Eos' and Ienge's First Meeting

This is how Eos and Ienge first met, back in elementary school! Ienge (still with natural black hair back then) was naturally flexible in a conventional sense (he even took dance classes briefly) so for him, touching his toes and doing all sorts of stretches was no challenge, but he was very shy. Eos on the other hand was a freak of nature who could easily fold in half backwards but couldn't for the life of him touch his toes in the "normal", forward way.

They had a great time playing together by making up poses that the other would have to try and mirror in the respective other direction (Ienge would do the poses forwards, and Eos backwards). The two of them quickly became best friends, but at that time Ienge was actually quite a bit more flexible than Eos because of his dance practice, and because Eos hadn't figured out how to deal with his condition yet: At this point he was just a kid so he didn't even know what he was suffering from was a condition at all, he thought it was normal to have your back hurt all the time and to get injured easily, and to be able to contort your spine in crazy ways.

So in a way, Ienge inspired Eos to become his best self by encouraging him to explore his body's unique abilities, which later resulted in Eos learning to embrace his special condition and flourish with it instead of suffering from it.