Tony Stark knew Peter Parker for 2 years and mourned him for 5.
For Peter it felt like only a few hours between going on a field trip with his classmates to fighting in a war and watching his mentor die.
He woke up that morning, probably excited to see the Starry Night painting in person. He then chose to protect Tony and his neighbourhood, his planet, to go to outer space and fight a genocidal alien.
He went home at the end of the day, bloody and bruised, to a home that no longer existed, and with the image of Tony's burnt flesh and unfocused stare pressed into his eyelids.
Tony spent years with the painful reality that Peter died too young, and it was his fault. Peter says he's sorry while he turns to dust in Tony's arms because he knows Tony will blame himself for this (and if you died? I feel like that's on me. And I don't need that on my conscience).
He is consumed with the thought while stranded in space, and he spits it out immediately when he lands on Earth- "I lost the kid".
Again, when he's inside with the other Avengers and flashes of dead missing persons are shown on the screen, Tony is reminded of Peter's body disappearing right under his fingers.
Now it's 5 years later, and he's moved on with a beautiful daughter of his own.
But then there's the photo that he kept, of him and Peter, brought to his new home that's supposed to be a fresh start.
The opportunity to bring the Avengers together, to fight again? No.
The opportunity to give Peter Parker a chance at the life he deserves, a life longer than childhood?
Tony Stark invents time travel.
Peter Parker will never know it was for him.
Maybe when Peter is 21 he'll realize that this is how long Mr. Stark had lost him for. It cuts open his grief, worse than any other anniversary has.
He wishes he could hug Mr. Stark again. He wishes he held on longer when Tony pulled him in, held on tighter.
He wonders if while he was hugging Tony and thinking about it being their first real hug, Tony knew it would be their last.
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Since Marvel decided to broke us all with Rhodey's story, I decided to ruin myself -and every single person who's reading this- even more.
Rhodey looked at the sky to see if Tony, with the Iron Man suit, was up there and if he was coming for him.
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What people think the ultimate sacrifice was: Iron Man giving up his life when he snapped the gauntlet
What the actual ultimate sacrifice was: Ned saying he was watching p*rn to keep Peter’s cover
The fact that they never showed any follow up to that scene will haunt me
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Anyone else ever think about how, in canon, Peter probably never got to tell Tony he was the kid that Ironman saved in Ironman 2
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Billionaire Tony…
Likes simple things:
Cheeseburgers from Burger King, pizza and donuts
T-Shirts from Walmart, t-shirts of his favorite heavy metal bands
$5 Bottles from Dick’s
His father’s old robe
Paper books
Minimalistic interiors
Cooled down coffee
He doesn't really care what kind of coffee he drinks
Physical labor
Friendly relationships with his employees
Wooden cabins by the lake with chickens, alpacas and a garden
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