Tony Stark's Journal

Application for Iron Man
PLAYER
Name: Matt
Age: 19
E-Mail:wasurenaikara182@gmail.com
AIM: wasurenaikara182@gmail.com
Other Contact Method: MSN: SnakeGears182@live.com Xbox Live: AdamantMetal
Role-Playing Experience: I have not role-played actively in many months, however my experience is extensive across multiple universes and storylines on the RPG boards at www.hpforums.net. I ran several games there for a period of nearly two years, some Harry Potter, most original stories and characters.

CHARACTER Iron Man
Name: Tony Stark
Played-By: Johnny Depp
In-Character Journal: heroofages
Age/Birthdate: February 13, 1981
Team: Avengers
Powers: Arc-powered battle suit, design Mark 3, equipped with repulsors in the hands and feet for flight stabilization and non-lethal use of force when necessary. The entire suit runs on a miniature Arc reactor core, which also serves to keep bits of shrapnel from entering Tony Stark's heart.
Sexuality: Very straight, a bit of a player with the ladies
Hometown: Malibu, California

PERSONALITY
Synopsis: Tony Stark is a genius, but a bit full of himself at times. His confidence sometimes borders on arrogance. He is calm, cool, and collected; his every action is calculated and deliberate, though rarely is this done in a cruel or spiteful way.
Positive Traits: Level-headed thinking and the ability to lead with confidence make Iron Man a welcome member of any team, and the obvious choice to lead the Avengers in the absence of Captain America. His quick thinking has saved countless lives over his career as a hero.
Negative Traits: Tony Stark is an alcoholic who can't usually tell when he's had one too many. His intellect leads him to think he is always correct, even when staring at evidence of his errors. He is in love with his own legend, and does not take kindly to people questioning his methods or his leadership ability.
Likes: Alcohol of any kind, women, particularly blonds and red heads.
Dislikes: People who think he is wrong, or question him, rejection, supervillains, crime.
Talents (Skills): Extreme mechanical inclination, leading him to repair existing technology and develop new equipment or weapons for his team with unnatural ease.
Flaws (Lack of Skills): A lack of any real super powers to speak of, arrogance

HISTORY
Family History: Tony Stark is the son of billionaire industrialist Howard Stark, and heir to the fortune of Stark Enterprises. He has no wife or children of his own, though he has had numerous disastrous relationships in his life.
Personal History: Tony was born in 1981 in a luxury hospital in New York, and grew quickly into a budding young genius. His mechanical skill became very apparent at a young age, when he built a working engine at age seven. At age ten, he built his first vehicle, a small off-roading truck made from a customized engine and scrap parts of junk trucks. In 2007, Tony was captured by a group of militant Islamic extremists while demonstrating a new weapon for the American military in Qatar. With the help of a kind old man, a fellow prisoner named Yinsin, he was able to build the Mark 1 Iron suit and escape his captors. Since then, he has protected people worldwide as Iron Man.

SAMPLES
In-Character Journal Sample: He mounted his horse quickly, and retreated down the hillside, staying distant from the forest as much as possible. The rumble grew louder, and the ground began to shake as he made his way back down toward the gravel road. Turning toward the forest, he raised his left arm, and a shade sprung from the ground beneath him in that direction. It was black, as all else around, the only visible form and shape given it by the moonlight. It appeared as he did, identical, but for detailed features. Even its horse was the exact image of the original, though a shadowed wraith.

“Go,” he called to it, “Find what creature that is so disturbed by my presence in this place. Tell him I mean no harm to him or any of the others here, and ask that he grant me safe passage. I will continue on. Reach me when you have word.”

The trees and hills flowed past at a blinding speed as he made his way down. The shade bounded off into the woods, toward the source of the tremors. As it disappeared from his sight, he wondered what could cause such trembling in the earth. Surely, this was nothing to be unwary of. He tried to focus on getting out as quickly as possible. After a short moment, the shade returned to his side and rejoined his being. At once, he knew what it knew. Regardless, he did not need to wait long to see the creature the shade had found. It tore up ground and uprooted trees in its attempts to get to him, eventually running across his path and knocking him to the ground.

In-Character (3rd Person) RP Sample: “When the sun shines, we’ll shine together.” We sang together in her car on the way to the beach. It was the summer after graduation. We were both college-bound, and it was a time for good-byes, though good times still lay before us. The New England weather was, as always, unpredictable during the hour ride to the beach, but we didn’t care. We were determined that it would be a good day. And it was.

When we arrived, the tide was just coming in. Waves crashed against jagged rocks along the shore, spraying seafoam over the walls between the sand and the street just above. A cool breeze blew in from the ocean, and people were everywhere. The road along the shoreline was busy, and packed with cars. Restaurants lined the street on one side, and the smell of seafood drifted out from their walls. The sun hung high, but not uncomfortably. The air was mild, and the wind was light. The weather, it seemed, was perfect.

When we had finally parked the car, we got out and made our way onto the pale sand. The breeze grew colder as we got closer to the water, but it was still not at all unpleasant. Setting our things down, I looked away as she laid her jeans and white t-shirt on the towel we had brought along and headed down toward the water. She called for me to follow her while I stared out at the ocean, distracted, lost in my own thoughts.

“Em, I’ll be right there!” I called back to her when I caught myself.

Anything Else You Want Us To Know: I work most nights, and I get on when I can, but there's no real set time for it.

Tell us about a plot you want to run/participate in: The idea I had (and I talked with Amy about this at work today) was to have Pepper Potts's latent X gene awaken, at her suggestion by an incident while assisting Tony in the lab. Her powers would be liquification of her body and electric manipulation. Also, it goes without saying that after this, Pepper would be quite miffed at Tony for quite a while. While assisting as a lab tech or some sort of secretary at Xavier school, Pepper runs across Magneto, who begins to whisper the voice of dissent and hatred into her pretty little ear. Players can build from there.