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OUT of CHARACTER
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IN CHARACTER

Name: Anthony “Tony” Edward Stark
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Canon point/AU: After the events of Winter Soldier (He’s not in it, but from the same universe) **If you are apping a canon Hunger Games Character your canon point is automatically set to just after the 74th Annual Hunger Games.
Journal: arrogantalloy
PB: Robert Downey Jr
History: MCU history of Tony Stark

Presentation: Tony Stark is for lack of a better word, a Peacock when it comes to being in public. He makes a point of acting larger than life, with big grins and as much of a show as possible. He loves to present himself in tailored suits and beautifully groomed, he exudes charm, grace, and confidence to the point of obvious cockiness.

When he meets people he has a tendency to get into personal space as soon as possible, as a way to keep his control over the situation. He has a habit of keeping up a ‘magician’s act’ getting everyone to look at his right hand while the left one is doing something else. He’s also as stubborn as a mountain and hates to give way on something he doesn’t agree with, opting to openly defy those opposing him than give in and go with their demands.

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 off Phil Coulson.

With the events of IM3 behind him. Tony has wiped the slate clean, he has had his reactor and the remaining shrapnel removed from his body, which has left a scar on his chest that still receives Tony’s absent minded tapping, and has since started working on new Iron Man suits that work with their own chest pieces. He has also realised how his previously arrogant ways have managed to effect those that he has previously disregarded in his live, which has further humbled his personality when out of the limelight.

Motivations: 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 to give up and comers the chance to showcase 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 17. 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.

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 others 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 position 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.

This also points back to how in the past he's only ever been able to rely on himself, and living in the spotlight naturally means people are going to use you to get their own fame even if it's just to claim they touched his stardom. While he was younger he used those people to his advantage but never really trusted them to do anything more than be wham, bam, thank you Stark. As such the number of people who ever had his trust was relatively small, insanely small. For the most part he could only trust Obadiah Stane to run Stark Industries and give him some advice when he lost his parents, while in M.I.T he met James Rhodes and developed a friendship and trust there. After that Pepper also came into the fold after he selected her to be his personal assistant. Up until 2008 these were the only people he's ever trusted and relied on.

Obadiah who had most of Tony's trust and knew this used it to his obvious advantage to manipulate Tony into giving what he wanted. The older man soon grew tired of Tony's ways and tried to have him killed which only resulted in a ransom demand, upon Tony's return, Obadiah used Tony's then seemingly strange actions to lock him out of his own company to take control. Then he made another more personal attempt on Tony's life which lead to Obadiah's own death. This was a huge moment for Tony, to find out that the only person her truly ever saw as a father figure was doing nothing more than using him for his intelligence and creations, so for a man who only trusted three people he took it as a severe blow, it shook his trust in people so deep that when realising he was dying in the second movie he hid it from Pepper and Rhodes until it could no longer be hidden.

Because of his aversion to trust Tony was readily dismissed as someone who cannot and will not be a part of a team, a fact that as used against him at several points between Iron Man II and the Avengers, especially when it came to Steve Rogers who say this trait in him to be a weakness because he would end up endangering more lives than he could save. This however is a mixed blessing, he might not trust easy but when he has trust in you it's unwavering, this can be seen in Tony's interactions with Bruce Banner. He found something to trust in Bruce through his dedication to his scientific fields and that like Tony his ways led him to become 'cursed' with something that was both terrible and beautiful, which Tony saw in himself and wanted Bruce to see too, it was an easily formed trust as Tony had little fear of Bruce's other side which made Bruce feel not only accepted but comfortable, finding Tony's curiosity and boundary testing more endearing than annoying.

With the release of the Winter Soldier Tony's distrust has proved somewhat fruitful in that while he worked with S.H.I.E.L.D as both an Avenger and as a consultant as they have turned out to have had Hydra burrow into their ranks and not only murdered his parents and countless others, subverting politics and situations of conflict to their own ends, but there was a momentary attempt on his life as well as at least 200,000 + others due to a 'security' system being manipulated by Hydra in order to take out any and all lives that could now or in the future be a threat to their rule.
This has only served to reinforce his natural distrust of others, especially those who naturally tend to be secretive or appear to have hidden agendas

(I don't know who has and hasn't seen the movie so have a bit of a spoiler bar.)

*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.

Setting: Tony’s going to hate it, the idea of it all as well as the fact he’s being forced into it. Once he realises arena deaths aren’t permanent, he’s probably going to become more reckless in the arenas and far more mocking of the system, if not make attempts on the system anyway he can. All because Tony Stark hates: Being told what to do, being forced to kill, innocents being hurt in general and because of him.

SAMPLES

First Person Thread:

For Tributes:

When Tony’s consciousness returns to him he jerks up violently with a startled cry, patting himself down as if he was still on fire, his erratic flailing is so sharp and sudden it causes him to shake himself from the bed he’s on and onto the ground. He looks at the sterile floor for a moment then with a quick glance around then stands up brushing himself off.

“Well, at least there’s no fire.” He looks incredibly unimpressed with the situation and starts wandering around poking at things left in the room. He’s never been able to handle hospitals, too clean, too sterile, to uniform and too rigid. He knows why they’re like that, but it doesn’t mean he has to enjoy it. “You know I’d really li-“ He’s interrupted by the speakers.

"Please use the device to the right to record your current feeling on your loss. Once you are finished, someone will be along to take you back to the Capitol." On cue, a small recording device starts to chirp on Tony’s right. He eyeballs it for a moment then ignores it with a derisive noise.

“Yeah, sure. Current feelings about my loss. Okay.” He turns his back on it trying to take stock to see if he can get out of here himself. He manages to ignore the device for a while, but when he comes up empty with useful things to get out with he turns on the camera.

“You want to know my feelings? Really? Because I don’t think it’s a loss. That.” His arm points towards a wall, he has no idea if that’s the direction of the arena, but he points anyway. ”That Stark Barbecue, didn’t kill me. Or if it did, you brought me back clean. So it’s not a loss. It’s a stepping stone. If you want to learn from a lab rat, you throw it out when it dies. Or maybe autopsy it, whatever, the point is. The game is on now. You want to play? Fine, I can give a show. But I’m done with your rules.” And with that, Tony walks over to a counter grabbing gauze and medical tape then proceeds to tape up the camera. Then gets casually comfortable on the bed waiting for people to come for him.

Prose: 

Tony tries to keep as much composure as possible as he's rushed into the room, he straightens his clothes and takes in his surroundings, walking around picking things up and putting them down again, he takes a moment to look at the Gamemakers with a slightly raised eyebrow then goes back to looking at the weapons. Idly he picks up a dagger, feeling it's weight then eyes the metal of the blade sniffs at it with near distain then puts it back down before addressing the Gamemakers again. 

"Normally, when people want me to make a presentation, they give me more time to set something up." Then he gestures to a room. "Or at least a white board and markers. But hey, what good is dryease in a live action MMO?" He sticks his hands in his pockets and just stares at them, Tony is usually a man who can't help but fidget with things to distract his hands however right now he knows a powerplay is happening so his hands are steady and still. "I'm not going to fight people I've never met just because it's do or die. Not really my thing." He pauses looking like he's not going to say anymore, but it's Tony he's just building his moments. "And come on, you have to have seen enough movies in your lives to know that this." Tony spreads his hands to encompass the situation of the death matches.

"And you" He gestures to the Gamemakers. "Historically, and literarily. You don't win in these situations, especially not when you're bringing someone like me into this situation. Never really been big on being told what to do. I have nothing to prove to you, I've gone my whole life without proving myself, and I'm not about to start now just because my life could be at stake." He then looks around again then starts heading for the door he was pushed in through. "Enjoy your day, boys and girls."

What is your character scored:

Without any of Tony’s Iron Man armour, he isn’t overly strong.

He has enough upper body strength from his hands from his need to build things, evident throughout the movies, he’s even a capable blacksmithing. However he isn’t much past an average fighter.

He is however cunning, erratic, and a genius meaning he can work his way around most situations provided he gets a moment to think and take stock of what he has or can get a hold of. Tony is also endlessly charismatic and charming when he wants to be, so he would easily play up to the crowd if he thinks it will work for him. He is however very stubborn and if he doesn’t like a situation he’ll fight it.

He is more than confident in his abilities and knows exactly how his world sees him. However he also has a certain dislike for himself which is why he puts on so main airs about himself to cover up how much he actually can’t stand himself at times. Tony is both an electrical, and mechanical engineer, and can build damn near anything with the right tools and materials, but he’s also incredibly good at improvising, as shown in Iron Man III where he wires up an electrified stun glove, flash bang Christmas baubles, and a small explosive, all items he made were bought from a standard hardware store.

So all in all I would rank Tony an 8.