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nonstopnarcissist) wrote2018-03-10 04:29 pm
nonstopnarcissist) wrote2018-03-10 04:29 pm
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OOC INFO
⬡ Player Name: Belle
⬡ Age: 32
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⬡ Invite: Emmy
IC INFO
⬡ Character Name: Tony Stark
⬡ Canon: MCU
⬡ Canon Point: Post Avengers (2012) Duplicity CRAU
⬡ Age: 42
⬡ History: here.
⬡ CRAU Summary: Tony dropped into Duplicity as a Sub and was there long enough to get the verticle throat tattoo that marked him as such- and get kidnapped to Fort Harmony (creepy sex bootcamp) to force societally expected compliance with usual Sub Behaviour. He met a few members of his cast and his cast from other universes before vanishing.
⬡ Personality:
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. It's difficult for people to know he's troubled, to know what's actually going on in his mind because he's walled off emotionally, having layers upon layers of defense mechanisms to prevent himself from being harmed, despite how empathetic and caring he actually is. Better hide that squishy center, Stark Men are Made of Iron, etc.
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 hyperfocusing 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. And somehow, even if he figures it out? He knows he won't be enough.
⬡ Appearance: here.
⬡ Powers:
From the wiki:
Genius-Level Intellect: Stark is one of the smartest humans in the world, surpassing even his late father Howard Stark, while rivaled only by fellow geniuses like Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange, Hank Pym, Shuri and Helen Cho, with Thanos, who easily deluded Iron Man into believing Loki was unaided in his invasion while in actuality he had much of his resources from Thanos, being the only one to outclass him. As a result, Stark is known by the nickname "The Da Vinci of Our Time", and despite initially being deemed unfit for the Avengers Initiative, Nick Fury and Black Widow still respected Stark's genius enough for him to be recruited as a consultant for S.H.I.E.L.D.
Master Engineer: Stark is an extremely talented and prolific engineer and robotics technician, having been able to make many complicated inventions at a young age, building his first circuit board at age four and his first engine at age six and at some point of his childhood, built Dum-E and U., his personal lab assistants, and then going on to construct numerous innovative Stark Industries weapons for the US military as an adult, most notably the Jericho, as well as leading Stark Industries to become the largest tech conglomerate in the world. Even in a cave with very few resources, Stark and Ho Yinsen were able to make the Iron Man Mark I armor and the first miniature Arc Reactor. Indeed, Obadiah Stane's group of well-equipped scientists failed to replicate the miniaturized Arc Reactor, while multiple world governments similarly failed to replicate Stark's Iron Man armors with the Feebles. Stark is equally brilliant in software and holographic engineering, with his custom-built mansion being highly technology-integrated and wired to be run through his personal AI assistant, J.A.R.V.I.S., whom Stark created from scratch. Indeed, Stark was even able to give a lecture on integrated circuits while drunk to the point that most other men, according to Ho Yinsen, wouldn't have been able to stand.
Master Scientist: A exceptional scientific prodigy, Tony Stark is ingeniously resourceful, knowledgeable, and brilliant in many different fields of science, particularly physics, but also computer science, chemistry, and neuroscience, having graduated summa cum laude from MIT at age seventeen. Hence, he was able to attach an Arc Reactor to his chest in order to save his life, to synthesize a previously unknown element discovered by his father Howard Stark, and to understand Erik Selvig's thermonuclear astrophysics notes on the Tesseract overnight. Stark, however, notably admits to Bruce Banner surpassing him in the fields of radiophysics, particle collisions, and bio organics.
Master Hacker: Stark is an extremely skilled hacker, as he had managed to crack the Pentagon's firewall on a dare, while still in high school. As an adult, Stark successfully used J.A.R.V.I.S. to hack into the S.H.I.E.L.D. database and learn of Phase 2.
Master Businessman: At the age of 21, Stark took over Stark Industries due to his parents' having died in a tragic car accident, thereby becoming the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 Company in history. Since then, Stark has helped the company grow, and gain more business partners, with Stark Industries eventually becoming the largest tech conglomerate in the world under his leadership. Stark is therefore extremely well-respected in the business world, able to command people's attention when he speaks on economic matters by virtue of the fact that he is savvy enough to have, over the years, built up Stark Industries into the premier weapons supplier to the US military for years. He is known for having his employees' loyalty, as well as his impeccable business ethics. However, upon his return, he now strives to be environmentally responsible in his businesses such as turning away from making weapons. Nick Fury also notably recruited Stark as a business consultant for S.H.I.E.L.D.
Expert Tactician: Stark, while a somewhat brash tactician, has every so often made many split-second tactical decisions that have either saved people's lives or overpowered his adversaries, though he usually has J.A.R.V.I.S.', and later F.R.I.D.A.Y.'s assistance in this. This is notable when Stark swiftly saved Gulmira from the Ten Rings, when he defeated Iron Monger with Pepper Potts' covert help, when he had War Machine use their combined repulsor blasts to defeat Whiplash, when he personally relocated a nuclear weapon sent by the World Security Council into outer space destroying the Chitauri Command Center effectively ending their invasion. Stark also uses his mechanical ingenuity to rectify his mistakes of the past to prepare for the future by upgrading his armors. Nonetheless, Stark's tactics are usually brash and lack subtlety, as he mentions to Captain America upon their first meeting that his plan of attack concerning Thor was simply "attack."
Leadership: Stark, despite preferring to work on his own and not being as skilled a leader as Captain America, has proven to be a fairly capable leader when the situation calls for it.
Martial Artist: Stark is trained in unarmed combat by Phil Coulson and Happy Hogan, and has become quite formidable on his own without the Iron Man armor when the situation demands it. Hence, he was able to hold his own against War Machine, a Lieutenant Colonel Air Force Combat Pilot, during their armored brawl, despite himself being drunk at the time, and ultimately losing the fight. He was also able to battle Thor almost to a standstill for a time while using the Mark VI armor, though only because Mjølnir enhanced the armor to over 400% capacity and Thor was holding back.
Marksman: Although he usually uses his armor, in some situations Stark is able to wield handguns with ease, using them to escape from A.I.M. operatives while not having access to his armor.
Pilot: Stark demonstrates a strong understanding of aerodynamics and air crafts, allowing him to perform complex maneuvers while flying in the Iron Man armor while being chased by F-22 Raptors. His aptitude also extends to ground-based vehicles, allowing him to efficiently drive in high-speed racing competitions such as the Monaco GP.
Multilingualism: Stark speaks his native English and some French, along with a little Spanish, Italian, and Latin. He can also speak Dari.
⬡ SAMPLES: Sample 1
Sample 2
⬡ Player Name: Belle
⬡ Age: 32
⬡ Contact:
⬡ Invite: Emmy
IC INFO
⬡ Character Name: Tony Stark
⬡ Canon: MCU
⬡ Canon Point: Post Avengers (2012) Duplicity CRAU
⬡ Age: 42
⬡ History: here.
⬡ CRAU Summary: Tony dropped into Duplicity as a Sub and was there long enough to get the verticle throat tattoo that marked him as such- and get kidnapped to Fort Harmony (creepy sex bootcamp) to force societally expected compliance with usual Sub Behaviour. He met a few members of his cast and his cast from other universes before vanishing.
⬡ Personality:
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. It's difficult for people to know he's troubled, to know what's actually going on in his mind because he's walled off emotionally, having layers upon layers of defense mechanisms to prevent himself from being harmed, despite how empathetic and caring he actually is. Better hide that squishy center, Stark Men are Made of Iron, etc.
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 hyperfocusing 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. And somehow, even if he figures it out? He knows he won't be enough.
⬡ Appearance: here.
⬡ Powers:
From the wiki:
Genius-Level Intellect: Stark is one of the smartest humans in the world, surpassing even his late father Howard Stark, while rivaled only by fellow geniuses like Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange, Hank Pym, Shuri and Helen Cho, with Thanos, who easily deluded Iron Man into believing Loki was unaided in his invasion while in actuality he had much of his resources from Thanos, being the only one to outclass him. As a result, Stark is known by the nickname "The Da Vinci of Our Time", and despite initially being deemed unfit for the Avengers Initiative, Nick Fury and Black Widow still respected Stark's genius enough for him to be recruited as a consultant for S.H.I.E.L.D.
Master Engineer: Stark is an extremely talented and prolific engineer and robotics technician, having been able to make many complicated inventions at a young age, building his first circuit board at age four and his first engine at age six and at some point of his childhood, built Dum-E and U., his personal lab assistants, and then going on to construct numerous innovative Stark Industries weapons for the US military as an adult, most notably the Jericho, as well as leading Stark Industries to become the largest tech conglomerate in the world. Even in a cave with very few resources, Stark and Ho Yinsen were able to make the Iron Man Mark I armor and the first miniature Arc Reactor. Indeed, Obadiah Stane's group of well-equipped scientists failed to replicate the miniaturized Arc Reactor, while multiple world governments similarly failed to replicate Stark's Iron Man armors with the Feebles. Stark is equally brilliant in software and holographic engineering, with his custom-built mansion being highly technology-integrated and wired to be run through his personal AI assistant, J.A.R.V.I.S., whom Stark created from scratch. Indeed, Stark was even able to give a lecture on integrated circuits while drunk to the point that most other men, according to Ho Yinsen, wouldn't have been able to stand.
Master Scientist: A exceptional scientific prodigy, Tony Stark is ingeniously resourceful, knowledgeable, and brilliant in many different fields of science, particularly physics, but also computer science, chemistry, and neuroscience, having graduated summa cum laude from MIT at age seventeen. Hence, he was able to attach an Arc Reactor to his chest in order to save his life, to synthesize a previously unknown element discovered by his father Howard Stark, and to understand Erik Selvig's thermonuclear astrophysics notes on the Tesseract overnight. Stark, however, notably admits to Bruce Banner surpassing him in the fields of radiophysics, particle collisions, and bio organics.
Master Hacker: Stark is an extremely skilled hacker, as he had managed to crack the Pentagon's firewall on a dare, while still in high school. As an adult, Stark successfully used J.A.R.V.I.S. to hack into the S.H.I.E.L.D. database and learn of Phase 2.
Master Businessman: At the age of 21, Stark took over Stark Industries due to his parents' having died in a tragic car accident, thereby becoming the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 Company in history. Since then, Stark has helped the company grow, and gain more business partners, with Stark Industries eventually becoming the largest tech conglomerate in the world under his leadership. Stark is therefore extremely well-respected in the business world, able to command people's attention when he speaks on economic matters by virtue of the fact that he is savvy enough to have, over the years, built up Stark Industries into the premier weapons supplier to the US military for years. He is known for having his employees' loyalty, as well as his impeccable business ethics. However, upon his return, he now strives to be environmentally responsible in his businesses such as turning away from making weapons. Nick Fury also notably recruited Stark as a business consultant for S.H.I.E.L.D.
Expert Tactician: Stark, while a somewhat brash tactician, has every so often made many split-second tactical decisions that have either saved people's lives or overpowered his adversaries, though he usually has J.A.R.V.I.S.', and later F.R.I.D.A.Y.'s assistance in this. This is notable when Stark swiftly saved Gulmira from the Ten Rings, when he defeated Iron Monger with Pepper Potts' covert help, when he had War Machine use their combined repulsor blasts to defeat Whiplash, when he personally relocated a nuclear weapon sent by the World Security Council into outer space destroying the Chitauri Command Center effectively ending their invasion. Stark also uses his mechanical ingenuity to rectify his mistakes of the past to prepare for the future by upgrading his armors. Nonetheless, Stark's tactics are usually brash and lack subtlety, as he mentions to Captain America upon their first meeting that his plan of attack concerning Thor was simply "attack."
Leadership: Stark, despite preferring to work on his own and not being as skilled a leader as Captain America, has proven to be a fairly capable leader when the situation calls for it.
Martial Artist: Stark is trained in unarmed combat by Phil Coulson and Happy Hogan, and has become quite formidable on his own without the Iron Man armor when the situation demands it. Hence, he was able to hold his own against War Machine, a Lieutenant Colonel Air Force Combat Pilot, during their armored brawl, despite himself being drunk at the time, and ultimately losing the fight. He was also able to battle Thor almost to a standstill for a time while using the Mark VI armor, though only because Mjølnir enhanced the armor to over 400% capacity and Thor was holding back.
Marksman: Although he usually uses his armor, in some situations Stark is able to wield handguns with ease, using them to escape from A.I.M. operatives while not having access to his armor.
Pilot: Stark demonstrates a strong understanding of aerodynamics and air crafts, allowing him to perform complex maneuvers while flying in the Iron Man armor while being chased by F-22 Raptors. His aptitude also extends to ground-based vehicles, allowing him to efficiently drive in high-speed racing competitions such as the Monaco GP.
Multilingualism: Stark speaks his native English and some French, along with a little Spanish, Italian, and Latin. He can also speak Dari.
⬡ SAMPLES: Sample 1
Sample 2