Stark-Rogers

do NOT send backup. he's exactly where he wants to be

“Buddy, it’s okay.” Captain America’s voice said in his ear.

“G-get the f-fuck off of me!” Peter screamed and tried to kick the man. Steve didn’t budge but let out a grunt when Peter used all of his strength in an attempt to get away. “I need t-to get to M-Mr Stark!”

“The medics will be here soon.” Was Steve’s reply, but Peter shook his head in denial. He was sobbing so hard it made the simple act of breathing even harder, and he felt so overwhelmed that he couldn’t begin to believe what he was seeing. Tony couldn’t be dead. “You need to calm down, bud. It’s going to be okay.”

Tony: my dad never loved me, he just loved some dead guy who saved the world only to rot in the bottom of the ocean and then he never found the fucking body. how fucked up is that? he spent more time looking for a corpse than with his own son.

He's a Buns Enthusiast, Buck. Let the man be. XD

yes, in the mcu, steve’s been on the run, but he’s never actually been captured (he was briefly caught by the red skull in the first avenger, which lasts about five minutes compared to tony’s months of captivity) 

the compromises tony learned to make - he refused at first to build any weapons for the ten rings, but he learned eventually that he could bend their system to his advantage.

that’s the same underlying philosophy beneath his decision with the accords in civil war.

the price of freedom is high. tony will lose parts himself (he will lose his pride, his dignity, his own beliefs. he will say please to raza and call ross a sir), he will pretend to be someone he’s not, he will lose his family, he will lose yinsen and jarvis and rhodey and the avengers, he will lose his health, his sanity, his own life.

steve believes in standing for something with little compromise. he will stand for the ideals he believes in because it’s right.

but tony, who lived a large part of his adult life believing freedom was fear built on top of weapons only to be betrayed, who walked through miles of barren desert, who clawed his way out of the caves with a promise?

tony doesn’t have to believe in freedom. because he knows what freedom is. he’s bled for it, suffered for it, atoned for it.

for tony stark, the price of freedom is his world and himself.