Summary: Tony Stark killed himself on a Monday morning. Peter Parker found his body. Stephen Strange was the first person he called.
After the devastating loss, Stephen makes a decision. To use the time stone. To go back and fix things. To fix Tony before he can make the same choice to end his life.
It doesn't work. So he tries again. And again. …(略)
Tony chewed his lip. “I think you’re being punished, Stephen.”
Hearing his own thoughts voiced by Tony was more crushing than it should have been. Stephen knew that’s what was happening. He not only messed with time, but he told Tony what was going on. It was no coincidence that he got fatally ill immediately afterwards.
4w+，復4終局之戰後；包含Tony/Pepper、主要角色死亡
Tony Stark自殺了。在星期一的早晨。
沒有人知道原因，只能被迫接受這個事實。
而Stephen Strange選擇使用了時間寶石。
Again。
…and AGAIN。
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Tony Stark killed himself on a Monday morning.
Peter Parker found his body.
Stephen Strange was the first person he called.
After the devastating loss, Stephen makes a decision. To use the time stone. To go back and fix things. To fix Tony before he can make the same choice to end his life.
It doesn't work. So he tries again. And again.
…(略)
但我不贊成的原因與作者讓Tony選擇自殺、不斷自殺、或是「自殺」行為本身都無關，純粹是因為根據結局，就我的解讀這根本不能算是ironstrange，奇異反而像造成痛苦的因素，並且坐實了Tony/Pepper是唯一能讓Tony幸福快樂平穩壽終的選擇。
要是時間可以回溯我就不讀這篇文了假如標註ironstrange的作品用鐵的無數生命與奇異的無盡折磨來證實Pepper是最佳選擇，那我看這篇文幹嘛？
Tony表現如常。本以為可以安心，沒想到Tony再次自殺。
接著就是好幾次各種嘗試，從不同的時間點開始，更加親密地進入Tony的生活試圖找出原因，並在不停地回溯-自殺-回溯-意外死亡的過程中，奇異愛上Tony。
然後又是不斷的重來…再重來。
說實話最開始我以為是有個特定原因導致Tony自殺，但隨著劇情進行會發現這個問題根本就無解，因為這篇文的Tony精神情況很嚴重，無論如何就是會酗酒、嗑藥、背著奇異出門跟莫名其妙的陌生女人睡覺、覺得自己很爛、抑鬱、自殺，以上可任意組合。
再又接下來，奇異盡了一切努力讓Tony的心理狀態逐步改善穩定，可是Tony依然會死掉，意外死亡、戰鬥中死亡、疾病死亡，總之就是會死。
Tony chewed his lip. “I think you’re being punished, Stephen.”
Hearing his own thoughts voiced by Tony was more crushing than it should have been. Stephen knew that’s what was happening. He not only messed with time, but he told Tony what was going on. It was no coincidence that he got fatally ill immediately afterwards.
倒數第二次回溯，兩人安穩相伴了九年，最後Tony還是沒了，於是最後一次回溯，奇異做出不一樣的選擇：
他不出現在Tony的生活中了。
於是Tony跟Pepper結婚，生下Morgan，在湖畔小屋過著幸福而平順的日子，好多年過去，他突然接到王的電話，說Stephen Strange要死了。
Tony疑惑：他跟巫師又不熟，為何call他？
奇異因為使用了太多魔法要死了。
…
總之Tony不停死去活來的過程，跟Pepper結婚並擁有女兒的這一生活的最長，基本上就是活到自然死亡了，
結果不要跟Stephen Strange在一起（無論摯友、伴侶）是他長命的關鍵？？？？
雖然文中有解釋差異並非Tony選擇Pepper或Strange，而是他是否擁有兒女，因為Tony會為照顧幼崽的決心和責任拼命活下來；奇異有能力回溯時間，他知道Tony走後他會想Reset，可是如果有孩子奇異就沒辦法做這個決定→因而他不要自己與Tony的孩子→因而Tony一直死掉
搞得好像認識奇異就會讓Tony一直死掉？！
次之則是倘若奇異已經察覺兒女是Tony堅強的關鍵，但他為了保有Reset的選擇而刻意拒絕了Tony提出的「擁有孩子」的提議，那Tony後面的死死活活豈不是奇異的自私選擇嗎？
並不是反對Tony/Pepper，而是
搞得像后宮選妃Stephen pk Pepper並且由於命中剋夫而輸掉了，我讀ironstrange的時候並沒預料會是這種結果，於是受到億點傷害唉，就很煩，就很想打作者，唉…可是平心而論，這篇文又不成標籤Tony/Pepper結局…考量靈魂層面…想起《藍色的遠方》這本書，一貫的歐美style