three posts in one day? I know, I know.

[schmevil]

I'm so sorry, but this is important.

In the far flung future, Tony should totally have a house in space, right? But should it be a Jetsons-style sky castle, a space station, a ship, or... a martian space castle?

*Actually relevant to something I am ACTUALLY WRITING, AW YEAH.

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[valtyr]

World building and hashing out the details is a huge part of the fun for me. Especially since my actual writing process involves obsessing over word choice and imagery and shit. Which, you know, is fun also, but a lot more draining than plotting. It's that side of things that derails me a lot of the time.

IDK if you saw, some of us are writing about our writing, I would love to see you post in more detail on your methods. :)

ahhh yes, that's a good point on the circumventing law! (And it makes one think about independent planetary law, and the interstellar equivalent of international waters.) The idea of Tony being integrated with machinery is shades of Extremis - and if Howard altered his child to be like that, no wonder people saw it as fucked up.

Tony is very hands-on; mpreg is not so odd, actually, I recall playing with an mpreg idea where Tony was all, I made new tech! and now I must test it! look at me building another human this is amazing. Mpreg where Tony is part-machine, well, if he is a machine who builds machines, and an intelligence who creates intelligences, constructing them out of his own matter is - interesting. Especially if they can interface through their machine aspects from the babies' creation. (It reminds me of Ivanova from B5, talking about her telepath mother - what it was like to feel your mother's love for you.) Given how possessive Tony is of the armour, I can't imagine how protective he'd be of his robobabies. Attempts to commandeer his little potential weapons would go down very badly.

Oh man, a world where Mad Scientists can go away and create their own strange worlds. For some reason, I see Doom as a planet kind of guy. IDK. Maybe I'm just associating him with the natural drama of mountains and thunder?

I definitely rec the Culture if you haven't read it - Banks is just hnrgh from a technical perspective, just. The last one I read was Matter which is... soft, social SF that's a deconstruction of epic fantasy tropes?

[schmevil]

Oh, very cool. I will definitely write something. I'm flattered that you're interested, despite my utter lack of output. ;)

Doom can have Pluto. It's a planetoid, sure, but it's in the middle of nowhere and that's Gothic, right? Very dramatic. His spacesuit can have a cape.

Harm to Tony's robobabies would be grounds for interplanetary war, I think.
Oh man, just think of people's first reaction to his robobabies. "You... made yourself an Astro Boy?" "He's prefect, right?" "..."

So what do you think of Tony as a parent? My headcanon is that he'd be extremely Winchester (SPN). Weird combination of obsessive and hands off, not all bourgeois in parenting style, prone to creating a bubble around his family, much like movie Tony's inner circle.

[valtyr]

Ugh, picking this up again way late, due to things.

(Also, having seen Tony/Astro Boy porn... eyebleed.)

People would be weirded the hell out, but even in movieverse, Tony is clearly more than usually attached to his creations - he's kept Dummy around for what, 25 years? Tony does not find it hard to form attachments to things that respond to him, although he shows little sign of caring about material possessions. (Specific ones, I mean, he obviously likes being rich and having nice things in a general sense.)

As a parent? Erratic. He was really sweet with Cassie, and she seemed genuinely fond of him, so I'm inclined to believe he's not incompetent with children, but he's going to constantly second-guess himself over the emotional shit. If he's got a co-parent to reassure him, I think he'd do better, but he's so unused to being anyone's primary support. He might well back off when he's needed for fear of making things worse.