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One Life For The Two of Us, Mr Stark
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Waking up on the side of the road wasn’t how you usually spent your time so when you did you were understandably confused. The Snap, you’d discover later, had changed everything, you’d realise people had moved on, adapted to the change but now somehow you were back.
The Avengers. Of course they were responsible for reversing the events of The Snap, your boyfriend Peter Parker had told you all about Tony Stark and you had no doubt that he played a role in bringing everyone back.
Frantically your hands flew down to your pockets searching for a phone that wasn’t there. Had Peter experienced what had happened? Was he OK? You needed answers from somebody and Peter seemed like the best bet given his close relationship with Tony Stark. Looking around at your surroundings you realised you weren’t far from home, even closer to Peter’s apartment.
Your fist repeatedly thumped on the door as you called Peter’s name, the door opened to reveal a stranger. Your eyes flickered to the door, checking you were at the right apartment, before going back to the man’s. Before either of you could say anything Aunt May appeared around the corner.
“Y/N?” She asked, sounded just as shocked and confused as you yourself were feeling.
“Aunt May? What happened? Who’s this? Where’s Peter? Are you OK?” You couldn’t stop yourself from asking at a rapid pace. Aunt May cut you of by wrapping you in a hug after stepping out of the apartment.
“I don’t know, Peter’s not here. He was going on the field trip but apparently, according to those people, we’ve been,” here Aunt May hesitated, taking a deep breath before continuing, “Y/N we’ve been gone for five years.”
- - -
Peter was still in his suit when you walked into the room, in any other situation you would take the opportunity to tease him about it but now the room was somber. It wasn’t long after Tony’s funeral, Peter sat on his bed, eyes red and watery with tears running down his face. He’d gotten through the funeral somehow, not caring about the fact that he was surrounded by some of his heroes because the one he wanted most was gone. You took a seat next to him on the bed, not knowing what you could say to make the situation anymore bearable.
“You know,” Peter said after half an hour of silence, “I still call him. I know there’s never going to be an answer but I call and I listen to his stupid answering machine. I wake up and God Y/N,” he laughed a teary laugh, “I wake up and think he’s just gonna be here. He was too good, always willing to sacrifice himself for a world that hurt him! I wish, I wish it was me instead.”
By the point your own eyes were filled with tears, you never had the pleasure of meeting Tony Stark but that’s not to say his presence didn’t inspire you, encourage you, make you believe. Tony meant everything to Peter, you could tell, the way he spoke about ‘Mr Stark’ like he hung the stars in the sky.
“Pete,” your voice cracked as you tried to keep your own emotions at bay for Peter’s sake, you grabbed his hand in yours before continuing, “he wouldn’t ever want that. H-he loved you as much as you loved him, that much was obvious, even to me and I never got to meet him. You gotta live your life now Peter, live it for him. He believed in you, I’m willing to bet he did until the end. He picked you because he knew you would always do the right thing, he loved you.”
At this point Peter’s silent tears had turned into sobs of grief, sobs that when a person heard them, they knew someone was in unbearable pain and had to take a minute. You let go of Peter’s hand and instead wrapped your arm around his shoulder, drawing him into you.
“He sa- he said he wanted me to be better than him Y/N, but that’s impossible. I’m not going to let him down, I wi- I’m gonna be the best me an-an-and and I’m gonna make him so pr-proud of me.”
“He’s already proud of you, baby.” You said into his hair, placing a gentle kiss there. “You’ll always have a piece of him with you at some point, whether as Peter Parker or Spider-Man. Peter has the knowledge, the love, Tony gave him and Spider-Man has the suits, the wisdom that he gave. I promise you even when you’re on your own, you won’t be alone cause he’s here, Pete. He’ll be looking down on you and he’ll be beaming with pride.”
You gently moved and repositioned yourself and Peter so you were laying down on his bed, him in your arms, fingers running through his hair and Peter let out quiet tears, sobbing and sniffing every now and then.
‘I’m gonna hold him where my heart is, one life for the two of us Mr Stark.” Peter whispered softly against your chest before closed his eyes and leaned into your touch.
You held Peter for hours and by the time Aunt May arrived back at home, peering into the room, the pair of you had fallen asleep, you holding Peter protectively and him clutching you like you’d disappear to.
Underappreciated moment #2
When dr. Stephen strange raises his finger to reassure tony that yes, this IS the one timeline where they survive, when Tony realizes he’s about to die, and with all those emotions in his eyes. I was crying before, I turned into a fountain then.
Why?
do yall wanna cry again
the russos really thought steve lifting mjolnir, saying “avengers assemble,” and giving sam the shield would distract us from how bad the end of his arc was, huh?
it just blows my mind how they were also behind catws and yet still gave us endgame, because tws steve & the way he was consciously trying to integrate himself into the 21st century was so good. we saw glimpses of him struggling to adjust at the end of catfa & in a1, but tws really had him try and endgame just breezed right past that. tws steve was finding space in his brand new world & making it where he couldn’t. tws steve was coming to terms with the fact that whatever world he knew had now moved on without him, he was coming to terms with the fact that peggy had moved on, had a husband she grew old with, and had children that she loved. endgame could’ve shown us steve getting a full new life – instead, they send him back for a dance and a kiss. there’s cacw “selfish,” in that he wanted to be the one to bring bucky in because he still believed bucky had a chance & bucky was literally his last connection to before; and there’s endgame selfish, where he finally has his best friends & his new family back and he still creates a divergent timeline knowing full well that peggy had already lived her life. that… just doesn’t sit well with me.
does steve deserve a happy ending? of course. but i wish he got a good ending, too. now steve’s aged & back in the present, having lived a whole life that had just been out of his grasp in his original timeline–but that was the big tragedy of it!! he had just missed that life, he had sacrificed that life so that others could have theirs. tws made it clear that that life hadn’t been meant for him. it wasn’t meant to be his life because that opportunity had passed, but now he had a brand new chance, and he had peggy’s blessing. his opportunity for growth came in the acceptance that he could not go backward, only onward: aou steve was aware he wasn’t the same man that went down in the ice, or the same man that had been thawed out. he didn’t have to be. how could aou steve get that point right, and endgame steve couldn’t? so: steve gets his girl, peggy gets her dance, but bucky loses steve and sam loses steve. bucky who conquered his brainwashing and was starting to find peace, sam who got back into the fight because he saw that steve needed help–and they just lose steve to those years like that? steve gets 70 years and bucky and sam get five minutes and a moment by the water? they all deserved better than that.
AND ONE MORE FUCKING THING. the fakeout of the elevator scene???? hello???? there i was, expecting another brilliantly choreographed elevator fight scene with steve walking out of those doors with the sceptre, and instead, i get punched in the throat by a reminder of n*ck sp*ncer’s h*dra!cap, even if it was fake? seriously? SERIOUSLY?
Merchant of Death
The Man That Killed the Avengers
Iron Man
You know, your dad liked cheeseburgers - Avengers: Endgame (2019)
proof that tony stark has a ❤ ↳ nebula, peter quill, drax the destroyer, rocket raccoon, groot, mantis
Peter Parker knew what it was like to grow up without a father. Sure, he had many father figures throughout his life, but he never grew up with his father.
Morgan Stark was only four when she lost her father. She lost her father when he lost his life to save the world. Like Peter, she was going to grow up without her father.
Only hours after Tony died, Peter was informed that Tony had a daughter. Only four years old when she lost her father. And Peter’s heart broke, because when Tony died, he was only thinking about how it affected him. Having lost his father at such a young age, Peter knew what he was going to do.
The first time Peter truly felt like a big brother to Morgan was at Tony’s funeral.
The first thing Morgan said to Peter was “Are you Spidey?”
To which Peter could only respond with a nod and a fake smile.
“My dad always called you a pain in his butt whenever he told me bed time stories about you.” Her small voice said.
Peter smiled for the first time since Tony died.
The night of Tony’s funeral, Peter sat with Morgan in her little teepee, his heart aching when he saw an Iron-Man helmet. He told her countless stories about Tony. He told her about her dad saving him on multiple occasions, how Tony took him under his wing, and how lucky Morgan was to have Tony as her dad. How her daddy tracked Peter down and made him the best superhero he could be. That Tony was willing to sacrifice anything, even if it was his own life. How he would’ve done anything and everything for her, because he did the same for him. He sat with Morgan for hours, telling her stories, just to make her smile.
“Petey, I love you 3000.” Was the last thing Peter heard Morgan say, before she fell asleep.
Pepper heard Peter’s small sobs before she saw him. There he was, still in Morgan’s too small teepee, with her curled up, fast asleep into his side. Peter, clutching Tony’s helmet as he cried.
Pepper heard Peter say something that broke her heart more than his sobs.
“I’m sorry Mr.Stark. I’m gonna keep her safe. Nothing’s going to happen to her. I’m not gonna let what happened to you happen to her. I promise.”
Peter kept his promise.
proof that tony stark has a ❤ ↳ stephen strange, wong, scott lang, hope van dyne, janet van dyne, hank pym
After endgame I’m only reading iron!dad
Unexpected but amazing moments in Avengers Endgame :
1) I love you , 3000
2)Nebula’s ‘We became sisters’
3)Bruce accepting the Hulk and even letting kids take pictures with him
4)Bruce/Hulk being a pure cinnamon roll and handing Scott Lang a couple of tacos after Scott drops his
5)Rocket softly taking Nebula’s hand
6)Scott and Rhodey being giant Sci-Fi nerds
7)Loki grabbing the tesseract on the first chance he gets (this wasn’t really surprising)
8) AMERICA’S ASS
9)Steve appreciating his pretty booty
10)Pepper Potts in the Rescue armor
11)STEVE ROGERS IS WORTHY AND THOR LOVES IT
12)Tony keeping the picture of Peter and him beside the picture of his father and later actually getting to tell his father how much Howard meant to him.
13) The all-female team up.
14) 'On your left’
15)Sam Wilson looking to Bucky for acknowledgment on whether he should accept the shield and Bucky assuring him with a nod.
16)EDWIN JARVIS
17)Steve and Peggy because that’s where he always wanted to be.
BONUS :
Hail Hydra
This went way deeper then I though
How Endgame Delivered on Irondad (more than it didn’t)
One thing someone pointed out to me was about how Tony Stark invented time travel.
To me, it looked like Cap, Nat, and Scott walked up, Tony shooed them away, then he saw that picture of Peter and decided to give it a shot, odds be damned.
What they corrected me on was that the night we see in Endgame (the one where Tony invents it) is, in fact, the night he FINISHED. In that this particular model that Tony ran was started that night, simulated that night, and worked that night - after an unspecified amount of time in those five years where he’d been trying and trying and trying.
Tony wasn’t tossing out reasons for why time travel was a dumb plan based on academic research and theory. He’d BEEN trying. Bruce’s baby-Scott mistakes were the rookie, early ones that Tony was so far beyond screwing up on at that point. He’d exhausted every idea he could think of before Cap and his crew came by. The smartest (surviving) man on Earth, and the guy who’d cross off every single stupid option just in case they missed something obvious (e.g., “Why don’t we just throw the Time Stone down the garbage disposal?”), had not only already thought of something as insane as ‘time travel’, but didn’t rule it out until he was actually incapable of doing it.
Then we have Morgan. New life. This is so, so important for his relationship with Peter and whole Irondad fandom: what Tony had with Peter was an assumed and close relationship that went kind of unspoken because “Tony Stark should never be a dad” and “Peter Parker doesn’t need a third one”. Or whatever your particular trope is - I love 'em all, but there was always that little something that kept them from being full-on, on-screen, publically Irondad and Spider-son. And now Peter is dead. And Tony can’t change that. And then - in the midst of the entire universe’s grief - there’s a new life: Morgan.
Morgan is Tony’s blood relation and a burst of tangible hope - his 'second chance,’ he says to Cap (of what, Tony? Oooooh subtle Irondad) - in the waking knowledge that he failed and he’s never going to fix it.
Morgan is Tony’s cue to assume that he has to move on. No more playing with time travel theories that he can’t make work anyway, and even if he could (but he can’t), it’d be to go back and get the kid he loves but isn’t technically his 'real’ son. And get this - he KNOWS that because now he has a 'real’ daughter, and to erase a blood relation 'just’ to save an unspoken one? That’s insane. He can’t logically prioritize this any differently, and his reaction to Cap suggesting time travel shows us that Tony’s assuming the only way (at that point) to get Peter back is to lose Morgan. It’s why he essentially says, “Yes, what happened is very sad, but this is my life now and I’m going to make the best of it. It’s time to stop living in the past.” It’s also why Tony’s so insistent on Bruce’s snap bringing every back to now, instead of bringing the survivors back to then and erasing his daughter: because the other option is TO erase his biological daughter to save his unbiologicial son that he’s only known for two years.
So just think of all those nights before Endgame, where Tony tried and it never worked. And then think of how much less he tried when he had Morgan. Think of how many times he told himself to stop trying, to give it up already, to realize that it would never work, and to think of how immoral and psychotic it’d be to continue trying to trade one kid for a fake one. Imagine him finally putting those plans away for last time and turning off the lights, not bothering to say his goodbyes to Peter’s memory 'cause who says goodbye to a ghost that he’s failed to save now twice? (And not only that, but the ghost of a kid who seems to have hit all the same Dad-mode buttons that Morgan does, proving that shit beyond a doubt.)
When Cap comes back and Tony thinks on it and Tony sees that picture of him and Peter, it isn’t some dramatic and spontaneous epiphany that he can invent time travel. It’s that he can save Peter AND keep Morgan. That’s what changes: it’s what gets him to go from, “I have my second chance,” to “Just make sure you bring everybody back to THIS year.” He finally has permission to go back to trying, and that renewed commitment is what gets the job done.
So now take all of this - all those messy, lost years of grief and failure and painful hope and hurt and hope and hurt - and tack it onto the ending:
Tony gets Peter back. It’s a great, super Irondad moment. Tony has just done the impossible: keep his daughter, save his son. And you all saw that reunion (lmao spoilers), and you know he’s an official Dad now with five years to have mulled over how much he lost when he lost his first kid, which was the second thing out of his mouth when he got back to Earth after being rescued. Everyone’s going to be fine, and as soon as they kill Thanos, Tony gets to have the perfectly complete family he’s always dreamed of.
And THAT’S why it’s a sacrifice, not a cheap death.
Tony, a Dad who’s missed his son enough to invent time travel, and who knows how much he loves his daughter to virtually let half the universe stay dead for her, allows himself to die in order to save everyone.
I went at this thinking they’d killed Tony off, like they somehow forgot there’s this whole thing with Peter to get back to. But it really is the massive sacrifice they said it was. All those armies were going to wipe out the Avengers et al., then kill everyone all over again. Tony had the opportunity and no one else would’ve gotten another one, so - and this is key - in FULL KNOWLEDGE of what he was about to lose, he traded his life for his kids. And I am still psycho-pissed, but that’s something I want to explore from Peter’s POV now, because Tony went into that conscious choice at peace with it. He wasn’t going to let his kids die, and that’s the Irondaddest mood we could’ve asked for in this movie.
WITH THAT SAID, and like I said, this is something to explore from Peter’s POV. Tony knows how huge this sacrifice was, but I want to experience Peter feeling absolutely cheated by this. He just got back, turns out his will-they-or-won’t-they-adopt-me Father-Figure moved on to have a 'real’ kid, and now Tony’s dead. I want to watch him learn how much of a sacrifice Tony made to save Peter - twice. I want him to find, like, taped trials and simulation notes across years of Tony trying to bring Peter back. I want to find a message that Tony made for Peter a while ago, because not only was Peter not mentioned in Tony’s funeral-vid as if he didn’t actually expect that time travel to work in a way that brought Peter back but killed Tony, but there’s got to have been some sad I Miss You movies like he made for Pepper up in space.
I am so gutted by Tony’s death, but so much less so about it being a middle finger to Irondad. It’s FULL Irondad from Tony’s POV. But I need some goddamn deleted scenes of the on-screen grief and some long-term mourning from Peter so I can really feel like the story had an ending and not an abrupt cancellation.
Anyway. Let’s all recover from this together before FFH.
i really didn’t expect to get so attached to a fictional character so much but apparently tony stark happened and its embarrassing and scary as to how much of an impact he left on me and the extent to which his fate at the end of endgame affected me……..like…………there’s crying over fictional characters and then there’s literally crying over fictional characters
Avengers Endgame (2019)
Tony Stark and Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Homecoming vs. Avengers: Endgame
Forever weeping at Tony’s face in this scene.
Steve walking out that elevator after saying “Hail Hydra”