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PLAYER

Player Name: Robin
Pronouns: He/him or they/them
Are you over 18? Yes!
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Current Characters: Grady Numbers
Triggers: I would like CWs provided for suffocation, graphic description of suicide, intense choking.

STATISTICS

Character Name: Tony Stark
Character Canon: MCU
Character Age: 53
Canon Point: Mid-Endgame (post-timeskip, pre-time heist)
Link to History: Link
Skills:

• Intellect: Tony is, literally, a genius. He graduated from MIT at the age of 17. He can visualize and construct complex engineering projects, build practically anything as long as he has the tools and resources, hack into the Pentagon, and all sorts of other Very Smart Guy tricks.


• Engineer: From an early age, Tony learned how to build and maintain all sorts of machines. These days he can build practically anything as long as he has the time and tools to do it -- and sometimes even when he doesn't have those things.


• Combat: Having been trained in martial arts and unarmed combat by some of SHIELD's best and brightest, Tony has a fair amount of fighting skills, even when he's not wrapped in hundreds of pounds of metal and missiles. He's also a proficient marksman thanks to his experience with the Iron Man suit, though he tends to be better with palm lasers than actual guns.

Abilities: None. Without his suit, Tony is just a squishy human man.
Curse Mark: Skala

CHARACTERIZATION

FORMATIVE EXPERIENCES:

• FIRST EVENT: - For most of his life, Tony Stark was content with the idea that he'd make his mark on the world by continuing and building on his father's legacy, happy to enjoy being a playboy billionaire philanthropist weapons maker and little more. And then there was the desert, and everything changed. In 2008, he travelled to Afghanistan on a business trip in order to host a demonstration of the Jericho missile designed by Stark Industries for the United States Air Force. On the way back to base, the convoy he was in was attacked, and Tony was injured, shards of metal from one of his own bombs driven into his chest. He was also kidnapped and taken back to his attackers' base, where a kind man named Yinsen patched him up and installed a car battery hooked up to a magnet in the middle of his chest, in order to keep him alive. Long story short -- Tony used his time in the cave to build a suit of armor from a box of scraps, watched Yinsen sacrifice himself in a brave effort to escape, and blasted out of there as Iron Man. The rest is history.


• SECOND EVENT: - In 2012, Tony was brought into the rebooted Avengers Initiative by Nick Fury, in response to the invasion of Earth by Loki and his Chitauri army. He was forced to not only deal with aliens from outer space trying to destroy his home, but also had to work alongside a bunch of other superpowered individuals. He was no longer allowed to do whatever he wanted and was required to actually cooperate with his teammates. In the end, he surprised everyone and mostly himself and made a sacrifice play in order to save the world, flying into space to slam dunk a nuke into the alien forces. He assumed he would die out there -- but he survived. So that was pretty good. Except for the PTSD.


• THIRD EVENT: - After the Invasion, Tony faced some more personal backlash from his newly found fame as an internationally recognised superhero. His home was attacked and he was thrown into the wilderness with a broken suit, and was forced to content with the idea of who he is when he's not Iron Man, facing the depths of his own trauma and emerging from it more thoughtful and more aware of the very personal cost of his big superhero moves to those around him. Not long after that, he also had an interesting experience in finding out that a man he thought was a friend was actually willing to lie to him about the death of his parents, blah blah, big fight. It didn't end well, and Tony was once more left dealing with the idea that the only person he could really depend on was, in fact, himself. There was also some stuff with Ultron, but Tony didn't actually learn any lessons from that.


• FOURTH EVENT: - In 2017, Earth was invaded. Again. Tony ended up on a spaceship with a wizard and a kid from Queens, headed to the wrong side of the galaxy. It turned out that all of Tony's personal problems paled in comparison to the very large purple problem bearing down on them all with a fistful of Infinity Gems. Tony fought as much as he could but, before he could make another daring sacrifice play, the wizard intervened and sold them all out. Tony was forced to watch his friends and comrades crumble into dust, leaving him alone with a very sad cyborg girl and a spaceship, flying alone into the dark. Thankfully, he was rescued by another nice lady from space, but by then Tony had had enough of the superhero biz for a while. He took Pepper and moved upstate, where he could be (semi) retired and they could raise their daughter. That's where we join him in 2023, Tony's last year on Earth, right before things get much, much worse.

PHILOSOPHY: Tony is the master of all he surveys. Raised as a child prodigy, he's never been told that he can't do whatever he puts his mind to -- and as it turns out, that's true as well. This attitude has carried over into his adult life. As guardians and authority figures left him, he discovered that he could only depend on himself, and has decided to do so ever since. If there's something that needs to be done, he'll make sure it's done, either by ordering someone to do it for him or by doing it himself. He considers himself the ultimate authority on just about everything that happens around him. If someone dares to question him, he'll argue with them or grind them down in some way until he gets what he wants. Between his genius level intellect and his skills as an engineer, he's never had a reason to be anything completely firm in his belief that he's smart and capable enough to do absolutely anything, and he'll fight for his right to do it.

DESIRES: All Tony wants to do is solve problems. That's been the central tenant of Tony's life from a young age. No matter how big the problem or how limited his resources, he fixes things. He makes things. He finds the solution. Sometimes just because it needs to be solved and sometimes because he wants it to be solved, sometimes just because it's there, but more often than not it's because it serves a greater good. Ever since he was thrown into a cave in the desert with a few scraps of iron, he's been solving most of those kinds of problems with metal and high grade weaponry, but that creativity also extends outside of what he can do with his hands. He's a quick thinker and if he needs to utilise his smarts to work around something in his way, he'll do so. He has a few blind spots here and there, but generally he can be relied upon to come up with something that hasn't been tried yet. Maybe more than one thing. Usually at least one of them works. Mostly, he just wants to make it right.

FEARS: Since becoming Iron Man and joining the Avengers, Tony has faced multiple near-death experiences, as well as fighting through various traumatic circumstances. This, along with the constant threat of the shrapnel in his body, has given him a first hand glimpse at his own mortality and has taken a considerable toll on his mental health, leaving him battling PTSD and panic attacks. Rather than dealing with these issues, however, Tony prefers to avoid them -- like he avoids many of the other painful details of his life. He has a very hard time admitting weakness of any kind, preferring to hide behind layers of armor both figurative and literal than expose his soft and wounded soul. This habit of avoidance leads to other habits to sustain it -- partying, drinking, etc -- as well as a casualness for his own wellbeing that borders on being truly dangerous, both to him and his loved ones.

GAMEPLAY

SUITABILITY: Tony isn't suitable at all for this game because he's going to absolutely hate being stuck somewhere without modern technology, which also makes him very suitable for this game because he'll have to adapt to it and that will be really interesting to play out. He's also an Annoying Superhero Type, so will love the chance to argue with everyone about murder being wrong, actually. Also, he makes a really hot blacksmith.

SAMPLE: TDM top level

MONSTER:
APPEARANCE

Transformed, Tony is a tall and faceless (ref, ref) mechanical/insectoid entity made from spools and coils of wire, metal, plastic, rubber and other unknown materials. His body is rippled with strange organic and non-organic forms, echoing muscle fibres and bones (ref, ref), warped and corrupted by the monstrous substances he's excuded to form his exoskeleton. His head is a featureless helmet (ref), surrounded by tubes, though its form changes (ref) every time he transforms. If needed, it can split apart to form a "mouth", lined with revolving mechanical teeth or sharp blades. He is silent and remorseless, moving with an inhuman, zombie-like lurch -- though he's also capable of sudden bursts of incredible speed when he needs to be.

Partial transformation will result in Tony's skin and orifices leaking a black, ichor-like substance which resembles motor oil. His veins and arteries will harden and become plastic or metal tubes that split his skin and spool out of his arms and legs. As the transformation continues, more and more of his insides will attempt to become outsides as he essentially turns inside out.

POWERS

SPEED/STRENGTH/DURABILITY: When fully transformed, the mechanoid can, when hunting, travel very fast to cover the ground between himself and his victims. He can leap over walls and onto roofs, and can climb almost as fast as he can run. He's incredibly strong and can withstand almost anything thrown at him. His skin is a combination of metal, plastic and rubber, and his insides are just spools of wires and tubes -- he can be pulled apart and still function.

BEHAVIOR

The mechanoid generally seeks others to absorb into itself. He can take organic material and reconsitute it into inorganic forms to heal, power or improve his own body, usually by eating it. He doesn't care who or what stands in his way. He can and will fuck people if he wants to, discarding their bodies once he's done with them.