A) I LOVE THAT WE ARE SERIOUSLY DISCUSSING THE METAPHORICAL IMPLICATIONS OF TONY'S 'STACHE. It makes my heart genuinely sing with joy.
In other news, this:
Good thing he was an honest-to-God once in a century genius, Dad, and not just a really precocious kid with a mechanical bent.
Made me lol so damn hard, because it's so true. The only reason he gets away with half the shit he does is because for all of his personal failings, he ultimately delivers, and I'm guessing that's got to sting just a little bit. Is Rhodey still his friend because the US needs his brain, or because Rhodey genuinely sees behind the bluster? Does Pepper really care for him, or is it just misguided affection based on unavoidable close proximity over long periods of time due to the fact that, oh, he's her boss? I guess that's why he builds his robots -- he knows exactly what makes them tick because he programmed them himself, no second guessing, no doubt, and that's gotta be attractive when the only other stable parental figure in your life tried to kill you.
Tony thinks about that conversation every. fucking. morning. when he looks in the mirror.
God, you need to write that. Everyone needs to write that. That just needs to get fucking done. I will never, ever get enough of Tony re-contextualizing his past, realizing that everything he knew was probably wrong at one basic level. For a dude that was basically bred to be a scientist of one sort or another, that's basically discovering that gravity doesn't actually exist, and everything you've built on that belief just cruuuuuuumbles.
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Re: second time through = golden. i'm thinking about going time #3.
Date: 2008-05-27 06:28 pm (UTC)In other news, this:
Good thing he was an honest-to-God once in a century genius, Dad, and not just a really precocious kid with a mechanical bent.
Made me lol so damn hard, because it's so true. The only reason he gets away with half the shit he does is because for all of his personal failings, he ultimately delivers, and I'm guessing that's got to sting just a little bit. Is Rhodey still his friend because the US needs his brain, or because Rhodey genuinely sees behind the bluster? Does Pepper really care for him, or is it just misguided affection based on unavoidable close proximity over long periods of time due to the fact that, oh, he's her boss? I guess that's why he builds his robots -- he knows exactly what makes them tick because he programmed them himself, no second guessing, no doubt, and that's gotta be attractive when the only other stable parental figure in your life tried to kill you.
Tony thinks about that conversation every. fucking. morning. when he looks in the mirror.
God, you need to write that. Everyone needs to write that. That just needs to get fucking done. I will never, ever get enough of Tony re-contextualizing his past, realizing that everything he knew was probably wrong at one basic level. For a dude that was basically bred to be a scientist of one sort or another, that's basically discovering that gravity doesn't actually exist, and everything you've built on that belief just cruuuuuuumbles.