that's basically discovering that gravity doesn't actually exist, and everything you've built on that belief just cruuuuuuumbles.
Jesus, yes. As much as I love the fluffy banter and UST, this is what really, really, really me excited about Iron Man fic. Tony is fucking smart and fucking complicated. And his world has just gone to pieces. Last night, I started a list of the Iron Man movieverse issues I want addressed in fic, and I hit the mid-thirties just going off the top of my head.
Is Rhodey still his friend because the US needs his brain, or because Rhodey genuinely sees behind the bluster?
See, this is what has got to sting so fucking bad when Rhodey backs away from Tony during that scene. I mean, Tony looks like he's been told his nuts are going to explode at the count of ten. And Rhodey is his friend. Rhodey found him in the desert. Rhodey has known him since he was a skinny bitch trying to get inside the lab coat of, like, the one girl on the MIT campus. Rhodey is his engineering buddy who loves machines just like Tony and provides the emotional legitimization for what he does. It's OK. His work protects the Rhodeys of the world.
AND THEN RHODEY DOESN'T WANT ANYTHING MORE TO DO WITH HIM. EVEN THOUGH TONY IS TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING NOW.
I mean, I understand they had to put that in the movie because otherwise, we couldn't get that totally awesome dogfight, but man. And then Tony realizes that sexxin' Pepper is a bad idea and that his relationship with her is deeply fucked. And then Christine Everheart drops a nuclear bomb on him, and then, Obediah stabs him in the heart and the back and leaves him to bleed out on the red carpet.
I want fic about Obediah identifying the Starks' bodies while nineteen year old Tony waits in the hallway outside. And Tony being haunted by the metal wreck that the car would have looked like after the crash. And paralleling that to what the Mark III has got to look like after his fight with Iron Monger.
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Re: second time through = golden. i'm thinking about going time #3.
Date: 2008-05-27 06:50 pm (UTC)Jesus, yes. As much as I love the fluffy banter and UST, this is what really, really, really me excited about Iron Man fic. Tony is fucking smart and fucking complicated. And his world has just gone to pieces. Last night, I started a list of the Iron Man movieverse issues I want addressed in fic, and I hit the mid-thirties just going off the top of my head.
Is Rhodey still his friend because the US needs his brain, or because Rhodey genuinely sees behind the bluster?
See, this is what has got to sting so fucking bad when Rhodey backs away from Tony during that scene. I mean, Tony looks like he's been told his nuts are going to explode at the count of ten. And Rhodey is his friend. Rhodey found him in the desert. Rhodey has known him since he was a skinny bitch trying to get inside the lab coat of, like, the one girl on the MIT campus. Rhodey is his engineering buddy who loves machines just like Tony and provides the emotional legitimization for what he does. It's OK. His work protects the Rhodeys of the world.
AND THEN RHODEY DOESN'T WANT ANYTHING MORE TO DO WITH HIM. EVEN THOUGH TONY IS TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING NOW.
I mean, I understand they had to put that in the movie because otherwise, we couldn't get that totally awesome dogfight, but man. And then Tony realizes that sexxin' Pepper is a bad idea and that his relationship with her is deeply fucked. And then Christine Everheart drops a nuclear bomb on him, and then, Obediah stabs him in the heart and the back and leaves him to bleed out on the red carpet.
I want fic about Obediah identifying the Starks' bodies while nineteen year old Tony waits in the hallway outside. And Tony being haunted by the metal wreck that the car would have looked like after the crash. And paralleling that to what the Mark III has got to look like after his fight with Iron Monger.