listen he's a college student, he's gotta save his pennies where he can and if that means doing his best blue steel to get a free actor, then he's going to show up and body it. but they'd absolutely be friends regardless, i am excited to see nate around! now that i think about it, a connection from childhood would be fantastic but jae has been in denver all his life. if nate is not local, maybe they were like online friends on some message board back in the day that have since migrated to twitter/insta friends, and when nate moved and started posting about denver jae was in his dms like wtf!! so really they're just meeting face to face for the first time after having been moots for years? and it would be a very small world moment that by the time they meet they realize they both know soowon as well