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[It startles a laugh out of Tony as he tries to usher Dorian over towards one of the clearer worktables.]

We'll see if we can avoid that. Do you need to shut down or anything while I'm working?

No, I don't think so.

[ Rudy has worked on him while he's been conscious. Dorian climbs onto the table, lying down. ]

Alright, fair enough.

[Tony does flick him a look as he goes to collect his tolls, though.]

Want to watch a movie or something? It can't be that interesting to just hang out there.

[ It's true, though Dorian is used to it. ]

What kind of movie?

Uh, I've got kind of a lot of options. J, give him the list?

[Agreeably enough, a glowing list of movie titles pops up within Dorian's eyeline. Not as many as Tony might have had at home, but still a pretty decent amount.]

[ Dorian squints at the list. ]

I think you better pick one.

[Tony flashes him a grin that says he might regret that as he walks back over. But he's not going to be too obnoxious. Robot movies are probably a little too on the nose.]

Die Hard? That's usually a pretty good distraction.

[ Dorian runs it through his head and smiles. ]

A cop movie. Sure, why not. It would be interesting to see from a past perspective.

In the loosest sense of the word, sure. Do not try this at home. J, start it up and we'll get going.

[He gestures dramatically as the screen flickers into view at the start of the movie.]

Shout if you need anything.

[ Dorian squints at the movie as it plays on. ]

This man is a terrible officer. He's worse than John.

[Tony's attention is pretty firmly on the work he's doing, considering the circuitry requires a lot of fine detail. And he'd really like not to cross Dorian's wires accidentally.

But the comment does filter through just enough to make him huff out a laugh.]

He's off duty. Gives him a pass, right?

That's not how off-duty works.

[ It's like looking at a mirror of Kennex and it's both funny and a little worrying. ]

Why is he doing everything on his own?

Because otherwise it would be a very boring movie?

[He glances very briefly at the screen, but honestly this is one of the ones Tony can probably recite.]

One guy against an army makes for a more interesting story.

When we did this, we just got shot at a lot. My head got ruptured.

[Tony pauses, just for a second.]

What, taking on terrorists? Or just playing catch the bullet?

The former.

[ He pauses. ]

Though they were bank robbers pretending to be terrorists.

[And Tony manages to bite back that particular spoiler just in time. He's not actually sure if Dorian's seen the movie before or not.]

Seems like you've had an interesting career.

Crime has become inventive with the increase of new technology on the market.

I bet.

[He's seen some of that, even just with the leftover Chitauri tech that managed to find it's way out despite his best efforts. It just makes Tony sigh, honestly. Some things never change.]

But ways to fight it too, yeah?

[ Dorian nods. ]

That's what I was created for.

Right.

[It's not that Tony can forget that his friend is an android, especially not when he's currently got his hands in his circuitry, but it does occasionally slip his mind that Dorian has -- or had -- a specific purpose. He's got enough of a personality that he could probably do anything he wanted. But then again, Tony isn't the robot here.]

But not just you?

[Unless there's a fleet of him somewhere.]

There are other models. They don't have a synthetic soul but they do their jobs.

[ Dorian isn't particularly fond of them, which isn't surprising. They are the models that replaced his own. And he finds them . . . cold. Unfeeling. Which is what they were made for, but it is uncomfortable all the same. The synthetic soul is a part. A program. It could easily be stripped away from him. ]

[The whole synthetic soul thing is still a weird concept, not least because Tony's not completely sure he believes in non-synthetic ones. But it's clearly important to Dorian, so Tony just hums an agreement.]

Not as friendly, huh?

They don't have personalities or emotions or anything. I used to charge with them and it was . . . discomforting.

[Tony can't help but grimace a little. He's got a few of those back home, but they're...fabricators, machine parts. Not really meant to interact with anyone.]

Yeah, that sounds unsettling.

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