fasti app

[buildsomething]

PLAYER INFORMATION

Player Name: Gray
Are you 18+?: Yes
Preferred Contact: talkincodes
Current Characters: N/A

CHARACTER INFORMATION

Character Name: Anthony Edward Stark
Canon: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Canonpoint: Just post-Civil War
Character Age: 46

Appearance: N/A

Background/History: Wiki link.

Strengths:

Intelligence - Tony is one of the minds of his generation. The technology he develops is years beyond any of his peers', and even aside from his engineering brilliance, he's capable of teaching himself new disciplines overnight.

More than that, he's also a quick and creative thinker, capable of making intuitive leaps and sometimes surprising accurate predictions. Tony thinks fast, and he tends to try to think through every angle before he makes a decision. His conclusions may not always be completely correct, but he usually has very solid reasoning behind them.

Generosity - Honestly, he just likes giving people things. He may be terrible with gifts when they're expected (he'll never remember birthdays and good luck with christmas), but if he sees that someone needs or wants something, Tony will often just offer it to them. People he likes can be offered anything from food to living spaces to cutting-edge technology, and can expect upgrades on anything it is possible to improve.

It's not something that he tends to register as being a big deal, even when the price tags go up. Tony just has a mindset that people he's fond of should have nice things, and he's capable of giving it to them. It also tends to be how he extends friendship, or shows that he cares.

Drive - When Tony focuses on something, he goes all in. It's the kind of narrowed laser-focus that can result in engineering binges where he forgets to eat or sleep, or spends months at a time building dozens of armors.

But it also means that if he has a larger goal in mind, he won't let anything stop him. He'll ignore stock drops, create new technology if what he needs doesn't exist yet, and generally try to bend the world into the shape that he wants. Anything he has to do to get there, he will.

Weaknesses:

Arrogance - Spending most of his life as the smartest person in the room has not given Tony much patience for or practice with listening to other people. He needs to have it proved to him that someone knows what they're talking about before he'll even start to consider them. He'll accept who he perceives to be experts in their respective fields, but otherwise? Good luck giving him advice, let alone orders. He's not even particularly good at accepting help, unless he specifically seeks it out.

It's also pretty monumentally arrogant for one man to think he can change the world or that he has a right to decide how it should be, but damned if he isn't going to try anyway.

Artifice - Tony likes to make a big show of being aloof and uncaring. It's half public persona and half defense mechanism, considering he's grown up almost entirely in the public eye, but it's a mask it takes serious work to see through and Tony is not all that interested in letting a lot of people that close.

Mostly, he seems to be incapable of taking anything seriously, all jokes and sarcasm regardless of the situation. He also likes to pretend to be impervious to criticism, though that one is getting harder to manage as situations get more dire.

Self-hatred - He's always been a somewhat polarizing figure, but the truth is that no one hates Tony Stark as much as Tony Stark does. He spent a large part of his life trying to escape himself, and then the most recent few years trying to make up for everything he missed because of it. Add in survivors guilt and no small amount of PTSD and you do not have the healthiest mental state.

Part of Tony's inability to accept help is arrogance, but the other part of it is this, a buried deep belief that he doesn't deserve it. He has to handle everything himself because other people shouldn't be caught up in his problems. The fact that these attempt to fix everything on his own often go badly wrong has not helped the situation.

Fatal Flaw: Fear. Tony's worst mistakes have always come as a result of him being afraid, either of himself or a situation or what he thinks might happen. He overcorrects, makes snap judgements, and reacts too quickly. His determination to take care of his fears himself and his arrogance that he knows the best way how combine in terrible ways, meaning that he barely bothers to explain himself when he acts, assuming his results will speak for themselves.

Driving Force: Improvement. At this heart, Tony just wants to fix and improve things, whether that be machinery, people, himself, or the state of the world. For all that he likes to act dispassionate, Tony genuinely cares about a whole lot of things, and what he wants most in the world is to make things better.

Patron: Vulcan. Tony is first and foremost a creator and an engineer. It's no accident that the first things that marked his intelligence as a child were the things that he built; circuit boards and working engines. The thing he turned to in order to save his life was metalwork, and he's never stopped trying to improve on that initial design. He's also more than capable of being defensive or misunderstood, particularly when he doesn't do a very good job of explaining himself in the first place.

GAME INFORMATION

Setting Suitability: Tony's no stranger to fighting a war, an if he can be convinced of how important it is, he'll be gung-ho on helping out. But more than that, I'm interested in putting him in a setting where he has to be significantly more creative with the things he makes, and let him really focus on that part of himself as opposed to the playing politics he's stuck with in his current canon point. Getting to just build might do wonders for his mental state.

Sample: A variety of TDM threads.