TONY STARK.

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       my tony is an au tony stark set in the boys universe rather than marvel's universe. this is for my own comfort, as i kind of lost inspiration for writing him in his canon universe a long time ago, but i still want to write him, and i think the boys is a much more fun "superhero" universe to write in.his backstory will remain mostly the same to his canon, however it will have taken place in the boys universe. you can read more about that in the biography below!       

biography.

THE SHORT VERSION.

tony's biography remains mostly identical to the first iron man movie. his father worked alongside vought during world war 2, but quickly became their competition when the military was more interested in howard's military inventions than their supes. vought tried to frame howard by using a third party to fabricate evidence for them of howard selling weapons to the enemy during world war two. howard's name was eventually cleared.

vought once again went after howard, this time as well as his family, sending a third party to assassinate them. tony, 21 at the time, by sheer coincidence, was not with his parents as planned, and thus survived. as tony kept making S.T.A.R.K. INDUSTRIES more successful and partnering with the military, vought sought to get tony off the playing field. vought discovers obadiah stane sells weapons to terrorists under the table behind tony's back and decide to make a deal with stane, where he will get rid off tony for them, in exchange for them not revealing his secret to the public. he agrees.

stane plans to use one of his terrorist organization customers, the ten rings, to stage a kidnapping where they'll kill off tony stark for him in order to hide his own involvement. after kidnapping tony, the ten rings instead tries to force tony to build his newest weapon for them. tony tricks them into thinking he will, but instead builds his very first iron man suit and manages to escape, with the help of ho yinsen, who dies in the escape attempt.

tony decides he will no longer make weapons for the military, which pleases vought but not stane. stane arrives at tony's home and rips the arc reactor out of tony's chest, admitting to being the one behind the kidnapping and intending to kill him. tony manages to survive and take down stane. tony shortly after reveals to the public that he is iron man, a superhero independent of vought, much to voughts grievances.

FULL BIO.

tony was born on friday, may 29, in new york city, to howard and maria stark. tony's early life was often dominated by the absence of his father, who he would later describe as both 'cold' and 'calculating'. growing up, tony had issues with howard, who never told his son that he loved, or even liked him.

tony's father was a workaholic. an inventor, engineer, businessman and movie director, and among other things, he had worked with the government during world war 2 on various projects, including working alongside vought who created the first supe soldier; soldier boy. it was howard to made soldier boy's shield and suit of armor.

following the end of world war ii, howard was framed for distributing weapons to enemies of the united states. he put his friend, peggy carter, in charge of the effort of finding proof of his innocence. eventually, peggy found enough proof to clear his name. namely proof of the person who had spread the false claims, and proof that the claims were false. she was also led to believe that the person had been working for vought, and that their motives had been to frame howard, because after seeing him gain more popularity and support within the military for his inventions and weapons that aided them on the battlefield, whereas skepticism still remained strong towards vought and their supes, howard had become competition they needed to get out of the way. however she could never find solid proof of this.

despite howard now seeing vought as a potentially shady company, after peggy's discoveries and gut feeling, he still constantly talked about his admiration for soldier boy in front of tony, which caused tony to develop hatred and resentment towards the supe soldier for getting more attention from howard than his own son. during his childhood, tony experienced both neglect, verbal and physical abuse by howard, the latter especially whenever howard got drunk, which he often did.

tony had a much more loving relationship with his mother, however, who was more gentle and nurturing and protective of tony. he also had a positive relationship with their butler, edwin jarvis, who was more of a father figure to tony than his biological father.  

CHILDHOOD:   at a young age, tony quickly stole the spotlight with his brilliant and unique mind, building various circuit boards, robotics (among others dum-e and u), and other inventions already at an early age. he was admitted early into massachusetts institute of technology, where he became best friends with another student named james rhodes. when he was seventeen, tony graduated at the top of his class from mit and was awarded summa cum laude.

when tony was just twenty-one years old, he arrived home after studying abroad. howard and maria prepared to go away to the bahamas for a few days, and tony was supposed to join them. however, he convinced them to let him stay at home. the couple was assassinated by a supe working for vought, and vought covered up the incident to be a car crash, leaving tony in grief and struggling to process this tragedy, completely unaware that vought was responsible, much less why they had done it. nor did he know that he was supposed to be killed along with his parents, precisely to prevent him from taking over stark industries after his father and furthering his legacy.

for a short while, obadiah stane took over as interim ceo of stark industries. unbeknownst to tony, however, he started selling stark industry weapons to terrorist organizations under the table. a month after the death of his parents, tony inherited stark industries and took over from stane, becoming the youngest ceo of a fortune 500 company in history. having built himself a custom mansion, tony created an a.i. system that helped out in his house. he named the system "just a rather very intelligent system," shortened j.a.r.v.i.s., in tribute to his late butler, edwin jarvis, whom tony had often credited for helping to raise him.

eventually, rhodes, now a member of the us air force, became the liaison between stark industries and the us armed forces, successfully earning tony billions of dollars with military contracts, much to vought's grief. under tony's leadership, and with the aid of stane, stark industries quickly thrived and became one of the most advanced companies in the world, creating new forms of weapons technology that seemed highly futuristic to most looking on at the weapons.

vought, in their efforts to find a way to remove tony from the playing field, having discovered that obadiah stane was selling weapons under the table to terrorists, offered stane a deal; they would keep his secret if he got rid of tony for them. stane, having always been jealous of the starks in the first place, and wanting the ceo position back, agreed to this.

skip to a few years later, tony and rhodes went to a weapons demonstration where tony was going to show off his newest weapon; the jericho missile. touching down in afghanistan, tony was greeted by members of the military before he presented the jericho missile to the military spectators and demonstrated its capability. giving a speech, tony explained that the missile was so powerful that it would only be needed to be fired once to defeat the enemy, noting that was how his father, howard stark, had worked and it was a successful method for all of america. after a successful demonstration, tony received a round of applause from everyone.  

THE KIDNAPPING:   tony then got into a convoy vehicle to leave, sending james rhodes to another humvee to go and return to their military base. however, while they drove down the open road towards the military base, they got attacked by terrorists who blew up the vehicle in front of them, trapping them. tony watched in utter horror as the soldiers stepped out, only to be gunned down right in front of his eyes. while soldiers were dying around him, tony rushed outside and attempted to find some cover and call for help.

while he was using his phone in his attempt to contact someone, one of stark industries' own missiles suddenly landed right by him. tony saw this and desperately attempted to get away, however, he was too slow and the bomb exploded right beside him. the resulting blast caused him to be thrown backward and lose consciousness, as well as several pieces of shrapnel getting embedded into his chest, several fragments dangerously close to his heart.

while falling in and out of consciousness, tony felt incredible pain as an operation was performed on his chest in an attempt to save his life. eventually, he regained consciousness, only to find himself in a cell inside a cave, and another man named ho yinsen with him. he also found that an electromagnet had been attached to his chest, hooked up to a car battery, to keep the shrapnel from entering his heart and killing him. shortly after, one of the terrorist leaders, abu bakaar, entered, and had yinsen translate as he welcomed tony as the greatest mass murderer in the entire history of the united states of america. bakaar explained that he wanted tony to rebuild the jericho missile for him, however, tony refused to help them. as a result, bakaar had tony tortured by waterboarding him repeatedly to try to make him cooperate.

tony was then taken outside of the cave where bakaar showed him how the ten rings had an incredible supply of his weapons, including guns and missiles which were being used against the united states armed forces, which clearly horrified tony, who had no idea how they had got their hands on his weapons. as bakaar continued, he told tony that they had all the materials needed for him to build a jericho missile, promising that if he began immediately, then once he was done, he would be returned home.

tony agreed to the job, although he knew they would never allow him to leave this place alive. while tony sat by the fire in his cell and considered his new and terrible situation, yinsen joined him and explained that what he had seen out there, with the ten rings holding his weapons, was the legacy of tony stark. yinsen then convinced tony that he needed to fight back.

knowing their captors would never keep up their end of the deal, tony began the work with ho yinsen, however, he had in secret started to make a plan to escape the ten rings base. tony got bakaar to bring in the supplies he needed into their cave, pretending they were needed to create the missile.

he and yinsen created a miniature arc reactor, a smaller version of the same power source previously invented by his father, howard stark, and tony revealed that he would be using it to power up a suit of armor which he would be using to finally break them out of the cave and escape the ten rings' base. tony and yinsen returned to work on the armor. however, the pair ensured that their work was still kept random enough that the ten rings wouldn't be able to figure out their deception until it was too late to stop them.  

THE ESCAPE:   finishing the suit, and fitting the armor with various missiles and flame throwers, preparing for every eventuality as they knew the ten rings would put all their strength into stopping their escape, soon, the pair enacted their escape plan, with tony being fitted into the armored suit, while the power from the new arc reactor was being downloaded into it. however, the booby-trapped door the pair had rigged with an explosive was set off, killing all the men who had come to check on their progress. to his horror, yinsen realized that they now did not have enough time to power the suit before the ten rings would arrive and kill them. with no other choice, yinsen took a gun and held back the terrorists, while tony's suit still continued to power up.

once the suit had power, tony used all of his new incredible strength to take down the terrorists across the room, with the armor being unaffected by their bullets. tony began making his way through the cave, killing any terrorist he came across by striking them with his armor. coming around a corner near the exit, tony was mortified to find yinsen lying mortally wounded, having been shot multiple times during the escape attempt. however, yinsen was just able to warn tony before al-wazar fired a rocket launcher at him. tony managed to dodge the shot and returned fire, shooting a missile at the ten rings leader which caused him to be badly burnt and trapped underneath the heavy falling rubble.

tony rushed to yinsen's side and urged him to get back on his feet so he could go to gulmira to be reunited with his family. however, yinsen revealed that his family was already dead, and he would now see them at last in the afterlife. forced to accept the inevitable, tony thanked yinsen for everything he had done for him in saving his life, both physically and morally. with his last words, yinsen reassured tony that it would be alright to leave him behind and urged him not to waste his life.

angered by yinsen's death, tony stepped outside to confront the rest of the terrorists who were waiting for him; the suit protected him from the onslaught of bullets, and he then used the suit's flamethrowers to kill several terrorists, and destroy their stockpile of stark industries weapons, which he despised for being stolen from him to be used against the us armed forces.

due to the massive amount of bullets being fired at him, the armored suit was eventually badly damaged by the gunfire, forcing tony to escape using the jetpacks while the entire base erupted in a massive fireball. tony soared above the blast, though his suit began to fall apart and was finally destroyed as he crashed in the desert - although it still saved him from the impact. with no other need for it, he left the suit's remains in the desert.

tony then began making his way through the desert, using his jacket to protect himself from the intense heat until finally, a us air force helicopter flew overhead. he yelled out for help and collapsed to his knees, wearily making a peace symbol in the air. james rhodes then rushed out of the helicopter with the military and the two friends embraced each other, before taking tony back to the united states.  

A NEW DIRECTION:   he was walked out onto the military airport by james rhodes, where he was picked up by happy hogan. tony then called a press meeting for stark industries. upon arriving at stark industries headquarters, tony was enthusiastically greeted by obadiah stane, before making his way inside. during the press meeting, tony declared that his company would now, for the foreseeable future, no longer manufacture military weapons, a statement which stane tried to backtrack to the best of his abilities.

as their companies' stock market began to plummet (much to vought's relief) tony had a meeting with stane, upon which stane advised him to reconsider the decision, as he feared it would ruin the company. tony, however, insisted that they should take another look at the arc reactor technology based on his work with yinsen, proving this theory by showing stane the arc reactor in his chest that was now keeping him alive. stane eventually agreed to help.

tony later went to meet with rhodes at the us air force base. when rhodes questioned what tony was doing there, he was told that tony was working on a big new project, which seemed to delight him. that is, until tony revealed it was not military. rhodes then recommended that tony needed to get his mind straight and get back to producing weapons, before walking off, refusing to hear tony out.

in the months that followed, tony retreated from public view and spent much of his time in his mansion, focusing on improving the design of his new armored suit, refining its size, movement, and flight capability far beyond the first design. tony eventually perfected the suit, after much trial and error, taking the silver mark ii armor for its initial test flight as stark put on the armor for the first time with great pride and excitement. despite j.a.r.v.i.s.' warnings that there had not been enough tests to be safe, tony insisted upon being allowed to fly outside and fully test its true capabilities, to which j.a.r.v.i.s. eventually caved in.

at first the test went swimmingly, with tony flying through the sky at great speed and precision, however, when he pushed the suit to see how high he could fly, he learned the suit would freeze at at a certain altitude, which disabled its power. tony fell from the sky, only able to restart the suit moments before nearly hitting the ground.

having gained all the information about the suit's capabilities that he needed, tony flew back to his mansion, where he then prepared to analyze the data to use in the next design. while giving j.a.r.v.i.s. his plans to improve the mark iii armor in order to fix the icing problems and improve the flight controls, tony noticed a news report on a new charity event which tony was supposedly hosting. tony questioned j.a.r.v.i.s. if he had been invited to the event to which j.a.r.v.i.s. then confirmed he had not, so tony left his a.i. to complete the mark iii while he got himself ready to attend.

during his first public appearance since his return to america, tony arrived at his own party to be greeted by the press. tony soon found obadiah stane talking to the press, as stane expressed his surprise to see that tony had arrived, advising him not to draw too much unwanted attention to himself, as stane was still trying to get the board of directors on their side. tony promised to do so, as he stepped inside the building.  

THE BETRAYAL PARTIALLY REVEALED:   tony was then approached by journalist christine everhart, who expressed her disgust at him for claiming to halt the weapons development, only to sell weapons to the terrorist group ten rings. when tony revealed he did not approve any shipments, everhart informed him that his company did, providing proof of it.

disgusted by this, tony confronted stane and demanded to know if he was making deals with al-wazar as well as the us armed forces. stane refused to answer the question; however, he called tony naïve for not considering that this sort of thing could possibly be happening. stane also revealed that he was the one to shut stark out of the board while he recovered. stane then left the party, leaving stark in a state of utter shock and horror over the fact that his close friend betrayed him.

faced with the realization of what his company had done behind his back and stane's part in the deception, stark went back into his workshop and continued building his armors, while watching a news report on how al-wazar and his soldiers were using tony's own weapons to attack innocent people. angered by what he was seeing, tony rose from his seat and used his flight stabilizers to smash the glass doors, realizing they could be used as weapons.  

GETTING VENGEANCE:  seeking to do something good with the technology he had created, tony weaponized his mark iii armor and flew to afghanistan. knowing where al-wazar's men were attacking, tony headed for gulmira, the home village of ho yinsen. upon arriving, tony discovered innocent women and children were being dragged out of their own homes to become slaves for the ten rings while the men were being lined up to be executed right in front of their own horrified children.

tony attacked and easily subdued all of the soldiers, using his advanced weapons systems to kill multiple terrorists with single strikes and saving the lives of innocent people, as well as destroying the ten rings entire stockpiles of stark industries weapons.

the prolonged battle and massive explosions quickly drew the attention of the united states air force and his own friend and company military liaison, lieutenant colonel james rhodes, who investigated the true cause. two jets were ordered by rhodes to take out the unknown target, with tony soon finding them directly behind him and attempting to lock onto him with their weapons.

tony called rhodes and revealed his true identity to him in an attempt to have the attack called off. but although rhodes tried to call off the attack without revealing that it was tony in the suit, major julius allen order the pilots to take the shot when they could get clear view of the unknown target. nonetheless, tony eventually managed to evade the us air force, and while heading back towards the us, tony spoke with rhodes about what excuse he could use to explain what had happened.  

THE BETRAYAL "FULLY" REVEALED:   once back at his mansion, and with the mission to defeat the ten rings a success, tony went back to work in tweaking the armor in improving its performance. he was soon joined by potts whom he requested go into his office in stark industries headquarters, to hack into the database in order to find out from where his weapons were being sold to the ten rings, so he could go in using his armor and destroy them. hearing how sincere tony was about this mission, potts took the hard-drive and agreed to help him.

while inside his mansion, tony attempted to answer a call from potts when he found himself suddenly unable to move. to his horror, he found obadiah stane looking down on him while using a sonic taser on him. stane confessed that he had arranged tony's kidnapping and that tony was supposed to be killed by the ten rings, in exchange for them getting to buy stark industries weapons, but that they had changed their plans behind stane's back to try to get the jericho missile built by tony instead.

he then ripped out the arc reactor from tony's chest, causing tony to go into cardiac arrest. stane mocked him by comparing him to his father while promising to kill potts, before walking away. having regained some control of his body, tony desperately tried to make it to his workshop to regain his original mark i arc reactor to save his life. however, he collapsed inches away from it and was unable to move, and minutes from death. but to save his life, tony was aided by dum-e and u who had managed to hand him the arc reactor just in time. he was then found by james rhodes, who he explained the situation to while being helped back up.

after recovering enough, tony immediately put on his suit and went after stane, and after a big fight, managed to take the man down.

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