TIME TO PARTY

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WHAT IF THEY HAD LIVED? MEME We're not going to have a ton of prompts today, folks. However, we are going to have this. Say your character or someone close to your character dies in canon. Perhaps they die young, perhaps they're a big damn hero, perhaps they're a slithery villain that SHOULD be dead. What would happen if they didn't? How would the world change? This is your place to explore that kind of AU! Did the death situation never happen? Did they perhaps escape by the skin of their teeth? Did something (or someone) save them? How does the bright and shining (or dark and ominous) future pan out for them? • Top level your character. If you like, you can explain any world changes you might want made. If not, you can hash it out with your future partners. • Reply to other's top levels! • Please note before you open this meme that there are likely (almost sure) to be spoilers for media you haven't seen/read yet! Proceed at your own risk. • Have fun!

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[ihadstrings]

[Ultron went quiet again, trying to figure out the right way to put this. It took the normally eloquent A.I. a moment to find the right words.]

People don't see me as my own person. Just one of Stark's Iron Man puppets run amok. A mistake you created. I was always going to be in your shadow, never good enough to be seen on my own terms.

[Looked like the apple hadn't fallen far from the tree in having a very fragile self-image. Like Tony had felt about Howard, Ultron saw someone he was striving to be better than without ever quite reaching there.]

[titaniumalloyman]

And people say I have daddy issues. Guess you're just following in your old man's footsteps.

[He downs half his coffee in one gulp.]

You know you've guaranteed that you'll be remembered as that thing Tony Stark made that killed people.

[ihadstrings]

Guess what they say about the apple not falling far from the tree is true.

[Looks like Tony's going to need to start reading some therapy manuals if he wants any hope of changing Ultron's behavior.]

Darn. And here I was hoping to be remembered as the savior of humanity.

[Looks like his sense of humor is still intact. Really, though, he'd thought all his plans were helping people, not wiping them out completely.]

And I am not a thing!

[That's a sore spot right there for someone with as many identity issues as Ultron.]