Anthony Stark

## Biography

### Early Childhood

Anthony Edward Stark II is the second born child of Tony Stark and Pepper Potts, born three years after his sister, Serenity Stark. His parents adored him, and he was born into the lap of luxury. He was spoiled by his father from a very early age, and his early childhood was fairly standard. He attended a private elementary school in New York City, and everyone wanted to be his friend, mostly because of who his father was. From a very young age, he had to learn which of his friends were truly his friends and not just there because he was a Stark. At the age of seven, he opted to start going by his middle name, Edward, since it got confusing between himself and his father both being called "Tony". He started going by Eddie, even if his father didn't like it. He still addressed him by his first name when they were at home, much to Eddie's dismay. His mother and sister respected his wishes to be called by his middle name. Tony took it as a sign of disrespect, wanting to be called by a different name, especially since Eddie was named after him. Eddie never saw it as that; he just wanted to make it easier for people when it came to addressing one of them when they were in the room together.

Eddie's brother Jason Stark was born when he was three, followed by his sister, Sarah Stark when he was five. He was a little closer with his two younger siblings than he was with Serenity. When he was twelve, his father introduced Eddie and his siblings to a little girl named Nova, saying that she was their sister. When Eddie was seven, his parents had separated for a bit, and apparently his father found another woman and managed to get her pregnant, which was where Nova had come from. Eddie was the first of his siblings to try and make Nova feel welcome to their family, even if she had been dropped into it out of nowhere. He wanted to make sure that she was comfortable with all of them and to show her that she was welcome. His eldest sister was a little slower to warm up to Nova, but she eventually came around. Eddie noticed that his father treated Nova differently compared to the rest of his children. He didn't spoil her as much, she went to a public school rather than going to the private schools he and his siblings attended, and it was rare for the little girl to ever leave their home, unless it was to go to school. It was as if he didn't want to be seen in public with her, and Eddie was always shut down whenever he asked his father to include Nova in something they were doing together. He never understood why he treated her differently, and that was the first moment that Eddie actually felt hatred towards his father.

When Eddie was in eighth grade, his father went missing when he was in Afghanistan. He didn't know what to do with himself when his mother told him about this. He didn't go to school the entire time his father was gone, and neither did the rest of his siblings. Pepper feard her the safety of her children after Tony had been taken, so she had someone from their schools come out to teach them until something was done about this. When Tony returned, Eddie was so happy to see his father again, joining his mother and the rest of his siblings to see him at the airport when he finally came home. His father changed after that, becoming slightly cold and distant with them, holing himself up in his garage in their house, doing god knows what into the wee hours of the night. None of the kids were allowed down there, and Eddie had been severely punished when he snuck down there one time to see what his dad was doing. He learned very quickly to not go into the garage.

   He remembered the emergence of Iron Man, and he often found himself wondering who was behind the mask. He thought for a long time that it was his dad, since he had seen a suit similar to the one he would see flying around New York and on the news. That theory of his was confirmed when his father did reveal that he was, in fact, Iron Man during a press conference a few months after the appearance of the suited hero. Eddie thought it was so cool that his dad was technically a super hero.

When Eddie reached high school, he became more and more distant from his father. Tony was still cold and closed off with him and his younger siblings, but Serenity seemed to have a front row seat to their father's life, and he included her in a lot of things with Iron Man when she was young. Eddie envied that, and he longed for a stable relationship with his father again. He acted out in high school a lot, throwing parties and sneaking out almost every night. His grades slipped and he barely cared about school, only about coasting through and passing by doing the bare minimum. Tony never shied from telling Eddie how much of a disappointment he was to him, that he was tarnishing the Stark name, but Eddie couldn't find it in himself to care all that much. He could only dream of the day that he graduated so he could get away from his parents, mostly his father. When he finally did graduate with barely passing grades, he opted not to go to college, adding another thing for his father to be disappointed in him about. He worked odd jobs and saved up enough money to move out on his own. By the age of twenty, he had left without saying another word to his parents, moving out of state to live in New Jersey. He felt bad for leaving his siblings behind, especially Nova, but he needed to get away from the toxic household that his father had cultivated.

When Eddie was sixteen, he discovered something about himself. He had been in one of the labs in the Avengers HQ with Nova, when Harold Banner came barreling into the room, all long limbs and a boyish smile, jumping up and down as he held out the blueprints of something he had been working on with Nova. Eddie had only seen Harry a small handful of times, and every time he would see him, he wouldn't be able to look away from him. He found himself looking at Harry the way he looked at the cute girls he went to school with, and that was how he found himself spiraling into a full-blown sexuality crisis. He had no clue who else to talk to about this new discovery other than Shiloh Strange. He hated that she was the only one that he could talk to, but he knew that she was queer, and that she could possibly help him work through these feelings. It took some time, but he eventually excepted the fact that he was bisexual, and that he had a not-so-little crush on Harry. He never acted on his feelings, too afraid of rejection to do anything about it, so he shoved his feelings down and opted to ignore them for as long as he could.

### Stark Industries

Eddie never really had much to do with Stark Industries, other than accompanying his parents to events and galas so his father could keep up the image that they were a picture perfect family. As a young child, he hated going to the events he was dragged along to. He had to wear a suit and tie and be on his best behavior, because he knew how his father would get if he wasn't. He didn't mind it much since his siblings were there, so they often kept each other entertained. He didn't attend as many galas and events when Tony refused to bring Nova to any of them, opting to leave her at home with Happy. Eddie hated that Nova was treated differently from the rest of them, so he stood by his youngest sister in his teenage years and staying back with her. He stopped attending any events by the time he was seventeen, and completely severed any ties he had with his father's company short of changing his last name.

### His Relationship with His Siblings

Having so many siblings growing up meant that Eddie never ran out of someone to hang out with and play with. Before his younger siblings came along, Serenity and Eddie were very close, doing almost everything together. It wasn't like they had much of a choice, since they went just about everywhere together, but they didn't mind. When Jason was born, Eddie was drawn to him and he became closer with his younger brother as he got older. When it came to his younger sisters, Eddie had this intrinsic need to protect them and keep them safe from anything that may have been thrown their way, especially Nova.

As he entered his teenage years, his relationship with Serenity became very strained. Tony seemed to be paying more attention to her versus the rest of his children, and gave her all of the opportunities first before he even thought about his other kids. Eddie began to despise his older sister, claiming that their father was playing favorites since she was the oldest. It was almost as if Serenity could do no wrong, in his eyes, and his other children were just there and taking up space. Eddie wished things weren't like that, because he wanted to live in harmony with his siblings, but his father was making that incredibly difficult.

Eddie and Jason became closer as they got older, the two of them making a silent pact to protect their sisters when their father's anger and drinking got out of control. While Tony was trying his best and trying to be better day by day, the lasting effects of his time in captivity when he was in Afghanistan made it difficult for him to keep that promise. While he never put his hands on his children, the verbal abuse was there, the occasional mean side of Tony coming out when he would have a little too much to drink. The anger from Tony was mostly directed at Eddie and Nova, and Eddie tried his best to shield his sister from that, removing her from the situation when he could. He would always sit her down and remind her that the things their father was saying to her weren't true and that she should ignore what he was saying. He would remind her that she was wanted here and loved, no matter how many times Tony tried to tell her that she wasn't. Eddie would protect his siblings with his life if he had to, and he would never let anything happen to them as long as he was around.

### Falling Out with His Parents

When Eddie was twenty, there was an explosive argument between him and his father that actually resulted in Tony putting his hands on him for the first time. He had learned to handle the occasional verbal abuse from his father and he was able to brush it off as him being drunk, never taking the things he said too personally, no matter how much they stung sometimes. But, this time, Tony was completely sober. It wasn't even clear what had started the fight, or what Eddie had said that truly set his father off, but the next thing he knew he was on the ground and Tony hand punched him three or four times in the face. Eddie had done a number on Tony, as well, trying his best to get his father off of him. He didn't want to hurt his dad, but he hurt him first. Jason had come into the room and saw what was happening, and he was the one to pull Tony off of Eddie before either of them got more hurt than they already were.

That was the last straw for Eddie. The night after he fought with his father, he packed his things and gathered the money he had hidden away in his closet—almost $10,000 worth in cash—and he left. He took a train to some town in New Jersey and he never looked back. He kept in touch with his siblings for a little while after he had left, but the communication fell off after about a year of him being gone. Eddie felt bad for leaving his siblings there with their father, but there was no way that he could stay there after what had happened. He needed to get away and stay away for a while. He did hope that he could repair the fractured relationship with his parents, especially his father, but he knew that was something that would take a long time to heal. Because of the fight with his father, Eddie now has a deviated septum and he cannot breathe properly out of his left nostril.

### The Sokovia Accords and His Return

> "***I was so scared that we were going to lose you. That* I *was going to lose you. And I couldn't fathom my life without you in it. I had just gotten you back in my life and I wasn't ready to let you go yet.***"
> ― Eddie confessing his feelings to Harold Banner in the Avengers HQ recovery wing
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After Eddie had been gone for five years, his brother, Jason Stark, contacted him about something called the Sokovia Accords, and that a lot had happened because of them. The Avengers were split up because of them, a good majority of them disagreeing with it, and this disagreement was tearing them apart. He wasn't too shocked when he heard that his older sister, Serenity Stark, and the oldest Barnes sibling, Alexander Barnes, had signed the Accords, but he was a little more surprised to hear that Lila Barton had signed them. He never though Lila would agree to basically signing her freedom away to the government, but, from what Jason had told him, it seemed that a lot of the people that did sign them didn't fully understand what they were getting themselves into. The anger that filled him when he learned that Anthony Barnes was being framed for the murder of some government official—and Eddie was also surprised to hear that Anthony was back home, since he had been taken shortly before he left home—and Eddie decided that he needed to go to where his family was and be the mediator, like he always was.

He arrived at the S.H.I.E.L.D. facility in New York City after Anthony and the group of people that helped to hide him, which consisted of Caroline Rogers, Clara Barnes, Steve Rogers, Sarah Stark, Penelope Banner, Sam Wilson, Bucky Barnes, Andrew Rogers, Jason Stark, Harold Banner, and Nova Stark, had been caught and taken in for questioning. Eddie expressed his anger towards the situation with Anthony, not understanding how his father and older sister could believe grainy CCTV footage over the word of someone that they had both known as a baby, but neither of them had backed down from their belief that Anthony had killed that man. He later tried to follow them into the interrogation room that Nova was in, but they shut the door in his face before he could even think about entering. While he was waiting for them to be done talking to Nova, Harold Banner left one of the interrogation rooms from down the hall with Sharon Carter-Rogers, and Eddie couldn't believe that he was seeing him again. The stupid crush that he had on him when they were younger resurfaced almost immediately after he had hugged him after not seeing him for five years. He led Harry and Sharon into the conference room that he had been in with his father and sister moments prior, letting them get comfortable in there while they waited for them to get back.

When Serenity and Tony entered the room again, Serenity was not happy seeing Harry out of holding, claiming that he was a threat to himself and others given his "anger issues". Eddie shut down anything his sister was going to say rather quickly, bringing Harry to sit down in one of the chairs around the large table in the room. Nova came into the room shortly after, and Eddie swore that he nearly cried upon seeing her again. He quickly embraced her, checking her over for any injuries before leading her to sit down, getting her some water and sitting down beside her and Harry. Eddie watched the live footage of Anthony in some kind of holding cell while a man asked him questions, chewing on the skin around his nails. When the power in the whole building went out and Nova, Steve, Bucky, Sam, and Harry ran out of the room, he ran after Harry, not wanting him to go down there alone. He knew Nova had gone down there to make sure that nothing happened to Nova, and Eddie still had his vow to protect his youngest sister, even after all these years. Upon making it down to Sub Level 5, Eddie was greeted with the horror of Anthony Barnes—or The Winter Soldier—holding Nova up against the wall by her neck, strangling her to death. He felt helpless, not knowing what to do in the moment, but Harry acted quickly, hitting Anthony as hard as he could. Eddie ran over to Nova as soon as she hit the floor, leaning over her protectively and telling her over and over again that she was okay and how sorry he was. He watched Harry get thrown against the wall by Anthony, and then he leapt into action when the younger man told them to get out of there. Eddie lifted Nova into his arms and ran up the stairs with her, following Sam out one of the back doors to a car that he had waiting. They pulled over to the side of the building in an alley, waiting for Steve, Bucky, Harry, and Anthony to come out of the building. Once they did—Bucky carrying and unconscious Anthony and a beaten and bloodied Harry throwing himself into the middle row of the car—they took off to an empty warehouse that Steve had known about to lay low for the night.

The next morning, they met up with Sharon Carter-Rogers under a bridge near JFK International Airport to get everyone's gear that was taken by S.H.I.E.L.D. when they were brought in, and then they made their way to the airport to meet up with Wanda Maximoff, Scott Lang, Clint Barton, Jason Stark, Clara Barnes, Penelope Banner, and Caroline Rogers. They had met up there to come up with some kind of plan to stop Tony from finding Anthony again, when there was an announcement over the loudspeakers in the airport that they were locking it down. Wanda put it together that it was Tony, and everyone jumped up to get prepared for whatever was going to be thrown at them. Eddie made his way down to the airstrip with his team of people, standing beside Harry as he stared down his father and sister on the other side. Tony tried to reason with Nova and Anthony to stop all of this and no one would get hurt, coldly bringing her deceased mother into it. Eddie was proud when Nova stood her ground, but then the fight ensued.

In the midst of him dodging shots from Lila Barton's crossbow, he heard a voice call out for help over the comms, and he recognized the quiet voice as that of Harold Banner. Eddie looked around and found him lying on the tarmac bleeding, and in a moment of panic he ran over to him, continuing to run over to him even after being shot in the shoulder by Serenity Stark. Once he made it over to Harry, he applied pressure to the stab wound in his abdomen and asked him who had done this. When Harry pointed to Alexander Barnes, who was running down the airstrip to where Anthony Barnes and Clara Barnes were running from him to get to the Quinjet so they could get out of there, Eddie saw nothing but red as he raised his gun and shot Alec through the knee. Once Alec was down on the ground, he picked Harry up in his arms and ran over to the ambulance that was off to the side on the airstrip, where Penelope Banner and Jason Stark were stationed, calling Penelope's name and telling Harry to stay awake. Jason helped him get Harry into the ambulance and onto the stretcher so Penny could begin working on her brother. Eddie was panicking the entire time in the ambulance, from the moment to doors shut to the moment Harry's eyes opened after Penelope had successfully patched him up. Jason had also patched up the gunshot wound in his arm while Penelope was tending to Harry.

After Harry had woken up, Jason got into the front of the ambulance to drive back to HQ so Harry could be properly looked at, but then Harry began throwing up blood, and Eddie was sent into another panic when he fell unconscious again and Penelope announced that he was internally bleeding. Eddie sat beside Harry, in shock and holding his hand, feeling himself start to cry when Harry flatlined and Penelope began performing CPR on her brother. Once they had arrived back at HQ, it took a moment for Eddie to get himself in gear and run out of the ambulance to find Bruce Banner and Helen Cho to tell them what happened. Once he did find Bruce, the two of them ran back outside, and Jason was already wheeling the stretcher into the medbay, Penelope still doing chest compressions. Eddie felt like everything was moving in slow motion, watching as Helen jammed a large syringe filled with adrenaline into Harry's chest to jumpstart his heart, and he almost passed out when he heard Harry take his first breath after five minutes. Eddie moved to his side, holding his hand and promising him that he would be there once he was out of surgery. After he was taken out of the medbay and brought back so he could go through surgery, Eddie went and took a shower and changed his clothes, and he had a panic attack in the shower as he washed Harry's blood from his skin.

Once he was clean and changed and his arm that was shot was placed in a sling, he waited for Harry to be brought out of surgery. It felt like an eternity before he was allowed to go back there and see him. He knew that Harry wouldn't be awake, since Penelope told him that he would be placed under a medically induced coma so his body could heal, but the coma would only last for a week or less. Eddie sat in that room with Harry the entire time, barely leaving unless he was forced to by one of his siblings or Bruce. When Nova returned from Wakanda, where Anthony stayed behind the get help, she forced him to go sleep in his own bed for the first time in days. Eddie had also revealed to Nova that he was basically in love with Harry, and that he had been since he was seventeen, and he wasn't ready to lose him right after he had just gotten him back into his life. That he was willing to show Harry the love that he deserved and the love that Alec was too stupid to give him. When he went back to his room, he didn't sleep, he was too anxious to fall asleep, and when Nova had called him the next morning to tell him that Harry was awake, he all but ran out of his room and down to the recovery wing, and he immediately started to cry when he saw that Harry was, in fact, awake. He embraced him tightly and held him close, so happy that he was okay after everything had happened.

Nova left the room a short time later, wanting to sleep in her own bed for once, leaving Eddie and Harry alone. He told Harry everything he had told his sister, apart from the fact that he was in love with him, that he was so scared that he was going to lose him and that he didn't want to lose him after he had just gotten him back in his life after five years. Harry stopped Eddie's nervous rambling by kissing him, something Eddie had been dying to do since he was seventeen years old. Eddie was so, so happy that Harry was okay, and he would do everything in his power to show him the love that he knew he deserved, the love that Alec never showed him.

## Attributes

### Skills and Abilities

* ***Hand-to-hand combat –***  Before Eddie broke away from his family, he was trained in hand-to-hand combat by Steve and Andrew Rogers. He knows his way around a fight, and is highly skilled in a variety of martial arts, including boxing, karate, and Taekwondo.
* ***Marksmanship –***  Also in the time before he split from his family, he was trained by Natasha and Clint on how to properly handle a gun. Clint tried to show him how to use a bow and arrow, but he wasn't very good at it. Over the time that he was away, he improved on his marksmanship skills, and any gun is deadly when it's in Eddie's hands. He has extremely precise aim, and can directly hit whatever or whoever he is targeting without trying much.
* ***Knife throwing –*** In addition to being taught how to handle a gun, Natasha taught Eddie the art of knife throwing. His precision and eagle eye in shooting greatly benefits his abilities in knife throwing, and he is able to hit his target easily without so much as a second thought.
* ***Technological Skills –***  Despite nearly failing in high school and not being particularly skilled in things like science and mathematics, Eddie knows his way around a computer. He can easily hack into any database, track someone's IP address, hack into security cameras, encrypt data, disable any security or firewalls, and pretty much do anything that involves computers.
* ***Agility –***  Due to his time on the baseball and basketball teams in high school, Eddie is extremely agile and quick on his feet.
* ***Strength –*** Eddie may not have super strength, but he still has built up a lot of muscle over time, and has built up a lot of upper body strength. He can deadlift 400 lbs. and easily lift up to 250 lbs.

### Equipment

* ***Suit –*** Eddie may not have a fancy suit like his dad or Serenity, but he has some form of gear that he uses when he does go on missions. It's basic tactical gear that looks similar to that of a S.W.A.T. Team uniform, consisting of a vest with a Kevlar chest plate, black cargo pants with knee pads built into them, and a belt with thigh holsters hooked into it that holds anything that he may need on the mission.
* ***Guns and holsters –*** Eddie is a skilled marksman and he always carries at least two guns on him during missions. He always carries two handguns in thigh holsters, in addition to sometimes carrying a rifle that he straps to his back.
* ***Knives –*** There are always knives strapped in holsters on the belt of his tac pants at all times on mission, and he has a large collection of throwing knives in the equipment room back at HQ, since he often loses them when he uses them on missions.
* ***Bolas –*** Additionally designed for Samantha Wilson, Eddie occasionally uses bolas, which is something that has weighted balls on either end of a strong cord that can be thrown to wrap around someone's ankles to keep them from getting away.

## Relationships

### Family

* Tony Stark  (Iron Man)  - father
* Pepper Potts - mother
* Serenity Stark - sister
* Jason Stark - brother
* Sarah Stark - sister
* Nova Stark - half-sister
* James Rhodes  (War Machine)  - uncle/godfather
* Howard Stark † - grandfather
* Maria Stark † - grandmother
* Happy Hogan - close family friend
* Harold Banner - romantic partner

### Allies

* Thor Odinson – teammate
* Peter Parker (Spider Man) – teammate
* Bucky Barnes  (The Winter Soldier)  – teammate
* Clint Barton (Hawkeye) – teammate
* Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) – teammate
* Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow) – teammate
* Vision – teammate
* T'Challa Udaku (Black Panther)
* Nick Fury
* Maria Hill
* May Parker
* Cooper Barton
* Lila Barton
* Nathaniel Barton
* Stephen Strange
* Peter Quill (Starlord)
* Nebula
* Mantis
* Rocket Raccoon
* Drax
* Clara Barnes
* Anthony Barnes
* Caroline Rogers
* Andrew Rogers
* Joseph Rogers
* Pietro Maximoff †  (Quicksilver)
* Scott Lang  (Ant-Man)

### Enemies

* Tony Stark (Iron Man) – former situational enemy
* Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow) – former situational enemy
* James Rhodes (War Machine) – former situational enemy
* T'Challa Udaku (Black Panther) – former situational enemy
* Peter Parker (Spider Man) – former situational enemy
* Vision – former situational enemy
* Anthony Barnes  (The Winter Soldier II)  – former situational enemy
* Alexander Barnes – former situational enemy
* Serenity Stark – former situational enemy
* Lila Barton – former situational enemy
* Thanos †
* Ebony Maw †
* Proxima Midnight †
* Quentin Beck †  (Mysterio)
* Norman Osborn  (Green Goblin)

## Appearances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

* ***Iron Man***
* ***Iron Man 2***
* ***The Avengers***  (mentioned)
* ***Iron Man 3***  (mentioned)
* ***Avengers: Age of Ultron***  (mentioned)
* ***Captain America: Civil War***
* ***Spider-Man: Homecoming***
* ***Avengers: Infinity War***
* ***Ant-Man and The Wasp*** (mentioned)
* ***Avengers: Endgame***
* ***Spider-Man: Far From Home***
* ***Spider-Man: No Way Home***

## Trivia

* Eddie's favorite movie is *Spirited Away*.
* He loves cooking and is pretty good at it.
* He wanted to be a police officer when he was in elementary school.
* Eddie is terrified of the dentist.
* He loves painting.
* He played baseball and basketball when he was in high school.
* He can't keep a plant alive to save his life.

## Playlist

* Thrivin' – Ryan Caraveo
* You're on Your Own, Kid – Taylor Swift
* For Reasons Unknown – The Killers
* I Wanna Get Better – Bleachers
* World's Smallest Violin – AJR
* Humble and Kind – Tim McGraw
* 3am – Halsey
* Grow as We Go – Ben Platt
* Midnight Thoughts – Set It Off
* Backbone – KALEO