[semi-open] ✪ may your smile shine on, don't be scared

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who: Eddie Thawne; Tony Stark, Taako Taaco; anyone else
what: catch-all
when: mid to late March, maybe early April
where: Community Housing; out and about
warnings: flashbacks to traumatic situations in trapped threads; probable mention of suicide (heroic self-sacrifice) and violence
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Obviously not while you're here, but, in general. Did you get some kind of job in... [He waves a hand vaguely.] ...monster-killing and city saving?

[Eddie watches as the other man comes closer, and he's not without his own skill at reading other people's body language. He can see that the other man is trying to be non-threatening, trying not to make him freak out, and his lips press together with a slight kind of irritation, not at the other man, but at himself for being so obvious.

When Tony talks about being good with numbers and the ideas and saying he's not trying to be an arrogant shit, Eddie laughs, softly. Because the matter-of-fact way Tony says it reminds him of a less self-conscious Cisco, talking about what he's capable of in a matter-of-fact way, comfortable with his own genius. Just like at home, Eddie feels a little safer working with a genius.]

Well, there are probably some things I'm better at than you too. [He winks, holds his breath for a moment to catch his bearings, listening to the explanation about the suit and being a superhero, and some of the tension goes out of Eddie when he hears it.]

You're a superhero? Seriously? That's so cool. The whole...machinery suit and nanotech and all that reminds me of a friend of mine from home. I also worked with a guy called The Flash. Heard of him?

[And right when Eddie was starting to calm down, to distract himself, Tony has to go ahead and ask that. About confined spaces. Instinctively, Eddie brings his arms up and crosses them in front of himself, shaking his head, lips pressed together again.]

Not my favourite thing, no. Bad experiences. You?