ruffaled:

ironmanstan:

yall out here saying tony isnt a good father figure but he went and designed – actually, sat down and specifically written lines of code for an ai in peter’s suit that (besides operating his suit) encourages him and talks to him about his highschool crush, thats some genius level dad of the year shit

It took Tony Stark only a few minutes to realize that Harley Keener, a total stranger and a kid, was being bullied at school. Tony took a piece off his own armor and gave it to Harley so that he could stand up to the bully.

Tony Stark picked up on those nuances literally hours after his house was blown up and he fell into the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Later, he involves Harley in his little Mission Impossible reenactment but makes sure the kid stayed back in Rose Hill, where he’d be safe. Tony also entrusted Harley with keeping the Mark 42 secure, and repaid the kid’s kindness – especially when he helped him through that panic attack – with an extreme makeover of his garage, made him a new potato gun (because he had to take apart Harley’s previous one) AND replaced the limited edition Dora the Explorer watch.

Can you imagine Tony approaching his assistant and holding up the broken watch, going, hey I need to buy a replacement. Can you imagine Tony shelling out a few hundred or thousand dollars so that he could return some kid’s watch? People can shut the fuck up about Tony being a poor parental figure because it’s been repeatedly debunked in the MCU.