30 Days of Fandom Meme: Day 7
7 - Have you ever had a fic change your opinion of a character?
Ha, yes! I think most recently sineala's Tony fics have moved me from finding Tony Stark irritating to finding him...well, still a little irritating sometimes, but also sad and uncertain and concerned that he might be inadequate and generally in need of a hug.
Her fics are comicsverse, which has a fairly different Tony Stark characterization than movieverse - IIRC sineala summed it up as "Comics Tony hates being himself. Movie Tony loves being himself" - but they still made it easier to see the vulnerability behind Tony's general facade of dickishness.
And I'm going to link the fic where Tony really won a piece of my heart: snow.txt, where Steve stumbles upon the old self-insert hurt-comfort epics Tony wrote as a teenager, wherein Tony writes himself as the indispensable stoic woobie of Captain America's team.
Ha, yes! I think most recently sineala's Tony fics have moved me from finding Tony Stark irritating to finding him...well, still a little irritating sometimes, but also sad and uncertain and concerned that he might be inadequate and generally in need of a hug.
Her fics are comicsverse, which has a fairly different Tony Stark characterization than movieverse - IIRC sineala summed it up as "Comics Tony hates being himself. Movie Tony loves being himself" - but they still made it easier to see the vulnerability behind Tony's general facade of dickishness.
And I'm going to link the fic where Tony really won a piece of my heart: snow.txt, where Steve stumbles upon the old self-insert hurt-comfort epics Tony wrote as a teenager, wherein Tony writes himself as the indispensable stoic woobie of Captain America's team.