![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sharp_as_knivesHannibal had done his research, gotten samples and photo files and quotes, and had narrowed it all down to a number of possibilities for engagement announcements. Simply posting it in the papers as was traditional would have been simpler, but given the number of cities, worlds, and times to cover, and the potential for some of them not being covered at all, this was the only way to ensure they missed nobody.
Now he just had to pin down Jono.
Possibly literally.
[OOC: For the one mentioned, but open to whatever!]
Now he just had to pin down Jono.
Possibly literally.
[OOC: For the one mentioned, but open to whatever!]
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 01:54 am (UTC)Or... something.
Either way, he looked relieved, if anything, when he finally made his way in through the front door after his Groovy Tunes shift.
//Remind me to get a new stereo for th'shop, please,// he muttered as he shut the door behind himself and crouched down to untie his boots. //The old one's going to drive me completely barmy at this rate.//
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 02:03 am (UTC)He took Jono's coat to hang it up and led him toward the study.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 02:07 am (UTC)Vindictive much, Jonothon?
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 02:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 02:23 am (UTC)Most things did, when you were Jonothon.
//Decisions? Oh?//
Don't play dumb, Jono.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 02:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 02:46 am (UTC)Jono squinted at the screen a little, and then looked at Hannibal, and hen looked... back at the screen.
//The off-white's good,// he decided, because like hell he knew what he was doing with these things. //And borders, you said? Like, ah, something shiny?//
Metallic embossing, Jonothon. That was metallic embossing.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 02:53 am (UTC)Yes, he was smirking.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 03:00 am (UTC)//I like the colour,// he noted, raising an eyebrow. //But how well would either of those frames look with a floral pattern over the top?//
Look, if Hannibal was going to be a brat, Jono was going to be one right back.
Still at his own expense, admittedly.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 03:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 03:05 am (UTC)Sometimes, he just had to acknowledge that he knew how to use the internet. Just so long as people didn't expect him to drop the charade forever, later on.
A quick google image search, and he was holding it up, to show Hannibal just what he had in mind.
//More like this. Think we can work with that?//
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 03:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 03:12 am (UTC)Brat.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 03:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 03:21 am (UTC)Look, Jono's name had, like, three Os. When you got into swoopy loopy things with a name like Jonothon, it was easy to get lost a few times along the way.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 03:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 03:26 am (UTC)//Mr Jonothon Evan Starsmore?//
Mr. Starsmore was Jonothon's Granddad, Hannibal.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 03:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 03:38 am (UTC)Well, Jono, it was an engagement announcement.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 03:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 03:59 am (UTC)//It certainly looks very... ah... there's... it's got composition...//
He didn't like it.
//People know I'm a guy,// he hedged. //Do we really need to include that bit?//
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 04:02 am (UTC)"We could use 'General' instead, if you'd rather."
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 04:07 am (UTC)Standing on formality made Jono squirmy. Way squirmy.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 04:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 04:17 am (UTC)He wasn't going to make this easy for you, Hannibal.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 04:23 am (UTC)Honestly, Jono.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 04:33 am (UTC)Mister was not even in the same hemisphere as the almond porridge at the time. Mr Starsmore probably would have been far more composed about finding the damn nut in the breakfast he hadn't asked for, for a start.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 04:48 am (UTC)"More informal for these, and full titles for the invitations?" he suggested.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 04:56 am (UTC)Maybe he'd have his head wrapped around little things like formality by the time they'd settled on a date.
//That'll work,// he grudgingly allowed. //But if General even comes up when we're designing those ones, I'm taping all your neckties to the scratching post.//
All was fair in love and wedding invitations.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 05:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 05:07 am (UTC)Well, it was! And Jono wasn't about to have the same argument all over again with his middle name. At least he didn't mind his middle name, so much.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 05:09 am (UTC)"There's not much to be done about that," Hannibal said with a shrug. "So, like this, and shall I send off the order?"
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 05:14 am (UTC)Or, ah, maybe the right one. But not a good one?
//Send it off,// he decided with a nod. //The sooner you do, the sooner we can figure out when people are free, and get to picking the actual date and working toward that. You still need to coerce me into a suit that looks good next to yours, after all.//
no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 05:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-10 05:34 am (UTC)Hey, he still wasn't a tea person, but beggars couldn't be choosers, and it wasn't as though Hannibal's tea was unpleasant, after all.
//I'm going to get the cheapest, most overrated speakers on the entire island. Just wait and see.//