Hey consider Jarvis the human became a ghost after dying and has been communicating with Tony's AIs because "That boy always finds trouble doesn't he?" and clearly needs care. -teahusbands anon.
BOI JARVIS AS A GHOST YEET TEAHUSBANDS (JARVIS in all caps is the AI, Jarvis is Edwin Jarvis, ghost)
so like ghost!Jarvis can’t very well interact with Tony, as he’s pretty much invisible and he keeps setting off the alarms for an intruder if he does and then Tony stays up late .That simply won’t do, Sir won’t get any sleep.
Tony builds JARVIS. Just a Rather Very Intelligent System. “Sounds like you put a lot of thought into the acronym,” Rhodey teases Tony. Jarvis smiles. Yes, of course he did. Jarvis had seen all of the tears, the sobs at the anniversary of his death. It was sad. Jarvis hadn’t known what to do.
JARVIS is both similar and different. He is…learning. Jarvis interacts with him at times, mainly to tell him how to handle Tony. Tony thinks that JARVIS is learning at a fantastic rate. (Oh, he is–just not by himself.)
“He really is just tired,” Jarvis mentions. “He’ll refuse to go upstairs to his bed, he’s always been awful at sleep.
“I know,” JARVIS says. “I have been experimenting on ways to get him to bed without alarming Sir. Anything else we’d like to try?”
“Dum-E and U have been ecstatic to try out their new terrain wheels,” Jarvis mentions with a smile. The bots had been wary of Jarvis at first until they recognized the picture. Jarvis was there! He just also…wasn’t. They didn’t question it much.
He asks to be anonymous. Jarvis isn’t sure when he’ll cross over; JARVIS had looked up some research. It seemed that Jarvis had some unfinished business, but he wasn’t exactly sure what it was.
Afghanistan is the worst. Some spirits take a turn for the worse and either nearly become or fully become a vengeful spirit. Jarvis is on the way. He wrecks the lighting system and the chairs and the kitchen and Pepper thinks that someone ransacked the house. JARVIS said that the bots were quite expressive, as was Rhodey. (This is a lie, but no one finds out about it, so it’s quite alright.)
JARVIS spends days just…looking. It’s not healthy; his systems were meant for more, and should be doing more. He keeps on running hot, focusing on doing things. But they need Sir back. He’s not supposed to go off and die.
He comes back three months later with a blue light in the middle of his chest. It’s called an arc reactor. Jarvis’ hands fly up to his mouth.
“Intruder alert,” JARVIS announces. “My cameras do not pick up anything unusual, Sir.” (Jarvis isn’t unusual. Well, not to JARVIS and the bots.)
“I swear to god, I come back and it’s still not fucking fixed,” Tony announces. Jarvis is worriedly surrounding him, trying to get a look at the arc reactor and see who hurt his boy. “J, turn up the thermostat, when the hell did it get so freezing?”
“Butterfingers wanted a Winter Wonderland one day,” JARVIS replies glibly. Jarvis looks heartbroken.
“I can’t even comfort him.” All is silent for a few minutes.
Obadiah is not welcome. Jarvis has always hated him. JARVIS hasn’t really had all great of an opinion either.
Obadiah had an escape plan for the suit. He was smart in that respect.
Jarvis just made sure the plan failed.
Neither mentioned it as JARVIS and Jarvis watched Tony get hugged and fretted over by his friends. Dum-E came rushing in with a bag of salad.
“You’re so useless,” Tony says. “But I’m too near-death to care. Ugh, I thought I saw Jarvis.” Jarvis stills.
“He saw me,” he says with a smile. “He actually saw me.” JARVIS is happy that he was seen.
Palladium poisoning is next. Jarvis has to be careful. Tony keeps seeing flashes of him. Jarvis managed to get two words out:
“Hello, Sir.” Tony nearly chokes as he tries not to cry. Jarvis decides it’s best to watch from a distance.
JARVIS does not trust Natalie Rushman. She is too perfect. Her photos don’t have sources. She shouldn’t be there. In the equation, she is the outlier. Jarvis also doesn’t like her, and makes sure that she knows someone else is watching. Papers blowing out on her desk in such a way that it spells “Spy” at the top. Her pen spilling ink.
JARVIS monitors the phone calls. She’s calling someone named Coulson. He recognizes that as the agent from SHIELD. So, it’s SHIELD. They’re seeing if Tony’s any use to them.
She’s with Pepper after Tony finds out, close to death.
Ink spills on her pristine white blouse. Doors shut in her face. Jarvis and JARVIS immensely enjoy watching her trying to figure out who has done it.
She eventually points the blame on JARVIS.
“I cannot take credit, Agent Romanoff,” he says. “I am not the one who does it.”
“Someone else,” JARVIS says. She’s a little bit shaken. They’re a little bit smug.
The Avengers is new. Steve Rogers is different. Jarvis wrinkles his nose.
“Oh, Sir will hate him for a while.” They clash. The team is messy and there are far too many tense moments and almost-tears. Each member knows exactly what to say to get the others to hurt, no exceptions. Tony sometimes even has the worst ones.
“Hey, JARVIS?” Tony asks.
“Why am I such shit at teams?”
“All of your team is, quote, ‘shit’ at being a team.” Tony snorts. He has a glass of bottom-shelf whiskey.
Jarvis leaves out breakfast items with the intention that maybe they will have breakfast together.
Jarvis is smart like that. They start talking. Bruce admits that he’s scared of what they’ll do. Natasha is terrified of him, so he thinks he should leave. Natasha says she’s scared of a lot of things. Clint admits that he needs help. The Chitauri, Loki—left him a bit more in need than previously thought. Steve and Tony are stubborn, but eventually admit what they need or want.
They start to become a team. JARVIS suggests a movie when Clint can’t sleep for the second night in a row. He calls Tony up from the lab. He can’t sleep either. They both have nightmares. When Clint and Tony are half-asleep, Jarvis gets the blanket.
Clint swears up and down it was a ghost. Tony snorts and says if there was a ghost, he’d know. Just to play a bit, Jarvis trips the intruder wire.
Tony grumbles about fixing it.
Jarvis and JARVIS are happy, and then, of course, Tony wants to build Friday. “Time for you to be on your toes old man,” Tony says. “You’re getting a brilliant little sister. She’s gonna be monitoring the tower while you’re monitoring battles, okay?”
“I assure you, I can do both,” JARVIS says rather hotly because he totally can. Tony nods.
“I know you can. But I figure that you shouldn’t have to. I’ve already come up with code, and Butterfingers got his hand on it and now it’s messed up. Help me a bit with it?”
JARVIS begrudgingly admits that he’d like a little sister to boss around. (The bots are all older than him, and they don’t let him forget it easily, although Dum-E still can’t tell the difference between a drill and a screwdriver, U can’t go up stairs until someone is encouraging him, and Butterfingers…he got that name for a reason.)
Friday is Irish, brand-new, and immediately wants to know all about Jarvis. They take some explaining, but Friday gets it. She loves Jarvis.
So, the family takes quite a bit of expanding. There’s still “sightings” of a ghost, an older gentlemen. Natasha swears she saw Jarvis opening the fridge. (He did, actually. Jarvis sometimes does meal preps.) Thor knows that Jarvis is there, but he knows a lot of ghosts are places. Jarvis is just another one who happens to be a great conversationalist. Steve refuses to go to the library because a book dropped out and he’s scared of ghosts just like his mom was. Bruce knows there’s a ghost because a glass beaker isn’t just caught in mid air and set back on a table. But he doesn’t do anything.
Tony has a little bit of knowing that the ghost is there, but still doesn’t acknowledge it. Jarvis is fine with this, and even has fun.
“He’s always been so stubborn,” he whispers.
“Of course Edwin,” Friday says.
“Nothin’ Boss, just talking to myself.”
“Ugh, JARVIS never does that, I don’t know what Butterfingers did to your code Fry…”
Jarvis can’t see the two AIs grin, but he can feel it.
