Peter Parker And Tony Stark - Blog Posts

Thank you @charming-mug for this screenshot from the video game "Marvel's Midnight Suns".

I'm losing my mind. This quote, from an official source, has made my week. Because thats exactly it! Thats the point! It's not that Tony looks as Peter and wants to adopt him because hes just so cute or anything. Tony looks at Peter and sees himself!

He sees himself in miniature. He sees a kid with all the potential that Tony wasted, all the potential that Tony mourned throwing away. Tony wants to make sure that Peter gets all the parts of Tony that Tony is proud of, and that Peter avoids the parts that still haunt Tony.

Tony gives Peter tech. He gives him access to the lab, new suits, and academic validation. He tries to make sure that Peter gets the chance to grow up as surrounded by tech as Tony did.

But! Tony is there! He actually helps, he makes sure Peter knows that the tech is a gift, and its there because Tony thinks Peter is worthy of it. And Tony is somewhat strict (ferry scene, yelling in infinity war, ect.) because I'm sure a part of him wishes that Howard had stopped Tony from partying and throwing his life away.

Irondad works so well, in my opinion, because its not that Tony thinks that he would be a good dad and so he finds some kid to take in. Its good because Tony finds a piece of himself in the way Peter behaves, and he starts feeling responsible for it. He is PUSHED into parenthood by his sense of responsibility and guilt over his past.

Tony looks at peter and sees who he could have been. He wants to make sure that Peter ends up better than him. Tony wants to right the wrongs done to him, to make sure Peter doesn’t experience the hurt that followed Tony into adulthood.

(And then Peter lost a mother-figure and a father-figure, and both were killed in a way that Peter doesn’t feel right to blame the murderer for their deaths. And Peter got put into the public eye, every movement criticized. And the Peter was so famous that his "bad publicity" held him back from his dream school.

Tony wanted Peter never to experience the things that hurt Tony. But Toy didn't live long enough to watch as all his efforts were proven to be in vain.

Because history repeats. The son becomes the father. Theres only one way this story ends.)

Peter: *texting happy* Happy! Help, I’m being kidnapped!

Happy: *replying* where are you?

Peter: I’m with some strange person! In a car. Help!

Happy: I’ll call Tony

Tony: *answering his cell* Y’ello?

Happy: where’s Peter? He told me that he’s being kidnapped.

Tony: Peter? Whaddya mean, he’s sitting in the back seat right her-

Tony:

Tony: I’ll call you back. *hangs up*

Tony: *turns around in his seat to be facing Peter* UNDEROOS! MY GOATEE WILL GROW BACK!

Peter: *pushing himself against the car door* WHO ARE YOU?!

Tony Stark has this bit he does, where he pretends to forget who people are. It’s one of his favorites, really. Ned is the usual victim, but Peter has seen it played on a number of people.

And it’s funny. It really is.

It’s just not funny when Tony looks at Peter and says “Who are you again?” after Peter fought so hard to know the mechanic again post-spell, he finally is on speaking terms with his old teammates, he has a guest room in Stark Tower again. It’s not as funny when the man who used to be Peter’s father pretends not to know him, blissfully unaware of just how much he really has forgotten.

That’s when the bit stops being funny.

I have a question!

I'm so stuck on which to finish first..

I STAND WITH THIS.

but I'm telling you that Tony will go soft for his son.

“That’s not a hug, we’re not there yet”

Peter is so the opposite of Tony in every way emotionally and I think that’s why they learn so much from each other. Like, Tony doesn’t hug people. He doesn’t seem a very openly affectionate person, even with the people he’s closest to. Every piece of kindness is masked by a joke or a comment about his reputation, anything to avoid flat out vulnerability.

Peter, meanwhile, hugs the man he just met. Peter helps old ladies across the street and worries about schoolwork in the face of danger. Peter calls criminals and superheroes alike by formal names, “Mister criminal” and “Mister Stark”, he sees the humanity in every person he webs up or stands beside.

Both are completely, COMPLETELY predictable in emotional mannerisms, but Tony hopes to seem like an emotional 0 and Peter is openly at an emotional 100 all the time. That’s what makes their dynamic so interesting. The father made of stone and the son with a bleeding heart