Heroic Histrionics: Complicated Family AU, marvel cinematic universe fanfic

Skeren

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Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Bruce Banner, Happy Hogan, Shuri (Marvel), Howard Stark, Obadiah Stane

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Summary

The many and varied AUs and accompanying timelines of this particular author. Alongside many headcanons of varying intensity. Most of which revolves around Tony Stark.AKA, let's reshare everything compiled over a few years time in one handy dandy collection.

Note

There will be so many timelines, and just as many AUs involved given I've spent years collecting this stuff and building it. It's going to cover all kinds of stuff, and I'll do my best to label each chapter with it's relevant AU/info. I'll also probably rearrange to try to keep all of the same AU together where I can.This is not a story in and of itself. This is just a collection of, in some cases incredibly detailed, notes from my blog on tumblr. In fact, I've toyed with the idea of expanding many of these AUs into a choose your own adventure which would take twists and turns that aren't even going to be noted here, should it ever actually be written. That does not, of course, mean that anyone is prohibited from enjoying or using these ideas, though please, a little credit if you do, ne? I'd love for this to have an inspired by section someday at the end.I'm also happy to discuss any sections of this in the comments!

Complicated Family AU

April 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM

Wherein Tony is Excellent at Surprise Family

Tony Stark is the child of Howard and Maria Stark né Carbonell.

His mother is of Italian descent, and his father is his father.

In one variation of this universe, everything from that point forward stays the same up until Tony more or less ambushes Bucky in a McDonalds after CA:TWS. This includes the deaths of his parents, which this Tony always has happen in 87, but otherwise happens for the same reasons, by the same people.

In the other variation of this universe, Tony has a child at 22, meets her at 25, and then moves on with his life with her in it, raising tiny Darcy as his daughter hidden behind the Lewis name of her mother. He’s a protective dragon of a parent, and even her mother would have to pry his daughter from his cold dead fingers if she wanted them to break contact.

In that variation of the universe, Tony goes to Europe in 2000, trying to figure out what the fuck happened to him when he was twenty-four and was missing for a week. He does get answers, in the form of HYDRA taking another pass at him while the getting was good, and the Winter Soldier is sent to collect him since it was convenient at the time.

Tony, being Tony, takes one look at the man while in captivity and ends up figuring out a way to kidnap one Bucky Barnes right the fuck back on his way out. Because that, ladies and gentlemen, is his grandfather and HYDRA should not have their grubby paws on him.

Why yes, that is where everything goes a little odd isn’t it?

In this timeline, Tony’s Mother is Bucky’s daughter and is over twenty years younger than her husband. You see, during the war, Bucky had a couple of encounters, and one of them was with a woman named Elisabetta Moretti. She was a pretty Italian woman, Blond with dark eyes, and she never had the chance to inform Bucky of the results of their dalliance before catching the news that he’d died. She promptly searched out a husband for herself in the form of Gregor Carbonell, an injured American who was getting sent back home, and who due to his injuries would never be able to have children of his own.

It worked well for them both, and only Elisabetta knew the parentage of her baby, which she kept to herself. The only person she told was Maria, and Maria in turn only told Tony, unwilling to subject him to Howard’s Captain America obsession any further than he already tended to.

So you see, when Tony comes face to face with the information that the man is alive, in either variation of this world, he’s immediately deeply and intensely vested in making that connection because Bucky Barnes is family.

The timeline stays mostly intact from there until Steve is found in this second variation. After that, well, things go a little odd after that. The key word, after all, is mostly.

Especially given that in early 2014 Tony meets a sixteen, going on seventeen, year old Peter Parker, who Obadiah had kept him from knowing about. Who turns out to be his kid too.

It’s more than a little understandable if Tony starts going over all his personal records more thoroughly at that point, obviously.

A family with a lot going on.

In this timeline, everything is rather confusing, all told. SO LET’S MAKE IT A LITTLE LESS CONFUSING. This is, of course, for the version with the kids, as the version without the kids is actually rather straightforward.

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