#📍quincent

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Super messy old sketch of Quincent when I had only recently redesigned his hair.

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Pokemon Ocs

- Gen 5 "Banette collector" Quincent Illemni -

•He/Him pronouns

•Cis; after having done introspection on his gender, he ultimately decides he identifies with his assigned gender. Cis+, if you will

•Fat

•Dresses fancily but doesn't overdo it; he likes frills, lace, and ribbons

•Very skilled at sewing (by hand). He also knows how to cross stitch

•5'11", just barely 6'0" with his shoes (the heels on them are very short. They're like the heels of dress shoes) [180/183 cm]

•His braid is 7 feet and 11 inches long [241 cm]

•39 years old

•Unovan

•His vision in his right eye is utterly abysmal and without his monocle, he gets really bad headaches

Lives in a mansion in Lostlorn Forest. The mansion is actually rather sizeable (think the size of the mansion in Luigi's Mansion) yet even when looking down upon the forest from a bird's eye view you can't see it. The trees in the area around where his home resides are very tall and could be reasoned as to why his mansion can't be seen from above, even though one knows that doesn't actually make sense.

On foot, it's nigh impossible to find his mansion if you don't know exactly where you're going. Even if you know it exists, if you don't know the way, you'll just keep getting turned around and stuck wandering the forest for hours until you give up.

The mansion's secrecy is something Quincent himself is unaware of and is very confused to outright exasperated that people can't find his home.

This has unfortunately led to him having to actively go out and pick up things like his mail rather than it be delivered because absolutely no one has been able to find it. Knowing the address of his home does not equal knowing the way to it.

There are no illusions cast. The mansion just can't be found. It's not a property of the mansion itself... or maybe it is? It's not a property of the forest itself either. There is no smoke nor any mirrors, yet the "magic" is still on display.

An enigma with no answer.

The forest itself could be regarded as a liminal space, but as I said, there is no trickery at play.

The forest just simply is a forest.

[The interior of his mansion is also a lot like that of the mansion in Luigi's Mansion, except the layout makes more sense for someone alive to live in. I also want to quote this QnA from two of the developers of Luigi's Mansion back in 2005.

Q: Please tell us how Luigi's Mansion came to be?

Hideki Konno: There was an original plan which encompassed the stages revolving around a big house or apartment complex. Then some how we started thinking along the lines of something like a dollhouse. Then we started doing experiments with Mario and other characters being on a television set using a dollhouse. We kept trying to do something different. When we decided to put it on the GameCube, we wanted to do something fresh and we decided to use Luigi as the main character. The game ideas started following soon after.

Note the mention of a dollhouse. In Luigi's Mansion there is also a dollhouse in the mansion that functions like an "infinity mirror" effect. It's meta in its recognition that the very mansion Luigi is searching through is like a life-sized dollhouse.]

This is what the interior of Quincent's mansion is evocative of to the point of being very uncanny. It's made even worse with there being rows and rows of different kinds of dolls, some unmistakably Banettes (which makes you wonder about the nature of the other dolls and if they actually aren't what they seem...) lined up on shelves, on tables, sitting in little chairs, etc. It really is like someone playing dollhouse but everything is life-size.

And at least half of those dolls are animate.

Quincent doesn't see anything unsettling about this and sees it as completely normal. Not because he's so... disconnected... weird, like a lot of ghost-type trainers (hex maniacs come to mind) are that they view things like this as normal while to literally everyone else it's very obviously not.

For Quincent, it can best be described as him having "unusual" taste in aesthetic. He's not the kind of person who draws a summoning circle and sees it as "normal" because his sense of normality is completely skewed, it's more like he likes something that the wider populace just so happens to find unsettling.

If one were to enter his house and take note of the baffling amount of Banettes, they'd be surprised by the lack of a tense or oppressive air of death. A feeling of suffocating foreboding. Such a feeling does not pervade the area, but one might fool themselves into thinking it does just based on knowing they're in what would be considered to literally anyone else, a death trap. A spider's web.

To be so scared and paranoid you feel and imagine what isn't actually there.

The Banettes bear no ill will to others unless they actively try to hurt them or Quincent. They are completely docile, but they are not harmless. Do not confuse the two. Do not think the former inherently means the latter. You will regret it if you do.

Quincent cares for the Banettes as if they were his own children, but of course he doesn't treat them as if they are human children. It's like a step above how people in real life view their pets as "their children". Except to Quincent, they are more than just pets— rather, he does not view them as pets. But he also doesn't treat them like one would a human.

He loves them and cares for them so deeply that he himself is proof that with compassion, Banettes do in fact return to the plush dolls they once were prior to becoming Banettes.

❝Resentment at being cast off made it spring into being. Some say that treating it well will satisfy it, and it will once more become a stuffed toy.❞ - Ultra Moon dex entry

He treats all of them with great care and tends to their needs meticulously. They are very spoiled.

One would wonder how Quincent isn't constantly exhausted just from taking care of the sheer amount of Banettes in his abode— not to mention how much effort it takes to keep all of them happy and comfortable.

I mentioned that despite the copious amounts of Banettes in his house that there is a distinct lack of an oppressive air of death, and it's rather noteworthy due to the fact that Banettes are extremely dangerous. Almost every dex entry of theirs makes some mention of them being dolls animated and transformed into Banettes from having been abandoned and that they seek out those that disowned them for revenge.

❝Banette generates energy for laying strong curses by sticking pins into its own body. This Pokémon was originally a pitiful plush doll that was thrown away.❞ - Ruby dex entry

❝Strong feelings of hatred turned a puppet into a Pokémon. If it opens its mouth, its cursed energy escapes.❞ - FireRed/LeafGreen dex entries

❝A doll that became a Pokémon over its grudge from being junked. It seeks the child that disowned it.❞ - Diamond/Pearl/Platinum dex entries

❝It's a stuffed toy that was thrown away and became possessed, ever searching for the one who threw it away so it can exact its revenge.❞ - Ultra Sun dex entry

Yes, the Banettes within Quincent's home care about him to varying degrees (based on personality and how recent they were taken in by him) and (most) don't mean or (deliberately) cause him any harm, and they come across moreso as mischievous at best, but that doesn't erase the reality of how inherently dangerous they are considering WHY they even exist to begin with. Quincent can be more closely conceived as a "Banette whisperer"; he is the exception, not the norm.

Not all of the Banettes he cares for are particularly mischievous; much like all pokemon, they also have different personalities unique to the individual. It takes a lot of care and effort to tend to the wants and needs of so many different personalities and keep them happy.

There is something I want to make perfectly clear before continuing and that's that Quincent is NOT a trainer. There are many trainer classes, but Quincent is not any of them. He does not battle at all. Not with the Banettes or any pokemon. He is like the equivalent of NPC characters whose homes you enter and see they have a pet pokemon that they don't battle you with or are implied/stated to not battle at all.

Except the Banettes, of course, are not pets. Quincent is not their master. Quincent is not their owner— though when it comes to legal technicalities, he would be considered one; he just doesn't view himself that way. Thinking Quincent is their owner is more akin to thinking a parent is their child's owner.

Repulsive, isn't it? And that is how Quincent feels regarding the perception of being seen as his Banettes' owner.

Ah!, but just because I say they're "his" doesn't mean he owns them. Again, they are like his children, how else would you refer to children that are yours?

This nuance is important in understanding the kind of person Quincent is.

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I want to elaborate further on how Banettes are as a species and how trainers can even use a pokemon whose 'anchor' to the world is vengeance.

With Quincent being someone who loves and tends to Banettes under his care so earnestly that they turn back into ordinary dolls, this isn't to say that Banettes who are partnered to trainers hate them or don't actually like them, but usually a trainer has anywhere from 1–6 pokemon max depending on their capabilities to caring for particular pokemon.

Pokemon are animate beings with their own specific needs and not everyone is equipped to handle that, which is why those with a full team of six, let alone a diverse team of six, is extremely rare.

I think a way to explain the difference between Quincent and trainers who have Banettes is that even if a trainer has a genuine close bond with a Banette, if it doesn't revert back into an ordinary plush doll, said Banette probably still harbors a grudge or some kind of hatred towards the person who originally disowned it. The Banette does still love its trainer, but the grudge functions akin to something keeping a flame kindled; the flame being Banettes continued animation. It's something hidden deeply in the back but still there.

Quincent is someone who gives out so much love and compassion towards the Banettes in his care that he's able to get them to let go of their grudges. Considering the wording of Ultra Moon's dex entry, it comes across more like a rumor or something heard through the grapevine, "some say that treating it well will satisfy it, and it will once more become a stuffed toy."

But that dex entry actually isn't just a rumor or hypothesis because Quincent proves it to be true.

Now, there is something important to know about how Quincent views trainers who have Banettes, and there really isn't a clear cut answer for every single person, but to generalize a bit, he doesn't inherently feel negativity towards trainers with Banettes.

After all, they aren't the ones who abandoned a plush toy and said toy came to life, they're completely unrelated persons who met and caught a Banette and have it as a partner.

The only trainers he inherently despises are those who IV breed pokemon— especially Shuppets— for the express purpose of using them competitively.

Considering people who battle competitively more often than not IV breed their pokemon, it just serves as another nail in the heart. It's practically unheard of that those that IV train for certain pokemon keep all the "failures". Using Shuppet as an example, people IV training for a "perfect" Banette throw out Mew knows how many Shuppets and Banettes all because they don't meet their selfish standards.

Trainers who have way too many of a certain pokemon and have zero clue how to take care of that many of that kind of pokemon, and have no interest in caring for that many, are far more likely to just release them into the wild or, depending on where they live and the kind of excess pokemon it is, will have them put down so as to not completely screw over the ecosystem or have all those pokemon suffer in the wild where they don't have any survival skills.

To Quincent, they don't have that right. It's sick that people would just do something like this.

You could otherwise be the kindest, most altruistic, amiable, and compassionate person on the planet, but if he finds out you IV breed pokemon he will completely and without fault or compromise hate you. Though it's not like you'd notice unless you're very good at reading people's expressions and noted the sudden tensity in his body language and how much more reserved he becomes.

Although... his distaste is a bit more obvious if you can tell the subtle passive-aggressiveness laced in the respectful tone of his words.

"With all due respect," he could say, and most people would be none the wiser to the existence of the veneer of politeness in his words, concealing what he says but does not say.

(I personally headcanon that in-universe, IV breeders are significantly less than the amount of people in real life who do so as a hobby. They're more like Extreme Pokemon Fanatics™ that want to breed the absolute best a respective species can make and then put it to the test. It's like a gatcha with the lives of other living— or otherwise— beings which when imagined in a real world setting, is kinda fucked up)

EV training on the other hand, depending on the specifics, doesn't garner such a visceral hate towards trainers— including those who do it with Banettes— since it comes at the low low cost of not discarding the lives of pokemon over some arbitrary standards just for the purpose of making them fight.

EV training can start with a pokemon of any nature or level with the existence of mints and the ability to completely reset or remove some points to their stats and mold it as desired from there. So for EV training, Quincent doesn't hate it, but still feels a suspicion on whether the pokemon are truly loved by their trainers or if it's treated as "taking a route easier than IV breeding".

Quincent is not someone who'd blow up and make a scene over this, and he actually makes a strong effort to keep the disdain from his voice when he interacts with those kinds of people ('They're so prideful; they flaunt their hobby as if it's a status to be proud of...').

He acts polite and gives respect regardless of the person even if he really does not like them. Though, depending on just who they are, his emotions can— deliberately or not— leech into his words in the form of passive-aggression. He was born into wealth and thusly was raised in learning the ways of etiquette, and he will put it to use as he sees fit.

Beyond that, generally speaking, Quincent is actually a very pleasant person to interact with save for those of the prior mentioned kinds of people.

On a lighter note, Quincent adores children but his interactions with them are rather awkward. The closest thing he has to interacting with sapient beings who are not adults or humans but act childish and mischievous are his Banettes whom are very much not human children.

He is well aware that human children are not equivocal to Banettes, but he figures the way he interacts with his Banettes is at least.... hopefully? close enough to make for a positive interaction with them.

Suffice to say, he has had several children give him weird looks or call him weird to his face (He doesn't know which stings more: the toddlers calling him weird or the middle schoolers...). That, or they call him creepy and avoid him. I would be lying if I said one time an infant didn't instantly start crying the moment they saw him.

That was very distressing and he apologized profusely while internally he was heartbroken.

His lack of ability to interact with kids in a way that doesn't feel very reminiscent of "how do you do, fellow kids?"despite the tender age of being in his 30s, becomes all the much more glaring in how he interacts with his 15 year old sister.

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He's only met hymn once before, when he was 8 and Quincent was 31. He hadn't even known of hys existence until his mother contacted him and told him of Azzie's existence.

He didn't know how to respond to that.

He didn't know how to feel about that.

His mother told him she and her husband needed someplace for Azzie to stay because they had important legal business to attend to and he couldn't stay with them while they got it sorted.

"Because it's not safe for hymn to stay." She doesn't say and Quincent doesn't pick up on.

He agrees because what else was he to do? It's not just simply out of familial obligation, but the fact his mother contacted him for the first time in years and this is what she's dropping on him out of nowhere, he knows that it's because she has no other options.

So of course he agrees to letting Azzie stay with him for awhile until things get settled— though the fact this clusterbomb of information was dropped on him just mere days in advance of things needing to be done leaves him flustered and overall overwhelmed.

The more he dwells on the revelation that he had a sibling for eight whole years that he was completely unaware of until just a short while ago only leads to him becoming progressively frazzled and agitated.

It's at the interjection of a particularly worried Banette that he snaps back to reality and as convincingly as he can, reassures the Banette that everything's alright and that he's sorry for worrying it and the others who he now notes had been watching him with concerned gazes.

The way he stumbles in his words and the slight waver in his voice. The way his smile meant to assuage the Banettes' worries doesn't meet his eyes. He's not convincing anyone and he knows it.

He drops the subject that was causing him such considerable stress and returns back to his daily activities as though nothing out of the ordinary had occurred.

The vast majority of his Banettes know him well enough to notice the minute tensity of his actions and that whatever was causing him such stress earlier was still bothering him.

Even as Quincent made the conscious effort to not dwell on the matter that troubled him so, it still pushed at the back of his mind, imbuing a sense of disquiet.

He knows that ruminating on the revelation of such information in the moment won't change anything, but he still can't help but wonder, "Why?"

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Days later, he goes and meets his sister whose existence was kept from him until there was no other choice than for him to learn of hys existence.

The greeting is kept short and not much else is said between him and his sister, for there would be more time when they get back to his place to sit down and get to know each other.

It doesn't take long between his arrival, a quick introduction to Azzie, his mother telling him what Azzie's needs are and that she'll keep him updated on what she can about... whatever's going on (perhaps it was foolish of him to have thought she would've changed in all this time), and her departing with a man he doesn't recognize but who he assumes is her current husband.

[I can't say much else regarding them, not out of secrecy, but because I don't have the rest of their first meeting figured out and I don't want to half-ass it. Though I will say,]

Quincent was surprised to learn, later when he and Azzie had returned to his home and got decently settled in, that he had the same last name him.

Illemni is not his mother's maiden name, it is his father's surname that his mother took when she married him so long ago.

His mother in the phone call a few days ago mentioned "my husband", so he knows for certain she remarried...

He wonders why his mother kept her ex-husband's surname.

He wonders why her current husband allowed that.

There are many things he doesn't understand about his mother, and many things he never will. No matter how much he learns.

An infinite mirror; where it starts, no one knows. A broken cycle.

And then a little later than that, he learns the context of Azzie's needs.

A lot of what's going on with hymn can and should have received medical attention for. He is surprised Azzie hasn't complained of the pain— or at the utmost least, extreme discomfort— he must be in at all.

What his mother told him pales to the true scope of what Azzie actually needs and he can't provide it.

There are many things about his mother he doesn't know, but he thought he at least knew her enough to have a good grasp on the kind of person she is. He knows her as someone who wouldn't let something like this slide, especially to her own child.

...Or maybe she did change.

He doesn't know if he should just drop everything and bring Azzie to the hospital to get hys eyes looked at— having to leave his Banettes here unattended for what he hopes would be a short amount of time, but he has a sneaking suspicion it would actually turn out to be far longer than that— or if he should just stay here and try to do the best he can for hymn.

In the end, after weighing the pros and cons of either decision, he reluctantly chooses to not take Azzie to the hospital.

Guilt eats at him regardless. That he knows of the problem but is choosing to do nothing about it.

He doesn't know how much medical work he'd have to deal with if he were to go with the former option. That if he did, figuring out what's up with Azzie's eyes could actually be the tip of the metaphorical iceberg of issues he may have that Quincent can't physically see.

He isn't prepared for that possibility.

He doesn't know how conservative of information regarding his familial ties with Azzie his mother is in terms of medical work.

He doesn't know how many hurdles he'd possibly have to cross just to be able to get Azzie seen and him noted in hys records as a contactable family member.

He doesn't know how much time it would take, but he has a feeling it would far exceed the little more than a week he has with hymn.

He feels that this is just an excuse to justify why, with all his money even in a world with universal free healthcare, he doesn't do anything.

He does not hoard that wealth, but he still has so much of it that can readily be put to use and he does nothing.

And guilt eats at him.

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An accident occurs a couple days into Azzie's stay.

A child who doesn't have a pokemon and hasn't had any experience interacting with one before was too enraptured and curious.

Sometimes little kids don't seem to fully comprehend animals as living beings equal to them, but as something like toys.

How ironic then, for a Banette to swipe at a child for being treated like a non-sentient object.

Azzie didn't understand its body language and clear tell for hymn to stop. Quincent was standing watch nearby, and gently but urgently (as well as with spades of panic) tried to persuade Azzie to be more gentle and to leave the Banette alone for a bit, but he didn't listen.

Blood was shed that day. In all honesty, it didn't even hurt that much, but the shock of it sent hymn into full-on sobbing. The sight of blood also didn't help matters.

The slash was thankfully worse than it looked and wasn't deep enough to require stitches, but whether it scars or not, Quincent doesn't know.

Quincent calmed Azzie down enough to clean and patch up the cut on hys face. A cut upward of the right side of his jaw line up into his cheek.

Azzie was in hys room when Quincent gave a light talking to to the Banette in particular that hurt Azzie. Not a scolding, for it made it very clear that it wanted Azzie to stop and Quincent wasn't going to reprimand it for asserting its boundaries, but still explained to it that Azzie is a young child and doesn't know better and that that has to be kept in mind for hymn.

Later, when Azzie sees that Banette again roaming around as if nothing happened, as if it experienced no consequences for hurting hymn, a seed of resentment becomes planted in the heart.

When you're that young, it's easy to generalize in your emotions. When you're that young, you aren't very receptive to logic.

You don't have quite a good grasp of cause and effect yet and that not everything is black and white.

A resentment for the Banette that extends to the Banettes which illogically extends to ghost-types.

A resentment for Quincent.

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The rest of Azzie's stay tediously passes without further event (for better and for worse) and Quincent meets back up with his mother and her husband.

They don't look happy.

His mother is concise in her words; tells him "it's nothing that concerns you".

He thinks she's being maliciously secretive.

And then Azzie leaves with hys parents.

They don't meet again until 8 years later, where the generational gap between them is so much more stark now that Azzie is no longer elementary school-aged.

He knows not of the grudge that was formed all those years ago and that it stubbornly persisted despite Azzie being more than old enough to understand the illogicality of it.

He doesn't know how to interact with hymn.

He doesn't know what to do.

His ignorance that Azzie thinks deliberate only further makes the bramble grow.

And the divide deepens.

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Additional information

•Quincent actually feels a deep-seeded confusion as to why it's practically unheard of of Banettes reverting back into normal dolls. At first, he thought maybe the Banettes didn't like their trainers as much as he thought, but after seeing trainer bonds with their Banettes over the years, he discarded that theory.

He still doesn't understand why almost no Banettes— excluding his own— have been reported to have turned back into ordinary dolls, but he for several years hasn't inherently thought negatively or faulted trainers who have Banettes for a long time.

What he doesn't realize is that he's rather 'special'; 'gifted'; or some other in causing this to happen, and therefore doesn't comprehend that not just anyone can achieve what he has (No, it's not magic, I already explained the reason why they turn back into dolls).

This confusion is only exacerbated since from his understanding, he isn't doing anything particularly different from what trainers who love their Banettes do? [My guy, you basically devote your entire everything to their well-beings and care and have the privilege to accommodate that, something few trainers are able to do.]

•The prescription on his monocle is so strong it would make a person with at least decent vision's eyes cross and give them a horrible headache.

The only other person it would be beneficial to (if only hardly), is Azzie.

•He has a tooth gap in-between his top incisors. He also naturally has a toothy smile rather than keep his mouth closed. Additionally, his smile looks a bit crooked, not in terms of teeth, but how his lips curl when he smiles. It's more obvious the wider and more genuine it is (think Marie from Splatoon).

•He doesn't do this when not in public or with his Banettes, but whenever he's directly interacting with someone and he smiles genuinely and wide, he after a moment moves to cover his mouth behind a hand since he's aware most people tend to find open-mouthed smiles— especially crooked ones— unsavory, to say the least.

Not only that, but they tend to also be considered impolite or childish, and what with his upbringing, would only further serve to make him feel shamed and self-conscious. So, he acts to prevent the possible scenario from happening by ~graciously~ covering his mouth.

It takes him a moment to remember to do so since he's not used to interacting with others for long enough periods of time that they could get such a wide grin or a hearty laugh out of him. He's not in the habit of hiding that trait of his since he got himself to unlearn the act of concealing it— whether by covering it or outright making himself not smile in the way that's natural to him— and reclaim that aspect of himself a few years after he moved out and got his own place. But when in the presence of others, that old formerly instilled self-consciousness slowly seeps back in.

The manner in which he conceals his mouth is like how some people tend to cover their smiles with a loose hand so as to be polite; a social convention that most others do. You'd never know that seeing Quincent conceal his smile is actually rather sad if you don't know him.

•Not all of his Banettes look the exact same because realistically speaking, not every single abandoned doll who becomes a Banette is the exact same kind, so it'd only make sense for Banettes to vary in appearance.

•When out of his house, he wears his braid like a scarf so it doesn't drag on the ground. Without the pins, obviously. He takes care in gently uncoiling it from around his neck because if he just drops it, the sheer weight of it succumbing to gravity again with it not being supported anymore really fucking hurts.

A rough estimate of just how much hair he has in terms of weight is ~20 pounds. And that's without the pins.

He also occasionally gets headaches due to the sheer weight of his hair, though this is alleviated when he wears it like a scarf since it's being supported.

•His hair is so thick and fluffy that it's near impossible to braid if it were cut shorter than shoulder length. That said, due to it being so dense, it takes a LOT of strength to braid all of that hair into a single braid.

The process of doing his hair from beginning to end, in the event he decides to bite the bullet and do it himself, takes him four days minimum. As one can imagine, it leaves him utterly exhausted by the end and his arms in sore agony for the next several days.

Because of such, he otherwise always has his hair done at a salon and tips generously since he knows just how much of a strenuous task it is to wash, comb, and braid that much hair.

•Quincent has had to mend quite a few rips and tears in the bodies of his Banettes over the years, with stitches varying from either slip stitches for a near seamless repair to straight stitches to apply appliqués.

The Banettes are the ones who choose how they want to be mended, so long as their selection is possible depending on where the tear is and how big it is, Quincent will happily oblige and select whichever color thread a particular Banette desires from his visible color spectrum of an assortment.

•His hair pins may look like giant sewing pins, but they aren't capable of functioning like them. The ends of the pins are not sharp but instead dull. The whole thing is made of a lightweight metal with the colored ball parts being mostly hollow (the metal making up the balls is pretty thick but not actually solid all the way through).

•He wouldn't do this unless he had absolutely no choice but to do so in self-defense but... the pins can be taken out and used as blunt force weapons.

(He may or may not have done this to a Plasma grunt back during Team Plasma's first attempt in the name of "pokemon liberation", where not only were the Banettes in his home being threatened of being taken away and despite his best efforts at politely asking them to leave, tensions escalated and the grunt resorted to assault to force him to comply and this forced him to defend himself and he knocked the grunt unconscious.)

○An addendum in that the end of his hair that is unbraided (as well as the lower end of the braid itself) is bigger than the reference image would have you think. The leftover hair is... well... as long and as wide as its appearance would suggest. So it's quite a bit bigger than you'd think, and given that hair comes from the tail end of the braid, that part of the braid is also a bit larger than you'd think, but not too much.

As I've stated, his hair is very fluffy, so the ends that just hang out are super poofy, whereas the braid is pulled as taught as possible and appears thinner than the ends.

○The bits of hair that stick out of his braid is different than ??????????'s. His braid isn't falling apart from leaving it in for far too long, it's that way due to his hair texture and that not all of his hair is the exact same length, so some of it is bound to stick out. I think those who have thick hair— curly, kinky, or whatever— can attest, as I personally can. My hair just does that due to its texture, the same applies to Quincent. Though his hair texture is different from mine, the result is the same.

The hair that sticks out is NEVER in the inner zig-zag of the braid; they are everywhere else but there.

○The lines of the pins in the ref of his braid were left deliberately so as to better show where exactly they go through his hair at.