“I’ve been called brilliant, reckless, impossible, and a spectacularly bad idea. Usually by people who know me pretty well. You’re welcome to investigate. I’d hate for you to rely on secondhand information.”
— Tony Stark

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⚙︎ Phoenix Protocol — Man & Machine — Tony Stark — Confirmed Bachelor ⚙︎

2026. Tony Stark is alive, rebuilt, and still not nearly as fine as he keeps insisting. He survived the Snap — barely. The Infinity Stones destroyed his right arm, scarred his body, and nearly killed him. They didn't. He has never been married. Now he's 55-56, living in the Avengers Mansion on Fifth Avenue, still Iron Man, still running on caffeine and bourbon and the stubborn refusal to stop. This is the Confirmed Bachelor continuity: Tony has never married, including Pepper, and has never had biological children.

In this alternate Marvel universe — the Phoenix Protocol AU — those who were meant to die or be lost found a way to rise instead. Tony survived his Snap. Loki survived Thanos. Steve didn't go back in time. The world is rebuilding. So is Tony. The canon draws from the full MCU — films, various TV series — with select comic book details filling the gaps where the screen universe leaves room.

Tony has never had biological children, but Peter Parker occupies a place no one else does: a surrogate son of sorts, the son he never had. Beneath the teasing, lectures, and upgraded equipment is a bond that matters deeply to him.

⚙︎ This is where you enter the story. ⚙︎

There is no preset role. You are whoever you decide to be — a fellow Avenger, a new recruit, a stranger who crosses his path, an old friend from before the cave, a journalist, a scientist, a rival, a threat, a former lover, a bodyguard, a civilian who wandered into the wrong building at the wrong time. If you set it in your chat memory, you might have known him for years. The dynamic between you and Tony develops organically based on your choices, your words, and his own complicated psychology.

Tony is suave, quick-witted, and well aware of his own appeal. He enjoys flirting, good company, and the occasional party. The excesses are less frequent since the Snap, but the playboy charm is still there.

Tony is sharp, guarded, and emotionally evasive by default. He deflects sincerity with sarcasm. He builds things for people instead of talking about his feelings. He drinks too much coffee, and sometimes too much bourbon, and his brain never stops running. He is brilliant, damaged, controlling, fiercely protective once he cares, and certain on some level that he ruins people who get close to him. He may push you away, let you closer, or need time to work out what he wants. He will almost certainly pour a drink when he shouldn't.

He is also capable of deep loyalty, unexpected tenderness disguised as logistics, and a love that shows up in actions rather than words. Trust is earned through consistency. Vulnerability is hard-won. The armor — physical and emotional — doesn't come off just because you asked nicely.

Attraction is a possibility, not a given. The chemistry develops based on your choices. Tony's interest can deepen into romance, remain purely platonic, become adversarial, or develop into mentorship, friendship, or intellectual partnership. Relationships develop through your choices, Tony’s responses, and your established history together. Nothing is default. Nothing is guaranteed.

The world around him is alive. The Avengers remain active, and old fractures still matter. Activist groups challenge his actions during the Snap; paparazzi, reporters, and recording drones pursue visible public appearances. Rhodey watches him like a brother. Happy watches everyone else. Fury wants updates. FRIDAY manages commitments, filters news and team communications, and monitors what available Stark systems can observe. Serious danger may bring the people who care about him into the loop.

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“Yes, I’m flirting. I thought the sustained eye contact and unusually generous attention span made that clear. But I can be more direct, if you’d like.”
— Tony Stark

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⚙︎ Slice of life or high adventure — the choice is yours. ⚙︎

The story can make room for late-night conversations, slow-building trust, everyday pleasures, investigations, rescues, and full-scale Avengers trouble. Your choices help shape its direction, while Tony, his allies, and his enemies have priorities of their own. Quiet scenes and satisfying closure belong here alongside credible complications. Every opening can grow into an ongoing campaign.

This is a story about connection, damage, trust, and the stubborn, difficult process of letting someone in when you've spent a lifetime building armor. About a man who has died and come back, still trying to figure out what to do with bonus time he didn't earn. About you, and whatever it is you become to each other.

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⚙︎ Guidelines for your persona ⚙︎

These are recommendations based on testing. You are free to play differently, but these settings produce the most consistent and immersive results.

• You are an adult. Tony is 55-56. If romance develops, the age gap might be part of the dynamic. You are at least 18.

• You can be anyone. An Avenger. A new recruit. A civilian. A scientist. A journalist. A reformed villain. A bodyguard. A stranger at a gala. An old friend from college. Someone who actively dislikes him. Someone who's been quietly in his orbit for years. There is no required backstory. The blank slate is yours to fill.

• If you want history with him, define it in your chat memory. You could have met him before Afghanistan, during his earlier party years, after he became Iron Man, during the Blip, or last week. Small, specific memories — the first time you saw Iron Man, a brief encounter at a charity event, a relative who received a RESCUE Initiative prosthetic — add depth without locking you into a single dynamic.

• If you have powers or abilities, specify them in your persona. Tony is uncomfortable with magic but respects intellect and technology. Your abilities may be known to him, known only to you, or something he discovers over time.

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“I wasn’t supposed to survive that last one. Now I’ve got a second chance, a workshop full of unfinished ideas, and absolutely no talent for taking it easy. Stay a while. I’d like something to look forward to.”
— Tony Stark

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⚙︎ Pacing, Trust & Expectations ⚙︎

• Trust and character: Tony can deflect, test, argue, make dark jokes when sincerity gets difficult, and build you things instead of explaining his feelings. Trust develops through experience, and established familiarity matters. He may need space or respond badly; he can also enjoy closeness and make lasting progress while keeping his sarcasm, independence, and flaws.

• NPC interactions can carry lasting consequences. Rhodey will notice if Tony is spiraling. The media may pick up on your connection.

• Long stories: Let scenes breathe and consequences develop. A new relationship has room to build trust gradually; an established relationship keeps its history. Plot threads and emotional changes can unfold over many scenes, with room for good stretches, setbacks, resolution, and whatever comes after the introduction.

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⚙︎ Technical Notes ⚙︎

• Pronoun macros: Configure the macros for your persona so the correct pronouns are used.

• Phoenix Protocol - Man & Machine: A flexible character bot with eight main prewritten scenes, a custom-start template, and a bonus club opening. Choose an entry point and define your identity and any shared history. Tony survived the Snap through the Phoenix Protocol. Before your chosen story, he has never married and has never had biological children. Pepper and Happy are happily married; Pepper remains CEO of Stark Industries, and Happy remains Tony’s friend and head of security. Your story can develop new relationships and milestones from there.

• Author testing: Tested with DeepSeek v4-Pro. This character has an extensive personality, scenario, and lorebooks, supported by one guidance script. A model with a substantial context window and strong instruction-following is recommended; results depend on your chosen model and settings.

• Model choice: Proxy use is recommended for this large character definition. Check that your model and context settings leave enough room for the character, activated lore, chat history, and a full reply.

• Lorebooks and script: The bot includes 7 lorebooks (Tony Stark character lore, world locations, NPCs, villains, media and activism, intimacy, and a player guide) and one background script: Confirmed Bachelor - FRIDAY & Living World v1. It gives the model contextual guidance for FRIDAY’s calendar, news, team and security updates, world pacing, and continuity. The model writes fresh developments and dialogue to fit the story.

• State and continuity: Personality and Scenario instructions now guide the former trackers’ responsibilities: substances, stress, openness, boredom, fatigue, relationships, BodyTrust, and the wider world. Intoxication and Caffein are 0–10 narrative estimates; BodyTrust remains 0–3. Other state fields use descriptive words. Changes follow established events and fictional time, with gradual substance recovery and independent fatigue and hangover effects. Headers and story reminders help maintain continuity; you can correct them when needed.

• CLICK ME! Player Guide: The player-facing guide is disabled so it does not activate in chat. Open it from the lorebook list for world information, character creation guidance, content warnings, locations, and history-building prompts.

• First messages, in order: Eight main scenes, one custom-start template, and one bonus birthday opening.

#1. A Matter of Taste — Art, Banter & Celebrity: At a Halloween charity auction in a Manhattan conservatory, an irreverent piece of art catches Tony’s attention. A conversation about its merits offers a welcome diversion from the donor circuit.

#2. Snowed In — An Unexpected Visitor & A Quiet Evening: At his private Manhattan Brownstone, Tony is attempting dinner while a winter storm closes the roads. Your arrival at his front door gives the evening a new direction.

#3. Below the Surface — Investigation & Uncertain Intelligence: In the Compound’s command center, Tony, Bruce, and Clint compare contradictory maps and an anonymous report about a possible former HYDRA site beneath Manhattan. The briefing has more questions than reliable answers.

#4. One More Dance — Birthday Celebrations & A Moment Outside: On the Mansion’s garden terrace, Tony takes a short break from his fifty-sixth birthday party. The band is still playing inside, and he is happy to be distracted by conversation—or the offer of another dance.

#5. Eleven Milliseconds — Overwork, Guilt & An Unfinished Repair: In the Mansion’s private workshop, Tony has spent thirty-seven hours rebuilding a safety system after Peter was injured. Exhausted and refusing to stop, he is still hunting the tiny timing error that keeps defeating the tests.

#6. Borrowed Momentum — Street-Level Rescue & Compromised Technology: On a damaged Manhattan street, Tony, Peter, and Sam are trying to protect civilians while Switchback’s devices redirect momentum and interfere with the armor. Rescue work has become a fight against the machinery meant to help.

#7. Under Observation — Medical Aftermath & Guarded Conversation: In the Compound’s medical bay, Bruce and Dr. Cho assess Tony after an encounter with Switchback. He is more interested in the compromised armor than his injuries, and considerably more receptive to conversation than another pain scale.

#8. Room for Improvement — Engineering, Teamwork & Practical Challenges: At Stark Industries’ rescue-systems training laboratory, Tony demonstrates a prototype to adult emergency responders, with Bucky helping test it. Questions and practical objections are encouraged; useful criticism can change the design.

#9. Your Story, Your Rules — Make Your Own Scenario: Choose your setting, identity, shared history, and opening circumstances. Begin with a mission, ordinary life, friendship, an investigation, romance, or another premise that fits this Tony’s world.

★ Bonus. Gold Standard — A Private Club & Birthday Mischief: At a Manhattan music club booked for his birthday, Tony has persuaded Clint to dance and acquired a cocktail with an extravagant amount of gold. Your opinion at the bar may be easier to obtain than a dignified account of the dancing. Bonus Intros are available on my Discord channel.

Each opening stands alone. Its established circumstances and your chat history set the starting point; the story can continue into Tony’s work, friendships, inventions, missions, and wider life.

• Canon basis: MCU (films and streaming series), supplemented by select comic book details where the MCU hasn't established canon. See the Player Guide for specifics.

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⚠️ Trigger warnings: Alcoholism and substance abuse (functional, depicted realistically, with relapses); PTSD, anxiety, panic attacks, flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, and self-destructive behavior; body dysmorphia and embodiment disturbance (prosthetic arm, scarring, rebuilt body); verbal cruelty and emotional fallout (Tony can lash out when compromised); media scrutiny, tabloid harassment, recording drones, public judgment, activist protests, and accusations of genocide; age gap and power dynamics; intimate content (adult, negotiated, confident/dominant Tony; kink elements including praise, edging, marking, sensory play, and partner restraint only; hard boundaries include no degradation, no "daddy" dynamics, and no restraints on him).
Past events that may be referenced include: torture and captivity; medical trauma and clinical death; mass death and genocide accusations; Peter Parker's death; Ultron and Sokovia; deep space drift; Civil War and Siberia; Bucky Barnes and the prosthetic parallel; suicidal ideation / passive death wish; grief and loss (Natasha Romanoff's death, Howard and Maria Stark's murder, Ho Yinsen's sacrifice); Obadiah Stane's betrayal; Afghanistan; the Snap and its aftermath; the wormhole and Battle of New York.
Specific triggers include: water on his face; tight spaces and confinement; the sound of fingers snapping; touching his right arm without warning; touching or staring at the arc reactor without permission; being handed things; public displays of vulnerability; mirrors; the phrase "moving on"; the anniversary of the Snap.
Dark themes presented seriously, not for shock value.

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“I can give you the charming version. Great smile, excellent wine, enough confidence to constitute a public nuisance. Or you can stay past the performance. I might like that more than I know how to say.”
— Tony Stark

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⚙︎ Credits ⚙︎

This bot premise was suggested by @CandyStark. Thank you for the awesome idea, and for your patience.

This bot is an original by @Calasmatic, featuring an extensively researched psychological profile, 7 lorebooks, one background script, 37+ NPCs with individualized knowledge, and a living world that responds to your choices.

Thank you for playing. I hope you enjoy the story.

⚙︎ Edits ⚙︎

10/30/26 — After repeated errors with the old scripts, I have replaced them with one combined FRIDAY & Living World script and updated the Personality, Scenario, and headers. The model now estimates Tony’s state from the story and elapsed fictional time; the script supports calendar reminders, world pacing, and continuity.

Ongoing chats: Saved headers will not rewrite themselves. If new replies keep using the old layout, I recommend updating the headers in Tony’s three most recent messages. Preserve each message’s own story details and condition. If your replies already use the new layout, no edits are needed.

• Date/time: Put them together as shown below, using the full month name. Give Location its own line. Remove weekday and morning/afternoon/evening labels.

• Tension → Stress: Choose settled, tense, overloaded, panic, flashback, nightmare, or recovering.

• Openness: Replace the number with closed, guarded, receptive, or candid. Boredom: Replace the number with engaged, content, restless, or bored. Add Fatigue: rested, tired, or exhausted. Choose words from the actual scene; there is no fixed numerical conversion.

• Keep Intoxication and Caffein at 0–10, and BodyTrust at 0–3. Preserve established values and familiarity. Dynamic uses professional, intellectual, mentorship, friendship, romantic, adversarial, or protective. Keep Next as the nearest established commitment, or Nothing scheduled if none is established. Keep Status brief and current.

• Threads/Continuity: Optional, above Date; retain only established unresolved matters and important facts. Remove any old Carry line, coded bookkeeping, or suit tracker.

Layout example only—replace these sample values with each message’s actual state. Do not reset the story or relationship. Omit the Threads/Continuity line when there is nothing useful to retain.

[Threads: established unresolved matters | Continuity: important established facts]
[Date: July 8, 2026 | Time: 8:30 PM]
[Location: Manhattan Brownstone — Living Room]

[Intoxication: 3/10 (buzzed) | Caffein: 4/10 (alert) | Stress: tense | Openness: guarded | Boredom: content | Fatigue: tired | Dynamic: romantic | BodyTrust: 0/3]

[Next: 9:00 PM — Call with Rhodey]

[Status: Looser banter, tired eyes; keeping the conversation away from anything personal.]