Mark XIV

[arrogantalloy]

 For those of you not in Ravenclaw and kept saying this day would never arrive.

It did, it started over Easter and now I can proudly say that I have almost completely grown in a moustache.

And you know what, I really make this look good.

[To be fair, it still looks a little whimpy, but there's no mistaking it's moustachiness.]

Comments

[3potionproblem]

This coming from someone who until recently was only interested in women. Did you pet their thighs and work your way up on them too?

[arrogantalloy]

[There's almost a pause, because really, he never ended up getting all that far with girls, despite what he says.]

Are you seriously asking that? Why would I be suggesting it if I haven't tried it out myself?

[3potionproblem]

You've had a surprising lack of black eyes, then.

[arrogantalloy]

Because I know what I'm doing. You know you'd think that would be obvious.

[3potionproblem]

No.

[arrogantalloy]

No?

[3potionproblem]

No, it's not obvious. What is obvious is that you put a great deal of your self worth in the image you project.

[arrogantalloy]

Project? What are you talking about, this is all me. I have better things to do than pretend to be someone I'm not.

[3potionproblem]

Tony, you have made an art-form of defining what other people think of you on your own terms.

[arrogantalloy]

No, I'm pretty sure what you see is what you get with me.

[Yes, even though he's well aware Sherlock knows him well enough for that, doesn't mean he isn't going to keep it up.]

[3potionproblem]

If that were true, I wouldn't bother with you in the slightest.

See John is yelling at you. Well done.

[arrogantalloy]

I wouldn't call it yelling, so much as really put out grumbling. I think I'm wearing him down for you.

[3potionproblem]

Really not unnecessary as I'm in no way pursuing him.

[arrogantalloy]

Yeah. Right.

We both remember violins

[Privated. Tony has some sense.]

And leaving school to score you a hit of the happy stuff to 'make you feel like he made you feel'

[Filtered]

[3potionproblem]

Don't read into that.

[Filtered]

[arrogantalloy]

It was kind of a billboard, not much reading was really required.

All just there, plain to see.

[Filtered]

[3potionproblem]

I was suffering from withdrawals and needed a hit of a similar enough solution as to re-balance my mental and emotional state.

[Filtered]

[arrogantalloy]

Withdrawals.

John withdrawals.

This is essentially what you're saying. "I missed kissing John so much I needed an injectable John replacement"

[Filtered]

[3potionproblem]

Do you mind shutting up now?

[Filtered]

[arrogantalloy]

For a guy who likes pointing out the 'obvious' details in others. Cuts kind of deep when other people do it back, doesn't it?

[Filtered]

[3potionproblem]

Yeah, well your mustache looks like chocolate biscuit crumbs.

[Filtered]

[arrogantalloy]

Really? What did it ever do to you?

Wow you're grumpy when you haven't had enough John hours for the day.

[Filtered]

[3potionproblem]

John is never going to want anything to do with me outside friendship, Tony. You're encouraging failure and embarrassment.

[Filtered]

[arrogantalloy]

Two things I've found are both good to learn from.

Well, if I ever got embarrassed.

Okay, so that's a probability. But you're still a whole lot less annoying when you've spent time around him even as a friend going off on one of your weird adventure hunts for dead bugs or whatever you drag him off to look for.

[Filtered]

[3potionproblem]

I know. So let's keep it at that.