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What I never understood about the NPC thing is that it's always assumed that NPCs are not like other main characters in the story. But it's just any character you can't play right? Even characters who have like hours and hours of screentime showcasing and developing a complex and nuanced personage.
The term (which is deeply reactionary and shouldn't be used except to criticize it) is based on a more literal reading, since NPCs aren't players, i.e. aren't controlled by a human but instead just have scripted dialogue, they don't think and don't have any sort of internality, they just do things automatically. "NPC" is a branch of the weird 4chan incel Discourse of asserting things like "only we have internal monologues, the normies don't" as though not hearing what other people think means that they don't think.
It's just calling someone brainless, a zombie, non-human, except in a stupid new way.
It's a of the peolyou aren't but in this case I think people know what I mean. It's not that deep.