━━━━ Joakim listened, the titles Elliot mentioned running in his head. “Classics, those are,” he said, pointing a finger, “and you’re a fudging genius! Oh, man. We gotta decide quick—wait, what about Labyrinth? Can never go wrong with David Bowie.” They will have to make some adjustments, now that he’s thinking about it. “Okay, maybe scrap Labyrinth for now. I’m leaning towards Danny Elfman.” Looking to the side, he borrowed one of Elliot’s pens (a blue one) and Post-It, jotting down the idea. Distribute the ones familiar with the music and have them mentor the possible newbies. “Excuse me—WHAT?!” Joakim asked, taking the Post-It and pocketing it. “Are you kidding? Firstly, that’s pretty darn ingenious. Secondly, did the sub sandwich affect the sound and quality of the instrument?” He wondered, laughing. Jeez, the creativity of kids these days. “Did you put up your no-snacking-rule again?” He was teasing for the most part, shaking his head in amusement while looking at Elliot.
elliot couldn’t help the large, almost cheesy grin that overtook his face when joakim told him he was a genius. he pretended to brush ‘lint’ from his shoulder, and then giggled at himself. “careful, don’t let them hear you curse like that, you rebel,” elliot teased, but his eyebrows went up at the mention of david bowie and labyrinth. pointing a finger skyward and tapping it methodically against nothing, he said, “you know, let’s keep bowie in our back pocket for later, i really like the idea of that too.” elliot couldn’t help but laugh out loud with a sharp burst when joakim proclaimed the sandwich maneuver ingenious, rubbing a hand over his face and pushing his baseball cap up and off of his head; letting it clatter to the ground behind his chair. he’d retrieve in in a second...probably. “it definitely affected sound quality, i thought he somehow stuck a trombone or a trumpet mute down in there, i was preparing to grease my arm up to go after it and everything.” he snorted again. “somehow that’s not the weirdest thing i’ve been called to do in services of these mouthy ghouls. and that’s the thing! i never said ‘don’t snack’, just that there had to be several gulps of water between eating and using a mouthpiece.”