He is a natural blonde! Although the dark brown eyes occasionally throw people off. But he's already gauged that Rory would probably take the news all right, and he wants to have the truth out in the air partly because it seems safe to say it, and partly because it makes things so much easier if he can truly be himself without the usual worry of pretend to be a teenager.

"It's 2014, so we're not far off there... but I was born, well, found, in... oh... um..."He actually has to think about that for just a minute. "Well. A thousand years or so before the Roman calendar was adopted." He smiles sheepishly, shyly glancing up at Rory for his reaction.