He's a skeleton, and he finds hair color odd enough to comment on.

[So flat.]

[But it does explain exactly why Kratos is talking about Yuan in that particular way, which Yuan will grudgingly accept and move on.]

He's far more intolerable than you ever were.

The Chosen, that is. Lloyd is doing just fine.

[His tone might be a hair warmer.]

Colette is helping him adjust, and somehow I've wound up teaching all of them, now and then. I'm sure you didn't have anything to do with this.

[His tone implies the precise opposite. This is Kratos's fault. Everything is probably Kratos's fault.]