Okay so in my AU verse Statistically Incorrect, a lot more happens in this verse than I’ve had time to write for so far. (I wanna write right now but I’m too tired to brain so the most I can do right now is give you this jumble of mess on things about this verse.) Tony/Rhodey canons for this verse are:
When Tony and Rhodey first met, they got assigned as roommates since they were both the youngest kids on MITs campus, but they specifically met when they got called into a counselors office to talk about their living arrangements because the campus didn’t want to cause an incident by putting a little and a caregiver in the same dorm together cause that can get iffy, but the two of them were fine with it.
It started out with them holding hands tho. Them being a little and big that is. See, Tony has a tendency to wander off. Even when he’s in the middle of the street. Which basically gave Rhodey a heart attack right then and there. It was Bad. After that, whenever they crossed the street, he had to hold Rhodey’s hand because Rhodey isn’t taking any chances. Nope. But of course, Tony is Tony, and so he complains about this, obviously, because he’s a Big Boy and doesn’t need any hand holding. Rhodey deals with it of course, cause he doesn’t want to deal with Tony getting hit by a car instead. Of course, one day, probably six months after this starts, Rhodey gets distracted (caregivers can get distracted too) and doesn’t reach for Tony’s hand one time when they’re crossing the street. He’s halfway across the street before he realizes Tony didn’t cross with him. He looks back to the crosswalk to see Tony standing there, stranded, abandoned, cold and lost and sad. Poor baby. His Rhodey has left him there to rot, like common street filth, he will forever be left here to the cold without his Rhodey. What cruel fate hath plucked this dimple cheeked little from the heat of the world- yeah okay you get it, Tony is a drama queen, but for the 4 seconds that he was all alone on the street corner -cause you can’t cross without an adult- he was SURE this was his new home now. Stuck here, on this dirty corner like common garbage. Rhodey you asshole, all the other adults are glaring at him now for making the baby cry.
But still, to be honest, that’s still not what made Tony realize that Rhodey was the perfect caregiver. No, Howard made him realize that Rhodey was the perfect caregiver. Listen, okay, I have to write one or two AUs every once in a while where Howard is a good guy or I’ll literally lose my shit okay, sometimes we need good parents to exist. But so one holiday Rhodey goes home with Tony to meet people, and proceeds to get in a rousing fight with Howard over not only a nutrino bomb mechanics, but also about Steve Rogers. Bad Topics to talk about. Tony is up at three am that night in the kitchen, binge eating his way through leftover chinese food and a chocolate cake when Howard finds him there, quietly sits down next to him with an espresso in a super sized mug, and tells him that he’s happy Tony has found himself a caregiver who wasn’t afraid to stand up for what he believes in. Tony is so in shock at that, he isn’t sure how to tell his dad that Rhodey and him aren’t like that. He’s starting to wonder why they aren’t, honestly, the two of them were probably long gone over each other less than a week after they met. Howard’s approval goes a long way to helping.
Okay, that’s all I got for now. God these two are adorable.
Do you have any ideas for baby Tony and Daddy Rhodey halloween costumes? Or daddy Steve with baby Bucky and baby Tony?
(Gotta admit, Halloween was never my holiday, I literally watched American Horror Story at my dad’s apartment from 2-9, and that’s pretty much the idea Halloween for me, so I’m sorry if this isn’t up to snuff.)
Okay, the first thing that comes to mind for Tony and Rhodey Halloween costumes, is that one fic I wrote where Tony is Howard and Jarvis’s adopted son and Jarvis made Tony wear a pumpkin costume and Rhodey wear a black cat costume, and TBH, that idea was aces, I would go with that, cause Tony would be the most adorable baby pumpkin ever created, and Rhodey would be wearing kitty ears with a grumpy look on his face and pouting, and it would literally be the cutest thing ever.
Steve is the type of daddy that doesn’t dress up for Halloween, because he’s too busy running around after energetic babies and he knows it’s a bad idea to try (though sometimes they can convince him to wear his Cap uniform, but that’s about it) and Tony and Bucky love dressing up........... but I haven’t the foggiest of what they would dress up as, because I’m trash who doesn’t like Halloween and never dresses up........... I’m so sorry...........
Okay, but, since I’m KINDA STUPID sometimes, and forget that the Avengers has more people in it than I think it does, what if Sam shows up, and plot twist, he ALREADY KNEW Tony and Rhodey were little and big, because he goes to PTSD counseling at the same place Tony does (seriously, that man needs help like hella, the Rhodes family makes him go to therapy for this shit) and the only actually counseling they have for the type of traumatic experiences that Tony has gone through (because he does NOT trust SHIELD very much) is soldier level counseling (okay, not many people can say they were held captive in a cave for three months without being a soldier themselves) and so Rhodey gets him appointments at Air Force bases, and Sam was there one day, and of COURSE they would know each other’s reputations to him and Rhodey start talking with each other, and make friends.
He’s never seen Tony is little space before, but he knows about him being one.
But like, Steve and him are friends, so Sam comes over to hang out (Tony keeps telling him he can move in, but he’s off doing other stuffs right now, he’ll move in soon) but Steve doesn’t realize he already knew about Tony and Rhodey, and Tony immediately latches onto Sam, and Sam’s not batting an eye at him calling Rhodey ‘Daddy’ and it’s ust cute, and I need Uncle Sam babysitting Tony too, that’d be cute.
THAT FIRST INTERACTION IDEA IS HEARTBREAKINGLY ADORABLE OMG
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!!! I THINK I GOTTA UPDATE YOU GUYS ON SOME THINGS!!! You must be forgetting, Bucky and Steve were BOTH recovered from HYDRA and went down in the plane together in this series, they are BOTH alive and well right now, do not worry, this isn’t heartbreaking.
The only reason why Steve is so confused, is because Bucky has been the Winter Soldier for years now, and hasn’t used that uniform since WWII, and so he’s ust all, ‘…uh…’ *awkward flashbacks to when he and bucky dressed like losers still* and it’s overall cringe worthy.
it’s like… someone saying they were a fan of your writing TEN YEARS AGO. Like, now, think back to the shit you wrote ten years ago? If this does not produce lots of cringing and maybe some sobbing, then that’s a sign, that your writing has NOT improved in the past ten years, you needa work on that.
But like, Tony is (and this might be SLIGHTLY spoiler-y if you haven’t caught up with the series yet) de-aged right now to around two years old, and so he’s being very small, and cute, but he’s also thinking much more like a child than normal, so he’s also being very confusing and giving people weird things.
At one point, he ust goes up to Natasha and hands her an entire black walnut, and no one can figure out why, but Natasha loves it and cuddles him for an entire minute. He keeps giving Clint bird seed. They’re not sure if he’s talking shit or ust saying that he loves his birdy, but it’s cute.
4 ur consideration: steve interacting with little!tony for the first time in the big ageplay guns series, and tony, because babies are adorable, but very confusing, keeps trying to give him a teddy bear wearing bucky’s old uniform.
i can imagine something for The Big Ageplay Guns, when Rhodey notice Tony start to be little, like maybe Tony wets the bed before, just one or two accidents and Rhodey was like "okey you got one shower and i clean" but now Tony is just crying and being sorry Tony was bad, and Rhodey was like "oh shit oh shit"
Oh noes! Poor babums Tony! He was probably so scared and upset, and Daddy made him feel better, by giving him a bath, and then snuggling him better, and playing with him lots and lots. But, poor baby Tony!
I love Daddy!Rhodey and Little!Tony can you write about they two more in the MIT? maybe when Tony its not a baby yet, my head cannon it´s Tony dont go to a tematic park or the cinema, because he dont have a normal childhood, so Rhodey take him and Tony is just so happy and cute and hyper running everywhere. <3
WOOOO I FILLED TWO WHOLE THINGS TODAY!!! It’s a little short sorry, but at least I did it.
Last night I got an idea for this, but it turned into a Christmas fic, and that’s gonna be the second chapter of this fic, and it’s gonna be posted later cause I haven’t written it yet, and it’s gonna be HELLA long (why are my Christmas fics always so long???) but the Rhodes family is gonna adopt babums Tony because they think he’s cute (he’s having a SLIGHT issue getting out of littlespace right now, which makes them think he’s more childish than he is.)
SOOOO, this is set BEFORE Thanksgiving, and that one is gonna be set after. Either way, have fun!
Tony whined, squirming in Rhodey’s hold in his him, trying to tug out of Rhodey’s hands. He didn’t need a jacket, Daddy. “Daddy! I don’t need gloves!”
Rhodey frowned, easily ignoring the whining while he stuffed Tony’s fingers in the gloves. “It’ll be cold out, baby boy. You don’t want your fingers to get a chill.”
Tony whined again, “Why we gotta go outside, Daddy?”
Rhodey smiled a little. Tony in littlespace was damn near the cutest thing in the world, to be honest. He reached over to zip up Tony’s jacket for him, and grabbed a scarf. He didn’t loop it around Tony’s neck yet, but he shoved it, a hat, and an extra shirt in case of an emergency, into the backpack he was taking with them. It would make him feel better if he had an actual diaper bag for his little, but he knew Tony would never go for that. He at least stuffed one of Tony’s baby blue pacifiers into the side pocket and zipped it all up, putting it on over his own jacket and reaching out to take Tony’s hand before they left the dorm.
He had a rule, that if Tony was ever nearing littlespace in public, he needed to hold Daddy’s hand, and Tony was damn near fully little right now. “Because, bug, we’re going to the fair, remember?”
Tony looked over at him with wide eyes, docilely following Rhodey down the hallway from their room to the exits. “You… you wasn’t kidding, Daddy?”
Rhodey looked shocked, staring down at Tony with wide eyes of his own, “Little bug, you thought Daddy was lying? Why would someone ever lie about taking you to the fair?”
Tony shrugged, “I don’t know. I’s never been to the fair before though, Daddy. I didn’t know we were actually gonna go.”
Rhodey felt a pang of anger and sadness in his chest at that, but, to be honest, it wasn’t much new from Tony’s usual. Tony had a tendency to reveal childhood neglect and trauma without batting an eyelash pretty much all the time now days. Rhodey wanted to punch Howard Stark in the face.
After those times, he usually took Tony out and bought him stupidly huge amounts of baby toys and little things with Howard’s credit card, because rich old white people money had nothing in making Rhodey feel better than spending stupid amounts of ‘dick ass Howard Stark’ money.
Tony had his dad’s credit cards still, and Rhodey was planning on spending at least five hundred dollars buying ride tickets and trying to win him a giant stuffed bear to take home. Actually, he was stupidly good at fair games, even if most of them were rigged, so maybe he’d win prizes for everyone around them. If they ended up with too much stuff, they wouldn’t have enough room for it anyways.
He was gonna make this the best fair experience for his baby boy ever.
***
Tony officially loved the fair.
There were rides, and and and, a ferris wheel and a twister ride thingy that looked dangerously unstable, but Daddy let him go on it anyways, and lotsa yummy foods -that Daddy said were probably gonna make him feel icky no nos later- and Tony had three funnel cakes -okay, more like one and a half, because he shared with Daddy- and Rhodey one him a giant stuffed teddy bear that Tony got to take home -though, Daddy said they were gonna stick it in the wash at the laundr-o-mat tomorrow, because he didn’t trust it to be clean, but that’s okay, because he’s giant and soft and fluffy and Tony loves him- and they won smaller stuffies for a bunch of little kids, -funny, Rhodey seems quite content to spend all the money ever tonight, but Tony doesn’t mind at all- and he felt happy and very little, and like he’s had lotsa lotsa fun tonight.
Rhodey smiled at his passed out baby on their bed, reaching out to gently push his paci into his mouth and brush some wild curls off his head for him. He’s decided that his baby deserves many many more new experiences like this. He’d love to be the one to give them to him.
Hello! I have a prompt for you, maybe you'll like it. One were Tony is alone at the tower, everyone left for whatever thing, missions, work, whatever, and Tony has an accident, something silly, a papercut, bumped his head, nothing bad. And goes full baby all by himself, super tiny baby Tony and now a frantic JARVIS that can't reach anyone atm. So J just takes control of one of the suits to take care of the baby for at least a couple of hours until someone comes home. Hope you like it! 🤗
Okie dokei! I am sort of back on track for little fics! (Though, it’s JUST occured to me, that while I love little fics, I AM allowed to ask you all NOT to demand anything, because I AM still a bit overworked, and have quite a bit to do already, and I’m not a MACHINE, so overall, don’t expect a prompt to be filled RIGHT AWAY.)
Tony’s been on the edge of littlespace all day. He hates it when that happens.
He’d had a call to Roberta just a half hour ago, and despite being a fourty-five year old man, that always made him feel like a five year old boy. When he’d first met all of the Rhodes family, he’d been so fucking close to littlespace, Tony is convinced that they all thought he was just childish my personality. They aren’t completely wrong. But, it didn’t change the fact that he always felt like a three year old when he was anywhere near his in-laws. None of them seemed to mind. In fact, Roberta seemed happy to finally have someone who would let her baby them without ever growing up like Jeanette and James did.
But, that didn’t change the fact that he felt like a very little boy right now, and he probably shouldn’t be in the lab at all right now, a fact that Jarvis has told him more than a few times by now.
“I’m fine, J. I’m in here in littlespace all the time.”
He glanced over at a set of new lincoln logs in the corner of the room he’d ordered recently, but ignored it. He had adult stuffs to do!
Of course, he was fine for a little bit, until the floor decided it didn’t like him no more and he tripped.
He felt okay for a few seconds, before he turned over, and with a glance at his knee -ignoring Jarvis’ worried voice in the background, because he was suddenly feeling much less big than he was a second ago- he started letting out a few hiccuped sobs into the quiet room. His pants weren’t torn, but his knee hurt, and he thinks he might be dying, because everything was suddenly so big and dangerous and he’s just a little baby boy, babies aren’t supposed to be in the lab, cause they could get hurt, and he needed Daddy to help fix things, and he just didn’t feel so good.
He felt hands on him, and big tearful eyes startled open, finding himself face to… faceplate?
“J-Jarvis?” He let out a tearful cry, as suddenly he was lifted up in a pair of big metal arms. Okay, this is new. He was startled into quietness for a minute as the suit started making it’s way towards the elevators.
“Forgive me, young Sir, but you were distressed and I cannot get a hold of anyone who knows of your… status, as a little. I believed it prudent to take control of the nearest available suit to take care of you myself.”
Tony looked at the faceplate with wide eyes. “…maybe I should build you a body… when I’m bigger. You think that’s a good idea, Jarvis? I could build you a body and you can… you can play with me! We, we, we, we can build with lincoln logs and make cookies, and you can read me bedtime stories, Jarvis!” Tony was suddenly much more excited, but no less little right now, and Jarvis had no doubts whatsoever that he’d be helping the inventor create a new body for him soon. It would be daunting, being both in a building, and in a body at once, but he would do it for his little creator.
He quite liked the idea of taking care of Tony as a corporeal form. His little creator deserved that.
The doors to the elevator opened, and Jarvis stepped out without hesitance. “I would… enjoy being able to take care of you like that, young sir. But right now, I must change you and make you lunch.”
The suit was full of motion and pressure controls, so while he didn’t believe it would be the most safe form he could work in with Tony, Jarvis wasn’t worried about doing something wrong. Tony started squirming though, and Jarvis set him gently down on his bed. Tony wriggled around on the soft sheets. “Um, Jarvis, you don’t hasta change me. Imma big boy, and I don’t need diapers or footie jammies.”
Jarvis made a noise, that sounded amused -or maybe fond- and immediately turned away to start going through the closet and dresser drawer for what he needed. “I must insist, young Sir, since you are quite little right now, and I am not as well suited to deal with accidents as Colonel Rhodes is.”
When he had everything, he came back to the bed, where Tony was watching him with wide, interested eyes. Of course he was interested, and he wanted to argue that he was a big boy and didn’t need diapers again, but he was also in engineer and wanted to see how this would go, and make some mental notes for changes he could make to do things better. “Okay, but, but, but, only cause Tony doesn’t want any accidents either. Kay?”
Jarvis seemed amused again, “Of course young Sir.”
It felt weird getting undressed by a suit, because Jarvis has apparently decided that little boys need lots of help with their clothes -he probably learned that from Daddy, because Daddy thought little boys needed lotsa helps with clothes too. You put your shirt on backwards one time, and suddenly, little boys are too little to do fun stuffs- and Tony was sure it would feel lots and lots better if Jarvis had a skin coating and was human body temperature, but it would have to do.
Daddy was off in England for the next day and a half, and Bruce was at a conference, and Clint and Phil were doing what super spies and their handlers did when they weren’t being babysitters to little engineers.
Steve and Bucky were probably here right now, he thinks one of them brought him down some breakfast that morning when he woke up and forgot to eat, but he wasn’t sure he wanted them and Natasha to see him little yet… actually, Thor might be here too, and he would probably be the most understanding out of all of them -with age, comes wisdom- and could probably use lotsa funny voices while telling stories, but Tony felt a lot more little than usual, and he’s not sure he wants any of them to see him as a baby.
At least, not without Daddy close by to deal with any fallout from it.
Besides, Jarvis was his favoritest person ever, and he wanted to see how well this would go.
When he was naked, he wasn’t sure why he started blushing, because Jarvis has literally seen him naked more than anyone else, but this felt intimate, and he was so little right now, and he maybe needed a cuddle and a snuggle, and a bunny stuffie to play with.
He wasn’t as good as Dada would have been at putting on diaper cream and powder, but that’s because the gauntlets had to be used very carefully around Tony’s parts, and Tony was already mentally designing a new part of more human gauntlets that would be good for diapering, while he laid back and let Jarvis finish taping up the diaper for him.
That’s nice, cause now he felt all snug and happy.
He felt a gauntlet at his hand, after Jarvis finished cleaning them off as best as he could with the towels and wipes available in the diaper bag, and looked up to see that Jarvis was trying to pull his thumb out of his mouth while holding out a paci with his other. Yay, that’s nice, paci delivery system. He took his thumb out and opened his mouth like a little bird for it.
When he had the paci in, Jarvis moved and grabbed the pajamas he’d set down on the bed next to them and gently worked them up Tony’s body. The engineer wanted to help with that, but he felt little and comfortable.
“Now you are properly attired, young Sir. Would you like a ride to the living room to watch cartoons while I go make lunch?”
Tony nodded, holding both arms out to be picked up -which is nice, because, while Daddy can still pick him up, he doesn’t do it as much anymore since they’re both getting older- and smiled behind the paci shyly when he found himself on the suit’s hip.
Jarvis put him in the living room, sitting on a blankie in front of the TV wall, with his soft baby blocks on the blankie next to him.
This is awesome. He stacks the blocks for a little bit, before moving on to play with his stuffie while he watched TV. When Jarvis came back in the suit, he had a bottle of apple juice and a plate with a slightly oddly made sandwich cut into four triangles. Tony should make sure he had more small level control in the babysitting suit later on so he could do stuff like that either.
He put a grape in his mouth and crunched down, following the bite with a long drink of juice.
