I can see Tony as someone who got his wizardry early and then lost it early, definitely! And you're right, Tony using the Speech when he programmed his AIs (and still using a pidgin-speach to talk to them) makes a lot of sense.
I think I just have him coded in my mind as the one who doesn't have magic powers, and my first instinct is to keep it that way, to keep him as someone like Carmela who's really good at using wizardry as a tool and working in tandem with wizards, and has some abilities, but isn't a wizard proper (of course, Carmela may get the Oath yet...) If you posit Howard and Obie as both being failed wizards, he'd have grown up around the remnants of wizardry and magic without really knowing what it means...
And OMG, yes, Tony's Name. That would be such a mess.
RE Steve: I dunno. I was going on the fact that his childhood was pretty much a stereotypical wizard's childhood (lots of staying home with books, standing up to bullies when he has no chance...) I don't think 'wanting to be a soldier' is incompatible with wizardry, especially in the milieu of the early '40s (especially given that this whole post was inspired by DD posting about wizards in the military.)
And OMG, Bruce and Hulk are both wizards but Hulk is a lot younger so he's way, way more powerful? That works too well.
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I think I just have him coded in my mind as the one who doesn't have magic powers, and my first instinct is to keep it that way, to keep him as someone like Carmela who's really good at using wizardry as a tool and working in tandem with wizards, and has some abilities, but isn't a wizard proper (of course, Carmela may get the Oath yet...) If you posit Howard and Obie as both being failed wizards, he'd have grown up around the remnants of wizardry and magic without really knowing what it means...
And OMG, yes, Tony's Name. That would be such a mess.
RE Steve: I dunno. I was going on the fact that his childhood was pretty much a stereotypical wizard's childhood (lots of staying home with books, standing up to bullies when he has no chance...) I don't think 'wanting to be a soldier' is incompatible with wizardry, especially in the milieu of the early '40s (especially given that this whole post was inspired by DD posting about wizards in the military.)
And OMG, Bruce and Hulk are both wizards but Hulk is a lot younger so he's way, way more powerful? That works too well.