[The braid Yuan does for him is more or less form-perfect, even if it's a little stranger doing it on someone else.]
As long as it's recognizable.
[He knots it with the same ribbon. He only needed to use the one -- the second was just in case. Perhaps if Kratos lets his hair grow longer it will be necessary; right now, it isn't. He leaves the other with the comb.]
[By the time Kratos asks Yuan is half-expecting it. A fair number of people among his peers know the story. It isn't exactly infamous, and Yuan's pride in it is more to do with the fact that he drove himself this far rather than the fact of his origins. And yet having Kratos comment on it sparks him almost to bristling again.]
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As long as it's recognizable.
[He knots it with the same ribbon. He only needed to use the one -- the second was just in case. Perhaps if Kratos lets his hair grow longer it will be necessary; right now, it isn't. He leaves the other with the comb.]
[By the time Kratos asks Yuan is half-expecting it. A fair number of people among his peers know the story. It isn't exactly infamous, and Yuan's pride in it is more to do with the fact that he drove himself this far rather than the fact of his origins. And yet having Kratos comment on it sparks him almost to bristling again.]
[Somehow he'd expected Kratos to already know.]
Mine.
[It comes out a little clipped.]