[ half a block is no distance at all. oddly, itās an olfactory processor that slams awareness of who this is to frontal processing: heād known, as a matter of passive access, the specs of the nanotech when it was in developmentāhow it had first appeared to his synthetic and fine-tuned senses, five of which resembled human ones turned all the way up. he had been a working avenger at one point, before his own slice of familial paradise, had seen that iteration of iron man in action long before thanosā
(before thanos unspooled him. but thatās a memory he mostly knows through wandaās eyes, the confused leak of her grief into a small new jersey town, into his own circuitry, her dreams which were everyone elseās.
he hadnāt been around when iron man died. he was already gone.)
vision stops. no cartoon motion, no skid, just a simple buoy upright and vision looking at his creator with blank surprise. ]
Sir.
[ itās reflex. heād done that too, when he was living. ran the gamut of names with himāiron man unfairly distancing, tony too intimate. sir and mr. stark were far from perfect, were too much like the artificial life that vision bloomed out ofābut in the end, he meant it respectfully, so it could be said. superior, maker, leader. even when he disagreed he deferred. ]
no subject
(before thanos unspooled him. but thatās a memory he mostly knows through wandaās eyes, the confused leak of her grief into a small new jersey town, into his own circuitry, her dreams which were everyone elseās.
he hadnāt been around when iron man died. he was already gone.)
vision stops. no cartoon motion, no skid, just a simple buoy upright and vision looking at his creator with blank surprise. ]
Sir.
[ itās reflex. heād done that too, when he was living. ran the gamut of names with himāiron man unfairly distancing, tony too intimate. sir and mr. stark were far from perfect, were too much like the artificial life that vision bloomed out ofābut in the end, he meant it respectfully, so it could be said. superior, maker, leader. even when he disagreed he deferred. ]