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tony stark ⚡ 2/5 y'know though
Tony Stark is a selfish, pompous, conceited asshole. He does what he wants, when he wants to, with whoever and wherever he wants to do it. Does he care? Not at all. Most of the time. Maybe. This is the front he puts up for everyone, and for the most part, it’s all true. He doesn’t listen to anyone, not unless he trusts them, and that position is currently only held by two people: Virginia “Pepper” Potts and James “Rhodey” Rhodes. They are the only two people he’s let past his douchey outer shell, the only people who know Tony Stark past the party boy exterior. He doesn’t trust anyone else (especially not after Obadiah Stane, but I’ll get to that later) and he doesn’t rely on anyone else. And why should he? He’s worked so hard on perfecting his exterior that that’s all anyone sees. No one else has dared to look past that and actually call him on his bull, not like Rhodey and Pepper, so why should he allow anyone else to get close to him? Oh, sure, Nick Fury has told him to cut the shit, but Fury doesn’t care past getting him to shape up and actually put the Iron Man suit to use.
Tony is the kind of man who will spend days cooped up in his workshop concentrated on one thing, backtalk at a US Senator, and foist all of his duties on his assistant. If he likes you, then he’s excellent in small doses; he’ll smile, charm your pants off, probably sleep with you (if you’re an attractive woman), and he can and usually will play the crowd until he has them in the palm of his hand. To the naked eye, he’s overconfident, cocky, narcissistic, and larger than life, and that’s just how he likes it. He doesn’t really know how else to deal with other people, because there has never been anyone who’s willing to deal with him. People are hard. They’re all difficult and different and full of funny wiring and irritating things like feelings, things he can’t predict or really fathom. Machines, though, don’t get him started on machines. Machines are his friends, the one thing he grew up understanding; he built his first circuit board when he was four, and his first robot around 17. He designed and created the program that pretty much runs and organizes the technological half of his life, JARVIS, which, even as a program, has a brilliant human intellect and snarky personality. Tony likes tech more than humans because he knows how technology works and is more comfortable with it than he is with humans. It’s because of this fact that we learn that his words can’t really be trusted: he’s learned all the right things to say to get people to fall at his feet. Words don’t mean much to him, having listened to empty words his whole life; it’s action that speaks loudest. The fact that he’s been such an asshole, and Pepper and Rhodey have stuck by him through it, speaks volumes to him.
So there’s that. Tony has been, in the past, an egocentric, narcissistic, carefree jackass who didn’t care too much if anyone got hurt or stood in the way of doing what he wanted. In his own now-famous words from the upcoming Avengers movie’s trailer, he also calls himself a “genius billionaire playboy philanthropist.” Which is pretty true too, but these are traits that he doesn’t realize until, as shown in the first movie, he’s kidnapped by a terrorist organization called the Ten Rings and held captive for three months. After meeting and getting to know the man who saved his life, Yinsen, and seeing the weapons he’d created in the hands of the Bad Guys, his eyes are ~opened~ and he finally realizes that hey, he can’t just keep going day to day as blindly as he has been; bad things are happening, people are getting hurt who don’t deserve to be, and no matter how roundabout it may be, it is his fault. And it’s time to take responsibility.
It can be said that Tony has an almost tunnel-vision like determination, and for the most part, it’s true. Once he sets his mind to something, it’s the only thing on his mind and nothing else really matters. Not eating, not sleeping, not other people or work-related matters. It can be seen when he’s building his Iron Man suit as a curious little pet project, and it’s with this same determination that he decides to become Iron Man and right what wrongs have been committed in his name and using his creations. And hell, what with all the self-destructive tendencies he displays (alcoholism, a distinct lack of caring when it comes to himself) it’s safe to say that he’s prepared to do it at the cost of his own life.
Behind the layers of crap, the devil-may-care attitude and and definitely liver-destroying fondness for alcohol (come on, he’s got a piece of technology in his chest - he has bigger things to worry about than something as small as a liver), Tony is an actually pretty sad, lonely man. When people tease “did you not get enough hugs as a child?” that rings true for Tony. His father was, in Tony’s words, cold, emotionless, and not in the least bit caring. “He never told me he loved me, he never even told me he liked me.” [from Iron Man 2] If Dad won’t pay him any attention, if Dad won’t say he’s proud, then he’ll get someone, anyone else to do it instead. He knows how to get the attention he wants, and so he gets it in the flashiest ways possible. He’d never had to face the consequences for his actions because no one was there to reprimand him or show him the consequences. So it’s pretty safe to say that, what with his family life (Maria Stark isn’t mentioned whatsoever; we can only assume she was an absentee parent) and being a child genius, he grew up pretty lonely, attention-seeking, needy, and unable to actually vocalize it, hence his all-out and exuberant lifestyle as an adult.
For all his narcissism and cockiness, Tony Stark...actually doesn’t much care for Tony Stark. At all. He’s the one human being he can stand back and analyze completely, and he’s well aware of all his flaws and issues that others constantly see fit to reiterate for him. He knows that he’s a jackass, he knows how big of a prick he can be, how selfish and callous he can be. The one thing he doesn’t know is how to change that. He’s had too much time to settle into himself, and let’s be honest here, even if he’s a pretty shitty person, he’s comfortable there. His huge ego compensates for never being praised by Howard Stark, his narcissism fills in where he sees himself as being unlovable. It’s been reinforced how selfish he is, how horrible he is; why not just believe it and play into everyone’s expectations of him? It’s easier that way. He doesn’t think too highly of himself, almost expects to fuck everything up at any given moment, and sort of just waits for it to happen.
He’s pretty much grown up relying on himself for all his needs, and so even if he’s let Rhodey and Pepper in, they still don’t really know him. He won’t go to them for help, he usually won’t even accept their help - he shows his affection with pestering and crappy nicknames and allowing them sneak peeks at that inside that just needs someone to give a damn, for once. Because sure, they care about him, they like him alive and breathing and don’t put up with his shit, but they’ve never really bothered to go further than that and understand him. And that’s what sets him apart from them.
The one person he truly and completely trusted, Obadiah Stane, is possibly the one person to have damaged him most other than his father. Obie was there through his entire life as his father’s business partner. Tony grew up with him, allowed himself to rely on and trust in him, and possibly even saw him as a possible replacement for the father figure he never had. He believed in Obie, and to find out that Obie gave no fucks and was using him, his weapons, and his company to become a warmonger, to hear that Obie never thought of him as more than just a “golden goose,” that was a big damn blow. He was betrayed and attacked by the person he trusted most. What else can he do but keep others at arm’s length, in order to protect himself and keep that from happening again? And that monologue, as he’s pulling the upgraded arc reactor out of Tony’s chest - calling Tony selfish, telling him how his father was so much better. How many times has Obie said that to him? And what are the chances that those words have given him a huge inferiority complex when it comes to Howard? Pretty damn high, that’s for sure. He’s the son of Howard fucking Stark. That’s a huge legacy to live up to already, and to constantly be compared to his father and called a selfish brat, it’s most certainly dented his self-esteem.
To his credit, Tony does try to change. He’s never really given two shits about most other people, but in Iron Man 2, he tries to let Pepper in, to actually tell her that the device that’s keeping him alive is simultaneously killing him. And later, he tries to make amends with her by bringing her a gift of strawberries; granted, she’s allergic to them, but you can tell that he’s just so damn proud of himself for remembering that there’s a connection between the two of them. When it comes to caring for anyone other than himself, he is incredibly earnest; he’s just also kind of awkward and bad at it.
So, that’s Tony Stark, for the most part: still selfish, still egocentric, sarcastic and narcissistic, but he’s trying, and that’s the important part to him. He’s not sure how to change, but he’s trying to make things right. It’s still incredibly difficult for him to let anyone get close, and he’s still not sure how to handle people. But he’s trying, and trying, and sure, he’s going to fail, but he is determined to make something go right.
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