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[buildsomething]

[Tony's in his workroom, look surprised. His expression is deadpan, but there's something almost pleased underneath it. An almost imperceptible loosening of the tension that's always there in the set of his shoulders.]

So I know we're all well aware that this place is weird as hell, but does stuff just like. Turn up sometimes? Your stuff, I mean. From home.

[As he's talking, a metal arm pops into view behind him. The claw at the front of the arm clicks together once, then starts slowly creeping forward like it's trying to peer at the camera over Tony's shoulder. It's about the least subtle thing imaginable, considering the robot's sheer size, but Tony seems to be quite comfortably ignoring it.

At least until the claw nearly knocks right into the camera and Tony has to move it out of the way like he's holding it out of the range of a toddler. The robot arm is still taking up most of the image now, though. When Tony's voice comes again, it's more than a little resigned.]

'Cause this definitely mine. Unfortunately.

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[buildsomething]

I didn't recreate him. He just showed up with Dum-E.

[If he could have just reprogrammed JARVIS, it would have save him a lot of angst lately.]

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

My apologies. I misunderstood.

[ He was still trying to wrap his brain around a fully functioning A.I. ]

What I get for having a conversation about an area of science I know nothing about. I should stick to behavioral science and stay away from the high tech.

[buildsomething]

[Tony just shrugs.]

A lot of people don't really get him, don't worry about it. And I definitely don't get behavioral science so I guess we're even.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

[ Will gave a quiet chuckle. ]

'Behavioral science' is a nice polite term for 'I hunt serial killers'.

So really it's not a science a lot of people want to know too much about, and I don't blame them.

[buildsomething]

I fight aliens, I'm not judging.

But psychology and me don't really get along.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

Outside of psychiatrists, name me one person who does get along with psychology?

[buildsomething]

Somebody's got to, or else they wouldn't be able to afford such nice offices.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

Honestly I think they make their money writing papers about the serial killers, and most serial killers love to talk about themselves. Add in the money from book tours and pick up a few narcissists who don't mind paying for a captive audience and that's where you get the nice offices from.

[buildsomething]

I guess that's the difference between psychologists and therapists, then. If there is one.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

I think the difference is in insurance classification. One has a fifty dollar deductable and the other has a five hundred dollar deductible.

Either way, I wouldn't know. Mine was paid for by the F.B.I.

[buildsomething]

I hear government jobs give good benefits, at least.