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Aug. 22nd, 2018
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Aug. 22nd, 2018 10:19 pmTONY BOLOGNE
IN CHARACTER
★ Flirting OK
★ Crosscanon CR OK
★ No shipping unless you're Pepper Potts
★ Injury OK
★ No killing at this time
★ Crosscanon CR OK
★ No shipping unless you're Pepper Potts
★ Injury OK
★ No killing at this time
ASSUMPTIONS
★ Recognition OK
★ Assumed CR within reason OK
★ No fourthwalling
★ No mixing comics canon
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★ Assumed CR within reason OK
★ No fourthwalling
★ No mixing comics canon
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Aug. 22nd, 2018 11:24 pmOOC INFO;
NAME: Ca
AGE: 28
CONTACT: PM
CHARACTERS IN GAME: N/A
IC INFO;
CHARACTER NAME: Tony Stark
AGE: 44
CANON: Marvel Cinematic
CANON POINT: Avengers: Age of Ultron, directly before the party.
HISTORY: Here
PERSONALITY: Tony was born to tech and weapons mogul Howard Stark and founder of Stark Industries late in his life. From a young age, he was ignored by his father and thrust into the care of a nanny and harbors steep abandonment issues ever since. He is a brilliant mind right from the start, building his first engine at five, but nothing captures his father’s intrigue. Most kids his age would be concerned with making friends and fitting in, but this doesn’t appear to be a thing in Tony’s young life. We only see glimpses of it through news headings and later in the video that Howard leaves him which leads to him (re)discovering a new element to save himself. He’s very young in the video and wants to get involved in whatever Howard is doing, but the man shoos his son away so that he can record the video for an older version of him. It’s a shortsightedness that Tony unfortunately shares with those he cares for. Also in that video however, something he had never seen until adulthood because it was being held by SHIELD, Howard tells Tony that his greatest creation was him and he addresses him directly meaning that he did intend for him to see it.
The first true friend Tony makes other than bots and AIs of his own creation is James Rhodes, a fellow student at MIT. Because he goes to college at only 15 Rhodey is a few years older than him and immediately picks up a big brother role in his life, something Tony never had growing up. Rhodey doesn't seem to mind that he's abrasive and socially awkward, perhaps because he is a little bit of both of those things, too. He also sees how brilliant Tony is, but rather than exploiting it, he respects it and wants to see Tony realize his full potential. He worries about Tony when he drinks too much and sleeps around, but he doesn't lecture him overly – wanting his friend to find his own way. He is supportive to a fault, as much as they also bicker. He can be an enabling force as much as a guiding one. Tony pre-Afghanistan has very few people (read: Pepper and Rhodey) who will say No to him. And he only really listens to Pepper.
Tony is entitled and he doesn't always treat people the best. It isn't because he thinks they deserve this treatment or that he truly believes he's better, but rather comes from his high intelligence that makes it hard for him to relate to others not on “his level.” This is why his two best friends are genius level themselves and why he immediately forms an attachment to Dr. Bruce Banner (also because he’s a giant green monster sometimes and that’s cool.) His personality is such that when he knows he’s right, Tony can be unbearable. He won’t hear alternatives when he knows they’re wrong, but by the same token he second-guesses himself constantly and finds it hard to make a strong stance and stay with it. He is racked with self-doubt almost all the time, but he keeps all of this buried inside, showing instead the happy-go-lucky confident playboy to the outside. This also makes him harder to relate to for others and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy spiral for his own loneliness.
It is not until Afghanistan, however, that Tony Stark feels true fear for his life. Yinsen calls him out and he realizes that while yes, he has the fancy cars and houses and the big corporation; and the notoriety it comes with: he doesn't have anything worthwhile. He is a man with everything, and nothing. It's an empty, lonely existence that he immediately sets about trying to turn around when he returns home. Rhodey, Pepper, and Happy just want him to stay safe, but it isn't enough for him. He knows his purpose now: he must vanquish all those who hurt the innocent.
Though he doesn't know it yet, this is when Tony Stark first becomes a superhero. He is still egotistical and arguably narcissistic, but his heart is always in the right place. He doesn't become Iron Man to gain fame – he already has that. He wants to atone for all the things he did in his father's name, for his company putting weapons into the hands of evil-doers. He is fiercely patriotic, and these trespasses against God and country are the ones Tony takes most offense to. This is why his primary targets tend to be terrorists on a larger scale.
While in that cave, he was waterboarded and tortured tirelessly. It took a lot of strength to withstand their demands. Now he suffers from PTSD and severe anxiety as a result from this. And later on, when he flies that nuke into the vacuum of space that he fears he won't return from. This alters him from the Playboy of the past to someone much more focused and withdrawn. He doesn't trust easily anymore, nor does he let people close who might have cause to hurt him in the future. Though he will risk life and limb doing fantastic tasks in the name of superheroing, he isn’t so open with his feelings or thoughts. This includes the biggest reveal to come from the cave in Afghanistan: that he’s been in love with his personal assistant Pepper Potts for years unbeknownst to both of them.
It takes him a long time to get together with Pepper Potts as more than colleagues. He knows he's proven himself to be impulsive with partners before and he wants her to know that she's different. It's also because he's scared, but he also is harboring a dark secret from his closest friends: that he’s dying. The very same arc reactor technology that’s keeping him alive is also killing him slowly via heavy metal poisoning. This is where Howard’s video comes in, and the second he is healthy again, he doesn't hesitate to proclaim his love for Pepper and without her he would have nothing to live for going forward. He is fiercely codependent on her, and they admit to one another that they're the only ones the other has. It is also revealed in Homecoming that he purchased an engagement ring for her in 2008 when he returned from Afghanistan and Happy has been carrying it ever since.
In the first Avengers film, Tony and Steve argue though he idolized Captain America his entire young life, likely also Howard’s influence. They are also under the influence of the mind gem, but it's more like sibling rivalry than any great divide. He wants to prove that he's better and more useful and it tends to run him into trouble time and time again. By the end of the film, the two form an unsteady alliance and agree that they can work together within the confines of the group. Tony even relinquishes some control to him when it becomes clear he's much better at leading in actual battle situations. He is a soldier after all. Cap and Pepper are the only two people he has ever truly deferred to in canon, and allowed himself to take on a lower status. He calls on this again in Age of Ultron when he calls Steve “the boss.”
Tony is working in the present to be a better man, not just as Iron Man but himself. He wants to forge better relationships and be completely functional in social situations, it just isn't always possible for him. He is troubled by frequent anxiety attacks, vicious nightmares, and constant paranoia. All of these things, though he is brilliant, hold him back from doing even the simplest of tasks at times. For example, getting lunch in a crowded restaurant with Rhodey in Iron Man 3 where he is forced to leave when his anxiety becomes too much for him.
As Iron Man, Tony feels invincible; it's a high. While out in the field he will do anything to protect anyone. He is a truly selfless superhero, but also in those moments we can see how he can take this too far and how he develops a God complex in this role. He knows better than everyone, just like back at school. It's why he needs people like Steve and Rhodey to humble him and to constantly remind him of reality. Just like in his personal life, he can’t team up with people who will enable and be “yes men” like Bruce does in the case of Ultron.
In Age of Ultron, again Tony fails to trust his friends and falls into the same destructive patterns as before. He creates a program to “institute world peace,” however his extreme desperation causes him to keep it a secret from everyone but Bruce Banner who helped him create the protocol. It is safe to say Bruce is the one person in the Avengers that Tony trusts the most, and regards closest to his intellect. Because of his own genius, he often underestimates his friends and assumes it would be simpler not to explain Project Ultron. This is partially arrogance, but he also admits it's because the others would stop him. He has been pushed to the brink by all his past trauma and he's convinced that this is the best (and only) way to keep the world safe.
Everyone else's “vision” that Wanda forces upon them is geared inward, fears that they have harbored perhaps since forever. Tony's is instead a vivid nightmare of failing his team until ultimately, they all die at his feet. His most extreme fear is being alone as he’s been for most of his life. He craves the structure and bond that the Avengers Initiative could be, but never has been. Showing him all of his friends dead is truly something Tony can’t come back from, but again he doesn’t speak up about his pain and carries on in the same way he always has, in trying to make the world a better place, no matter how flawed the path there may turn out to be. The way the characters Wanda and Pietro Maximoff view Tony is much how the world does. They see his name on a warhead and equate him to it, when if it weren't for him New York would be a hole in the ground.
Obviously, Ultron is a disaster, but Tony doesn't hesitate to spring into action yet again. He dismantles his own best friend and closest ally, J.A.R.V.I.S. the AI to save the world again. We see how selfless Tony is even more transparently than ever before, though his friends may often turn on him and accuse him of intending heinous things. Even Maria Hill betrays him by becoming a double-agent for Nick Fury after initially defecting from SHIELD to work for SI. We see the hurt in Tony's eyes as Nick gives him some tough love in Clint's barn. It's a PG scene I swear. Because of this reality that Tony lives seemingly separate from more well-adjusted individuals, he often places a greater value on certain relationships than the other party. Maria and Natasha were both only doing their jobs, but Tony takes it very personally. When Clint keeps his family and farm from the team, Tony again feels out of the loop. He feels as though no one trusts him with anything substantial, and so it seemed only natural for him to hide his intentions from them in turn.
In summation, Tony is extremely damaged. He holds a deep sense of abandonment from his childhood that carries over into each and every relationship he attempts to forge in the present. He is fiercely codependent on Pepper, places a much greater stock in his friendship with Steve than is healthy (in short, he idolizes the man), and is nearly brought to tears when Nick Fury infers he cares for him. He is a deeply emotional man who on the surface seems very quirky and confident but inside he is fractured and broken by his experiences and continued failures to keep his friends safe.
CANON POWERS: N/A
OTHER: He's coming in with this cute outfit.
GAME INFO;
CRAU INFO: N/A
MAGIC ABILITY: Atmoskinesis: the ability to control the weather. While he learns to control this, it will change with his emotions if they're strong enough.
ANY WEAPONS/MAGICAL ITEMS?: A cannister from an Iron Man suit like the one he gives Harley to "discourage bullies."
ANY PETS?: His beloved bots if permitted. Feel free to scale them down if that’s better for the temple, either way they can fit in Tony’s room I think!
SAMPLE;
LINKED SAMPLE: Here