Oh man, they kind of do. They probably make jokes about that in the K-Science office. Hanji encourages it.

That'd be awesome! She was up in Alaska, but she's probably met him on business trips or at least talked to him via e-mail or on a ocnference call or met him at a conference or something. Academic slap-fights, go.

But yes, totally colleagues and metaphorical brothers in arms. They can geek out about kaiju together!