Title: An interview with Tony Stark
Word Count: 703
Rating: PG-13
Original/Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe (Mostly Iron Man & Avengers)
Pairings (if any): Tony/Pepper
Warnings (Non-Con/Dub-Con etc): Mention of PTSD
Summary: Tony answers questions, kind of
1. What do you consider your greatest achievement? The Arc Reactor, obviously. It was the key to me staying alive and the key to a green future, you can't get much better then that.
2. What is your idea of perfect happiness? A fully stocked lab, a fully stocked bar, and Pepper in a good mood.
3. What is your current state of mind? Genius. Okay so there may be a little PTSD thrown in their but my mind is always a brilliant place.
4. What is your favorite occupation? Genius, just all around genius is good. Scientist I suppose if you want to make it boring.
5. What is your most treasured possession? J.A.R.V.I.S. Though I don't know if you can really call him a possession. But he's the greatest thing I ever made. Though all my bots hold a special place in my heart...even Dum-E.
6. Who or what is the greatest love of your life? Pepper, because she would kill me if I said something silly like science.
7. What is your favorite journey? I don't like to think about journeys, that leads to bad things. Let's just say travel hasn't ended well for me the past few years.
8. What is your most marked characteristic? I'd say the glowing blue light coming out of my chest.
9. When and where were you the happiest? In my lab, making things.
10. What is it that you most dislike? Idiots who waste my time. And super-villains trying to kill me. Oh, and people handing me things.
11. What is your greatest fear? Not being able to save Pepper.
12. What is your greatest extravagance? My entire life is extravagance. That is kind of the whole billionaire lifestyle.
13. Which living person do you most despise? Living...Hammer, I'm sure the brainless fool is still rattling away in prison.
14. What is your greatest regret? I lived a lot of my life making weapons that I will spend the rest of it trying to rid the world of.
15. Which talent would you most like to have? I have every talent I need. Wait, X-ray vision just through the clothes, I don't need to see peoples insides, just their shapely outsides.
16. Where would you like to live? I'm fond of New York currently.
17. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Watching the people you care about die and not being able to stop it.
18. What is the quality you most like in a man? Brains.
19. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Breasts. They need brains too or I get bored though.
20. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Sometimes I'm too much like my father.
21. What is the trait you most deplore in others? Stupidity.
22. What do you most value in your friends? They are willing to go along for the ride.
23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction? Who needs fiction, reality is much more fun.
24. Who are your heroes in real life? Well, I sometimes work with a team of them, so I suppose I should say the rest of the Avengers.
25. Which living person do you most admire? Rhodey.. He's managed to put up with me longer then anyone else ever has.
26. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Humility, why be humble when you're me.
27. On what occasions do you lie? Whenever I feel like it, or need to make sure not to get in trouble with Pepper.
28. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? I use everything exactly enough thank-you.
29. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I'm also perfect. Remember the humility thing.
30. What are your favorite names? I always thought Tony had a nice ring to it.
31. How would you like to die? I would prefer not to.
32. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? I'm sure I would be something just as awesome as I am now. Like a phoenix.
33. What is your motto? Better Living Through Technology