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Age: 31
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Character Information
Name: Tony Stark
Canon: Marvel 616
Age: mid-30's
Gender: male
Canon Point: Iron Man volume 4; issue 31
Background Link: A background link is here.
Inventory:
White button-down dress shirt
Black and gray standard SHIELD-issue uniform
Black cotton socks
Black uniform dress shoes
Gold undersuit (stored inside his body, but either confiscated or simply inaccessible without abilities)
Personality:
Tony is driven first and foremost by the future. It's how he defines himself, being a self-proclaimed "futurist" and acting with that in mind. He's pushed by both the potential the future has for good and the fear he has of the negative consequences that can come when it isn't put in check. He's always trying to think forward, to make new things and build new opportunities for those around him while protecting them from threats and potential threats headed their way. He's a visionary, both inspired and plagued by what he can imagine.
Like the future he sees, Tony is a man made up of contradictions. Raised by Howard and Maria Stark, Tony was brought up with an affluent lifestyle and groomed young in business and the cost of war. From Howard he learned to be an industrialist and excels at most things related to weapon design, making him a capable professional with a sharp wit and drive for success. Used to comfort, he often has expensive tastes and prefers convenience where he can get it. After all, why take the harder route if the easy one is just as efficient? This mindset leads him to habits common to the corporate culture he's used to. Because he is often dealing with so much disposable income and large amounts of resources, Tony tends to take a businesslike approach to issues that can appear callous or clinical to those around him. When something breaks down or doesn't work, he often believes it is better to just upgrade and replace it, assuming that the shortest distance between two points is probably the best answer to any problem. Of course, when the problems involve people and complications arise, his "simplest solution" is not always the best solution, or even if it is, it is best in a technical sense. He can also be indulgent. Although this is not always true to form, a good deal of Tony's life is built on a softer, privileged experience. He likes his creature comforts and has a history of being a free-spirited playboy in his younger adult years, further adding to his image as a superficial, if clever, elite.
Beneath the layer of a smooth-talking suit is still another mask, because the one thing Tony Stark can't be is simple. In addition to being the Faceman charming the public, Tony is his own enforcer. Iron Man is his tough guy act, who doesn't break a sweat when confronted with danger, who always has a quip and a punch to back it up, and who balances out the charisma with brawn. He's a hero and protector, defending what he feels is right and answering to no one else--somewhat an ideal of what Tony personally wants. Although he was raised by a rich family, Howard was, in Tony's words, "a hard man to live with." A pressured weapons manufacturer with a high competitive drive and a strict hand, Howard taught Tony from an early age that toughness was the way to success. Iron Man, in a way, is Tony's answer to that: the strength he wants to have to fulfill or escape the expectations of his past.
But, as their descriptions indicate, they are just roles. Being a corporate leader or a superhero are jobs with uniforms and personas he puts on to fill a need. They aren't entirely fake as each is still part of him, but much of the time the jobs he fills are just pieces of him just as any job only shows part of who a person is. The unique part about Tony is that although he puts on a variety of masks, at the heart of his actions, he is more himself than just a hero or a leader, whether good or bad. Despite the fronts he constantly puts on, Tony is at his core very emotional. He reacts to his feelings as often as he does logic and reason, balancing his pragmatic approach with a sensitive heart. He's pushed forward by what he wants, and what he wants more than anything is a good future, a positive outcome for everyone. Yes, he is a bit of a bleeding heart. He's repeatedly given criminals, including those who have tried to kill him, second chances and even hired them on to give them a new start. This may seem to contradict the image of the arrogant, self-absorbed executive, and in fact his emotional side does come in odds with his professional role fairly often. It's a delicate balancing act that does not always work in his favor. In the past, he's become self-destructive due to stress and tragedy, losing control to anger and alcoholism that still hangs over him. On the other hand, Tony's humanity is really where he shines. He leads with his heart, being sincere in a way that comes through even with the masks he wears. A good indication of this is how personal his relationships are to those around him. He isn't just a faceless corporate entity indifferent to the destruction of others. Most of the people who know him, heroes and villains alike, call him Tony over Iron Man, and that is telling of how they see beyond the roles. He's been Secretary of Defense for the United States government and Director of SHIELD, but he's Tony Stark, a normal man, above any of those titles.
Naturally, with all of those conflicting roles and feelings and responsibilities filling his life, Tony seeks out stability. And his stability, his primary lifeline, is the future. Tony is dedicated to creating a better world. He is an inventor, after all. He's fascinated by potential and always looking for ways to improve. This desire, and perhaps obsession, is reflected in the way he lives his life. He's a man who has made arguably more mistakes than anyone else, yet he continues to learn from them. Each loss he takes is followed by a change in his plans and style, each time with a promise to himself as well as others, "I'll never do that again." And that remains pretty true. Despite making many mistakes, he doesn't tend to repeat the same errors twice, again, perhaps because he's too hyper-sensitive and obsessive about improvement. He's gone from being a frivolous youth with a cynical but careless attitude toward his life to a man who carries a lot of self-doubt and spends a good deal of time seriously reflecting on all of his choices.
He takes each lesson he learns as a step toward the future he wants to see. This not only shows in how he improves his own life, but how he treats others. He's extremely loyal to his friends, giving to the point of self-sacrifice, and still pragmatic. He knows when to cut his losses, and although his strategic plays run more toward the reckless maverick style, they almost always succeed. He's generous and protective, which comes from having too much material wealth and not enough emotional support to give it meaning. If he has something within his power to give, he'll give it, hoping that expresses how he feels toward those around him. He's also one of the more open-minded heroes when it comes to gray lines and forgiveness. Tony understands that there are different points of view and the hard truth that all humans are flawed. As an alcoholic and the weapons designer who's been branded with every slur people can come up with, Tony doesn’t usually judge others with a black-and-white outlook. He stands up to enemies and has no problem telling someone when he thinks they are wrong, but he doesn't equate actions with someone's worth. What you do does not necessarily make you evil, at least in his perspective. He tries to reason with people and talk them down from violence rather than the "shoot first, negotiate afterwards" approach. He's often analyzing others' reactions just as much as he does his own, trying to understand their situations and feelings.
That doesn't mean he's perfected himself, either. He has a notably sharp wit -- he's an engineering genius with the ability to adapt to impossible situations, such as building and then improving upon a metal chest plate to keep his heart from stopping (that is totally how medical science works) -- and an equally sharp mouth. “Don't be so aggressive,” Steve tells him in one issue. And Tony, dryly, answers, “I only do that when I'm tired, hungry, or frustrated. Or any combination of the three.”
When he's got no other ammunition left, Tony Stark will always have a quip to fire. Even though he's gotten better at tempering his sarcasm and knee-jerk reactions to others, Tony is still more playful and reckless than most of the other Avengers. He blurts out his thoughts at inappropriate times, still acts smug, still cracks sarcastic jokes in the face of danger, and gets wrapped up in his own life so much that he tends to screw up those of others as a result. He's always been impossibly stubborn when he believed he was right and snapped back at people for passive-aggressive or accusatory comments, and that still hasn't changed. Even when the stakes are high, Tony Stark can't help but get his own word in.
Despite a lot of his bad impulses, Tony does have his good traits. He asks for help; defers to others knowing he doesn't always have the answers. He's willing to set aside his pride and is self-aware enough to figure out (eventually) when his pride is in the way. Tony is a hero, and he takes the idea of being a hero seriously. He wants to protect those around him, friends and strangers alike, and has a strong desire to do good in spite of his own shortcomings. He's learned to recognize his weaknesses even when he can't completely control them, and he always tries to maintain the good and improve upon the bad. After all, he's a builder of the future and that is what progress is about.
Flavor Abilities:
Tony has undergone a procedure in canon that makes him biologically capable with interfacing with machines, like a living computer. In Snowblind, the powers he gets from this change will be deactivated and won't affect him. Normally he has a mild healing ability and technopathic powers, but without them he has average human strength and fairly decent combat abilities. He's not exceptional in most areas outside of his engineering and computer knowledge, which will be limited by the game's resources. He also stores an undersuit inside his body which he uses to connect to his armor. Without the armor, it's just some flashy gold underwear and he won't be able to wear it without his abilities active to summon it.
Suitability:
Tony would have trouble with the lack of technology and being cut off from a vast network, which is what he's used to in canon, but he does have some survival and combat training. It would be a chance to explore the stress placed on the character after he is stripped of his usual tools and see how the horror and survival aspects of the game force him to adapt to his environment. He has a canon history of being erratic under extreme conditions, so it would be interesting to see how the increase of stress led him to questionable choices and potentially dangerous behavior.
While he is unlikely to go completely off his moral code, the opportunity to play with the gray scale of the character would give other characters the chance to work with or against him, since he can be both helpful or destructive depending on his state of mind and tends to be vulnerable when forced out of his element. He does try to be helpful and is reasonably clever, so it would be fun to explore how he handles the mysteries and pressures of Snowblind while in the pursuit of helping those around him.
RP Samples:
test drive toplevel
additional sample network thread
non-thread sample
Tony has experienced cold before, he's been in freezing weather, but with the aid of his armor, he's almost forgotten how cold he could truly be. Even fully dressed, he can feel it seeping into his skin, biting at his fingers and toes despite his best efforts to keep blood flowing through them. And he realizes in this moment how much he hates the cold. But he's standing at the door of the small building, trying to muster up the courage to go out again into the white Hell.
"We're not going to find anything hunkering down in one place," he says. It sounds like an argument. He's pretty sure no one will disagree with that, but he has to argue, maybe with himself, or he'll find some reason not to leave the shelter. If he does that, he might just go crazy. It's already been far too long.
"Who wants to go for a walk? There's still daylight left, and we could find firewood. Or maybe something edible that resembles real food. God, I hope so." He takes one more deep breath, forcing the next part out with a brave face. "Okay, who wants in?"
Name: Tea
Age: 31
Contact Info:
Other Characters: N/A
Character Information
Name: Tony Stark
Canon: Marvel 616
Age: mid-30's
Gender: male
Canon Point: Iron Man volume 4; issue 31
Background Link: A background link is here.
Inventory:
White button-down dress shirt
Black and gray standard SHIELD-issue uniform
Black cotton socks
Black uniform dress shoes
Gold undersuit (stored inside his body, but either confiscated or simply inaccessible without abilities)
Personality:
Tony is driven first and foremost by the future. It's how he defines himself, being a self-proclaimed "futurist" and acting with that in mind. He's pushed by both the potential the future has for good and the fear he has of the negative consequences that can come when it isn't put in check. He's always trying to think forward, to make new things and build new opportunities for those around him while protecting them from threats and potential threats headed their way. He's a visionary, both inspired and plagued by what he can imagine.
My name is Tony Stark. It's a name you've probably already heard, seeing as my name has come to mean so many varied things over the course of my lifetime -- billionaire, playboy, inventor, industrialist, super hero, among others.
Like the future he sees, Tony is a man made up of contradictions. Raised by Howard and Maria Stark, Tony was brought up with an affluent lifestyle and groomed young in business and the cost of war. From Howard he learned to be an industrialist and excels at most things related to weapon design, making him a capable professional with a sharp wit and drive for success. Used to comfort, he often has expensive tastes and prefers convenience where he can get it. After all, why take the harder route if the easy one is just as efficient? This mindset leads him to habits common to the corporate culture he's used to. Because he is often dealing with so much disposable income and large amounts of resources, Tony tends to take a businesslike approach to issues that can appear callous or clinical to those around him. When something breaks down or doesn't work, he often believes it is better to just upgrade and replace it, assuming that the shortest distance between two points is probably the best answer to any problem. Of course, when the problems involve people and complications arise, his "simplest solution" is not always the best solution, or even if it is, it is best in a technical sense. He can also be indulgent. Although this is not always true to form, a good deal of Tony's life is built on a softer, privileged experience. He likes his creature comforts and has a history of being a free-spirited playboy in his younger adult years, further adding to his image as a superficial, if clever, elite.
Beneath the layer of a smooth-talking suit is still another mask, because the one thing Tony Stark can't be is simple. In addition to being the Faceman charming the public, Tony is his own enforcer. Iron Man is his tough guy act, who doesn't break a sweat when confronted with danger, who always has a quip and a punch to back it up, and who balances out the charisma with brawn. He's a hero and protector, defending what he feels is right and answering to no one else--somewhat an ideal of what Tony personally wants. Although he was raised by a rich family, Howard was, in Tony's words, "a hard man to live with." A pressured weapons manufacturer with a high competitive drive and a strict hand, Howard taught Tony from an early age that toughness was the way to success. Iron Man, in a way, is Tony's answer to that: the strength he wants to have to fulfill or escape the expectations of his past.
But, as their descriptions indicate, they are just roles. Being a corporate leader or a superhero are jobs with uniforms and personas he puts on to fill a need. They aren't entirely fake as each is still part of him, but much of the time the jobs he fills are just pieces of him just as any job only shows part of who a person is. The unique part about Tony is that although he puts on a variety of masks, at the heart of his actions, he is more himself than just a hero or a leader, whether good or bad. Despite the fronts he constantly puts on, Tony is at his core very emotional. He reacts to his feelings as often as he does logic and reason, balancing his pragmatic approach with a sensitive heart. He's pushed forward by what he wants, and what he wants more than anything is a good future, a positive outcome for everyone. Yes, he is a bit of a bleeding heart. He's repeatedly given criminals, including those who have tried to kill him, second chances and even hired them on to give them a new start. This may seem to contradict the image of the arrogant, self-absorbed executive, and in fact his emotional side does come in odds with his professional role fairly often. It's a delicate balancing act that does not always work in his favor. In the past, he's become self-destructive due to stress and tragedy, losing control to anger and alcoholism that still hangs over him. On the other hand, Tony's humanity is really where he shines. He leads with his heart, being sincere in a way that comes through even with the masks he wears. A good indication of this is how personal his relationships are to those around him. He isn't just a faceless corporate entity indifferent to the destruction of others. Most of the people who know him, heroes and villains alike, call him Tony over Iron Man, and that is telling of how they see beyond the roles. He's been Secretary of Defense for the United States government and Director of SHIELD, but he's Tony Stark, a normal man, above any of those titles.
Naturally, with all of those conflicting roles and feelings and responsibilities filling his life, Tony seeks out stability. And his stability, his primary lifeline, is the future. Tony is dedicated to creating a better world. He is an inventor, after all. He's fascinated by potential and always looking for ways to improve. This desire, and perhaps obsession, is reflected in the way he lives his life. He's a man who has made arguably more mistakes than anyone else, yet he continues to learn from them. Each loss he takes is followed by a change in his plans and style, each time with a promise to himself as well as others, "I'll never do that again." And that remains pretty true. Despite making many mistakes, he doesn't tend to repeat the same errors twice, again, perhaps because he's too hyper-sensitive and obsessive about improvement. He's gone from being a frivolous youth with a cynical but careless attitude toward his life to a man who carries a lot of self-doubt and spends a good deal of time seriously reflecting on all of his choices.
Sometimes it seems like everyone knows exactly what I should do -- and it's whatever's in their best interests... Usually, I can just shrug it off. Figure out what I think is best and do that.
But it seems like I've spent my entire adult life just reacting to events, reeling from crisis to crisis -- either charging blindly into things or running away, distracting myself with women, with work, with alcohol.
He takes each lesson he learns as a step toward the future he wants to see. This not only shows in how he improves his own life, but how he treats others. He's extremely loyal to his friends, giving to the point of self-sacrifice, and still pragmatic. He knows when to cut his losses, and although his strategic plays run more toward the reckless maverick style, they almost always succeed. He's generous and protective, which comes from having too much material wealth and not enough emotional support to give it meaning. If he has something within his power to give, he'll give it, hoping that expresses how he feels toward those around him. He's also one of the more open-minded heroes when it comes to gray lines and forgiveness. Tony understands that there are different points of view and the hard truth that all humans are flawed. As an alcoholic and the weapons designer who's been branded with every slur people can come up with, Tony doesn’t usually judge others with a black-and-white outlook. He stands up to enemies and has no problem telling someone when he thinks they are wrong, but he doesn't equate actions with someone's worth. What you do does not necessarily make you evil, at least in his perspective. He tries to reason with people and talk them down from violence rather than the "shoot first, negotiate afterwards" approach. He's often analyzing others' reactions just as much as he does his own, trying to understand their situations and feelings.
That doesn't mean he's perfected himself, either. He has a notably sharp wit -- he's an engineering genius with the ability to adapt to impossible situations, such as building and then improving upon a metal chest plate to keep his heart from stopping (that is totally how medical science works) -- and an equally sharp mouth. “Don't be so aggressive,” Steve tells him in one issue. And Tony, dryly, answers, “I only do that when I'm tired, hungry, or frustrated. Or any combination of the three.”
When he's got no other ammunition left, Tony Stark will always have a quip to fire. Even though he's gotten better at tempering his sarcasm and knee-jerk reactions to others, Tony is still more playful and reckless than most of the other Avengers. He blurts out his thoughts at inappropriate times, still acts smug, still cracks sarcastic jokes in the face of danger, and gets wrapped up in his own life so much that he tends to screw up those of others as a result. He's always been impossibly stubborn when he believed he was right and snapped back at people for passive-aggressive or accusatory comments, and that still hasn't changed. Even when the stakes are high, Tony Stark can't help but get his own word in.
I do what I think is best. What I think is right. I make no apologies for that. But I do make a promise: that I'll face the consequences. I make the decision and I pay the price.
Despite a lot of his bad impulses, Tony does have his good traits. He asks for help; defers to others knowing he doesn't always have the answers. He's willing to set aside his pride and is self-aware enough to figure out (eventually) when his pride is in the way. Tony is a hero, and he takes the idea of being a hero seriously. He wants to protect those around him, friends and strangers alike, and has a strong desire to do good in spite of his own shortcomings. He's learned to recognize his weaknesses even when he can't completely control them, and he always tries to maintain the good and improve upon the bad. After all, he's a builder of the future and that is what progress is about.
Flavor Abilities:
Tony has undergone a procedure in canon that makes him biologically capable with interfacing with machines, like a living computer. In Snowblind, the powers he gets from this change will be deactivated and won't affect him. Normally he has a mild healing ability and technopathic powers, but without them he has average human strength and fairly decent combat abilities. He's not exceptional in most areas outside of his engineering and computer knowledge, which will be limited by the game's resources. He also stores an undersuit inside his body which he uses to connect to his armor. Without the armor, it's just some flashy gold underwear and he won't be able to wear it without his abilities active to summon it.
Suitability:
Tony would have trouble with the lack of technology and being cut off from a vast network, which is what he's used to in canon, but he does have some survival and combat training. It would be a chance to explore the stress placed on the character after he is stripped of his usual tools and see how the horror and survival aspects of the game force him to adapt to his environment. He has a canon history of being erratic under extreme conditions, so it would be interesting to see how the increase of stress led him to questionable choices and potentially dangerous behavior.
While he is unlikely to go completely off his moral code, the opportunity to play with the gray scale of the character would give other characters the chance to work with or against him, since he can be both helpful or destructive depending on his state of mind and tends to be vulnerable when forced out of his element. He does try to be helpful and is reasonably clever, so it would be fun to explore how he handles the mysteries and pressures of Snowblind while in the pursuit of helping those around him.
RP Samples:
test drive toplevel
additional sample network thread
non-thread sample
Tony has experienced cold before, he's been in freezing weather, but with the aid of his armor, he's almost forgotten how cold he could truly be. Even fully dressed, he can feel it seeping into his skin, biting at his fingers and toes despite his best efforts to keep blood flowing through them. And he realizes in this moment how much he hates the cold. But he's standing at the door of the small building, trying to muster up the courage to go out again into the white Hell.
"We're not going to find anything hunkering down in one place," he says. It sounds like an argument. He's pretty sure no one will disagree with that, but he has to argue, maybe with himself, or he'll find some reason not to leave the shelter. If he does that, he might just go crazy. It's already been far too long.
"Who wants to go for a walk? There's still daylight left, and we could find firewood. Or maybe something edible that resembles real food. God, I hope so." He takes one more deep breath, forcing the next part out with a brave face. "Okay, who wants in?"