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Tony Stark || Iron Man (one_liner) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2012-12-26 16:40:00

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dean winchester, dick grayson (young justice), hei, kitty pryde (evolution), laura kinney, pepper potts, peter parker (stnas), seven of nine, tony stark

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[~~Despite the icon~~ Tony hasn't managed to get his full Iron Man gear together yet. But, newly free of his Bot Babysitter (too bad, Tony was just starting to get used to hanging things on it) he was finally able to make the adjustments to his flight gear and repulsion gauntlets. So he's doing what anyone cooped up in an underground prison would do.]

[And that would be flying around the dome at ridiculous speeds with AC/DC's Back in Black blasting on his headset. Not quite as ridiculous as he would prefer, mind, but there's not enough room in this stupid place to break any sound barriers.]

Someone who Laverne and Shirley like better than me should request some actual airspace in here. What's the point of manipulating time-space if you're not going to work the pocket dimension angle? [He does a sharp turn to avoid the dome, missing it by about a foot, then turns on the juice and zooms along its circumference.] Speaking of pissing them off, who votes I blast Floating Speaker Island to kingdom come?

((OOC: If your want to assume your character was watching from the ground and Tony landed beside them in a flourish of narrowly missing their face, feel free!))

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	xtricate 2012-12-30 01:36 am UTC (link)
	[His arrogance can be aggravating.] Both. Are you a masochist? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	one_liner 2012-12-30 04:20 am UTC (link)
	[But it's so useful for irritating strange robot-women, which seem to populate the dome.] Depends on what's on the menu. Black leather and toy whips, yes. Anything harder's gonna cost you extra. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xtricate 2012-12-30 04:23 am UTC (link)
	I never used toys whips. They break too easily. [She does not think that was the point, but she does not always get the joke.] You seem to enjoy being punished by the wardens. You break the rules often. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	one_liner 2012-12-30 04:38 am UTC (link)
	That... actually, is a bit of a turn-on. Who'd have thought? Feel free to elaborate. But more to the point: I get things done, and rules get broken. No different than back home. The worst they've done is make me live on Twinkies for a week. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

xtricate
2012-12-30 04:46 am UTC (link)

It is not worth elaborating, it is the past. [It is a part of her life she does not speak of often.] What is the worst they have done so far is minor, yes. But if you continue they will see their current punishments are ineffective and come up with something else. [And if their punishments become more severe as they realize the previous ones are not as effective, it is a concern.]

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	one_liner 2012-12-30 05:56 am UTC (link)
	Anyone ever tell you that you worry too much? Take two shots of something strong and then get back to me. Doctor's orders! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xtricate 2012-12-31 02:26 pm UTC (link)
	[That was supposed to be a joke, she believes.] You are not as funny as you think you are and I am not worrying. I do not trust the wardens. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	one_liner 2012-12-31 09:55 pm UTC (link)
	Who said I was kidding? I bet you're a fun drunk. It's always the quiet ones that end up dancing on the table. And what's this about trusting? I wouldn't trust Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis with my laundry. But we're never getting out of here if boundaries aren't pushed. And this is just a little push. Barely anything. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xtricate 2013-01-01 03:53 am UTC (link)
	It takes several bottles of high-grade alcohol for me to become inebriated. [Her healing factor prevents her from becoming drunk easily.] Pushing boundaries can also lead to heightened security we would have to circumvent to free ourselves. They might expect it if you continue to antagonize them. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

one_liner
2013-01-04 06:36 am UTC (link)

Oh right, the not-human thing. Bummer, I already have one non-cheap date, two would just be a huge time management issue.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you don't have the first idea of what their systems look like from the inside. I, on the other hand, am as versed in the subject as anyone can claim to be. So while I appreciate the lecture -- no, wait, the opposite of that. [He knows what he's doing, thanks. And he's not dumb enough to make any of it public, which is why he's busy making smoke-and-mirrors network posts.]

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xtricate
2013-01-05 03:21 pm UTC (link)

[She wonders why he's assuming this is about systems and not about the more physical aspect of being punished. They way he speaks, so arrogant and sure of himself with little care to what his actions might cause for others...reminds her too much of the Tony Starks she has met before. Perhaps he is not as unlike them as she first thought.]

I was not discussing your ability to hack your systems. If they implement restrictions like those in prisons in my world--curfew, chains, solitary confinement, removal of privileges including access to technology, power dampening collars, removal to other facilities with heightened security--your ability to hack them will not matter if you cannot get to them. We should not encourage them to punish us more when we need as lax security as we can get to escape.

[And if Stark endangers that, she will not let him stand.]

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	one_liner 2013-01-06 06:54 am UTC (link)
	Then I'll figure something out. I'm good at winging it. It's a specialty, in fact. [So chill out, lady.] You're getting all bent out of shape over pure hypotheticals. All the evidence we have points to the fact that I'm more likely to be commanded to eat a live fish than anything of actual consequence. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

xtricate
2013-01-08 02:31 am UTC (link)

It is a poor attack strategy to antagonize your opponent if they have the power to further restrict your movements, when it is easier to lead them into a false sense of superiority so you may strike when they least expect it and have no idea of what you are capable of.

[This seems like obvious logic to her.] We only know what they have done so far, not what they might do in the future. It is...reckless.

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	one_liner 2013-01-08 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	I thought you claimed to know some other me, so this really shouldn't be that surprising. I'm really quite charming if you can get past the reckless disregard for your opinions thing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

xtricate
2013-01-09 05:56 am UTC (link)

[Something about this upsets her, but she cannot express why. Had she been wrong? Had she misjudged just how similar he was to the other Tony Starks she had met? He had seemed different from them before, but his words now make her feel on edge.]

The Tony Starks did not care whether their actions led to the deaths of others or were so reckless that they did not think of what consequences their actions might have. Captain America is dead because Tony Stark paraded him with power limiters down a crowded street to a courthouse with little surveillance or protection. Mutants have fled the United States to avoid oppression for their powers. The other Tony Stark attempted to kill a mutant to use his power to open a portal back to his own dimension. I do not like the other Tony Starks that I have known.

[Maybe she had not minded this one so much, even if she had not been able to understand him. He had been different. That had been enough. But she knows the Tony Stark of her world did not start out as he had become. Would this Tony Stark turn out the same way? Laura may be paranoid, but she has seen enough to be wary of the power that Tony Stark can hold and what he might do with it.]

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one_liner
2013-01-13 12:03 am UTC (link)

[His casual argumentativeness immediately gives way in favor out outright anger. Reckless he could maybe agree with (even if she's too dense to get the point and ignoring the fact that he hasn't done anything... today...) but killing Captain America? Absolutely fucking not.]

First of all, if I gave a damn about you liking me I'd be even more of an idiot than you take me for. And second, you don't know me, or anything about me other than I share the same name as a guy from your world. So get it through your creepy emotionless head: I am not him.

[He's a classic case of "doth protest too much" and not interested in pursuing that particular fact. And so he hangs up before she can say anything else stupid, and with a promise to himself to find out everything he can about this "other" Tony Stark.]

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