(I have been very busy irl unfortunately and wasn’t able to draw more rhodeytony this month but! good thing is that I don’t have to draw them only in november, so there are a few prompts I still plan to do when I have more free time 🌸)
still, I thought I would share some of my rhfe headcanons with you for this last day:
facts: tony entered MIT in 1984 at the age of 14, rhodey and him spent spring break ‘87 together and rhodey went to usafa
so I figured out he joined MIT in 1985
rhodey, 16 soon-to-be 17 (because he is fucking smart too) was following his orientation group when some short kid coming from nowhere bumped into him
the first thing rhodey heard was an “ow!”, then it was “your shirt is so cool!” and suddenly there were big brown eyes watching him expectantly
they had a small talk about bands (”AC/DC is the greatest rock and roll band of all time !”) (“you gotta listen some James Brown songs man”) until he realized his group was moving and left that kid, waving a quick goodbye
didn’t think about him again until he was close to the baker house which had been throwing a welcome back party and bumped into that kid (apparently called tony) again. completely drunk. what the hell
true to be told rhodey had thought tony was a student’s little brother or a pre-frosh. his mama raised him better than that tho and there is no way he would let this kid, who had been nothing but friendly, with people who give him so much alcohol
that’s how tony woke up in a dorm that was absolutely not his and imprinted on rhodey like a baby duck because he was nice to me??? and helped me???
tony absolutely called them meeting a second time “fate”, and that’s how he would tell their story years later
and the thing is that they actually got along well once the first awkwardness went away
rhodey quickly realized the emotional walls tony had around him
because when he came in the first time, everyone thought tony was just here thanks to his dad and was too young. they quickly realized he was indeed super smart tho and suddenly everyone wanted something from him but he never really made close friends. either they wanted to be the friend of tony stark or he scared them away with his genius and some didn’t like to have an awkward young teen smarter than them. so he became this flirty, party, public persona instead so people would like him more
but then come rhodey who liked him as he was and didn’t care if he was a stark or not
so every time someone would even just badly look at rhodey he would fight. he would fight with his words, he would fight with his fists too if needed. because no one will hurt his friend if he had something to say. rhodey was so smart and so fierce, and he wouldn’t let anyone try to destroy it
though rhodey never liked when tony was getting wasted, pretending to enjoy these stupid parties to act cool with people who don’t really care about the real him, but rhodey never stopped him. sure he told him what he thought of it, and didn’t have a problem to say “I told you so” when he complained about a hangover but he was always by his side no matter
and if months and months later, when rhodey helped a tipsy tony to go in bed and tony kissed him because it was the only way he could think to thank rhodey for being who he is, for care about him, for loving him, for being here… well this was between them, and none of them said something about it the next day