of someone I know.  I’m not just going to stand by and let this happen again.”
Tony whirls back around to look at you, “You’re covered in bruises, Poppy.  Your whole arm is bandaged!”  You look down at your arm, sure enough it's wrapped in gauze, the burns have probably healed by now.  “I don’t know what I’d do if something happened to you.”  His voice goes softer at the end of his sentence.
You get up and walk over to him, he’s breathing heavily when you stop in front of him.  You reach your arms around his torso and hug him, leaning your head next to his arc reactor.
"Nothing's going to happen to me," he goes to protest but you hug him tighter, "I'm tougher than you think, my love."  
You both tense, the term of endearment just slipped out, you didn't mean to say it.  Now it's out in the open.  
You go to pull away but Tony puts his arms around your shoulders and hugs you to him.
He sighs into your hair, mumbling, "I know you're tough.  You've lived a whole lifetime by yourself, but if I can protect you for just a little bit," he squeezes you once more, "then let me." 
You sigh and let him go, “You can try,” you smile up at him and he shakes his head.
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This time when you wake, there's someone solid under you, you peak your eyes open and Tony's stroking your hair lightly.  You hum and snuggle closer.
"Sorry to wake you," he says softly.  You're seated on his lap, Tony's sitting in the chair closest to the window in Happy's room.
Your sense of smell is back now, you realize, and you take a deep inhale of Tony.  It's like all your anxieties from the last few months just wither away.  
"What do I smell like?" He's smirking, you can hear it in his voice.
"Home," you don't hesitate to answer, and you look up at him.  His eyebrows are drawn together as he studies your face. His eyes linger on your lips, you lick them subconsciously, and he tracks the movement.
You're both brought out of your trance when a nurse enters the room.  She doesn't seem to notice you both as she goes about checking Happy's vitals. 
When she reaches for the remote, Tony speaks up, jarring her a little.  He goes on to say that the TV should be left on, and that Downton Abbey is Happy's favorite. 
Tony pats your legs and you stand, letting him get up.  He rambles on to the nurse and excuses himself.  You lean over to grab your pack and bid the nurse, and Happy farewell.
You're about to follow Tony out the front doors when you notice a whole group of reporters watching and waiting for Tony to emerge from the hospital.  
"Tony?" You call for him, and before the doors can open he looks back to you.  He holds his hand out for you to take.  You look behind him at the reporters, and then his hand.
"Trust me?" He says, one eyebrow raised as he puts his shades back on.
You inhale a deep breath, step up to him and take his hand.  He leads you both out into the chaos of the hospital entrance.  
There's a few dozen people shouting Tony's name, he seems unphased by it and passes them without issue, ushering you into the passenger seat of his Audi.  As he goes to the driver side you hear someone ask about you and who you are, and then someone asks Tony if he was going to kill someone named The Mandarin.
Your eyebrows furrow, kill who? 
He makes a big threatening speech about fighting said person, and then Tony gives out his home address, your eyes widen.
He jumps into the car, turns it on and starts to speed away.
You're both silent for a few minutes. You're trying to piece together what just happened and Tony taking this personally. 
"What happened last night was by this man?  This what?"
Tony grips the steering wheel tighter and grits his teeth, "he's called the Mandarin, and he's been taunting the president and the U.S. for a few days now."  He takes his phone out of his jacket pocket and hands it to you, "JARVIS, show her."
And then a few videos play, they make your skin crawl and your heart rate kick up. After they end you sit there in silence for a while, unsure of where your thoughts are going or what to say.  Out the window you watch as the scenery passes by.
“Where are we going?”  You ask Tony after 10 minutes of silence.  You look over at him and he looks at you briefly before turning his eyes back to the road.
“Home.”
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Staring down at the 3D model projection of the exploded plaza, you forget Tony’s as smart as he is, and just as technically savvy.
“Show me something, Happy,” he mutters, and as if it was being 3D printed, Happy’s projected body appears, and then so does yours.  Tony’s sharp intake of breath can be heard across the garage and you look up to him.  He’s staring at your projected body, bloody and burned just like Happy.  In the image, you're kneeling over Happy cradling his uninjured hand in yours.
“Happy was pointing to something I couldn’t see before he passed out,” you say quietly.  Tony’s up and moving, the AI doing work and triangulating what he was looking at.  Tony finds what he’s looking for, a military dog tag.  
Tony and JARVIS narrow it all down and you’re in awe of how Tony’s brain works.  He and JARVIS are a well oiled machine when they get going.
“Ever been to Tennessee, JARVIS?” Tony says confidently.
“Creating a flight plan to Tennessee,” JARVIS replies.  Tony sweeps his hands out wide and the whole 3D projection disappears.
You’re grinning up at him as he sits atop a cabinet, “that was incredible.”  He smirks at you.  There’s a doorbell ring that chimes out in the open space and Tony rolls his eyes. 
“Are we still at ‘Ding-dong’?  I thought we were at,” he bangs the cabinet he's sitting on and goes to jump off, “total security lock down.  C’mon, I threatened a terrorist!”
“There’s only so much I can do, sir,” JARVIS sounds exasperated, “you did give your home address to the press.”
You get up from your chair and follow Tony upstairs after he steps into his Iron Man suit.  You know Pepper is home somewhere, you can smell her sweet honey, lavender and citrus scent in the air.  As you look around the giant living space you notice a very overly large stuffed bunny.  
You hum happily and make your way over to the rabbit, reaching out you run your hand over the soft stomach. Cute.
Upstairs you can hear shuffling and you make your way up as Tony goes to answer the door in his Iron Man suit.
You come face to face with Pepper as she grabs a few packed bags from the floor.  She stares at you for a moment before she chucks the bags, one at a time, over the railing and down to the main living areas floor.  
"I may not fully understand what you and Tony mean to each other," she starts, you can tell she's trying not to yell, "but it doesn't mean I have to like it." 
"I'm sorry, Pepper, I really am.  It's not something I can control," you tell her.  She moves around you and goes down stairs.  You follow behind as she speaks to Tony and the woman that entered the mansion a few moments ago.
"Maya Hansen," Tony says, "old botanist pal I used to know…barley." He's shifting on his feet as you and Pepper approach. 
Pepper stops and stands next to Tony, "I'm sorry. With Happy in the hospital, I didn't know we were expecting guests.
"We weren't," Tony says sternly.
The woman, Maya, shakes her head, "No uh, I."
"And old girlfriends!"  Pepper looks back at you and then Maya.  You don't say anything as they bicker back and forth, your head tilting in amusement. 
"It's a big bunny, relax about it!" Tony's shouting brings you back into their conversation, and then you notice the news on TV.  
You make your way closer, eyebrows furrowed, and you notice it's Tony's mansion on screen.  Maya comes to stand next to you.  She smells like daisies,  potted plants; soil and leaves, and something you can’t place, weird. 
"Guys?" She calls, "should we worry about that?" On the television screen, the camera from a helicopter catches a glimpse of a missle headed straight for the mansion. And within a split second it makes contact and the living room explodes as concrete and debris go flying.
Tony and Pepper are flung away from you and Maya as you all go flying back from the concussive blast.
Great, two explosions in less than 24 hours.  If you weren't supernatural you'd have to think about checking yourself into a hospital.
You groan as you get up, blood and dirt coat your tongue as you search for signs of Tony.  There across the rubble you see the suit crouched over top of Tony's proan form, the face plate flipping up and you notice Pepper is inside.  As they go to move and make their way towards you and the exit, the floor splits open separating Pepper and Tony. He yells for her to go and get you and Maya out of the house.
You launch yourself up and over the gap, "I'm not leaving without you," you tell him, your face serious.  "Not this time."  He looks at you for a moment, there’s a cut on his nose that’s oozing blood, his eyes look fearful and his eyebrows drawn up in worry.
Sir, Miss Potts is clear of the structure, JARVIS rings out.  Tony makes a motion with his arms, bringing his hands to his chest.  Within a few seconds he’s being encased in his Iron Man suit.
“Get out of here, Poppy, protect Pepper and Maya,” he says to you as soon as his suit is on.  The blue eyes of his mask turn to you, “Please.”
You growl in frustration, “Fine, but you better make it out of here in one piece.  Or else,” you jump over fallen debris as you make your way to the exit.  Near a fallen pillar you see your pack, you slide over to it, dodging more rubble that’s falling overhead, and sling your bag on your shoulder and sprint to the exit.  The entryway collapses as you make a dive to exit and you look back over your shoulder to see Iron Man take out one helicopter, and then the second begins to descend in fire and explodes into the back of the mansion.
The whole mansion collapses and crumbles, and it's sliding off the side of the cliff into the ocean below.  You’re sure Tony is ok, because you’re so sure you’d feel it if he wasn’t. Right?
Pepper runs to the ledge where some of the mansion rests still in one piece and peers over the edge.  You jog up next to her and she screams for Tony.  You reach your arm out to touch her and she turns to you, tears in her eyes.  Pepper launches herself at you and hugs you tight as she cries.  You’re fighting back your own tears as you return her hug.  You rumble a small purr to try to soothe her, it just makes her tighten her hold on you more.
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Night has fallen and there’s camera crews, firemen, police, and EMTs.  You made sure the paramedics took a look at Maya and Pepper, though the latter protested vehemently.  
Pepper was back near the ledge of the rubble that overlooked the ocean, a destroyed Iron Man helmet in her hands.  You sat on a pile of debris a few feet from her, watching and keeping an eye on her.  Something in your pack rings and you reach in to find it.  Pulling an item out you don’t remember putting there, it’s the phone Tony let you use in his car early this morning.  It’s blinking and you press the button on the bottom and it comes to life.
Pepper puts the Iron Man helmet on her head and when she does the eyes light up and your phone starts to play a message.  It was from Tony!
You sigh in relief as the message plays quietly, 
Poppy, I know I’m asking a lot of you by looking after Pepper, and I know you shouldn’t have to.  But - jeez i keep sayin it don’t I? - please do this for me.  I’m sorry about everything that has happened in the last few days, months. Maybe he sighs aloud, Maybe if I stopped you from leaving New York things would have been different.  Who’s to say?  I don’t have a lot of time, there’s still some things I need to take care of.  I need to deal with this, you know where I am, don’t come after me.
After the message ends you look up to Pepper, and she’s looking at you, there’s a small smile on her face and she sighs, “Let’s go find Maya,” she offers you her hand and you take it as she helps you up, “Take her home.”  You aren’t sure where the attitude shift came from, but you won’t question it.  You’d rather be on her good side than her shoving you off the cliff.
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You were in the backseat of Pepper’s car, the last few days catching up to you, you were trying not to nod off in the backseat of the car for the last 10 minutes.
“Why were you at the house tonight?” Pepper asks, “What was so important that you had to speak to Tony?”
Maya sighs after a moment, “I think that my boss is working for the Mandarin.”  You let out a growl, it was deep in your chest.  Pepper looks in the rear view at you and Maya turns to stare at you with wide eyes. “Sooo if you still want to talk about it, I suggest that we get ourselves someplace safe.”
You’re too focused on containing your anger to pay attention to their conversation.
“This boss of yours, does he have a name?” Pepper glances at Maya in the passenger seat.
“Yeah, Aldrich Killian,” Maya says, and Pepper is so in shock you can smell it roll off her in waves.  You put your hand on her shoulder and squeeze slightly.
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A shower, that was definitely something you needed.  You sigh deep as the hot water washes over your skin, rinsing away all the soot and grime and dried blood that’s been caking your skin for the last two days. Three days?  It feels like heaven and you lose track of time while you’re under the water pressure. 
After you dry and put on clean clothes you exit the bathroom of the hotel room you’re sharing with Pepper and Maya.  There’s a knock at the door and their conversation comes to a halt.
“I’ll get it,” you tell them, and you make your way over to the door.  “It’s room servi-“ you begin but someone comes up behind the man and snaps his neck before you can react.  “Get back!” You yell to Pepper and Maya, and before you can get far, a strong grip grabs you from behind and pins you to the wall by your throat.  
The man holds you up a good foot off the ground, you’re gripping his arm tight in your hands, your claws come out to scratch him and he doesn’t seem surprised by your change in appearance.  You’re trying to growl but his grip is so tight around your neck you can barely manage to pull in a full breath.
“Killian let her go!” Pepper yells from the other side of the room. You’re scrabbling to get free but his grip tightens still.
“Hello, Pepper,” he says to her, then looks over to Maya, “So, you want to tell me why you were at Stark’s mansion last night?”  He looks back at you and grins, “sit still, doggie, I’m not done with you.” Your eyes widen and you grit your teeth, claws still trying to rip him away from you.
Maya sighs, and moves away from Pepper, “I’m trying to fix this!  I didn’t know you and the Master were gonna blow the place up.”
“Oh, so you were trying to save Stark when he threatened us?” Killian responds, “Ah, ah, Pepper,” when she goes to move closer, he lifts you a little higher up the wall.  You’ve ripped the sleeve off his suit and shirt off, now your scratches are deep into his skin, but it’s repairing itself before a drop of blood could leak out.  The orange glow of whatever is under Killian’s skin is persistent as it heals him.
Maya goes to move around Pepper to stand closer to Killian, “Look, if we want to launch the product next year, I need Stark.”  She glances at you, then looks to Pepper and back to Killian, “He just lacked a decent incentive.  Now he has two.”
You bring your legs up and push Killian as hard as you can away from you, he finally releases you and you fall in a heap onto the floor.  Coughing and gasping for air, it takes you a second to get your bearings as you shakily rise to your feet.  
Your voice is rough when you speak, “I knew something smelled off about you.”  You take a step towards Maya, but you’re cut off by Killian again, he grabs you by the back of the neck this time and you go limp, the right amount of pressure and all the fight is gone from you.
“I think we found our leverage,” Killian says, he handles you with minimal effort.  The touch of his hand around your neck was hot, almost burning. 
Why was he so strong?
Pepper goes to protest, but Killian holds you up again with practiced ease.  He leans down to put his mouth next to your ear and whispers, "I know what you are. Shift," you can hear his smirk, his confidence coming off him in waves and a whine leaves you.  He smells rotten in your nose, like burnt clothes and charcoal.
 "Do it,” he demands, “or I kill Pepper." 
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AN: I wanna thank you for reading this far! It means a lot to me!  
Likes, comments, RB<3
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larcenywrites · 1 year ago
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Today I noticed how fucking big Rhodey's arms look in IM3 and oh my I'm not okay 🥵 the way both Rhodey and Tony would be able to manhandle you so fucking easily during a threesome is ridiculous really 🥵 and also, two strong men all hot and bothered and all are bound to be a bit heavy handed and fucking hell it'd be so hot and delicious omg
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Can get a little peek 👀 also fingers 🥴
Tbh Rhodey is probably a little stronger than Tony anyway 🤭 and just a little bigger in general 😏 but the two teamed up together are definitely gonna be overpowering 😮‍💨
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wise-writer-girl · 1 year ago
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This is the best analysis on why IM3 is actually one of my favorite MCU films ever. What happens to the hero when the battle's over and they go home?
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No, but you don’t understand why I liked Iron Man 3 so much.
In all the other Avengers movies, we see characters going through pain and trauma and heartache.  We see Steve lose practically his whole world and still carry on.  We watch Bruce struggle with trying to figure out just how the Hulk fits into his life and his psyche; it is implied that he deals with depression and tries to end his life.  We hear Clint and Natasha and their angst about the “red in their ledgers”, the things they have done, and we watch as Thor essentially comes of age and deals with the pain of having his brother fall down deeper and deeper.  We KNOW the pain and the issues and the upset are there.
But Iron Man 3 is the first time we actually get to witness–REALLY witness–the aftermath of heroics.
In the first part of the movie we see Tony Stark dealing with real, honest-to-god PTSD.  He has panic attacks, he can’t sleep, he gets reckless and has a harder time taking care of himself, he obsessively spends hours working on suits so he can protect Pepper–even though in doing so he is unintentionally threatening their relationship. Rarely has such a thorough job been done in showing that all the flash-bang-let’s-save-the-world action would, in real life, have some serious psychological consequences.
Then, as the film progresses, we see him laid low.  REALLY low–we see him get taken apart piece by piece.  He loses his home, he loses contact with the people he cares about, he loses his suit–which means, in the context of the past few films, that he is in some ways dead.  “He is Iron Man”, after all, isn’t he?  The public sees him as one with the suit, and in a sense, so does he–a good deal of his self esteem, his sense of being able to defend people, is locked up in what he can do in the suit.  And now he’s stranded in the middle of nowhere–he can’t fly, he can’t fight much, he’s still suffering from PTSD, he’s being actively hunted by the few people who don’t think he’s dead.  All of his real ability is locked up in his brain, a place not everyone would think to look.  We see him almost completely broken down.
And then we watch him build himself back up again, but with one major difference: he does it without the suit.
In most of the second half of the film, in almost all of his major victories, Tony is not in the suit.  He breaks into Killian’s mansion essentially with odds and ends he’s cobbled together.  He saves the passengers from Air Force One with a suit he’s remotely controlling.  He wins the final battle with a whole bunch of suits that he is not in at all.  Rhodes saves the president, and Pepper kills the villain.  Not Tony.  And at the end of the day he blows up all the suits and tosses his mini arc reactor into the ocean.
Iron Man 3 is brilliant and underrated precisely because it lets the hero be a real man–a man, not a man in a suit.  A person who can still work wonders even when he’s at his very lowest, when he’s stranded and battling mental illness.  Someone who can’t operate completely alone, who lets other people have some victories as well–heck, who needs his friends and teammates to win.  And as he says at the end of the movie, while he may not always wear a suit, he will always be Iron Man. 
And personally, I think that is an A-freaking-plus storyline to bring into this franchise.
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robertdowneyjjr · 2 years ago
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dragonnan · 2 years ago
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4, 10, and 17 for the fanfic writers ask!
Who is your least favorite character to write?
If, in the general sense, any character I struggle to get a handle on who they are. With Psych, I struggled writing Karen Vick as the most I knew of her is she was Chief of police and was married and had a daughter. But we never even learned the name of her husband and rarely saw Iris until one of the movies. In the MCU the characters I don't feel I really get in a deep sense are any of the Ant-Man characters. I also have a harder time with Thor and I blame that one the extremely inconsistent portrayal that changes with every movie (I blame the writers). Hawkeye is another one I don't like to write based on the MCU version - I DO enjoy the animated series version which it the CORRECT version and reference that when I include the character.
Now, all that said, I will sometimes use these characters to craft my own interpretation - simply due to the fact there isn't enough meta to contradict. So in that way it sometimes could be interesting.
Is there a character that you love in fiction, but if they were real you might punch them?
Tony Stark, Stephen Strange, Sherlock Holmes, Mycroft Holmes, Shawn Spencer, Henry Spencer, Loki...
What are your top 3 favorite tropes of all time?
Oh freaking.... always the impossible narrowing down!! Um...
Kidnapping with a dusting of torture and/or harassment. Don't know if it has a trope name but think Tony Stark in Afghanistan or Sherlock in Serbia
PTSD explored - again, there's a reason Iron Man 3 is my favorite - I just wished we'd gotten more of that.
Helplessness/ greatest fears - basically a typically brash and self confident character suddenly frozen when faced with a terror they can't handle - whether relating to something from their past or something their mind can't comprehend. Similar to PTSD except PTSD is what comes later whereas this one is the event that sets everything off. Tony Stark is yet again my favorite example such as in IM3 when he was vulnerable and about to be attacked by Killian and was frozen and unable to act to help himself.
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