I think the lollipop's pretty easy to keep – after all, it's sort of over his face and a nice color contrast.
His mom/trauma reaction? His dad didn't save his mom and so ZYL decided that in a situation like that, *he* should be the one to die, because that would save his mom/someone else. And he doesn't get along with his dad, so really, doing the opposite of that sounds great to him, he's already seen lots of ways his dad is wrong. Yeah, that does sound very plausible.
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Yeah, that does sound very plausible.