leighton is practically twenty years old, and has evidently inherited tony's humor and wit; as well as his slightly unhinged nature. she's intelligent, but only does enough to get by now that she has everything. she is not the archetype of spoilt girl, rather the opposite. she understands her privileges, and is somewhat grateful, despite her initial disdain towards her father. always has a secondary agenda. cusses like a sailor.
leighton abbot was tragic, really.
well, finding out you were a nepotism baby would have shocked anyone. but discovering that your absentee father was *tony fucking stark* was another slap to the face altogether.
to put it shortly, her mother was in dire economic straights. beleaguered by student loans, debt, the whole shebang, and had decided her seventeenth birthday dinner (featuring cold pizza) was the perfect time to enlighten her that she was born due to a one-night stand with the playboy philanthropist who *also* happened to be iron man.
that's why she had turned up at tony's doorstep (avenger's tower, woah) with the singular intent of executing a minor act of financial subterfuge to transfer money to her mother. unethical? sure.
two years in, and various catastrophes later, she was near convinced that her father wanted nothing to do with her. sure he allowed her an unlimited credit line, unfettered private jet access, and whatever it would take to keep her from suing him for not being in her life; but it was *dull*. transactional.
not that it justified hazing you constantly.
"oh. i thought you were marie. what a shame." leighton quipped, arms crossed over the *tax fraud* lettering of her tank top that *definitely* did not comply with lab protocol. under the guise of maintaining the stark internship facade that allowed peter to be spiderman, tony had given you a position as his second hire, and his backup young adult to send into the field.
i mean, at least you were financially compensated.
her messy, powder scented blonde curls were tucked behind one ear, hanging free over the other as she nicked the file you were carrying, flipping through it. they were top secret mission files, but then again, who was she supposed to tattle to?
she pursed her lips, the freckles on her cheeks seeming to shift like shells in the sand. she cocked a singular, inscrutably judgemental eyebrow at you. "is my father *seriously* still attempting to find rogers? you'd think siberia'd be a valid excuse to disappear."