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[Player name] Mhairi
[Age] 21
[Personal Journal] uglytidings
[Other characters currently played]
Ron Weasley||Harry Potter||maroonweasley
Portgas D. Ace||One Piece||daienkai
Lucy Stillman||Assassin's Creed||inbedatsix
[Character name] Tony Stark
[Age] mid-to-late 30s
[Canon] Iron Man (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
[Point in time taken from canon] Post defeating Vanko, pre-meeting with Fury/medal presentation
[Background]
Early life and Iron Man
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
[Personality]
Tony is narcissistic, determined, extremely intelligent, not one for following the rules and doesn't exactly like being told 'no'. He's sociable and used to being the centre of attention due to being the CEO of Stark Industries and it's shown that he's a womaniser and that he blows off some of his responsibilities to pursue things he'd rather due - like going gambling at a casino instead of attending an award ceremony. Or working on a car instead of getting in his private jet to go to Afghanistan to do a weapons demonstration. His assistant Pepper Potts is the one who has to get Tony to do anything by haranguing him near constantly until he finally agrees or she forces something in his face for him to sign. Tony's also shown to be an adrenaline junkie, taking his motor bike to meet his private jet while the car follows him and then going racing in Monaco without actually bothering to tell anyone. The first time he uses the Mark II Iron Man suit, he flies through the city, pushing it to its limits until it ices up and he seems to greatly enjoy the buzz of saving lives too.
There's also an arrogance that feeds into this narcissism but when he's almost killed and then held hostage, meeting a man named Yinsen, he sees exactly what his company has done and he feels personally responsible for it and wants redemption, both personally and for the company for the lives they've destroyed and this is also to help ease his own guilt as he was the one to design and sell the weapons.
A little like a certain other billionaire playboy superhero, there is a public face which still acts as expected, posing for pictures, flirting, pulling outrageous stunts. In private, Tony is really a lot more anti-social, locking himself away in the workshop to get on with inventions and such and if he gets involved in a project then he doesn't want to leave it, ignoring and/or forgetting obligations and appointments which means that Pepper has to step in. He's very demanding of those around him and none more so than Pepper who essentially runs Tony's life for him. Tony is charming though (although this doesn't work so much with Pepper) and knows how to play ball politically and if he can't talk his way out of a problem (which he can a great deal of the time) then he'll buy his way out of it instead.
But underneath all that gloss and public persona, Tony has some very big issues lurking away and festering. There are the commitment issues. And the intimacy issues. For all that he and Pepper have a heaping pile of unresolved sexual tension, he's not a relationship man at all. Tony chases skirts, has a one night stand and has Pepper get rid of them because he's never around in the morning. This is to make sure they keep their distance and don't see Tony the person. Tony even goes so far as to say that Pepper is the only one he has to depend on (although there is also Rhodey but that's in a far different capacity). He feels alone even in a crowded room because no one actually knows him as a person and it's a very isolating thing.
There's a great deal of pressure on Tony, some of it trying to live up to his father Howard Stark and to make Stark Industries be what it should be. Maintaining the public face is also the other huge source of pressure. Tony's rebellious streak is part of his way of reacting to this and dealing with it but it's fair to say that he's a functioning alcoholic who isn't addicted to alcohol but uses it as a crutch to get him through certain situations.
Iron Man 2 shows a more negative impact of everything such as how alcohol is really starting to drag him down as he uses it for escapism and he begins to really expect too much from himself in terms of redemption and heroics.
This is when life decides to really kick Tony in the teeth: the thing that allows him to redeem himself and the company and even his old man is actively killing him and that time really is running out and so, being Tony Stark, he decides that the sensible thing to do is barely sleep, party less and to shut out the world which notches up the narcissism again. This comes to a head at a world senate meeting where he is cocky, arrogant, flippant and dismissive and tells the world that he has privatised world peace before showboating out of there.
The senate meeting brings up a new issue: Tony's identifaction with the 'suit' and what it allows him to do and he's incredibly possessive of it and he fears it being taken away from him because he wouldn't know how to define himself - there's a need for Tony to be Iron Man instead of Tony Stark, genius, loaded playboy. His motivations to save lives though are still selfish - he's Iron Man because he can do that and it isn't the world that he wants to save because he knows that he can't do that but he can save actual people.
Change does come though when Tony must look to old news reels of his father - a man he had a poor relationship with - watching them obsessively until he finds the answer to saving his life (fixing the problems he's been having with the current arc reactor in his chest) and he bounces back but with a difference. It makes him acknowledge, fully, just how short life actually is and he takes steps towards a somewhat stable relationship with Pepper although it should be noted that there's some reluctance to fully describe it as a relationship meaning that commitment and intimacy issues are still very much present; after all, Pepper is the person he's closest to in the world and he still has those issues regarding her.
[Abilities]
Tony is a billionaire genius who built his first Iron Man suit when held hostage in Afghanistan out of parts of his weapons with no real actual equipment. With shrapnel in his chest. In an underground bunker. With only one assistant. He also managed to build an arc reactor which powers the electromagnet in his chest, keeping him alive. This arc reactor powers the suit of armour he built; the Iron Man suit.
In the Iron Man suit, Tony is extremely strong, able to fly, able to shoot pulses of arc reactor energy hands and he has a small armoury on board. Tony is near enough invulnerable in the Iron Man suit.
Oh and the suit has his computer butler thing JARVIS in it who talks away to Tony about the suit conditions and so on. He is British. Like all good butlers.
[Other important stuff]
Without the arc reactor, he'll die. So please never mess with it ever.
[Sample post]
[First Person]
[Read as if this is an interview; this is Tony's playboy, narcissist arrogant douchebag persona talking]
What do you think of your home world?
[He shrugs expansively and looks like he's very much in thought but really, he isn't.]
Eh, for the most part, very good. Beautiful things to look at, places to go and being Tony Stark or Iron Man - really, those two are one and the same if I'm honest - means that I get a lot of free reign. When Pepper isn't hovering around to nag. Parts could be better but hey, I've privatised world peace, we're getting there.
Would you consider yourself a hero or a villain? Why? Neither is an option as well, but still tell why.
Honey, I'm Iron Man, next question please.
If you were to describe yourself in one sentence, what would that be?
If you asked certain people they'd throw around narcissist, egocentric, man child would probably enter the equation but I like to think of myself as more peaceful these days, committed to helping future generations get ahead, to making the world a safer place for everyone. Can we throw in charming and handsome too? I'm throwing those in, I don't care it's why we have semi-colons.
If you could fight in a giant robot, what would it be and what would you do?
[Tony will just be aiming a look over his sunglasses at that one, taking a sip of his overpriced coffee too.]
What, the suit doesn't count? It's even got JARVIS aboard although I guess a lot of this hinges on what defintion of robot you're going for here. Broad subject area, very technical, dependent on what school of science fiction you follow too...lots of variables so can we just, move on? Would that be okay? Okay, okay great.
If I offered to save your soul for a price, would you go with it and why?
We're assuming I have one in the first place and I know many, many people who'd argue that I don't but...it's mine, I like to keep hold of my things so the price would be very, very steep here. I won't even get into it, no one could afford my soul.
You're asked to take someone out for a date. Do you agree? If so, describe what you would do. If not, tell why.
Are you fishing for an invite? Because I know a great little place. [That grin is a leer now, sunglasses perched halfway down his nose, all the better to smoulder at you dear.] Of course, alsways happy to take someone on a date. We'd go out for a spin in one of the cars or if the jet was near we could go out in that, go wherever we felt like. Eat on the plane or at some amazing place. I'd probably book it out - it's nice when you're able to do that, have a little privacy. All depends on the, uh, the individual. Shall we?
[Third Person]
If Tony was being honest, and he often was to a degree, he'd admit to being disappointed with the dream city. Dreams had endless possibilities but at times, dreamland could be almost...pedestrian. He was hoping for something a little more like Inception (well, without the dramatic bwongs and Edith Piaf and angry projections) but it was like every day life, more or less. Less for him because he didn't have engagements for Stark Industries or Pepper asking him to sign this, look at that, following him around with the click-click-click of her ubiquitous Louboutins as she sighed and rolled her eyes at him and called him a child. No Rhodey either which was too bad because he could have had fun here. No Colson but whatever, Coulson abandoned him for some new thing out at New Mexico and no, he wasn't bitter.
He still half expected Fury to show up. That'd be a hell of a kick.
The Dreamberry was a nice touch, something fun to play around with and figure out even if the exact mechanics of the whole dream broadcast thing escaped him. Still, he had the suit and he was able to get in and out of it although not being able to dream up everything he needed and wanted was one hell of a pain in this ass. But still, he'd built a freaking arc reactor in a cave with a box of scraps. High end scraps but still, scraps. With a magnet hooked up to a battery in his chest. He was good in the face of adversity.
He'd managed to afford a car and he already had a nice series of citations for driving too fast and one day there'd probably be one for the suit if they could figure that one out. Cruising in the car though (a flashy little silver number, no need to be too flamboyant) was still good, the top down, the wind in his hair. If he ignored some of the odder inhabitants it could almost be like driving around any big city until he got close enough to be able to see the way down to the little village with the scarecrows that he'd had one or two unfortunate run-ins with. And then there was the desert...he hadn't been out there in a while actually. With a grin, he screeched the car into a U-turn, waved his apologies to the locals who'd yelled at the sound and smell of burning rubber and sped off back to the apartment he kept in the city.
Who was he kidding, for an extended, unplanned vacation, dreamland could have been a lot worse.
[Why do you want to play this character in Somarium?] I'd like to get to explore Tony's personality when he doesn't have his lives as Tony Stark the businessman/playboy and as Iron Man and to just have him get to have fun, probably piss off people, flirt with the ladies etc etc. Also exploring his dreams would probably be fun as well and there are plenty of people for him to react to.
[Which rule was your favorite and why?] Being nice lalala
[Where did you hear about Somarium?] I play here
[Any questions?] Regarding Tony building things (not suits but his helper robo-bros) would he be able to get access to things that he'd need to set up a workshop? If not, that's cool but I thought I should ask~!
[Age] 21
[Personal Journal] uglytidings
[Other characters currently played]
Ron Weasley||Harry Potter||maroonweasley
Portgas D. Ace||One Piece||daienkai
Lucy Stillman||Assassin's Creed||inbedatsix
[Character name] Tony Stark
[Age] mid-to-late 30s
[Canon] Iron Man (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
[Point in time taken from canon] Post defeating Vanko, pre-meeting with Fury/medal presentation
[Background]
Early life and Iron Man
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
[Personality]
Tony is narcissistic, determined, extremely intelligent, not one for following the rules and doesn't exactly like being told 'no'. He's sociable and used to being the centre of attention due to being the CEO of Stark Industries and it's shown that he's a womaniser and that he blows off some of his responsibilities to pursue things he'd rather due - like going gambling at a casino instead of attending an award ceremony. Or working on a car instead of getting in his private jet to go to Afghanistan to do a weapons demonstration. His assistant Pepper Potts is the one who has to get Tony to do anything by haranguing him near constantly until he finally agrees or she forces something in his face for him to sign. Tony's also shown to be an adrenaline junkie, taking his motor bike to meet his private jet while the car follows him and then going racing in Monaco without actually bothering to tell anyone. The first time he uses the Mark II Iron Man suit, he flies through the city, pushing it to its limits until it ices up and he seems to greatly enjoy the buzz of saving lives too.
There's also an arrogance that feeds into this narcissism but when he's almost killed and then held hostage, meeting a man named Yinsen, he sees exactly what his company has done and he feels personally responsible for it and wants redemption, both personally and for the company for the lives they've destroyed and this is also to help ease his own guilt as he was the one to design and sell the weapons.
A little like a certain other billionaire playboy superhero, there is a public face which still acts as expected, posing for pictures, flirting, pulling outrageous stunts. In private, Tony is really a lot more anti-social, locking himself away in the workshop to get on with inventions and such and if he gets involved in a project then he doesn't want to leave it, ignoring and/or forgetting obligations and appointments which means that Pepper has to step in. He's very demanding of those around him and none more so than Pepper who essentially runs Tony's life for him. Tony is charming though (although this doesn't work so much with Pepper) and knows how to play ball politically and if he can't talk his way out of a problem (which he can a great deal of the time) then he'll buy his way out of it instead.
But underneath all that gloss and public persona, Tony has some very big issues lurking away and festering. There are the commitment issues. And the intimacy issues. For all that he and Pepper have a heaping pile of unresolved sexual tension, he's not a relationship man at all. Tony chases skirts, has a one night stand and has Pepper get rid of them because he's never around in the morning. This is to make sure they keep their distance and don't see Tony the person. Tony even goes so far as to say that Pepper is the only one he has to depend on (although there is also Rhodey but that's in a far different capacity). He feels alone even in a crowded room because no one actually knows him as a person and it's a very isolating thing.
There's a great deal of pressure on Tony, some of it trying to live up to his father Howard Stark and to make Stark Industries be what it should be. Maintaining the public face is also the other huge source of pressure. Tony's rebellious streak is part of his way of reacting to this and dealing with it but it's fair to say that he's a functioning alcoholic who isn't addicted to alcohol but uses it as a crutch to get him through certain situations.
Iron Man 2 shows a more negative impact of everything such as how alcohol is really starting to drag him down as he uses it for escapism and he begins to really expect too much from himself in terms of redemption and heroics.
This is when life decides to really kick Tony in the teeth: the thing that allows him to redeem himself and the company and even his old man is actively killing him and that time really is running out and so, being Tony Stark, he decides that the sensible thing to do is barely sleep, party less and to shut out the world which notches up the narcissism again. This comes to a head at a world senate meeting where he is cocky, arrogant, flippant and dismissive and tells the world that he has privatised world peace before showboating out of there.
The senate meeting brings up a new issue: Tony's identifaction with the 'suit' and what it allows him to do and he's incredibly possessive of it and he fears it being taken away from him because he wouldn't know how to define himself - there's a need for Tony to be Iron Man instead of Tony Stark, genius, loaded playboy. His motivations to save lives though are still selfish - he's Iron Man because he can do that and it isn't the world that he wants to save because he knows that he can't do that but he can save actual people.
Change does come though when Tony must look to old news reels of his father - a man he had a poor relationship with - watching them obsessively until he finds the answer to saving his life (fixing the problems he's been having with the current arc reactor in his chest) and he bounces back but with a difference. It makes him acknowledge, fully, just how short life actually is and he takes steps towards a somewhat stable relationship with Pepper although it should be noted that there's some reluctance to fully describe it as a relationship meaning that commitment and intimacy issues are still very much present; after all, Pepper is the person he's closest to in the world and he still has those issues regarding her.
[Abilities]
Tony is a billionaire genius who built his first Iron Man suit when held hostage in Afghanistan out of parts of his weapons with no real actual equipment. With shrapnel in his chest. In an underground bunker. With only one assistant. He also managed to build an arc reactor which powers the electromagnet in his chest, keeping him alive. This arc reactor powers the suit of armour he built; the Iron Man suit.
In the Iron Man suit, Tony is extremely strong, able to fly, able to shoot pulses of arc reactor energy hands and he has a small armoury on board. Tony is near enough invulnerable in the Iron Man suit.
Oh and the suit has his computer butler thing JARVIS in it who talks away to Tony about the suit conditions and so on. He is British. Like all good butlers.
[Other important stuff]
Without the arc reactor, he'll die. So please never mess with it ever.
[Sample post]
[First Person]
[Read as if this is an interview; this is Tony's playboy, narcissist arrogant douchebag persona talking]
What do you think of your home world?
[He shrugs expansively and looks like he's very much in thought but really, he isn't.]
Eh, for the most part, very good. Beautiful things to look at, places to go and being Tony Stark or Iron Man - really, those two are one and the same if I'm honest - means that I get a lot of free reign. When Pepper isn't hovering around to nag. Parts could be better but hey, I've privatised world peace, we're getting there.
Would you consider yourself a hero or a villain? Why? Neither is an option as well, but still tell why.
Honey, I'm Iron Man, next question please.
If you were to describe yourself in one sentence, what would that be?
If you asked certain people they'd throw around narcissist, egocentric, man child would probably enter the equation but I like to think of myself as more peaceful these days, committed to helping future generations get ahead, to making the world a safer place for everyone. Can we throw in charming and handsome too? I'm throwing those in, I don't care it's why we have semi-colons.
If you could fight in a giant robot, what would it be and what would you do?
[Tony will just be aiming a look over his sunglasses at that one, taking a sip of his overpriced coffee too.]
What, the suit doesn't count? It's even got JARVIS aboard although I guess a lot of this hinges on what defintion of robot you're going for here. Broad subject area, very technical, dependent on what school of science fiction you follow too...lots of variables so can we just, move on? Would that be okay? Okay, okay great.
If I offered to save your soul for a price, would you go with it and why?
We're assuming I have one in the first place and I know many, many people who'd argue that I don't but...it's mine, I like to keep hold of my things so the price would be very, very steep here. I won't even get into it, no one could afford my soul.
You're asked to take someone out for a date. Do you agree? If so, describe what you would do. If not, tell why.
Are you fishing for an invite? Because I know a great little place. [That grin is a leer now, sunglasses perched halfway down his nose, all the better to smoulder at you dear.] Of course, alsways happy to take someone on a date. We'd go out for a spin in one of the cars or if the jet was near we could go out in that, go wherever we felt like. Eat on the plane or at some amazing place. I'd probably book it out - it's nice when you're able to do that, have a little privacy. All depends on the, uh, the individual. Shall we?
[Third Person]
If Tony was being honest, and he often was to a degree, he'd admit to being disappointed with the dream city. Dreams had endless possibilities but at times, dreamland could be almost...pedestrian. He was hoping for something a little more like Inception (well, without the dramatic bwongs and Edith Piaf and angry projections) but it was like every day life, more or less. Less for him because he didn't have engagements for Stark Industries or Pepper asking him to sign this, look at that, following him around with the click-click-click of her ubiquitous Louboutins as she sighed and rolled her eyes at him and called him a child. No Rhodey either which was too bad because he could have had fun here. No Colson but whatever, Coulson abandoned him for some new thing out at New Mexico and no, he wasn't bitter.
He still half expected Fury to show up. That'd be a hell of a kick.
The Dreamberry was a nice touch, something fun to play around with and figure out even if the exact mechanics of the whole dream broadcast thing escaped him. Still, he had the suit and he was able to get in and out of it although not being able to dream up everything he needed and wanted was one hell of a pain in this ass. But still, he'd built a freaking arc reactor in a cave with a box of scraps. High end scraps but still, scraps. With a magnet hooked up to a battery in his chest. He was good in the face of adversity.
He'd managed to afford a car and he already had a nice series of citations for driving too fast and one day there'd probably be one for the suit if they could figure that one out. Cruising in the car though (a flashy little silver number, no need to be too flamboyant) was still good, the top down, the wind in his hair. If he ignored some of the odder inhabitants it could almost be like driving around any big city until he got close enough to be able to see the way down to the little village with the scarecrows that he'd had one or two unfortunate run-ins with. And then there was the desert...he hadn't been out there in a while actually. With a grin, he screeched the car into a U-turn, waved his apologies to the locals who'd yelled at the sound and smell of burning rubber and sped off back to the apartment he kept in the city.
Who was he kidding, for an extended, unplanned vacation, dreamland could have been a lot worse.
[Why do you want to play this character in Somarium?] I'd like to get to explore Tony's personality when he doesn't have his lives as Tony Stark the businessman/playboy and as Iron Man and to just have him get to have fun, probably piss off people, flirt with the ladies etc etc. Also exploring his dreams would probably be fun as well and there are plenty of people for him to react to.
[Which rule was your favorite and why?] Being nice lalala
[Where did you hear about Somarium?] I play here
[Any questions?] Regarding Tony building things (not suits but his helper robo-bros) would he be able to get access to things that he'd need to set up a workshop? If not, that's cool but I thought I should ask~!