The moment he decided to live…. because you can see it, he was ready to be done until Pepper’s name came up.
literally the first thing he says when rhodey finds him is “where’s pepper?!”. tony would die to save just about anyone, but pepper is the one he chooses to live for
Aunt May and Happy Hogan will hit it off in Tony and Pepper’s wedding. That’s what’s going to happen. You can’t change my mind.
i’m pretty convinced happy is going to have been dusted and i love the idea of happy doing his best to look out for peter in the soul world even though he’s completely and utterly out of his depth, so when tony brings them all back peter will mention that to may and she’ll seek him out at the wedding to thank him and then well…
i was rewatching iron man 3 and tony says this in the diner with rhodey, just before he has his first panic attack
…that sure would have been helpful in…a…certain…situation…
Food and water ran out four days ago, oxygen will run out tomorrow morning, that’d be it. When I drift off, I will dream about you. Tony Stark in Avengers: Endgame (2019)