It's a better excuse than "because that's what I rolled on the D20 table in the book"...
I really like random D20 tables of little character details and flavour accents - it only takes a couple of small details to make a character feel unique.
Ah. Doesn't really make sense to me in context of the earlier panels, like why not just use an actual ribbon. I kinda thought that was supposed to be an emergency dagger or something.
It’s just what she’s been doing all her life- nobody had ever gave her ribbons or hair accessories at this point in her life. (The pink haired wizard actually gave her one after this conversation though)