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Under the Rain

— euripides

favourite character meme ► 3 emotions [3/3]

she’s a strong woman who’s been successfully independent for most of her life

she’s both smart and wise about the company

she doesn’t neglect her mental health when Tony isn’t good for her at the moment

when Tony switches gears out of the blue, changing the company’s goal completely, she goes along with it

when given the company, she does her very best with it

she is incredibly patient with Tony

although she gets tired of his ways, she trusts Tony, even when she doesn’t understand what he’s thinking

she doesn’t let her relationship with him change her views of her position there at the company, and continues to work just as hard as before

what happens to her is scary, but she recognizes that it isn’t Tony’s fault and that she signed up for this sort of thing when she started working for him

although he doesn’t like it and most of us don’t, she knows the suits are damaging his health and their relationship; she’s brave to speak up about it and try to settle things rather than simply leaving him or letting things deteriorate 

she’s got a good personality that drives the story forwards 

• pepper is a strategic thinker, and whenever an issue occurs, not only does she take charge, her priority is the civilians (just like tony). this is pepper in im2, giving instructions to the local cops in order to help stop the damage:

Pepper: When they get here, I think you should station them at the south, east, and both west exits.

Cop: We shut down the 7th train in and out of willets point already.

Pepper: Well, have the city buses there to ferry people to operating lines.

• pepper actually stays back at the expo during vanko’s attack (despite there being no immediate need to do so), because she wanted to wait until ALL of the civilians were cleared.

• she’s NOT written in the typical rom-com way of “PA in love with asshole boss” (in mcu). in fact, it’s the opposite, while she may have feelings for tony prior to im1, at no point is she shown to be endlessly pining for him or being jealous of other women.

• in her relationship with tony, it is NOT her who has a hard time getting tony (the-playboy-billionaire) to commit, it’s the reverse. tony is the one begging her to marry him, to prepone their marriage, to have a kid etc. it’s such a wonderful trope reversal.

• she actually runs the largest tech conglomerate on earth (in tony’s own words). the only one who invests more time and energy into stark industries is JARVIS – a literal AI.

• she’s fricking incredibly brave. she went to obadiah’s office to steal information from right under his nose. she is no superhero, doesn’t know combat, isn’t a trained superspy, she’s just a civilian, who does it because it needed to be done.

• she is quite ready to kill someone she loves for the greater good. she did it back in im1, when there was no earth in danger, no alien attacks, but the only consequence was that obie might escape with arc-reactor technology. as peggy carter said, she respects the dignity of tony’s choice.

• she actually killed two out of three of the villains of iron man. it seems that she does take out the trash.

• she also planned to invite avengers into her home. (as you can see pepper & tony together planned the remodel of avengers tower with rooms for each avenger. and the stark tower was pep’s & tony’s home first.)

• she actually believes in the goodness of people. she consoles maya hansen and tells her not to be so hard on herself. this is tony’s ex-girlfriend, and also someone who works for a terrorist (both of which pepper knows at this point), but even so, pepper sees the best in maya.  

Pepper: You can’t be too hard on yourself, Maya. I mean, you gave your research to a think tank.

Maya: Yeah, but killian built that think tank on military contracts.

Pepper: that’s exactly what we used to do. So, don’t judge yourself.

• also, notice how pepper uses “we”, and not “tony” or “stark industries”. that’s why tony & pepper make a good pair, because their values match – they hold themselves accountable. pepper takes responsibility for obie double-dealing weapons – despite the fact that neither pepper nor tony knew about it, despite the fact that she was “just a PA” when it happened.

• pepper believes in teams, she doesn’t say it as a catch-phrase, but it is evident in her actions – a failure on the part of the team (SI’s weapons manufacturing) will be shouldered by each member of the team (both pepper and tony).

• also, when pepper is ambushed killian, her first instinct is to tell maya to save herself. she’s genuinely concerned about others (just as much as tony).

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