howlingsoldier:#this fucks me up#tony stark#obadiah stane#literally fucks me up so much#tony lost hi
howlingsoldier:#this fucks me up#tony stark#obadiah stane#literally fucks me up so much#tony lost his parents in his late teens he’s been with obadiah ever since#he forgets pepper’s birthday and has rhodey wait for him for three hours#but he picks up stane’s call in the middle of the desert and wonders why stane’s not#wearing the pajamas he got as a gift from tony#i’m very emotional because on one hand you’ve got the people tony used to take for granted; the ones he didn’t have to buy#and then there’s stane; whose approval tony is absolutely gunning for before captivity#imagine how anxious young tony must have been to impress him after howard was gone#it’s like he got a new lease at not being seen as a disappointment by SOMEONE#and then that someone TURNS OUT TO WANT TO KILL HIM#imagine being tony stark and feeling. so. hated. by people he tried so hard to be SOMETHING for#growing up thinking the happiest day of his dad’s life was when he was shipped out of the house#and then having stane literally sell him into his worst nightmare#imagine spending a lifetime being treated as a mean to an end#imagine then willingly subscribing to a heroic lifestyle that necessarily places him as a mean to a higher end#(‘i shouldn’t be alive unless it was for a reason’#‘WE ARE NOT SOLDIERS’ he says; he struggles with it; the notion of people being treated like they’re disposable#‘not marching to fury’s fife’ but when fury contacts him about the missile; he’s already decided to bargain his life for everybody else’s)#and then imagine still being the person who cares to return a plastic watch to the kid who helped him that one time#imagine rescuing virtually useless bots from a wreckage#imagine a heart that’s strong enough to survive#everything that ever told him that he should be like machine#IMAGINE (via @knightinironarmor) -- source link
#tw: filicide#i guess