If Tony would stop monopolizing him, maybe he would! But oh man, okay, here we go. I'll just do this chronologically.
Bruce has a slightly different impression of Tony than he does in how I interpret him in Avengers. In the movie, he's all caught up in the insanity of what's going on, and being highly resentful of the situation in all aspects. He likes Tony and he goes off with him at the end, and he's probably grateful for how he's not afraid of him, but it's sort of overshadowed by His Life Sucks And It Always Sucks.
In Keeliai, that's not happening. Sure his life sucks, but it's actually... way less sucky here than it was at home, in like, every respect. At first when he showed up and Tony was all over him about the Avengers and working for him and all this faith in what he can do, it was extremely off putting. Bruce hates people having faith in him. It's a little like pressure, but mostly it's that he's absolutely certain he's going to let them down. It's just inevitable. And Tony should know better if he's from the future and that he persists in it anyway is extremely frustrating, because Bruce feels it's totally undeserved.
He still feels a little of that, but then he talked to Pepper and learned that they're actually friends. And he abruptly saw the entire thing in a different light. It'd have been easy to interpret Tony giving him a job and being enthusiastic about him showing up as just wanting to use him, which is what Bruce expects. But everything else together, he had to accept what people told him about the future, and one of those things is, well, he becomes friends with Tony Stark. At least a little bit. And Bruce doesn't really have friends, uh, ever. Even pre-Hulk he didn't really have friends imo.
So now he's stuck with this thing where he has to figure out how to return all of these incredibly kind gestures that Tony is pretending aren't kind. But to him, they really really are. Bruce is basically a good hearted, compassionate person, and he's always been very giving to those that get close to him (read: Betty), so he doesn't mind returning it at all. And he tends not to be ashamed of it, either, even if he doesn't want to make it explicit and, gasp, talk about it. But it's so there and at this point, after a couple months, he feels pretty solidly about their friendship and it weirds him out that he can feel like it's stable. Him and Pepper are just, so normal and part of his everyday life and he's sort of getting sucked into being addicted to that stability. Bruce Banner doesn't get to have stability except now he does and he just, he wants to live up to it. In between being baffled and sarcastic and outwardly rejecting it.
Personally speaking, he does find Tony annoying with some regularity, but mostly he admires his confidence and how smooth he is and incredibly appreciates having someone that knows everything about him, doesn't care, and doesn't make him talk about it. Tony pushes him without going over the line and that's pretty tough to do with Bruce. Plus there's SCIENCE and oh my god do not underestimate how much Bruce appreciates having someone meet him on his intellectual level. It's big. He loves it.
THERE IS THAT ENOUGH TL;DR FOR YOU, OH MY GOD THIS GOT EVEN LONGER THAN I THOUGHT WTF
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Bruce has a slightly different impression of Tony than he does in how I interpret him in Avengers. In the movie, he's all caught up in the insanity of what's going on, and being highly resentful of the situation in all aspects. He likes Tony and he goes off with him at the end, and he's probably grateful for how he's not afraid of him, but it's sort of overshadowed by His Life Sucks And It Always Sucks.
In Keeliai, that's not happening. Sure his life sucks, but it's actually... way less sucky here than it was at home, in like, every respect. At first when he showed up and Tony was all over him about the Avengers and working for him and all this faith in what he can do, it was extremely off putting. Bruce hates people having faith in him. It's a little like pressure, but mostly it's that he's absolutely certain he's going to let them down. It's just inevitable. And Tony should know better if he's from the future and that he persists in it anyway is extremely frustrating, because Bruce feels it's totally undeserved.
He still feels a little of that, but then he talked to Pepper and learned that they're actually friends. And he abruptly saw the entire thing in a different light. It'd have been easy to interpret Tony giving him a job and being enthusiastic about him showing up as just wanting to use him, which is what Bruce expects. But everything else together, he had to accept what people told him about the future, and one of those things is, well, he becomes friends with Tony Stark. At least a little bit. And Bruce doesn't really have friends, uh, ever. Even pre-Hulk he didn't really have friends imo.
So now he's stuck with this thing where he has to figure out how to return all of these incredibly kind gestures that Tony is pretending aren't kind. But to him, they really really are. Bruce is basically a good hearted, compassionate person, and he's always been very giving to those that get close to him (read: Betty), so he doesn't mind returning it at all. And he tends not to be ashamed of it, either, even if he doesn't want to make it explicit and, gasp, talk about it. But it's so there and at this point, after a couple months, he feels pretty solidly about their friendship and it weirds him out that he can feel like it's stable. Him and Pepper are just, so normal and part of his everyday life and he's sort of getting sucked into being addicted to that stability. Bruce Banner doesn't get to have stability except now he does and he just, he wants to live up to it. In between being baffled and sarcastic and outwardly rejecting it.
Personally speaking, he does find Tony annoying with some regularity, but mostly he admires his confidence and how smooth he is and incredibly appreciates having someone that knows everything about him, doesn't care, and doesn't make him talk about it. Tony pushes him without going over the line and that's pretty tough to do with Bruce. Plus there's SCIENCE and oh my god do not underestimate how much Bruce appreciates having someone meet him on his intellectual level. It's big. He loves it.
THERE IS THAT ENOUGH TL;DR FOR YOU, OH MY GOD THIS GOT EVEN LONGER THAN I THOUGHT WTF