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Distant Skies Application
Jan. 22nd, 2013 12:47 amABOUT YOU
Name: Otter
Are you 18 or over?: 27 last I looked.
Other characters played: This is my first Character.
CHARACTER
Name: Anthony Edward Stark; Goes by Tony.
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Age: 47 (Roughly)
History: MCU history of Tony Stark
Point in canon: From the end of The Avengers, specifically; after the Shwarma scene.
Window Location: The window opened up on the roof of Stark Tower.
Universe: MCU Universe, classified as Earth-199999 by Marvel
Abilities: Tony is a genius inventor capable of conceiving and building technological advancements far ahead of cutting edge technology. Among his achievements are the redeveloped arc reactors that his father co-conceived, His almost hyper-intelligent A.I system JARVIS, his Iron Man armour marks I - VII, and various advanced weapons/medical/agricultural technologies.
Tony was taught to box by his body guard/chauffer Happy Hogan and has become quite physically formidable on his own when the situation demands it through his training and his various engineering projects that require him to be hands on, like working with cars or building particle accelerators.
However, without his Iron Man armour he is pretty much a normal human strength and reaction wise, so much so that without the suit he is actually the weakest avenger in a fight. And without the arc reactor powering the electro-magnet in his chest he will die within a few days, slowly and painfully.
Possessions: The Mark VII Iron Man Armour, a pen, his cell phone, and a pocket screwdriver kit.
Personality:
Tony is a man of many complexities that at times almost seem at odds with each other. He claims to not be sentimental, however the three robots in his movies were built while he was in college and he has always kept them with him. He is impulsive and vain, yet can muster a great deal of foresight and strategy, and is really not afraid to get his hands dirty. Not only that, but as someone who is seen by the world as a play boy, he has a deep sense of romance within himself that few get to see.
Tony Stark is a quick-witted genius, who near compulsively talks over other people in order to justify his own thoughts. While he is also able to come off as rather unflappable and cool headed, most all of Tony’s expressions come straight from his eyes and eyebrows. Once his mind is made up on something his eyes will show it, and if you can see it in his eyes then there is very little point in attempting to dissuade him.
He is also a man of great depth and emotion, however it is all greatly internalised. When learning about the crimes being committed by the 10 rings in Golmera, Tony is furious but very little of it comes to the surface, at most the only thing that truly shows this is the hard expression he wears and his repulsor assault on his windows. Because for Tony, a great deal of his life is based on what he can control of it. Which is shown time and again, when Tony has no control over what is happening around him he can become erratic in his movements has he fights to get back on top of the situation, or he will become self-destructive.
His erratic behaviour is shown in the first movie when he is presented with the events of Golmera, where he take his frustration out on his shop then heads straight to the middle eastern town in his newly machined Mark III armour and takes out all of the insurgents, without telling anyone or any actual training in any way including basic self-defence, Just his relatively untested suit.
Self-destructive behaviour is shown in the second movie when the repeated use of his Iron man armour starts to cause accelerated palladium poisoning, and without a suitable element which at the time couldn’t be found, he would die. Which after a few failed attempts to let those close to him know due to how hard it is for him to express his feelings lead him to become more reckless with his life than usual causing him to become a bigger grandstander, wasting more money than needed and becoming dangerously drunk drastically pushing away Rhodie and Pepper from him.
Even though Tony has been born into money and can be over the top frivolous with it, he is also exceedingly generous with it, with his money going to his own charities like the (Maria*) Stark foundation, and the Boy Scouts of America. Even going so far as to run the Stark Expo for an entire year in order for up and comers the chance to show case their work in order to get additional funding from those attending the expo or just to show off what it on the horizon.
Tony’s genius is currently unparalleled; the only person who rivalled him was his father who died roughly 30 years ago, while Tony was 15. Which is shown in his history with robots, his creating of JARVIS, not to mention his adapting his father’s arc reactor and being able to design a personal full body prosthesis that can achieve flight, is completely self-pressurised and contains an internal waste filtration system, also known as the Iron Man armour.
He is the biggest promoter of his external persona of the ‘Genius billionaire playboy philanthropist’ and while all these things about him are true, he will always play up to it in public, that being said, however, he is loyal to those he considers to be his in various way, and is very protective of them in his own ways. When he was lead to believe that Agent Phil Coulson was dead, it was the moment that Tony had decided that Loki had taken it too far and had made it his mission to make sure that Loki didn’t get away with what he had done, even going so far to tell Loki that not only had his made enemies of all those within the Avengers (While interestingly enough, leaving himself completely out of the equation), that he had also pissed of Phil Coulson.
Before his kidnapping, Tony was never concerned about accountability, but once seeing the effects that his weapons had on the innocent, he became very aware that everything you do has consequences and you should be held responsible for it. To that end when something happened Tony took it upon himself to correct what had happened, from Obadiah Stane becoming the Iron Monger, Ivan Vanko wanting revenge for his wronged father, Justin Hammer’s desperate need to show Tony up with inferior products, even so far as to take on some of the responsibility for Loki’s rampage. Each time he put his life on the line to correct these problems, believing that as long as the correct outcome was achieved his life was negligible. However he would always put his life on the line when he couldn’t formulate any other plan of action. Not one to lay down on the wire himself, but cut the wire, proving that Tony would rather lose no lives, than lose one heroic one.
Due to his father being almost cruelly distant, and his mother barely being mentioned, it is obvious as to why Tony has a hard time being a part of team situations, or even trusting other on a basic level. It is even shown that the only people he will be ‘real’ with are Pepper, Rhodie and to a certain extent Happy. But even then the moment things would get to a certain level of real he would immediately pull back or say something that he knew would cause distance. This is most obviously shown in the first half of Iron Man II. It was only when confronted with a challenge far too big for him to handle on his own that he was actually open to the idea of not only being part of a team, but being in a positon that wasn’t the direct leader. However he does seem to stand somewhere between co-leader to Steve Rogers (Captain America) and second in command as the others are more likely to take orders from him than give order to him. For a man like Tony Stark this is probably one of his biggest steps in personal development.
Head canonwise, I see Tony as having a great aversion to having people too close to his chest, after Stane’s callous attack on him and stealing the reactor from out of his chest. And also that he is not only an early riser, never sleeping in past 6:30am, but that he tends to sleep only for 6 – 4 hours a day when not caught up in his superheroing. A lover of coffee, he also tends to snack on various fruits and since the palladium poisoning takes a very conscious role in what he actually drinks, while not taking to complete sobriety, he is less keen to drink more than 2-3 drinks a night, scotch neat being his preferred abusive substance.
*While it is stated the Tony started the Maria Stark foundation in supplemental data within MCU it is only referred to in the movies as anything more than the Stark Foundation.
Thread Sample: Tony when he was played in Entranceway, Here’s also one from your test run meme-y thing
Prose Sample:
“Are you really sure about this?”
The Pine Marten Tony has slowly been coming to terms with sat on a towel that rests on a metal work bench, watching him thoughtfully.
“You’re supposed to be part of me right? Shouldn’t you already know if I’m sure about this? I mean that is meant to be your thing, after all.”
Tony didn’t look up from the small circuit board he was soldering. He had been appropriating things here and there in order to build and work on his little project, another robot.
“And you know we don’t have to go over this, you know it already. It’s just. The portal could open any day, back to home. You have the suit, JARVIS, and now me. You don’t actually need to build this.”
Wiping off the tip of the soldering iron, Tony slips it back in the cradle then looks over at her.
“Okay, ferret-ball. Neither of us know that for certain, and I can’t just sit twiddling my thumbs when god knows what’s going on back in our world, I can’t just leave Pepper… Everyone out in the lurch, remember how we’re kind of part of a team.”
Tony pauses for a second and then rubs at his eyes as if suddenly very tired.
“One week and I’m already using first person plurals. I am part of a team, part of a relationship. It’s not something I can just abandon, not after all this personal growth I’ve gone through in the last few years.”
Getting on all fours Medea trots the length of the towel, leaping over Tony’s work to his arm, artfully climbing up it and curling around his shoulders. While he was slowly getting used to her doing it, he still couldn’t help but still find it strange that what still in his mind was a wild and kind of bitey, creature was getting comfortable on him.
“Okay, Tony. But I’m going to worry about you, because you never do.”
Plans:
Notes: Tony has a peeve about being handed things and will rarely accept something he has been directly handed, and will become stand offish if the thing is forced on him by someone he doesn’t trust.
DÆMON
Name: Medea (Meh-Dee-ah). Tony mostly refers to her as Dea once he’s used to her.
Sex: Female
Form: European Pine Marten
Additional notes: Dea tends to keep hidden on Tony’s person unless he is around people he trusts. Down on some level both of them are a little wary of the fact that she is small and not overly dangerous looking, which is also a part of the reason why she hides when in public. If forced to reveal herself she will never leave Tony’s shoulders.
Why this form: The pine marten as a totem states that martens possess great wit and cunning, being resourceful and capable of great lateral thinking when necessary, needing to chew something over, protecting your home and yourself, having a great sense of where your boundaries are, swiftness of action and movement, being exploited for what you have and what you do, keeping your body in good condition, general anxiety and fussing over things.
All of these match Tony’s canon history to a T; as he proves his resourcefulness and lateral thinking countless times from using his weaponry to create the Mark I IronMan suit, to working his way through defeating all the Hammer drones, and Ivan Vanko. As well as hacking into SHEILD’s computer systems when he was sure that what Fury was saying and why he was doing them didn’t seem on the level.
His genius has also been exploited multiple times, by his Mentor and Partner Obadiah Stane in the first movie, by selling his weapons under the table to terrorists as well as trying to steal and create his own Ironman suits for mass marketing and his miniaturised reactor in order to power his weapon, no doubt with plans to mass produce it as well. In the second movie, the American Government persisted in demanding Tony hand over his suits to them and due to some self-destructive moments on Tony’s part, the US military ended up with his Mark II suit which Justin Hammer with great glee overly weaponised the suit.
Name: Otter
Are you 18 or over?: 27 last I looked.
Other characters played: This is my first Character.
CHARACTER
Name: Anthony Edward Stark; Goes by Tony.
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Age: 47 (Roughly)
History: MCU history of Tony Stark
Point in canon: From the end of The Avengers, specifically; after the Shwarma scene.
Window Location: The window opened up on the roof of Stark Tower.
Universe: MCU Universe, classified as Earth-199999 by Marvel
Abilities: Tony is a genius inventor capable of conceiving and building technological advancements far ahead of cutting edge technology. Among his achievements are the redeveloped arc reactors that his father co-conceived, His almost hyper-intelligent A.I system JARVIS, his Iron Man armour marks I - VII, and various advanced weapons/medical/agricultural technologies.
Tony was taught to box by his body guard/chauffer Happy Hogan and has become quite physically formidable on his own when the situation demands it through his training and his various engineering projects that require him to be hands on, like working with cars or building particle accelerators.
However, without his Iron Man armour he is pretty much a normal human strength and reaction wise, so much so that without the suit he is actually the weakest avenger in a fight. And without the arc reactor powering the electro-magnet in his chest he will die within a few days, slowly and painfully.
Possessions: The Mark VII Iron Man Armour, a pen, his cell phone, and a pocket screwdriver kit.
Personality:
Tony is a man of many complexities that at times almost seem at odds with each other. He claims to not be sentimental, however the three robots in his movies were built while he was in college and he has always kept them with him. He is impulsive and vain, yet can muster a great deal of foresight and strategy, and is really not afraid to get his hands dirty. Not only that, but as someone who is seen by the world as a play boy, he has a deep sense of romance within himself that few get to see.
Tony Stark is a quick-witted genius, who near compulsively talks over other people in order to justify his own thoughts. While he is also able to come off as rather unflappable and cool headed, most all of Tony’s expressions come straight from his eyes and eyebrows. Once his mind is made up on something his eyes will show it, and if you can see it in his eyes then there is very little point in attempting to dissuade him.
He is also a man of great depth and emotion, however it is all greatly internalised. When learning about the crimes being committed by the 10 rings in Golmera, Tony is furious but very little of it comes to the surface, at most the only thing that truly shows this is the hard expression he wears and his repulsor assault on his windows. Because for Tony, a great deal of his life is based on what he can control of it. Which is shown time and again, when Tony has no control over what is happening around him he can become erratic in his movements has he fights to get back on top of the situation, or he will become self-destructive.
His erratic behaviour is shown in the first movie when he is presented with the events of Golmera, where he take his frustration out on his shop then heads straight to the middle eastern town in his newly machined Mark III armour and takes out all of the insurgents, without telling anyone or any actual training in any way including basic self-defence, Just his relatively untested suit.
Self-destructive behaviour is shown in the second movie when the repeated use of his Iron man armour starts to cause accelerated palladium poisoning, and without a suitable element which at the time couldn’t be found, he would die. Which after a few failed attempts to let those close to him know due to how hard it is for him to express his feelings lead him to become more reckless with his life than usual causing him to become a bigger grandstander, wasting more money than needed and becoming dangerously drunk drastically pushing away Rhodie and Pepper from him.
Even though Tony has been born into money and can be over the top frivolous with it, he is also exceedingly generous with it, with his money going to his own charities like the (Maria*) Stark foundation, and the Boy Scouts of America. Even going so far as to run the Stark Expo for an entire year in order for up and comers the chance to show case their work in order to get additional funding from those attending the expo or just to show off what it on the horizon.
Tony’s genius is currently unparalleled; the only person who rivalled him was his father who died roughly 30 years ago, while Tony was 15. Which is shown in his history with robots, his creating of JARVIS, not to mention his adapting his father’s arc reactor and being able to design a personal full body prosthesis that can achieve flight, is completely self-pressurised and contains an internal waste filtration system, also known as the Iron Man armour.
He is the biggest promoter of his external persona of the ‘Genius billionaire playboy philanthropist’ and while all these things about him are true, he will always play up to it in public, that being said, however, he is loyal to those he considers to be his in various way, and is very protective of them in his own ways. When he was lead to believe that Agent Phil Coulson was dead, it was the moment that Tony had decided that Loki had taken it too far and had made it his mission to make sure that Loki didn’t get away with what he had done, even going so far to tell Loki that not only had his made enemies of all those within the Avengers (While interestingly enough, leaving himself completely out of the equation), that he had also pissed of Phil Coulson.
Before his kidnapping, Tony was never concerned about accountability, but once seeing the effects that his weapons had on the innocent, he became very aware that everything you do has consequences and you should be held responsible for it. To that end when something happened Tony took it upon himself to correct what had happened, from Obadiah Stane becoming the Iron Monger, Ivan Vanko wanting revenge for his wronged father, Justin Hammer’s desperate need to show Tony up with inferior products, even so far as to take on some of the responsibility for Loki’s rampage. Each time he put his life on the line to correct these problems, believing that as long as the correct outcome was achieved his life was negligible. However he would always put his life on the line when he couldn’t formulate any other plan of action. Not one to lay down on the wire himself, but cut the wire, proving that Tony would rather lose no lives, than lose one heroic one.
Due to his father being almost cruelly distant, and his mother barely being mentioned, it is obvious as to why Tony has a hard time being a part of team situations, or even trusting other on a basic level. It is even shown that the only people he will be ‘real’ with are Pepper, Rhodie and to a certain extent Happy. But even then the moment things would get to a certain level of real he would immediately pull back or say something that he knew would cause distance. This is most obviously shown in the first half of Iron Man II. It was only when confronted with a challenge far too big for him to handle on his own that he was actually open to the idea of not only being part of a team, but being in a positon that wasn’t the direct leader. However he does seem to stand somewhere between co-leader to Steve Rogers (Captain America) and second in command as the others are more likely to take orders from him than give order to him. For a man like Tony Stark this is probably one of his biggest steps in personal development.
Head canonwise, I see Tony as having a great aversion to having people too close to his chest, after Stane’s callous attack on him and stealing the reactor from out of his chest. And also that he is not only an early riser, never sleeping in past 6:30am, but that he tends to sleep only for 6 – 4 hours a day when not caught up in his superheroing. A lover of coffee, he also tends to snack on various fruits and since the palladium poisoning takes a very conscious role in what he actually drinks, while not taking to complete sobriety, he is less keen to drink more than 2-3 drinks a night, scotch neat being his preferred abusive substance.
*While it is stated the Tony started the Maria Stark foundation in supplemental data within MCU it is only referred to in the movies as anything more than the Stark Foundation.
Thread Sample: Tony when he was played in Entranceway, Here’s also one from your test run meme-y thing
Prose Sample:
“Are you really sure about this?”
The Pine Marten Tony has slowly been coming to terms with sat on a towel that rests on a metal work bench, watching him thoughtfully.
“You’re supposed to be part of me right? Shouldn’t you already know if I’m sure about this? I mean that is meant to be your thing, after all.”
Tony didn’t look up from the small circuit board he was soldering. He had been appropriating things here and there in order to build and work on his little project, another robot.
“And you know we don’t have to go over this, you know it already. It’s just. The portal could open any day, back to home. You have the suit, JARVIS, and now me. You don’t actually need to build this.”
Wiping off the tip of the soldering iron, Tony slips it back in the cradle then looks over at her.
“Okay, ferret-ball. Neither of us know that for certain, and I can’t just sit twiddling my thumbs when god knows what’s going on back in our world, I can’t just leave Pepper… Everyone out in the lurch, remember how we’re kind of part of a team.”
Tony pauses for a second and then rubs at his eyes as if suddenly very tired.
“One week and I’m already using first person plurals. I am part of a team, part of a relationship. It’s not something I can just abandon, not after all this personal growth I’ve gone through in the last few years.”
Getting on all fours Medea trots the length of the towel, leaping over Tony’s work to his arm, artfully climbing up it and curling around his shoulders. While he was slowly getting used to her doing it, he still couldn’t help but still find it strange that what still in his mind was a wild and kind of bitey, creature was getting comfortable on him.
“Okay, Tony. But I’m going to worry about you, because you never do.”
Plans:
Notes: Tony has a peeve about being handed things and will rarely accept something he has been directly handed, and will become stand offish if the thing is forced on him by someone he doesn’t trust.
DÆMON
Name: Medea (Meh-Dee-ah). Tony mostly refers to her as Dea once he’s used to her.
Sex: Female
Form: European Pine Marten
Additional notes: Dea tends to keep hidden on Tony’s person unless he is around people he trusts. Down on some level both of them are a little wary of the fact that she is small and not overly dangerous looking, which is also a part of the reason why she hides when in public. If forced to reveal herself she will never leave Tony’s shoulders.
Why this form: The pine marten as a totem states that martens possess great wit and cunning, being resourceful and capable of great lateral thinking when necessary, needing to chew something over, protecting your home and yourself, having a great sense of where your boundaries are, swiftness of action and movement, being exploited for what you have and what you do, keeping your body in good condition, general anxiety and fussing over things.
All of these match Tony’s canon history to a T; as he proves his resourcefulness and lateral thinking countless times from using his weaponry to create the Mark I IronMan suit, to working his way through defeating all the Hammer drones, and Ivan Vanko. As well as hacking into SHEILD’s computer systems when he was sure that what Fury was saying and why he was doing them didn’t seem on the level.
His genius has also been exploited multiple times, by his Mentor and Partner Obadiah Stane in the first movie, by selling his weapons under the table to terrorists as well as trying to steal and create his own Ironman suits for mass marketing and his miniaturised reactor in order to power his weapon, no doubt with plans to mass produce it as well. In the second movie, the American Government persisted in demanding Tony hand over his suits to them and due to some self-destructive moments on Tony’s part, the US military ended up with his Mark II suit which Justin Hammer with great glee overly weaponised the suit.
