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http://andythanfiction.tumblr.com/post/34476119362/its-not-just-a-tony-is-twice-his-age-thing-or-a/, posted on October 28, 2012
“It’s not just a Tony-is-twice-his-age thing, or a 1940s thing, or some kind of purity of soul thing. It’s the kind of experiences they’ve had about their ideals and whether those mean shit. For Steve, life’s a thing where if you dream big enough and you’ve got a good enough heart, you get plucked off the streets to become a superhero who gets to fight the bad guys in a huge war where the good guys win and he gets to miss things like Okinawa, the atom bombs, and the concentration camps. For Tony, life’s a thing where when you and your crew invent tech that’s going to change the world and improve lives all the way from rich stockbrokers to starving kids in China, the only way to get it off your drawing boards is to please the rich stockbrokers by screwing over your own country and sending off to have it made by starving kids enslaved in China.”
— My friend Mark over chat, proving that 5am conversations can be the best (we were arguing House affiliations of the Avengers and he insisted that Tony and Steve were both Gryffindor, the latter just being a “dark, cynical, broken Gryffindor who has to drink to cope with himself."
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Re: Andy is the authority on Steve Rogers, October 2012
(Anonymous) 2015-04-18 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)“It’s not just a Tony-is-twice-his-age thing, or a 1940s thing, or some kind of purity of soul thing. It’s the kind of experiences they’ve had about their ideals and whether those mean shit. For Steve, life’s a thing where if you dream big enough and you’ve got a good enough heart, you get plucked off the streets to become a superhero who gets to fight the bad guys in a huge war where the good guys win and he gets to miss things like Okinawa, the atom bombs, and the concentration camps. For Tony, life’s a thing where when you and your crew invent tech that’s going to change the world and improve lives all the way from rich stockbrokers to starving kids in China, the only way to get it off your drawing boards is to please the rich stockbrokers by screwing over your own country and sending off to have it made by starving kids enslaved in China.”
— My friend Mark over chat, proving that 5am conversations can be the best (we were arguing House affiliations of the Avengers and he insisted that Tony and Steve were both Gryffindor, the latter just being a “dark, cynical, broken Gryffindor who has to drink to cope with himself."