ironarmored:

               ❛   unless bruce wayne’s suddenly lost a couple inches since the last time we met               you must be  tim drake.  wayne enterprises’ acting CEO.  pleasure to finally make your acquaintance.   ❜

 〉┊ @birdbraiin​

“ just a couple inches?” he teases, polite smile pulling into a small chuckle he wasn’t quite expecting.

     he was warned that tony stark would be charming, but tim’s dealt with charisma before. rubbed elbows with people who had personality’s that could fill up a whole room, but there’s something about the armored avenger that was not in his briefing packet.

tim knows there’s more than a couple inches between his 5′7″ on a good day and bruce’s somewhere over 6′ and built like a nuclear fallout bunker to boot.  ( something that had made tim feel incredibly inadequate in puberty but that was something he did not need to think about in a business meeting. )

“ be careful mr. stark– you keep trying to flatter me like that & i’m going to think you’re trying to butter me up for something. “

handshakes say a lot about a person and tony stark’s handshake is firm, brief but confident in it’s lasting impression. he shakes hands like a man who has perfect control over the details of his self image and how others think of and react to him. it’s a quality tim has long admired in bruce, even if bruce’s is based more of his confidence in his ability to disguise himself, wearing personality traits like an actor might don a costume. tony’s is  so– genuine. not a fabrication, but perhaps a slight emphasis. 

     “ i assure you, the pleasures all mine. “ this is not a lie, tim’s long respected iron man’s bravery and ingenuity. in fact if he hadn’t been so personally invested ( read: mildly obsessed ) with the batman mythos as a young boy, he probably would’ve been a much bigger fanboy for iron man.