Abilities/Powers: Tony is quite literally a genius. His intelligence makes him one of the smartest men in the world he comes from, earning multiple doctorates from MIT at the age of seventeen. As an adult, he's noted as an engineering genius, able to hack technology that is advanced beyond Earth's level of knowledge. He has knowledge and skill in a variety of areas, lauded as an expert in business as well as technical skill and able to build up billion-dollar companies from the ground up in a matter of weeks. He's charismatic enough to win over others and rational enough to command results, making him a decent enough leader in immediate situations. With the addition of the Extremis technology that modified his body and mind, Tony is able to process even more information, essentially turning him into a living computer (with all of the drawbacks as well). Despite the suit being his most obvious advantage, Tony's real strength lies in his ingenuity, which is enhanced thanks to the “upgrades” he has undergone. The other thing Tony is good at is strategy. He has tactical intuitiveness. Because of his ability to analyze his situations and work around limits, he can come up with unexpected strategies to overcome surprise obstacles and threats. He's good at coming up with emergency response plans, which tends to be his strong suit in any conflict. He's also a self-proclaimed futurist, able to think and respond to conditions several steps in advance, at times giving him insights to what will happen years ahead of when it does. He sees the potential in things and uses it as much as he can to shape the outcomes that he wants. While these insights aren't foolproof or vast, they do give him a slight strategic advantage when looking at the big picture of situations he finds himself in.
Physically, Tony is a decent fighter, having been trained by Captain America. He can take on several trained soldiers at once and he's fairly tenacious, even if he is lacking finesse. While he isn't at a military level, he's still strong even against armed combatants.
Thanks to the fantasy science of comic books Extremis modifications (a human-engineered virus that rewrote his biology to be compatible with technology), Tony can interface with machines using his mind (including controlling his armor), heal faster than normal and regenerate parts of his body. It takes time, of course, but eventually he can heal if given enough time. He “talks” to machines using a form of telepathy and can remotely control machinery with his thoughts. The armor he wears gives him added protection, strength, and the ability to fly. It also comes with an arsenal, so that can be an advantage for him.
Weaknesses: Tony is an alcoholic and tends to be more given to emotional reactions than other people. It's easier to distract, demoralize, and upset him with dirty fighting than a trained fighter. He has trouble saying no to temptation and can be temperamental under stress. Since he's biologically like a living machine, he can also be hacked and controlled if someone is technologically advanced to crack into his systems.
Without the advantages of technology, he's also only human and has the same weaknesses as a normal human being. He's not magical or immortal.
Items/Weapons: • an armor set with jet boots, a limited arsenal (some small missiles and energy beams), and wireless interface (not that it helps anyway) • the normal clothes that he wears underneath (a jacket suit, yay!)
Sample Entry: Well, you've certainly got a city here. It's... a city.
[This is Tony's polite face. He's smiling with as much pleasantness as he can muster. It's actually kind of hard, considering he just had an encounter with the barrier. Now he knows what a bird feels like when it finds a window.]
Nice. It's interesting, I'll give it that. I feel like it could use more signs, though. You know, one for city limits, at least. That would be great.
Just for the record, these phones have terrible reception. I'm sure that doesn't surprise anyone, but I thought I'd mention it, anyway. Seriously. Do people actually use these things to talk to each other?
[Not that he's bitter about those phones or anything. Not that he was completely blocked out. And can't figure them out. And is a terrible loser about the whole thing and tried to break them with no luck, right before smacking his head into the invisible barrier, oh, no.
Okay, yes.]
Well, this has been a fun morning already. Someone give me some good news.
Sample Entry Two: Tony Stark was in trouble. That was his official assessment of the situation when he lost all contact with SHIELD and the world at large and found himself facing a foreboding radio silence. The city itself didn't seem too bad. There were place to avoid, of course, but it wasn't anything stranger than normal—not when average distress calls included potential alien armies and genius-level terrorists. And gods, he couldn't forget those. But what really bothered him about the place was the silence. It made him feel like he was being watched. Like the city itself was watching his progress somehow, aware of every move he made despite his own inability to get a connection since his arrival.
Way to be paranoid, the voice in his head chided. Do we need to get you a night light, too?
But the bad attempt at humor didn't make him feel better any more than looking down at the housing cluster (Spiral. It was a spiral.) gave him a sense of understanding the layout of the place. It was all a giant puzzle surrounding a bundle of questions that he didn't have answers to, and that was worse than any real attack he might have had to face.
“I'll figure it out,” he said. And he had to say it out loud, even if it seemed silly. Even if saying it out loud just affirmed the fact that he didn't feel confident at all, and that he didn't know what he was dealing with in the city, which was the whole problem to begin with. He spoke aloud just to hear the words and assure himself that he could still do that much. “I've got this. It'll be fine.”
He didn't feel fine, but he could deal with that later. For the moment, lying was the first step toward making that a reality. And maybe if he kept trying he could actually find some answers in that place.
Tony Stark | Marvel 616 | reserved (Part 3)
Tony is quite literally a genius. His intelligence makes him one of the smartest men in the world he comes from, earning multiple doctorates from MIT at the age of seventeen. As an adult, he's noted as an engineering genius, able to hack technology that is advanced beyond Earth's level of knowledge. He has knowledge and skill in a variety of areas, lauded as an expert in business as well as technical skill and able to build up billion-dollar companies from the ground up in a matter of weeks. He's charismatic enough to win over others and rational enough to command results, making him a decent enough leader in immediate situations. With the addition of the Extremis technology that modified his body and mind, Tony is able to process even more information, essentially turning him into a living computer (with all of the drawbacks as well). Despite the suit being his most obvious advantage, Tony's real strength lies in his ingenuity, which is enhanced thanks to the “upgrades” he has undergone. The other thing Tony is good at is strategy. He has tactical intuitiveness. Because of his ability to analyze his situations and work around limits, he can come up with unexpected strategies to overcome surprise obstacles and threats. He's good at coming up with emergency response plans, which tends to be his strong suit in any conflict. He's also a self-proclaimed futurist, able to think and respond to conditions several steps in advance, at times giving him insights to what will happen years ahead of when it does. He sees the potential in things and uses it as much as he can to shape the outcomes that he wants. While these insights aren't foolproof or vast, they do give him a slight strategic advantage when looking at the big picture of situations he finds himself in.
Physically, Tony is a decent fighter, having been trained by Captain America. He can take on several trained soldiers at once and he's fairly tenacious, even if he is lacking finesse. While he isn't at a military level, he's still strong even against armed combatants.
Thanks to the
fantasy science of comic booksExtremis modifications (a human-engineered virus that rewrote his biology to be compatible with technology), Tony can interface with machines using his mind (including controlling his armor), heal faster than normal and regenerate parts of his body. It takes time, of course, but eventually he can heal if given enough time. He “talks” to machines using a form of telepathy and can remotely control machinery with his thoughts. The armor he wears gives him added protection, strength, and the ability to fly. It also comes with an arsenal, so that can be an advantage for him.Weaknesses:
Tony is an alcoholic and tends to be more given to emotional reactions than other people. It's easier to distract, demoralize, and upset him with dirty fighting than a trained fighter. He has trouble saying no to temptation and can be temperamental under stress. Since he's biologically like a living machine, he can also be hacked and controlled if someone is technologically advanced to crack into his systems.
Without the advantages of technology, he's also only human and has the same weaknesses as a normal human being. He's not magical or immortal.
Items/Weapons:
• an armor set with jet boots, a limited arsenal (some small missiles and energy beams), and wireless interface (not that it helps anyway)
• the normal clothes that he wears underneath (a jacket suit, yay!)
Sample Entry:
Well, you've certainly got a city here. It's... a city.
[This is Tony's polite face. He's smiling with as much pleasantness as he can muster. It's actually kind of hard, considering he just had an encounter with the barrier. Now he knows what a bird feels like when it finds a window.]
Nice. It's interesting, I'll give it that. I feel like it could use more signs, though. You know, one for city limits, at least. That would be great.
Just for the record, these phones have terrible reception. I'm sure that doesn't surprise anyone, but I thought I'd mention it, anyway. Seriously. Do people actually use these things to talk to each other?
[Not that he's bitter about those phones or anything. Not that he was completely blocked out. And can't figure them out. And is a terrible loser about the whole thing and tried to break them with no luck, right before smacking his head into the invisible barrier, oh, no.
Okay, yes.]
Well, this has been a fun morning already. Someone give me some good news.
Sample Entry Two:
Tony Stark was in trouble. That was his official assessment of the situation when he lost all contact with SHIELD and the world at large and found himself facing a foreboding radio silence. The city itself didn't seem too bad. There were place to avoid, of course, but it wasn't anything stranger than normal—not when average distress calls included potential alien armies and genius-level terrorists. And gods, he couldn't forget those. But what really bothered him about the place was the silence. It made him feel like he was being watched. Like the city itself was watching his progress somehow, aware of every move he made despite his own inability to get a connection since his arrival.
Way to be paranoid, the voice in his head chided. Do we need to get you a night light, too?
But the bad attempt at humor didn't make him feel better any more than looking down at the housing cluster (Spiral. It was a spiral.) gave him a sense of understanding the layout of the place. It was all a giant puzzle surrounding a bundle of questions that he didn't have answers to, and that was worse than any real attack he might have had to face.
“I'll figure it out,” he said. And he had to say it out loud, even if it seemed silly. Even if saying it out loud just affirmed the fact that he didn't feel confident at all, and that he didn't know what he was dealing with in the city, which was the whole problem to begin with. He spoke aloud just to hear the words and assure himself that he could still do that much. “I've got this. It'll be fine.”
He didn't feel fine, but he could deal with that later. For the moment, lying was the first step toward making that a reality. And maybe if he kept trying he could actually find some answers in that place.