[ tony knows almost nothing about james buchannan barnes aside from what he's "learned" about him from various media sources and in the very recent past, occasional comments from those who knew him. all the way up into his adult life? not a fucking clue. not helped bc of various highly specific circumstances, but still. ]
not treason, just served. nothing happened, bc i am awesome like that and they had fuck all to stand on anyway & they knew it. rhodey and me got medals![ and stern didn't ruin it, even though it wasn't the first medal tony had ever been given, it might well haven been within the cumulative handful that he actually earned. he's still happy about it, in that secretive way where he won't tell anyone how happy it makes him. ]
ssr? you helped make it - learned that like, uh. not that long ago. 6mo-1yr?? somewhere around there. coulda told me.
[ and he regrets saying that almost immediately, because yes howard could have told him, but this is a.... how do you say it? a different howard? not quite. an earlier howard. whatever. it's a howard that doesn't quite deserve the responses he's getting from tony, but at the same time tony genuinely just can't seem to help himself. between that and needing to know everything and wanting to fix this shit with his dad and absorbing everything else happening in the city and everything he's trying to do with the company -----
tony has very little time or energy left for other things. ]
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not treason, just served. nothing happened, bc i am awesome like that and they had fuck all to stand on anyway & they knew it. rhodey and me got medals! [ and stern didn't ruin it, even though it wasn't the first medal tony had ever been given, it might well haven been within the cumulative handful that he actually earned. he's still happy about it, in that secretive way where he won't tell anyone how happy it makes him. ]
ssr? you helped make it - learned that like, uh. not that long ago. 6mo-1yr?? somewhere around there. coulda told me.
[ and he regrets saying that almost immediately, because yes howard could have told him, but this is a.... how do you say it? a different howard? not quite. an earlier howard. whatever. it's a howard that doesn't quite deserve the responses he's getting from tony, but at the same time tony genuinely just can't seem to help himself. between that and needing to know everything and wanting to fix this shit with his dad and absorbing everything else happening in the city and everything he's trying to do with the company -----
tony has very little time or energy left for other things. ]
what do i need 2 kno abt the ssr