At first glance, this appears to be a scene made to establish Tony’s party and playboy persona. I say it actually shows us who Tony Stark really is.
A reoccurring element in the MCU is other people describing Tony as narcissistic, vain and self-obsessed. They claim that he only cares about himself and that he thinks he’s better than everyone else. An awards ceremony where people openly praise him and his accomplishments, where the spotlight is squarely on him, would be right up his alley. A guy like that would love getting awards and ceremonies in his honor. So why is he in the casino instead?
Because that’s not who Tony Stark really is.
So if he’s not vain, or self-obsessed, what is this scene telling us? Why wouldn’t he want to be praised or acknowledged for his hard work? Because he doesn’t think he deserves it. Tony is very self-deprecating and already experienced a lot of self-loathing before Afghanistan. This scene shows that. I’d say it also shows he had trouble with anxiety long before New York, and this is backed up by the conversation he has with Rhodey here.
Rhodey: You are unbelievable. Tony: Oh, no! Did they rope you into this?! I’m so sorry. Rhodey: Nobody roped me into anything, but they told me if I presented you with an award, you would be deeply honored. Tony: Of course I’d be deeply honored. And it’s you, that’s great! So when do we do it? Rhodey: It’s right here. Here you go. Tony: There it is. That was easy. I’m so sorry. Rhodey: Yeah, it’s okay.
First of all, he’s genuinely sorry for the inconvenience he’s caused his best friend. Then when he learns Rhodey was going to be the one presenting, he’s suddenly much more open to getting this award. Why? Because he knows Rhodey. It isn’t someone who only sees the front Tony puts up; it’s someone who knows the real Tony, not to mention that people you are comfortable with can be a comfort in anxiety-inducing situations. When Tony apologizes a second time, Rhodey says it’s okay, because Rhodey knows all of this. He knows the real reasons why Tony didn’t show up.
Natasha isn’t the only one who pretends to be someone else in the MCU. Tony does, too.
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I’m going to rewrite the harry potter series and it’s going to be called Hermione Granger and The Glorious Glock where she gets a gun and shoots voldemort through the skull and then everyone is free to continue their education in peace. It’ll be 3.5 pages long.
Masterlist
Intro prologue chapter two
Maverick sat down on the barstool with his daughter following him, Her following him around brought him back to the old times when she didn't want to be separated from him when she was a little girl.
"How was the mach nine?" She asked as they enters the Hard Deck.
"Oh I blow it." He said beaming.
"Im sorry what?" Y/n ask him not believing her ears, questioning herself did she get it right. He nods with his eyes on his phone talking to Iceman.
"Oh you've got to be kidding me." A voice said. The Mitchell's lift their head to see Penny Benjamin.
"Pete." Penny said with a smile.
"Penny?" Maverick says leaning in to the bar, not believing his eyes. He went ballistic with Penny Benjamin when he was younger. After her mother passed away he starts to learn to move on, he met Penny again got into trouble got deployed somewhere else by the Admiral.
"Heya Pen."
"What are you doing here?"
"I should ask you the same thing." Y/n watch the adults interact with a glint of curiosity, they were being suspicious. Like they are still attracted to each other. The two practically stared into each other's souls.
"Please for the sake of my sanity stop eye fucking each other." Her words made them broke their stare, a innocent smile forming to her face. "Penny, can I have a Soda?"
Penny nods then asked what's her dad doing here, he starts to tell her how this is his last post. Penny did not believe him.
"Come on Pete, you've been saying that as long as I known you. You said that after you take me to a joy ride in a F-18 and the next thing I know you're off to Bosnia. Then Iraq, both times. You've got yourself in trouble and Iceman makes a call." Penny said giving Maverick a beer and her Soda. "And you're back into the air."
"Penny..." Maverick starts.
"Too late." Penny interrupt, "You're about to ask me what time I get off."
Maverick shakes his head with a smile, "Don't give me that look" she said making Y/n snorts, she's aware that her dad's smile is cocky and pretty sure he doesn't have any look other than that.
"I'm not giving you any look, I swear."
"You know how it always ends for us," Penny eyed him.
Y/n eyes watched him leans to the counter with a smile, "You look good." He said to Penny, Penny takes a step back and rings the bell causing people to cheer at the sound.
"Much appreciated pal." A Navy said patting her dad's shoulder.
"What am I missing here?" Maverick asked Penny and Y/n.
Penny step aside to reveal the plate behind her, guess he didn't see it because he was too busy lost in Penny's eyes. 'Disrespect a lady, the Navy, or put your cell phone on my bar you buy a round.' Maverick turned to face his daughter, "You knew about this?"
"The plate is right infront of you, you would have known it if you weren't too focused on Penny."
He rolled his eyes, he looks around there was a lot of people "For everyone?"
"I'm afraid rules are rules, sir." Y/n said in a military tone.
"You're lucky it's early." Penny continues.
Y/n takes her glass into her hand with her eyes scanning the room, her eyes meet another pair of eyes.
Jake Seresin suddenly feels the room turned quiet when his eyes laid on the h/c. As if everything in this room faded away, everything felt so slow. Y/n send him a small smile and look away embarrassed that she got caught looking at someone.
He snapped out of it when he saw a familiar face causing him to smirk, "Look what do we have here, Phoenix." He walks closer to Phoenix, "And here I thought we were special, Coyote." He added.
"Fellas this here is bagman." Phoenix introduced to the guys behind her.
"Hangman." He corrected with a forced smile.
"Whatever, you are looking at the naval aviator that have duty to kill."
"Stop." Jake joked.
"Mind you the guy was in museum piece from a Korean war," Phoenix finished.
"Cold War." Coyote said.
"Different war same century." A guy from behind Phoenix stated.
"Who are your friends?" Coyote asked.
"Payback." Reuben Fitch said.
"Fanboy." Mickey Garcia says with a nod.
Phoenix nod her head beside her, "Who's he?" A guy with a glasses patting away the crumbs from his uniform.
"When did you get in?"
"Oh I've been here the whole time." He replied with a sweet smile.
"The man a stealth pilot." Coyote joked.
"Weapons system actually." He answered not getting the joke.
"With no sense of humor." Jake nods. He keeps stealing glanced to the barstool, watching her having a conversation with an older guy beside her. He felt his heart pumped faster when he hears her laugh at the man words beside her.
"You need a drink? I'll get it." Jake push the cue to Phoenix.
Phoenix was little shocked that was new of him. She turn back to the guy asking questions.
"What do they call you?"
"Bob." He answered.
"No, your call sign." Payback asked.
"Uh Bob."
"Bob Floyd? You're my new back seater?" Phoenix asked him, "From lemoore?" She asked.
"Looks like it, yeah." Bob replied.
Fanboy perked up remembering that he was assigned as a back seater to someone who have Ciel as their call sign, "Do any of you know Ciel? I was assigned as their back seater."
Phoenix jaw dropped "Ciel? Lucky you, Ciel's back seater quit being a naval aviator, said he doesn't want his wife to be a widow any time sooner." She quickly looks around for her friend.
Her eyes twinkles when she found Ciel or her civilians name Y/n Mitchell, sitting on the barstool with a older guy that she did not know that happens to her old man. Phoenix was about to call her but shut her mouth when Y/n put her index finger on her lips which Phoenix nods at.
"Penny my dear," He near the barstool making sure to make yet another eye contact with the h/c woman. "All four more on the old timer."
Y/n noticed the guy is slowly approaching her, she look at her glass of Soda pretending to not know he's not going to talk to her.
"I'm Hangman." He reached his hand out to her.
She decided to play the guy's ego, she shook his hand "Well that's unfortunate." Y/n said pretending to not know its a call sign making Maverick smirk at her words.
"No, it's my call sign." He said.
"Call sign? Oh you're a pilot" Y/n send him a awed face, she fake gasp not that he knows. Pretending to not like her dad did not briefed her about pilots introducing themselves with their call sign but for the sake of having fun.
"That's right, a naval aviator." He respond proudly. She cleared her throat, "I'm Y/n Mitchell." She said with a smile.
"Jake seresin." He plastered a smirk on his face making her bashfully look away from his gaze.
"Here you go." Penny interrupt giving the Ken doll look alike his beers.
"It was nice talking to you, Hangman" Y/n flash him a smile.
"Thank you, much appreciated pops" Jake said to nodding to Maverick and send Y/n a flirtatious wink causing her to giggle.
Penny turns to Maverick with a knowing smile.
"Bradshaw! is that you?" Phoenix voice called out.
Y/n turned her head to the entrance, there he is. Almighty Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw. Her childhood bestfriend. She looks at her dad with a toothy grin but turned into sad smile when she saw him turn his head avoiding to be seen by his godson, the Mitchell man pulled out the young Bradshaw papers, set Bradley's career back four years.
She chuckled when she saw Phoenix hit him in the gut with the cue. She watched Jake talk with Bradley, to be honest its more like joking around but in a weird way.
Phoenix leans to his shoulder "I heard Ciel's coming in this mission."
"Ciel? Already?" More aviators starts to enter the hard deck with the evening rush, Fanboy was looking at them.
"The hell kind a mission is this?"
"That's not what we're supposed to be asking," Phoenix continued "Everyone here is the best there is, who the hell are they going to teach us?"
"Any of them is Ciel?" Fanboy ask Phoenix.
"Nope," Phoenix dragged the p. "Ciel just finished her last mission, from what I heard she shot down 5 of the enemy fighter jets."
Everyone jaw hanged, 5 of enemy fighter jets? That's higher than Jake "Hangman" Seresin.
Back to the main character, Y/n tapped her father on the shoulder whispering she's going to the restroom. As she walk she felt someone eyes behind her head.
Entering the restroom she turn the water on to wash her hands as she stared at her reflection in the mirror. The door swung open and in walk the guy she talked before on the bar.
"This the ladies restroom, the gentleman is across from this one." Y/n told him looking at him from the mirror.
"Oh I'm not looking for the restroom," He said.
Y/n 'oh'ed at his words, She turned around leaning her back at the counter with her arms crossed, "So what did you wanna do, just drop right down on the tile and go for it?" She asked him tapping the ground with her shoe as he approached.
Jake put his hands on the counter pressing them hard, checking if it can hold someone on it, "No, I had the counter in mind." He said looking at her.
Y/n reach her arm for the tissue, "Great, that would be very, very comfortable yeah."
"It could be unless you prefer standing instead." He says with a smirk leaning on his hand on the counter making her shaking her head at him while she wipes her hands.
"Actually, I came in here to save you from making a big mistake with that older guy." Jake said kissing his teeth.
"Really? So I could go on to a bigger one with a young guy like yourself?" She throw the tissue away looking back at Jake whom she think is fun to messed with.
"Maybe?" He tilt his head while he raises his eyebrow.
She pushed herself from the counter "I've gotta be at work very early in the morning." She send him a tight lipped smile. He shrugs with a smug look, he catch her arm.
"Wait," he pulled her hand to his chest, she raise one eyebrow "I have a friend and he's waiting outside. Wanna fool him?" He asked.
"Aw, what's in it for me?" She tilt her head with her chin high.
"You'll have fun with a guy like me," he says shaking her hand.
"Still don't know what's in it for me."
"I'll buy you a drink next time we see each other," He said with a wink.
"What makes you think we'll see each other next time?" She asked.
"Hey you'll never know, you might miss me." He grinned, leaning down to her face and brush some stray hair out of her face.
"Fine," She rolled her eyes.
They both walked out from the restroom, her eyes scanning through the crowd. "So which one is your friend that we're gonna fool?"
"That one, see that guy staring at his beer?" Jake whispers into her ear and pointed at guy.
"He looks like he's staring at his lover." Y/n commented making him grin at her words.
She was about to walk towards the guy but Jake grabbed her wrist, he turns her head towards him.
"Just need to do this," he wipe her lower lip, wiping her lipstick. Her heart feels like it's going to burst. "Now when you walk to him, apply your lipstick again so he'll believe it."
"Wow, You're full of surprises." She said, stepping away and start to walk to Coyote with her lipstick in her hand.
"Your friend was magnificent" she said as she reapplying her lipstick, he looks up from his beer watching her figure walking away. Jake stood beside him with a smug smirk.
"Nah, that can't be."
She take her sit back next to her dad who stares at her with a slight scolding eyes, she raise her hands "What? I didn't do anything, beside it was fun messing with him."
"Let's go, I'll drive you home, where are you staying?" Maverick asked.
"At Penny's. She offered a place for me to stay as soon she knows I'm in town."
Penny walks to the Mitchell with a card in her hand, she slide the card to Maverick "It's been declined." He take out his wallet for the cash.
"That wouldn't cover it." Penny hands him the check, he cannot believe the bill she had gave him.
"I'll come back tomorrow bringing the cash" Maverick responded. Penny walks to the bell holding the rope, "I'm afraid rules are rules Pete." She rings the bell once again, the crowd cheers and start chanting "Hoverboard."
"Really?" Maverick said to Penny. Who smiles innocently at him.
"You've should use my money," She sighed as Jake and two other guy walks behind her dad, Jake winked at Y/n. He placed a hand on the older man's shoulder and nods at Coyote before lifting him from the ground.
"It's great to see you Pete!" Penny yelled.
"I'll see you later, Do you want me to cook dinner?" Y/n said gathering her stuff.
"Great, I'll see you at home. Tell Amelia that I'll be home soon." Penny beamed, to Penny, Y/n feels like another daughter of her. She gives out a good advices, she showed up at her highschool graduation.
"See ya later." She waved bye at Penng on her way she heard someone playing the piano, causing her stop in mid tracks. He was playing their favourite song when they were little.
She look towards the piano to see her brother figure playing, Bradley who felt he was being watched glanced to his shoulder to his sister figure waving at him. She make a phone like on her hand mouthing call me before leaving the Hard Deck.
Y/n walks out to find her dad staring inside the Hard deck listening to the crowd singing along with Bradley who's playing Great Balls of Fire. He was quiet and looked pale.
"Dad, are you okay?" She asked him.
"No it's okay sweetie, I'm fine. Come on let's go home." Maverick said pulling her into a side hug.
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I've spend a day for this chapter, I want to write at least one chapter for this book.
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Hi my dear! So glad you are out of that toxic hellhole and writing again! May I please request a teacher AU with Matt Murdoch please? Fluff or smut, anything really except for angst. Got enough angst in my life 😂 Thank you!
I am glad too! And happy to be writing again, even if it feels weird haha. Here’s some non-angst for ya! Hope you like it
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“You. Son. Of. A. Bitch,” you ground out through clenched teeth as you tried to manhandle your snack from the vending machine.
“E3, right? That one always sticks,” a familiar voice said.
You wrinkled your nose as you turned and looked at the teacher who had just walked in.
“I don’t need an ethics lesson, Murdock, I need my damn cheez-its.”
Matt laughed as he made his way over to you. You stepped out of the way of the cane . When he got to the machine, he looked over his shoulder at you conspiratorially.
“Make sure no one is looking.”
“Not the time for a blind joke, got it,” you mumbled as you looked at the door. “Coast is clear. Work your magic.”
He kneed the edge of the machine once. The force knocked not only your snack free, but another bag as well.
“You are the absolute worst,” you said in gratitude as you pulled the snacks out, offering the spare to Matt. “What kind of person teaches ethics and steals chips?”
“I didn’t steal anything. You paid money and the product wasn’t given to you. We’ll just call this a fair trade for my help.”
His grin was contagious and you laughed. He nudged his shoulder against yours gently.
“I can smell clay. Your art class is already doing sculptures?”
Your grin turned playful.
“Yeah. You should come by the classroom after school. I can show you some of my work.”
His eyebrows raised behind the red tinted glasses.
“Is that another blind joke?”
You leaned in so that your mouth could brush his cheek.
“It’s sculptures Matt; you can use your hands to get the feel for it. Who knows, maybe you’ll even like using your hands.”
The light blush on his cheeks made you grin as you stepped back.
This is beautiful
hargreeves wasn’t that bad. in the end, he really didn’t want them to forget where they came from, so he made a point of letting them learn their native languages (e.g.: russian for vanya, german for klaus, etc).
diego never stutters when he speaks spanish.
a sure sign that vanya was pissed for real when they were children was her mumbling darkly in russian under her breath.
allison never found out where exactly in africa she’s from (her mother asked to stay anonymous so allison couldn’t reconnect with her ever, even when she grew older), so she makes an effort to study a little bit of everything so she’ll never be caught off-guard in the event of knowing someday. she’s currently working on her luo.
i know the reason luther tends to sound british from time to time is because that’s really his actor’s natural accent slipping through, but i’d like to think it’s also because since he was the last one left in the house, he began to acquire a few of sir reginald’s speaking habits.
klaus was particularly good with languages because of the variety of ghosts he tended to attract when sober. on a whim, he studied russian as well, just so he could reach out to vanya on the days she got too frustrated with violin practice.
ben loved all asian languages equally. indian, filipino, japanese, etc. ? he’s (mostly) proficient in all of them.
diego has a habit of substituting Spanish words for English ones when he thinks he isn’t explaining himself well enough.
as adults, after they’ve settled the whole apocalypse business and start working on their family for a change, they decide to study each other’s languages because a.) it’s one way of being there for each other, b.) they’ll have more ways to communicate from now on, and c.) it’s one less barrier between all of them.
they start with russian because vanya was put in last place her whole life and they all agree that she deserves to be prioritized for a change. they keep it under wraps as a surprise, but diego accidentally spoils the whole thing by dropping russian curse after russian curse in front of her when he finds out klaus has done something particularly naughty with one of his knives yet again.
imagine vanya’s beaming smile when she hears her adoptive brother swearing in her mother tongue, and in a rare display of emotion, she actually leans up on her tiptoes to peck his cheek. diego goes so red that number five teases him about it for days.
they move on to spanish without telling diego as well, and the first time they converse with him is during breakfast, when they’re all awake and helping out in the kitchen because mom isn’t around to do things like this anymore. it takes him a few minutes to realize that he’s been talking with his family in spanish, but when he finally does, he smiles so widely that even allison is concerned that he’s finally snapped.
klaus is a surprisingly patient teacher when it comes to german lessons. they ask him to teach them instead of looking for another instructor because at least that way, his non-stop blabbering makes sense somewhat.
it’s more endearing than annoying nowadays, though, and number five blames his attachment on the fact that he’s going through puberty again, never mind that it actually does feel nice whenever klaus praises his enunciation or ruffles his hair playfully when he gets too frustrated.
imagine the siblings fighting together in perfect harmony, and their opponents being so confused because the battlefield is just one crazy mish-mash of different languages being hurled in all sorts of directions.
they learn mandarin last, but not because they forgot, no. they learn it last because they all agree that it’s the hardest, and they want it to really stick because this is their way of honoring their fallen brother. sometimes, they find themselves talking to thin air in mandarin, asking for ben’s opinion, despite the fact that they don’t even know if ben is there at all or trailing behind klaus as usual.
number five in particular develops a habit of talking to ben, asking for his opinion on things and ranting to him about their siblings’ idiocy on particularly bad days. once, he asks klaus to tag along with him to the department store. they head straight to delores’ display, and number five introduces her to ben in perfect mandarin.
ben keeps rolling his eyes at all their botched pronunciations, but at the same time, he’s just so, so happy, because here they are: his family, still a touch too dysfunctional, and yet much stronger because they’re all together again and helping each other heal - slowly, but surely, of course - from almost three decades worth of emotional and mental abuse. and if klaus sees ben wrapping his arms around their siblings sometimes, on days when the strain of being superheroes gets too much again, then he simply smiles before turning the other way, content to shut up for once.
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