I'd disagree about Tony because wizardry is knowing the programming language of the universe. (Faith isn't relevant if you know how it all works.) And ability to create sentient life with the right words is one of his distinguishing features. So he came to wizardry real early, but then there were pressures both familial and commercial, and after his ... everyone died he got bitter and gave up on the oath and went to build things that kill people a lot. So it all faded in his head to being just his naive dreams of what really good code could really do (or turned into D&D camp?). Except he still had Dummy and JARVIS and could talk to them in their own language, which was like a stripped down version of the Speech cause if Dummy was always Dummy he made voice controlled possibly sentient AI in the 80s and that's not plain tech. But for a lot of years he was looking at the world then actively drowning out the little voice of maybe you could fix this.
Then there was the cave.
And then I don't know if Tony remembered his wizardry or just all the feelings that went with it. It's kind of more interesting if he's still forgotten, but he's using Speech in the way he talks to JARVIS and codes and designs the suit. Stuck somewhere in between, no manual, not knowing there are others, but with enough echoes of knowledge to do spectacular things. But if wizardry only lives in a willing heart, he just got real willing again.
The others... Natasha being made to forget is story and a half. That's a good one. They'd keep trying to wipe out her name and put a new one in, and she'd keep trying to keep something back and write herself. And the bit about Asgard and Timeheart seems right. But I feel like the ones with known superpowers have them instead of wizardry. So Steve might be a result, but not a wizard. If he was a wizard he would know how to serve without having to pick up a gun, he could get himself out to the war and make a difference a lot of ways, he wouldn't have been so dead set on getting into the army. Carrying a power around without having a clue though, that I could see. Hulk as a wizard... Hulk is a lot younger than Bruce. Bruce would be puny in comparison. It's kind of LOL scary. Wizardry is a more diversified toolkit than most superheroes use. And there's more ways to serve than to be wizards.
Coulson's the most obvious wizard because he's subtle and just talks to people most of the time... and then faces off with giant killer robots and comes out of it unruffled. He'd like to have something up his sleeve.
I read the discussion of Tony's Name and had a horrible sinking feeling Tony would, like, reflexively try and rewrite his own code. With as much care as working on JARVIS, sure, but of course he'd want to upgrade himself. That would be like the first thing he'd do. And if other people were asking him the questions, he'd lie like magazine interviews. That shell has way too much practice. So one way or another his Name could end up kind of a mess. ... maybe Extremis is what happens when he finally rewrites himself...
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Then there was the cave.
And then I don't know if Tony remembered his wizardry or just all the feelings that went with it. It's kind of more interesting if he's still forgotten, but he's using Speech in the way he talks to JARVIS and codes and designs the suit. Stuck somewhere in between, no manual, not knowing there are others, but with enough echoes of knowledge to do spectacular things. But if wizardry only lives in a willing heart, he just got real willing again.
The others... Natasha being made to forget is story and a half. That's a good one. They'd keep trying to wipe out her name and put a new one in, and she'd keep trying to keep something back and write herself.
And the bit about Asgard and Timeheart seems right.
But I feel like the ones with known superpowers have them instead of wizardry. So Steve might be a result, but not a wizard. If he was a wizard he would know how to serve without having to pick up a gun, he could get himself out to the war and make a difference a lot of ways, he wouldn't have been so dead set on getting into the army. Carrying a power around without having a clue though, that I could see.
Hulk as a wizard... Hulk is a lot younger than Bruce. Bruce would be puny in comparison. It's kind of LOL scary.
Wizardry is a more diversified toolkit than most superheroes use. And there's more ways to serve than to be wizards.
Coulson's the most obvious wizard because he's subtle and just talks to people most of the time... and then faces off with giant killer robots and comes out of it unruffled. He'd like to have something up his sleeve.
I read the discussion of Tony's Name and had a horrible sinking feeling Tony would, like, reflexively try and rewrite his own code. With as much care as working on JARVIS, sure, but of course he'd want to upgrade himself. That would be like the first thing he'd do. And if other people were asking him the questions, he'd lie like magazine interviews. That shell has way too much practice. So one way or another his Name could end up kind of a mess.
... maybe Extremis is what happens when he finally rewrites himself...