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quigonejinn) wrote2008-09-12 09:58 pm
quigonejinn) wrote2008-09-12 09:58 pm
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From. I can't remember, but she did a fucking awesome one, including a bit about how he likes driving more than flying, because the pull of gravity gives him something to fight against.
1. Howard and Maria Stark sucked as parents. Self-absorption was the rule of the day, with Howard being exploitative and distant and Maria settling for being only distant, though she showed Tony the occasional touch of charm when she was in the temper for it.
2. I am flexible as to how smart and how old Maria Stark was, but not on this: Tony has her eyes and mouth.
3. Maria Stark does not cook. There is a reason why Tony's comfort foods are fast food cheeseburgers and New York, G5 flown pizza. The only recipes she knows take the general form of how many parts vermouth to how many parts vodka get her blotto.
4. Tony talks about the man he remembers his father being in the newsreels. Tony Stark was born in 1972. What experience does he have of newsreels? Only the times that, as a child, he would wander down to the private screening room the Starks had, back before every McMansion had one. Back before there were McMansions. His father would be in there, watching old footage from the days when he was (depending on what kind of Howard I'm writing) young or when there was a good war to be fought. Tony falls asleep with his head on his father's knee, then wakes up in the morning. It's still the screening room; Howard is gone. Tony has a crick in his neck, and there is an empty-but-for-drippings bottle of Scotch on the floor.
And Tony doesn't realize that this is wrong.
5. Tony Stark sexually propositioned Jim Rhodes in college. I'm flexible on whether Jim ever took him up on it and how Tony propositioned him, but not on Tony trying.
6. Pepper and Happy have a largely silent Understanding of How The World Should Be and What Parts We Play In It.
7. Obadiah would not mind fucking Pepper. She is unlikely to say yes, and it would be unprofessional to push the point, but Obadiah amuses himself by being nice to Pepper. When she started, too, and went to her first convention with Obadiah and Tony, she wanted to get coffee for herself and was digging around in her purse for change to do so when Obadiah stepped in with his black Amex. Each year, too, he remembers her birthday. One time, he was out of town and wasn't there to wish her felicitations, so when Tony comes up the stairs when Obadiah drops by for his post-trip briefing of Tony, he finds Obadiah playing Happy Birthday while Pepper leans on the piano and grins like an idiot.
Each Christmas, he has his assistants put together a big bath product basket for her. Pepper thinks nothing of using the stuff.
Obadiah rather likes smelling it on her.
8. Pepper's parents were the middle-class version of Tony's. One parent (your choice of gender) walked out. The other parent (again, your choice of gender, but presumably the other side of the heteronormative coin from the first) was alcoholic. Pepper raised herself, left home early, and is working for Tony when she gets the news that said alcoholic parent is dead. She curls up in the back seat of one of Tony's fabulous cars and cries and cries and cries; Happy (see #6) sits down next to her, and she cries on him. He puts his arm around her and doesn't say a word and hands her tissues and that is, in fact, exactly what is called for.
9. Pepper and Agent Coulson's dates are sweet, laid-back and utterly ordinary. No trips to LA hot spots. No gifts of ridiculously expensive heels. They drive his comfortable non-work Chevy or her work Audi. Mexican restaurants on the beach, holding hands at the movies, and just flat out amazing sex at their normal, regular, human-being condos.
10. SHIELD knew Obadiah was dirty. They were just waiting for an excuse.
ETA: Additional Rhodey-related points of canon. Because talking to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
amonitrate brought them to mind.
- Jim Rhodes is just a good guy, OK? He is a good, decent guy, and Tony is lucky to have him.
- Rhodey comes from a upper-middle or lower-upper class background. I have no basis for this, but it's a reaction to the stupid developing canon that Jim Rhodes had need-based scholarships or could only afford MIT. Hello, assumptions! Might you be cover for some fairly nasty assumptions about race? The only deviation that I'll buy for this is if the fic features Tony covering Rhodey's scholarship at MIT (though, asamonitrate pointed out, this can still happen if Rhodey is upper-middle class because private university be expensive, yo). However, Rhodey has to be just furious.
- Rhodey has spent time in the country. Because who the fuck else thinks of a big, shiny pickup truck as being a status symbol?
- Jim Rhodes is freakishly, freakishly bright. Asamonitrate put it, he's the smartest person he has ever met -- until he meets Tony. Tony thinks of Jim as being the second-smartest person in the world. (After #1, natch.)
Corollary to the above: Jim Rhodes came from a good, loving family. Because when you're that smart, you don't end up decent and have, in fact, a rather strong likelihood of ending up like Tony unless somebody comes in and takes affirmative steps to make sure you have your feet on the ground. I'm thinking extended family network, including siblings. Minimal grade skipping. None of this bullshit about heading off to college five years early.
Mostly, this is a reward to myself because I finally finished writing the girl!Tony epic today. Some hard editing is in store, but \o/
1. Howard and Maria Stark sucked as parents. Self-absorption was the rule of the day, with Howard being exploitative and distant and Maria settling for being only distant, though she showed Tony the occasional touch of charm when she was in the temper for it.
2. I am flexible as to how smart and how old Maria Stark was, but not on this: Tony has her eyes and mouth.
3. Maria Stark does not cook. There is a reason why Tony's comfort foods are fast food cheeseburgers and New York, G5 flown pizza. The only recipes she knows take the general form of how many parts vermouth to how many parts vodka get her blotto.
4. Tony talks about the man he remembers his father being in the newsreels. Tony Stark was born in 1972. What experience does he have of newsreels? Only the times that, as a child, he would wander down to the private screening room the Starks had, back before every McMansion had one. Back before there were McMansions. His father would be in there, watching old footage from the days when he was (depending on what kind of Howard I'm writing) young or when there was a good war to be fought. Tony falls asleep with his head on his father's knee, then wakes up in the morning. It's still the screening room; Howard is gone. Tony has a crick in his neck, and there is an empty-but-for-drippings bottle of Scotch on the floor.
And Tony doesn't realize that this is wrong.
5. Tony Stark sexually propositioned Jim Rhodes in college. I'm flexible on whether Jim ever took him up on it and how Tony propositioned him, but not on Tony trying.
6. Pepper and Happy have a largely silent Understanding of How The World Should Be and What Parts We Play In It.
7. Obadiah would not mind fucking Pepper. She is unlikely to say yes, and it would be unprofessional to push the point, but Obadiah amuses himself by being nice to Pepper. When she started, too, and went to her first convention with Obadiah and Tony, she wanted to get coffee for herself and was digging around in her purse for change to do so when Obadiah stepped in with his black Amex. Each year, too, he remembers her birthday. One time, he was out of town and wasn't there to wish her felicitations, so when Tony comes up the stairs when Obadiah drops by for his post-trip briefing of Tony, he finds Obadiah playing Happy Birthday while Pepper leans on the piano and grins like an idiot.
Each Christmas, he has his assistants put together a big bath product basket for her. Pepper thinks nothing of using the stuff.
Obadiah rather likes smelling it on her.
8. Pepper's parents were the middle-class version of Tony's. One parent (your choice of gender) walked out. The other parent (again, your choice of gender, but presumably the other side of the heteronormative coin from the first) was alcoholic. Pepper raised herself, left home early, and is working for Tony when she gets the news that said alcoholic parent is dead. She curls up in the back seat of one of Tony's fabulous cars and cries and cries and cries; Happy (see #6) sits down next to her, and she cries on him. He puts his arm around her and doesn't say a word and hands her tissues and that is, in fact, exactly what is called for.
9. Pepper and Agent Coulson's dates are sweet, laid-back and utterly ordinary. No trips to LA hot spots. No gifts of ridiculously expensive heels. They drive his comfortable non-work Chevy or her work Audi. Mexican restaurants on the beach, holding hands at the movies, and just flat out amazing sex at their normal, regular, human-being condos.
10. SHIELD knew Obadiah was dirty. They were just waiting for an excuse.
ETA: Additional Rhodey-related points of canon. Because talking to
amonitrate brought them to mind. - Jim Rhodes is just a good guy, OK? He is a good, decent guy, and Tony is lucky to have him.
- Rhodey comes from a upper-middle or lower-upper class background. I have no basis for this, but it's a reaction to the stupid developing canon that Jim Rhodes had need-based scholarships or could only afford MIT. Hello, assumptions! Might you be cover for some fairly nasty assumptions about race? The only deviation that I'll buy for this is if the fic features Tony covering Rhodey's scholarship at MIT (though, as
amonitrate pointed out, this can still happen if Rhodey is upper-middle class because private university be expensive, yo). However, Rhodey has to be just furious. - Rhodey has spent time in the country. Because who the fuck else thinks of a big, shiny pickup truck as being a status symbol?
- Jim Rhodes is freakishly, freakishly bright. As
amonitrate put it, he's the smartest person he has ever met -- until he meets Tony. Tony thinks of Jim as being the second-smartest person in the world. (After #1, natch.) Corollary to the above: Jim Rhodes came from a good, loving family. Because when you're that smart, you don't end up decent and have, in fact, a rather strong likelihood of ending up like Tony unless somebody comes in and takes affirmative steps to make sure you have your feet on the ground. I'm thinking extended family network, including siblings. Minimal grade skipping. None of this bullshit about heading off to college five years early.
Mostly, this is a reward to myself because I finally finished writing the girl!Tony epic today. Some hard editing is in store, but \o/