It becomes habit, kind of instinctual, and sometimes they can't turn it off.
Which, I think, is why he drinks. He's not excessive yet, not in the film. Because the tech is still new, it still feeds into his "HOLY NEAT LOOK WHAT I MADE GUYS" portion of his brain, he still thinks it's the answer, and it still feels like it, for the moment. But the downtime after the announcement, after Obie, is going to wear the high a bit, and nothing after will really match, you know, that night because the variables will never be perfect for that sort of crisis again. Obie became a representation of what Tony no longer wants to be (complicit, manipulated, gullible), and directly responsible for those three months gone.
And he killed him using his big shiny suit he built himself. That's got to be a great feeling, it's got to be practically tangible. And the high from that will never going to last or be that good again.
So he'll keep chasing that high, and he'll never feel like he's achieved something as tangible as that first time, and he'll get more and more frustrated as he discovers one man really can't do everything, because now he's discovered "everything" no longer just includes him, and that's going to sting.
So he'll drink, because it's a way to turn off, it's a way to forcibly override his code, it's a hack to relax.
notice he doesn't wear game face AT ALL when he's with Yinsen. Not once.
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Re: TONY STARKS WON THE OSCAR, Y'ALL.
Date: 2008-06-01 03:48 am (UTC)Which, I think, is why he drinks. He's not excessive yet, not in the film. Because the tech is still new, it still feeds into his "HOLY NEAT LOOK WHAT I MADE GUYS" portion of his brain, he still thinks it's the answer, and it still feels like it, for the moment. But the downtime after the announcement, after Obie, is going to wear the high a bit, and nothing after will really match, you know, that night because the variables will never be perfect for that sort of crisis again. Obie became a representation of what Tony no longer wants to be (complicit, manipulated, gullible), and directly responsible for those three months gone.
And he killed him using his big shiny suit he built himself. That's got to be a great feeling, it's got to be practically tangible. And the high from that will never going to last or be that good again.
So he'll keep chasing that high, and he'll never feel like he's achieved something as tangible as that first time, and he'll get more and more frustrated as he discovers one man really can't do everything, because now he's discovered "everything" no longer just includes him, and that's going to sting.
So he'll drink, because it's a way to turn off, it's a way to forcibly override his code, it's a hack to relax.
notice he doesn't wear game face AT ALL when he's with Yinsen. Not once.
I never even considered that. Wow.
I love you.