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ROUND THREE
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PROMPT FORMATTING:
Alphabetize pairings. They will be archived that way!Put [RPF] before RPF prompts

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Gen or Any/Tony, Tony has Synaesthesia

[anonymous]

I especially like Bruce/Tony, but any or no pairing would be fine.

I would like anything where Tony has synaesthesia. Basically synaesthesia is where a person experiences two or more senses being joined together. With synaesthesia you may associate a color with a letter of the alphabet or see shapes or colors when hearing certain sounds. The link below goes much more in depth with synaesthesia and is a very interesting read even if you don’t wish to fill the prompt.

http://www.the-biomatrix.net/what-is-synaesthesia.htm

Re: Gen or Any/Tony, Tony has Synaesthesia

[sonora_coneja]

Ooh, me likey this mucho! I've got synaesthesia, actually, and while it's hell sometimes, it can be quite beneficiary too. I could see Tony with it.

I'd love to write this for you, anon! especially with a side of Bruce/Tony

OP

[anonymous]

*tackle hugs* Yes! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!

Five Times when Synaesthesia Was a Problem for Tony Stark... (1a/6)

[sonora_coneja]

Tony never knew anything was wrong with him, until that visit to the doctor back when he was fourteen

Five Times when Synaesthesia Was a Problem for Tony Stark... (1b/6)

[sonora_coneja]

“The doctor called me,” his father said after a straight fifteen minutes of silence on the dark, long ride home. “He said you told him your wrist was yellow, that you didn’t feel anything. He said you tore a couple of ligaments, Tony. That shit’s supposed to hurt

Re: Five Times when Synaesthesia Was a Problem for Tony Stark... (1b/6)

[anonymous]

f5 f5 f5

Five Times Synaesthesia Was a Problem for Tony Stark... (2a/6)

[sonora_coneja]

Over the next few years, Tony tried, with varying degrees of success, to do what he’d committed himself to doing on the drive home from that hospital. Keep the crossed wires in his head from being an issue for him.

Most of the time, as he moved on through his education, he found it useful, helpful, being able to look at a problem in a way that none of his classmates could. It pissed the seniors off to no end, having some smart-ass little freshman in all their classes showing them up, but it wasn’t his fault that he looked at a curve, and could instantly see the equation that described it, laid out neatly in his mind already. No fuss, no muss. Simple.

It wasn’t so simple, though, when the ultra-expensive private high school ran out of classes that challenged him in any significant way in his spring semester, sophomore year. And his father insisted that, despite the fact that his acceptance package to MIT was sitting on his work bench in his bedroom, he maintain at least some contact with the damn place.

You’re a mouthy

Five Times Synaesthesia Was a Problem for Tony Stark... (2b/6)

[sonora_coneja]

She crawled up next to him on the bed, reaching for her half-finished cup of warm beer on the nightstand. Tony listened to her take a sip, edge up to lie next to him, trying to cuddle into his side. He moved his arm, not really wanting to touch her, sweating, angry at whatever she’d done to ruin the shape

Re: Five Times Synaesthesia Was a Problem for Tony Stark... (2b/6)

[anonymous]

oh, it`s great and delicious!

Re: Five Times Synaesthesia Was a Problem for Tony Stark... (2b/6)

[anonymous]

Squeeeeee! This is so awesome.

Re: Five Times Synaesthesia Was a Problem for Tony Stark... (2b/6)

[anonymous]

this is really just super great. Looking forward to more. :D

OP

[anonymous]

This has been amazing! You've done such a good job at creating a world outside of the movies, that it feels as if this were canon. Poor Tony. I've really been enjoying this fill, so thank you.

Five Times when Synaesthesia Was a Problem for Tony Stark... (3a/6)

[sonora_coneja]

When Tony was nineteen, he tried drugs for the first time

Five Times when Synaesthesia Was a Problem for Tony Stark... (3b/6)

[sonora_coneja]

He started drinking. And while beer had just always been a bad idea - it made everything go a fuzzy, indistinct dirty-snow brown that he'd never trusted - hard liquor I large, liver-kill quantities, crappy vodka and whiskey especially, had the effect of making that gray wall blur into two easily manageable dimensions.

Sure, there were other side effects of drinking that much. It didn't just flatten out the grayness, but everything else, too. Equations no longer curled up through themselves like they always had, conversations didn't spread out like three-dimensional scrabble games anymore, sounds lost their color and color lost its feeling and feeling lost its shape.

It was okay, though, it was all okay. He was trying to escape from all that. It was better with it all gone.

He skipped a lot of class that next month. There was no point in going if he couldn't see anything that was going on. He went to a lot of bars, and even tried to have sex a couple of times, but everything was so damn flat it was about as much fun as

Re: Five Times when Synaesthesia Was a Problem for Tony Stark... (3b/6)

[anonymous]

I CAN'T EVEN DEAL WITH HOW FLAWLESS THIS FILL IS.

Re: Five Times when Synaesthesia Was a Problem for Tony Stark... (3b/6)

[anonymous]

This is amazing. I like how you tied in Tony's drinking. I had to veer off at one point to Google whether synaesthesia is a heritable trait, and then I was sad, because really, synaesthesia is immensely cool. I can't imagine judging anyone negatively for it (if I knew anyone with synaesthesia, I would have to struggle not to harrass them with a million questions), so it makes me sad that Howard got Tony to feel like he couldn't tell anyone about it.