Lore

Spark-Notes: An alcoholic woman stumbles into a powerful form of magic or tech and uses it to become rich, but when the govt want to use her powers for war, she instead fights to use them for justice.

She was introduced to alcohol at an early age and developed a drinking problem to cope with stress even as she learned and rose up the ranks of corporate power. She had an incident that her parents money paved over and exists now as a wealthy, hedonistic person, who succeeds by screwing people over. This luck, however, runs short as her parents die and her business ventures continue to fail and fail (ala Elon Musk) and competitors eat her game. She ends up using the data from the incident to build something. Thinking about iterating on genius, what the board says rivals are doing, she digs up old notes and creates something based on the data she stole way back when. She realizes that the secret ingredient was the alcohol she spilled into the prime incident. (Why it wasn't replicated despite "villain's" constant effort since) -- She takes the alcohol and pours it into the formula. It works. IT blows out her receiver. She goes to a secret scientist and is like help me test this with scale. It blows out the reader. This should be blowing her up, or setting things on fire but the source is working safely. The effect only produces electro-magnetism, not heat as an excess and won't react unless it can expel it in this way. The scientist is like this shouldn't be possible, but she's like "I made it possible" -- She takes it and makes fun doohickeys in line with her show-boati-ness using robot helpers to do so. Once things are underway, the "villain" from before notices and vies to destroy her. -- She presents (parts of) his notes from the event and says she looked over them over and over, but says her secret ingredient will remain such. He at first wants to understand and therefore breaks in, but she's hostile thinking he wants to steal it, expose her, or exploit it somehow. However, he honestly doesn't, he just wants to know for the science of it. She doesn't trust him and threatens him once he becomes erratic over it. The "villain" however, is able to burn the copy of the notes she has, which prevents her from making more, trapping her to a single battery, but making sure she can't kill him as he alone knows the base formula.

They don't want to kill or imprison each other, they need each other, but woman needs the power to keep up appearances. She takes a shot and is like, I only have so much, and meanwhile villain takes account of all of the compounds she had in her notes.

She does the festival she promised, but loses a power cell doing a rescue, which nets her public acclaim as a superhero. "villain" however, knocks his final chemicals off the list. Angered, he realizes the ALCOHOL on the counter... is she for real?

woman drinks away her stress as she realizes she's expected to be a hero now. But the cells are underpowered.

Villain produces a purer form, experimenting and expanding on what she's already done. He creates a persona for himself with the tech.

She tries to use the robots to fill in for the saving, saying she working on something, but the public eye keeps the pressure on.

Villain is seen in the wings, assisting someone and cams pick it up, thinking that it's a glimpse of the project.

She realizes this is too much and she ought to admit it, so she goes in armor to address the public, but the villain causes a disturbance. He tries to non-lethally get things out of the way. But it escalates until he causes a flashy boom of somekind by accident. and a chunk of magnetic material almost kills a spokesperson near woman. She flies out and sees him, and she almost opens fire but he swipes her away, causing an explosion. He puppets and dances around her, causing her to accidentally cause harm and ripping apart the location to subdue her.  The cops/guards attack him, woman flies down and tries to stop him from hurting people and blasts him into submission trying to do the thing he said. Ragged and destroyed, he flies away. The town celebrates her as a hero. She looks on with a mournful tone. She didn't want this for him, and she can't keep this up. She doesn't deserve this.

Man is home, battered and beaten, he thinks to do the only thing he can, reveal her false hood. He spills that the data she uses was stolen from him, that she's an alcoholic and only stumbled into greatness, she only got this power by stumbling into it, even with all her training because at the end of the day she's a half-rate failure that refuses to to use her power, intellect, or virtues to do anything but steal and exact hedonism. It only took her so far, so she had to steal. Anything to get ahead.

She feels the sting. She once laughed in the face of such accusations. A smart person doesn't work harder, they work smarter. They buy-up, and double cross, and cheat because that scores profits in the long run. A true inventor type is subordinate. Would you rahter be telsa or eddison? She wallows in self defeat and self hatred. Drinking and drinking. She can't do anything. But a friend (Jarvis standin?) reassures her she can be better tomorrow. She only has to stop the flow of worse now. She looks at the vial. She's gonna apologize.

In the meantime, the media paints woman as a hero fighting a villain. people fight on her behalf. etc.

She uses the last vial to fly to man. He blasts her and they fight but eventually she gets her sorry out. He doesn't believe her, but despite his rage, she insists. He stands down when he realizes the serious, heartfelt nature of her call.

in the end, they swamp colors: She is red and silver (from silver) he is black and gold (from gold) -- She is black and silver ftmp and he's red and gold ftmp, however, they often use their base colors of red/silver and black/gold. When he dies, she honors him, by using a black, red, and gold suit. Her suit before his death was red and black with silver accent and his was red and gold. Her suits freely use his colors after his death and the dicotomy/half-exchange dies with him.

in MArvel mode: She becomes iron heart and he becomes iron man. She stops her corporate life and crusades against the corporate world and tech heroes for those predatory tactics, placing her in many rich folks ires. Iron man mostly battle magic users countering their magic with science. -They unite when those forces unite, fighting Doom in particular in this respect. -- Iron man was approached by the Future Foundation as a member and joined, losing his color connection with Iron Heart, During the ERCA crisis, the FF was offworld. She also briefly lost this with her protoype blue suit fighting hammer as the iron monger/interim iron man. The Black, Silver and red warmachine suit is the end of the Iron Heart series.

When he returns, he's white and gold and eventually redons a red and gold suit after a scrap with doom. He, IH, and the FF defeat him with minimal support from Doctor Strange.

When he dies in a red and gold suit, Toni honors him with a black, red, and gold suit. In which she defeats the enemy with and stows away. She wants to keep the gold safe, so she dons the modern Ironheart costume

Iron Lass/Rescue uses the comic rescue armor.

Suits are:

Ironheart--(Antoinette) Toni Stark

----Silver Mark 0 prototype

----Silver Mark 1, source during origin story

--------At some point here, she receives a deadly injury to the heart fighting the Mandarin

----Silver Mark 2, silver and red suit (Centurion base) -Main until ERCA-

----Silver Centurion; Upgrade to pre-ERCA suit

----Prismatic/Polished Red Mark 3 -- (Erca prime suit Newish during ERCA and still prized afterwards)

----Silver Mark 4 "Suitcase" A slimmer suit used to combat Hammer (unsuccessfully after his destruction of the Mark 2 Centurion)

----Mark 5 Blue De-Arc Suit -- Discarded shortly after hammer crisis.

----------Note: The Mark 3 is the only surviving Red suit when this is made, featureing the same weakness found in all pre-M5 armors.

----Mark 6 "Avengers Blue" Suit. A blue and silver suit for fighting in this plot, alonside many bluer costumes from other avengers.

-----------Note, this suit was present for a nomad/Captain America/Valkyrie/Black Panther (Blue)/Giant Woman/Wasp based story, all of which feature blue costumes in this rendition. -- This story features a secondary team of Avengers: Sylvie, (Wasp jr.),

----Mark 7 (War machine, black arms, variable helm) A black and silver suit she used in solo adventures post Avengers Blue. Has a hulkbuster upgrade and a few minor variations within the same mark, most notably a slimmer (for her more classic) helm at one point, most of which are due to repairs

----------Note: She uses this suit after seeing Kang has Nate's face. She creates suit after suit in Nate's colors, drinking and drinking trying to counter the thoughts that she killed her best friend, the person she stole half the arc equation from, the person who helped her when her heart was in danger. She hopes that by creating suits to solve all of his problems, she can counter kang should he arise again, but she is more distraught when all her new doohickeys are stolen by a tech villain. She must fight her instability, rage, and alcoholism as she must destroy and destroy the iron man suits before someone gleans a way to replicate the advanced weapons in the suits for ill-harm. Toni is wracked by empowering her enemies after fighting hammer so hard just a few months before. Especially because the iron man suits are used to do harmful things, such as killing a foreign diplomat. making many believe Nate is truly evil, just like Kang. She wrestles with all this before discovering another variant of him had a hand in the crisis, making her determined to clear her friends' name.

----Mark 8 (War Machine II, silver arms flush helm) A slimmer black and silver suit with red trim. She uses this armor during Avengers Black and upto Iron Man's death.

----------Madam Masque threatens Kate Bishop's family and she tries to free her icon, Hawkeye from prison to get his help. When stopped by stark, she says that no hero would be paranoid enough to help her, Toni says, just her luck, she found the one exception. A Hawkeye and Toni IH/Warmachine story.

--------------Avengers Black is a battle against the black order when they invade wakanda as part of a preimptive strike on earth. This makes Toni paranoid as stellar threats were supposed to be handled by the FF. Spiderman has his black suit and miles/BC are active heroes during this crisis as a time check.

--------------Iron Man finally returns with the fantastic four upon hearing of Thanos' pre-invasion. He brings along a slurry of cosmic heroes which help in the reconstruction and preparation of Earth.

----------In the following months, Toni and Nate reconnect after about as many years apart as they spent as partners. They team up and it feels like "normal" again, however, they discover a cult trying to ressurect something to place in the path of Thanos, when they arrive, it's a hoorific magic threat, fing fang foom. The avengers converge but it's too late, once fing fang foom is released, he critically wounds Toni and kills Nate. She takes his faceplate and almost relapses alcohol again, but knows he wouldn't want her to. The dragon was "killed" though so she should stop worrying. Mandarin, however, comes to inform her that this is not the case, not wanting to endanger anyone else, she agrees to see what's up herself, in her armor fashioned to intermix her own and Nate's styles. Mandarin helps her fight Fin Fang Foom and she sincerely thanks him, only for him to betray her when he secures all ten rings.

-----------------When Toni is offline, an AI protocol, Friday Night Out, takes over her suits and tries to act heroically. This is in play during Thanos' invasion of Earth for the cosmic cube to resurrect his dead family and obtain the cosmic cube. The cube is shattered, causing Thanos to rage

----Mark 9 (Model 64 style) A red, black, and gold suit paying homage to Iron Man. It's her first suit with no silver. Tabled when she feared it would be destroyed entirely.

------------Avengers Gold: Avengers v Thanos in his quest for the cosmic cube. Despite everything, he wins, but reverses his decision, allowing the cube to be destroyed in the present of the rest of the world and for him to be killed, channeling his soul into the soul gem.

----Mark 10 (Wakanda Forever Ironheart) Toni's most present suit. A Red, silver, and black suit iterating on the 9.

----Proto 11 A really janky Ironheart suit made by college student riri williams

----Mark 11 (Comic Rescue) A prototype suit by Riri Williams (based on Iron lad's slimmer suit). Filed into the system as 11

Iron Man -- Nate Richards

----Mark 0 Fully gold suit

----Mark 1 black and gold suit 1 (Mark 42 style, developed alongside Toni's first red and silver)

----Mark 2 Goldchest (Mech, 42 MCU based)

--------While black was his thing, he decided to be red as well to show comradery with Toni.

----Mark 3 Gold arms (game based)

----Mark 4 Modular Armor. Nate finicked around with this one off and on, creating several permutations of the same platform that he mixed and matched.

----Mark 5 Bones (Used up until FF, last to be contemporary with Toni's Red and Silver)

----Mark 6 White and gold 1

----Mark 7 White and Gold 2

----Mark 8 Thanos Mech armor (death armor)

----Invincible IM: Future richards suit. Iron lad. Used by Iron Man briefly in the cosmic sphere

Iron Man and Ironheart are not together. Iron Man has way fewer flings before settling with the time keeper Ravonna. Toni is more fickle, but tends towards Pepper Potts and later Eve Rogers.

Edits: Due to recent purchases, Iron man has 2 gold suits and 3+ Black/gold suits. These sub in for the red and gold suits above.

Likewise, Ironheart has several more