I'm going to make a post about this some time later, but I would really like this idea. I know it would be difficult to implement on a large scale basis, but at least on the core story npcs, I think this would REALLY go a long way to add a sense of relationship and connection to the characters that you spend so much time with, and have gone through so many things with.

It REALLY shows that they need to work on the Characterization between the Protagonist (You) and the NPCs that you experience the story with when Thancred jokes, "Are you just going to give me another of your stoic nods?" That's not a funny breaking of the fourth wall, writing team. That's acknowledging your laziness in characterization for all the world to see.

We WANT to have relationships with these NPCs. We WANT to be participants in their lives, rather than spectators. Let us, please.