#being horribly manipulated and doing whatever he can to survive but its also really scary how

[hecksupremechips]

Honestly though I think it’s really a bad sign when I look at Shin Tsukimi and literally feel like he’s a self insert 😩

[sebastianshaw]

Although it's biologically impossible, and generally horrifying, I am very curious about how you would imagine a fan-kid between Sebastian and Pyro. We'll just say that Sinister mixed their DNA together on a whim and cloned a kid.

1) AT LAST sorry this took so long. And I still have two left!! 2) honestly at this point in Marvel, two cis dudes making a bio-baby is really the last thing I would question the possibility of Name: Rochester “Ches” Caspian Allerdyce. Pyro named him, obviously, though he claims that his choice of a grumpy asshole Bronte love interest is as much an homage to Shaw as to his own career as a romance novelist. Gender: Cis male General appearance: Tall and lanky like Pyro but you can see from his shoulders that Shaw is still one of his dads. All Shaw’s kids from this meme had DA SHOULDERS. His hair is curly and brown, his eyes are a lighter brown than Shaw’s, and he unfortunately inherited a lot of Pyro’s style sense, augmented with cowboy/western touches like fringes, buckskin, and plaid. It’s amazing, he manages to embarrass BOTH parents.  Personality: Laidback. Great guy to have a beer with. Chill as a cucumber til he’s not and bothered by nothing until it’s time for payback. Capable of both carefully and strategizing and thinking on his feet, both practical and “so crazy this just might work” style. He has two speeds----absolutely laidback, and high-energy lightspeed. But no matter what mode he’s in, there’s an intensity to him. It’s dormant most of the time, giving him a laidback cool-guy vibe, but when he’s in a situation where it’s need be, whether it’s in a room of high-powered politiciking and manipulation or an actual physical life-and-death emergency, this steely-eyed certainty in whatever he is doing comes to the surface, and he takes command, and people follow because it is human nature to go with the guy who is sure of himself in a crisis. Ches’s moral compass is a complex and inconsistent thing, and best described as group-oriented but selective about who is in that group. Raised in the community-centric, collectivist Krakoa, he tends to count all mutants as people he should protect and ally with even when he doesn’t know them, until they give him a VERY good reason (meaning, not something petty) to exclude them from his grace. If no other mutants are around, he tends to go next to those who he sees as deserving or in need, but also who can benefit him. He’s got a soft spot, but an equal mercenary streak, and he can be quite remorseless and compartmentalized when it comes to those he has chosen not to care about. In many ways, he takes “enlightened self-interest” more true to its original meaning than Shaw---the original meaning being that acting in the interest of one’s group also benefits oneself. And when the two DON’T coincide, it’s often unpredictable and situational which one he’ll choose over the other. So, during my last DnD Discord session, one of our guys was bargaining with this very scary salamander (not as in a cute newt but as in THIS) that he was in debt to. He talked his way out of it by offering to get this ring that would protect the salamander from cold damage, its big weakness. He goes and gets the ring, and he has a curse put on it. . . that makes the owner vulnerable to fire damage. The salamander is a being of fire and lives in a fire realm. He is not going to have a good time when he gets that ring. And this is the sort of thing I feel like Ches does whenever he is double-crossed or needs someone gone.  Special Talents: - His mutant power is to absorb and rechannel heat energy, from something as small as warming an object in his hands to shooting massive clouds of fire. Even the absorbing part can be dangerous, as Ches can easily kill someone by sapping all the heat from their body.. His codename is Mr. Fahrenheit, and yes he got it from the Queen song. -  He has a strong interest in travel and in bettering himself, instilled from both sides of his paternity, and to that end he’s accumulated an array of handy-dandy exotic survival skills for all sorts of situations. - Because he travels so much, he always has some of those tiny hotel shampoo bottles and complimentary toothbrushes and nail clippers and stuff at the ready and I like to think this has come in life-saving

levels of handy during situations they were never intended for. - He thinks he looks really cool on an electric guitar, but what he actually plays is the guiro. Doesn’t look half as rad, but he plays it with enthusiasm and pride! Who they like better: Pyro. Even if Shaw WASN’T Shaw, what kid ISN’T going to favor the dad who burns shit with them? Who they take after more: Pyro, but there’s still more Shaw under the surface than you see at first glance Personal Head canon: - He wasn’t actually raised by either bio-donor, but in a group of kids on Krakoa by people designated for the task of childcare. Pyro, Dom, and Shaw were more like uncles, with Pyro and Dom being more involved and Shaw being more distant, as one might expect. For instance, Ches slept over at Pyro and Dom’s place a lot. . . not so much Sebastian’s. But Shaw did damn well keep an eye on him in case he’d turn out acceptable. He thus far has not, but does seem at least made of slightly sterner stuff than Shinobi. - Asexual - Has a pet potoroo named Pootsy, because at his point in the future the potoroos have not only fully recovered from their endangered status, they’ve become pets. Pootsy is trained to sit on Ches’s shoulder and wears her own little brown leather cowboy hat. Yes, I gave him one because he’s Australian and I am a horrible stereotyper who must be stopped. - Thinks big woolly mountain goats are the coolest animal - Loves power metal retellings of historical or mythological events/figures, such as “The Tale of  Cú Chulainn “ by Miracle of Sound and “Beast of Gevaudan” by Powerwolf - Thrifts for vintage ashtrays, religious iconography, and absolute kitsch like enamel Garfield necklaces - Likes desert aesthetics and media that focuses around fictional diseases, supernatural or mundane (12 Monkeys, Outbreak, 28 Days Later, Sweet Tooth, zombie virus stuff, etc.) - Watches Peaky Blinders - Pet peeve is PROGRESSOPHOBIA Face Claim: N/A

[bisexual-magneto]

Villains do bad things purposely for an evil goal. All tony literally ever tried to do was protect people. It blew up in his face sometimes but he did more for people than most of the other avengers. He didn’t create ultron with an evil intent. That whole move is fucked anyways. Like the whole point of his character is that he makes up for his past mistakes and tries to do good even when things don’t work out (cuz marvel has to use tony to create their boring ass villains cuz he brings in the $)

"Villains do bad things purposely for an evil goal." This is simply not true. Even without getting into the nuances of villains, antagonists, anti-heroes, anti-villains - it's simply not true.

I know that our generation grew up with a lot of famous "for the lulz" plot twist villains like the Joker or Sherlock's Moriarty or GoT-Jeoffrey and it left its mark on how we perceive antagonists, but those are plot device villains - they basically have no personality of its own and no interesting motivation beyond being scary or getting rich or taking over the world or whatever.

But many villains are actually convinced they are doing the right thing -  or might even have the right goal but just horrible means to do it. Even in the MCU you have a fantastic example of such a character with Erik Killmonger who actually has an agenda that I find far more relatable than anything Tony has ever did in his life. 

The thing is, I love villains or antagonists like that (there is a reason why I have Magneto in my URL) and I could start an entire essay about why such characters are important and great and interesting and I even wrote a small essay about the conditions under which I might actually like Tony that touches upon that subject - for example if he did learn from his mistakes or did change his behaviour or did learn to respect his team mates etc. Which he doesn't.

And of course, there are villains who don't necessarily have good ideas or some respectable goal - but even they don't have to be card-carrying villains. They might do horrible things but still think it's the right thing to do. You know, like many people who do wrong things do. Mysterio in FFH is an example. Even Loki thought he was doing the right thing in Thor 1. Honestly, I'm not sure how you enjoy literally any kind of media if you don't know something as fundamental as: Not all villains consider themselves evil or have evil goals. Some have the wrong means. Some are misguided. Some are manipulated, groomed or forced. Some may have made experiences the hero didn’t and might actually change their outlook on things. Or they might have done something they thought was right but it turned out it wasn’t - and they make up for these past mistakes and get a redemption arc and eventually do it right. That could be Tony, if they played him as a villain.

And the thing about Tony "making up for past mistakes" is... he doesn't. In Iron Man 1 he learns not to build weapons. The he built Ultron. Then he build the technology Hydra would use for Project Insight - a technology that can take out anyone on Earth. In Civil War he calls Wanda (an actual person) a weapon while he goes to war against Cap with the robot He. Fucking. Created. and that He. Fucking. Raised., turning him into a weapon indirectly. And then, in Endgame, long after the fucking Nazis were discovered to be behind Project Insight, he returns from space and yells at Steve that they need technology like that. And what does he do after half the world population is killed, the planet is thrown into chaos, people fight to survive? Instead of helping? He builds more technology to kill random people with, points it at Earth, and signs the remote over to a teenager without any instructions or safety measures in case he dies. Which almost ends up with him killing a class mate accidentally. This is not a learning process or a redemption arc. This is a pretty consistent behaviour pattern and I know plenty of villains who did better than that. He still needs a redemption arc that might make him likable or interesting but instead he's dead and, according to Marvel, we have to pretend that he never did any of these things and has a spotless record of always doing the right thing.

"All tony literally ever tried to do was protect people" - Here's the problem. Sometimes people don't want to be protected. And it's their right to reject that. Putting a giant death laser asteroid into the sky "to protect people" is bad. I know that culture changed a lot regarding this question in the last 20 years, but individual freedom is an important value. No billionaire has the right to point a fucking missile at my head to 'protect me'. No thank you. Go fight poverty and end disease with your money. 

Also interesting: He could easily use his money to bring vaccinations and clean water into areas that don't have any and help people. You know like Bruce did. Steve literally fought the Nazis in WW2. Natascha stopped Project Insight. Thor saved an entire population in Thor 1, more than that in Thor 2 and again an entire population in Thor Ragnarök. so "he did more for people than most of the other Avengers" doesn't really hold up, despite him being in more films than any of them.