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[Excuse the shaky view as Sasha sets the gear up on the floor in front of her, giving the public as large a view of her sitting on the floor by her bed cross-legged. She rubs at her nose a few times, glancing off screen anxiously before she turns back to the 'gear and addresses the public at large.]

How do you make friends? [A pause.] I mean, real people friends, not Pokemon friends.

[Which makes this post a whole lot more pathetic. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!]

Like I don't know a lot of stuff because where I'm from we don't even have lights or water on the inside or schools or those car things. Just horses. And mountains. And lots of trees. So a lot of the stuff people talk about here, I never heard of and...

[...she feels too stupid, too much of a hick to bond over familiar things. Growing up people laughed at her for being so backwoods. That's something one doesn't shake off easily.]

But I want friends even though I don't know stuff. I don't mind learning! I... just don't want people to laugh at me about it.

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I won't laugh!

And making friends is hard. I got lucky and had one since I was a kid when were too little to know better and he's been stuck with me since then....or possibly the other way around....we can't decide.

But yeah, I'll totally help if I can.

Oh right, my name's Alex.

Hey, wanting to learn things is awesome, no matter what you know or don't know.

I'd never laugh at someone who wants to learn.

What're you interested in? I could probably teach you some things. Or just talk and answer questions.

Why would someone laugh at your attempts to make friends? It seems a perfectly good-hearted sort of endeavor, Miss.

Sasha, if someone doesn't want to get to know you because you don't know something, that's their loss.

... which is easier said than done. But --

[He pauses, thoughtfully.]

I know there are pokemon ranches around here. You said you know about horses... what about looking into helping out the people there? Or helping people with their pokemon horses?

I-If people make fun of you for not knowing, then they aren't good friends in the first place! ... Is what my mother would say.

To be honest, all of this Pokemon stuff is really going over my head. I've never even had a goldfish before... B-but! Is it true you know about horses? That's so cool! I've always wanted to see a horse up close..!

Why laugh though? Y'don't know somethin'...lotsa people don't know stuff. Someone laughs, jus' means they're not good t'be friends with.

[Probably not the person you'd expect to see after that last post of his, but he likes Sasha. More importantly Mabel REALLY liked Sasha and she would have said something. So yeah.]

Anyone who laughs at you for not knowing stuff is dumb. You probably just know different stuff then them.

[He and Mabel kind of learnt that lesson. You can be smart in different ways. Also also jealous because the other person is smart like that and you're not. Which is just dumb in the long run but hard to shake.]

I think I am probably not the best person to ask this...

[Cause. Well. You know, Sasha. He's Armin. When has Armin ever been super good at making friends?]

But I think finding an interest you have in common is probably a good way. That way you'd have something to talk about.

If someone laughs at you for not knowing stuff, they probably wouldn't make a very good friend.

[That has to be said first. Kazuki don't tolerate no bullies.]

But what you're saying is... You don't feel like you have much in common with other people?

Where I'm from, we didn't have a lot of things either. No vehicles, or television, or mountains... but we did have forests, and there was some electricity...

[She had a point to this. Oh, right.]

...Uh, what I mean is, I wouldn't laugh at you! Not at all! I'm sure you would be great as a friend!

Sometimes making friends is just something that happens. One moment you're just two guys who sit next to each other in class, and then the next he's luring you into sneaking out of your dorm after hours to go pick up girls in the town near your school.

[That is most definitely not a particularly close to home example at all.]

Other times it's realizing you have things in common with someone, who you might not know very well, and you work on getting to know them better on your own terms. There's tons of ways you can end up as friends with someone. I think asking like this is a good way too. Although, anyone who makes fun of you for not knowing about certain things totally isn't worth your time at all!

[Hunk makes a bit of a frowny face at that, because Sasha seems like a nice person. And anyone who makes fun of a nice person isn't definitely not worth anyone's time. The frown fades away though, and is replaced by a smile as he adds-]

I come from a place that has lights, and water in buildings, and all those other things, but your world sounds really interesting to me too. So, maybe we can share stories about our home worlds and become friends while doing that?

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