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[metalmenace]

who: Victor von Doom and you
what: punching and heroing
when: mid-June
where: all over
warnings: violence

i. experiment
After his call for volunteers, Doom had spent his time looking for a place to do his little experiment without any worry of people thinking a brawl had broken out. Once he had found a place, some little clearing out in the abandoned area, he had set up a few magical precautions to keep himself safe before contacting those that had expressed interest in assisting him. One at a time, of course, since he really didn't want them all to show up and decide on a free-for-all since that would ruin the entire point of this whole experiment. Whenever people start to finally arrive, Victor himself was standing there, looking very out of place in his nice suit and seemingly unarmed. Not that he really seems to care about how he appears.

"Are you ready to get started or would you like a moment to get ready?"

ii. iron man
It didn't really matter that Tony Stark was here and not in a coma. Victor was Iron Man now and he was going to hold onto that for as long as he possibly could. Until the inevitable showdown, he was going to be patrolling around in his own Iron Man armor, both flying and walking. Every so often, he'd stop and help someone out before heading back on his way, trying to make as little of scene as possible as he could while wearing intimidating armor and a cloak. He's not doing this for recognition, after all, instead trying to not be selfish while wearing the armor. He has a legacy to uphold and he will not tarnish it, especially not now.

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[inebriety]

The changes that affected a large portion of the population had seemingly passed Tony over. There were no radical changes to his age and he looked like the same. But for him months had passed and a lot had happened in that time. He'd quit, he didn't want to be Iron Man any more. All he wanted was to be able to grieve in peace and find a way to save Thor. While the former was still possible, the latter wouldn't be without his resources.

So while previously one of Tony's ideas of entertainment involved teasing his counterpart here, he no longer feels the need to say anything about the silly cape and colour scheme he's now sporting. He walks up to the armoured man and merely pats his shoulder before continuing past.

While the two Tony Starks were identical, they were easy to differentiate. This Tony smelt strongly of alcohol and was paler and thinner. There was also a listlessness to him that would have looked out of place to anyone familiar with the other Tony. To put it simply, he was miserable and no longer bothered to pretend otherwise.

[metalmenace]

For someone that had been around Tony as much as Doom has recently, it's obvious to him that this is clearly not the Tony Stark he knows and that this isn't some sort of magical prank by a certain trickster. He's dealt with other universes enough to know that this was just a Tony Stark from another universe.

One who hadn't stopped drinking. How unfortunate.

He moves to follow Tony, definitely curious about his lack of a reaction to his armor. That's definitely not normal Tony behavior, other universes be damned.

"Well, aren't you an odd one," he says with a hint of amusement. "I expected a bit more outrage from you at someone else with this armor."

[inebriety]

Tony stills and takes a second look at Iron Man. As impaired as he was, he was still Tony Stark and it wasn't difficult to come to the conclusion that this was someone else.

"Should I? You didn't steal it, it's too ugly to be one of ours."

He doesn't point out that he can recognise their work and this armour is only influenced by them.

[metalmenace]

Doom has to restrain himself from sighing. This might not be his Tony Stark, but it's still a Tony Stark of some kind. He can deal with Tony Starks, that was familiar territory.

"It's been known that Tony Stark is very protective of his brand, which happens to include Iron Man. Am I wrong?"

He's ignoring the ugly comment because he's not getting into a fashion argument with him. That is a path that leads nowhere good.

[inebriety]

Tony stares at him blankly for a moment before laughing hollowly. "I changed my mind weeks ago." It'd been hard for him since the whole mess with the infinity gems, but after Thanos he didn't want to try at all and here in this strange world there was certainly nothing to motivate him to try.

"Take the name if you want. I have no use for it."