What's In An Unknowable Birthday? I Guess We'll Find Out!

[summerdude]

Magnus is a man on a mission. Actually, he's a man on several missions, but now that he's successfully pulled off the bachelorette part of Galahad's wedding, this one stands out as of particular import. As such, he has a pad of construction paper chock-full of notes tucked in his backpack and he's swinging briefly into every room he passes, on the lookout for Grantaire.

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[summerdude]

"Yeah," with a shaky smile. "Okay. What else do you need to know?"

[futaille]

"What color are her eyes?"

[summerdude]

"Brown," Magnus repeats dutifully.

[futaille]

"All right. Do you happen to know any particulars about the shape of her face, or if she has freckles or the like?"

[summerdude]

Magnus makes a face. "Not... really? I think... pointy chin?"

[futaille]

"That's fine." He doodles a few face options to the side, considering.

[summerdude]

"Um..... What do heart-shaped faces look like?" He's heard the term somewhere.

[futaille]

"A pointed chin, with the forehead being the widest part of the face."

[summerdude]

"Um, try that? That sounds right."

[futaille]

He nods. "All right." He sketches in a heart-shaped face.

[summerdude]

Magnus squints, trying to remember the illustrations from books he hasn't read in like eleven years. "Maybe a little, um. Narrower in the cheeks?"

[futaille]

He promptly adjusts the sketch accordingly. "Like that?"

[summerdude]

Magnus studies it for a moment. "Yeah," he decides. "Yeah, I think that's, like. Probably in the right direction."

[futaille]

"Wonderful. That's a good foundation to work off of, at least." He grabs another sheet of paper. "Klaus next."

[summerdude]

"Glasses," says Magnus immediately. "And also brown hair. Short."

[futaille]

"What shape are the glasses?"

[summerdude]

"...round, I think?" Magnus says. "Sorry. This is all, like, really vague."

[futaille]

"Vague is better than nothing. If not for vague, it would be a matter of inventing what they might look like wholecloth, which I could certainly do, but the accuracy would suffer."

[summerdude]

"Thanks," Magnus says. "I mean, really, thank you. I really appreciate your help with this." (Has Sunny talked to Magnus at length about how Grantaire is sooo helpful? Almost certainly!)

[futaille]

He absently waves his hand, pencil and all. "It's fine. You had a good idea so I'm assisting with it."

[summerdude]

"Sunny was right," Magnus adds, with a shit-eating grin. "You're very helpful."

[futaille]

"My reputation is in shambles," he says dryly as he returns to his sketching.

[summerdude]

"Oh, probably. She tells everyone about it." So what if most people don't understand that's what she's saying?

[futaille]

"Clearly I should be more difficult to balance it out," he says, not that it actually stops him from working on his sketch.

[summerdude]

"Why do you want people think that you're not helpful?" Magnus remembers, as he asks the question, that he also has a rough sketch of Klaus, too, so he starts rummaging for it. "Is it like a pressure-reduction thing?"