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Tweak says, "Don't flatter yourself."

Tony Stark (campusking) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-10-12 13:24:00

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tony stark (avac), tony stark (mcu)

Who: T2:Tonyminator
What: He doesn't know it now, but he has just died
Where: Around town
When: Today

It had been a fun kind of break being here, away from tutors and classes and his parents and everything else. Tony would admit he missed Jarvis, but he knew it was okay, even though he didn't really know how they'd gotten here he understood enough to know that they were safe here and that things weren't exactly what they seemed, it was a little hazy when he tried to figure out how exactly it was all different was harder to do, but he supposed it wasn't too important.

But after days spent at his home and playing with his bots and some of the other kids around town he wanted to explore a little bit more, so off he'd gone to look around and see what he could find of interest, maybe he'd find something he could take apart and try and build another little bot, maybe not as big or as cool as Dum-E but something small.

So when he found himself outside what looked like a workshop, that reminded him a lot of the one his dad had. Maybe a little bit cooler, but he wasn't totally sure, there was only one way to know for sure though. He pulled open the door, peering inside a little bit before letting himself in to get a proper look.

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campusking
2019-10-17 05:38 am UTC (link)

Tony thought maybe that he could relate to that. It wasn't really the best being a kid, especially all things considered, but he hoped things would get better. He thought they would, Jarvis always said they'd change eventually and Tony hoped maybe they would. It had for this guy, maybe he could get it too.

The modified arc reactor ticked at something in the back of his mind, he'd seen this design before. It was like something he'd dreamed up once before maybe, something he'd imagined building himself, like he could remember the motions but wasn't quite certain that it was real. He bunched up his mouth to one side while he looked at it trying to place it.

Thankfully there was some small bit of mercy in the world and he got something of an explanation for it all. He was older usually, that was - well that would explain the fridge full of cheese that he didn't want to eat. Of course the introduction of one adult Tony Stark really did just kind of short things out for a moment, even as it made things sort of slot into place all at the same time. "We're not really kids." Well they were, but not really, they had been before and they were older usually. But Tony couldn't quite remember it all, but he still took the hand that was offered to him, tugging a little bit to pull Tony down toward him to get a better look at him.

"You're not me though, are you?" He asked examining Tony's face a little bit more. He'd pieced together some of it, but not everything, but things were becoming more and more clear the more he talked with Tony.

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allaboutego
2019-10-19 08:26 pm UTC (link)

It'd taken maybe longer for things to get better than Tony would have liked as a kid -- but he knew that this other version, this younger version -- had fallen in with friends and Avengers at a much younger age than he had. He had a lot to look forward to. Or to remember. Whichever.

"No, you're not really kids," Tony agreed, tone careful. "Or, well, you are. But you normally aren't. It's a little weird." Which surely even as young as Tony was, he had to be aware of.

He flipped his screen back around again and then waved it away, so that there wasn't really anything between them and the Tony could get his fill with his looking and curiosity. "I'm you from a different reality. So no, not really. Not in any exact way. Do you remember?"

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campusking
2019-10-20 11:41 pm UTC (link)

"It's really weird," Tony agreed with a frown, but he'd felt like things were weird when he'd first woken up in a house alone. But he'd been running with it despite that. Things made a little bit more sense knowing that much at least, well maybe saying they made sense was a little generous, but he understood a little more why things felt so weird all the time no matter what he did, why people felt familiar even though he didn't think he knew them.

He was disappointed at the loss of the little display screen, but well he was interested in looking at this other Tony Stark who was both him and not him. He wanted to touch him a little bit, just to push his face this way and that and get a better look, but he knew he wouldn't like that and thought this older version wouldn't either so he kept his hands to himself.

"Sort of," He said finally frowning, "It's all sort of there but like... did you ever get sick?" He asked trying to explain it. "When you're sick and all you can think about is how bad it feels and not all the other things you know." It wasn't a perfect comparison, but it was about as near as he could get at the moment.

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allaboutego
2019-10-26 02:20 am UTC (link)

Little Tony thought right about the touching thing -- Tony might have been getting better at it, maybe especially this week because Gwen had absolutely no problem throwing her arms around his neck or poking at his cheeks or even very helpfully feeding him marshmallows from her cereal -- but he wasn't normally into that kind of thing, wasn't touchy feely by any means. Probably neither was this little version of him. Still, Tony wasn't going to push away completely either. He knew what it was like to be ignored as a kid, and he wasn't about to do it to another version of himself.

"Yeah," he agreed. "I know what that feels like. Like it's hard to focus past the moment, like this is all there is, even though you know that's not true." It was a good analogy actually, even if it took a little more talking to find it. "But," he went on, serious. 'You shouldn't worry about it too much. Have fun."

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campusking
2019-10-26 04:31 am UTC (link)

Tony nodded, glad that he was understood as he tried to explain a little bit of what it was like. He half expected the older Tony to just try and get rid of him, kind of the way his dad would so often whenever he started talking to him for too long. But Tony didn't do that, he just agreed and it was - well it was kind of nice to meet an adult that would do that for a little while, or at least an adult who wasn't Jarvis.

"I had a party," Tony admitted with a kind of shy pleasure, grinning at Tony. "It was great, so many people came, they had fun." And well if they did then he did too, and he'd gotten to show off the bots and his hot tub and it was just a fun time. The sort of thing he'd never been able to have before - not like that. "Are you gonna have some fun too?" He asked, concerned now for this older version of him - if all the kids were having fun he should too right? That was fair.

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allaboutego
2019-10-26 07:11 pm UTC (link)

If nothing else, Tony had learned from his own father how to not be a parent; how to be an adult that was good with children, who knew not to talk to them like they didn't matter or that they didn't have valid opinions. Hell, talking to them at all was important.

Of course, Tony knew that there'd been a party -- Steve and Natasha both had gone to it, and he suspected they'd had fun for all they talked and giggled about it in private, now. There'd been drinking, he was sure, but not enough for anyone to do anything stupid and Tony wasn't the sort to police that sort of thing. "Sounds like it was a blast, I'm glad," he said with a smile. "And yeah. Don't worry about me. I have plenty of fun." It wasn't really true. Mostly he was stressed and missed Steve, but it wasn't like he was suffering either. He had Gwen and when all the kids went to bed, the adults went out drinking and sighing loudly, so there was that.

"Alright," he said, clearing the topic away because he didn't care to focus on it. "You wanna build some stuff?"

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campusking
2019-10-26 11:49 pm UTC (link)

Tony grinned, it was maybe a little weird seeing a version of himself so grown up when he felt like he'd never be that old himself. But it was kind of nice too, a little like talking to his dad without all of the fear that usually came along with something like that. Maybe he could have another party again, that'd be fun, or maybe not - he didn't know. He'd have to think about it. "Good." He nodded firmly like it was an important thing that the big Tony was having fun too, and not just the kids. He thought maybe that was his dad's problem too, he never let himself have any fun.

And then the offer to build something and Tony's eyes lit up and he nodded eagerly. "Yeah!" He clutched at the table's edge practically vibrating with the idea of doing something like that. "Yeah let's build something really cool!"

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