Asexual Tony Stark - Headcanons
Asexual Tony Star headcanons for @timevstheworld
- it’s a pure coincidence that Tony actually ever find out he is asexual. He knew he was a bit off about those things, but he is a bit off about a lot of things and that’s not yet a reason to go and try find a word for it. Finding names for all his oddities would just encourage people to call him up on them.
- Tony likes sex, though sometimes he gets distracted and forgets about it for a while.
- Still, it’s a pleasant way to pass the time and get with people. Or get off with people, also pleasant.
- Sometimes sex was a challenge - like getting together with 12 Maxim Girls.
- Sometimes it was a way to clear his head, he got some of his best ideas in a post coital bliss. Though few people appreciated being written on or abandoned for the workshop.
- Sometimes sex was a way to get even closer to somebody. Not always only literally.
- Tony always believed sex was brilliant. Not as good as engineering, though. Obviously.
- Obadiah used to tell him he knew when Tony was elbows deep in some project, when he forgot to go out and get laid. He wasn’t a great fan of that, rarely any company’s project ever absorbed Tony that much. Usually it was something completely off the main company’s time, wasting its time and resources.
- For a long time Tony wondered if perhaps people are lying about it, or, at least, exaggerating the whole thing. If sexual attraction was even real. At college he caught a few discussions about how the “hot” models weren’t that hot. The standards of beauty. He went to a lot of college parties and random lectures for the kicks, he heard a lot of wildly varied discussions and found some truth in them. Though really, in that sense, no one was really “hot”.- Briefly he considered that it might be a case of falling for someone. All those couply-couples seemed much more interested in petting each other’s groins. Maybe their love maximized the feeling? That theory though died even quicker than Tony’s forcefully murdered feelings for his best, straight friend.
- After college and dismissing several other theories that had occurred to him, Tony rarely thought about it at all.
- Not when he got distracted from getting laid by getting a new gadget in his workshop.
- Not when he forgot about sex for almost a year after Afghanistan. He knew his friends blamed it on PTSD, but he rather thought he was stuck in monogamous relationship with Ironman for a while.
- Definitely not when he was dying.
- Sometimes he thought about it, when he was with Pepper. He thought it would become an issue and it is possible he overcompensated slightly. Or a lot. But he could’ve done worse, so really, not a big problem.
- And it was a coincidence he found the term “asexual” at all, because he never did go looking. Steve, on the other hand, went on another research bender and once brought up the various LGBTQA+ terms he had a hard time grasping. Mostly, he didn’t get why if it was so fine to everyone, so few people really talked about it. And since he brought it up in one of those discussion times that accidentally happened when they all met in a half-light living-room deep at night, forced awake by insomnia or a messed up sleeping schedules - they actually started talking.Tony joked with the worst innuendos, Bruce tried to explain how it was still a process, Natasha smirked knowingly and inserted unhelpful quips. Sam asked Steve what he wanted to know and talked for a long while with lots of more or less useful interruption. They all probably learned a thing or two. Tony, for example, learned he was asexual, but it didn’t really change much…
- “It’s okay, guys, leave those aliens to me. Ironman always have an ace up the sleeve - me.”
- “Aced it!”
- “Romanoff and I can manage. Two aces are a pretty strong hand, Cap.”
If you actually would be interested in my ace headcanons for any another character - feel free to ask. :)
