#[ about ] pepper potts

[lukas-dusk]

Tony texting Pepper

Tony : I WANT TO GIVE HIM THINGS

Tony : LIKE BLOWJOBS AND SELF ESTEEM!

Pepper : Please stop talking.

[airas-story]

Bitter Jealousy

Pepper hadn’t expected to feel jealous.

She had ended things with Tony. She was always the one to end things with Tony and had had a… certainty that if she was ever ready to try again, that he’d be there.

Something about Tony had simply seemed… inevitable.

This didn’t feel like inevitability.

Tony’s laugh could be heard, distinct in the hubbub of the gala where he was in conversation with a CEO on the list Pepper had given him to ‘make nice with’. Pepper watched as he smiled up at his date. Doctor Stephen Strange. Not his press smile, but his soft, genuine one that Pepper had always thought should be hoarded away so that the vultures couldn’t see it.

Tony had smiled at her like that. In a way that she thought he’d never smile at anyone else.

Pepper had treasured that smile.

Doctor Strange smiled back at Tony. Pepper didn’t know him well enough to know whether this was his press smile or not—if Doctor Strange even had one of those—but the way the skin around his eyes crinkled made her think it might be real.

Pepper looked away, focusing back on networking with the CEOs of several Big Pharma companies.

When she looked again, it was to find that Tony and Doctor Strange were on the dance floor. Tony’s arms were around Doctor Strange’s neck, Doctor Strange’s hands low on Tony’s back.

Tony and Doctor Strange were gathering looks, but neither man seemed to care. Tony was hardly unexpected in that, Tony never had cared. Doctor Strange… Pepper had looked into him, confident and cocky and invested in his appearance. Doctor Strange should care.

For one bitter moment, Pepper wished she’d never demanded Tony go to the hospital after his lab accident, minor as it’d been. Wished the hospital hadn’t tried to impress Tony with their very best. Wished that Doctor Strange hadn’t looked at Tony and seen past all of the bluster to the truth of who Tony was beneath it all.

But she had, the hospital had, Doctor Strange had. And now Tony was here with someone else.

Jealousy was a bitter thing. She was supposed to be better than that. She was supposed to be happy for Tony.

So why was it so hard?

A tap on her elbow drew her attention back to the world around her. She didn’t recognize the man who’d tapped, but she could guess, some CEO here to impress—though the firetruck red tie with darker red stripes was… an interesting choice at a black tie event. “I see you’re watching the dance floor,” he said smoothly. “Would you like to dance?”

It wasn’t the dance floor she’d been watching.

Still, she smiled, accepted.

The dance was uncomfortable the way so many of them were. Pepper escaped as soon and as graciously as she could, leaving talks of contracts and potential mergers—as though SI ever would—on the dance floor.

Tony and Doctor Strange were at the bar, now. As she watched, Doctor Strange stole the glass from Tony’s hand, throwing back the rest of the drink himself before sliding the glass away. Somehow she knew that that would be Tony’s last drink of the night. Tony looked more amused than offended.

She wasn’t surprised when Tony and Doctor Strange disappeared the moment it was acceptable—part of her was surprised Tony managed to last that long—and she wished she didn’t know what they were probably doing.

If it was just sex… Pepper could have handled that. But it wasn’t. She’d gone to the tower early one day, needing Tony to do something or other than she could no longer remember, and she’d found them sprawled out on the couch fast asleep, still dressed in their clothes from the day before, holograms projected in front of them where they’d been discussing something she hadn’t understood.

It would have been so much easier if it was just sex. 

Pepper left the gala not long after, herself, even though there were people still on her list to talk to.

Just… not tonight.

Tonight she could let herself hurt. Tomorrow… tomorrow she’d be happy for Tony. Tomorrow she’d figure out how to make the jealousy go away.

Tonight… Tonight she let herself wish that Doctor Strange and Tony had never met.

[iamumbra195]

You know how after Tony defeated Extremis in Iron Man 3 and started looking into their research in order to stabilize Pepper?

It would've been cool if he began to do experiments using their research on animals/insects to see how it would react and how he could improve upon it so it could actually benefit the public and then in the post-credits scene there could be a mutated spider crawling through the vents then lowering itself onto the shoulder of one Peter Parker that is there on a field trip.

He got scared and tried to brush it off but it ended up biting his hand and Tada! Here is the origin of MCU Spider-Man!

I mean, if you're just gonna change a bunch of Spider-Man lore in these movies, might as well take it all the way rather than ignoring and never mentioning how and where he got his powers.

Plus, it would tie Tony and Peter together beyond Tony just randomly deciding to pull him into the whole Civil War mess like a complete asshole.

[marvel-lous-guy]

Tony: I have a lot of respect for Henry VIII

Peter: Why? Didn't he cheat on or kill most of his wives?

Tony: yeah, but the guy made his own damn religion just so he could cheat on his wife and not go to hell

Peter: I mean, I guess

Tony: he made a cheat code for god. People still follow a religion he made so he could cheat on his wife

Peter: I feel like Pepper wouldn't like it if she found out your greatest hero was Henry VIII

Tony: Oh no, Pepper has heard me discus this at length many times

[idk-bruh-20]

Irondad fic ideas #149

Pepper and Tony know each other and date in high school or college, and they get pregnant. They decide to give the baby up for adoption (mostly because of pressure from Tony’s parents who just want them to not have the baby at all) and the whole thing is really sad for both of them so they end up breaking up.

Years later, Tony and Pepper find each other again and it turns out Pepper kept their baby boy, Peter

This fic idea was submitted by @obviesbellarke

[likea-black-widow-baby]

Marvel Women as The Tortured Poet's Department + Anthology Songs

Valkyrie: Fortnight

Peggy: My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys

Jane: Down Bad

Simmons: Fresh Out The Slammer

Melina: Florida!!!

Wanda: Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?

Pepper: I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)

Gamora: loml

Natasha: I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

Carol: The Alchemy

Kate: Clara Bow

Maria Rambeau: The Black Dog

Dottie: imgonnagetyouback

Bobbi: The Albatross

Daisy: Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus

Kamala: I Hate It Here

Angie: I Look In People's Windows

Nakia: Cassandra

MJ: Peter

May: The Bolter

Cassie: Robin

[ace-sher-bi-john]

I absolutely love the headcanon/trope that Peter finds out about Pepper's pregnancy before she does, because he can hear heartbeats. It's canon now, I've decided. Pepper becomes pregnant with Morgan before the events of Infinity War and Peter's the one who tells her.

He even does a reveal with those mugs that say "You're going to be a daddy!" with one for Tony and one for Pepper that says "You're going to be a mommy!".

But something I love even more is that my other obsession, BBC Sherlock has something similar. AND IT'S ACTUALLY CANON.

Sherlock finds out that Mary's pregnant before she does, through deductions. He notices her appetite's changed, her taste perception's changed and she's been experiencing nausea that could be put down to pre-marital nerves. But he puts it all together and deduces that she's pregnant.

One of my favorite headcanons for MCU Spider-Man actually happened on Sherlock! I love it when this stuff happens.

[izzysarchivedblogs]

pepper potts. blog canon. please read.

ALRIGHT. Let's get into this. Let's get into the Iron Family, let's make ourselves sad at the state of Pepper Potts in current 616 canon.

I'm gonna toss this under the cut in case it gets long, I'm gonna try to give an abbreviated history to pepper; I still need to get to and read Happy's death again, cause that's really where I am starting this.

also pretty much beyond invincible iron man vol 4 where pepper meets Riri; it's all not great. it's just not good. it does not do pepper's character justice; it's sad. it's a little sad how the state of thing have been left.

This is my blog canon for Pepper, inspired from comics, and headcanons to fill in the gaps over the years

PLEASE LEAVE A LIKE IF YOU READ, or leave a comment, writing these up takes time and likes encourage the mun to do more, and that the love given to this character is seen.

GENDER -> Given that I write Pepper Potts as a trans woman, she/her, and love this as it goes with Pepper's story theme of finding herself, of becoming her own woman. Especially some of the ways she takes about being Rescue, and her scrapped letter to Tony. Pepper socially comes out when she is twenty, this would be when she is working at Stark Industries, around the same year she would catch the accounting error. As I don't want to center too much of her story around transition or center around this; focus on her own canon story and the concept of trans joy, trans acceptance, etc. Over the years, she would fully medicially transition; which only contributes to the confidence and joy that Pepper has of being who she is. She is proud, she is out, publically and socially, and she has been accepted is the most important part of all this and of Pepper's gender; and that she absolutely loves dresses and skirts and heels and makeup, that she enjoys these parts of her routine that reflect the woman she is.

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FAMILY PT 1 -> Born to sensible mother, Olivia Potts, and father, Jonathan Potts, accompanied by a two years older brother, Andrew Potts. She was always the good child, the one who did her school work and did as the family expected. When Pepper came out, it was generally something she was allowed to go. Her brother had the hardest time, her family not ever understanding or trying to understand; but they used the right pronouns, called her Virginia, and generally let that be. She's a woman and accepted that, do they call her sister and daughter? No, but Pepper never asked for that when she got out on her own and came out.

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HIRED AT STARK -> This will be brief as most of this remains as canon. Virginia Potts would start her work at Stark Industries, at the lowest level as a receptionist. Eventually she would catch an accounting mistake made by Tony Stark himself, who would coin her nickname Pepper for her freckled complex, which lead her to being hired on a his executive assistant. Working alongside and under Tony Stark, she would often run affairs in his absence and once his secret identity as Iron Man was known, she would even act as the woman in the chair for when he was out as Iron Man, often on head set to communicate with him about business as well as provide him tactical aid on the fly.

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TONY AND HAPPY -> While Pepper had initially been attracted to Tony Stark, pining after a date with him and would develop some feelings for the man who would become one of her friends; along came Happy Hogan hired by Tony Stark, and it was love at first fight for Happy and Pepper. It would take a lot of back and forth between Tony and Happy, with Pepper pining for Tony, Tony developing some feeling for Pepper, and Happy always having feeling for Pepper. Pepper fell for Happy and eventually they married. She had a life with Happy, but the troubles brought to their lives by Iron Man, led for Pepper to beg Happy that they quit working for Stark and started their own lives without Iron Man. This would not last as Happy could not hold down a job and plans to adopt were axed by that fact. This would put a strain on their relationship that lead to divorce; no cheating but a few affairs between the two of them with other people put a damper on rekindling attempts. Pepper and Happy would go back to working for Tony with Stark Solutions. She would be relying information for Iron Man constantly. Pepper would have a few relationships outside of Happy, including a romantic kiss with Tony which confirmed for her that they were good friends, but nothing more. Eventually, she would reconcile with Happy and they would remarry. This would re-solidify Pepper and Happy as Tony's happy married friends again.

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2008 IIM RUN -> Typically speaking this is the core of where my Pepper starts; it's from this run. Now a widow, working for Tony Stark still because he's her only family now. It start with her starting to look at whats next, opening herself up to old feelings for Tony again; it starts with the building falling on her and sharpnel in her heart, her own RT Node. Tony is the director of Shield, until the Dark Reign event with Norman Osborn. This is when things start to shift painfully so; she goes through trying to save Tony's life, from knowing he is going brain dead and having a brief tryst with him which had real feelings and love for him, and knowing he is going to die; to rebooting him and bringing him back to life; WHY HIM. Why does he get to come back, to live, and to not remember what they could have had too. She just lost Happy and that was it.

CIVIL WAR + HAPPY'S DEATH -> The hardest thing that Pepper Potts would find herself going through was when her husband, Happy, sustained injuries from Spymaster while the first superhero Civil War was going on. The injuries were fatal, leaving Happy in a vegetative state. Pepper would urge on Tony to turn off Happy's life support, to which which at first he would say no. One of the most painful things was for that moment to have Tony refuse her the request to honor Happy's memory and let him go. Eventually, Tony would do this and Pepper barely allowed herself time to grieve before she was volunteering herself for Tony's Stark's fifty states initiative which would lead to Pepper taking on the role of Hera for The Order.

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RESCUE + RT CHEST NODE -> To start, she thinks of it as a bomb, a fear that the Repulsor Tech in chest, keeping her alive, was going to be a weapon used against her, a weapon, a ticking time bomb that could only lead to destruction. Something assigned to her, something that was not who she was. When she learns, it's not made from something rooted in blood, an ex-weapons industry; Pepper embraces it. She already felt incredible, even with that concern, but know that her RT node was not to be a bomb, to be a weapon; she let it be anything she wanted to be. It made her connected to everything, feeling the thrum of electricity of the magnets; allowed her to understand her dear friend Tony better. Pepper embraces it, the RT Node becomes part of her; something necessary to being the woman she was today, like the makeup and surgeries and coming out as a woman. THAN CAME HER SUIT, and to know how to fly, to go anywhere in the world, and be powerful and herself. When she had to give up her RT Node to save Tony's life, she did that for love of Tony, and when she asked for it back, it was for love of herself. So to present day, Pepper still has her RT node in her chest, still has her Rescue suits; as they are a part of who she is now.

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INTERMISSION -> Tony goes to space, and leaves Pepper to her work as Resilient's CEO as well as overseeing/monitoring Tony Stark's other businesses. She meets a Marc Kumar and even finds herself engaged. The events of Iron Man (vol 5) goes as canon goes; with Marc seeking out the Mento-Intensifier Mandarian Ring; and the dissolution of his relationship with Pepper, as she explains to him that even though Stark ha treatedher badly, most of the time he didn't. (remember this part for later) -> With another relationship down, this leaves Pepper alone again in the sense of canon, for Marvel to put her on a dusty shelf; what we can take from this is the way that Pepper will start to feel defeated. Happy's dead, her tryst with Tony stings, relationship with Wyche ended by her, and than Marc turns out to hate Tony and have a whole plot against him (to point out here, another way that tony end up in the center).

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SUPERIOR IRON MAN -> So let's get into this; this starts the penultimate fall of the friendship of Pepper and Tony. She still loves him; look at what she does, what she goes through to take down SIM, because that's not Tony; not really and she made the contingency plan with Tony years ago. Tony is her friend, someone she loves and has a long complicated history with; he was the start of family to her. Through him, she met Happy and then Rhodey, and became CEO of Resilient; and now she has to take down his nightmare. It's the beginning of the furthest drift from Tony.

FAMILY PT 2 -> Pepper's never been the closest with her family, even growing up she didn't quite know her place or what she wanted, it was when she turned eighteen, went the college her father wanted that she figured it out, it's when she started at Stark Industries. She found more family with her co-worker Happy, her employer Tony Stark and Iron Man, and in Tony's friend Rhodey. Pepper keeps minimal contact, typically only going home once a year to visit the Potts family, she feels as though with everything she has been through, as Pepper Potts assistant to Tony Stark, as one of the few to be in the know about Iron Man at the time. This goes on further when she loses her husband, Happy, who had acted as the bridge between her and the Potts family, her and the Hogan family. Even deeper as she plays her hand at hero, as Hera, and then becomes Rescue with the RT node. The first family gathering she attended after that with the Potts, she felt the outsider that she had always been, even outside of her coming out and going from who they had thought they knew to who Pepper was, Virginia "Pepper" Potts. This will further cement to HER that her family is Tony Stark, Happy Hogan, James Rhodes, and Jarvis, because they just knew and saw Pepper; they were her family, and then she lost Happy. Then things with Tony hurt more and more.

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THE YEARS THAT COME AFTER -> Rhodey's death and Tony's coma. Leaves Pepper utterly without family, beyond those she works closely with at Resilient. It leaves her alone, with no one and she's angry. She's angry about it, but mostly hurt and alone. Happy's been gone a long time, she lost their friend Rhodey, and then Tony AGAIN. WHEN Riri pops up, there's a lot of emotions that she goes through that go without saying, that go on with her having anything anyone to talk to. She finds Riri, and she sees her taking on the Iron Mantle, and it means a lot and it hurts; and then there's that fucking AI Tony that stings. Her and Tony had already began to drift for a long time, longer than when SIM happened. He's dead, and he can't rest and she can't mourn him, or her entire family. She has to move forward; but she something she likes in Riri a lot, wants the legacy to carry on. She has as much a part of this as Tony Stark ever was now, at this point? It's HERS too.

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PREFACE TO SHADOW -> Secret Empire + Robot Revolution. I have my issues with these events a lot, Pepper doesn't really show up outside a lot after SIM. I am completely happy to exclude these from canon, but if we were looking at them as canon. She is part of the opposing Underground, providing RESCUE support. Addressing the Robot Revolution would go into THE SHADOW OF TONY STARK, but having her who has built up Resilient, which Tony has passed onto her without Stark being in the title; IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT moments for her, because it's letting the company be more hers, its letting it and outside of Stark's shadow. So for Tony to come out of his coma, create Stark Unlimited and merge all his other companies including Resilient as subsidiaries, and Marvel not give us Pepper's perspective on that; suck. It's bad. Now it's back under the Stark shadow. On top of that, for her to be the one that everyone goes to for her to get DNA from Tony's mother, is an incredible painful thing for her. I typically ignore these as canon cause Marvel did her dirty.

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THE SHADOW OF TONY STARK -> Tony Stark has cast a shadow upon Pepper's life permanently. At times, many times, it was a shadow she was happy to be under, happy to know and walk in. HE WAS HER FRIEND, HER FAMILY. She has been there since the earliest of days, but for the long while she was just his assistant, to so many people. Maria Hill takes such offense with Pepper's capabilities cause she saw Pepper as Tony's assistant. Having her RT node being taken, to save Tony's life, when why couldn't she have just grieved her, why couldn't she and Happy be the lucky ones and Happy be alive. THE LONG DRIFT between her and Tony starts, and every year, when she gets pulled back in, it's a little further out from the last time. She gets pulled back in to save Tony, to put Tony first, and she loves him; but when will something go her way; when will someone move heaven, earth, and hell for her. Often times, Tony doesn't show her the most gratitude, he doesn't have the energy or time, immediately pulled into something. We don't see him grateful to Pepper in panels. It's always move onto the next thing, and don't look back at Pepper, don't acknowledge that she stands in his shadow. People ask her weekly, wonder, what it is between them, why they fell out because to this day; she is in Tony's shadow. Even when MJ calls her about the job, it's about Tony; who they haven't spoken much. Partly on her part, because there is pain in his shadow.

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LOSS + ALONE -> She is the furthest from having family and friends than she has been; pushed herself out far from Tony because she can't take the pain. Jarvis, an old friend, someone who has been there longer bring her into the Lookups; but as we can assume it's Pepper; she says that her connection and relationship now is "strictly business, maybe for the best" and even going to these Lookups meeting, is painful because it's Stark tech, and she takes to him strictly business, when work forces them to have their people contact each other. It's painful to go there, because it's still in a way attached to Stark, his tech to hide their identities, and Jarvis; and it all RUBS THE WOUND RAW with Tony Stark. She doesn't even see Rhodey now that he's back. She does her work, and she goes home alone; always willing to put on her Rescue suit to help, to be pulled back in; but she doesn't have her family anymore, there's no Happy, no Rhodey, no Jarvis, no Tony. No long deep meaning friendship persevered; even though she loves them all. She and Tony barely talk, and she does miss the idea and memory of her family, still has photos of her, Tony, and Happy.

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PRESENT DAY -> She works as a corporate giant, under Stark's shadow again, gives her all to Resilient. She has Rescue on reserves, if even an emergency needs her or anyone does. Twice a year, she does see Tony and a doctor for RT Chest Node maintenance, and for any Rescue suit maintenance; but their friendship is in tatters, and it makes her sad and she'd love to be out of Tony's shadow, to be able to talk about the Iron Family without the hole in her chest, and she does wish that she could have that again. To have her family and her friend back, but it's a lot of pain to process. She keeps an eye on the Avengers and everyone; and gets updates about Tony from MJ; but otherwise she's in her own lane, and it's lonely. Least she got visiting Jamie amd Katrina, but she doesn't get to share that, plus Jamie's grown up. Resilient is still Resilient, not Stark Resilient but she still works closely and in conjunction with Stark Unlimited. Things with Tony is business only, things with most of the super community is business only, when they need her and the Rescue suit.

JAMIE CARLSON -> So after SIM, Pepper does take time to get to know Jamie as well as his mother. This is Happy's son, after all, and a piece of him that she had back. She has a room available in all her homes for him, if he ever needs anything; he can come to her. She want as much involvement in his life as he and his mother allows. She never got to raise children with Happy; the opportunity being taken from them as the agency determined Happy's instability to not approve them. So, she would more than happy to know Jamie and tell him about his father, and get to know Katrina, Jamie's mother as well; any help they could need. It's not often that she get to be involved, but she tries to not miss anything major as long as Katrina is comfortable with her being his step-mother (in a way).

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[pandagirl45]

Howard: I am alive-

Tony: die zombie! *hits him in the head*

Bucky: *shooting till the clip is empty*

Rhodey: *throws a match on it*

Pepper: *drops a mound of dirt*

Steve: strange, drop the cage!

[lastavenged]

The idea of Pepper dating again is so funny, especially if her bisexual experience is. Gets lots of men who embellish themselves, meanwhile gets very few to no women because they are intimidated by her (it's the old bi women joke about "boys = easy. Girls = scary" and "no one knows how to talk to women).

[log-1n]

I love competent women

[marvel-lous-guy]

*Pepper and Tony arguing*

Tony: Are you on your period? Is that what this is?

Pepper: *leans in close and whispers* I started my day by waking up in a pool if my own blood. Is that how you'd like me to end yours?

[daydreamerdrew]

Iron Man (1968) #58

[kitcat992]

│Identity Saga │Narrative Discourse (Tony and the language of Gen Z)

Identity Saga

Identity Crisis │ Chapter 1: Prologue

Identity Crisis │ Chapter 9: Gray Area

Identity Crisis │ Chapter 30: All In The Family

[periwinkle-the-11th]

i just like rly want a pepper potts x tony stark academic rivals to lovers fic, like a college or high school au or smth

[strawberryshortpace]

Conversation between Peter Parker and Tony Stark (

P: Wha-what do you need, Mr stark

T: I’m plotting

P: plotting?? Plotting what

T: I need to do something nice for pepper

Ooohhhh!! Ya i can help with that

Wa-was there a chance you weren’t gonna help

Well yeah, like if you had been all ‘I’m plotting to tak over the world’ I wouldn’t have helped

You think I’d need you’re help to take over the world

Ehh— you’re very powerful and capable but I could help you get some of the leaders to just step down instead of you having to forcibly remove them

You think you could get world leaders to what- just step down and hand all their power to you

Well yeah, why not

Why not, with that confidence I’m tempted to let you try