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YOUR NAME: Cat
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YOUR NAME: Cat
18+?: Yes
CONTACT: PM this account
CHARACTERS IN GAME: N/a
RESERVATION LINK: here
CHARACTER: CANON SECTION
NAME: Tony Stark
AGE: 46 (as of current canon faik)
CANON: Marvel Cinematic Universe
NAME: Tony Stark
AGE: 46 (as of current canon faik)
CANON: Marvel Cinematic Universe
CANON HISTORY: MCU wiki
CANON PERSONALITY: For a massive ass Tony is a surprisingly nuanced guy with a lot of flaws, paltry attempts at redemption and coping mechanisms that build up his character. He's also had a fairly extensive character arc through the several movies he's featured in. So this is going to be a bit all over the place; let me know if you want more on a specific trait or events from a particular film.
First things first Tony is the guy who has it all. The guy who's used to having it all— materialistically speaking. As such he's surprisingly (or not) not materialistic. He collects items in the movies (his art collection, iron man suits) just as easily as he gives them away (...or blows them up). What's irreplaceable to him isn't the objects around him— it's the people. Whether it's trying to better himself for Pepper or going after a terrorist in revenge for his bodyguard, Tony doesn't take those close to him for granted. Of course, he's also hard to get close to. He's been wined, dined and schmoozed by the best of them. Without something special (like saving the world together) you're probably not going to get far. So why doesn't he treat the most important people in his life better?
Because Tony is an hot flaming dumpster fire of a mess. There was never an anything figure period in his life to set him on the straight and narrow. Father figures came in overly critical workaholic and manipulative user respectively. His mother was the go-between for the strained relationship with his father when she wasn't jetting around the world with him for business, confidential (read: SHIELD) or otherwise. It says a lot that Tony felt the need to build himself an AI butler. He has very little idea how to interact with others on a personal level. Computers, robotics— he gets those things. He tells them what to do, they sass him to the appropriate levels he's programmed, and then they get on with the job. People don't work like that. You say "I'll handle it" and they want to play the twenty questions game.
So to say Tony is "bad at people" is an understatement and something we see him working on many times throughout the films (his attempts to explain himself to Pepper constantly above all else are especially touching; he cares, he just sucks at emotional interaction). But what about the people not close to Tony? In that scenario Tony is generally dismissive. He still thinks these people have rights (to be happy, to not be attacked by batshit terrorists, to not have their lives destroyed by superhero fights, etc). And he will champion those rights (the amount of philanthropy he does and efforts he takes to minimize damage caused by his adventures has been off-handedly mentioned or shown throughout the films). But he's got no interest, is even less inclined to lend time and generally tends to steamroll over them in any conversation. Unless they set themselves against him (Justin Hammer and a particular senator come to mind). In that case Tony will make it a point to disrespect them when given a wide open opportunity. Sure, being a super hero comes with responsibilities, but no one ever mentioned manners.
But what are the core values of Tony Stark as pertaining to Tony Stark? Confidence and no confidence at all. Tony's got the whole "my math is correct and this can in no way go wrong" thing down. Considering Marvel couldn't use Mr. "this equation proves humanity will destroy itself unless I lock it away in the Negative Zone" Fantastic for Civil War (of which he was Tony's comrade in arm in the comics version of), I can only assume Tony is subbing in. Because you think a man who'd started an arms race with his inventions, created a murder bot, divided the Avengers, would be a bit more hesitant in thinking his way is always the best way. You would think. But no. No he is not. He's analyzed all the pieces and he will charge full steam ahead hell or high water.
This is off-set by an hard earned guilt and tendency to second guess himself earned over his character arc. He knows he's bad with people. He knows he's made mistakes. Instead of hooking up with others and discussing his misgivings, his fear of making another mistake, Tony sits down with himself. And goes over the facts. Again. And again and again and again. Constantly asking himself what he's missing until he's satisfied or despairing and convincing himself with only "there's no other way". Which brings up a very important character flaw of Tony's: he does not ask others for advice. Discussing his difficulties is a no, even if it involves said people. Tony is convinced he has to shoulder everything alone and like Atlas he'll bear his burdens until the world collapses around him.
This, understandably, puts a massive fear in him of losing everything, of screwing up, of failing. He puts a lot on his shoulders and it's been shown time and again Iron Man can only get him so far. This does introduce a rather low-key sobriety to his actions. He's cautious, he listens to others, he tries to do all the "right" things. But his own ego and fears trip him up repeatedly (also because Marvel has a serious problem with rehashing the same fall guy for everything ever, looking at you comics).
Most people don't notice this though. In the every day-to-day Tony is charismatic, a large figure. He has a motormouth that goes a mile a minute, witty one-liners, intelligence and a commandeering personality. Essentially he takes over any interaction he's part of. People don't talk to him; he talks to them. Easily something seen in the various interactions of reporters (and subpoena servers) cornering him at his car to catch him unprepared and him turning the tables around ("Ms. Brown" from the beginning of the first movie being a stellar example). As such Tony gets away with a lot of things he shouldn't. A lot. Like "this guy must have some great lawyers in the wings" a lot. Very few people think to ever ask him if he's "okay" (except...children? I don't know, why Marvel, why).
To wrap up my AU is based off how he appears in the beginning of the original Iron Man movie. When he's living only for himself, flying high (so to speak) and enjoying life. No respect for anyone, not even himself (as Rhodey so helpfully points out) and takes the cheap and easy way to whatever he can with smart aleck one-liners and generally doing whatever he pleases. Also healthy doses of hedonism to fill the emptiness in his life from the lack of meaningful relationships and causes in it.
SKILLS/ABILITIES: Tony has some fighting skill. He's not up to MMA levels, but we see him practicing boxing in IM2, he's shown multiple times in all the movies to have good reflexes (capping Bucky's gun in Civil War) and awareness (evading Vanko's whips in IM2) and a lot of his work building suits shows off him using his muscles for heavy lifting and other hard work for that sweet movie fanservice (let us never forget him owning a billion robots, but deciding he needed to lift a large collider by hand personally in IM2). He also shows a large amount of ingenuity, able to come up with battle tactics and plans on the fly (kind of one of the whole points of IM3, but saving the Air Force One personnel and the infiltration of the Mandarin's manor specifically).
Outside of fighting Tony is an out of this world scientist. He mostly works with mechanical projects (his various arc reactors, the Iron Man suits, Stark/Avengers tower, etc). That said he's shown to be able to work in other fields of science (AIM wants him for their medical super soldier work and he later develops a cure for extremis; throw in he creates a new element and his horizons are significantly broader than just mechanics). He can do a lot with very little and if you give him more than very little what he can do is mindblowing (and dangerous, let's not forget dangerous, he's kind of a shitshow with the ethics and responsibility field).
CANON PERSONALITY: For a massive ass Tony is a surprisingly nuanced guy with a lot of flaws, paltry attempts at redemption and coping mechanisms that build up his character. He's also had a fairly extensive character arc through the several movies he's featured in. So this is going to be a bit all over the place; let me know if you want more on a specific trait or events from a particular film.
First things first Tony is the guy who has it all. The guy who's used to having it all— materialistically speaking. As such he's surprisingly (or not) not materialistic. He collects items in the movies (his art collection, iron man suits) just as easily as he gives them away (...or blows them up). What's irreplaceable to him isn't the objects around him— it's the people. Whether it's trying to better himself for Pepper or going after a terrorist in revenge for his bodyguard, Tony doesn't take those close to him for granted. Of course, he's also hard to get close to. He's been wined, dined and schmoozed by the best of them. Without something special (like saving the world together) you're probably not going to get far. So why doesn't he treat the most important people in his life better?
Because Tony is an hot flaming dumpster fire of a mess. There was never an anything figure period in his life to set him on the straight and narrow. Father figures came in overly critical workaholic and manipulative user respectively. His mother was the go-between for the strained relationship with his father when she wasn't jetting around the world with him for business, confidential (read: SHIELD) or otherwise. It says a lot that Tony felt the need to build himself an AI butler. He has very little idea how to interact with others on a personal level. Computers, robotics— he gets those things. He tells them what to do, they sass him to the appropriate levels he's programmed, and then they get on with the job. People don't work like that. You say "I'll handle it" and they want to play the twenty questions game.
So to say Tony is "bad at people" is an understatement and something we see him working on many times throughout the films (his attempts to explain himself to Pepper constantly above all else are especially touching; he cares, he just sucks at emotional interaction). But what about the people not close to Tony? In that scenario Tony is generally dismissive. He still thinks these people have rights (to be happy, to not be attacked by batshit terrorists, to not have their lives destroyed by superhero fights, etc). And he will champion those rights (the amount of philanthropy he does and efforts he takes to minimize damage caused by his adventures has been off-handedly mentioned or shown throughout the films). But he's got no interest, is even less inclined to lend time and generally tends to steamroll over them in any conversation. Unless they set themselves against him (Justin Hammer and a particular senator come to mind). In that case Tony will make it a point to disrespect them when given a wide open opportunity. Sure, being a super hero comes with responsibilities, but no one ever mentioned manners.
But what are the core values of Tony Stark as pertaining to Tony Stark? Confidence and no confidence at all. Tony's got the whole "my math is correct and this can in no way go wrong" thing down. Considering Marvel couldn't use Mr. "this equation proves humanity will destroy itself unless I lock it away in the Negative Zone" Fantastic for Civil War (of which he was Tony's comrade in arm in the comics version of), I can only assume Tony is subbing in. Because you think a man who'd started an arms race with his inventions, created a murder bot, divided the Avengers, would be a bit more hesitant in thinking his way is always the best way. You would think. But no. No he is not. He's analyzed all the pieces and he will charge full steam ahead hell or high water.
This is off-set by an hard earned guilt and tendency to second guess himself earned over his character arc. He knows he's bad with people. He knows he's made mistakes. Instead of hooking up with others and discussing his misgivings, his fear of making another mistake, Tony sits down with himself. And goes over the facts. Again. And again and again and again. Constantly asking himself what he's missing until he's satisfied or despairing and convincing himself with only "there's no other way". Which brings up a very important character flaw of Tony's: he does not ask others for advice. Discussing his difficulties is a no, even if it involves said people. Tony is convinced he has to shoulder everything alone and like Atlas he'll bear his burdens until the world collapses around him.
This, understandably, puts a massive fear in him of losing everything, of screwing up, of failing. He puts a lot on his shoulders and it's been shown time and again Iron Man can only get him so far. This does introduce a rather low-key sobriety to his actions. He's cautious, he listens to others, he tries to do all the "right" things. But his own ego and fears trip him up repeatedly (also because Marvel has a serious problem with rehashing the same fall guy for everything ever, looking at you comics).
Most people don't notice this though. In the every day-to-day Tony is charismatic, a large figure. He has a motormouth that goes a mile a minute, witty one-liners, intelligence and a commandeering personality. Essentially he takes over any interaction he's part of. People don't talk to him; he talks to them. Easily something seen in the various interactions of reporters (and subpoena servers) cornering him at his car to catch him unprepared and him turning the tables around ("Ms. Brown" from the beginning of the first movie being a stellar example). As such Tony gets away with a lot of things he shouldn't. A lot. Like "this guy must have some great lawyers in the wings" a lot. Very few people think to ever ask him if he's "okay" (except...children? I don't know, why Marvel, why).
To wrap up my AU is based off how he appears in the beginning of the original Iron Man movie. When he's living only for himself, flying high (so to speak) and enjoying life. No respect for anyone, not even himself (as Rhodey so helpfully points out) and takes the cheap and easy way to whatever he can with smart aleck one-liners and generally doing whatever he pleases. Also healthy doses of hedonism to fill the emptiness in his life from the lack of meaningful relationships and causes in it.
SKILLS/ABILITIES: Tony has some fighting skill. He's not up to MMA levels, but we see him practicing boxing in IM2, he's shown multiple times in all the movies to have good reflexes (capping Bucky's gun in Civil War) and awareness (evading Vanko's whips in IM2) and a lot of his work building suits shows off him using his muscles for heavy lifting and other hard work for that sweet movie fanservice (let us never forget him owning a billion robots, but deciding he needed to lift a large collider by hand personally in IM2). He also shows a large amount of ingenuity, able to come up with battle tactics and plans on the fly (kind of one of the whole points of IM3, but saving the Air Force One personnel and the infiltration of the Mandarin's manor specifically).
Outside of fighting Tony is an out of this world scientist. He mostly works with mechanical projects (his various arc reactors, the Iron Man suits, Stark/Avengers tower, etc). That said he's shown to be able to work in other fields of science (AIM wants him for their medical super soldier work and he later develops a cure for extremis; throw in he creates a new element and his horizons are significantly broader than just mechanics). He can do a lot with very little and if you give him more than very little what he can do is mindblowing (and dangerous, let's not forget dangerous, he's kind of a shitshow with the ethics and responsibility field).
CHARACTER: AU SECTION
AU NAME: Tony Carter
AU AGE: 46
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Not nearly as ripped as he is in the MCU. He keeps fit, but he's not hammering metal plates into dynamic structures while inspiring electric guitar plays in the background.
AU NAME: Tony Carter
AU AGE: 46
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES: Not nearly as ripped as he is in the MCU. He keeps fit, but he's not hammering metal plates into dynamic structures while inspiring electric guitar plays in the background.
AU HISTORY:
WARNING FOR MENTIONS OF: CHILD ABUSE, SUICIDE, ALCOHOLISM, DESTRUCTIVE COPING
1971- Anthony William Carter is born to two highly narcissistic individuals. Mom's an heavy drinker, Dad's got control issues and both want it their way like Burger King 110% of the time.
1985- A crappy homelife leads to Tony standing on a bridge ready to end it all. This is where he meets Sofia [SomeLastName]. She talks him down and they become friends with Sofia helping Tony get through the years of parental bullshit ahead of him.
1993- Tony graduates college and takes up ghostwriting, the odd journalism here and there and whatever other writing gigs he can get to pay the bills. He's also long since moved out of his parents' place and is living in a crummy rundown apartment where he watches his landlady's cranky cat when she's away on trips to get $50 off his rent each month. Not the glamorous writer life he envisioned, but it's better than where he came from.
1994- Sofia is murdered when she's caught up in an attack on her husband, Jack Dawes. Jack leaves town and Tony remains behind to support Sofia's remaining family and young daughter, Angel. [NOTE: I have discussed this with both players and it's a thing we're all onboard about]
2003- Tony finally makes good in the world of writing and has a big success. More successful books follow and the money starts pouring in. His parents demand the majority of it as recompense for "raising him for eighteen years". He tells them no resulting in them committing identity fraud to steal a large amount of funds from his accounts. They also take out life insurance policies on him while quietly looking for someone to pay to make good on those policies. This leads to a year of court battles where every possible slander is made against Tony's character by his parents and any remaining sense of familial love and faith in people he had is utterly destroyed. He spends the majority of his spare time drinking, hopping from party to party and sleeping around to cope.
2017- Still in Recollé, an even bigger name than ever and worth multi-millions. He's calmed down somewhat on the binge drinking, but basically he's still a douchebag.
AU PERSONALITY: The biggest change is Tony has done his canon character arc in reverse. Whereas in canon he started as a douche and went to...guy...attempting to make good... It's the thought that counts, okay. In Recollé he's gone from a nice guy (a bit of a stooge in fact) to a loud, hypocritical, self-fellating ass. He's had some hard life lessons and no one there to help him come out on the happy ray of sunshine side. As such in this AU Tony is very much like how he was originally at the beginning of the first Iron Man movie. He has his CR he's close to who occasionally get to see the nicer side of him or, heaven help them, his original nice guy lame duck personality. But they're not many and it's not often.
He drinks to cope, sleeps around to cope, irresponsibly buys things to cope— there's an hell of a lot of coping going on. Which is a change up (a little bit) from canon in that he was both coping and also just badly raised (Obadiah Stane? A bad guider of youth? Shock and surprise). He does know better in Recollé: he's just convinced by his past that acting better is only giving life openings to screw him over. He'd rather be the guy doing the screwing (or so he tells himself). This can lead to him acting excessively like a prick, especially if he feels that train of thought is being threatened by logic (not the logic, please no, he doesn't want to have to deal with reality).
That all said he is also a massive nerd in this AU. And I don't mean Hollywood's "cool" nerd where he likes TOOL or some popular other non-pop band while working on motorcycles and wears the occasional leather jacket. He reads books. He's got his favorite authors. He thinks Twain would have been a fun guy to have a drink with just for what a sheer asshole he could be (also pretty sure Twain would drink him under the table; he aspires to be a challenger in this fictional dick measuring contest). He reads Game of Thrones, watches the show, has a bet in a pool on whether GRRM will bite it before he completes the series. And if you asked him the syllable structure of a sonnet he could list it to you without even looking up from his crossword puzzle (because of course he does the crossword while also naturally complaining about how easy it is and what putzes come up with these things). The only thing lacking from his author cred is he does not, in fact, own a cat. And please no dogs, think of his swarovski crystal door stoppers.
WARNING FOR MENTIONS OF: CHILD ABUSE, SUICIDE, ALCOHOLISM, DESTRUCTIVE COPING
1971- Anthony William Carter is born to two highly narcissistic individuals. Mom's an heavy drinker, Dad's got control issues and both want it their way like Burger King 110% of the time.
1985- A crappy homelife leads to Tony standing on a bridge ready to end it all. This is where he meets Sofia [SomeLastName]. She talks him down and they become friends with Sofia helping Tony get through the years of parental bullshit ahead of him.
1993- Tony graduates college and takes up ghostwriting, the odd journalism here and there and whatever other writing gigs he can get to pay the bills. He's also long since moved out of his parents' place and is living in a crummy rundown apartment where he watches his landlady's cranky cat when she's away on trips to get $50 off his rent each month. Not the glamorous writer life he envisioned, but it's better than where he came from.
1994- Sofia is murdered when she's caught up in an attack on her husband, Jack Dawes. Jack leaves town and Tony remains behind to support Sofia's remaining family and young daughter, Angel. [NOTE: I have discussed this with both players and it's a thing we're all onboard about]
2003- Tony finally makes good in the world of writing and has a big success. More successful books follow and the money starts pouring in. His parents demand the majority of it as recompense for "raising him for eighteen years". He tells them no resulting in them committing identity fraud to steal a large amount of funds from his accounts. They also take out life insurance policies on him while quietly looking for someone to pay to make good on those policies. This leads to a year of court battles where every possible slander is made against Tony's character by his parents and any remaining sense of familial love and faith in people he had is utterly destroyed. He spends the majority of his spare time drinking, hopping from party to party and sleeping around to cope.
2017- Still in Recollé, an even bigger name than ever and worth multi-millions. He's calmed down somewhat on the binge drinking, but basically he's still a douchebag.
AU PERSONALITY: The biggest change is Tony has done his canon character arc in reverse. Whereas in canon he started as a douche and went to...guy...attempting to make good... It's the thought that counts, okay. In Recollé he's gone from a nice guy (a bit of a stooge in fact) to a loud, hypocritical, self-fellating ass. He's had some hard life lessons and no one there to help him come out on the happy ray of sunshine side. As such in this AU Tony is very much like how he was originally at the beginning of the first Iron Man movie. He has his CR he's close to who occasionally get to see the nicer side of him or, heaven help them, his original nice guy lame duck personality. But they're not many and it's not often.
He drinks to cope, sleeps around to cope, irresponsibly buys things to cope— there's an hell of a lot of coping going on. Which is a change up (a little bit) from canon in that he was both coping and also just badly raised (Obadiah Stane? A bad guider of youth? Shock and surprise). He does know better in Recollé: he's just convinced by his past that acting better is only giving life openings to screw him over. He'd rather be the guy doing the screwing (or so he tells himself). This can lead to him acting excessively like a prick, especially if he feels that train of thought is being threatened by logic (not the logic, please no, he doesn't want to have to deal with reality).
That all said he is also a massive nerd in this AU. And I don't mean Hollywood's "cool" nerd where he likes TOOL or some popular other non-pop band while working on motorcycles and wears the occasional leather jacket. He reads books. He's got his favorite authors. He thinks Twain would have been a fun guy to have a drink with just for what a sheer asshole he could be (also pretty sure Twain would drink him under the table; he aspires to be a challenger in this fictional dick measuring contest). He reads Game of Thrones, watches the show, has a bet in a pool on whether GRRM will bite it before he completes the series. And if you asked him the syllable structure of a sonnet he could list it to you without even looking up from his crossword puzzle (because of course he does the crossword while also naturally complaining about how easy it is and what putzes come up with these things). The only thing lacking from his author cred is he does not, in fact, own a cat. And please no dogs, think of his swarovski crystal door stoppers.