The Man On The Flying Trapeze

Okay but it makes me so fucking mad that we dont acknowledge the fact that rhodey watches as Tony disapears?

You think he doesnt feel that? You think he doesnt worry? You think he doesnt see that punk kid he adopted during his college years and never let go of? Hes known Tony since they were KIDS.

Hes known Tony when his parents died. You think he’d welcome Cap back with open arms, after he held Tony as he cried in his arms, saying “rhodey, I dont-i cant-im 21, ill never be enough-i miss her, I never told them-”

You think that he’d just go “yeah, that’s cool,cap, you helped RUIN my best friend but we’re okay”

And you think that he doesnt see Tony and thinks “I should be there, I should HELP”

Like I dont care if you ship them or not, the fact that we so blatantly disregard how rhodey must be feeling in that scene?

He wants his fucking best friend back. He must be fucking devastated inside, but instead he cracks jokes and does what he can, instead of being torn up with worry, instead of showing it.

The thing I love about rhodey+Tony is the pure level of trust and comfortable aura they have? In age of Ultron, as soon as rhodey shows up, the tone changes entirely. Tony’s cracking jokes, hes happier, hes caring, Hhdhdhrhjrjrururh

And so yes, Steve’s lines are iconic and yes I stan, but at the same time, can we stop pretending that rhodey wouldn’t be doing anything and everything to get his fuckinf best friend back?

He watched him drive off in the desert and come back a different man. You think he doesnt think of those 3 agonizing months as soon as he sees Tony’s gone? You think he doesnt fucking love him?

You think he wasn’t thinking, “what if this is it, what if the last time we talked was the last time, what if hes gone forever?”

God. I couldn’t imagine what Rhodey must be feeling in that scene. But instead he tells jokes, and he does what he can, because that’s what Tony would want him to do.

Honeybear headcanon/fic idea, when Rhodes left for his first deployment, Tony was very lonely and missing him and couldn't do anything cause don't ask don't tell (fucKING patriarchy), so in kinda stupid move Tony goes to get a tattoo in honor, and actually the artist adopts him cause he's so smol and nervous and genuine. Well when Rhodes discovers it, he's very honored and repays Tony ;) so it becomes a thing for Tony to get a tattoo on his thighs for each deployment

I changed some things a little bit, but I love this prompt. Tony+tattoos is my weakness.

(note: all those numbers are random lol)

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When Rhodey graduated and was assigned to the Aviano air base in Italy, Tony was happy that at least Rhodey would be able to live abroad like how he always wanted. He was also glad that Rhodey would be in Italy, the best place in the world as far as Tony’s concerned, and a country where he knew the language, and Tony would be able to drag Rhodey to all his favorite places when he went to visit him.

After seeing Rhodey off at the airport, Tony went to the tattoo parlor two blocks away from his apartment that he always walked past on the way to school. He walked in and got a tattoo on his left thigh, right below his hipbone – 617, the number of the room Tony and Rhodey shared when they were freshmen.

(A year later, Tony went to visit Rhodey and they drove to the Carbonell family’s villa in Venice to celebrate Tony’s 18th birthday over an extended weekend. Rhodey saw the tattoo for the first time when they were lounging by the pool. Tony ended up getting the best present he could have ever asked for that year.)

After four years in Italy, after Tony took over the company and moved to California, Rhodey requested a location transfer and packed his bags for Los Angeles. Tony welcomed him home and showed off his new tattoo, inked right under the first one – 530, May 30th, the day Tony and Rhodey finally got together that summer in Venice.

The great thing about the Air Force was that they didn’t deploy their men too frequently, so Tony and Rhodey were always able to spend time together. But it was inevitable that Rhodey would eventually be assigned off-base for a few months for special duties, so when Rhodey was sent off for his first deployment since moving to LA, Tony went and got his third tattoo – 138, the last three digits of Rhodey’s serial number.

It became a tradition. Whenever he and Rhodey were apart for long stretches of time, Tony would go out and get another tattoo.

518, the day they flew back to Massachusetts to get married715, the flight Rhodey took from Venice to Boston to surprise Tony for Thanksgiving502, the day Tony escaped the Ten Rings and Rhodey found him in the desert101, the number of flowers in the bouquet Rhodey got Tony for their first wedding anniversary

The list goes on.

All the tattoos were numerical, each one a representation of a significant event in their relationship.

There was only one exception. A single J marked on Tony’s shoulder blade, complementing the T that Rhodey has inked on his.

I would die for romantic iron husbands, but platonic rhodeytony?? Fuck. They literally destroy toxic masculinity.

Snuggling? They do that. Hugging? They invented that. Kissing each other’s cheeks? They made that. Being close and comfortable with one another without the cursed “no homo” exchange? They own that!!!

Iron Husbands and their Spider Son. Give me your best headcanons. Go!

YEAH BOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Before we jump into this wholesome headcanon

I need you to know that Peter 100% has an iron man onsie just so he can match with rhodey and tony 

and he calls them ‘Ironfamily’

and goes around the house saying “IRONFAMILY…. ASSEMBLE”

great now that we got that out of the way

IRONHUSBANDS AND THEIR SPIDERSON

the three of them are huge science nerds (duh)

so guess what they do on the weekends?

THAT’S RIGHT THEY GO TO SCIENCE EXPOS

SO MANY SCIENCE EXPOS

and robot fighting clubs 

they even do their own robot fighting competitions at home

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you know what I miss from the early Iron Man movies?  The optimism.  The joy.  The ego.  This isn’t saying that I think Tony is egotistical (although to a certain extent he is), I’m saying that he had that rock star image.

I mean:

the stark expo?

the Senate hearing?

Making the suit?  Look at how proud he is of himself!  What an accomplishment!  This bitch is going places

LOOK AT HIS FACE, in any given scene of these two movies, almost all of them Tony’s got attitude, ego, a sense of hope.  Hell, lets go wild, lets add in the Avengers too:

HE’S JUST SUCH A DIFFERENT PERSON.  

a sink hole of human despair.  They’ve taken away his theme music, his house, his rock star persona, his hope, his joy, his fluffy hair…

I do fully understand the choice to give Tony PTSD (or whatever they are now calling this) because the guy has been through so much shit.  I’m not saying they couldn’t have done that.  I’m saying they completely changed everything about how they present his character and I miss the Tony that was, and could have been.  They stole so much light and happiness from this man and they said it was because he was recovering but they never fucking gave it back.  Look at his face in that last gif.  That’s a man who keeps thinking he’s found rock bottom but actually there’s farther to fall.

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here are some of the fics we have saved in our discord! (put under a read more cause uhhhh we have a lot)

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Here’s something for your soul: Every single time Ed is cold, Roy’s jacket is on him within seconds. Ed doesn’t even get to FINISH the complaint of “its cold/I’m cold” the jacket is already on his shoulders. It’s like a reflex or an instinct. It gets to the point Team Mustang jokes around and says “you might as well just give it to him every time he steps into the office” and flustered Dad Roy™️ is just like “I just don’t want to hear his annoying complaints, okay?!”

I pretty much answer to the philosophy that Ed stole one of Roy’s jackets and drags it around everywhere, and Roy saw that he was happy and warm so he let him keep it and got a new one. Then, SURPRISE! Alphonse gets his body back and g u e s s w h o gets THAT one.

Basically Roy has many jackets and has passed them all onto his sons

The au you never knew you wanted:

Suburban Batfam

Batfam goes undercover to infiltrate the community of a suburban neighbourhood in hopes of discovering a secret society

Everyone (mainly Tim and Dami) argue over who gets the biggest room

Bruce gets it because it’s the master suite

When the fam moves in, their next-door neighbours give them cookies

The neighbours seem a little too nice, so nobody touches them at first

Except for Tim, who wasn’t there when it happened

He thought Damian was a little too eager when he offered some to him, but he ate them anyway

“Why are you eating the cookies? I thought you said they were too suspicious.”

“I offered them to Drake the other day and he hasn’t keeled over yet, so I deduced that they were safe for consumption.”

The neighbours across the street are very nosey and (in damian’s opinion) ask too many questions

He’s as suspicious of them as they are curious about the batfam

When asked about why their dad isn’t seen much, the boys shrug and say that he works the night shift and saves lives

Damian feeds all of the neighbourhood cats, strays or otherwise.

He slowly amasses an army of cats

Selina approves of it. Bruce? Not so much.

He still pays for the cat food though

Jason acquires a dog somehow

Dick feels like he takes better care of it and that it should be his

Tim disagrees

It’s still up for debate

Damian eventually convinces Bruce to let him bring Titus over as well

Duke and the girls come over every other weekend for family night

They receive noise complaints every time

Due to a fight between Dami and Tim, the tv is broken and mario kart is officially banned from the house

One of Damian’s cats has a litter of kittens and everyone secretly thinks they’re adorable (except Dick, who readily says it to anyone who will listen)

Jason sneaks off to play with them when nobody’s looking

Bruce is no better

Nobody really knows how to cook except for Dick

It’s more like he can boil things and use the oven without catching anything on fire, but still

Jay can too, but nobody needs to know that

And maybe Bruce, but he’s too busy to cook

Dami can only cook eggs

He tries

Alfred visits every now and then to make sure nobody’s burnt down the house and drops off various sweets

His consideration is greatly appreciated

Tim isn’t allowed anywhere near the oven since the 2nd time he caught it on fire

Tim befriends a group of moms and speed walks with them every morning to hear about the latest gossip

Sometimes it helps with the investigation

Sometimes there are rumours about Bruce

Sometimes they’re true

Tim laughs them off while internally freaking out

“Did you hear?” -Kelly

“Hear what?” -Janet

“There’s a rumour going around that *Bruce Wayne* is living in our neighbourhood.” -Kelly

“No way!” -Janet

“Yes way!“ -Kelly

"Heheheh, what a crazy rumour, right? There’s *no way* somebody like Bruce would move to our modest neighbourhood.” -Tim, sweating nervously

They were invited to a cook-out pool party once.

Somehow, Jason caught the pool on fire

Never again were they invited to such an occasion.

Everybody keeps forgetting that Alfred isn’t around and consequently, forget to do chores

One time the dishes piled up so high, they collapsed on poor Damian

Bruce had to devise a chore chart to make sure everybody did their part in keeping the house relatively nice looking

Dick dog sat for one of their neighbours once and their daughter watched him through their security cameras.

She has a crush on him now & is a little stalker-y.

Dad Jokes with Kratos

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