#graphite au

(iron warriors fanmade geneflaw)

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Affected Legions:

Iron Warriors

Tony is a gigantic perfectionist. This guy pushes himself, and he pushes himself hard. I’m talking late nights in the studio, running off of a can of Red Bull and a handful of cashews and some half-eaten scone he got from the bakery down the street. He picks apart as he watches his reflection on the mirrored wall; oh, that was stiff or oh, I was a millisecond off with my timing, that’s disgraceful. Natasha once walked in on him sobbing into his cup of green juice because he felt like he wasn’t good enough at a certain routine and was rightfully Very Concerned and told him to take a day off. Or twenty. Please, just take a break.

There was a time where he pushed himself so hard that he just. Couldn’t walk because he was so sore and Bucky pretty much imploded and exploded simultaneously because! He doesn’t like seeing Tony in pain! And because this is Tony we’re talking about, he more than likely has his own barre at home, which is mostly used as a clothing rack now because Bucky is like… babe you gotta stop pushing yourself like this, pls.

But it’s not like he’s one to talk because he can get absorbed into a painting and just forget to eat or drink for 10 hours straight. He could start on a preliminary sketch when Tony leaves, right after they’ve had breakfast together, and then when Tony comes back home, Bucky would be in the exact same spot, painting that exact same sketch, with no signs of anything in the kitchen having been moved. “Have you… eaten anything?” Tony would ask, draping his jacket over the back of his chair.

“…Have I what now,” Bucky replies, his stomach deciding now is a very good time to start rumbling like a thunderstorm.

Tony immediately drags Bucky into the kitchen, his oil paints be damned, and chastises him about not getting nutrients into his body, by god, James, do you want to give him a heart attack! Bucky tries to apologize by peppering kisses on Tony while he’s cooking something and Tony allows it, but watch yourself, Barnes.

I think it's pg enough to not have to have a content label, soo here we go.

left: Barban Falk, middle: Kydomor Forrix, right: Thio Ruimelo (oc). Genes are crazy, they even seem to affect the sm after elevation XDD

"This boy's yet to lay siege to any real bastion."

"I don't even have to look at that pathetic golden iron skull to see this boy's yet to see a real siege."

Contents: (very light) restraints, face-grinding, Forrix struggling to keep it together

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Fuck you and your canon accurate cabling. I only drew you so I could figure out how to draw your eternal scowl face you fucking complicated piece of shit-

Amaya in Terminator shoulder pauldrons and boots. Wanted to draw Forrix in it but I've been drawing him too much lately. Oh well throwing the women lovers a bone rn ig.

(thinks about that one moment where Dantes personal serf was like a gentle father figure to the millenia old chapter master. And Dante drinking his blood felt like seeing his father die.)

Either way, in her original community of loose vilage/town federations she actually kinda sucked in being a caretaker, as it wasn't her talent to raise people like a hosewife would. Plus she was a biomancer warrior 'sergeant' who was gone for sometimes months at a time. Aaron actually sees her as quite cold when he tells Forrix about her which slowly develops his insidious interest towards her.

'a cold badass who raises her son by practically and readies him for the unforgiving nature of life even though he'll cry like a bitch about it? there should be more like this should she still live I'll find a way to include her in my auxilia plan '

But within the mostly Olympian Iron Warriors, she in comparison is like a caring older sister/mother who respects their pride (unlike the actual Legion Mother) and is so thoughtful of them. Look, their bar is low. Very, very low. Like a few words of praise and I'll get on my knees for you kinda low. Half the 1st Battalion basically is her fanclub and the only ones who really dislike her are those loyal to the nobles, who want the harsh social climate to remain unforgiving and elitist and classist. Berossus doesn't like her, Harkor REALLY doesn't like her cause then he can't expend his own men like cannon fodder without having to think about them dead, Toramino thinks he can play around her suggestions changing Iron Warriors attitude towards themselves little by little but gets influenced himself by Senge.

She's the kind of caring Iron Warriors can accept cause her care is very gentle and lowkey and she doesn't demand, she suggests with a barrage of reasons backing her up as well as a lot of talking to various Iron Warriors. Forrix realizes what she's doing but doesn't stop her, because she helped diffuse arguments that mightve meant supply shortages and the death rate and therefore calculations of death went down. Iron Warriors now tend to live longer and don't need to be replenished as hastily.