An Open Palm
The simplest and smartest thing to do would be to kill Tony Stark. He was a danger to the Rings and to himself, the world's foremost expert in creating destruction out of nothing. Wenwu was no fool; if you played with fire, you were bound to get burned. But that was only if you didn't know how to master it and he did. He knew how to provide the spark and how to temper the resulting flame, how to keep it from sputtering out or engulfing everything in its path. He knew how to make it his because he knew what Tony Stark wanted and more importantly, needed.
I'm obsessed with Wenwu so when @magicasen asked if I would be up for writing about a meeting between Tony and Wenwu for @marveltrumpshate (I believe it was after we both saw this art), of course I said yes despite not being sure I'd be able to do it. This is set in a canon-divergent IM2 where Tony is hellbent on going after the Ten Rings and Wenwu takes a keen interest in Tony. Exact dates in the MCU can be shaky, but this is also coincidentally around the time that Shang-Chi ran away.
Read on AO3 or Dreamwidth (4,583 words).
