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There's a little old lady in Chinatown whom Ggio's more or less befriended since he started snooping around there. It's likely because she has a tiny little restaurant, and she probably thinks he's a demon or something (which isn't off the mark), but he speaks and dresses like a modern kid and is apparently all right so long as he's fed. They don't talk much since the language barrier goes both ways, but Ggio really does enjoy being around her because it reminds him of when he was alive.

He also gets along best with fellow ESL students at Xavier's, particularly the other Spanish-speaking ones. And there have even been a few girls who have asked him out because he's small and cute and has an accent. Ggio's not sure if he wants the attention because he doesn't know what to do with it, haha. Altogether they give him a semblance of normalcy - for a human, anyway. By now he's just used to it, so his prejudice against humans is slowly dying down.

Edited 2011-04-18 16:23 (UTC)

Pretty normal. Nina doesn't really...make friends... but she gets along with her coworkers well enough to still keep a distance.

Actually, Nina manages to blend in with the NPC crowd more often than not. I like to think she's not the exact the copy pasta of Natalie Portman as much as people might think she reminds them of her for the sake of not having to deal with ACCIDENTAL CELEBRITY ATTENTION.

Matsuka is pretty shy of non-imports due to lingering issues from his canon and, well, general timidity. He basically does hide away in his own little import world as much as he can, though he does have non-import co-workers at his job at the toy store.

Luck, on the other hand, regularly goes and hangs out in shady bars and talks to people, and cardsharps NPCs at poker a couple nights a week.

Tom teaches a couple small groups of kids at the dojo. Just basic self-defense things mostly, since he's a)not that great with kids (he thinks) and b) he's not the most enthusiastic. He gets along with them though, except for when one of them gets cheeky and tries to pull on his tail.

He also has a few older students that he does one on one boxing with. He does this mostly just to remember his dad, which means he complains and is a stubborn ass the majority of the time... much to their chagrin.

There are a few regulars over at the Tool Shed bar that he knows. They're pretty gruff guys, but they get along with Tom whenever he's working there. (Mostly because they're afraid of Selina).

Sirius dated half the NPC girls at the Institute while he was 15, and has made his way through quite a few young NPC women, now that he's older. Handsome and charismatic, he gets a lot of attention in general, and those who see his dogtags often ask if he's a superhero. Depending on his mood (and how sexy the person asking is), he's as likely to tell the truth as he is to make up something wild and ridiculous. Other than that he's pretty benign, and enjoys a great deal of popularity as Padfoot the doog in and around Sanddust books.

Kurama co-manages the staff of several toystores via Bakura, and is known as being fair but a bit of a hard-ass, and doesn't let them get away with anything (though he tends to be permissive if employees just ask for time off). Other than that he's totally mellow and polite to people, and folks don't tend to approach him.

Edited 2011-04-18 16:13 (UTC)

Well, thanks to his powers Baroona has to not smile when out in public for fear of gathering up a crowd of women/men again. But other than that he kind of ignores the NPC world. Mostly because NPC world reminds him about how much he still doesn't know about the world and that makes him uncomfortable. :[

Zoro sticks mostly with people he knows, but he does have business relations with various NPC mafias since he collects the bounties they set up. He also pisses them off because LOL WHAT'S NEUTRALITY (aka he goes after anyone who has a bounty) so yeah. That's it...

Ares is friends with the City's homeless! They took him in when he first arrived... Since he was so lost and dirty that they just assumed he was homeless and a little off (enough to ignore his sword).

The Narrator has Fight Club bros that he periodically creepers on to make sure they're not secretly blowing anything up, but only half cares. He isn't friends with any of them. No one has really approached him about his canon (EXCEPT EDDIE, WHO THINKS HE'S BOOK!NARRATOR...) and I like Noodles' excuse, that characters aren't exact copies of their actors, necessarily. In any case, he's otherwise very antisocial and barely even has acquaintances. He ignores his Nohope coworkers 90% of the time, NPC or otherwise.

Katurian knows a decent amount of NPCs! He made friends with the childhood versions of all the sick people he took care of in the hospice, but he got fired, like, twice, so he isn't even sure if they're still alive. He deliberately avoided making friends at the hospital and spent all his free time, like, writing in a corner or bossing people around on stage.

At this point, he isn't famous, necessarily, but he is known in the NPC community for being 'that import that screamed about erasing someone from existence but was probably lying because then he was institutionalized,' but he got fanmail at the hospital from people that still believed him or wanted him to erase them, etc etc. He's also had a book published, so a lot of NPCs rubberneck and buy it out of morbid curiosity. A fair amount of strangers probably recognize him by name, but not by face.

LOL RIGHT, AND KATURIAN DID ERASE AN NPC FROM EXISTENCE. That's kind of important. He liked her, too. :c They were good buddies for, like, three days in the present and several years in the past, since Katurian could just randomly insert himself in her life. He was basically her periodic imaginary friend.

Tony is all over dem npcs! He employs them, his board of directors is made of them, and he primarily has one night stands with more than enough of them to last a lifetime!

Hank has a number of NPC students and co-workers that has maintains a good rapport with. He is a fairly public figure, though he hasn't had the time or energy to devote to that as he'd like. Not since the whole benefit album thing, at least. He may get stopped on the street occasionally, but he's a bit uncomfortable about those instances, can never be sure what'll come of them.

Vic gets a lot of NPC clients and handwaved cases to keep him paid. He probably has contacts at a few local papers and news channels. There might be some old lady in the Park he plays chess with on Thursday mornings.

Alex might have some kids he's played with on online games, but no telling if he's gotten a regular group together or not. He probably knows the delivery driver from the nearby grocer pretty well, and he might be nursing a crush on her?

Edited 2011-04-18 17:03 (UTC)

Scathach probably interacts with NPCs the most. She'll... feed on the odd homeless drunk now and then (and feel pretty bad about it), and hang out with the students at her personal dojo (karaoke on fridays!!!), but that's about it. GEMMA WORKS WITH NPCS AT NOHOPE

Edited 2011-04-18 17:12 (UTC)

tyler durden; has a bunch of NPC bros, all from Fight Club. eventually he will start in with the space monkey training, but for now he's just assembling them to gather together and beat on each other. also tyler has picked up a job as a projectionist, where he splices porn into movies, so yes. tyler durden: traumatizing npcs one movie at a time.

yusuke; he's pretty chill with all the npc cops he works with, and i imagine he's friendly with all the neighbors around the brownstone.

johnny storm; flirting with your npcs, one hot lady at a time...

heine rammsteiner; no. npcs probably give heine a wide berth, because white hair and red eyes encourage friendship with no one. also, heine doesn't socialize at all, so...yeah. no go. he will be getting a nine-to-five job sometime in the near future, where he'll have to suck it up and at least try to get along with people.

BUT BABY, I LIKE OUR HOUSE ALL NICE AND QUIET

CAN'T I HAVE A FEW FRIENDS OVER...TO SHAVE HEADS AND...OTHER THINGS...

WE'LL BE GOOD I PROMISE.

Himuro used to work at an NPC stripclub last time she was in the city and there was going to be a thing where she had an npc stripper girlfriend but it fell through...

Cynthia is on a first name basis with the local librarians, and several ice cream cart..guys.

I LOVE THIS QUESTION

Calvin has almost no relationship to NPCs. Just like in the comic, he has a very small circle of people he actually interacts with, and everyone else is basically treated as background by him. His only real contact with other kids at Xavier's comes from weirding them out with his antics.

The Major has a lot of contacts within American and European neo-fascist groups that he recruits his minions from. His high-profile crimes and the fact that he was actually in WWII, reporting directly to Hitler, has made him a bit of a minor celebrity in those circles. Combined with the promise of eternal life via vampirization, this means that the Major has little difficulty finding subordinates.

However, once they're recruited he basically treats them like trash, trying to cultivate a cult of personality among them while demanding complete and total obedience. The Major has no value for their lives, and has gained a reputation for harsh punishments and getting his followers killed or arrested in his schemes. Typical bad guy procedure, really.

Jack Bauer has a lot of contact with NPC police officers. He often uses them as backup in his operations and takes a particular interest in the native SWAT teams. He's gained a reputation as a stern and intimidating superior, but a fair and honest one who cares about his people as long as they get results.

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Bruce has quite a large network of NPCs. There are the people he employs and his shareholders, all of whom he goes out of his way to remember personal details about. He's also familiar with a lot of the competition and other high-society types.

Batman has his own network on the streets and is one of his main sources of information. Anyone who knows how to know a little of something and are willing to share, basically. A lot of the worst off get referred to entry-level jobs at the Laskin Corporation. He also knows a lot of NPC cops.

Lust worked a normal 9 to 5 office job thing when she was here the last time, so she had a whole mundane and relatively unexciting network of NPCs she knew! One of her coworkers gave her tickets to the opera he'd ~come into possession of~ and then she was like LOL THANKS /takes Knives instead, because she's a meanie. There was also her landlady, who probably had no idea what the fuck was going down whenever she came up to see why she wasn't paying rent after she left, and the various shallow relationships she cultivated with neighbors, people who she'd interact with frequently while making purchases, etc. Most of those she's just going to completely drop now that she's back in the City and presumably finding a living space and job somewhere else, because Lust just doesn't curr.

AND THEN THERE ARE... ALL THE NPCS SHE'S KILLED I GUESS......

Marceline probably is bros with totally random people for completely arbitrary reasons--homeless folks, subway performers, people she's met on rooftops, some guy she saw who had a sweet hat, etc., and she'll also troll people (and take their stuff) as she sees fit. She doesn't have any serious friendships with NPCs, though, just as she doesn't have truly meaningful relationships with most PCs. She's just in it for the fun!

Aradia basically talks to nobody unless she actually needs to or gets her interest piqued by them in some fashion, and she lives in the MAC so that probably only comes up when she's buying food or materials for repairing all of Equius' holes in the walls. She's used to coming out at night, so she doesn't see a lot of kids her own age, and assumes that Cityfolk are NPCs on the same level as most Prospitians and Dersites, which amounts to boring and meaningless. At the moment, she doesn't care enough to investigate in more depth. She has been going to libraries to study more about the world, however! Where she's just... the quiet 13-year-old who gets constantly asked why she's not in school, so she generally goes in the late afternoons and evenings or cycles around different locations so nobody is like WHY HAVE YOU BEEN HERE ALL WEEK.

THIS DUDE

Uh. He's saved a couple of people in the shadier parts of the city, and he's intervened enough for the bandit kind of people to start a rumor mill about a strange swordsman around. So a couple of people he's saved, a really significant amount of others on the hospital facing a possible future on a wheelchair, and another of people on the lookout for him/wanting payback.

He has a routine, though, which is to visit a local bakery that has some of the best pastries ever. But overall, he's a little reserved, since he blends in the crowds pretty well given his nondescript looks and wear. ... save for his height, since he's about 6 feet tall.

Seras does interact with her fellow NPC officers, but really that's about the extent of her dealings with NPCs outside of investigations and hostage rescues. She's never had a lot of friends before (as in NONE) so it's not that surprising. The other thing is well she is a vampire and that can be rather off putting to people who aren't also imports.

Frank, does interact with NPCs quite a bit. Admitally this usually takes the form of shooting, stabbing, or otherwise maiming/killing them. That said I think it would be fair to say he's run into a couple that he found useful enough to keep alive for information. He also has a land lady who keeps debating calling the cops on him, but has decided since he's always on time with the rent, in cash, that it wouldn't be worth the trouble. After all he might bring the whole building down with him.

Boyd due to running two companies now and owning the clinic has a working relationship with many NPCs. That said he doesn't particularly like them, nor care about them and he certainly doesn't trust them to actually run anything. They're tools to him and nothing more. Then again most people import, or native are to him. On that note Boyd has been looking for someone to run his PMC so if anyone has a merc character with a serious lack of morals I'd love to talk to you.

AHHH DELICIOUS NAI QUESTIONS

While Sanji worked at/owned All That Jazz, he was always hitting on the female customers. And got a phone full of ladies' numbers for it. I like to think he's maybe had coffee with a few but not very many actual dates and no relationships - in keeping with his perpetual state of rejection. However, he did get laid while in the Bahamas - a very nice and gorgeous woman also playing tourist in the islands wanted to see his ship and one thing led to another. He doesn't remember her name.

He also got along fairly well with the NPC cooks, bartenders, and waitstaff at the club. He had a manager, who he technically hired right before he went on his pirate jaunt, who happened to be really good at managing the business and a huge help when it was time to put the property on the market. He only really went Gordon Ramsey on his employees during the hate gas plot, but for the most part they had no problems working for him and he was a decent boss - though he smoked in the office and could be strict about some things. He was never secretive about being an import, even though it wasn't until Jan attacked him while trying to kill Ken that any of his coworkers actually saw what he could do.

Sanji also handed out food to the homeless on his route home from the club. A fair number of them got to be familiar faces, and some of them disappeared after the zombie invasion last spring...it was sort of depressing. Now that he doesn't own the club anymore and doesn't have the routine to keep up, he can't really be their regular source of food, but he will still randomly feed the homeless if he can, if he runs across someone while out taking care of errands. There's no leftovers from home anymore, not now that Luffy's back.

OH YEAH ALSO I almost forgot. He and Maggie got into a scuffle with the Chinese mob. So there might be some mafia boss somewhere who would know him by reputation. And of course the people in bookstores, grocery stores, and farmers' markets who see him regularly. Sanji actually spends a lot of time interacting with the City, for a pirate who wants nothing more than to go home and make their dreams come true.

And that got pretty long so I'll do the others separately. :D

Edited 2011-04-18 21:31 (UTC)

As for the other two...

Alastair works at StarkTech, and Stark employs NPCs, so Alastair is out and about among the population every day. It took until the truth-telling plot for any of his coworkers to realize he was actually an import, when he came out and blurted it out to one of the secretaries. Prior to that they just thought him an exceptionally smart young man who got along really well with the actual imports. He really doesn't like the people he works with and around, but not because they're locals or anything. Just because they're not his peer group. And the secretaries really fail at their transparent attempts to be his fag hags. Before he and Kiryu started seeing each other, Alastair would let guys hit on him all the time at clubs, but he never went out with any of them. He's got a hell of an ego and still, always, considers himself better than them most days.

That's about it, though, because he tends to spend most of his downtime these days at home with the rest of Hell Towers 10th surrounding him, primarily closeted away with Kiryu or goofing off with Bakura or Hiruma, and getting his coffee from Agatha's shop. Yet, it's not that he's staying around other imports for importy reasons - instead, he's limiting his interaction to his family unit and people he actually likes/cares about. He doesn't reach out and get to know new imports any more than he does locals.

As for Geddoe, well. He has been doing his damnedest not to assimilate into this world, and that includes not getting to know people. He's a loner by nature, and a suspicious mercenary on top, so he really doesn't get to know anybody unless they seem to be a potential ally, and he knows that the only real allies he can make are other people with powers, thus other imports. Civilians are as inane and ridiculous in this world as sheltered noblemen and townspeople where he comes from, and he wants nothing to do with them. Only the bartenders at his favorite watering holes are familiar with him, and they don't even really know his name - just that he's that big Import guy who looks like some kind of Lord of the Rings reject who likes beer and cheeseburgers.

Angie has some NPC students that she works with at Xavier's.

Matt occasionally deals with NPC people who need legal aid, as well as NPC legal system folks.

Bobbi doesn't really deal with NPCs very often at all.

Kate and Jessica both attend school with NPC students.

Zoidberg has lots of NPC acquaintances, such as Julio, the Bimboyz MC, and other dancers and restaurant workers. He also has NPC patients at the hospital and hangs with the lady who works at the commemorative plate shop.

Roat deals drugs to lots of NPCs...

I've been sort of thinking that Thomas has a... really, really weird relationship with his fellow NPCs. Considering he lives in ~~the shittiest neighborhood of shitty neighborhoods~~ and that he’s not working besides the rare mission, he’s let himself be pretty visible in the scope of local crime, a little like his old Gotham days, kinda. It’s him working to remain a balance of hostility and false amiability to the drug-bosses or gun manufacturers or whatever are around, from him going so far as to cripple their people or anonymously call authorities onto their operations to further enforce his influence. Which is funny in the sense that even they aren’t exactly sure what he’s trying to protect, and he’s not really trying to muscle into their works. It’s all about him trying to feel a modicum of power after being without his team for such an extended period, generally linked with “I NEED VALIDATION” except coming to violence rather than emotional self-being.

Otherwise, he helps old ladies cross the street and he carries their groceries while (secretly!) finding kid's lost dogs. If they're not criminals, he can be rather nice!

Cass teaches a whole bunch of kids at the dojo. I always imagine her as the kind of scary teacher that no one wants to get because she's really tough, but later on in life they realize that she was actually pretty good. Her poor students probably do more push-ups in a week than most people do in their lifetimes.

She probably also hangs around a local coffee shop (and not like a Starbucks or anything) and has some kind of friendly relationship with the owner. She's 'That weird girl that can't read the menu and only drinks tea.'

Let's see...

Kiryu has a pretty good relationship with the NPCs at Dancitron. I've generally assumed that the atmosphere there is pretty cool, and they're all at least friends. They all know he's an imPort, since it's not like he can keep that a secret for long, but most of them don't care. It is imPort-run, after all. Kiryu can usually find someone to cover for him if he needs too, and he's more than willing to cover for someone else, so it's all good.

He also has a small group of NPC friends that he hangs out with at various arcades on occasion. They didn't know he was an imPort for a while, and a couple didn't take it well when he finally mentioned it, but he's still friends with the ones who were okay with it. He's also still friends with some of the people who lived in the area around the old, broken-down motel, but he doesn't talk to them as much anymore.

Also, while he's never actually dated an NPC, he's had a couple one-night-stands. Yep.

Oh, and he writes regularly to Miguel, the tour guide he made friends with in Peru. Like, at least once or twice a week regularly.

Edited 2011-04-19 02:22 (UTC)

Trowa interacts with the people that work for him. He knows just about everything about his employees and makes sure they're generally taken care of very well. He's also pulled small favors to assist them without their knowing. It keeps them loyal, and he likes having people to watch over.

As far as strangers go, he doesn't really try to interact with them. If someone needs assistance, he'll do what he can, but he doesn't go out of his way to meet people.

He's never dated an NPC.

Back when he lived in his own apartment, alone, he had a nosy elderly lady for a neighbor; she always called the landlord about the animals she suspected he was keeping (it was just him) and liked to keep watch on his comings and goings. (Incidentally, this is why he developed a habit of leaving his apartments through a window.)

Thaaaaaat's all.

I AM LATE AGAIN AND ISTILLDUNCURR oh my god i have been waiting for a thing like this forever

INCIDENTALLY I actually went into this a bit on the Trufax meme a couple weeks ago, so first off I am going to copy that pasta aww yiss

"7. He's actually pretty friendly with the other members of the D-Wheel dev team at Kaibacorp, and even gets invited out for drinks and stuff every so often. He's always made it a point to know them all by name, even now that he's not head engineer anymore.

8. The current head engineer, in fact, used to have a bit of a thing for him, and even tried (wildly unsuccessfully) to flirt with him once or twice. But then Yuusei came back and she saw the two of them together, and is now firmly under the impression that Bruno is a) gay, and b) taken. She has let Bruno know that she's very happy for him and supports him all the way, though. This just left Bruno extremely confused."

SO YEAH in addition to the above, he knows like, pretty much every mechanic in every honest-to-God serious-business motorcycle repair/customization shop in the greater City metropolitan area. Firstly because he likes to shop around for the best/most interesting parts when he's doing his bike building; but even moreso because he can't exactly do ALL the machining and styling and such that he needs to do back in his MAC place, and by now he is not NEARLY so stupid that he'd try using Kaibacorp company machines or business contacts for his personal hobbies. So for sort of thing he likes to hire out other guys or rent shop time from them.

They basically all know he's an import (I mean seriously, dat hair) but most of the few anti-import sentiments he's encountered here and there get pretty much smashed to bits as soon as they realize how uncannily good with machines this guy is. Plus, the fact that he seems to treat basket-case motorcycles the way some people treat rescue shelter animals, i.e. he will just cheerfully plop himself down and work out whatever's wrong with them without even asking to be paid for his trouble. Between that and how handy it is to have a guy with super-strength and that whole package around, couple of these shops don't even charge him for coming and using their machinery anymore, they've just worked out an arrangement where if they ever have a really frustrating fix or a last-minute job they need a hand with, they just call him up.