>>Consider that Tony's parents sent him off to college by himself in his mid-teens. This did not help him learn good life skills, but it did get him and Howard out of reach. Obviously they didn't want a child abuse scandal, so Howard could hardly admit what happened.<<
Yeah, I started to put that together after I replied the first time. Good god, it's hard to decide whether getting sent away was better or worse for Tony.
And now I want to know how Howard covered up his broken arm. Lab accident, maybe? He had to come up with something for the press/board members/society people.
>>With Bucky here, Tony was responding less to him as an individual and more to the inadvertent similarity to some of Tony's worst memories. Flashback-filtered conversation with Tony is like holding a match to a can of hairspray.<<
...Yeah. In some ways, I find Tony harder to identify with than a lot of the other Avengers, but I can totally identify with this part. I have verbally slaughtered a couple friends over the years. Because I wasn't seeing them; I was rehearsing bad things from the past, and they just happened to be there. Tony's gonna feel like shit when he realizes he took the past out on Bucky. (Although being fair, Bucky was seriously out of line, too.)
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Re: Thoughts
Date: 2013-08-30 09:16 pm (UTC)Yeah, I started to put that together after I replied the first time. Good god, it's hard to decide whether getting sent away was better or worse for Tony.
And now I want to know how Howard covered up his broken arm. Lab accident, maybe? He had to come up with something for the press/board members/society people.
>>With Bucky here, Tony was responding less to him as an individual and more to the inadvertent similarity to some of Tony's worst memories. Flashback-filtered conversation with Tony is like holding a match to a can of hairspray.<<
...Yeah. In some ways, I find Tony harder to identify with than a lot of the other Avengers, but I can totally identify with this part. I have verbally slaughtered a couple friends over the years. Because I wasn't seeing them; I was rehearsing bad things from the past, and they just happened to be there. Tony's gonna feel like shit when he realizes he took the past out on Bucky. (Although being fair, Bucky was seriously out of line, too.)
Meg