It's a question that drives him quiet for a long moment, though he does at least shift to let Wanda tuck in comfortably against him. He's never actually thought about the armor in terms of happiness. He'd thought he could give it up, for Pepper's sake, but that hadn't lasted long and Pepper hadn't even seemed surprised. Iron Man was burned into him now, whether the armor was there or not.

"It's...necessary," he says finally. Maybe it doesn't make him happy in so many words, but the alternative is worse. His own words echo in his head: I shouldn't be alive unless it was for a reason. In some ways, he's still just trying to make Yinsen's sacrifice worth it.

"But you're not me," Tony adds, reaching over to absently pat her knee. "You have options."