A little bit of both. As his assigned mother, I had the chance to advertize him over the phones by using 'concerned mother looking for suitable date for her perfect angelic son in light of prom night' as a perfect excuse. There was even another boy who volunteered! I'm sure the director could've appreciated that also, if nothing else.

[CASUALLY SAID... and somewhere across frozen multiverses, merem doesn't sneeze but maybe the rat king just twitched his nose.]

See, we should be around the same age. There's no way I look old!

[complaining is what old people do, though...]