All right, next one up. This is an idea that I got from Greed. I can't remember where exactly, I want to say the Ranma cross, but I don't think Roy went so far as to say it was attractive, so it might have been during one of our many chatplays. Anyway, Greed gets credit for inspiring this one (though she inspires more than I remember to say).
"Why do you keep your hair long?" Roy asked out of curiosity one day.

"Because."

"Because?"

"It's a reminder."

"Of what?"

"I refuse to cut it… until I have made atonements."

"You shouldn't cut it anyway." The man's fingers rolled through it, pulling the braid free, and re-braiding it. "It fits you. It accents that handsome face of yours and besides…" He leaned further, purring in the boy's ear, "I find long hair attractive. You can pass off as a young woman."

Roy remembered why he was bruised a lot… Ed could be vicious sometimes.