Start from Scratch [Avengers, Frostiron, Nc-17]

Start from Scratch by Rabentochter 

The last thing Tony remembers is dying atop the Stark Industry’s building after Pepper blew up the arc reactor. The next thing he knows is, that he’s back with the Ten Rings in the cave. And – it all is suspiciously familiar. 

First of all. This fic is a monster. And when I say monster I mean that this has almost 200k words. Almost. The second important thing is, there is a lot of repetitiveness in there. Like a lot. Tony does things over and over and over and over again. And I am not gonna lie, I skipped a lot when reading this. Still. Doesn't make it bad, it just makes me impatient and lazy.

So basically this fic is about Tony reliving about six months or so of his life over and over and over and over again while trying to figure out what could stop the time loop.

The thing I want to talk about is the ending. I didn't see any of that coming. Okay. The plot was pretty good with the whole not revealing the ending and not really giving anything away with what is actually affecting the time loop. But still, I really liked the whole idea behind the reason and how it actually was logical (most of the time it's just meaningless shit that is tied to someone falling in love with someone else, fuck that shit). That makes the ending just that much better. It also makes the fic seem like there was so much thinking behind everything and a big plan how it all would unfold.

Another important and meaningful thing is how Tony coped with all this. I liked how he was all good and then sometimes he was really depressed and didn't really care about anything anymore. Things lose their meaning when you know that nothing will matter in the end because tomorrow you will have to do it all over again. But some things stuck and how they affected everything else (for example how Tony dealt with showers and water). I liked that, it made the whole thing better and like everything was thought out. I don't think anything in this fic was random or just written because it popped into the author's mind at that moment.

The thing I just don't get. How anyone can have the patience to write this? They basically had to write things over and over and over again, just changing some little details from before but they still had to stay consistent with what they had written before. That is just something I have to give a huge amount of respect.

If you have the time, the energy, the patience to read this. I highly recommend you to do that. Seriously. You won't regret it and you will like the ending. I promise that. If not. Well. Come back and yell at me, if that's the case.