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tushanshu_logs2016-06-02 02:32 pm
highprofilerichkid) wrote in tushanshu_logs2016-06-02 02:32 pm
I got a demon in my soul and a voice in my head
Characters: Tiny Tony Stark and YOU
Date: Throughout June (plus some backdated threads)
Location: All over Keeliai
Situation: Catching up with old friends, meeting new people, dealing with Too Much Shit, and quietly working himself to exhaustion. Don't worry about it. He's got this all under control.
Warnings/Rating: None
1. For Steve | The Sky Sector [Backdated to Steve's arrival]
After chatting for a while with Steve (Captain Rogers? What should Tony be calling him?), Tony had logged off the console to have a minor heart attack about meeting Captain America. CAPTAIN AMERICA.
Tony had even offered to meet up and give him a tour, show him the ropes, and Steve had agreed. Tony is too thrilled for words.
It takes the wind out of his sails a little bit when 'after I've settled in' stretches into several days, but it's probably for the best. It gives him some time to get the fanboy squealing out of his system.
So he mostly (mostly) manages to stay chill when Steve finally calls him back. Tony suggests a tour of the Sky Sector, since that's sort of the Foreigner sector, and picks out one of his favorite cafes to meet at. Completely contrary to his nature, he actually arrives early, and orders some tea while he waits.
2. For Milyn | House Spicy Iron Dragon [Backdated to early May]
Milyn may be taking refuge in their house, but she is not in Tony's good books right now.
He'd given her a few days to rest, recover, and get settled in, but now it's time to Talk. With a capital 'T'.
He knocks on the door of the guest room.
3. For Zatanna | The Welcome Center
Jackie's done with the Snakes, but it sounds like he's not sure the Snakes are done with him. And now that Tony has thrown what savings he has into the Golden Koi, Tony's obligation to protect Jackie has expanded to protecting his investment.
If this had been a few months ago, Tony would have spent some extra time lurking around the bar in his armor, to make it clear to any potential troublemakers that he had his eye on things. But, truth be told, he just doesn't have time for that anymore. Anyway, he thinks there's a more elegant solution.
Tony makes his way to the Welcome Center and pokes his head inside. "Zatanna? Are you around?"
4. For Callaghan | Tony's Lab
It's a shame Abigail hadn't stuck around. Tony had liked her, and she'd been almost as brilliant as him. But that's just the way things work around here.
He won't let her work go to waste, though. The stuff she'd done with the scorpion silk is incredible. It's certainly a fun project to work on, but more than that, it's important. Tony hasn't forgotten the kin'nal. The damage done by the earthquake has mostly been repaired, but Tony has diligently continued working on improvements to the lorn level. The kin'nal are still uncomfortable with him doing too much of the manual labor (the whole 'taking away their work' hangup that they have), so a lot of Tony's contributions come from the lab. He splits his time between working with the silk, crunching numbers on stability analyses, and designing reinforcement structures.
That's time that he's already splitting with his actual paying job and all his other responsibilities, though, so the progress is slower than he'd like.
He's lucky today to have a few rare free hours to devote to the project. He's intensely focused on the work, but his lab door is open - nothing he's doing right now is dangerous or likely to explode.
5. For Bucky | A market in the Water Sector
When he's headed home from work, Tony often takes a detour to do some grocery shopping. Three newly-fledged young adults, one of whom eats enough for two all on his own, go through a lot of food. These days, the only good shopping in Keeliai is in the Water Sector, since the fish markets haven't been completely shut down by the perpetual winter.
He's mostly done with his shopping when he spots a Foreigner he doesn't recognize poking through the offerings of one of the stalls. He doesn't look especially lost or perplexed, but Tony's not convinced he knows what he's about to buy.
"Sea prunes," Tony interjects, on the off chance that it may save a newcomer from an... unexpected culinary experience. "They're kind of an acquired taste."
6. For Simon | The Jasmine Dragon Tea House
Iroh has returned, and Tony is one of the reopened tea house's first customers. Anton's infinite coffee is great, but it's just one jar of coffee, and people are starting to give him dirty looks for constantly emptying it (you'd think people would be more generous with infinite coffee). Some of Iroh's teas have even more caffeine than coffee, anyway, even if the taste isn't as comfortingly familiar.
He'd pulled an all-nighter last night working on some stuff for Bisi, so he's taking his lunch break out on the patio of the Jasmine Dragon Tea House with a full pot of that high-octane supertea Zuko (the original version of him; Tony's not sure what to make of this New and Improved Zuko) had introduced him to.
Even with the caffeine, he's still yawning. Extremis and normal youthful resilience keep him from looking like a total zombie, but there are still dark circles under his eyes. He needs a twenty-minute powernap and a cucumber eye mask. Except there aren't any cucumbers here. Thanks for nothing, Keeliai.
7. For Yorda | House Spicy Iron Dragon
Tony has claimed the kitchen for the day, and warned everyone - especially Gene - to steer clear. He's invited Yorda over to talk business and try baking, and... well, let's just say, he's a lot better at the former than the latter. Who knows what kind of state the kitchen will be in when they finish.
8. For YOU | Choose your own adventure!
Anyone looking for Tony will have the best chance of finding him at the College, either in his lab or in the community workspace. He also makes regular visits to the kin'nal in the lorn level of Hatal, and he can occasionally be seen in the Golden Koi, chatting with Jackie. Good luck catching him anywhere else - he doesn't have much time for relaxation or recreation these days.
Date: Throughout June (plus some backdated threads)
Location: All over Keeliai
Situation: Catching up with old friends, meeting new people, dealing with Too Much Shit, and quietly working himself to exhaustion. Don't worry about it. He's got this all under control.
Warnings/Rating: None
1. For Steve | The Sky Sector [Backdated to Steve's arrival]
After chatting for a while with Steve (Captain Rogers? What should Tony be calling him?), Tony had logged off the console to have a minor heart attack about meeting Captain America. CAPTAIN AMERICA.
Tony had even offered to meet up and give him a tour, show him the ropes, and Steve had agreed. Tony is too thrilled for words.
It takes the wind out of his sails a little bit when 'after I've settled in' stretches into several days, but it's probably for the best. It gives him some time to get the fanboy squealing out of his system.
So he mostly (mostly) manages to stay chill when Steve finally calls him back. Tony suggests a tour of the Sky Sector, since that's sort of the Foreigner sector, and picks out one of his favorite cafes to meet at. Completely contrary to his nature, he actually arrives early, and orders some tea while he waits.
2. For Milyn | House Spicy Iron Dragon [Backdated to early May]
Milyn may be taking refuge in their house, but she is not in Tony's good books right now.
He'd given her a few days to rest, recover, and get settled in, but now it's time to Talk. With a capital 'T'.
He knocks on the door of the guest room.
3. For Zatanna | The Welcome Center
Jackie's done with the Snakes, but it sounds like he's not sure the Snakes are done with him. And now that Tony has thrown what savings he has into the Golden Koi, Tony's obligation to protect Jackie has expanded to protecting his investment.
If this had been a few months ago, Tony would have spent some extra time lurking around the bar in his armor, to make it clear to any potential troublemakers that he had his eye on things. But, truth be told, he just doesn't have time for that anymore. Anyway, he thinks there's a more elegant solution.
Tony makes his way to the Welcome Center and pokes his head inside. "Zatanna? Are you around?"
4. For Callaghan | Tony's Lab
It's a shame Abigail hadn't stuck around. Tony had liked her, and she'd been almost as brilliant as him. But that's just the way things work around here.
He won't let her work go to waste, though. The stuff she'd done with the scorpion silk is incredible. It's certainly a fun project to work on, but more than that, it's important. Tony hasn't forgotten the kin'nal. The damage done by the earthquake has mostly been repaired, but Tony has diligently continued working on improvements to the lorn level. The kin'nal are still uncomfortable with him doing too much of the manual labor (the whole 'taking away their work' hangup that they have), so a lot of Tony's contributions come from the lab. He splits his time between working with the silk, crunching numbers on stability analyses, and designing reinforcement structures.
That's time that he's already splitting with his actual paying job and all his other responsibilities, though, so the progress is slower than he'd like.
He's lucky today to have a few rare free hours to devote to the project. He's intensely focused on the work, but his lab door is open - nothing he's doing right now is dangerous or likely to explode.
5. For Bucky | A market in the Water Sector
When he's headed home from work, Tony often takes a detour to do some grocery shopping. Three newly-fledged young adults, one of whom eats enough for two all on his own, go through a lot of food. These days, the only good shopping in Keeliai is in the Water Sector, since the fish markets haven't been completely shut down by the perpetual winter.
He's mostly done with his shopping when he spots a Foreigner he doesn't recognize poking through the offerings of one of the stalls. He doesn't look especially lost or perplexed, but Tony's not convinced he knows what he's about to buy.
"Sea prunes," Tony interjects, on the off chance that it may save a newcomer from an... unexpected culinary experience. "They're kind of an acquired taste."
6. For Simon | The Jasmine Dragon Tea House
Iroh has returned, and Tony is one of the reopened tea house's first customers. Anton's infinite coffee is great, but it's just one jar of coffee, and people are starting to give him dirty looks for constantly emptying it (you'd think people would be more generous with infinite coffee). Some of Iroh's teas have even more caffeine than coffee, anyway, even if the taste isn't as comfortingly familiar.
He'd pulled an all-nighter last night working on some stuff for Bisi, so he's taking his lunch break out on the patio of the Jasmine Dragon Tea House with a full pot of that high-octane supertea Zuko (the original version of him; Tony's not sure what to make of this New and Improved Zuko) had introduced him to.
Even with the caffeine, he's still yawning. Extremis and normal youthful resilience keep him from looking like a total zombie, but there are still dark circles under his eyes. He needs a twenty-minute powernap and a cucumber eye mask. Except there aren't any cucumbers here. Thanks for nothing, Keeliai.
7. For Yorda | House Spicy Iron Dragon
Tony has claimed the kitchen for the day, and warned everyone - especially Gene - to steer clear. He's invited Yorda over to talk business and try baking, and... well, let's just say, he's a lot better at the former than the latter. Who knows what kind of state the kitchen will be in when they finish.
8. For YOU | Choose your own adventure!
Anyone looking for Tony will have the best chance of finding him at the College, either in his lab or in the community workspace. He also makes regular visits to the kin'nal in the lorn level of Hatal, and he can occasionally be seen in the Golden Koi, chatting with Jackie. Good luck catching him anywhere else - he doesn't have much time for relaxation or recreation these days.
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There's the slightest change in his tone when he says 'weapons test'; something that might be distaste. But he covers it up pretty well, and moves on.
"I had it for about two years, until I got a dose of Extremis to fix my heart." His smile returns, a little mischievous this time. "No more implant, and I got some cool bonus upgrades." Ask him about his sweet superpowers, Steve.
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He tips his head curiously when he hears the change in the young man's voice. It's not something he would've expected, but it just goes to show that they're really not the same person. He lets him continue on without interruption.
"Upgrades?" Steve's brow arches. "What kind?" Tell him all about those sweet superpowers, the Captain's all ears.
"the larger one" lmao
Tony takes a sip of his tea, looking very pleased with himself.
tony lite
Steve thinks of Dr. Erskine, the one thing that the serum was really missing, the reason it couldn't be duplicated properly. He picks up his cup, watching Tony over the edge of it as he takes a drink. There's a little quirk of his eyebrows when he gets to the part about his brain - Steve has even more concerns when it comes to things messing with someone's head. But he goes on to talk about technology, which is a very 'Tony' thing.
Maybe a little too much.
"Cyborg?" He doesn't choke on his tea, he just has to swallow it quickly. "Does that mean you can go into the internet? Hack into things, things like that?"
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"Exactly," Tony replies brightly. "The internet, the armor, satellites, Chinese missiles, people's fitbits..."
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Tony seems pretty pleased, and Steve has that uncertain little frown thing going on - which must be pretty typical of their relationship no matter what universe they're from or where they are. He takes a breath, reaching a hand up to rub one of his own shoulders in an attempt to ease some of the tension in it.
"Do you know about Ultron?"
He *could* brainhack a Fitbit, but why would he even want to
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"I'm glad to hear it." Tony's intentions were always good, but this way there's no worrying about the outcome. "Sorry, I didn't mean to strike a nerve. You mentioned that about cyborgs...reminded me a little of what we're facing back home." Steve reaches over and places a hand on Tony's shoulder. "But there's obviously not any connection. I misunderstood, I'm sorry Tony."
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Tony clears his throat and gives Steve a weak smile. "Thanks for the heads up. I'd rather hear it from you than learn about it the hard way." Then he looks down, rubbing the back of his neck, and mutters, "Not sure what it says about me that the first thing anyone from an alternate timeline ever wants to tell me is how I cause the apocalypse."
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"That you're not someone who just sits back and waits for someone else to take care of a problem, that's what it says. You try." And in talking to this Tony, Steve feels like he understands the one he knows a little better. "The Tony I know just wants to protect everyone. We all make mistakes, but I've never seen anyone work harder to correct theirs than he does. When things go wrong, he's right there on the front lines. Be proud of him. Be proud of yourself."
Steve gives his shoulder a squeeze. No feeling bad, not today.
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"I... um. Thanks." He smiles again, this time more warmly. He's not sure that's really true, but it's surprisingly heartening that Steve believes the best of him.
A moment later, he realizes he's probably gazing at Steve like a starstruck moron, and he should probably move the conversation forward. His smile shifting into a wry grin, he observes, "You know, you sounded a lot like my dad right there." His dad always know what to say to make him feel better, too. "It's too bad you didn't get here a couple weeks earlier. He would have loved to meet you."
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Steve sighs, shaking his head.
"It's weird, the things that match up. The things that are different."
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STEVE THE PRESIDENT GOT KIDNAPPED. HE MAYBE COULD HAVE USED A LITTLE HELP HANDLING IT."Yeah, uh, that part didn't match up so well with my universe," Tony says, and he can't help but laugh. " My Mandarin would have eaten Trevor" Trevor "for breakfast, and AIM is a bunch of beekeeper-themed goofballs." A threat, for sure, but a goofy one. "Their pet project is a giant head. It flies. With a jet pack. And it has little tiny arms and legs." Again: serious threat. Still fucking ridiculous.
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A GUY IS DUE A WEEKEND OFF FROM TIME TO TIME.Steve snorts at that mental image, with the little dip between his eyebrows proof that he's trying to picture it. A head with a jet pack.
"I thought my universe had gotten pretty weird. Now I'm thinking that yours wins, hands down."
his acronym is legit c for conquest instead of k for killing because imaa is a children's show l o l
But yeah, Steve, Mini Tony's universe is definitely weirder."Okay. So what's the weirdest thing that's happened in yours?"
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"I've gotta go with the aliens." Steve wasn't long out of the ice, and aliens and gods were so far beyond his wheelhouse. It secretly felt overwhelming. Definitely weird. "That and people eating bacon on their donuts - the older you can put away half a dozen of those, I've seen it. Mostly when Pepper's not around."
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'Aliens' is a pretty good answer, though. Aliens definitely establish a solid baseline for weirdness. "Yeah, we've had a run-in with some interstellar weirdos, too. The Makluans. But bacon donuts are totally normal, and delicious, so you'd better take that back."
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"The Makluans?" Yes, that's a better direction to take the conversation in. "I can't comment on the deliciousness, but it just seems like they put bacon on everything these days."
...Dammit.
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"The Makluans are - were - an advanced alien race," he answers more seriously. "They showed up and tried to wipe us out. We got them first."