Maria Collins Carbonell was 19 when she met and married Howard Stark in 1957, he was 40.
In 1970 she gave birth to their Son, Anthony, at the age of 32, while her Husband was 53.
In 1991, they both died at the ages of 74 and 53.
Submitted by anon
Submitted by missjennifer72
Not long after they married (in the early- to mid-sixties), Howard and Maria Stark had a son.
Howard adored the little boy more than anyone or anything else in the world (except Maria). He took pride in the boy’s brightness, bragged about him to anyone he could force to listen, and spent lots of time with him, talking to him, playing with him, teaching him and looking forward to the day when his son would take his rightful place in Stark Industries.
Howard only agreed to fly Steve over HYDRA’s camp after Peggy offered to sleep with him.
Submitted by anon
Submitted by Anon
I am submitting anonymously don’t have a tumblr account this is where the fanfic can be read http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9204535/1/Iron-Baby
If that link doesn’t work or something down below is the whole story. It’s only 1400 words.
Thank you.
Content warning: alcoholism
Tony used to think that he hated his father.
Howard Stark was a man that was never pleased with anything. Not with his latest design or theorem, no with his wife, not with the women that weren’t his wife, not the glass of scotch or the next glass after that. Not with his own son. No matter what Tony did, no matter what breakthrough invention, award, or honor he achieved, his father always made him feel like a disappointment. He was nineteen when Obadiah broke the news about the accident and proceeded to spend the next week binge drinking and throwing bottles at old news reels before finally stumbling into a shareholder’s meeting with a beard and a catastrophic hangover and assumed control of his father’s company.
It would be so much easier if he just hated him.
Submitted by shinobicyrus
Darcy is actually hated by a lot of the people at SHIELD, and Jane has to stick up for her.
Darcy would often make comments about how she didn’t understand why there were so many “daddy issues” and that they should all just kiss and make up. She was teasing, but within a week, Loki was put back into his cell twice because she kept teasing him which would infuriate him to attack her, and Tony would reply with sarcastic comments and go for a beer later.
The truth is, Darcy was always a “Mommy and Daddy’s Girl” and doesn’t exactly know how it is to feel unloved or uncared for, or get into fight after fight with her father like Loki and Tony do. Her parents keep her close to them because they are afraid of losing her. She had to work even harder than other college students to get the internship as Jane’s assistant, and after the incident in New Mexico, they had a good mind about sending her home. They could, since they were paying for her college, so they owed her.
Eventually, Thor had a talk with her about her “daddy issues” comments, and she learned. But everytime she tried to apologize, she would fear for her life considering how powerful Tony was and how deadly Loki was.
Submitted by askrickykelly
Howard Stark worked with Alan Turing on cracking the Enigma Machine. After the war, he tried to help Turing when Turing was prosecuted for being a homosexual.
Submitted by strictlyfromdullville
Maria Stark isn’t actually Tony’s mother. Peggy Carter is. The night Howard recovered the Tesseract, she was in a deep despair over not being able to find Steve, and what started with him comforting her resulted in them sleeping together. After their son was born, Peggy felt unable to look after him, and returned to England, leaving Anthony with Howard. Howard met Maria, and they fell in love, getting married and raising Tony as their own son.
(I know that Peggy apparently stays in America, according to a cut scene from The Avengers, and that if Tony was born around that time he’d be about eighty, but… let me have this ;_;)
Submitted bypapermassacre
Tony’s least favourite villain to fight is Loki, as every time he sees the god, he can’t help but draw parallels, their mutual daddy issues, the lack of friendships when they were young, and he sees what he could have become instead of a superhero.
Submitted by anon
Howard and Maria Stark get divorced when Tony is five. It’s a vicious divorce, both of them sinking their teeth in to the gums, neither wanting to give up anything, but eventually everything is settled, and Tony is placed in Howard’s permanent care because of Maria’s drinking problem.
This leads Howard to have to take care of him more than he otherwise might have had Maria been around to fill in for his absence, along with the faithful Stark Family butler Edwin Jarvis. He actually pays attention when Tony shows him new gadgets or toys he’d been tinkering with, and was there for when he lost his first tooth, when he first got sick, when he was bullied in school. He was actually quite supportive, if busy, but Tony understood that, and seemed to understand even further as he grew older, to which Howard was eternally grateful.
Howard and Maria end up being killed in a drunk driving accident caused by Maria, who was under the influence at the time. It was entirely coincidental; Howard had picked up Tony from MIT for break, and they were driving back to New York, when the crash occurred. Tony survived, but with memory distortion. He did not remember Howard being kind to him, he only remembered coldness and neglect, and the point of view was not disputed against by Obidiah, which was the main reason Tony grew to resent his father so much - Obidiah’s influence.
Submitted by anon
This is a collection of headcanons for the Avengers! Hope you enjoy.
