♛ here is my muselist. ♛ post "calling" one of them out — you can do so by putting their name in the subject line! ♛ can be informal/formal/comment spam/crosscanon/explicit/whatever tickles your fancy! ♛ feel free to make up a scenario at the start, or wait to see where things go.
[ blithely; it's clear that tony (1) does not believe him and (2) doesn't care even if this is true because: ]
I remember you, now. [ raising a finger, brow furrowed. ] You're smart. You're not me, but you're pretty smart. Brilliant, even, if I wanted to toss out a compliment, but I'm pretty sure your personnel file said delicately unhinged.
[ stark industries h.r. department should probably find better language, but. you know. it works. ]
Did you tell Peter any of that? How you got canned for not knowing when to stop? Or did you leave that part out on your trust fall exercise?
[Beck's face twitches. The 'you're not me' in particular makes him tense up in anger. Then a compliment of sorts followed by what he takes as an insult. Still...]
I don't want to be you. I'm better than you.
You would have liked for me to ruin his memories of you with the truth of how you treat your employees?
And sure, you might be better than me, but that's not my point. You're not me. You know how quickly the Avengers figured out this tech was going rogue?
[ with a gesture toward the board room, arching his eyebrows. ]
There's a reason we're world famous, you know. And there's a reason why I'm here. Because I know this thing, inside and out, and you're not going to fool me with it. So how about we cut to the chase and end this so we can both go our separate ways.
no subject
[He says that plainly, as if it's just a fact.]
I work with him. I try to understand his point of view, not order him around.
[The supportive, cool uncle.]
no subject
Right.
[ blithely; it's clear that tony (1) does not believe him and (2) doesn't care even if this is true because: ]
I remember you, now. [ raising a finger, brow furrowed. ] You're smart. You're not me, but you're pretty smart. Brilliant, even, if I wanted to toss out a compliment, but I'm pretty sure your personnel file said delicately unhinged.
[ stark industries h.r. department should probably find better language, but. you know. it works. ]
Did you tell Peter any of that? How you got canned for not knowing when to stop? Or did you leave that part out on your trust fall exercise?
no subject
I don't want to be you. I'm better than you.
You would have liked for me to ruin his memories of you with the truth of how you treat your employees?
[He retorts back bitterly.]
no subject
[ blithely. ]
And sure, you might be better than me, but that's not my point. You're not me. You know how quickly the Avengers figured out this tech was going rogue?
[ with a gesture toward the board room, arching his eyebrows. ]
There's a reason we're world famous, you know. And there's a reason why I'm here. Because I know this thing, inside and out, and you're not going to fool me with it. So how about we cut to the chase and end this so we can both go our separate ways.
no subject
[That he caused.]
Nothing's going rogue. This is all going perfectly to plan.
[Insinuating that he lured Tony here.]