6th Iteration Biography

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NAME Stark, Anthony E.

ALIAS Iron Man, Futurist, Shellhead, The Mechanic

AGE 48

D.O.B. 05 - 29 - 1970

SPECIES Human

GENDER Male

SCRUBS Navy Blue

MARITAL STATUS Engaged (Virginia Potts)

OCCUPATION SI Head of R&D, Superhero, PR Wizard

FAMILY

Howard A Stark, DECEASED (12-16-1991)

Maria Collins Carbonell Stark, DECEASED (12-16-1991)

AFFILIATION Avengers Initiative

CHILDREN None

LANGUAGES English, Spanish, Italian, Dari, Russian, Japanese, French

Appearance

HEIGHT 5'9"

WEIGHT 185lb

HAIR Black

EYES Dark Brown

COMPLEXION Caucasian, Tanned

BUILD Compact, wiry

HYGIENE Tidy OR soot covered if he's been in the forge all day.

DEFINING MARKS: Signature Van Dyke Beard
SCARS:

Circular Disk from arc reactor removal.

Irregular shrapnel scarring on torso.

Soldering iron burn on heel of left hand.

Horizontal hairline scar on bridge of nose.

Fresh through and through scar, lower left torso.

GAIT: Quick, clipped, harried.
ACCENT: Neutral / New York
SPEECH: Rapid fire and tangential, dipping into Italian when exhausted or stressed.
BEARING: Upright and self assured, in public? Confident, strutting.
DEMEANOR: Focused, intense, swinging between maudlin and manic on a dime.
HABITS: Tends to rub his left wrist when stressed, tap the center of his chest when in idle thought. Keeps his back to a wall, avoids small bodies of water, often unable to sleep at night.

Personality

× Stubborn ✓ Charming × Obsessive ✓ Imaginative × Arrogant ✓ Tireless × Impulsive ✓ Flexible × Reckless ✓ Exuberant × Sarcastic ✓ Loyal

Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist. Tony is a futurist ever looking forward to potential problems or deficiencies in the future and inventing whatever he can to solve those problems, has the the financial backing to make them into a possibility, the media personae to get the right attention on his work, and time leftover to make sure the disenfranchised and people in need benefit from them as well. Before anything else, before being Iron Man, he is this. A man looking ahead to solve problems even if he's the only one that can see them coming. He's focused on moving forward, learning from past mistakes, and building a better life for himself and the people around him even if he has to do it from the ground up- but this doesn't prevent him from getting so caught up in the work, the problem, or the solution he's certain will work out in the end that he's blind to potential complications. When he's locked onto something it's easy for him to focus on it to the exclusion of all else; which leads to engineering binges or cyclical, obsessive tinkering to perfect a single idea that may or may not end up marketable depending on what it is he'd been trying to solve. It's easy for him to be so wound up in looking ahead that he misses what happens around him, the current concerns falling to the wayside in favor of the larger picture.

A large chunk of his current motivations are wrapped up in a desperate need to atone, to make up for past negligence. While developing bigger, faster, more lethal weapons for SI he hadn't paid enough attention to the business side of things, it wasn't his life, he hadn't cared. All he'd wanted to do was keep building, keep tinkering on the side, and keep the public opinion of him more or less even. During his captivity in Afghanistan he had a sudden, visceral awakening to not only what his weapons are capable of, but how they were being used. Firsthand experience with what his negligence has allowed pushed Tony to hold himself accountable for what he was building and the system he was a part of. He can't erase war but he can make it more difficult to kill innocent people. The entirety of his choice to become Iron Man boils down to Yensin's compassion and dying wish. 'Don't waste it.' Having wasted so much of his life as a playboy that paid only half a mind to the consequences of his actions, the determination to take responsibility (more than he probably ought) for what he helped perpetuate directly shapes the creation of Iron Man and his choice to abandon the cue cards and stand in front of the press, admitting it's him. He hid for so long while other people ran the business, happy to live in his workshop building. This is one thing he'll stand up and say he created, he did, and take responsibility for what comes of it for good or ill.

Accountability matters, he holds himself accountable for every dollar of collateral damage and every person hurt by his carelessness (through hyper-focusing on other issues or having fear induced tunnel vision, rash knee jerk emotional reactions to challenges, and demons he's created throughout his life) and tries to push forward to make sure he doesn't make the same mistakes twice. Where he used to build for his ego or build for profit he builds, now, to protect himself, the people closest to him, and the world as best he can as a man with limited time if not resources. He is driven to find a way to protect the world from what's coming, constantly aware of a clock ticking down without a solid idea of when that deadline will be rolling through and it's agonizing not knowing.

All he knows is he can't handle it on his own and he can't point his reputation and lawyers at it; it's something that'll have to be fought and up until the end of Civil War, he thought he'd have a team to back when the sky fell in. But then, well, the accords slammed through while he was confronted with guilt over Sokovia (Ultron's creation and everyone dead because of him ('my fault') is something he'll always shoulder) and any opportunity to try to make amends seemed like a solid option. That quiet horror and certainty and guilt has overshadowed his usual brilliant joy in creation, his certainty that he is capable of doing what is right and necessary and that it will be the right thing; the fallout from the accords leaves him somewhat shaken, only 60% certain, and determined to build what's left of the Avengers into something that will outlast him.

Skills

Mechanical Eng. ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮
Metallurgy ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▯▯
Forging ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▯▯
Electrical Eng. ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▯
Coding ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮
Hacking ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮
Woodworking ▮▮▮▮▮▮▯▯▯▯
Hand to Hand ▮▮▮▮▯▯▯▯▯▯
Social Recall ▮▮▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯

Ranged Combat ▮▮▮▮▮▮▯▯▯▯
Chemical Eng. ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▯▯▯
Thermonuclear Astr. ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▯▯
Adaptability ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▯▯
Tactics ▮▮▮▮▯▯▯▯▯▯
Improvisation ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▯
Weapons Development ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▯
PR Wizardry ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▯▯
Cooking ▮▮▮▯▯▯▯▯▯▯

The bulk of Tony's skills are intellectual in nature because, well, genius. Without his armor his actual combat skills are limited and he's best suited to a more developmental position in the village.

Inventory

IN HOUSE

1 white cotton tank top

1 Navy Blue cotton scrub-style shirt

1 Navy Blue pair cotton scrub-style trousers

1 Navy Blue smart device, worn on the LEFT wrist

1 pair white cotton briefs

1 pair white cotton socks

1 pair brown leather hiking boots

1 small waterproof black canvas backpack with a small flame insignia embroidered on the front

1 set flannel “long johns” -- Underpants and undershirt

1 set denim overalls

2 pair white cotton socks

1 pair thick gray wool socks

1 thigh-length black wool peacoat

3 pair white cotton briefs

1 baseball cap in the same color as the scrubs, embroidered with the flame insignia

Disassembled Clock

Telescope

Binoculars

Journal

Polaroid Camera

8 Snuggies

AT THE FORGE

Iron Billets

Iron Ingots

Steel Billets

Steel Ingots

Precision Tools

Detail Hammers

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