>>2556720None of the ENs know what it means to have a friend.
Kiara wants to make friends and is outgoing, but constantly gets taken for a ride by abusers or turned on by conniving colleagues that she thought were her friends until they decided to backstab her for personal gain. Despite her outgoing and open nature, she doesn't know what it's like to have a real friend and doesn't know where the boundaries between friendship and romance are
Mori only has male friends because her childhood left her bitter, withdrawn and insecure. She harbours unironic /r9k/ attitudes about other women and an innate dislike of her own femininity. But none of the guys she hangs out with are really her friends, either. She just kind of orbits them with the thirst of an awkward virgin that's too socially awkward to realize how forward or imposing they can be but too shy to actually do anything with it.
Gura and Ame are both just withdrawn loser whitegirls that had like 1 friend in grade school they never talk to anymore and aren't sure how to make new acquaintances as adults. Even talking to the cashier at the grocery store is too much for them. Their awkwardness comes from not actually knowing how to make or behave around adult friends and being unsure of how to approach their professional relationship as amicable coworkers
Ina's the classic asian 2nd genner with a public and private face, the former of which atrophied and fell off after she finished school since she never leaves her house or interacts with anyone outside of her immediate family. She alienates people without trying and is totally oblivious to the fact that she's genuinely lost all of her social skills beyond the fact that she occasionally has trouble thinking of what to say to other people. Other girls that interact with her feel like she's performing herself for them and there are walls a meter thick between that performance and anything genuine but Ina herself is unaware that she's locking non-family members out because she's just acting naturally.
