For those who are just tuning in, "Is this anything?" is an irregular feature where I post sections of works-in-progress to find out if they are, in fact, anything
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You know, given that Tony Stark built an Iron Man suit in a cave with a box of scraps, I don't think anyone would want him as Guide just because he's ridiculously dangerous if he doesn't like you
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You make a compelling point, Neotoma. Unfortunately, the DBAU lacks any administrative apparatus for identifying Guides who have no business being Guides. Also, G-TAC is gradually losing power due to Blair's activities during and after the trilogy, but one area of untrammeled authority that they still have is to go after draft resisters like the vengeance of an angry god. This goes badly for Tony. And they even manage to make themselves look like the Good Guys to some people, because the official position is that no one should be able to get out of national service simply because they're rich and famous. (Not to mention dangerous and obnoxious.) Now that you've said that, I'm going to want to do more with that in the next draft
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To look at it from another perspective, he does end up as a Guide because the story I want to tell is about Tony returning to the Avengers badly traumatized and almost broken, accompanied by a new pseudo-teammate who is officially authorized to keep him that way.
'Authorized to' is not the same as 'a good idea to', especially given that Tony is friends with *Bruce*. Tony's assigned Sentinel might want to really consider whether treating Tony so badly that Bruce loses his temper is a good idea or not. You know, before The Hulk does a Wookiee and pulls their arms off...
Not to mention it would be hard for that person to work with the Avengers if they're all disgusted with the Sentinel's behavior. Social shunning and white mutiny seems quite likely responses, as well as Hulk-smash.
In the current draft, I do have a scene where all of SHIELD's Sentinels sit around talking about how nobody with any sense at all would want Tony Stark for a Guide. Including the one who eventually gets stuck with him.LOL, given that Tony is pretty much a
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'Authorized to' is not the same as 'a good idea to', especially given that Tony is friends with *Bruce*. Tony's assigned Sentinel might want to really consider whether treating Tony so badly that Bruce loses his temper is a good idea or not. You know, before The Hulk does a Wookiee and pulls their arms off...
Yes, I have a partial scene written (a little ahead of where I currently am in the draft) where Bruce makes this exact point to Tony.
You'd think there would be pressure to make a compatible match for PR purposesThat's also why he ends up being assigned to SHIELD, rather than some other government agency. But G-TAC gets to "train" him first, and that's where the trauma comes in. The deal they end up working out is that he'll do a standard (for this universe) draft term of 4 years, which Fury will decline to renew once he's finished. And during that time, there will be some sort of timeshare arrangement where his duties are split between normal Guide stuff and being Iron Man/the Avengers' equipment designer/supplier. And
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Love the fresh take on Avengers, keep going. Keira Marcos has a site that she uses for a NANO style writing project and she lets other people join. You should contact her to see how.
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'Authorized to' is not the same as 'a good idea to', especially given that Tony is friends with *Bruce*. Tony's assigned Sentinel might want to really consider whether treating Tony so badly that Bruce loses his temper is a good idea or not. You know, before The Hulk does a Wookiee and pulls their arms off...
Not to mention it would be hard for that person to work with the Avengers if they're all disgusted with the Sentinel's behavior. Social shunning and white mutiny seems quite likely responses, as well as Hulk-smash.
In the current draft, I do have a scene where all of SHIELD's Sentinels sit around talking about how nobody with any sense at all would want Tony Stark for a Guide. Including the one who eventually gets stuck with him.LOL, given that Tony is pretty much a ( ... )
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Yes, I have a partial scene written (a little ahead of where I currently am in the draft) where Bruce makes this exact point to Tony.
You'd think there would be pressure to make a compatible match for PR purposesThat's also why he ends up being assigned to SHIELD, rather than some other government agency. But G-TAC gets to "train" him first, and that's where the trauma comes in. The deal they end up working out is that he'll do a standard (for this universe) draft term of 4 years, which Fury will decline to renew once he's finished. And during that time, there will be some sort of timeshare arrangement where his duties are split between normal Guide stuff and being Iron Man/the Avengers' equipment designer/supplier. And ( ... )
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