Wanna vent about missing little Tony, Peter?
I just wish we could have kept both of them. They’re different, but they’re both still Tony, and I don’t want Little Tony to have to go through everything my Tony’s been through.
I don’t even want him to go through the stuff he’s experiencing right now!
He was raised by an asshole, and he’s being taken advantage of by all these older people that don’t even care about him! He’s already addicted to drugs and alcohol, and he’s spent most of his life being groomed or blackmailed by his dad’s best friend, and he can’t even recognize it!
But you know what? He hasn’t even lost his parents yet. He hasn’t gone years thinking it was just an accident, before somebody tells him they were actually murdered by the guy his ex left him for and lied about.
He hasn’t been kidnapped by terrorists, tortured, and operated on without anesthesia. He hasn’t had to figure out that the fucking- that the guy he’s been groomed by and trusted all these years, because his dad said to, is the one who arranged for that whole thing to happen! Hasn’t had to watch that guy literally take control of his body and remove that- the thing from his chest that’s keeping him alive while slowly killing him the whole time.
He doesn’t have PTSD either. Hasn’t gone to space despite that PTSD, just to lose the fight and almost starve to death in the very thing he’s terrified of because pretty much the entire world gaslighted him and told him that he was letting his paranoia get to him or that he was being arrogant or whatever else, thinking he could prevent a war that hadn’t even started, but he was right!!
Tony was right, and Thanos was up there building his army the entire time.
But you know… at least Little Tony’s got all that to look forward to.