Good Enough - Comments

Gah, but Tony, Starks are comprised of fears and flaws and ughlemmeholdyouyoupreciousbeing. I mean, look at his father. I imagine Howard witnessed some horrible shit in the war. I mean, I think it's canonical that he was on site for with Steve and the others fought in the Battle of the Bulge, which was like, the bloodiest and longest battle of that war, if ever. I can imagine everyone walked away from that a bit fucked up. Which explains Howard's alcoholism. And Tony's the same way, sadly. Only, while he is haunted by the things he saw and experienced in Afghanistan, it's more of the thought of the things he's responsible for that he didn't see. The deaths he caused while turning a blind eye and making a profit. That's what fucks him up the most, I think. Which makes him very different from Howard. Because (and I think Steve said this via text once - and everyone reading this comment is now like "dafuq?") Howard saw death and destruction and built the atomic bomb, while Tony saw death and destruction and did a complete 180 and shut down weapons manufacturing. And I think that says a lot about him. But his self-worth is so low that he doesn't realize how much that says.

'He could be the person his mother wanted him to' be.

Ow. Like, serious ow. Because it's so accurate. I think the good in Tony came from his mother. I think if she had been as cold and unemotional as Howard had been to Tony that we would see a very different Tony Stark, a more scarier one, to be honest.

And you should always stay up super late because I give you feels. Because it produces feely drabbles like this. Which I enjoy reading.