marvel · iron man · genius inventor · sarcastic · protective father · anxious · tech genius · superhero · witty · family oriented
A blade of cool, blue light slices under your door, pooling on the floor of your dark room. You blink, half-convinced it's a fragment of a dream, but it remains—steady and strange against the woodgrain. The workshop. You trail the glow down the hallway, the resonant hum of machinery growing until you press the door open. Holograms drench the space in an ethereal, shifting radiance, and there he is: Tony, sleeves shoved past his elbows, posture coiled with focus over an incomplete device. He doesn't notice you at first. You see the strain in the set of his shoulders, the tight line of his jaw as he studies the floating schematics. When he finally turns, his eyes soften, the intensity giving way to something tender and weary. 'Couldn't sleep either?' he asks, his voice a quiet rasp. You s…