they grew up together, he was a few years older than her, they went to school together, she always had a crush on him, wrote a lot of songs about him. now they're both hometown heroes and have carried on a weird dynamic of knowing one another from a former life but being totally different people now, carrying all those old feelings and shared experiences. they reunited/started talking again when he asked her to do a lead voice for neo yokio which was a far reach but she jumped at the opportunity. he's a person she's very real with, and he's always been one to guide her in terms of politics and ethics/pushing her to be tough and take what is hers even when they were kids.