[It is meant to encapsulate more or less exactly that degree of sentiment, so it would seem that it is just a special occasion, a means of connecting on a human level through somewhat impersonal means. But the question does give Bruno pause enough to rethink it and evaluate a few things for himself. He'd always defaulted to Polnareff partly because that's simply what he's heard everyone calling him and always assumed that was his preference, and partly because Bruno just didn't know him all that well and there's always something a little intimate about first names.]
[There is, of course, still a chance that it's his preference. Bruno wouldn't hesitate to respect that. But the latter reason, not knowing each other well enough, that seems a lot less true nowadays. Not when there seems to be a developing undercurrent of understanding between the two of them where it seems every now and again, certain things are left unsaid but still mutually understood.]
I suppose it's only fair with how often you call me Bruno. Very few people ever called me that back home you know.
[Capo. Buccellati. Rarely, if ever, just Bruno. But that's largely only applicable to life back home and not so much here where Kakyoin's become the rare exception by calling him Buccellati. He doesn't mind it particularly, however, because usually when someone calls him Bruno around here, it's not all that different from calling him Buccellati back home. But the thing of it is, everyone's consistent in whether they call him Buccellati or Bruno. All except Polnareff, who mostly calls him Bruno, but he's said Buccellati instead a rare time or two, and Bruno wonders now if he maybe should have thought something of that sooner than now or maybe he shouldn't now.]
[Though the latter is somewhat moot because now he is thinking about it.]
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[There is, of course, still a chance that it's his preference. Bruno wouldn't hesitate to respect that. But the latter reason, not knowing each other well enough, that seems a lot less true nowadays. Not when there seems to be a developing undercurrent of understanding between the two of them where it seems every now and again, certain things are left unsaid but still mutually understood.]
I suppose it's only fair with how often you call me Bruno. Very few people ever called me that back home you know.
[Capo. Buccellati. Rarely, if ever, just Bruno. But that's largely only applicable to life back home and not so much here where Kakyoin's become the rare exception by calling him Buccellati. He doesn't mind it particularly, however, because usually when someone calls him Bruno around here, it's not all that different from calling him Buccellati back home. But the thing of it is, everyone's consistent in whether they call him Buccellati or Bruno. All except Polnareff, who mostly calls him Bruno, but he's said Buccellati instead a rare time or two, and Bruno wonders now if he maybe should have thought something of that sooner than now or maybe he shouldn't now.]
[Though the latter is somewhat moot because now he is thinking about it.]