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[alloys]

Who: Tony Stark and you!
Broadcast: Video
Action: N/A
When: Aug 21

[ so, he's arrived and rogue filled him in on the important details of who was here that he may know - or may yet know, thanks to timelines being what they are. it's the sort of thing he's had experience dealing with before, but it was still annoying. in luceti, no one else had been privy to details that hadn't happened to him yet. if they even pertained to the same version of him - tony was well aware of the fact that there were several other iterations of himself somewhere out there in the cosmos. he's gotten used to it. ]

Alright - so, I'm here. [ does he even need to introduce himself? everyone knows who he is, right??? of course they do. ] Sound off if you think we need to talk and I'll use my flawless judgment to decide if it's worth my time.

[ yep. ]

For the rest of you, I need to know about switching my augment. As much as I like having my name on a door, I'm not here to help anyone sort out their issues. Believe me - that's not good for anyone. Especially me.

Comments

[pain_train]

Too bad, so sad. Guess you'll have to introduce yourself now.

I'll go first to show you how it's done. My name's Wrath.

[alloys]

[ fine, if he must. ]

Tony Stark. [ there, are you happy now? ] Wrath, huh? Your parents apparently weren't too chuffed when you sprung free of the womb.

[pain_train]

[Always happy, Tony. You'll learn.]

I don't remember, but maybe? Delta and Whiskey are pretty sure it's not my real name. [She shrugs like, 'what can you do?']

Oh, weird. People still have babies like... Out of their bodies and stuff? That's kind of... Gross. Cool, but gross.

[alloys]

[ okay but whiskey, that's a name he can get behind. ]

Yeah, it's super gross. [ let's be perfectly honest. ] How do they do it in your day and age? Test tube babies?

[ ...oh my god what even is this conversation. ]

[pain_train]

[Sit back and relax, Tony. That's the natural reaction to a conversation with Wrath.]

Uterine replicators! It's way safer for everyone, yeah?

[She thinks about it for a minute.]

Oh yeah, we also grow all our meet in vats so it doesn't have brains and isn't cute before you eat it. Which seems way smarter too, if you ask me.

[alloys]

So you took tofu to the next level. [ sounds disgusting, if you ask him, but he's a tried-and-true meat fan. ] What else you got?

[ dazzle him, etc. etc. ]

[pain_train]

Yeah, it's good stuff.

[Huh. That's a hard question. She's grown up around this stuff all her life.]

Um... I don't know. Let me think of the stuff that other people from Old Earth think are cool. Hover cycles? Tank cutters? Um. I'm mostly made out of synthetic parts, some people think that's kind of cool, I guess? Oh! Dermal regenerators. I think those are cool. The dome. Um.

I don't know. It's all just... stuff.

[alloys]

[ back up a bit there. ]

So, you're a cyborg.

[pain_train]

I guess?

I've got a lot of AR parts, so yeah. Think so. Left arm, right leg, right eye. And I think Whiskey said the only two original organs I've got left are my brain and my left kidney. Skeleton's nanocomposite. And I've got a lot of synth muscle fibers, since before I got mustered out I was close combat. And it helps with the skeleton.

The skeleton thing is kind of unusual, though. It was... a thing.

[alloys]

It was a thing. [ but what kind of thing. ] Care to elaborate?

[ for as disinterested as he sounds, this is actually fascinating. ]

[pain_train]

Oh. Um. I got thrown out the 99th floor window of the Bifrons tower. And like. I didn't just free fall the whole way. I managed to get my tank cutter into the wall and rode it down to like the twenty-something floor I think? Before the heat bleed made the blade snap. And then I kind of bounced off some stuff before I hit the ground, so that helped too maybe.

But yeah anyway. When I hit the sidewalk uh... well, the doctor said I basically pulped all my bone? So they regrew me new ones internally with nanocomposites.

[alloys]

Oh, hey! I got thrown out of a tower, once, too.

[ good times. at least he had a suit of armor to catch him. ]

Nice. I imagine regrowing bones is extremely fun. [ maybe even more fun than having an electromagnet put in your chest. ]

[pain_train]

It sucked balls. Like nasty gross sweaty balls. I was in complete traction for over a month and the doctors put a nanny on my network access because they're humorless pricks.

And then it was all kind of a waste anyway, cause my back regrew all fucked up and I got turfed. [Shrug, like what can you do?]

[alloys]

Sounds fun. [ or, as she so eloquently put it, like gross sweaty balls. ] You probably shouldn't go into storytelling. Just a thought.

[pain_train]

I don't know, telling stories used to get me drinks all the time. When I was allowed to drink.

Oh! Or are you one of those sad assholes that doesn't like fun stories with blood and cussing in them?

[alloys]

Are you kidding? Those are the best stories. You just jump around, and don't explain things that need explaining.

[pain_train]

Well, how am I supposed to know what you don't understand? People from Earth say shit I don't understand all the time, so I just say that I don't get it so they'll explain.