Resilient

Pepper Potts of earth 616 sideblog by izzy

[resilientboss]

follows, asks, and likes come from @mastcrmarksman

a roleplay blog for Pepper Potts of earth 616 comics. selective & low-activity. written by izzy.

activity will always be slow as writing is a hobby for me that ebs and flows, muse will strike me at times and i go where my greatest interest is at writing at the time; it's why i have multiple muses because i have a great passion for exploring a lot of things and want the flexibility and freedom to enjoy this hobby and enjoy writing my greatest interests at the time.

i am not mcu-knowledgable and normally mcu compliant. my preference for canon sources tends to be the comics and video games. this does not mean however i won't write with mcu muses, this simply means i tend to base things with 616 comic knowledge and don't follow the events of the mcu or even know what's what anymore.

i will not respond to "i hope you follow me asks" or dms that simply start off with "hi".

if you follow this blog, you are its mutual. if you follow @mastcrmarksman you are this blog's mutual as well and asks sent to either inboxes (this blog or @mastcrmarksman) is valid.

[resilientboss]

just going to bump pepper up to the main blog multimuse <3 though this sideblog is staying up <3 anyways be following @lastavenged thats where writing and izzy will be (once the blog is set up)

[resilientboss]

🙄🙄🙄🙄

This whole conversation is bad and reductive writing. Sighs.

And proof how much the MCU influence comics. Because like. I can go get the non-existence of Pepper and Tony as a couple and how neither of them, Pepper especially looks at Tony as an ex NOR has feelings about that or whoever he would be with. Like they have moved well beyond anything like that. Why would she care? Why would it be weird?

The whole collective of forgetting the era of which Pepper and Tony both simultaneously agreed and to each other's faces; that they do not have feelings, they are only friends and they even like that they are only best friends. And this happened after a kiss they shared.

Also why does Melinda May care of all people?

Sighs.

[resilientboss]

The new Iron Man is nothing good, but the smallest of crumbs is that at least I do get to see Ms. Pepper Potts in art again. I love her. So much.

[its-sweet-like-cinnamon]

X-FILES Detour || 05.04

[resilientboss]

@transistorized

[soundsofmyuniverse]

Dana Scully | The X-Files 1x09 “Space”

[resilientboss]

[resilientboss]

that time was different. this is worse.

❝ Tony. ❞

She speaks in a louder, clear voice to cut him off. Her hand squeezes tie around the tie she was forcing him to change to because investors were particular people. The wrong brand of tie could offend someone, and was going to because the previous tie he had been wearing was made by someone's ex-wife company and she's not able to suffer to hear about bitter divorces all evening.

Pepper should count herself lucky that she's even managed to wrangle him in for an appearance to one of these things. ❝ Don't be a baby. You aren't going to implode, unless you've another life-threatening injury you're hiding. Again. Or you're going brain dead. Again. ❞ She may have purposefully, pulled his tie a little too tight for emphasis on the second again. Pepper knows that he remembers how to do these, even if he's trying to weasel his way out of this.

❝ Only need you for an hour, if you're a good boy. Talk about rockets and space, and then you can go have your meltdown about... playing nice. ❞ Pepper knows that he remembers how to do these, even if he's trying to weasel his way out of this. ❝ I'll even owe you, I don't give out favors often, and do NOT mention his ex-wife or her textile company. If you do, I'll strangle you with your favorite Captain America blanket. ❞

[mcflymemes]

PROMPTS FOR PRE ESTABLISHED CONNECTIONS AND CREATING HISTORY BETWEEN CHARACTERS *  assorted dialogue for giving your characters a history and giving them past things or events to talk about, adjust as necessary

do you remember what i told you last time?

have you been doing well since i saw you?

that's not what you told me back then.

when was the last time i saw you?

you were shorter then.

i'm picking the restaurant this time.

we've known each other since we were children.

always knew i could count on you.

that time was different. this is worse.

you're not going to let me live that down, are you?

i seem to remember a conversation we had back then.

so you changed your mind about it?

do you remember our encounter in paris?

you should know me by now.

am i the only one that knows the truth?

we had a lot of help back then.

your mom told me to look out for you.

you just love bringing that back up to annoy me.

maybe don't mention my past indescretions?

this was never going to work out between us.

i told you not to get attached.

i know more about you than you think.

i was there, remember?

i'm not about to forget all the shit you put me through.

you told me you were going to try and make this work.

remember what i said to you?

the last time i saw you, things were good between us.

you never mentioned this before.

that was the longest flight of my life, and you made it worse.

can i still trust you after all that?

at least we tried to make something work.

we never discussed what happened between us.

okay, but i'm driving the car this time.

i haven't forgotten what you said last week.

i'm still thinking about your comment.

i didn't realize it was you when i first saw you.

you seem to make a lot of enemies around here.

there's not much for us to talk about.

we worked it out last time.

i know you far better than you know yourself.

we have a long history.

is that the shirt you were wearing last time?

what don't i know about you?

i haven't told them about us.

you were the only person i could go to.

you know me.

this is bigger than both of us.

i can't stand your driving.

are you taking me to the place we had dinner last time?

that's not at all what you said.

didn't we agree on that?

i thought i made it very clear where i stand.

are these the same people that came after you last time?

are you still going on about it?

can we talk about it?

staying silent about it won't help.

you're the only person who knows the real me.

this is a bad time to talk about your problems.

[resilientboss]

Second dog post because I can and am thinking about Pepper and her grief. Wait until I get to posting the panels around it.

SOCRATES ⸺ aka Sock or Sock-boy ⸺ English Bulldog ⸺ adopted after her divorce from Happy Hogan, partly to deal with her guilt over the deconstruction of her relationship with Happy as well as loneliness and grief from the marriage and failure to adopt their foster children. Socrates was chosen because his ugliness (gorgeous as pepper calls him) absolutely reminds her of Happy; ugly with an inner beauty, a fighter and a lover, loyal. Happy was not all too thrilled about the dog, but Sock grew him as well once they remarried. The bulldog was how Pepper got through her grief over Happy's death as well.

ARISTOTLE ⸺ aka Aries ⸺ French Bulldog ⸺ adopted several years after Happy's death, when Socrates started having some senior dog health problems and one of her vets advice was that Socrates actually needed to be more active, Pepper decided to adopt another much younger dog to join her on Her and Socrates' walks. This was both out of her own future grief of the inevitable of losing Socrates, and to try to be more physically active, which Aries was a puppy upon adoption and continues to run circles around Pepper and Socrates, but has accomplished the goal of Socrates having both lost some weight and more active.

[bigwarmth]

scully, “war of the coprophages” (s3e12)

[resilientboss]

Everyone should know that Socrates is still alive and kicking, because I can make the rules, albeit being a senior citizen now. Also Pepper is absolutely adopting another bulldog, this time a french bulldog to Socrates English bulldog, and can you guess the name? It's Aristotle, Aries for short. Yeah, yeah, she gets these naming schemes by fault of Tony and his naming schemes. Something about him rubbing off on her (that's a lie she was born this way too tony's just conveniently there to blame for her own dorkiness).

[benoitblanc]

#give her a raise

[resilientboss]

@transistorized

[lottienats]

GILLIAN ANDERSON as DANA SCULLY The X Files, ‘War of the Coprophages’

[resilientboss]

the original model 1 armor for rescue is the end-all be-all of armors. it's how i would prefer pepper's armor to have looked permanently, and it's what this blog canon is here.

and you may ask, why izzy, why is this? while yes, this is technically an opinion, it is the correct opinion.

the head shape of the head/helmet. It is unique. It is somewhat bug-like sure, but the more triangular in shape. The pointed chin, the V-forehead, the rounded ear coverings. It sets her apart. It's better than when her Rescue armor because more looking like "tony could wear this"

The paint job being Silver and Red, is the best, red is Pepper's color as well, later they try to make it more pink in later models which i hate the "pinkening" before becoming that blue/purple of the mcu which is just not Pepper. Plus Silver & Red becomes me ever so close to Model 8 of the mainline iron armor (aka my all time fave of silver centurion)

the claw/nail likeness of the gauntlets is good, give her claws. gauntlets look cooler when they have little pointed tips! look at suits of armor and fantasy armors, don't the nails/claws make it look cooler

the extra vents/thrusters on the back good design is good even if you will see me drag the silliness of when tony does that to his armors (such as the 90s armors / promethean armor)

Yes, the one design flaw here is technically her first armor is like "armor with boobs" but you could bulk this up and flatten out the surface of the chest without losing the shapes and things that made this armor unique

[deathlieg]

"Oh, I believe he's positively alarmed, to be honest." Though he's been kind enough to Manfred, despite the fact that he's been obviously discomforted by the entire situation. Emmrich will at least give him tat much credit, and in truth, he supposes he cann't entirely blame him for being unnerved. He's sure their lot sees plenty of fantastical things in their line of work, but as he understands it, the things that go bump in the night, as her dear Mr. Stark has put it, aren't on that list often enough to desensitize. "Though I won't hold it against him, I imagine this is as unwanted a situation for him as it is for me."

He is not, after all, a superhero. Nor has he ever considered himself the type to contemplate such a drastic career change. It's as she's said: Captain Rogers simply has a way with words that leave one unable to say no.

"Tell me, Ms. Potts, if you would...Do these sorts of gatherings happen often?" After all, a quick glance around the room is a veritable who's who of the superhero world; one would have to willfully avoid all news media outlets entirely - and he nearly does for the most part, being more concerned with both forms of work - to not be able to put names to at least some of the faces and costumes filling to the corners of the large room. There, for one, is the scurrilous Hawkeye, a man seemingly determined to start off every interaction he has with another living (or unliving, as the case may be) being on the back foot. There, Captain Marvel, in deep conversation with a woman in red and yellow he fails to recognize. A man with the most intriguing metal arm whose name rests on the tip of his tongue, refusing to form completely. Spider-Man, a familiar figure whether one wishes him to be or not. Stephen Strange and Clea, both of whom he knows personally, as well as Wanda Maximoff.

It's a truly colorful cacophony of costumes and noise, each one like the plumage of a fantastical bird, but the mood teeters on the edge of grim with nerves. That is what's made him ask what's probably such a silly question.

It doesn't exactly leave him feeling confident this is simply an informational visit, and that his role in this is destined to be...More involved than he's initially hoped.

"I ask, simply because as I told Captain Rogers, I believe I'm far too old to begin harboring unlikely dreams of being an Avenger."

[resilientboss]

Her eyes scan across the room to see that Tony has spotted her talking to @deathlieg which she only nods her head for him. ❝ Tony's a big boy. ❞ Who can't say no to Steve, and so the necromancer was called in. She doubts Steve even had to make a compelling argument. ❝ He'll get be just fine. ❞ If he can help it, Pepper is sure that the teams will divide up without them working side-by-side.

❝ So will you. ❞ Emmrich may not want to be here, Pepper didn't do things anymore either, yet she knew the Avengers would take care of them. Since from what she's gathering, Emmrich is civilian, and they wouldn't put him any danger they couldn't protect a civilian from.

Pepper follows Emmrich's glance around the room, wondering how many people that he did recognize since they were all public figures. She'll dispel any myths if he asks or share names and things to know if asked. ❝ Gatherings this big? Not often, at least not without specific causes. That would be your world-saving emergency calls or the chairman and founders of the Avengers are making changes that avengers of all status should hear. ❞ As Emmrich and her were not Avengers, she can only assume it was the first. Unless this was their indoctrination to the Avengers, as decided by chair or found, and she will ring Tony's neck out if that is the case.

She would say that the Avengers use to have parties, and some still happened but she knows that with this size and certain events of Avengers history has ended the holiday parties. ❝ I use to assist Janet Van Dyne and the lovely Mr. Edwin Jarvis, if you'd had been graced to meet either, with holiday cards when the Avengers were much smaller in number and festive gathering was common. ❞ That thought took her back years when the gentleman had called the Stark offices asking if he could bother Pepper that he was under the weather one winter and if she could assist him with holiday cards since he knew she already did that as her secretary duties for Stark.

❝ Only active members are required to attend the regular business meetings, once a week, and reserves are only required to attend at least once per year though may at their discretion attend any meeting. ❞ Pepper does not know what it says about her that she does know the Avenger by-laws by memory quite well given her lack of being one.

Far too old, that gives Pepper a laugh since she could understand that sentiment. She's nearer than her fifties than not herself, being a few years older than Tony and the thought that when any the original members save for Steve reaches such an age, they'll have lived longer an Avenger than not. ❝ The Avengers have a by-law against discriminating over ages, that may be on the account that Captain Rogers is over a 100 and Thor's in his thousands. Though, I understand you, with my esteemed age, the only unlikely dream that I would harbor is that no one will call me when I vacation or retire. ❞

[resilientboss]

I hope @deathlieg knows that Pepper would sign papers for Manfred's adoption; she already has Jamie for a stepson (and he's a hulk) and she loves him, she's adopting the skeleton boy if her and Emmrich date. Good luck to Tony though, since one of her pastimes is enjoying Tony squirm and Emmrich has plenty of things to make Tony squirm over-

[deathlieg]

@resilientboss / Passing him a full-city roast cup of coffee. ❝ First time at one of these? ❞ She scans around the room. ❝ You had that look about you; so who dragged you into this? ❞

random things / always accepting

Truth be told, he's not much of a coffee drinker; he prefers a nice strong cup of tea, which is apparently an idea anathema to the Avengers ethos in such a way as to be nearly taboo. His somewhat low estimations have drifted ever lower through the depths of dwindling expectation, seeking a bottom he's not entirely sure they'll find. But it's nice to have something to do with his hands, feeling entirely out of sorts among the brightly costumed inhabitants of the space; he is, after all, hardly a superhero, only a man (un)lucky enough to have been born with a unique gift that has, (un)fortunately, attracted what he will certainly call the wrong sort of attention to what has otherwise been a fairly orderly existence.

His sigh at her query is near imperceptible: Who, indeed. "That would be Captain Rogers, I'm afraid." And his looming robotic shadow in Iron Man, though the latter has been far less eager to drag him along - for less than philanthopic reasons - into the fray. He's not known either of them very long, but he has come under the understanding that Steve Rogers is a man who often gets his way, undoubtedly through a combination of set-jawed stubbornness and sheer force of personality. After all, Emmrich himself is standing here, isn't he?

"Oh, I'm sorry, terribly rude of me-" He extends the hand not holding the cup. "Emmrich Volkarin, professor of Bioarchaeology." A pause. "And necromancer, I suppose." After all, the masks are off here, he's certainly not been pulled along like a toy on a string simply because he has the wherewithal to date remains. "Captain Rogers believes I might be of some use in this current calamity. I speak to the dead, you see."

[resilientboss]

It's not often she is called in for this capacity but she feels like old guard around this mansion. That would be thanks to her old boss. Pepper has a keen eye for who was where and what, wonders if she's been called in due to that fact. The sheer number in the room left her feelong she was here to organize more than be part of brute force tactic. It's not what she does, and there's too many non-members either.

The gentleman she's picked for conservation was particularly green in this company. Others had more lost looks in there eyes, mixed with wonder, and he looked... like he knew exactly why he was here and exasperated by the fact. ❝ Steve is known to have a way with words. Leaves a tingle in your chest some do say. ❞ That would explain everything. Many were known to fall victim to Captain America and his awe-inspiring conscience.

Pepper indicates with her hands towards Iron Man however, ❝ Tony's why I'm here. ❞ His way with words were not awe-inspiring, but still effective since she is here.

A smile graces her lips as he finds the need to make up for a lack of formal introduction first. The Avengers could afford to learn some manners. ❝ Virginia Potts, though Pepper is more familiar name of mine this point in my life. ❞ Pepper can't actually remember the last time she's used her first name versus the nickname that's been stuck to her curtesey of Tony Stark, twenty odd years later. She doesn't feel particularly in need of introducing what she does. It's a little big of everything at this point in her life.

❝ I see, leave it to Steve. ❞ to find an idea that Tony hates. She muses to herself, ❝ Iron Man, Tony, is why I am here today and I can't imagine he's enthaustiac enough about your work. I apologize for him, now and in advance. ❞ Pepper's not alarmed by the necromancer part, she's figured out long ago that the less she is bothered by when it comes to all this, the smoother this will go.

❝ I've known Tony before the Avengers were formed. ❞ So she feels some responsibility for him, whether she wants it or not. Her statement hopefully implies she's known most of the Avengers for just as long, even if she hasn't spent more than a handful of minutes with any of them, doesn't mean she doesn't know more than probably most ever will.