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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[futaille]

"So basically, somehow still utterly unsurprising from me."

[summerdude]

"Yeah. You've leaned too hard into being unpredictable, which means that anything that could be surprising won't be."

[futaille]

"Oh, no. Have I been the instrument of my own downfall?"

[summerdude]

Magnus gives Grantaire his trademark shit-eating grin. "'Fraid so, buddy."

[futaille]

"Whatever shall I do. Do I need to become dull in order to reset expectations?"

[summerdude]

"Or you could embrace the mortifying ordeal of being known."

[futaille]

"That is certainly an option."

[summerdude]

Magnus grins at him. "All that aside," he says. "Klaus has a rounder chin and Violet has a more pointy one, I think."

[futaille]

"Thank you very much." He returns to his sketches.

[summerdude]

"And he has, like. I think maybe a cowlick?"

[futaille]

Grantaire nods. "Rounder face, cowlick..."

[summerdude]

"He likes wearing blue. Navy blue. Jackets and sweaters, with... I think maybe red bow ties?"

[futaille]

"Blue and red. Very nice classic colors."

[summerdude]

"He's twelve. Violet is fourteen." They're both so, so young. Obviously Sunny is extremely young, but... Magnus was fourteen when he had to go on the run. He empathizes, that's all.

[futaille]

"I see." Violet is about as much older than Sunny as Grantaire is than his own sister, then. He purses his lips slightly as he continues refining his drawings.

[summerdude]

"Um. Klaus likes reading?"

[futaille]

"Do you suppose I should give him a book in the portrait, then?"

[summerdude]

"Yeah, I think Sunny would like that. Violet doesn't hold stuff when she's inventing things, it's just the hair ribbon. But the hair ribbon and Klaus's book... they both show off their skills and interests. Like," proudly, "how Sunny's is biting."

[futaille]

Grantaire laughs. "An excellent skill for the discerning young mademoiselle."

[summerdude]

"Could you do, like, individual portraits and then one family painting? And in the family painting, you emphasize her teeth?" Magnus hesitates. "Or is that too much?"

[futaille]

"I could do that!" He glances over at Magnus. "Maybe the individual portraits first, though, so if there's anything she thinks should be different, I can change it for the family portrait."

[summerdude]

"Yeah," says Magnus, with a happy sort of smile. "That would be great, actually."

[futaille]

"It's resolved, then. How big do you think they should be?"

[summerdude]

"Bigger than, like, a sheet of paper. Not so big that they can't fit in, like... a hypothetical wall. Of a hypothetical room. In a hypothetical cottage that might hypothetically have other hypothetical art in it."

[futaille]

He holds up his hands, using his thumbs and index fingers to show off about a 16"x20" area. "Like that, or so?"