Skrillex's Links
Bard thankfully was around to haul Skrillex out of the wreckage of his ship, and since then they've become close. Skrill thinks Bard is a bit of a goofball, and is totally unaware that the "mysterious ninja" is actually just his hylotl friend in a different outfit; that being said, he TOTALLY gets a crush on "Shadow" and it's super awkward. (He figures it out eventually. And then they date! Space boyfriends!!)
Bard first met Skrillex by saving his life, and, well, he never really stopped. They've become close friends as a result, with Bard joining up on Skrill's mission to stop the Ruin. After Skrill mistook him for a different person while in a ninja outfit and thought he was really cool, he took on the "Shadow" persona to try and make Skrill happy. Though he never quite examined his own motivations for doing so very deeply, Shadow did start mysteriously appearing more often when Skrill let it slip to Bard that he might have a crush on Shadow...