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Swimming With the Sharks
Oct. 15th, 2020 08:32 pmthis is related to idle thought #189
Watching Yakuza playthroughs + the realization that there’s a resemblance between Tony and Goro in some pictures + the Dresden Files short story Even Hand (POV John Marcone).
Headcanon 1: this Tony is actually trans. It’s part of why he feels like he has to be so much in control. Surgery was the first thing he went for after the deaths of his parents, only he made it out like he was grieving so much he couldn’t be seen in public and was blindingly drunk most of the time. That last part might actually have been true. He’d pretty much blackmailed Howard into letting him bind and saying he had a son, unless he wanted some nasty rumors about the abuse to float around. He was five. He’d also been kidnapped for his first time a few months before that point. Before that, Howard “went along with” the “crossdressing” thing because of Maria, but was planning to put a stop to it.
Headcanon 2: he was also nursing a headache through this whole fic. He doesn’t put in the artificial eye when he’s in pain, because the extra signals can make it worse just like really old/really new glasses. It’s also why he’s drinking. Usually, he keeps a tight control on his alcohol intake, because the last thing he wants to be is his old man, but it does help dull the pain of the missing eye in a way that other medications haven’t been able to do (at least, he hasn’t found the right one through experimentation).
Headcanon 3: Pepper's a lot better of an agent than you see here. She was working off bad intel, and didn't expect her employer to stab her in the back. Then again, Stark just makes her nervous for very good reasons. If he hadn't put her on the defensive almost immediately, the conversation would probably have gone very differently.
Headcanon 4: He's also not a sociopath. He's just ruthlessly practical and has found that business tends to go better if he pretends he is.
None of these headcanons make sense to actually appear in the fic itself, but they’re important.
(I'm also kind of surprised more Mob AUs with Tony being the mob boss don't exist. On Ao3, anyway.)
Main Points:
Iron Man Mob AU (one of the AUs that's going to show up in Self-Made Hero)
Summary: A different first meeting for Stark and Potts.
Word Count: 2265
Rating: Teen (offscreen violence)
Watching Yakuza playthroughs + the realization that there’s a resemblance between Tony and Goro in some pictures + the Dresden Files short story Even Hand (POV John Marcone).
Headcanon 1: this Tony is actually trans. It’s part of why he feels like he has to be so much in control. Surgery was the first thing he went for after the deaths of his parents, only he made it out like he was grieving so much he couldn’t be seen in public and was blindingly drunk most of the time. That last part might actually have been true. He’d pretty much blackmailed Howard into letting him bind and saying he had a son, unless he wanted some nasty rumors about the abuse to float around. He was five. He’d also been kidnapped for his first time a few months before that point. Before that, Howard “went along with” the “crossdressing” thing because of Maria, but was planning to put a stop to it.
Headcanon 2: he was also nursing a headache through this whole fic. He doesn’t put in the artificial eye when he’s in pain, because the extra signals can make it worse just like really old/really new glasses. It’s also why he’s drinking. Usually, he keeps a tight control on his alcohol intake, because the last thing he wants to be is his old man, but it does help dull the pain of the missing eye in a way that other medications haven’t been able to do (at least, he hasn’t found the right one through experimentation).
Headcanon 3: Pepper's a lot better of an agent than you see here. She was working off bad intel, and didn't expect her employer to stab her in the back. Then again, Stark just makes her nervous for very good reasons. If he hadn't put her on the defensive almost immediately, the conversation would probably have gone very differently.
Headcanon 4: He's also not a sociopath. He's just ruthlessly practical and has found that business tends to go better if he pretends he is.
None of these headcanons make sense to actually appear in the fic itself, but they’re important.
(I'm also kind of surprised more Mob AUs with Tony being the mob boss don't exist. On Ao3, anyway.)
Main Points:
Iron Man Mob AU (one of the AUs that's going to show up in Self-Made Hero)
Summary: A different first meeting for Stark and Potts.
Word Count: 2265
Rating: Teen (offscreen violence)
