Title: The Act of Creation will be Your Salvation
Fandom: Marvel
Pairing: Slash
Categories: Family, Friendship, Pre-canon, Romance
Length: Epic (85,000)
Warnings: Canonical Character Near-Death experiences

Author on LJ: scifigrl47
Website: Scifigrl47's Ao3 page

Summary:  When Tony Stark was seventeen years old, he built his first AI. On that day, he ceased to be his father's creation, and became a creating force in his own right.

That one act likely saved his life, and not always in the most obvious ways.

Review: This story follows Dummy and Tony from the time Tony is 17 through the events of Iron Man 1 & 2 and the Avengers movie, all the way until the Avengers move into the towers and have been there for months.

Dummy is really the star of this series, though Tony, JARVIS, and Steve are also awesome. Scifigrl does an amazing job with Dummy's speech/thought processes and translating them into programming directives and actions, while still making him very much a robot.

He acts kind of like a really brilliant 3 year old, but has the brain of someone who has been around Tony for most of his life and knows what his "CREATOR UNIT" needs far better than any of the other human or robotic units that Tony deals with on a regular basis. And Tony in turn loves Dummy best and has no problem telling people that.

And you just have to love his attempts to find Tony's ideal life partner that harken back to the Parent Trap. This story is hilarious,  heart warming, and will probably make you cry. Go forth, read, and start wishing that you have a Dummy bot of your very own.

The Act of Creation will be Your Salvation