hi!! how do you feel about other tony ships? like dr strange, loki....
hii, thank u for asking!! loki x tony is still in my top 5 definitely, and i used to like tony x strange a lot more but not as much nowadays — but tonyxrhodey is one i dont see a lot of and i adore so much. capxtony is good too, but their chemistry in the MCU isn't my favorite.
tonyxbucky for life though ofc forever. im kinda basic (and very picky) with my ships for the iron nerd but i support all of them regardless 🙂↕️ (bonus points for giving tony Multiple Partners as the designated avengers boytoy)
hiya! Is there a place we can view all the amalgamation au lore? :3
So — it's mostly been stored in my brain and in discussions with Chase's designer ( @alladoxography ) but I've put a little bit of a synopsis for both Evil!Tony and AI!Chase under the dropdown.
I appreciate the interest, I really didn't expect anybody to really care about this silly AU when we started posting it for fun — but it's been so nice to create this little universe!!
Also if this makes no sense / isn't cohesive / doesn't cover everything, sorry, I wrote this in a haze at work. If you have any other questions about my AUs / characters my inbox is always open!!
For Tony — his origin story isn't a whole lot different from MCU's Tony Stark. Born to Howard, inherited the company, rebelled against the use of his bombs for war on innocents. Except I take the liberty of choosing to believe Stark wouldn't just lay down and take the blame for a lot of the things they place on him in the MCU, that it wears on him a lot more than you actually see outside of painting Tony as the 'bad guy'. His whole thing is against reformation, especially for the worst people — those who steal his technology and use it against him, against the people he's supposed to protect, would absolutely do it again the moment they get the opporunity to break out of the metal cage the Avengers put them in.
So he goes behind their backs. He kills when he isn't supposed to, gets into fights that should be solved with handcuffs and a jail cell and ends them with a gravestone. Sick of being told he isn't right, that they have to follow prodecures, when the outcome always ends up the same — having to fight the same villains, same enemies, over and over.
The scars are from those fights, evolving from criminal justice to outright slayings of those who pose a threat to Tony and the path of life he lives, all under the radar. Almost like comic Tony Stark, he develops essentially a way to code his DNA to accept machine, metal — replacing faulty parts of his own body until he's almost unrecognizable, and yet still nobody knows his secret. Just that Stark is becoming volatile, aggressive, harder and harder to work with.
And eventually, they — the Avengers — stop working with him entirely. He still pays the majority of their bills, and his tech is the backbone of their entire intelligence system, so they can't get rid of him completely; not without taking his company, which he continues to refuse to retire from even as his body becomes less functional, more reliant on battery power and mechanisms to keep him moving, breathing, alive.
His bridges are burned, for the most part. Very independent, self-reliant, sneaky. Still claiming he's an Avenger, a hero, the Iron Man — all he wants is to be listened to and left alone.
And as for Chase — his creation was due to the fact that Stark wants to be only dependent on himself, but he's still ultimately a human under all of the biotech that support him. He can't do everything, can't fix everything by himself, despite how hard he tries. C.H.A.S.E is not a company-wide assistant (at least, wasn't intended to be at first) but a personal helper for Stark himself. Paperwork, file management, scheduling, all of the menial things that Tony became too busy for all put into those thrilled-to-help hands, that he found most people were incapable of doing without complaint, or personal drama, or incessant nagging that almost immediately has them fired. He began much similar to J.A.R.V.I.S, a hologram attached to an overhead voice connected to the house, but quickly became something much more when Stark realized he needed more than just a secretary. Someone to patch him up, to remind him to eat, wash himself, get to bed at a reasonable hour. Things that, in the beginning, were nothing more than code in the robot's system — but he was built to adapt and change. To mimic what he sees in people, and over time.. become one. Constantly curious, often over Tony's shoulder firing off questions that he answers with ease — wondering what it's like to taste, to touch, to feel the floor solid against his feet and the wind in his hair, all the things that are so second nature Tony didn't even realize how much of a luxury they were until he had to manually create the sensors for Chase.
He got a real body, eventually. Synth skin from soft plastic, a metal casing that covers all of the intricate wiring inside. Something Tony could touch and handle, redirect better than a sassy hologram with little control aside from an 'off-switch'. His 'mind' gained more and more access to the Industry and the wide web the smarter Chase became, the more he proved himself. And the more of a person he became, the closer he was to Tony — human emotions fed to him like a slow drip, concepts of intimacy and romance that were foreign to him before now.. a real entity he has to struggle with.
Along the line, he became less of an assistant, more.. Tony's only real friend. Which might sound strange to an outsider, a man with a robot he's become overly attached to — but it's something he's learned to keep to himself. For himself. Chase follows him like a second shadow, knows the signs of his hunger or exhaustion or frustration and acknowledges them like nobody else has done for him his entire life. He wants to learn, and Tony wants to teach, so what could possibly be so bad about it?
Except the reminder that there will always be people that starve for his genius, his technology incapable of being mimicked by an average man's mind. Chase is a luxury, a system built to change — and how easily he could be changed from Stark's right hand to something to be used against him constantly plagues his mind. The only solace being Chase's.. loyalty. Something he never programmed into him, but became a reality anyway, solely out of time spent with Tony, seeing how others treat him and the kind of man he turns into around the Avengers, versus the charming mechanic he so fondly finds in the workshop.
So, Tony protects him. Even if that means practically keeping him on a leash, at his side at all times, one hand always on a shoulder or an arm or the small of his back when they're not at home, for the sake of never losing the one thing he swears keeps him together, regardless of how many bolts or screws he puts in himself.
soooo who's chase? 👀 I'm obsessed with your tony btw
He's from a super super niche Sebastian Stan movie my friend showed me; boy with witch powers and a sassy mouth and ironically grew up looking up to Iron Man.
tbh, this is my self indulgence crossover shipping hell
and of course we had to turn him into an AI assistant for Tony....
Also, thank you!!! I'm glad you like him, I'm obsessed with Tony too 💙
