Are child nottem & child PD2 friends?
❝He's too easy to bully & kinda on the ugly side, so he's my friend. My own personal, ugly duckling. ❞ - Aster, to no one's surpise.
Gonna answer this ask as a lore post since it wasn't asked directly to Aster X). Though I'm glad somebody asked! For future reference.
Aster and Ernest are neighbors, literally living across the street from each other. Ernest is the only kid in the neighborhood that Aster DOESN'T bully, though he definitely pesters & annoys Ernest in his own ways. Such as eating litter box sand & slobbering all over Ernest afterward.
Their father's also know each other too, but don't like each other...supposedly.
Despite this, Aster and Ernest are the same age, so they've been friends since forever. They first "met" each other as wee toddlers at the Arsenal's daycare center. Ernest was like a baby watermelon who just wanted to play with their ABC blocks while Aster kept trying to bite Ernest with his nonexistent teeth. All of this happened while their dad's were fist fighting at the daycare's entrance. 👌🏻
But technically, their first memory of each other is from pre-k. Ernest offered Aster a crayon, Aster ate it in one bite, and they've been friends ever since then. 🖍