"Well, I do like to think the best of my friends," he says, a touch shyly. "But I wouldn't wish for any of them to come here, honestly. They don't deserve that. I've heard you, ah, Alternians are perhaps a bit different, but Beforus is a peaceful world. My friends...they wouldn't do well here."

Welp, he went and made it all serious and himself sad. Oops.