HMMM...well! For the most part he was raised outside of Recollé and actually attended high school in San Francisco, so he didn't even make the move to the city until he was already starting in college. On the other hand I could see them just being engineering buddies, maybe they end up meeting at some expo or something, or they both show up at the same place looking for robot parts and kind of hit it off that way and he's just careful not to bother revealing his age just yet. He's very smart but he'd absolutely love another engineer to bounce ideas off of since he also likes to just build things and sometimes his projects are bigger than his capabilities smh