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[del_rion]

Fandom: Captain America & Iron Man (MCU) / Matrix (fusion)
Any other info: Tony Stark and Steve Rogers are their MCU selves. Everyone else is a Matrix!AU version, if that makes sense.
“When they created the AI, I imagined the world filled with others like JARVIS - but they were nothing like him. They were dumb, lacked the emotional depth, and while they later constructed a concept of their own rights to exist, it never felt the same. Maybe it just would have taken a little more time - or a little more love.”

“Tony loved his AI?” Darcy asked. “That sounds… kinky.”

“Oh, I’m sure they had much love between them,” Steve smiled. “Tony gave JARVIS the possibility to grow, to advance, to learn. No matter how heated their banter got, I always knew JARVIS would ever remain loyal to his creator, and Tony, on his part, would never have a better friend.” His lips twitched at that, his mind jumping ahead. “I kept hoping, when I heard that Tony had gone to Zero One, that the war could be averted. I had already lived through one war, and I had no desire to see another. I thought that Tony could show the AI that humanity had more to give them than violence and discrimination - but then the bombs dropped.”

He looked at the tabletop, feeling his eyes mist a little. “I think it was better he died that day. He didn’t have to see the war, didn’t have to feel torn to choose a side.”

“Which side would he have chosen?” Betty asked.

Steve looked up at her. “It’s not for me to judge, but I think, in the end, he felt he had more in common with the AI than the humanity that had betrayed him, time and time again, to serve its own ends.”