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Some Top Susie NPC relationships! (based on purely on gut feeling at this moment that I am sure has me forgetting multiple great ones):

Susie and Tinker! Susie loves cats. Tinker is a cat who was turned into a cyborg cat before being freed by Roseanne Berry, who died in the process. Kid Eternity summoned Roseanne, who would interact with the We3, Bandit the dog, Pirate the rabbit, and Tinker the cat. She would try to explain that she was dead, something the animals struggled to comprehend. Before she disappeared back into the unknown, she left with us her jacket to give to one of the three. Instead of a PC doing it, though, Roz'etta chose to have Susie bring the jacket to Tinker, and it would be Susie who would explain how death is in a way that the poor, sad cat could understand, all while petting him.

Susie and Stargirl. Stargirl is a hero who has been infected with a bit of villainy, something Susie sees and values. Stargirl sees Susie as a little murderous psycho, but she doesn't fear that Susie will go off the deep end and kill her. How does she know that? Well, because Susie would kill the leader of their infiltration team, Pepper Spray, first. Susie respects that level of insight.

Susie and Tommy Jagger. Susie and Tommy's interactions are brief, but really amusing. Jagger knows an untrained child carrying a gun is a bad idea. His solution is not to take Susie's gun from her, but rather teach her gun safety. Susie has been taught to respect her teachers, so she shows Jagger the respect he deserves, maybe even more respect than the PCs do. Really, it's the 'Yes, sir' from Susie that makes it. I like the small things!

Susie and Sarah Washington. Sarah is a OMAC and a child. Susie is a child, cultivating assets, and pretty forceful. A perfect little crime duo, minus the crime. Susie is in a lot of ways protective of Sarah, and it's pretty sweet, and she encourages Sarah to embrace her OMAC nature, which is a little less sweet. Obviously Susie was going to gravitate to Sarah, and Sarah would gravitate to someone closer to her own age. Put those two together, and you have art. Also documentaries, never the Iron Giant.

Susie and Tomorrow Woman: Tomorrow Woman is an abandoned robot, except for the few relationships she has. One of those precious few is Susie, who absolutely adores the perfect being Tomorrow Woman is. It's a bit natural that Susie would be drawn into Roz'etta's social circle, but Tomorrow Woman would be a friend of Susie's even if Roz'etta never approached the robot. Tomorrow Woman needs friends, and the fact that Susie regularly goes to see her (probably to talk about all the killing done in Japan, honestly) makes it all the nicer. I just like NPCs wandering off to talk to other NPCs, okay?

Susie and Manthrax: I love these 'Susie respects a superior' relationships. Manthrax isn't any different. He critiques Susie for overacting, and Susie doesn't get upset, or angry, or disappointed. She accepts it, because this professional actor clearly understands faking emotion better than her. It's such a small part of Susie, but...it's charming. Plus I like Manthrax. I should make more Manthrax scenes happen.

Susie and the Hunkels: In a lot of ways, Sisty and Dinky made Roz'etta and Susie happen. These two tried, but they didn't love Susie, they couldn't. They weren't strong enough. If they were stronger, Susie wouldn't have fallen into Roz'etta arms in tears, choosing her over staying in Calvin City. Their relationship with Susie is the worst of any in the campaign, but that makes it one of the best. They made Susie's greatness possible. Tragedy involving parents made Batman happen after all, right? Right?

Susie and Catman: Ah, Mister Blake. It was through Catman that we found out about Susie's love of cats, and her violent tendencies were...both encouraged and tempered by Catman's teachings. Of course, Catman also broke off from Susie, abandoned her. That left a wound that is still raw on Susie. She wants revenge, but not against Catman, but Cheshire. Cheshire is the one who left her mentor so broken, having the gall to use him to get pregnant. She wants to kill Cheshire's baby. Roz'etta has tried to draw a line there, both with Susie and with Catman, and this is the current source of strife between her and her daughter.

Susie and the Hyperclan: For Mica'kel, family is more than blood. This is proven by him seeing Susie, adopted though she is, as a Saturnian. Mica'kel respects Roz'etta, and that extends to Susie. Susie loves cats, Till'all likes being a fish, both spend time swimming together and...it's really just sweet. I love the Hyperclan so much, and their weird embracing of both Roz'etta and Susie, only strengthened by Susie helping during the Kobra attack, makes them all the sweeter.

Susie and Lucy Lane: Mama! Susie has witnessed her mother surrounded by flames. She has run from Roz'etta in fear that her mother stopped loving her in Calvin City. She wept to leave the Hunkels, and screamed in fear at Mento having a helmet while she could not. But Susie has never been as broken as she is when witnessing her mother, Lucy Lane, in all her glowing-eyed glory. In those moments she is torn between Mama and Mommy, and given Lucy's current loyalties, she cannot have one without the other. It's such a cruel position to put Susie in, made all the worse by the possibility that Lucy isn't Equated (something Susie isn't aware of yet), meaning there exists the cruel possibility of hope. ...Man, Roz'etta's closest characters all have a way of suffering from the pain of hope, don't they?

Susie and Father J'see: Susie's first moral compass, the person who could help her find her footing in the ways of the gods. The person who might have the most patience for Roz'etta of anyone in the entire campaign. Susie doesn't just respect Jesse, she hangs onto his every word, and Jesse is just weird enough of a preacher to handle her in the right way. He was my first thought of someone who could help Susie, and every moment with him has shown that to be right. But...this isn't quite enough to be atop the list of Susie relationships.

Susie and Clark Ross: Clark Ross is a baby, the son of Lana Lang and Pete Ross, named after Susie's Uncle Clark. With others, Susie is sometimes commanding, demanding, cold, heartless, fake, so many things that otherwise would be terrible. With Clark...Susie is the sweetest person she can be, gently holding him. But then pieces of Susie pop free, like talking about how Lana Lang was obviously thinking about her uncle when Clark was being made. Or how easy it would be to snap his neck, because that's what she will do to Cheshire's baby. With many characters she likes, her vicious streak is born of ignorance or innocence. With characters she dislikes, it's her sweeter side that goes hidden away, or if it shows it is a falsehood. With baby Clark, though, Susie is simply Susie. The good and the bad, everything wonderful and terrible she can be. And that's why, somehow, a character who cannot speak sits atop the Susie list. Because it's my list and I can be a little silly with it if I want.