fic: Succession, 2/2 -- Iron Man

[amonitrate]

PLEASE SEE WARNINGS IN PART 1

Tony spent the night on Rhodey's couch, with the excuse that he was too trashed to drive. It wasn't exactly an excuse, since between them he and Rhodey had nearly finished off a bottle of Armadale, but Pepper was back at the house, and he figured a little distance might not be a bad thing.

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[kurukami]

I thought I recognized the description of that MIT hack. Brilliant, creepy... and, given the backstory of the Dollhouse, far too terrifyingly believable.

One small thing...

Could you off on those plans before you go play superhero? I figure there should probably be a "sign" somewhere in there.

Otherwise: wow! And eeeeek. In approximately equal measures. : )

And whatever happened to Everhart to make her, um, no longer interested in pursuing Rossum? Would I be right in guessing that the Dollhouse kinda sorta tweaked her? Because she doesn't seem like the type who would be easily bought off.

[amonitrate]

Thanks! I've been finding dropped out words. Something odd happened between googledocs and LJ.

And yes, you'd guess correctly about Christine!

[kurukami]

Makes me wonder why they never tweaked Ballard, though. *ponders*

[amonitrate]

good question. maybe he was too useful?

I'm not sure they have the capability to selectively edit people the way I proposed here, they seem more like they can only do entire personalities. But given the way they "build" personalities from scratch on the show, tweaking existing personalities/memories seems like it would be possible.

[hradzka]

Welcome to hell. Here are your cuff links.

This is such a nasty little chiller. And I am entirely unsurprised that the Dollhouse number is in Obie's Rolodex.

[amonitrate]

thank you. I feel as if I've officially entered Wrongdom with this one.

[pensive1]

she slid out of his grip like a debauched mermaid.
I can't tell you what cosmic level of Awesome this line is.

Also, the cigar, I knew then. And promptly started screaming. GOD I MISS WRONG FROM THE HIVEMIND. ilu all so much ♥

Sweetie, I've never watched Dollhouse (despite getting the special dvd at SDCC for a friend), but I didn't feel like I had to. You did marvelously at giving necessary details.

There's so many more epic parts that I loved the shit out of, but I'll stop here because People Might Be Watching, and what I have to say is not for Them ¬_¬

A+++

[amonitrate]

ahahha. Thanks! Go ahead and PM me if you want!

I'm really glad it worked for you despite not knowing Dollhouse, I was worried a little about that.

[agilebrit]

That. Was. AMAZING. I have chills. I was totally freaking when she was playing with the reactor, and in this fandom, you never know--seriously, I thought you might kill him. Very nice.

[amonitrate]

hee. I have a hard time killing off Tony. I thought about it last Halloween, but this time I didn't consider it. Someday.

Thanks!

[amonitrate]

thank you!