Thank you very much! I appreciate your comments, and it's nice to know that other people enjoy the stories floating around in my head as much as I do.
I've thought a lot about Tony's voice and the critique you offer - which I am grateful for. I'll grant you that when he comes back, Pepper is going to be shocked and embarrassed when Tony reports what he did and how he said it. I can see her swatting at him with a rolled up contract on every third syllable. 'You are an irresponsible twelve year old! You could have started an intergalactic incident if he'd taken offense! Don't you ever think with your brain when it comes to people?!?!'
After some reflection, heres -my- analysis of Tony's character - you can take it or leave it. Sorry if it's a bit rough, I've never written it down before. Disclaimer, I'm not a writer, I just read a Lot of fan fic. I have enormous respect for what y'all do. Oh, and I'm pulling entirely from the MCU. I haven't read the comics.
I like to think that in this situation Tony would be more... Sassy, and a little insulting, and very nonchalant. Internally, he would definitely be curious and Very very observant, trying to see if this new guy is a threat. I refer back to the Avengers movie, and the scene with Loki and Tony alone in the penthouse of the tower. I think thats their first one-on-one, and by that point Loki is proven to be a dangerous threat. Tony responds by pouring a drink, having witty banter, and insulting Loki.
Probably the only thing that throws Tony off of his I'm-too-cool-for-you attitude (facade) is direct aggression against someone he cares about, or being in a private, safe space with someone he cares about and trusts. (Trust is very important. The list of people that Tony trusts is vanishingly small) Tony's metaphorical armor- the distance he places between his true feelings and the world- is as important to his character as his metal-can armor. Ooh, and then there's the part with his Literal Bleeding Heart; Tony cares a lot - he would scoop his heart out and give it to the world (see: arc reactor) but the world has not been kind to Tony. So he hides behind sarcasm and wit and dazzles people with his blinding intelligence.
I'm breathing a lil heavy over the possibilities of my version of Tony interacting with your version of Loki. One of the reasons why the Tony/Loki ship is popular is because they're two broken people who can completely see through the other's bullshit: they match. Your Loki, on the other hand, can still see straight through Tony because of the master of chaos and lies stuff, but is much more whole and happy because of Darcy. So Tony can't see through Loki as much - probably proportional to Loki's degree of brokenness at their first meeting. Tony might have a hard time trusting Loki because he can't immediately see his motivations. Oooh, I'm gonna be daydreaming over this for days.
Anyway. This is my vision of Tony. Your vision of Tony can be totally different and I won't love you any less. And I certainly won't stop reading your lovely lovely series.
I agree with your analysis of Tony, where you place him in your time frame - you reference him during Avengers.
I place him right after Iron Man 1, in the midst of Iron Man 2 and at his absolute worst, when the palladium was quickly killing him, despite the amount of kale juice he drank. He'd just given up who he was, and had not yet firmly established who he wanted to be. He still hadn't dealt with any of the issues that led him to drink to self-medicate in the first place, and now he is actually dying. He refuses to confide to the one person who could actually help (Pepper), and instead pushes her and everyone else away.
This was when he was trying to kill himself/get his bucket list finished (why yes, I will drive my own race car, thank you), when he was drinking his pain away to oblivion even harder than before, peeing in his Iron Man suit on stage at one of his own parties, and signing his company away to his personal assistant.
It's not Tony at his best. It might, possibly, be Tony at his worst. He has no one, and nothing, and he's dying.
This is just one more bad decision in a long line of terrifically terrible decisions.
As to Tony and Loki together, I'll admit it's not my favorite ship, but to each our own. :D
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