No spoilers, please.

[coconut_and_metal]

So you haven't even seen the movie, but it's making you haul me out here. Well, great. I'm so glad you're trying to make this AU work again. Nevermind the advice of the genius in your head not to; clearly you know better than a man who regularly rests in the top four percentile of IQ tests.

Don't look to me for back up on this one, sweetcheeks. I'm not the kind of AU anybody should be enthusiastic about, although you're certainly making drinking sound appealing. If anything would get me to go back to it, I think this 'muse' thing would do it. You don't even have a plan on where to put me or what to do with me, you just want to play me again. And Pepper thinks I do things without thinking of the consequences. [He sighs, tugging down his sleeves out of habit. It's an exasperated motion.] At least put me in memes this time. With the wave of popularity canon-me is getting, I might be able to actually do something this time.

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[smash_stuff]

Top four percentile? [No, he's impressed. Really.]

[coconut_and_metal]

I haven't had time to retake the test. So I slipped down to the top four. But you know how it is when you're trapped in someone's headspace.

How've you been?

[smash_stuff]

Yes, yes I do. [In more ways than one.]

[a shrug] Oh you know...yoga, bongos...light jazz... [He's kidding of course.] And you?

[coconut_and_metal]

[Tony smiles, briefly.] Oh, you know. Sitting around, doing nothing, redecorating the mun's headspace in tasteful gold and hot rod red.

[smash_stuff]

You. Doing nothing.

[He shakes his head] Sorry, I just can't picture it.

[rescuedhim]

Do I want to know what these differences might be with this...'au' thing? Regardless, I would have to agree there are...times when you don't appear to think of the consequences of your actions. Sometimes.

[coconut_and_metal]

Well, uh, I quit drinking. [And picked up a far worse habit. But. Progress? He tugs down on his sleeves nervously.] And I have you for the times I don't think things through, Pep.

[rescuedhim]

Well, I guess that's good news? But why doesn't it feel like it?

[As much as Tony quitting drinking, she's sure something else must be going on as well, or at least in it's place. Something he isn't telling her.]

True. Though I wish you would try to consider thinigs more in the long term sometimes, Tony.

[coconut_and_metal]

Look, I'm trying. I really am, Pep. Isn't that good enough? Come on, it's me we're talking about here.

Hard to think in the long term when you're trapped in someone's headspace.

[rescuedhim]

I suppose. That you're trying at least needs to be taken into account.

That's true. I know there has been times where my own player has dropped from a game and not particularly used that account since. Were you planning on going anywhere?

[therealgenius]

You say that like you haven't been popular around here for a long time now.

[Not that he likes that or anything, of course.]

[coconut_and_metal]

I know, but this kind of thing is what it took for her to remember 'oh hey, I have a Tony muse'.

[therealgenius]

Does that offend you or something? It seems to be that way with a variety of...yous.

[coconut_and_metal]

I'm not sure, honestly. Depends on if she does anything with me this time.

[therealgenius]

You sure you want her to do something with you? Because I gotta tell you, man to man: what they want isn't always the best of things.

[remember their earlier talk about loki, tony? remember it? justin sure as hell does. he remembers it all.]

It depends on who's at the wheel, though.

[laevisilaufeyson]

Sullen, Stark. I didn't think you were much for planning.

[coconut_and_metal]

It depends on your definition of the word 'plan'.

[laevisilaufeyson]

Things are always relative; there's no call to be facetious. I was going to suggest you stop. You're much more entertaining when you dive in. Or carry on, if you like; watching you waffle is its own persuasion of satisfying.

[coconut_and_metal]

I want you to know my mun is really happy over the mental image of you saying 'waffle'.

[arach_nerd]

There's a very good reason Pepper thinks that.

[coconut_and_metal]

Hey. I think of them, sometimes. I just disregard them.

[stephrogers]

This time?

[coconut_and_metal]

Yeah. A game, memes, something besides sitting around on d_m chatting with my enemies and giving Bruce cheeseburgers.

[stephrogers]

Doesn't sound like a bad existence. Any that you're considering? I tried games once. But ah...things happened.

[coconut_and_metal]

With the whole 'AU' thing, not many games are open to me. But the memes are a little more fruitful.