APPROVED: BACKGROUND_1 Origins
Genius, from birth. Has always been ahead of his class. Graduated with a double doctorate from MIT before his 18th birthday. Went into seclusion after his parents died in a car accident and emerged almost from nowhere after his twenty first birthday to be named CEO of Stark Industries as well as their head developer. Guided the company into a golden age of profit and weapons innovation for the next decade and change. Was taken captive when his convoy was attacked while in a middle eastern country, was also critically injured in that attack. Devised miniature arc reactor from missile parts to power the electromagnet that kept the shrapnel in his chest from entering his heart. Also used the same arc reactor to power the weapon he devised to escape. Was rescued a short time later and returned home. Perfected the weapon he used to escape, as well as the arc reactor he uses. Was turned upon by his father's long-time business partner and mentor, Obediah Stane, who literally stole Tony's arc reactor and armor designs to build his own weapon. Tony battled Stane outside and atop the Stark Industries building and prevailed, but at the cost of Stane's life. At the press conference following the battle, to address the issue of what was being termed as Iron Man, Tony shocked the world by revealing that he himself was Iron Man. Tony Stark has just taken a small step into a much larger universe.
APPROVED: PSY1 Driven
Tony is ambitious. If he's not the best at something, he doesn't find something to be the best at, he just becomes relentless until he's become the best at whatever he puts his mind to. It borders on obsessive, but he's not just spinning his wheels here.
APPROVED: PSY2 Egotism
He is egotistical to a ridiculous degree. The kind of ego you only see on the kind of people like Tony - wildly successful. Proven time and time again. The kind of egotism that comes from getting what he wants, whenever he wants it. The ego of winners, cut and dried.
APPROVED: PSY3 Narcissistic
Let's face it, Tony's a narcissist. He loves seeing his name, picture, profile, anywhere he can. He does what he has to in order to feed this need. He will do a guest spot on a TV show, he'll appear on talk shows, he will do TED talks, he will be the celebrity whatever. He loves the fact that he's part of the A-List, part of the limelight, and will keep himself there. He loves it when people want him, he loves it when people need him, and he loves it when he's the one they rely on. It absolutely feeds every part of him.
APPROVED: PSY4 Bad Boy
Tony is not a knight in shining armor. He does what he wants, when he wants it, with who he wants it with. Part of the reason he has the reputation he has, is because he refuses to conform to convention and the minute whatever he's doing becomes conventional, he switches it up. This applies to his personal life, business matters, interpersonal relationships. Anything.
APPROVED: PSY5 Hedonist
Tony's bond is with himself, and he serves himself at the pleasure of himself, and if it's one thing you can count on, it's for Tony Stark to pleasure himself.
APPROVED: PSY6 Instant Gratificationist
Tony doesn't like to wait. In fact, it's one of the things he hates in the whole world. Why wait, when he can do it himself? Why wait, when it's right here? Why wait, when he can do it better than anyone else? Why wait?
APPROVED: PSY7 Addictive Personality
Tony's brain and its chemistry is keyed for addiction. Especially if it's pleasurable (see Hedonism). So it's no surprise that Tony's given to liking his alcohol just a little too much. It's five o'clock somewhere and if it's not, it's close enough for Tony. He hasn't hit the alcoholism stage yet, but he's headed down that slippery slope for sure. First will be functioning alcoholic, then justified alcoholic, and so one and so forth til' it's a full blown Demon In A Bottle situation.
APPROVED: PSY8 Goal
Tony's goal, simply put, is to demonstrate both as himself and as Iron Man, that he is not the man his father was. He is willing to act, to fight, to even die for his believes if need be. Tony has something to prove to everyone, but even moreso to prove to himself, and Iron Man gives him that opportunity. To prove that despite all the things that he is, he can be better than the sum of his parts. He wants to prove that all of his drive and motivation is for a reason. That he doesn't have to make weapons because that's all he knows how to do. He can do other things. Like Iron Man. Something positive, something that can effect real change. That he CAN than the Da Vinci of our time, even if he doesn't paint.
APPROVED: PSY9 Motivation
Tony's motivation is that he wants to world of all of his arms that have been dealt under the table on the black market to people he would rather not have his weapons. He also wants to prove to the world that he can be both Tony Stark and Iron Man, not because he has to be, but because he wants to be. Beyond that, he sees what he can do as Iron Man, and feels obligated to do that. To help the world, to serve the greater good, and to not maybe be like someone like Cap or Superman, but a different kind of hero for a different kind of world. Doesn't mean he has to be a boy scout.
APPROVED: POW1 Armored Strength
The high tech nature of the armor as Tony has designed embues the suit with incredible amounts of super strength. It can lift and carry up to 50 tons, or tear through titanium. It can maintain this exertion for an extended period of time, though strength will decline with power dropoff.
APPROVED: POW2 Armor Defenses
The armor uses a complex alloy matrix that advances with each generation. It's toughness is such that it can easily withstand normal ordinance, as well as resistant to a wide array of physical damage. It can also withstand superhuman energy and physical attacks, through the incorpration of localized kinetic reflection and wide array forcecfield generation. There are also countermeasures to stave off sustained energy deviation/siphoning in place.
APPROVED: POW3 Armored Offenses
The armor has a wide arsenal of advanced weaponry powered by the arc rreactor. Chief among these are the repulsor rays, Stark's propietary concussive force. It also has military grade missiles and genades, as well as Omnibeam which can deliver energy beams of various types and wavelengths. Tony also has other offensive capabilities which he likes to customized with what he think he'll be facing in the field.
APPROVED: POW4 Armor Systems
The armor comes equipped with a sealed life support system that allows for operation in the most extreme temperature environments, while keeping the "cabin" at a constant temperature. In addition to being it's own Wi-Fi and Celluar antennae, it also has an advanced sensor network that allows for early warning, sonar/radar, various scans across all UV and IR spectrums. The suit can also, as it is "co-piloted" by JARVIS, be availed to everything JARVIS can including risk and weakness assessment for easier targetting. The suit has advanced quite a bit since the first incarnations, and is now capable of a more robust energy converstion ratio from the reactor, as well as capable of supporting modular loadouts giving Tony speccific tools for specific missions and jobs.
APPROVED: POW5 Flight
The flight control system the suit utilizes works on the proprietary Repulsor system Stark developed. It has been modified for the suit from it's original form, and can travel at a max speed of 5000MPH for a range of 3700 miles before deceleration needs to occur. It can vertically go sub-orbital, but is not safe to use in orbit or in zero gravity environment as of yet. He has hypervelocity modules he can include if needs to go supersonic or faster than that.
APPROVED: POW6 JARVIS
Batman has the Bat Computer, Oracle has DELPHI, and Tony has JARVIS. Named for the butler that was more present in his childhood than his own parents were, the Artificial Intelligence is every bit its own personality, and just like Pepper, dedicated to helping Tony in whatever is required from stock quotes to running as air traffic control for Iron Man. JARVIS does not operate on a network, but rather as sa direct interface with Tony that utilizes the entirety of the internet at a protocol level, using what it has permission to use and employing "work-arounds" for whatever it does not. It is an AI that is constantly learning, adapating, and evolving. Whatever information Tony needs, JARVIS simply provides. JARVIS also oversees Tony's personal design and fabrication manufacture for the Iron Man suits. There is a JARVIS cluster in his Malibu mansion as well as one in Stark Tower and the two work together utilizing all available processing power. There are backup clusters, however, these are known only to Tony and are not in play until he activates them at which time, the AI automatically ports over to the new cluster.
APPROVED: ADV1 Billionaire
Tony's money has money that makes money for his money. That is to say, his resources are fairly limitless. He can afford to do pretty much whatever he wants, whenever he wants, however he wants, with whomever he wants to do it with. Ways and Means are never going to be a problem for Tony.
APPROVED: ADV2 Languages
Tony is business fluent in the majority of his language, perhaps enough to get him slapped by any self respecting woman of the country whose language he's speaking. His fluencies lie in most of the first world languages of the globe, simply because if he's going to do business there he doesn't want to be mistaken. He will speak to them in their own tongue.
APPROVED: ADV3 Stark Properties
The Mansion, The Tower, and the Company itself in all of its form and splendor are Tony's legacy. The company is ran just like any other Fortune 500 company, though there are certain things Tony can push through as it's his name on the line. But The Tower and Mansion are solely Tony's. He's got other villas, condos, and the like scattered all around the world but these two properties are where he does the majority of his living and working. Any vacation properties are fluid assets and are bought and sold at a whim.
APPROVED: ADV4 Inner Circle
There are three people that are never far from Tony: Pepper, Hogan, and Rhodey. He would be utterly lost without Pepper, and she is as essential as air to him. Hogan is the wheelman, and usually the Mutt to his Jeff: Bodyguard, Driver, confidant. Rhodey has his own life and does his own thing, but they know that they are only a phone call or less away from being at each other's side. These three people are Tony's world.
APPROVED: ADV5 The Life
Tony wouldn't be Tony without being an active participant in "The Life" - Women, Paparazzi, Celebrity pals, red carpets and everything comes along with the 'Playboy' tag. It's everything that's part of being in the public eye and a well known celebrity the way that Tony is. It's a dirty work, but somebody's got to do it.
APPROVED: SKILL1 Industrialist
Due to the many pressures Tony has faced consistently in his life from the classroom to the boardroom, Tony has developed great willpower and individual strength to deal with the cutthroat world of industrial politics and intrigue as well as the courage to deal with the constant demand to be the first to market with the best toys.
APPROVED: SKILL2 Genius
Tony is a natural genuis when it comes to designing and building technology. Inherting the aptitude, and passion from his father combined with his own hyperadvaned intellect, he is able to envision the impossible, seeing beyond the current limits and create things that others haven't figured out, such as miniaturizing the arc reactor.
APPROVED: SKILL3 Businessman
Tony is as formidable in the boardroom as he is in the armor. He is a shrewed negotiator, his perception able to pick up on body language and tells easily. Very few things escape his notice. When he wants something, he usually gets what he's after be it a merger or an aquisition. There's a reason Stark is not only one of the most easily recognizeable corporations in the world, but also one of the world's most profitable. Even after the mothballing of the weapons division, the losses were covered and surpassed in record time. Tony seems to know exactly how to maneuver in the business world to put himself on top.
APPROVED: SKILL4 Inventor
Tony is foremost an inventor and engineer. This is his bread and butter, and as such his intellect is capable of envisioning the impossible in scope to see beyond the curve. He can turn something over in his head, and see how it can evolve. This also makes Tony a futurist. It's this attention to detail, and being able to foresee problems before they occur which serves him so well in developing technology at an accelerated rate.
APPROVED: SKILL5 Carousing
Tony is a carouser from way back. He can throw the party, he can keep a party going, and he can be the life of the party. He can suggest a drink depending on what you want, know the right wine for the right food, or know what to do with a given amount of spirits around.
APPROVED: SKILL6 Tinkerer
Tony is constantly working to improve and advanced his armor design. He costantly keeps working on every aspect to make it the most cutting edge, advaned piece of tech on the planet.
APPROVED: FLAW1 Drunkard
To be it bluntly, Tony is not an alcoholic (yet), but a drunkard. Which means he doesn't need an excuse to drink to excess, he can find them all by himself. Unless it's serious business, chances are he has a drink in his hand. Depending on the degree of serious business, he still might have a drink in his hand.
APPROVED: FLAW2 Armor Dependent
Tony is just a man. A wealthy, sexy, very intelligent man, but a man none the less. That said, he's only Superhuman when the armor is in use. Outside of it, he's as frail as anyone else. He has no superhman perks, no enhaned anything. He's just a man in a suit of power armor. Take that away and what is he?
APPROVED: FLAW3 Armor Limitations
The Armor is not all powerful. It by no means runs on an indefinite power source. Despite the arc reactor being the main power source for the armor, that can be depleted with prolonged use to the point where it will only function as Tony's life support device until it can recharge, and while damned effecient at managing power and having a few very generous battery backups on board and means to use external power for emergencies, the suit has the capacity and can run out of power rendering Tony with limited mobility despite being very protected in the suit.
APPROVED: FLAW4 Disability
One thing that's always overlooked is the thing that makes Tony Iron Man. He has a minitaruized arc reactor in his chest keeping barbs of metal from entering his heart and killing him. Everything else is a by-product of the technology he created to keep himself alive. While he can go short periods of time without the reactor due to maintaince or upgrades, a prolonged time without it in his chest will kill him. End of Story.
APPROVED: FLAW5 Espionage
Let's not forget the way this all started: Tony is a victim of industrial espionage. His weapons were sold under board to the highest bidder. His tech has been parted out to those who would twist their purposes. Tony's still ongoing mission is to eliminate all instances of unauthorized use of his weapons and tech, almost to the detriment of all else.
APPROVED: FLAW6 Lifestyle
His very lifestyle leaves Tony a man always teetering on the edge of responsibility. There is no middle ground with him. If he's in full on party boy mode, good luck dragging him to a board meeting, much less sober. If he's in work mode, good luck dragging him to a board meeting on more than 2 hours sleep. When he's in CEO mode, and actually in, it represents the most balance he sees. Let's not put too fine a point on it, either: The man loves his drink. He's not slipped down the slope towards Alcoholism..yet. He could, though. He can be a very high functioning lush.
APPROVED: FLAW7 Public Target
When you say "I *am* Iron Man." you are also going to make a ton of enemies. When they know how and where to find you, and who and what you're tied to, it makes you and everyone and everything else a public target. Enemies don't have to work as hard to find you, and as a result, there's always one eye over your shoulder and you sit with your back to a a wall. If it's not an attempted hostile takeover of his company, it's someone wanting a shot at Iron Man, or one of his Inner Circle. It never ends.
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