hmm.

[schmevil]

Years ago I was writing a story where Tony finally decided to get some therapy. Unfortunately for Tony, the whole universe was a Skrull-induced hallucination. I backburned the story and then never got back to it, but he was supposed to be alerted to this fact by Wolverine jumping out the window of Avengers Tower, or at least, jumping out of the window was involved in the big revelatory scene. Anyway.

Now I want to harvest the core idea--Tony getting therapy--to write a movieverse story where Fury demands an evaluation (because of reasons) and rather than be analyzed by the SHIELD docs, Tony pushes for his semi-bro Charles Xavier (because of reasons). And then Charles somehow gets Tony to agree to actual therapy, and Tony is like, "But... how did that happen?" And then there's psychic therapy, and outings, and chess, and various X-Men side-eying the whole thing, and robot pets, and finally Tony upgrading Cerebro. idk, if I had more time.

Also: there should be fic where Tony creates an entire ark's worth of robot animals. Maybe I will write this fic.

Comments

Re: Doooo eeeeeiiiitttt

[musesfool]

It can't be that hard to get there! Emma Frost engineers it! I just find the idea of Tony in *psychic* therapy - preferably with Logan mocking him a lot - hilarious.

Re: Doooo eeeeeiiiitttt

[jazzypom]

I know Tony and Emma hooked up back in the day (they would), but apart from that little blip, the X-men always seemed a universe away from the Marvel main verse, so it always knocks me for a loop when they brought into the main universe. I think the Ultimates verse actually made the X-men a bit more integrated into Marvel verse.

Erm.

But still, interesting stories are always welcome, and there's talk of an Avengers bang for next year. I'm tempted to dust off my old Civil War AU and post it because I can only respect a deadline.

Re: Doooo eeeeeiiiitttt

[schmevil]

If I was to do it, I would build off of the Illuminati or the Hellfire Club. Maybe develop a relationship centering on conferences and parties, but add some shadowy mover/shaker element that people are generally unaware of. Maybe they partnered on some social issue. There are lots of possibilities to make it happen.