"Thanks mom," Tony rolls his eyes a little bit, but he does so with a smirk on his face. This is hardly the first time someone's commented on his quantity of alcoholic intake. But you know what... he can think of worse ways to go that alcohol poisoning. He's had the displeasure of experiencing a few, even.

"So what's your deal here, anyway? You're not some wizard kid from Mars or something are you? You can never tell anymore."

He was finding that to be only somewhat true, actually. The truly magical ones were always a little more angry about their lives. Understandable, given the Capitol's permanent magical cockblocking. He'd be angry about it too. Howard though? Well maybe he was going to be surprised, but he was also not really expecting to get a yes to the answer, either. Its just that overreaching was always an easy way to get answer from someone.

People are often quite quick to correct you if you mislabel them.