His gaze snaps up to meet Steve's, eyes dark, before he closes his eyes and shrugs. "So be grateful you don't have any of those memories." Nor of the war, or falling in the ice, or any of those things Tony imagines would haunt a person for a very long time.
He exhales slowly, fingers tapping against the counter top as he goes over how to even approach this. "The Avengers Initiative was something put together by SHIELD to create a team of people that could deal with threats too...complicated to handle for normal people. It was scrapped but unofficially reinstated due to an unexpected alien scourge that descended on New York."