fanfictiongreenirises:

theory: tony sold avengers tower in spiderman: homecoming because he realised at some point between civil war and homecoming that the avengers weren’t what he thought they would be, what he’d hoped they be, and decided it was finally time to move on. 

the tower’s whole purpose (ignoring whatever else happened in every other floor that wasn’t built for the avengers) was to house the team, and from what we know, it was never used for that purpose. the compound – the military base tony built – was used to probably full capacity, but the tower, which he designed himself and represented home and family, never was. 

this doesn’t mean he’s moved on from the avengers (or from his teammates). we know from homecoming that he’d designed steve a new shield, and he offered peter a position in the avengers. it just means that tony no longer sees the avengers the way he did from avengers through to civil war. he no longer has the hope that they’ll live together in his tower as a tight knit family who fight evil together. 

i think he’s honestly better off for it, because the avengers (regardless of whether it was because of bad writing or whatever) were never going to be like the avengers in 616 or even AA, (but this post isn’t about that). tony in homecoming and infinity war was shown to be the most stable we’ve ever seen him, and i think that this revelation has played a pretty big part in it. he can finally stop placing himself at unrealistic standards now. and you know what? he’s building his own family. that conversation with pepper? the ‘i rly rly want a baby pepper pls’ conversation, his relationship with peter, everything is showing tony to now be actively moving forward with his life.