For the meme - Rosette/Chrono: ♖, Aion/Chrono(Pre-Tuning): ♥, Sister Kate/Duke Duaffu: ♦
(I am only doing one of these.) Rosette/Chrono: ♖:Having their hair washed by the other
Unless they’re on a mission, Rosette washes Chrono’s hair every Friday in the summer. (More often if it’s after a mission and something gets in his hair.) It’s something of a production. They have to do it outside by the fountain, because Chrono can’t be alone with her in her room, and she can’t be alone with him in the shed. (Also, it’s too close to the Elder’s workshop.) In the winter, they usually do it in the Laundry room, over one of the sinks. (There was an audience at first, but it trailed off after a few months.)
Basin of water, comb, towels, Life Buoy. (Which Chrono liked the best except for the “mulsified cocoanut oil shampoo” which Rosette teased him for liking because of the ads claiming that movie stars used it.) Chrono’s hair is thick and the texture is completely unlike human hair. Smooth, but also a little stiff. It doesn’t seem to get split ends. Rosette unbraids Chrono’s hair and wets it. (It doesn’t smell like wet human hair, it doesn’t smell like wet animal hair. It’s sharp and a little grassy instead.) She works in the soap, section by section, scalp to the ends. Chrono leans into her hands, eyes closed.
(She likes taking care of Chrono like this. It’s comfortable, and it makes both of them happy, though sometimes it also makes him blush and stutter. The one time he tried to explain it sounded a little like he was asking if she was sweet on him, which had made all kinds of uncomfortable feelings jump into her head. She’d ended up dumping the basin over his head out of sheer embarrassment.)
She rinses the soap out of his hair, blots his hair with the towels, and then combs out the tangles. (One way Chrono’s hair was like human hair was that it tangled. It possibly tangled more than human hair. The first time she ever took a comb to it, she thought the teeth were going to break off.) His hair is just a little damp, by the time she’s done, and she carefully braids it back up, and ties it off with the yellow ribbon.