Ah okay. So I'm kinda confused.... So you used "Tony" when it's the young Tony, and Old Man for Old Tony, right? By the way my English isn't that good, so please pardon me trying to write things in the correct tenses. 1: So Peter did visit 1992 in the original timeline, but the Old Man's memories were erased, that's why he didn't remember Peter when he met him in CACW? 2: And also, the Old man was just a clone made by Tony when he's in the Heart? 3. So Morgan's father is a clone?
***Spoilers for my Fic ‘Time of our Lives’ below (and kind of above actually lol) but just in case anyone else had similar questions I liked the idea of answering this on the blog.***
No worries about tenses, Sweetheart, I’m always very impressed by people who can read and write in two languages because I am not one of those people. lol
Yes. Tony was the younger version, Old Man was older Tony. Sometimes Peter did refer to the Old Man as Mr. Stark, though both in the beginning and in his narratives.
1. Time travel is always a little crazy to explain, and I made things very complicated so I don’t blame you for needing to ask. Yes, Peter always visited 1992 so he was there in 1992 in the original (and every) timeline. The Old Man, however, never had memories of Peter in 1992 because he was a magical duplicate created by the Heart of the Universe and Tony made sure said duplicate never had memories of Peter to lose...sort of a kindness, I guess. You can’t miss what you never had? So, while the Stones tried to erase his memories with those latent orders, there were never any memories to erase...at least not the Old Man’s. They did erase the memories of people like Nick Fury, Jarvis, and Happy though.
2. Yes, he is a duplicate and you could easily call him a clone...but it’s a little more...magical than that? It’s almost like a version of Tony from an alternate world. He’s no less Tony Stark than the younger version. He has all of the memories, scars (emotional and physical) and even identical thought processes to young Tony right up until the moment of the Gala where Tony met Peter and the Old Man’s memories sort of enter a drugged out haze. The Old Man is no less Tony Stark than Tony is, he’s literally just another version of Tony.
3. Yes, Morgan’s father is the ‘clone’, though we’re not talking just a genetic duplicate but more of a literal copy of Tony’s soul, his thoughts, his memories, his experiences....just that the Old Man never met Peter and Tony did...