I'm pretty sure it's first circuit board at four, first engine at six, I think. A shot of him with Bill Gates accompanies the circuit board, and the shot of Tony with Daddy on the motorcycle for the engine.
BEHOLD, THE POWER OF OBSESSIVE VIDDING. But yeah, whatever time scale you use, Tony has got to be competent of working on a car by the time he's nineteen.
There are angst shoals for either answer to whether he worked on the car or not, really.
Also, aldkjf how did I miss that in your fic, gabby_silang? Oh man. I can totally see it making Tony sit bolt upright in the middle of the night.
And on top of that, the idea of Dad basically thinking that Tony was just going to be useless fluff breaks my heart on a level I can't even articulate. I mean, it's pretty clear that Tony idolizes Dad on a level that he can't even articulate -- what's that thing he says? I never got to ask Dad about it. As if Dad has the definitive answer to one of the most significant questions of modern ethics.
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Re: second time through = golden. i'm thinking about going time #3.
Date: 2008-05-27 09:07 pm (UTC)BEHOLD, THE POWER OF OBSESSIVE VIDDING. But yeah, whatever time scale you use, Tony has got to be competent of working on a car by the time he's nineteen.
There are angst shoals for either answer to whether he worked on the car or not, really.
Also, aldkjf how did I miss that in your fic,
And on top of that, the idea of Dad basically thinking that Tony was just going to be useless fluff breaks my heart on a level I can't even articulate. I mean, it's pretty clear that Tony idolizes Dad on a level that he can't even articulate -- what's that thing he says? I never got to ask Dad about it. As if Dad has the definitive answer to one of the most significant questions of modern ethics.