The MCU was trying sell a narrative about Bucky wanting a ‘Simple Life’ after being freed of HYDRA, herding his sheep and goats in the rural Wakanda farmlands… but that entire narrative was wiped away when Bucky grinned at the security dome and said “god I love this place”. And it was beautiful.
Because we all know that Wakanda technology is EXACTLY why Bucky wanted to stay in Wakanda. We all know he spent his days hovering around Shuri, just watching her work in the labs because he wanted to see the technology being built. We all know that Bucky lived in a modern apartment in the city and was in awe of all the tiny technological advances. Bucky probably used his sheepherding money to buy Wakandan tech, too – and it was probably tech that did nothing of importance, Bucky just wanted it because it was cool. He probably couldn’t contain his excitement over dumb stuff like kitchen equipment, and Wakandans found him oddly endearing because of that.
This is the boy who spent his last night before being shipped to the Front at a Stark Expo because he needed to see a floating car. A city in Wakanda is everything pre-war Bucky would have dreamed of a Perfect Future.
After the dust of Sokovia settled
Tony had time to properly process the loss of JARVIS. His near constant
companion was just… gone. Well, not quite gone. Some part of him lived on in
the Vision, and boy, was that Infinity Stone nonsense going to keep him up at
night.
FRIDAY ran his suits just fine and worked well in a personal assistant role but the personality he’d programmed her with (90% Irish accented sarcasm) wasn’t quite advanced enough to affect him the way JARVIS’s
did. Maybe it was the memory that served as inspiration for the interface of
JARVIS that made him feel more like a concerned friend and kept FRIDAY just a program.
He missed the concern. He missed
the emotional connection. He missed having an AI that could kick the Turing
tests ass. It would take FRIDAY a while to grow organically to the same level
that JARVIS had been at, and he wasn’t sure if he wanted her to. Perhaps he’d
just keep her responsibilities as they were, that way if anything happen to her
the loss wouldn’t be as monumental as it had been when Ultron had destroyed
JARVIS.
He could probably rebuild JARVIS,
he still had the beta programs in his archives somewhere, but there was no way
to make him exactly the same as he was, and anything less, no more than a
shadow of the previous JARVIS, would have felt wrong. So, Tony decided, he was
just going to have to program a brand new AI to be his conscience, collaborator, and confidante. And after giving it some thought he found the
perfect inspiration for the interface.
He took some of the basic
building blocks of all his AI’s, uploaded lab protocols and controls, as well
as dozens of audio samples and published papers to help mould the interface
into something more human than FRIDAY. It took him a month of
not-completely-obsessed work to have something vaguely resembling a finished
product. It wasn’t quite at a testing stage but as he’d always told JARVIS,
sometimes you need to run before you can walk.
“Alright, ready to get to work?”
he asked the empty room, pulling up a series of blue holographic screens from
the void. “I need you to upload and analyse Ross’s Sokovia Accords – access any
and all law books from the Library of Congress that you need to do it,” he
instructed, feeding the large stack of paper into a top of the line but barely used document scanner.
“Highlight anything sketchy and forward it onto Capsicle and the head of Stark
Industries legal department for review. And just so you know, you’re on the
clock with this one; we’ve only got a week before Ross wants us to sign over
our souls.”
“Well, then, this is a very important week for you, isn’t it?”
Tony smiled, definitely not
choking up at the sound of an old friend.
“That it is, YINSEN. That it is.”
Thanks for brutally ripping my heart out
Hey!
So because me and @rowantreewrites are the worst enablers to each other’s angst we decided to make it worse.
What if YINSEN is more of a medicinal AI and has extensive knowledge on injuries and after Civil War, he is the AI directly monitoring Tony’s arc reactor and vitals.
I mean, JARVIS is modelled after Edwin Jarvis, FRIDAY is modelled after Pepper, so YINSEN could be modelled after his namesake.
Another reminder to Tony not to give up and waste his life.
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