"People underage don't count," he says, bemused, and maybe in that thought there's a bit of a culture-clash, but it's more to due with Jae's experiences country-hopping than his entire world. (His accent is present, but puzzling - faint and hard to pin down to a region.) To his mind, 'straight edgers' are the particularly mean young teenage boys in the American high school he briefly attended, who wore skinny jeans and eyeliner and were awful to their girlfriends. "I live in London, at home. All the derivatives fail once you see the real punk rockers, you know? Though people like to say nothing is authentic, anymore."

Spoilers: Jae is not a hipster. He likes most everything, regardless of whether or not he heard it first or last.

"You're on our cohort, right?" Our meaning he and Megan, presumably.