System Error: Identity Manager (Part XII)

Please don’t let this make you think of outdated stereotypes; non-straight sexuality isn’t just about the relationship or sex.  The issue in my case as I said is that while this is important for the series I don’t ship it so my creativity had me stalling at the first sentence for forever.  If someone wants to do a fic inspired by this and link back that’d be amazing, but I don’t think I could pull it off myself.  I wrote myself into a corner with the first line, and had no clue where to go from there.  Mostly, I think, because the MCU was my introduction to the characters and it did not make sense for me, especially compared to Agent Carter or Bucky there.  The closest, I think, is Avengers Assemble, because they clearly do actually care about each other there, but the muse is insisting this one is an MCU one.  Based on prominence, maybe?    I don’t think it’s the most awkward one in this series, and it’s definitely not ‘pretending Cap is Hydra’ level, so I should stop worrying about this.  There will probably be more with Natasha when I finally get my hands on those comics and possible flirting in Avengers Assemble fic because I am better with ambiguous.  I think the biggest issue is how bad you think Howard was and if he did verbal/emotional abuse comparing Tony to Captain America every time he did something wrong, at minimum in some of the comics and the MCU, which I do and more than one of the Tonys already "collected" have experienced, so it's just awkward to me a different but similar feel to those who ship Xander/Faith.  I tried to work through this in the fic but thought it was relevant.

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Iron Man Crossover (Self-Made Hero)
Summary: Despite how it might look, the transition isn't easy. There's only so long the destabilized situation can continue before something's gotta give...
MCU?
Word Count: 355
Rating: Teen
Pairing: Steve/Tony

( Tony has left the building. )