Post by Tony Stark // "Iron Man" on Nov 10, 2014 2:21:11 GMT
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Full Name:
Anthony Edward “Tony” Stark
Nicknames:
Iron Man, “Spare Parts Man”, Tin Can [[ Thanks a lot, Cap!]] Shellhead.
[[ It just goes on and on, and on….doesn’t it?]]
Gender:
Male
Age:
44
Sexual Orientation:
Pansexual ~ [[ according to fandom, at least! ]]
Location:
Origin: What universe? Marvel? DC? Other? OC?
It’s Marvelous to be from Marvel!!
Play-By:
Robert Downey Jr.
Height:
6’1”;
(in armour) 6’6”
In the movies, he was played by Robert Downey Jr. , who was 5’8”
Hair:
Black, kept in a rough-edged manner on some occasions, most especially when he works. But well groomed at all special occasions.
Facial Hair:
Tony has a moustache that runs all the way down to his cheeks, then straight to his chin making an enclosed form, with a small goatee as well on his upper chin.Eyes:
Steely Weird Pretty Blue Colour in most comics, but Brown in movies
Typical Clothing/Uniform:
Tony usually wears either very formal or simple clothing in a way that matches his wealth. Though he’s more scruffy, [[ especially his hair]], when working, he’s meticulously groomed when it comes to formal events. He often wears band T shirts, [[ especially Black Sabbath ]]
He also seems to have a thing for Tuxedo’s. [[ Has been seen in a black one and a white one.]]
He also made a shirt to fit the Arc Reactor in Iron Man 3.
He has about 42 different “Marks” of suit, as well as other Armours such as HulkBuster and ThorBuster.
Powers/Abilities:
Genius level intellect - Leads him to be able to invent a myriad of sophisticated devices. [[ Specializes in advanced weapons and armour,]]
Iron Man Armour - Includes many things. Repulsor Rays [[Repel physical and Energy Based Attacks]] , Particle Beam [[ In palms of Armor ]], Pulse Bolts [[ Target-Locked Plasma Discharges ]], Sonic Generators, Explosive shell projectiles, Mini-Missiles, Magnetic field Generators, Laser torch built into gauntlet. Electric charge to dispel attackers.
THE SUIT CAN FLY!!
Team Affiliation:
Avengers
Personality:
His personality - at least, the traits he wants others to see in him, can be narrowed down to but one statement. “Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist.”
Born into a wealth built on the back of war, he knows the value of a first impression, and more often than not - uses his first impression to build a “superficial” outer layer when he meets new people. To have them see what he wants them to see in him. Cocky, witty, arrogant, entitled.
This genius is all of those things, but he is more.
Tony Stark is a man fighting a plethora of his own, very personal demons.
Tony’s eyes are pretty much opened more to the suffering of the world as soon as he becomes part of it. He has the money, intelligence, and influence to make the change, and he does make it - once he has the motivation. His suffering made him better for it. - But he didn’t at all give up his fame. No, his fame only grows and grows. Maybe his experiences only served to heighten his appreciation for the good in life.
Tony tends to display the need to talk things though out loud in order to organize rational thought. Tony is an engineer, so logical problems are his forte. Although he often works alone, he invented Jarvis to bounce ideas off of and talk to while he works. He is quick-witted, being about think and talk at the same time, which leads to his off-the-cuff remarks. This is certainly his dominate function, since he is most comfortable problem-solving and socializing.
Tony handles big picture ideas very well, which is how he managed to grow a large company, and then pivot a large company after he returned to the US. He rarely outwardly discusses his big ideas, instead springing them on people after he has already acted on them. His gut feelings led him to appoint Pepper as CEO, to know that something fishy was up with the Avengers, and to reveal that he was Iron Man. Each time, he makes these gut-based decisions with little warning, which gives him the impression of being unpredictable.
It is no secret that Tony Stark is a thrill seeker and someone with a sense of style. He is very outward in his physical experiences. He insists on “really needing a cheeseburger”, and blaring music for everyone to hear. Additionally, he displays outward style for attention and self-expression. Experiential living certainly isn’t his most practiced or comfortable functions (using it mostly to put on a big mask for a crowd or make an impression), but there is no way that Tony Stark can sit quietly and appreciate AC/DC through his headphones.
Tony Stark has a hard time verbalizing his emotions. When he doesn’t try to brush something off as a joke, he attempts to diffuse the depth he feels something at. He is unable to talk about his fear that he is dying from the Palatium to anyone, until the danger passes. After Coulson dies, he pretends to only know of ‘the cellist’ vaguely, despite the fact he offered to fly Coulson up to see her. Tony is poorly practiced in making his feelings known, or even really how to handle strong emotions. Queue drinking.
Tony has the legacy of his father to live up to, so is constantly trying to stretch his goals further and further. After making a fortune selling weapons, and realizing his beloved legacy was “merchant of death”, he shifted his focus to something leaving a positive mark on the world. He wants everyone to know his name - going so far as to write it on a skyscraper. Much of his work and effort is put into how he can be bigger, louder, and better than everybody else.
Family:
Howard Stark: - Father
A powerful businessman, Howard constantly pushed Tony to be the best, telling him that someone must have 'iron in their backbone' to be successful. He had a severe case of alcoholism, something his son would later face on his own. His relationship with his son was often harsh and strained. After his untimely death, Tony took on his father’s business, Stark industries.
Maria Stark: -Mother
Along with her husband, she died in an accident many years before the events of the film, leaving Tony Stark an orphan at 17. It is believed her relationship with Tony was significantly better, as after her death, he started a charity in his mother’s name.
Marital status:
Unmarried, though, Virginia “Pepper” Potts does live with him in Stark tower. She is however, rarely there due to much travelling for Stark-Industries business.
History:
Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark was born to Howard Anthony Stark and Maria Collins Carbonell Stark, owners of the prominent US firm, Stark Industries. As a boy, Tony was fascinated with building and controlling machines. At the age of 15 Tony entered the undergraduate electrical engineering program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and graduated with two masters degrees by age 19. Tony went to work for Stark Industries, but showed more interest in living a reckless playboy lifestyle than using his engineering skills. At the age of 21, Tony inherited Stark Enterprises when his parents were killed in a car accident secretly orchestrated by rival corporation Republic Oil (later ROXXON). Still lacking in business acumen, Tony promoted secretary Virginia "Pepper" Potts to be his executive assistant and left the majority of his workload on her so that he could avoid what he saw as a burden.
Comic Back-story/Origin
Tony personally attended a field test of his military hardware at one of his international plants; however, soon after his arrival Starks party was attacked by a gang of terrorists led by the Sin-Cong revolutionary Wong Chu. During the skirmish, a land mine went off and lodged a piece of shrapnel near Tonys heart. Taken back to Wong-Chus camp, Tony shared a cell with Professor Ho Yinsen, a world-famous physicist. Wong-Chu demanded that the two scientists develop advanced weaponry for his forces. Knowing that he could not live long with the shrapnel so close to his heart, Tony proposed that he and Yinsen devote their gifts to creating one of the battlesuits he had been developing, equipped with a magnetic field generator to prevent the shrapnel from reaching his heart. The armor they created became the first true Iron Man armor and was equipped with crude magnetic weaponry for defense. While the armors battery was being powered, some of Wong-Chus men attempted to break in on the proceedings. Yinsen went to create a diversion and was shot to death by Wong-Chus men. When the battery had finished charging, Tony went into battle as Iron Man and tore Wong-Chus camp apart. He eventually returned to the USA with the aid of US Marine James "Rhodey" Rhodes. Tony offered Rhodey a job with his company should he ever need one.
Movie Back-story/Origin
While traveling through Afghanistan after an on-site demonstration of his company's latest weapons system for the U.S. military, Stark's convoy comes under attack and he is seriously injured. Stark awakes to find himself bandaged and lying in a furnished cave, where a terrorist group is holding him captive. Yinsen, a talented surgeon who had also been captured, had saved his life by implanting an electromagnet in Stark's chest to keep the shrapnel that could not be removed from making its way to his heart and killing him. Though grateful to be alive, Stark had little to celebrate since his captors expected him to provide them with the same weapons system that he had just demonstrated for the military. After some "persuasion", Stark agrees to build their weapons, but instead begins work on his Mark I armor so that he and Yinsen can escape.
After escaping and realizing that the very weapons he helped design were being used by extremist groups to terrorize innocent citizens, Stark decides to begin a one man crusade to save others from the horrors that his company had created. With that, he began work on the Mark II armor and his quest to save the innocent from those whom would do them harm.
Sample Post:
1:17 AM
It goes without saying that the fault does not lie with the mattress, or the frame,- nor is it the crisp canvas of sheets. Even the pillows are not to be blamed, yet the very aching moment Tony eases himself onto the down-filled duvet, he knows without doubt that this will be but another night lacking reprieve.
Flickering lights grapple for his attention from the sleeping city far below. - Blocking New York out completely will do as little to appease him as simply shutting his eyes will at times like these; when his limbs feel spring loaded and his mind buzzes hot like a live wire. So when the brittle silence is snapped by an inquiry from JARVIS, he simply replies; no, he does not want the blinds closed.
“Alright, sir.”
It takes a long moment for the posthumous ‘thank you’ to dawn on him, and then another for the statement to genuinely make itself known.
The AI, of course, replies without trace of Tony’s hesitation.
“You are quite welcome, sir.”
He does however, request for the air conditioning to be turned on. Already, he’s bare down to the last layer; clothes discarded hastily on a heedless pile on the hardwood floor, and the blanket of heat is as stifling as any.
--
3:48 AM
The arc-reactor is just another among the myriad of lights, doubling as a kind of nightlight as it spills a fuzzy electric glow over the slope of his features and the dip of his neck; breaching the inky darkness with it’s phantom-blue.
But there is nothing to breach the silence, and it occurs to Tony, that no matter how long his gaze spends roving the ceiling, it will fail to manifest itself into anything less emphatically dull. So with a tossing of sheets and blankets, he abandons the last sliver of himself still clinging to the prospect of sleep, and stands. At first, it’s a mess of unplanned pacing and blurring thoughts, but then, like with everything he does, Tony refines it, and as a force of habit, re-routes aimlessly to the bar.
He can feel the itch for a good hit of numbing, strong alcohol calling to him like an old friend. Neglected, overlooked, yet still - ardently loyal, urging Tony to drown himself in the vice it offers until he either can’t feel, or he collapses with all the dead weight of a corpse. Whatever hits him first.
Either way, it would be a thankful sort of ‘sleep’.
He brushes aside the edge of guilt gnawing at the confines of his mind, in conflict with himself for a period of approximately 2 seconds before his ‘heedless’ side wins. He’s become duly accustomed to ignoring guilt, - in fact, it’s become yet another of the many things included in Tony Stark’s reservoir of skills, and right now, what he really needs, is not to let morals or guilt impede.
What Tony really needs, is an alcohol induced stupor, a drunken haze. There are a million other things - all some degree of irresponsible, that he could be doing, but this is, after all, a force of habit, unyielding, and this is what he needs. -
Any idea of his is a ‘great’ idea, after-all.
He's made the claim before, and he'll make it again. “
The cabinet’s locked? What the hell?”
So it’s a deal of great aggravation when his first thought isn’t mistaken, the cabinet is locked. But his willpower isn’t quite at an apex, and with a confused murmur escaping chapped lips, he fails to do anything more about it than steep in his frustration.
He can think of several people who could’ve seen this coming, and preemptively locked the cabinet. He can think of several names, that for the time being, unable to bypass childish first whim, he curses, blames, - but whom he can’t quite manage to, even for this sliver of a moment, ‘hate.’
Pepper would be a likely candidate, save for the all too obvious absence of Pepper from his tower at the moment.
Steve, of course, doesn’t have the key to said cabinet, so Tony, though he wishes he could pin the blame on the all-too-severe patriot, rules him off of the list.
But, it wouldn’t be the first time JARVIS has done this. - Especially, on the wearisome nights that restfulness evades his creator.
“Screw you, JARVIS.”
Smugness rings in the AI’s hollow silence.
