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]

"Maybe you do but I gotta think about it," Magnus decides. "This took me by surprise. It's not a loud Steve vibe. If you have one."

[futaille]

"Perhaps it's a slightly different shade of a Steve vibe that you're not accustomed to as you haven't met particularly many Étiennes before."

[summerdude]

Magnus brightens. "Maybe!" he says, and leans forward. Back to the main task at hand! "So, like, there are these website photo editor thingies from my childhood where you could put in two pictures and see what their baby might look at. Do you think you could guesstimate what Sunny's parents might have looked like based on Violet, Klaus, and Sunny herself? ...she doesn't really remember them anymore, and I don't really remember if it was mentioned in, like. The books."

[futaille]

He frowns. "I could try, but there's no real way to tell what feature may have come from which parent, so it could end up a jumble that looks not at all close to them."

[summerdude]

"Yeah, but like..." Magnus makes a face. "We have no way of knowing for sure one way or the other, so... probably it's fine?"

[futaille]

"Maybe so. Still, though, I'd start with just the portraits of Violet and Klaus, and if Sunny wants one of her parents after that, we can go from there."

[summerdude]

"She wants one."

[futaille]

He nods. "All right then. I'll do what I can."

[summerdude]

"Brown hair, like all their kids. I think her mom was supposed to be, like, really pretty?"

[futaille]

"That stands to reason, of course, to have had a hand in Sunny."

[summerdude]

"And I think she wore... dresses...?"

[futaille]

"I'm guessing dresses from Sunny's time and not mine. I'd need to do more research there."

[summerdude]

"I don't actually know what time Sunny is from," says Magnus, thoughtfully. "It's very... unspecific."

[futaille]

"That... adds an interesting wrinkle."

[summerdude]

"But you could probably just do, like, a dress-shaped dress."

[futaille]

He arches an eyebrow, grabs another sheet of paper, and promptly sketches a dress-shaped dress.

[summerdude]

Magnus blinks. "How does that stay on?"

[futaille]

"Buttons in the back. They weren't really loose enough to just fall off."

[summerdude]

Magnus nods once, slowly. "Can I have that drawing?" he asks. "I think Alex would get a real kick out of having one of these."

[futaille]

He slides it over. "Certainly. Of course, it's not going to be perfectly accurate, as it's just a sketch to capture the vibe of my time's dresses."

[summerdude]

"Yeah, yeah, I know the drill," Magnus says. He squints at Grantaire. "Don't worry," he guesses. "I'll try not to accuse you of being perfect?"

[futaille]

He waves a hand. "That's hyperbolic enough that it's fine. Just don't earnestly accuse me of being perfect."

[summerdude]

"Oh, so I can say things as long as I don't mean them?"

[futaille]

"I do have a feeling that this is going to be twisted on me masterfully at some point, but I'm curious enough as to how that I will say yes and observe from there."

[summerdude]

"You're not helpful at all," Magnus says, promptly. "You're very unpredictable in your contributions to this place. You're boring."