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Nov. 2nd, 2008 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quigonejinnI'm trying to get back into this writing Iron Man -- or any kind of fic -- thing, but I don't have the time to do Nadkfjgliuwe;lrkjlgkjdf. So uh, maybe just a minimum of 500 words on a single piece each week? With no commitment to continuity between weeks.
Everybody expects Tony Stark to act like a rock star.
...
They're outside the venue, and Tony talks with the reporter about his father's legacy, about what Tony is doing for the world, and eventually, Tony takes his sunglasses off to look her in the eye. Camera flashbulbs go off , and Tony gives her his best pickup smile. She hesitates for a moment, then gets into the limo. Tony charms her all the way back to Malibu on, and she wakes in an empty bedroom that looks onto the Pacific Ocean.
...
Jim Rhodes doesn't go on stage to present, but Tony Stark still does his version of honors by not showing up. The camera sweeps out to show the empty seat next to Obadiah, and the fanfare plays. The announcers sit in silence. The fanfare plays again. One of the announcers manages a joke. Obadiah smiles, gets up, and looks at Jim. Jim makes a pained face in return, and they go up on stage – Obadiah, to represent Tony. Jim, to represent the label. Obadiah does the round of thanks, explains that's the thing with Tony. He's always working. And hoists the little gold-and-black award for applause that takes a moment to get going.
Yes, it's Grammy. Yes, Tony Stark failed to show up to receive the Album of the Year award. No, Jim Rhodes hadn't been onstage to present because it was Justin Timberlake and Ellen Degeneres who were doing the honors. Obadiah holds the Grammy on the palm of his hand, and they stand there, backstage, looking at it. Some of Kanye West's dancers pass them. They look worried, and Kanye is probably pissed, but Kanye is always pissed.
"You think he's going to get Artist of the Year, too?"
Obadiah shrugs and looks at Jim with a slightly amused expression, which Jim interprets, correctly, as yes.
Since the Grammys are held at the Staples Center, not Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Jim Rhodes doublefists and finds Tony at one of the open bars, not a craps table.
"Like I don't have any of these at home," Tony says, once Jim leaves, and hands his third Album of the Year and second Artist of the Year Grammy to a caterer.
...
Christine Everhart wakes in an empty bedroom that looks onto the Pacific Ocean, but it's sunlight, not a computer voice, that wakes her. In this world, Jarvis is Tony's light-and-sound wizard on tour. Obadiah Stane is his manager. Happy provides security and bodyman services.
Jim Rhodes and Tony met when Tony was fifteen and Jim was twenty-three and an intern at Atlantic. Jim still does liaison work, but it doesn't involve a uniform or trips to Afghanistan: in this world, Tony Stark isn't an engineering genius.
Howard Stark built rock and roll, not the atomic bomb.
...
Pepper gets Christine out the door and comes down into the recording studio in the basement, where Tony is, once again, remastering the sound on his dad's last recording, trying to make it sound the way Tony remembers it sounding live.
...
"I'm allowed to have plans on my birthday," Pepper says to Tony. He looks skeptical.
...
(After consultation with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
infinitivesplit, Happy is his bodyguard. Pepper is Tony's PA. Jarvis is the tour manager, handling the lights and sound. Obadiah is Tony's manager. Jim is the liaison with the record label. Normally, a guy like Tony wouldn't have a guy from the label traveling with him all the damn time, but him and Jim used to bank out some nice tunes together when Jim was just an intern at Atlantic. Tony gets kidnapped one night at a post-show party and escapes by . . .
I have no idea. Playing a power ballad so beautiful they have to let him go? Growing a mullet so splendiforous that it blinds them all?
Really, I have no idea what to make of the whole Iron Man suit thing afterwards, although I guess Tony could have been an engineering genius and a musical genius, although I like to keep my AU's clean by minimizing insertions. And really, it's weird. I can imagine Tony not being a man much, much more easily than I can imagine Tony Stark not being a maker of weapons of mass destruction. The moral crisis at the heart of Iron Man just doesn't exist if Tony doesn't blink about making things that can kill thousands of people, y'know? The only thing I could think of for the musician was that Tony wants to actually make a difference in the world and not just make power ballads? I have no idea.)
Everybody expects Tony Stark to act like a rock star.
...
They're outside the venue, and Tony talks with the reporter about his father's legacy, about what Tony is doing for the world, and eventually, Tony takes his sunglasses off to look her in the eye. Camera flashbulbs go off , and Tony gives her his best pickup smile. She hesitates for a moment, then gets into the limo. Tony charms her all the way back to Malibu on, and she wakes in an empty bedroom that looks onto the Pacific Ocean.
...
Jim Rhodes doesn't go on stage to present, but Tony Stark still does his version of honors by not showing up. The camera sweeps out to show the empty seat next to Obadiah, and the fanfare plays. The announcers sit in silence. The fanfare plays again. One of the announcers manages a joke. Obadiah smiles, gets up, and looks at Jim. Jim makes a pained face in return, and they go up on stage – Obadiah, to represent Tony. Jim, to represent the label. Obadiah does the round of thanks, explains that's the thing with Tony. He's always working. And hoists the little gold-and-black award for applause that takes a moment to get going.
Yes, it's Grammy. Yes, Tony Stark failed to show up to receive the Album of the Year award. No, Jim Rhodes hadn't been onstage to present because it was Justin Timberlake and Ellen Degeneres who were doing the honors. Obadiah holds the Grammy on the palm of his hand, and they stand there, backstage, looking at it. Some of Kanye West's dancers pass them. They look worried, and Kanye is probably pissed, but Kanye is always pissed.
"You think he's going to get Artist of the Year, too?"
Obadiah shrugs and looks at Jim with a slightly amused expression, which Jim interprets, correctly, as yes.
Since the Grammys are held at the Staples Center, not Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Jim Rhodes doublefists and finds Tony at one of the open bars, not a craps table.
"Like I don't have any of these at home," Tony says, once Jim leaves, and hands his third Album of the Year and second Artist of the Year Grammy to a caterer.
...
Christine Everhart wakes in an empty bedroom that looks onto the Pacific Ocean, but it's sunlight, not a computer voice, that wakes her. In this world, Jarvis is Tony's light-and-sound wizard on tour. Obadiah Stane is his manager. Happy provides security and bodyman services.
Jim Rhodes and Tony met when Tony was fifteen and Jim was twenty-three and an intern at Atlantic. Jim still does liaison work, but it doesn't involve a uniform or trips to Afghanistan: in this world, Tony Stark isn't an engineering genius.
Howard Stark built rock and roll, not the atomic bomb.
...
Pepper gets Christine out the door and comes down into the recording studio in the basement, where Tony is, once again, remastering the sound on his dad's last recording, trying to make it sound the way Tony remembers it sounding live.
...
"I'm allowed to have plans on my birthday," Pepper says to Tony. He looks skeptical.
...
(After consultation with
infinitivesplit, Happy is his bodyguard. Pepper is Tony's PA. Jarvis is the tour manager, handling the lights and sound. Obadiah is Tony's manager. Jim is the liaison with the record label. Normally, a guy like Tony wouldn't have a guy from the label traveling with him all the damn time, but him and Jim used to bank out some nice tunes together when Jim was just an intern at Atlantic. Tony gets kidnapped one night at a post-show party and escapes by . . . I have no idea. Playing a power ballad so beautiful they have to let him go? Growing a mullet so splendiforous that it blinds them all?
Really, I have no idea what to make of the whole Iron Man suit thing afterwards, although I guess Tony could have been an engineering genius and a musical genius, although I like to keep my AU's clean by minimizing insertions. And really, it's weird. I can imagine Tony not being a man much, much more easily than I can imagine Tony Stark not being a maker of weapons of mass destruction. The moral crisis at the heart of Iron Man just doesn't exist if Tony doesn't blink about making things that can kill thousands of people, y'know? The only thing I could think of for the musician was that Tony wants to actually make a difference in the world and not just make power ballads? I have no idea.)
