#ainon

Ghost Tony and AI Steve have an existential crisis together

Aka, Tony get confirmation that he had a soul this whole time, and Steve gets to be mad that someone (Ultron? Doom? Red Skull, Tony?!?!??) digitized him to this extent. (Maybe it was punishment, maybe it was the answer to a crisis and this was somehow a solution, maybe someone couldn’t let do)

(Not a prompt so much as a brain tickler)

hi darlin'! i hope you are well :')))

you have the funnest ideas! this is a delightful role reversal.

my question is, WOULD tony take this as confirmation of a soul OR WOULD he take it as proof of eternal suffering that he's earned, to never be at actual peace? or maybe both, okay he has a soul but its still not...allowed to end, to rest at the end of things?

i feel like ghost tony would absolutely be at his UNHINGING END with his lack of ability to affect the world around him in any tangible way. not able to touch, to problem solve, to be heard even - would render him so helpless? no chance of fixing his own cataclysmic fate, just kinda doomed be an inactive particle floating along other people's choices. seeing people suffering, unable to do anything for them.

i firmly believe that stagnancy is a circle of hell for tony stark.

for AI steve, i totally agreeee. he'd be hornier than a puffed toad. full sense of betrayal, definitely lashing out at ghost tony, but also i think bowled over by the cognitive differences that being an AI engenders in him? protocols, look-ups, wet ware connections? does he have an LMD? is he amorphous? he would struggle with both having a fake body and not having a body at all.

he'd probably be a bit terrified and distraught that tony is dead and that means potentially there is no one around to 'fix' him? is his body still around actually?

two wild possibilities have occurred to me, writing this:

steve always was a form of AI. his brainwaves were somehow copied and pasted onto the super soldier body the US army grew in a lab.

tony wakes up a ghost after having discovered this, seems conclusively killed because of this knowledge and now has to break it to steve, who is anything but amused by this joke. but the more and more time steve spends as an AI he realizes the truth and an existential crises hits him like a brick to the face. meanwhile, tony is trying to manage steve, keep him going instead of shutting down, and also try to figure out how this was possible in the 1940's, AND maybe slightly more importantly - who exactly killed tony for knowing steve was an AI and who stuck steve in a computer terminal?? can tony catch a fucking break?? he's already dead, how much worse can it get, etc. mystery, intrigue, plot, yearning, maybe a happy ending?? can tony please get a waffle??/

OR

tony has to teach steve how to code/engineer/build a new body (with as little mech or as much as your brain thinks is sexy, obvs) for himself because steve refuses to stay as a hologram.

its all endless time together without the need for sleep or basic human functions like superheroing interrupting them and they get to talking about all the things they both have forgotten and remember and blah blah they fall in LOVE, ALREADY WERE, NEVER HAVEN'T BEEN, ETC. BUT IT;S DOOMED bc tony is dead for good :)))) and the more they share, the more at peace tony feels and the further he fades into the afterlife. and steve realizes this and cries, etc. and tries to sabotage his own body and tony stops him and says i want you to live on, that's what i need to be at peace, i know now. and steve's like, that's such an asshole thing to put on my shoulders, i hate you, don't do this to me. and tony says i need you to live. steve says i need you to be alive and tony says, only one of these things are possible, steve. so it's! unhappy ending?? magical intervention?? pain either way? :) pain either way.

AINON - Drought - spiritual jazz meets modern classical in a quartet led by cellist Aino Juutilainen (We Jazz)

And which ghost goes bad first? Steve or Tony? On the one hand we have Mr. Iceberg of hidden negative emotional angst that erupts spectacularly that is Steve, and Mr. 3-Existential-Crisis-Before-Breakfast-on-a-good-day that is Tony

hahaha, hey bee. one can never escape spn, huh? 😜

i will say always find spn's interpretation of supernatural beings a little sad? so many of them feel very limited palette - painted in huge swaths of anger and nothing else.

but, putting that aside, i do think the idea of a ghost that slowly loses themself - and is aware of the loss (did they do this w bobby's wife??) is so emotionally wrought and compelling. a ghost that is intimately, intensely it is slowly becoming vengeful! losing oneself to the metaphysically river tide, one piece at a time like your skin flaking off in the breeze. OOF. the horror of the horror, the slow descent, not into madness, but into justification, into righteous violence where the only heat is the anger that fuels you???

compelling as hell.

so, in that vein, i feel like steve goes poltergeist first.

YOU SOUND LIKE YOURE SPONSORED BY BUYEE IT MAKES ME LAUGH, the whole free shipping for 2000 yen really sells it at the end so i believe i may just have to look into using it 👁️👁️

THE PRICES ARE SO SURPRISING CAUSE KNIGHTS IS FAIRLY POPULAR ??? and also leo is a really popular character but his merch can be so fairly priced but also crying about the ritsu merch BOOO LET ME JUST HAVE THEM BOTH 😡🫵❌

oh my god also my merch i ordered came the other day THERES SO MUCH like a whole load of arashi pashas, a lot of izumi merch, some misc knights merch and then 2wink merch BUT I GOT LEO PINS THAT CAN GO IN MY SILLY LITTLE BEAR BAG OF HIS hes such a cutie

ainon has also unfortunately fallen ill aughhh big L on my part 😞😞 its probably just like a really bad cold or flu so ill be up and alive again in a few days i just havent left bed the whole weekend

the recent fics ALSO AUGUGUHHUH YOU 🫵🫵🫵 never fail to impress im so serious !! the tatsumi flower prompts were so sweet ahhh AND THE JEALOUS HCS RINNE THINKS HES SOOOO FUNNY 👎👎👎 but i also did giggle at his stupid behaviour hes so goofy i love him

CONGRATS ON REACHING 300 FOLLOWERS YOU DESERVE THEM ALL !!! the 300 followers event sounds so interesting and id love to know more about it !!!

- ainon ᡣ𐭩

Wow, then I have no idea LOL those are all my guesses... o(TヘTo)

I ALWAYS THOUGHT OF THAT WHENEVER I TRY TO GET MY MOOTS TO USE BUYEE LMAO they should really sponsor me, I'm bringing in BUSINESS! ( ` ꒳ ´ )✧ But it's really good. The first merch I bought on Buyee was a Kanata Shinkai badge set! Also, if you're buying multiple items, always consolidate when they all reach the warehouse so you won't need to pay shipping everytime!

Omg, that sounds like such a cute haul!! 🥺💕 I wish I could see them, haha! <3

Aw, hope you get well soon, ainon! I've been sick for the last 4 weeks LMAO but it's finally clearing up now. So just get some rest!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! It was kind of hard writing for Tatsumi, so I'm really glad you liked it! The Rinne one haha he really is goofy LOL

omg… maybe one day the anon will disappear and i can send the pictures 🙏🙏 one day….. BUT ALSO YEAH I GUESS FOR LIKE SAFETY REASONS AND STUFF IS WHY THE CANT

ive always thought about using buyee but ive just never actually tried it AHHHH SINCE YOU 🤨🫵 ARE A SEASONED PROFESSIONAL TELL ME… is it good ? cause i know the packages get sent to the warehouse and then sent out from there but im still just so hesitant on using it since i dont know a lot about it 😭😭 AHHH BUT I DID LOOK AT THE 2WINK AND KNIGHTS MERCH AND ITS SURPRISINGLY CHEAP… i knew 2wink would be cause theres not a lot of fans compared to other units but knights really surprised me since its so popular ???

its so cute that you took english lit for a levels oh my god 😭😭 i loved my english teacher we were doing like creative writing and she said i could write really good books for like teens AHHHH love her forever 🫶🫶🫶🫶

YEAH THE PARALIVE SONGS OUUHHHHH AUGHHH i heard them a long while ago and thats what got me into it in the first place but i just never really interacted with the fandom much AHHHH… but now,, NOW I MIGHT 🫵🫵🫵🤭🤭

HAVE A GREAT DAY !!!

-ainon ᡣ𐭩

That’s so weird. I have a feeling you’re like from Scotland or Wales now idk 😭

Yes!! I love using Buyee! There’s a lot of benefits, but that’s like with other proxies too. I’m just really used to this one. But yes, you’re right, it gets sent to the warehouse and they package all your items up and then send to you! Also, if you’re a new member, you get free shipping for 2,000 yen off!

Ikr when I saw Knights prices, I was kinda shocked 😭 but some Ritsu merch is so expensive compared to Leo merch. If you ever need help though, you can message me 😋

That’s so sweet!! I also have good experiences with my English teacher too 🥹 He graded my (personal) horror story and gave me full marks HAHA I miss GCSE English 😭

Ngl, I haven’t interacted too much with the fandom 😭 but that’s only bc I’m kinda a wuss. Enstarries are just so much easier to befriend LMAO but yes, you should properly get into it!! <3

I WISH I COULD SHOW YOU PICTURES OF IT RAGHHHH i genuinely was like debating making an account for ainon just for pictures and stuff but it just seems like so much effort HELP ??? they should let us anons use pictures too 😞😞

WHERED YOU GET THE MERCH THAT ITS THAT CHEAP ?? im scared to ask how much the shipping is though if its from a proxy site or anything like that.. the shipping for my 2wink album cost like £20 ish i think ? but do share your ways i yearn for more merch 🙏🙏🫵 MY KNIGHTS MERCH IS GONNA BE HERE SOON THOUGH AND IM SO EXCITED WAHHHH it has like the teeny tiny izumi omanjuus and like pins and pashas IM SO EXCITED !!! and also the knights x ryusetai cd AHHH

YOUR LATEST FICS ALSO ???? CRYINF…. theyre so so well written and i just aughhhh… i do like paralive but ive just never really read anything on it apart from stuff for BAE BUT THE WAY YOU WRITE IS SO CAPTIVATING IM AFRAID IM BEING PULLED INTO IT 🫡🫡

KEEP UP THE AMAZING WORK AND TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF <3333 !!!

-ainon :D

That’s so interesting. I wonder what that silly part is because tbh I can’t think of a place right now 😭 But okayyy, (kind of) British enstarrie!! ჱ̒ ｰ̀֊ｰ́ )

We can always establish this writer-anon relationship into actual friends and then you can send me pics haha jk unless… But tbh, they should allow anons to send in pics. I get why they wouldn’t though 😔

I buy a lot of my merch on Mercari JP through the Buyee proxy! The shipping was the same as yours though, £20. Though, that depends on the package weight. Sometimes it only costed me £17 to ship a package from Japan to the UK, sometimes £30 😭 I always try to downsize my packages though! A lot of the merch on there is inexpensive (not Eden tho, but I’m 100% sure that 2wink and maybe Knights merch on Mercari JP is really cheap).

Tiny Izumi omanjuus!! That’s cute hehe 🤍

Omg thank you so much though!! 🥹💖💖💖 I really do like it when people compliment my writing, I think I’ve said this before haha but I’ve always loved writing, I even took English lit & lang for A-Levels because I wanted to write 😭

But yes!! I love when I get people into Paradox Live. I love it so so much. The characters are all so likeable and the songs are sooo good!! I got into it in early 2023 just by the songs alone! 💕