History Characters / AManOfIronTheStarksOfIronPointe

* StrongFamilyResemblance: His likeness to Ned Stark is noticed as quite strong, especially when he's so pissed he forgets the smile to break the DeathGlare out.

* BigBrotherMentor: This is how he eventually wants to set up his relationship with [[spoiler:the Spiders]]. He understands that, after his own disagreements with Tony, it's more important to refine the junior crime fighters rather than trying to suppress them.

* ReluctantRuler: Even as a child he was terrified of even the implication that he might validate Catelyn Stark's fear of usurping Robb as the Lord of Winterfell. He resists the urge to vomit when he Olenna Tyrell tells him that the current regime plans to do just that by making him the new Warden of the North. Later, when he's [[spoiler:chosen to be Hand of the King by Tommen, he hates every minute of the first time he has to sit on the Iron Throne to act as Tommen's regent.]]

* HeroesWantRedheads: As Mr. Chaos notes, this is a canon fact given his relationship with Ygritte. Hence his in-story reaction to being paired with Natasha isn't exactly disappointment. When he reveals he found the whore Ros attractive, his bride outright tells him he HasAType.

* BlackSheep: He very much enjoys rubbing the fact he's a wealthy, happy-go-lucky a-hole into his family's face.

* CommonalityConnection: He bonds with Isamalwi aka Sam over both of them being very skilled sword fighters and because they're both used to being judged and treated as inferior by Westerosi for something they can't control (Jon for his bastardy and Sam for being a Summer Islander).

* HiddenDepths: When getting into her head during A Web of Lies, we find out that Pepper got why her house chose to side with the Blackfyres. Not for mere ambition, but because they wanted a more stable line of succession. And thus, since the family stuck to principle and she ended up choosing love over political advantage, she hold no grand loyalties to any government.

** He's everything Tyrion would be if his family only gave him a chance to prove himself. Tywin even acknowledges he was reluctant to grant Iron Pointe to Tony because the Iron Wolf reminded him of his dwarf son too much. [[spoiler: It's one of the reasons why Tywin finally decides to trust Tyrion: if Antony Stark was successful, maybe Tyrion can be too.]]
** At first glance, he and his cousin Ned are very much opposites, Ned embodying the typical Stark while Tony happily spurns his inheritance. However, both are hiding a sharp mind behind a mask - honor for Ned, ObfuscatingStupidity for Tony - and are fiercely protective of their blood relatives and innocents. Also, they start to grasp each other's mentality better over the story, Ned taking a level in cynicism about the royal court while Tony decides to take his duties as lord more seriously.

* HeelRealization: While he doesn't mention directly Ned's [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech accusations]], the speech he makes upon becoming Iron Man shows that he realized that some of what Ned said was true.[[note]]Primarily how he got rich off of all the misery and bloodshed going on around him, supplying weapons that had ended plenty of lives, innocent and otherwise, all while joking around, partying, and acting like he was flawless and better than everyone else.[[/note]] Tony later reveals to Pepper that he had another low-key one [[spoiler:upon being named Warden of the West. By that point, he's much more heroic, but it disgusted him when the first thought he had was how to use this to his advantage.]]