I've fallen in love...with an NPC

[Lauront]

I don't understand (or experience) any sort of attachment to fictional characters. Idk, might be an autism thing (speaking for myself, not necessarily anyone else)

I don't get it, either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There's characters I like more, or less, but not to the point of attachment. Insofar as I like them it tends to do more at a conceptual level, and/or in terms of design.

I don't see anything bad with pple loving NPCs but…

In this characters case, Mr. crystal was there during realm reborn, and no one gave a rats ass about him then.
But all of a sudden when he becomes one of the main chars. and looks fancier, pple notice him.
is this passing fancy or love? why you not notice him before?? ;_;

I'm at least consistent in not liking him then and still not liking him now. He's just marginally less insufferable. In terms of his character design, I happen to find him to be one of the worst designed miqo'te NPCs in the game. There's just nothing that draws me to him and I'd rather some other NPC had taken his place from the CT storyline.