» Starks are my Kryptonite, in some ways. » I was adamant that he didn't become an emotional replacement for my Tony, especially after it's been over a year since I've seen him. » You know that. You know how opposed I was to that. » You know how certain I was that he was just momentarily infatuated by an older woman who didn't fall for his tricks and openly disapproved of him wasting his potential. » But he slipped in under my defenses, not as a replacement, but as his own person. » God, I can't even adequately paraphrase the conversation. Here. » [ screenshots of the filtered convo ]