Yep, I'm with Takkatakka, Nova is not as shy as Luna but she is totally ignored for everyone except Orion, and she use the hacker anonymity as excuse for not accept that she doesn't have any friend. Just like Luna, she is alone before Orion starts to talk with her.
Orion and Nova are literally this image:
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And before you talk about Luna and Nova being friends, they are not, when Orion talks about Luna being who told him about Nova, she say someone like "the cafeteria girl?". That's not how you talk about a friend.