Tag: tony stark

vulcansmirk:

i can’t stop thinking about the look on steve’s face as he watches tony process the footage of december 16, 1991.

he looks briefly at the screen, but isn’t at all surprised by what he sees, and before long he turns to look at tony, a little trepidatious, but strangely cold and considering, like i know what this is, i know what it will do to you, i want to see how you’ll respond.

and then tony sees the footage, watches it happen – bucky yanking howard’s head up by the hair, howard calling bucky by name, bucky rewarding him with two swift blows to the face, and howard falling, limp, to the ground; bucky circling slowly to maria’s side of the car, reaching out with his flesh hand, training his eyes coldly on something in the distance as he chokes the life out of her.

tony is heartbroken, he’s betrayed, and steve’s expecting that; when tony lunges for bucky, steve lunges, too, catching him before he can get any closer. and i think tony picks up on how quick steve’s reaction is, too quick even for a supersoldier, because he redirects his attention to steve then and asks him in this broken voice, did you know?

steve tries to sidestep the question at first – i didn’t know it was him – but tony’s too smart for that. don’t bullshit me, rogers! did you know?

and there’s this tense pause, because tony knows, we all know, what steve will say. he looks at tony and he’s totally shattered, his voice tiny and cracked in two as he finally says the word we all saw coming, but dreaded to hear.

yes.

this, finally, is steve’s dark side. it’s no angry, violent thing; it’s small and tender and sad. it’s the hole gauged out of him from too many years spent alone, and it’s all the terrible things he’d do – all the lies he’d tell, all the codes he’d break, all the people he’d hurt – to protect the one person who remembers what he was like when he was whole.

honesteve:

did anyone else notice when tony knocks steve down toward the end of the fight in siberia, and steve struggles to drag himself back to his feet, and we cut to a wider shot that makes everyone, but especially steve, look so fucking small, and it’s like steve is a little guy in brooklyn again fighting off the bullies, and he stands up and wobbles a bit just like he did in that scene in catfa, but his eyes are hard as steel when they meet tony’s, and he says, for the thousandth time, i can do this all day

then, even though he’s laid out on the cold stone, beaten and bloody and broken, even though he’s half-unconscious and he just lost his goddamn arm fighting tony, bucky takes steve’s words like a cue, drags himself toward tony as best he can, and his best isn’t that great right now, but it’s enough, because he grabs tony’s ankle and tony’s distracted from steve, turning around to fight off a defenseless bucky, which gives steve the opening he needs

did anyone else notice that even though he’s totally shattered and half-dead himself, bucky jumps into this fight same as the one we saw way back in 1943, same as all the other fights steve started back in brooklyn but couldn’t finish alone; did anyone else notice that even though this whole fight was about steve saving bucky, in the end, it was still bucky who saved steve?

edgebug:

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Iron Man (2008): Deleted Scenes

Tony Comes Home

christ.

can you imagine though, jarvis all alone in tony’s malibu house? jarvis who of course doesn’t have any physical form at all, jarvis who at this point occupies just the house and tony’s phone–jarvis, who is dependent on tony for everything, who lives essentially in tony’s pocket, suddenly being completely alone for the first time in his silicon life.

and every ten minutes on the dot for days and days and days he accesses the latest news reports, re-calculating and re-calculating tony’s chances at survival, endlessly running the numbers. and nobody told him to do that. tony’s house was empty and dark and nobody told jarvis to keep an eye on the news but he did. jarvis could have just spun down his hard drives and gone into hibernate mode, but he didn’t.

no, he watched the news. he stood vigil. he waited and he hoped that his calculations were wrong. that one day he would be able to say welcome home, sir once more.