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Tony Stark + being hurt by his own weapons
Bonus:
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Meanwhile in Alt!2012, Thor becomes Tony’s prince charming (And it’s probably the first time Thor uses his power to save someone’s life)
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Arc Reactor Blues
Fics in which the arc reactor causes health problems or PTSD Problems for Tony. Really just Fics revolving around the arc.
Steve/Tony
And Begin again Tomorrow
Steve can tell there’s something wrong with Tony. He just doesn’t know what happened. Or why Tony’s friends seem to think it’s his fault.
You’ll feel a Pinch
Everyone thought the Arc Reactor had fixed everything. It had saved Tony’s life, that was true. But having a giant hole with your chest came with complications. Tony had it under control; no need to bother the team with his problems. He was enough of a burden as it was. And it was fine….mostly.
Halcyon Days
Tony Stark’s arc reactor fails because of an EMP blast, right when he’s in the middle of an argument with Steve.
Put Your Heart (Into Every Word You Say)
Tony Stark has a few issues - and the Arc Reactor is one of them.
It’s nothing he can’t handle.
Bucky/Tony
Pivotal Moments in the life of Tony Stark
Prompt: Okay so do you think I could get something to do with Bucky and Tony bonding over the arc reactor and the metal arm? Maybe edging into the realities of living with both?
Avoidance Issues
It wasn’t so much a matter of being able to breathe as it was a matter of staying conscious as cardiac arrest kicked in. He’d shielded the suit against EMPs, so whatever it was he’d been hit with wasn’t that. Didn’t so much matter though, since it still managed to damage the arc reactor enough that it was kicking on and offline.
“Almost there,” he heard. “C’mon, Tony, don’t quit on me now.”
Pepper/Tony
For I am Crystal Chrome
“Terrorists?” Steve Rogers asks, with confusion.
“Oh shit, I really am dead, and there’s an afterlife, and it sucks,” Tony moans.
Hugs in the Aftermath
Following the Battle of New York, Tony Stark ends up with a penthouse full of Avengers and a damaged arc reactor. But everything’s instantly bearable when Pepper arrives.
Gen
Breathe
Tony wakes with a cough, a rattling thing that shakes his rib cage. The air is thick and musty around him and it makes breathing difficult in a way he thought he’d left behind with the arc reactor. He blinks into the darkness, presses a hand to his aching chest, and his elbow knocks against something that sounds like wood. He frowns and reaches towards the wood and his fingers brush rough grain a few inches from his face and suddenly it clicks.
Heart 2.0 (Can be read as Ironhusbands)
Rhodey sees the arc reactor for the first time on the transport flight above the Afghan desert, J.A.R.V.I.S. and the bots witness it in the safety of Tony’s workshop and help him craft the new and improved version – and Happy gets a hands-on experience when sparring with his boss for the first time since his release from captivity.
Division of the Heart
Tony Stark is sick.
Surely that’s not going to be a problem? When he doesn’t tell the team a normal cold is a little more complicated with the Arc Reactor, things get a little out of hand.
Inhale, Exhale
The Arc Reactor did so much more then what everyone had realized. Or maybe they never thought to question how a metal cylinder could exist inside the sternum of a human being without causing any lasting damage.
Deeper Than the Surface
Fem!Toni is complaining about Arc Reactor pains and the team has no idea the Arc Reactor is actually INSIDE her chest so they assume she’s talking about her breasts.
Proof that Tony Stark has a Heart (and is Also an Idiot)
Tony Stark is the most egotistical, self-centered, arrogant, narcissistic, immature Avenger on the team.
Right?
It’s Raining, It’s Pouring
It had been raining for a week straight.
I’m having a hard time with it
‘The first thing Tony noticed (not true, because in order, it goes pain, throat, then chest, but semantics, and the chest is the one that panics him the most, so it’s what sticks) is that there is a literal weight lifted off his chest.’
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Do it, Lang! Window’s closing–pull my pin!
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Wouldn’t it be awesome if bad guys used Tony as a power source?
I wouldn’t mind reading fic about this sort of thing.
Tony arched against the bars and the rope as he felt his pulse quicken from the sudden surge of power created by his arc reactor in compensation to the large amount of power lost to the machine attached to his very same arc reactor. In consequence the sheer amount of force caused his heart to beat in quick, unhealthy succession. Almost made it felt as if his heart was getting sucked clean out of his body. Ripped out by the very same creation meant to keep it beating.
Tony screamed from the pain. The tape over his mouth muffling him and the loud whir of the machine he was powering overshadowing any noise he created. This went on for one whole minute. He released scream after scream. None of it lessened the pain.
When the machine was finally turned off he slumped heavily against the bars he was roped to, head dangling from his lack of strength. His heart beat was rapid and painful in his chest. His weight was held by the rope around his wrist and over his chest. Blood trickled down from where the rope bit into his skin, made worse by his struggling. There was no escape for him.
“Sir, test proved successful. Power exceeded our original expectations. One-hundred percent.” He heard from somewhere. “However it will prove fatal to our host if used excessively. A recommended seventy-five percent will deem it operational and will allow our host to survive long exposures.”
“And what of the device?”
“Will remain online and undetected should we switch to this new power source.”
“Good. Begin preparations. I want this ready and moved out before anyone notices our guest missing. I’d hate to lose such a convenient generator.”
Tony seethed on the inside. This was all he was to them. A damn battery.
“Make our guest comfortable. Show him to his new room.”
Before Tony could even begin to move a finger he was knocked out. The next few times he was conscious were all a blur to him. Blended together in a surreal way that he couldn’t decipher what was real and what wasn’t. The only thing he knew to be true was the heavy second pulse in his chest. A pulse that seemed to suck the life right out of him every second of every hour of every day.
They placed him inside a pod, held upright by chains with his arms tied behind his back. Tubes, wires, everything seen in machines attached to himself and his reactor. He came and went to reality. Time passed too quickly. Frozen, perhaps? A cryo pod of sorts.
Then blaring lights and loud sirens assaulted his eyes and ears. Time slowed and he came to consciousness. His body no longer sluggish but the second pulse still in his chest. In panic he looked around, eyes scanning everything he could. His arms were chained behind him, his legs chained to the pod and they had placed a muzzle on him. He couldn’t move or call for help.
Someone appeared before his pod. Eyes wide in horror and mouth opened in worry. Tony knew them and he tried to scream through his muzzle, to beg for them to release him, but then the floor began to shake and the wires attached to his reactor pulsed with the same amount of force that nearly yanked his heart out.
He screamed against the muzzle and struggled, but to no avail. Then the whirring of a weapon charging echoed in the room and the last thing Tony managed to see before only pain overtook his mind was a blast of light hitting where the person stood and the sound of the weapon he was charging getting ready to strike again.
@xissa-chanx i tried.
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Depressing arc reactor headcanons.
1. The arc reactor freezes when it’s too cold causing severe pain to the surrounding muscles.
2. If left in the sun it superheats like the seat belt buckle in your car and can burn Tony.
3. It decreases Tony’s lung capacity far below that of your average human.
4. Tony has asthma.
5. Once the arc reactor is removed Tony begins to function without chronic pain and is absolutely amazed at how easy everything is.
6. Tony loves singing, but the reactor won’t let him take deep enough breaths to really sing anymore. Sometimes he’ll forget and start singing along with the music in his workshop, but then that big part in any song comes along and he tries to breathe in for it and ends up doubled over in pain.
7. Anytime someone hugs Tony it puts pressure on the arc which restricts his lungs and makes it impossible to breathe. So now he avoids being hugged.
8. Tony can’t lie down on his stomach anymore because the surface shoves the arc reactor deeper into his chest, moving around the surrounding muscles, lungs and ribs.
9. Hiccups hurt. The diaphragm is spasming and pushing the lungs upwards into space that is no longer there. They would hit the reactor.
10. Major thoracic muscles like the pectorals in the chest and the external oblique and rectus abdominis in the abdomen are displaced. Extending his arms above his head would be painful as would bending forward or backward to far.
11. His immune system is compromised. He would be prone to things like: cold and flu, pneumonia and chest infections.
12. The skin around the reactor would be like an open wound as skin can’t bond with metal. Shifting could cause slight bleeding and it’s an entrance for bacteria.
13. The asthma and decreased lung capacity makes it dangerous to take narcotic pain killers.
14. Chronic pain saps your energy. He would be exhausted constantly. And not just tired like ‘oh, I’m yawning maybe I should go to bed’. It’s a pervasive mental and physical exhaustion that won’t just go away because you sleep.
15. ‘Painsomia’ not being able to sleep because he’s in to much pain. And the arc reactor would make it very difficult to find a comfortable position.
16. People who think he’s making up excuses to get out of things. That the pain isn’t that bad or it’s psychosomatic, that he should try harder or why he can’t manage something today that he did yesterday.
17. The fact that he probably doesn’t trust a doctor to come withing a mile of the arc reactor, so doesn’t seek help.
18. That even having the reactor removed doesn’t negate that parts of his lungs were cut out, muscles displaced, ribs cut short to make room for the reactor or the fact that his sternum was entirely removed.
19. Tony can’t elevate his heart rate too far into the “Heathy Fitness Zone” level. The arc reactor is sunk so deep into his chest that if his heart rate accelerates, he can feel his heart thumping against the arc reactor.
sad–ghost–kid
20. coughing, especially with the inevitable asthma attacks and flu, is incredibly painful. When he’s sick or has an attack, he has to use a nebulizer right away, which makes a mist of the medication albuterol. it makes him shaky and uneasy, which usually triggers his anxiety pretty badly.
21. he learns the hard way to super-reinforce the chestplate of the iron man armor because even a mild hit to the chest can fully incapacitate him.
22. showers s u c k.
i’m pretty sure we could destroy half the fandom if we team up on one of these babies
shi-toyu
I adore all of these. ALL OF THEM.
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Depressing arc reactor headcanons.
1. The arc reactor freezes when it’s too cold causing severe pain to the surrounding muscles.
2. If left in the sun it superheats like the seat belt buckle in your car and can burn Tony.
3. It decreases Tony’s lung capacity far below that of your average human.
4. Tony has asthma.
5. Once the arc reactor is removed Tony begins to function without chronic pain and is absolutely amazed at how easy everything is.
6. Tony loves singing, but the reactor won’t let him take deep enough breaths to really sing anymore. Sometimes he’ll forget and start singing along with the music in his workshop, but then that big part in any song comes along and he tries to breathe in for it and ends up doubled over in pain.
7. Anytime someone hugs Tony it puts pressure on the arc which restricts his lungs and makes it impossible to breathe. So now he avoids being hugged.
8. Tony can’t lie down on his stomach anymore because the surface shoves the arc reactor deeper into his chest, moving around the surrounding muscles, lungs and ribs.
9. Hiccups hurt. The diaphragm is spasming and pushing the lungs upwards into space that is no longer there. They would hit the reactor.
10. Major thoracic muscles like the pectorals in the chest and the external oblique and rectus abdominis in the abdomen are displaced. Extending his arms above his head would be painful as would bending forward or backward to far.
11. His immune system is compromised. He would be prone to things like: cold and flu, pneumonia and chest infections.
12. The skin around the reactor would be like an open wound as skin can’t bond with metal. Shifting could cause slight bleeding and it’s an entrance for bacteria.
13. The asthma and decreased lung capacity makes it dangerous to take narcotic pain killers.
14. Chronic pain saps your energy. He would be exhausted constantly. And not just tired like ‘oh, I’m yawning maybe I should go to bed’. It’s a pervasive mental and physical exhaustion that won’t just go away because you sleep.
15. ‘Painsomia’ not being able to sleep because he’s in to much pain. And the arc reactor would make it very difficult to find a comfortable position.
16. People who think he’s making up excuses to get out of things. That the pain isn’t that bad or it’s psychosomatic, that he should try harder or why he can’t manage something today that he did yesterday.
17. The fact that he probably doesn’t trust a doctor to come withing a mile of the arc reactor, so doesn’t seek help.
18. That even having the reactor removed doesn’t negate that parts of his lungs were cut out, muscles displaced, ribs cut short to make room for the reactor or the fact that his sternum was entirely removed.
19. Tony can’t elevate his heart rate too far into the “Heathy Fitness Zone” level. The arc reactor is sunk so deep into his chest that if his heart rate accelerates, he can feel his heart thumping against the arc reactor.
sad–ghost–kid
20. coughing, especially with the inevitable asthma attacks and flu, is incredibly painful. When he’s sick or has an attack, he has to use a nebulizer right away, which makes a mist of the medication albuterol. it makes him shaky and uneasy, which usually triggers his anxiety pretty badly.
21. he learns the hard way to super-reinforce the chestplate of the iron man armor because even a mild hit to the chest can fully incapacitate him.
22. showers s u c k.
starklightt
23. Tony’s heart can’t beat as hard or as fast as it should be able to, so his blood doesn’t circulate like it should. He has dangerously low blood pressure, which makes him tired, shaky, messes with his ability to breathe even more, and he blacks out from headrushes constantly.
24. Sometimes, when Tony wakes up from nightmares, he mistakes the blue of the arc reactor for the wormhole, which makes him panic.
25. Tony’s Iron Man, for god’s sake. He shouldn’t be in pain. No one can know he’s in so much pain.
tonystarkdefensesquadmember
26. If he ever face plants from being clumsy it is severely painful. He can feel the arc reactor jolt further into his chest, it would feel like he is being stabbed.
27. Working out is a bitch at times. Chest workouts are damn near impossible, because the metal plating simply pushes against his muscles during reps.
junesqueer
28. He can’t have sex anymore. The positions, the movement, and the accelerated heart rate and blood flow makes it incredibly painful. He can only jerk off on a good pain day
29. Part of the reason he started the iron legion is because he can’t lift his arms over his head to put on shirts without pain and Pepper isn’t always around to help him. So he has suits to do it for him, along with all heavy lifting in the workshop
30. Panic attacks almost always results in an asthma attack, and vice versa. Sometimes it gets so bad that he vomits, which makes the pain worse. Even mild panic attacks will put him out of commission for hours
31. Even after getting the arc reactor removed, he still has chronic pain and asthma. It lessens and his range of motion has increased, but he’ll never be pain-free again
32. He gets addicted to pain medication
33. During panic attacks, a lot of people get freaked out by feeling their heart palpitations. It’s even worse for Tony and often increases his anxiety. He can’t rest his head on anyone’s chest anymore because hearing their heart beat just makes him more conscious of his own and can send him into a panic. If he goes to the hospital for any reason, the sound of heart monitors makes him anxious as well
34. When a panic attack gets especially bad, he tries to claw the arc reactor from his chest (to get the pain to stop, to keep his heart from pounding against it, because it still feels foreign, etc). The watch gauntlet originally was made to be gloves to keep him from actually hurting himself and he only developed the weapons capability later
Mmmm. Yes. This is what I strive for.