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Name: Tony Stark
Canon: Marvel 616
Age: mid-30's
Gender: male
Canon Point: Iron Man volume 4; issue 31
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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.
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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?"
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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.
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?"
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Canon: Marvel comics (616 universe)
Character Name: Tony Stark
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Character Details
Canon Point: Just prior to Dark Reign, when Norman Osborn takes over SHIELD.
Species: Human
Timeline of Important Events in Canon History:
Note: Recent comics have changed the history to reveal that Tony was adopted and that Howard Stark was an integral member of S.H.I.E.L.D. However, the canon point I've taken is far before this change, so I did not include that part. I've been sticking to the timeline prior to that change.
Raised by Howard and Maria Stark, Tony has a conflicted childhood. He takes interest in electronics at an early age to escape a difficult relationship with his father.
Tony attends boarding school and finds inspiration in Arthurian stories of knights and chivalry. Meanwhile he excels in academic studies.
At fifteen, Tony enters an undergraduate program at MIT. He pursues multiple degrees and attends Cambridge for a time, managing to earn several degrees.
Maria and Howard die in a car accident when Tony is 21. He inherits the family business.
Tony expands on his father's company and enters into electronics development as well as conducting weapons manufacturing.
While overseeing a military weapon test, Tony is injured by a booby trap and captured by terrorists.
Aided by another captive, the renowned physicist Ho Yinsen, Tony builds a powered suit of armor to escape with a built-in pacemaker to help keep him stable.
Yinsen sacrifices himself to help Tony escape. Using the bought time, Tony manages to get the armor working and avenges Yinsen's death.
Tony makes his escape and seeks safety. Still in his armor, he encounters James Rhodes, a pilot also stranded in enemy territory. The two work together to get back to American forces.
Tony returns home and redesigns the chest plate of his armor so it can be worn under his clothes.
Keeping his injury secret, Tony upgrades the design of his armor and uses it to defend his company against thieves and saboteurs.
Creating a public persona of "Iron Man" for anonymity, Tony claims that the armored individual is his body guard. He starts using Iron Man to help protect people from other criminals as well.
Iron Man becomes more active, meeting threats that end up being long term foes.
Tony also meets Harold "Happy" Hogan and Pepper Potts, who become his employees and good friends.
As facing dangers becomes more common, Tony begins responding to larger threats, protecting national and global security.
Tony is key in organizing and arming the global security group S.H.I.E.L.D.
Iron Man and several other superheroes form a group and decide to call themselves the Avengers.
Over time, Tony continues to improve his armor and upgrade to newer models.
The Avengers recover a frozen Captain America and, after a brief confrontation, he also joins the team.
Iron Man and the Avengers maintained a volunteer superhero community funded by Stark Industries.
After several years, Tony undergoes heart transplant surgery so that he no longer needs his chest plate device.
Two opposing alien empires, the Kree and the Skrulls, clash on Earth. Tony and the Avengers defend the planet from destruction caused by both sides.
Tony gathers a group of leading super-powered individuals to form a group to help shape the superhero community and defend the world against cosmic level threats. This eventually gets downgraded to a info-sharing group.
Tony decides to stop developing weapons and focus more on electronics and other machinery.
A business rival, Obadiah Stane, takes advantage of Tony's increasing stress and manages to drive him to alcohol abuse.
Tony suffers loss of his company and many of his friends due to alcoholism.
While Tony is incapacitated, James Rhodes takes over as Iron Man.
Tony's friends eventually convince him to seek help for his addiction and he seeks rehabilitation.
When Tony regains his sobriety, he, Rhodes, and some friends form a new electronics firm.
After a struggle, Tony manages to reclaim the mantle of Iron Man and joins the West Coast branch of the Avengers.
Iron Man and Doctor Doom accidentally get sent through time and get stuck in Camelot. They work together to get back.
Tony and his friends confront Obadiah Stane when he bombs their firm. They ultimately manage to defeat him.
Tony manages to reclaim some of his lost fortune and establishes a new company, Stark Enterprises.
Another rival business competitor, Justin Hammer, manages to obtain some of the design plans for Tony's powered armors. Hammer begins using these designs to create powered weaponry for criminals.
Iron Man hunts down the criminals with access to his technology, determined to stop them from abusing his ideas. He sabotages their machines and destroys all of their stolen plans in aggressive attacks against them.
In one of his conflicts to protect his technology, Tony accidentally kills a villain known as Titanium Man.
Because of his vigilante attacks, Iron Man is declared an outlaw and the Avengers are sent to stop him.
Tony claims that "Iron Man" was acting independently and had gone rogue. He stages the death of his fake bodyguard and claims to replace him with a new employee.
A former lover shoots Tony and paralyzes him.
Further attacks cause nerve damage to Tony's spine and he has to be placed in cryo-stasis to recover. Rhodes takes over as CEO of his company during this period.
Tony recovers after extensive rehabilitation and returns to work.
Tony is brainwashed by Immortus and turned evil. He commits murder and attacks the heroes.
The Avengers bring a younger Tony Stark from an alternate universe to their world to fight Tony.
The older Tony Stark dies in the fight and the younger version remains to take his place.
Onslaught, a sentient psionic entity, attacks and kills several heroes, including kid Iron Man.
Franklin Richards brings back the lost heroes, resurrecting the original Tony Stark, who merges with the younger version.
Brought back after such an extensive period, Tony begins anew. He starts a new company, Stark Solutions.
Tony returns to upgrading and developing new versions of armor.
He meets and begins dating Rumiko Fujikawa, with whom he has an on-and-off relationship.
Tony publicly reveals that he is Iron Man.
Concerned about the U.S. government using his technology, Tony runs for Secretary of Defense. He wins by a technicality as his opponent is arrested.
The Scarlet Witch, suffering from extreme mental trauma, becomes unbalanced and manipulates Tony into making threats during a UN meeting. Several Avengers are killed due to her actions and the team disbands.
Rumiko Fujikawa is murdered because of her connection to Tony.
Stricken by loss, Tony resigns from his position as Secretary of Defense.
Six months later, a breakout from the S.H.I.E.L.D. prison the Raft bring a group of heroes, including Iron Man, together to contain the problem.
Steve Rogers convinces Tony to help him form a new team of Avengers.
A terrorist named Mallen is transformed with an experimental form of bio-tech virus called Extremis intended to genetically cure and enhance people.
Tony is badly injured confronting Mallen and, with the help of associate Maya Hansen, also undergoes this treatment.
Enhanced by the Extremis virus, Tony is transformed into a living computer with a slight healing and regenerative ability.
Tony confronts and reluctantly kills Mallen.
Nick Fury launches a secret assault against Latveria. In the wake of this conflict, he is forced to go into hiding.
Ho Yinsen's son manages to hack Tony's new abilities and use him to assassinate individuals responsible for his mother's murder.
Tony manages to get free of young Yinsen's control, but becomes concerned about the abilities of super-powered people being abused.
As this concern becomes more prevalent in the public, the Illuminati react by sending the Hulk into space in hopes of removing him from the growing conflict.
A tragedy caused by super-powered teenagers causes over 600 casualties, most being students. Because of this, there is a push for registration of super powers.
The public response to the incident splits the superhero community, and Tony sides with the pro-registration side.
Tony makes a large scale public admission to being Iron Man.
Leading the pro-registration heroes, Tony works to contain unregistered powered members, clashing with unregistered heroes in multiple conflicts.
Tony and the pro-registration heroes imprison many anti-registration heroes in a prison in the Negative Zone.
Repeated fighting between the two sides lead to the death of Goliath.
While the fighting distracts the heroes, a villain manages to mortally injure Happy Hogan, who dies in the hospital.
The violence continues to escalate to the point that Steve Rogers nearly kills Tony. Seeing the extreme lengths they have come to, Steve agrees to submit to a trial.
On the way to trial, Steve is assassinated.
In the midst of chaos and tension among those in charge, Tony becomes Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Bucky Barnes, Steve's original partner, tries to assassinate Tony in revenge for Steve's death. Tony calms him down and convinces him to become Captain America himself.
Tony assists the new Captain America and other unregistered heroes in secret.
As Director, Tony makes efforts to maintain global security using his technology to enhance his reach.
The Hulk returns from space, seeking revenge against the Illuminati for their betrayal.
Tony and the other members of the Illuminati confront the Hulk and are beaten, but the conflict is resolved when the Hulk's friends ultimately ask him to stop the fighting. Taking advantage of the pause, Tony knocks him out with satellite weaponry.
Tony is infected by an alien technovirus that disables and removes his Extremis virus enhancements. This is an attack by the Skrull forces, who have been secretly infiltrating powerful positions worldwide.
The heroes band together to fend off the Skrull forces. Tony discovers that Spider-Woman is the leader of the disguised invaders and is rescued by Ms. Marvel.
Banding together, the heroes manage to fight back against the Skrull army. However, Tony's tech fails him and he is unable to stop the Skrull Queen Veranke.
Human villain Norman Osborn defeats Queen Veranke, earning favor with the public.
Tony is removed from his position as Director, seen as failing in defense of world security.
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. 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.
Abilities, Magic and Supernatural Skills/Afflictions:
Tony is considered a meta-human with a few enhanced abilities that exceed normal human skills, but all of these are limited.
intelligence - Tony is literally a genius. His intelligence makes him one of the smartest men in the world, earning multiple doctorates from MIT at the age of seventeen and continuing from there. As an adult, he's noted as an engineering master, able to build things other people consider in the realm of science fiction. He has skill in a variety of areas, lauded as an expert in business as well as technical and mechanical engineering, most notably building a powered suit of armor that can fly and fire weapons. He can reverse-engineer technology that is more advanced than his own and build complex machinery from very basic materials.
Tony has also built billion-dollar companies from the ground up. He's charismatic enough to win over others and rational enough to command results, making him a decent enough leader in immediate situations.
strategy - The other thing Tony has is tactical intuition. Because of his ability to analyze his situations and work around limits, he can come up with unexpected strategies to overcome obstacles and threats. He's good at coming up with plans, which tends to be his strong suit in any conflict. He's also a self-proclaimed futurist, able to think and respond to conditions several steps in advance, at times giving him insights to what will happen years ahead of when it does. He enjoys both chess and soccer, indicating that he sees the potential in things and uses that potential to shape the outcomes that he wants.
physical ability - Tony is a decent fighter, having been trained by several skilled combatants, the top of the list being Captain America, Black Panther, and Black Widow. He can take on several trained soldiers at once and he's fairly tenacious, even if he is lacking finesse. He's not the best fighter, but he can hold his own to some capacity.
Dragon & Magical Element
Elemental Alignment:
Dragon:
Tony's dragon is a female whose adult size will be large, reaching roughly 8-9 meters long, but stand roughly 2.5-3 meters high off of the ground. Having a legless, serpentine body, her only limbs are a pair of feathered wings on the upper half of the length. She can fly, assisted by an ability to flatten parts of her body to create a hood behind her head and two sets of "fins" on the lower part of her body to give her more lift. In general appearance, the dragon resembles a giant snake with feathered "ears" on her head. Her entire body is covered in scales that are mostly cream-colored, with a pale red strip down the center of her back and darker red and yellow markings on her face. While her belly scales are flat, the scales on the rest of her body are pointed and curl up slightly. Her head has a muzzle somewhat equine in shape, with rows of sharp teeth meant for tearing. Her eyes are pale blue and avian rather than snake-like. While on the ground, she can raise her scales to show off the points, giving her a spiked appearance that is meant as a bluff against threats, particularly before she reaches her full size. Her wings are primarily red, with yellow and light blue at the edges. The end of her tail has flight feathers creating a leaf-like tuft in the same pattern as her wings. She also has several harder, convex blue scales on her body resembling stones which are part of her pattern: one large scale on the top of her head and six more smaller scales going down either side of the front third of her body. These act as magic receptors that glow when the dragon attempts to use magic. Like the ability to puff out her scales, this reaction is used for display purposes and otherwise useless.
Because of her body type and lighter frame, even at full size, Tony's dragon is not able to carry a rider. At best she can tow a human while swimming in the water where weight won't be a problem. She's a strict carnivore and has a preference for eggs. As a hatchling, she primarily eats insects and small prey, then eventually she will hunt for whatever is small enough for her to catch and consume.
The dragon's egg is slightly larger than a softball and a dull sandy color, resembling a large rock. It has the appearance of a rough texture that blends in with the surrounding rock of the mountains and has more of a snake egg shape.
Personality traits inherited from Character Bond:
curious
protective
adaptable
Writing Samples
First Sample:
April Test Drive threads
October Test Drive threads
Second Sample:
"You're going crazy, Stark." Tony huffed out the words, straining to hold his grip on the rock face he was pressed again. "You're hallucinating again." He shouldn't be wasting his breath talking to himself, but there was no one around to tell him that. Just the- the voice? The feeling that had brought him to the cavern, climbing up jagged rocks the old-fashioned way.
He'd woken up from a vision. It was sad how used to that he was getting these days, but, as the psychiatrists said, that was just his brain adjusting to the change. Except this time Tony had been greeted by a fantasy world. He could have been a character from a video game. You're world has ended. You are now chosen to go on a quest and bring it back. Or that's what he was interpreting it as, anyway. The ominous nightmare hadn't been very specific on the details. All Tony really knew was that this wasn't his office anymore, and that whatever world he was in wasn't very tech-friendly.
And that he had to go. To find something.
Apparently "something" was an egg. He assumed that was what they were. The cavern at the center of the city he found himself in was full of them. Large and small, in every shape and color imaginable. Some were embedded in the stone floor while others were clustered together in nests, each surrounded by glowing writing in a language that he didn't recognize. Magic. Even Tony couldn't deny that the scene was beautiful.
But his journey wasn't done yet. The pull that called to him was drawing him to a high ledge sticking out of the wall, a good twenty feet off the ground. So there he was, free-climbing his way to whatever wanted him, quite possibly to his end. He dragged himself up onto the ledge, groaning and cursing the lack of technology for the fourth time since he'd begun his climb, lying prone against the top as he caught his breath. The tapping noise to his side almost went unnoticed, but the warm light was too familiar to ignore. Blue and bright despite the source being small, Tony opened his eyes to the pulsing glow as a pointed snout poked through the shell of a lone egg nearby. The light was coming from there, like a slow heartbeat.
"Definitely going crazy." The awe crept in without his notice. The light faded as Tony scooted forward on the stone to the egg, staring as the dragon began pushing its way through the shell. She made a noise, making Tony wonder briefly how he knew the dragon was a she since it looked a lot like a snake. As he debated that question, the dragon wound its way toward him, sliding free of the egg and slithering up to examine his hand. It took him a minute to decide how to react to the cool scales brushing his fingers.
He decided that he couldn't take the doubt. Whatever was happening, he had to know for certain. "I don't believe in you," he told it. He reached for the dragon, picking it up by the middle of its body and holding it up above him, trying to catch the light from the cavern entrance. The dragon squawked in protest, flapping two small, feathered wings as she was hoisted up. Small points on her body glowed with the blue light again and she brought her head down, sinking sharp teeth into Tony's arm. He flinched and released her, and as the dragon darted back to the ground, she curled up with her body under her and her head raised for a second strike. The two stayed frozen, eyeing each other for a tense moment before Tony broke the stalemate.
"Okay, you're right. I deserved that." He sighed as the dragon seemed to relax and, cautiously, settle in front of him. "Well, I guess this means you're real and I'm not crazy," he told her. "What do we do now? We have to get back down." The feathered serpent, apparently sensing his resignation, slithered closer and made her way to his lap. Tony recognized the warm feeling in the back of his mind again--the one that had pulled him there. Like a call from an old friend. He smiled, finding her presence strangely comforting. "Yeah, you rest. I'll do all the work."
Canon: Marvel comics (616 universe)
Character Name: Tony Stark
Character Journal:
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Character Details
Canon Point: Just prior to Dark Reign, when Norman Osborn takes over SHIELD.
Species: Human
Timeline of Important Events in Canon History:
Note: Recent comics have changed the history to reveal that Tony was adopted and that Howard Stark was an integral member of S.H.I.E.L.D. However, the canon point I've taken is far before this change, so I did not include that part. I've been sticking to the timeline prior to that change.
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. 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.
Abilities, Magic and Supernatural Skills/Afflictions:
Tony is considered a meta-human with a few enhanced abilities that exceed normal human skills, but all of these are limited.
intelligence - Tony is literally a genius. His intelligence makes him one of the smartest men in the world, earning multiple doctorates from MIT at the age of seventeen and continuing from there. As an adult, he's noted as an engineering master, able to build things other people consider in the realm of science fiction. He has skill in a variety of areas, lauded as an expert in business as well as technical and mechanical engineering, most notably building a powered suit of armor that can fly and fire weapons. He can reverse-engineer technology that is more advanced than his own and build complex machinery from very basic materials.
Tony has also built billion-dollar companies from the ground up. He's charismatic enough to win over others and rational enough to command results, making him a decent enough leader in immediate situations.
strategy - The other thing Tony has is tactical intuition. Because of his ability to analyze his situations and work around limits, he can come up with unexpected strategies to overcome obstacles and threats. He's good at coming up with plans, which tends to be his strong suit in any conflict. He's also a self-proclaimed futurist, able to think and respond to conditions several steps in advance, at times giving him insights to what will happen years ahead of when it does. He enjoys both chess and soccer, indicating that he sees the potential in things and uses that potential to shape the outcomes that he wants.
physical ability - Tony is a decent fighter, having been trained by several skilled combatants, the top of the list being Captain America, Black Panther, and Black Widow. He can take on several trained soldiers at once and he's fairly tenacious, even if he is lacking finesse. He's not the best fighter, but he can hold his own to some capacity.
Dragon & Magical Element
Elemental Alignment:
- Wind - Wind is fitting for a few reasons. Tony tends toward flying in canon and has a love of it. Thematically, it is linked to inspiration and intellect, which he is also known for, and it is tied to physics, which means at lot to him since he's a mechanical engineer.
Light - Tony works a lot with energy and light, developing stealth technology, lasers, concentrated beams, using solar energy, and energy-based force fields. And on an ironic note, he has a healing ability and tends to be more of a passive person by nature, so a connection to unicorns would be funny.
Fire - Again, Tony uses fire in canon. He creates weapons, designing explosives and manipulating metal (he is a metalworker), so fire would suit what he is used to dealing with. Also kind of ironically, his skills can be used to both help or harm and has given him a bad reputation in some cases, just like the element can be seen as both helpful or dangerous.
Dragon:
Tony's dragon is a female whose adult size will be large, reaching roughly 8-9 meters long, but stand roughly 2.5-3 meters high off of the ground. Having a legless, serpentine body, her only limbs are a pair of feathered wings on the upper half of the length. She can fly, assisted by an ability to flatten parts of her body to create a hood behind her head and two sets of "fins" on the lower part of her body to give her more lift. In general appearance, the dragon resembles a giant snake with feathered "ears" on her head. Her entire body is covered in scales that are mostly cream-colored, with a pale red strip down the center of her back and darker red and yellow markings on her face. While her belly scales are flat, the scales on the rest of her body are pointed and curl up slightly. Her head has a muzzle somewhat equine in shape, with rows of sharp teeth meant for tearing. Her eyes are pale blue and avian rather than snake-like. While on the ground, she can raise her scales to show off the points, giving her a spiked appearance that is meant as a bluff against threats, particularly before she reaches her full size. Her wings are primarily red, with yellow and light blue at the edges. The end of her tail has flight feathers creating a leaf-like tuft in the same pattern as her wings. She also has several harder, convex blue scales on her body resembling stones which are part of her pattern: one large scale on the top of her head and six more smaller scales going down either side of the front third of her body. These act as magic receptors that glow when the dragon attempts to use magic. Like the ability to puff out her scales, this reaction is used for display purposes and otherwise useless.
Because of her body type and lighter frame, even at full size, Tony's dragon is not able to carry a rider. At best she can tow a human while swimming in the water where weight won't be a problem. She's a strict carnivore and has a preference for eggs. As a hatchling, she primarily eats insects and small prey, then eventually she will hunt for whatever is small enough for her to catch and consume.
The dragon's egg is slightly larger than a softball and a dull sandy color, resembling a large rock. It has the appearance of a rough texture that blends in with the surrounding rock of the mountains and has more of a snake egg shape.
Personality traits inherited from Character Bond:
Writing Samples
First Sample:
April Test Drive threads
October Test Drive threads
Second Sample:
"You're going crazy, Stark." Tony huffed out the words, straining to hold his grip on the rock face he was pressed again. "You're hallucinating again." He shouldn't be wasting his breath talking to himself, but there was no one around to tell him that. Just the- the voice? The feeling that had brought him to the cavern, climbing up jagged rocks the old-fashioned way.
He'd woken up from a vision. It was sad how used to that he was getting these days, but, as the psychiatrists said, that was just his brain adjusting to the change. Except this time Tony had been greeted by a fantasy world. He could have been a character from a video game. You're world has ended. You are now chosen to go on a quest and bring it back. Or that's what he was interpreting it as, anyway. The ominous nightmare hadn't been very specific on the details. All Tony really knew was that this wasn't his office anymore, and that whatever world he was in wasn't very tech-friendly.
And that he had to go. To find something.
Apparently "something" was an egg. He assumed that was what they were. The cavern at the center of the city he found himself in was full of them. Large and small, in every shape and color imaginable. Some were embedded in the stone floor while others were clustered together in nests, each surrounded by glowing writing in a language that he didn't recognize. Magic. Even Tony couldn't deny that the scene was beautiful.
But his journey wasn't done yet. The pull that called to him was drawing him to a high ledge sticking out of the wall, a good twenty feet off the ground. So there he was, free-climbing his way to whatever wanted him, quite possibly to his end. He dragged himself up onto the ledge, groaning and cursing the lack of technology for the fourth time since he'd begun his climb, lying prone against the top as he caught his breath. The tapping noise to his side almost went unnoticed, but the warm light was too familiar to ignore. Blue and bright despite the source being small, Tony opened his eyes to the pulsing glow as a pointed snout poked through the shell of a lone egg nearby. The light was coming from there, like a slow heartbeat.
"Definitely going crazy." The awe crept in without his notice. The light faded as Tony scooted forward on the stone to the egg, staring as the dragon began pushing its way through the shell. She made a noise, making Tony wonder briefly how he knew the dragon was a she since it looked a lot like a snake. As he debated that question, the dragon wound its way toward him, sliding free of the egg and slithering up to examine his hand. It took him a minute to decide how to react to the cool scales brushing his fingers.
He decided that he couldn't take the doubt. Whatever was happening, he had to know for certain. "I don't believe in you," he told it. He reached for the dragon, picking it up by the middle of its body and holding it up above him, trying to catch the light from the cavern entrance. The dragon squawked in protest, flapping two small, feathered wings as she was hoisted up. Small points on her body glowed with the blue light again and she brought her head down, sinking sharp teeth into Tony's arm. He flinched and released her, and as the dragon darted back to the ground, she curled up with her body under her and her head raised for a second strike. The two stayed frozen, eyeing each other for a tense moment before Tony broke the stalemate.
"Okay, you're right. I deserved that." He sighed as the dragon seemed to relax and, cautiously, settle in front of him. "Well, I guess this means you're real and I'm not crazy," he told her. "What do we do now? We have to get back down." The feathered serpent, apparently sensing his resignation, slithered closer and made her way to his lap. Tony recognized the warm feeling in the back of his mind again--the one that had pulled him there. Like a call from an old friend. He smiled, finding her presence strangely comforting. "Yeah, you rest. I'll do all the work."