Tony Stark is a creating force.

Lines of code flow from his fingertips and designs mash themselves together in his mind. They strains the confines of reality and he forgets how to sleep in desperation. He revolutionizes the world in a cave with bits of scraps and whispering lies.

Tony Stark is a man and he forgets, forgets that he can't just change what he wants.

(he changes other things too)

He makes bombs and the world loves him. He stops and his life falls apart into itty bitty pieces like the shrapnel near his heart.

Obie dies and he makes Pepper survive.

Only, then he's dying and Natalie is Natasha and Agent has a name and things are changing (Captain America is alive, wouldn't dad be happy) and aliens are real and he's flying into space. He thinks he's going to follow his parents footsteps (only he can't, not yet), but the Hulk is roaring in his ear and his heart remembers how to work.

They eat shwarma and somehow become a team (family, closer than even Rhodney and Pepper) and they're saving the world again. Only this time it's his fault (stupid, stupid, stupid), he thought he could make it so they didn't have to fight anymore. His lines of code become their greatest opponent and JARVIS is gone, just like Jarvis.

(the kids blame him too. Blame him for the bombs that worked and the bomb that didn't.)

Clint has a family and isn't that cute (he's not jealous.) Rogers and him are fighting (big surprise) and the ground is lifting into the sky. They're fighting, argument forgotten and-

-the kid's dead, the Hulk (Bruce, Bruciebear, Sciencebro) is gone and-

They've won.

Tony Stark is a destroying force, people are blind to the fact that his creations have always, always come from the ashes of his destructions.

(and now they see)