Ohhhh, this was ... I wouldn't say beautiful. It was gritty and painful and twinge-y and made me hunch over in sympathetic pain and simultaneously want to smack that boy upside his head. No, this wasn't beautiful in the sense of prettiness and rainbows and stars-in-my-eyes love.

This? This was *fucking awesome*. In the way that is uniquely Tony Stark and all his insecurities and accomplishments. This was fucking awesome in the way of painful epiphanies and triumph in the arena with blood staining your teeth and cuts on your hands.

I --- I don't know how else to put it. This deserves so much more than an awed "ohh wow," but that's ... that's what I've got.