Odd Friendship / Video Games

• Ezio and Leonardo Da Vinci in Assassin's Creed II. The former is a vengance-driven Florentine teen turned world-wise (and world-weary) master assassin, the latter is the iconic Renaissance Man and an enormous nerd. Their primary interests of stabbing corrupt noblemen in the neck and artistic-scientific pursuits should have very little common ground, but they bond over Leonardo's gift for designing fanciful gadgets and Ezio's willingness to test whatever harebrained invention Leonardo devises that week. Leonardo's enthusiastic friendship with Ezio is part of what helps Ezio finally come to terms with his place in the world, and the two remain lifelong friends.
• Baldur's Gate 2: CHARNAME can strike up a friendship with a surprisingly cordial beholder. It helps that said beholder is a Deadpan Snarker instead of an Ax-Crazy monster like most of his kin.
  • Minsc and Keldorn can also fall into this. Keldorn is a fifty-something father of two and a paladin. Minsc is a berserker with a Manchild streak a mile wide. However, they bond around a mutual appreciation of kicking evil up the arse.
  • Korgan Bloodaxe is remarkably good at forming these with good members of the party, despite being a Chaotic Evil psychopathic dwarven berserker with an abysmal charisma. Crude come-ons aside he's remarkably respectful to Mazzy Fentan (who is the closest thing you get to a halfing paladin), respects Minsc and Valygar for their warrior provess, enjoys exchanging Volleying Insults with Imoen and listening to Jan Jansen's stories, and even tries to work with Edwin for their mutual benefit (although the latter doesn't last long).
• In Bear & Breakfast, Oliver, a friendly, easygoing bus driver, doesn't seem bothered by Took, a sneaky, crazy raccoon, stealing his food. The narration describes them as living in "peculiar harmony".
• The titular characters of Ben and Ed are a traumatized kid and a zombified athletic adult respectively, and the game is about trying to reunite the two. This turns out to be a cruel subversion, leading to a Downer Ending of Ben being Eaten Alive by what he thought was his friend.
• Gorath and Owyn from Betrayal at Krondor certainly qualify. A taciturn 260-ish dark elf clan chieftain and a bubbly 19-year-old human mage apprentice?
• BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle: Yosuke (from Persona 4) is treated as a joke by the rest of the cast: Linne (Under Night In-Birth) thinks he's an annoying kid who's way in over his head and Jin (BlazBlue) wants to cut his tongue out. However he gets along really well with Makoto Nanaya.
• Bug Fables: Minor characters Seb and Madeleine are a Stiff Upper Lip cicada butler and his spunky Lady of Adventure cicada killer wasp mistress, but they get along well and are very committed to each other's happiness.
• In the Reverie DLC for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, we have Gabriel and Laura. He's a gruff monster hunter who was tasked in the main game with slaying the titular Lords of Shadow, one of whom was Laura's vampire "mother" Carmilla. She's a vampire who, not long ago, was trying to kill him. Yet somehow over the course of Reverie, they form a sufficiently close friendship that, after Laura's death, Gabriel goes on to build a tomb for her in the castle, right next to the one housing his beloved wife.
• Deltarune: Lancer, the Harmless Villain Big Bad Wannabe Manchild Darkner, and Susie, the genuinely terrifying bully Lightner, one the latter pulls a brief Face–Heel Turn and joins Lancer's side. Lancer idolizes her for being as threatening as he wishes to be, and Susie quickly becomes fiercely protective of him. This mutual friendship is what inspires both of them to pull Heel Face Turns and rejoin the side of good.
• Devil May Cry: Dante is the son of the Legendary Dark Knight Sparda, a demon who slaughtered the armies of the Underworld and sealed away the demon emperor Mundus to protect humanity, while Trish is an artificial demon created by Mundus for the express purpose of luring and getting Dante killed in Mallet Island. And yet, by the end of the first game, these two are close enough for Dante to entrust her with the sword of Sparda, her creator's greatest enemy. She later became a long-time ally of Dante in the next adaptations and sequels.
• Dragon Age:
  • Most characters from Dragon Age: Origins make pretty odd friends with at least one other party member.
    • Morrigan and just about anybody, given her admitted "difficulties" with forming friendships. It's especially evident with a more noble-minded male Warden who does not start her romance.
    • If both are recruited and survive to the end of the game, Wynne and Shale form one of these. They even travel to the Tevinter Imperium together to find a way to restore Shale to mortal form. They're apparently still friends during the events of Asunder until Wynne dies.
    • Sten is an odd one as well. Leliana seems genuinely curious about him and his people, and is able to call him a softy with little more reaction than a mild grumble; he enjoys her singing and surprisingly doesn't harass her about being a devout Andrastian, despite atheism being built into the Qunari language. Alistair also admits that Sten isn't as bad as he'd expect, and though the game doesn't show Sten thinking too highly of Alistair in return, Those Who Speak reveals he's warmed up enough to call him kadan. Sten and Ogren also engage in some friendly verbal sparring; bonus points to this one for the two of them being the tallest and shortest members of your party by a good margin.
    • Zevran was originally hired to kill the Warden. Naturally, this can result in a bit of tension, though to him it was all just business, Nothing Personal. If befriended, he becomes intensely loyal.
  • In the Awakening expansion, the Warden gets a bunch of new and equally odd friends. It's perhaps very telling that the least odd friendship the Warden can form is with a man who originally shows up to murder them.
  • Just about any of the friendships between your allies in Dragon Age II. A possible odd friendship between the PC and one of his/her allies is a mage Hawke with the mage-hating elf Fenris if you decide to pursue a friendship.
    • Fenris will also develop a very friendly bond with Bethany, Hawke's sister, if Hawke is a warrior or rogue. Although he continues to dislike every other mage the party encounters, he observes that Bethany is a good, kind individual who is strong enough to control her magic without supervision.
    • Aveline and Snarky!Hawke in particular have this type of friendship. Aveline is a highly disciplined former soldier and Guard Captain, who's professional at nearly all times, while Snarky!Hawke is an independently wealthy part-time hero who refuses to take anything seriously.
      Aveline: Not now, Hawke!
    • Aveline gets another relationship like this with Isabela. Aveline believes heavily in monogamy and becomes the chief of police in Act 1, Isabela is a pirate captain who Really Gets Around and isn't so much retired as temporarily devoid of a ship. After the first act being laden with friction, they even out at Vitriolic Best Buds, to the point where handing Isabela over to the Qunari earns Rivalry points with Aveline.
      Isabela: And if I called you a mannish, awkward, ball-crushing do-gooder, you'd say...
      Aveline: (warmly) Shut up, whore.
      Isabela: That's my girl.
    • Snarky!Hawke is also capable of forming an admittedly brief friendship with Flemeth, a nigh-immortal witch who predates the foundation of Ferelden and possibly that of the Chantry, mostly because she finds Hawke's sarcasm entertaining.
  • Dragon Age: Inquisition continues the trend of unexpected friendships.
    • Sera is loud, brash, and selfish. Blackwall is quiet, reserved, and selfless. They end up bonding over their juvenile sense of humor and dislike of the aristocracy.
    • The harsh and dutiful Cassandra gets along surprisingly well with the laid back and boisterous Iron Bull.
    • Cullen is a former Templar and Dorian is a nobleman from a country ruled by mages. The player can stumble on them playing chess together. Additionally, if a female Inquisitor romances Cullen, Dorian is one of the only characters to comment on it — he thinks it's adorable.
    • Combining the above two, Bull and Dorian. Dorian is a cultured, well-dressed mage. Bull is a perpetually shirtless warrior from a culture that cuts out its mages' tongues and chains them to posts. Additionally, their respective cultures have been at war for centuries. They can get so close they become lovers if the Inquisitor doesn't pursue one of them first.
• Dragon Quest IV:
  • Seasoned, perpetually serious soldier Ragnar McRyan and cute, perpetually smiling curative monster Healie become friends during Ragnar's chapter.
  • Serious, quiet cleric Kyril and exuberant, flamboyant dancer Maya are implied to have one in the remakes, although how much of this is just her teasing him isn't specified.
• The Elder Scrolls
  • In Morrowind, 4000-year-old wizard Divayth Fyr has struck up a couple of these. Despite being a former member of Great House Telvanni which openly supports and encourages slavery, Fyr freed all of this slaves. One Argonian slave, Vistha-Kai, refused to leave and now serves as the warden of Fyr's "Corprusarium," a safe haven for those suffering from the Corprus Disease. Fyr admits that Vistha-Kai isn't much for conversation, but he does his job well and makes a good sparring partner for Fyr and his "daughters". Additionally, Fyr has befriended Yagrum Bagarn, the last living Dwemer. Bargarn was in an undescribed "outer realm" when whatever calamity occurred that wiped out his people and returned to find them gone. He caught the Corprus Disease shortly after and ended up in Fyr's Corprusarium. The two have become friends and Bagarn spends his time tinkering with and fixing up any Dwemer artifacts Fyr finds and brings him.
  • Between the events of Oblivion and Skyrim, the Altmer-led Aldmeri Dominion formed one of these with the Khajiit of Elsweyr. The Dominion preferred to get the Khajiit to join as vassals by aiding them to develop trust rather than through conquest. Of course, there are self-serving aspects for the Altmer with this arrangement, they either exaggerated or blatantly lied about certain accomplishments in order to appeal to the Khajiit. Additionally, how much of the friendship is benevolence on the part of the Altmer and how much is the Altmer wanting to avoid the wrath of a race widely considered the Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass of Tamriel is up for reasonable debate.
  • During the same time period as the above example, the Nords of Skyrim and the Orcs (Orsimer) have seemingly forged such a friendship. While the Nords typically despise all races of Mer (Elves), they've bonded somewhat with the Orcs over their mutual respect for strong leaders, affinity for smithing, and love of fighting. Following the sack of Orsinium, the (short-lived) Orc home province between High Rock and Hammerfell, Orcs have set up numerous strongholds dotting Skyrim where they are allowed to live in relative peace by the Nords.
• You wouldn't expect a girl whose whole family was killed in a war and hangs out with La Résistance to end up good friends with the son of the emperor of the enemy country whose family started that war, but that's what happens between Penelo and Larsa in Final Fantasy XII.
• Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and its sequel Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn have Shinon and Gatrie, who are Heterosexual Life-Partners despite being completely opposite in personality. Shinon is an arrogant, unfriendly and independent Deadpan Snarker and Cold Sniper who is most often Only in It for the Money, while Gatrie is a cheerful and friendly Boisterous Bruiser and Casanova Wannabe whose somewhat scatterbrained nature means that he's often taken advantage of by the women he tries to woo.
• CJ in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is a young black gangbanger who forms friendships with several people that you would think wouldn't be compatible with him. In short, he becomes acquainted with The Truth (old man hippie), Woozie (Triad leader), Zero (a nerd/hacker), and Toreno (government agent).
• Hitman 2: Silent Assassin: Father Emilio Vittorio is a pacifist Catholic priest. 47 is a retired assassin. Despite that, they're genuinely close friends, with Vittorio being 47's Parental Substitute and 47 being a gardener in Vittorio's church. Vittorio's kidnapping is what pushes 47 out of retirement, in the hope of rescuing his priest friend.
• Kingdom Hearts: Stoic and brooding swordsman Leon with peppy ninja Yuffie.
• The King of Fighters:
  • Due to an Ascended Glitch, Emotionless Girl Leona Heidern is somehow on friendly terms with Fat Bastard Chang Koehan. Pit the two against each other in XIV, and they respectfully give each other a salute before the fight.
  • Shen Woo is a Blood Knight while Duo Lon is a Princely Young Man. They're still as close as their clashing personalities and goals allow.
• Mission, the Cute Monster Girl Classy Cat-Burglar, and Zaalbar the proud Wookiee of Knights of the Old Republic. Also, the player character (basically a hired mercenary who is discovered to be a mind-wiped evil villain) with anybody, except maybe Canderous and HK-47.
  • The friendship between Bastila Shan and the PC is a particularly notable example. Bastila is an uptight Jedi Padawan who is always ready to lecture about the dangers of falling to the dark side, and it is possible to play the PC as someone who, even as a new Jedi recruit, is unable to take anything seriously. The friendship that forms between them becomes even more remarkable considering they are not just very different in personality, but also former enemies: the laughably evil former Dark Lord of the Sith and the Jedi who saved his/her life.
• In Life Is Strange, the main character Max is a quiet, dorky, and self-admitting hipster. One of the member of the Vortex Club, a social circle she despises, is Dana, a school-spirited, sociable, and as Max would say, "the perfect cheerleader archetype." Despite both being in different cliques, they are surprisingly very friendly towards each other, with Max admitting that she is very nice and friendly and Dana constantly inviting Max to many of the school's events.
• Lost Home: The main characters are an armadillo and a snake. Initially, the snake sees the armadillo as prey, but after a fire destroys their home, the two are forced to team up in their search for a new one.
• Shepard of the Mass Effect series with pretty much anybody apart from Ashley and Kaidan (fellow Alliance Marines — work friends, basically) and maybe Jacob and Garrus. Mercenaries, an elderly asari, a near-sociopathic biotic, a deeply religious Drell assassin, even a Krogan clone.
  • Shepard and Liara isn't at all far-fetched. Pressly and Tali, on the other hand...
  • Shepard's friendship with Garrus alone isn't necessarily odd. However, given some of the tensions that still exist between humans and the Turians, the closeness of it is. Garrus' unquestionable and unfailing loyalty to Shepard is one of his most notable character traits.
  • Joker and EDI, at least after EDI's blocks are removed and she takes over the Normandy. The two even get a Relationship Upgrade in the third game after EDI acquires a Fembot body.
  • Miranda and anyone, given her usual attitude towards friendship. Especially Jack when they reach Vitriolic Best Buds status in the Citadel DLC for 3, given that in the second game they come very close to killing each other at least once, possibly more often.
  • Tali and Legion as the latter comes from the race that nearly wiped out Tali's people 300 years earlier, and the former does show signs of still being bitter about that.
  • In the third game, Mordin and Wrex (if they're alive) get along surprisingly well, especially considering the fact that Mordin was responsible for upgrading the Genophage that drove the Krogans to near-extinction. At the end of the Tuchanka arc, if Mordin sacrifices himself to disperse the Genophage cure, Wrex suggests naming one of his and Eve's newborns after him (maybe a daughter).
  • Assuming they meet in the Citadel DLC, Javik and Zaeed become friends. The fact that Javik is a Precursor Galactic Conqueror minus an army who looks down on everyone, the idea he becomes friends with anyone is surprising.
  • Wrex and Garrus, given that the krogan relationship with Turians has hovered somewhere around "simmering hostility" for a millennium and a half. Given that the Krogan had reached the moons of the Turian homeworld when the Turians deployed the genophage, it's hardly surprising that both sides would cheerfully strangle each other, and yet:
    Wrex: Damn it, out of all of the turians out there, I had to make friends with one who thinks he's funny.
    Garrus: Well how do you think I feel? I'm supposed to hate you, but instead you warmed my heart with your winning personality.
    Wrex: I could throw a few salarians off a cliff if it'll make you feel better.
  • If Paragon Shepard has cured the genophage in the third game, by the time the credits roll, humanity is in a strange position where the Krogan are their staunchest allies, particular if Wrex is still alive to rule the krogan. They even offer to take in human refugees by offering space on Tuchanka.
• Technical Pacifist Mega Man X and Zero. They are created by two rival scientists, Dr. Light and Dr. Wily, respectively, and add the fact that Zero is supposedly designed for the purpose of destroying X.
• Metal Gear: The laconic, tough-as-nails soldier Snake and the geeky Omnidisciplinary Scientist and all around Nice Guy Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich, a startlingly genuine friendship forged over shared ideals.
• Metroid: Samus Aran and Anthony Higgs in Metroid: Other M. Samus is a somber Bounty Hunter of few words who left the Federation military after falling out with her commanding officer, while Anthony is a cheerful and energetic point man who still works with said CO. Samus nonetheless considers Anthony one of her closest friends.
• Competent and suave Petra of Minecraft: Story Mode is easily the best fighter in town, yet she's not above befriending adorkable Jesse. Their friendship is initially very lopsided — with the latter being overenthusiastic while Petra is mostly just embarrassed by the attention — but by the time Assembly Required rolls around, it's become very obvious that Petra considers Jesse her closest friend.
• If Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance is indication, Goro and Kitana are old friends, to the point that she attended his funeral at Kuatan Palace to mourn for him after he was slain by Noob Saibot sometime between 4 and DA.
• This becomes a huge plot element in Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle as to how Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi befriend hyperactive and insane Rabbids.
• Ataru and Usagi from Mr. Driller; one is a human and the latter is an Alien bunny whose original mission was to invade earth, but then his ship crashed and Ataru saved his life.
• My Cafe: Nerdy Bill strikes an unusual friendship with the resident joker Ben, to the point that he wants the latter to be his best man for his wedding. What makes this even more odd is that Ben is actually Bill's fiance's ex-husband. Mary is quite appalled when the player first tells her about Bill's decision to make Ben his best man, as the two are not Amicable Exes at this point.
• In Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark, Deekin makes friends with everyone. Even the tiefling scared of his Unstoppable Rage. Even the reformed Drow assassin. Everyone.
  • In Tales of Arterra, your entire party. Persey is a Succubus, Evanine is half-celestial and on the extreme-altruist end of Neutral Good besides, and Montador is an unexpectedly chivalrous Blood Knight. And yet they all end up the best of friends.
  • Most notably Bran and Rizzen, but also possibly Vico and the Princess, Rizzen and the Princess and Rizzen and Pia in A Dance with Rogues. For that matter, seeing as most of the group joins up to help out the Princess and most don't really like anyone else, the entire group counts.
• Khelgar and Neeshka or Elanee in Neverwinter Nights 2, so long as you get his influence high enough to mitigate his Fantastic Racism.
  • Lawful!Knight-Captain and Neeshka; she has a tendency to grumble that she doesn't understand him/her at all yet still sticks her neck out for her boss on numerous occasions.
  • Chaotic!Knight-Captain and Safiya in Mask of the Betrayer, especially apparent whenever the Knight-Captain makes a silly remark.
• Overwatch: One of the closest (And weirdest) set of buddies is Tracer and Winston. Tracer is a spunky and hyper ex-test pilot/turned Overwatch operative from England. Winston is a hyper-intelligent, reserved guy...on top of being a talking gorilla from the moon. Despite their marked differences, they're two of the games closest friends.
• Resident Evil gives us a villainous example with Albert Wesker and William Birkin. Wesker's a physically imposing badass who wears his Sunglasses at Night, and rarely emotes unless it's time for a scenery chewing speech. Birkin's a skinny Mad Scientist who panics easily and rarely stops talking. Wesker is likely asexual; Birkin is Happily Married and has a young daughter whom he honestly seems to care about. Wesker did Umbrella's wetwork before jumping ship; Birkin's their top researcher and almost never leaves the lab. Wesker is confident of his own superiority; Birkin's a paranoid who constantly needs to reinforce his ego. Yet despite all that (and their shared sociopathy), there is every indication that they maintained a genuine friendship, having been college buddies and coworkers prior to Wesker's defection and Birkin's subsequent mutation and death. During Resident Evil 0, Wesker even confides in Birkin as an equal, something he's otherwise never known to do even with his closes allies, putting enough trust and faith in the scientist to be completely open about his plans to abandon Umbrella. As late as Wesker's Report, the typically unemotional Wesker expresses both extreme distaste for Birkin's killer, U.S.S. agent HUNK, and a continued respect for his former colleague's ability, which is unusual for him.
• Shadow Hearts has a few including Koudelka, Edward and James; Anastasia and Joachim ; Yuri and Albert.
• Shadowrun Returns: Hong Kong has this between Gobbet and Gaichu. Gobbet is a Satisfied Street Rat turned Rat shaman, an abject slob with no concept of self-discipline, a lover of Cordon Bleugh cuisine almost to Extreme Omnivore levels and generally emotional and compassionate in nature. Gaichu is a disgraced Red Samurai turned ghoul whose entire existence centers around maintaining the mental discipline to not turn feral, coldly pragmatic in his dealings with most people and can't eat anything that isn't raw meat from sentient beings. Despite this, they get along swimmingly, and banter like crazy when you take them on runs together.
• Soul Series: Tira is an Axe-Crazy servant of Nightmare, while Pyrrha is Purity Personified, much like her mother, Sophitia. Not to mention the fact that Tira kidnapped Pyrrha when she was only a child after framing her for murder. Despite this, and despite the fact that Pyrrha at first refuses to actually work with Tira, she often considers her the only friend she has. Unfortunately, Tira only uses this to her advantage, and eventually convinces Pyrrha to become Soul Edge's next host.
• Stardew Valley: Sam and Sebastian are very close despite being polar opposites: Sam is a an outgoing friendly guy who plays guitar and drums, while Sebastian is a basement-dwelling Emo Teen immersed in comic books and video-games.
• Street Fighter:
  • Dan and Sakura. Dan is the original Joke Character. Sakura is a young girl who, frankly, could kick Dan's face in without trying. Dan is under the delusion that he's Sakura's teacher. She seems to genuinely like him despite this and plays along with it. The two of them are also friends with Blanka, the green beast man.
  • Though it's only shown in her arcade ending in Ultra, Elena has the ability to make friends with anyone. Including Akuma, the biggest badass antagonist in the entire series!
• Super Robot Wars V: Despite their vastly different attitudes and demeanor, Audrey and Ange still strike up a close friendship. In no small part due to them both being a princess belonging to a group they don't support. Momoka even notes the similarities between them.
  Momoka: It occurred to me a while back, but it could it be you're a, well, a person of high social standing?
  Audrey: What?
  Momoka: I get that impression every time I see how you act, how you carry yourself. I feel as though I'm watching Angelise.
• Tales Series:
  • Genis and Lloyd from Tales of Symphonia. The genius child prodigy and the village idiot, somehow being such good friends that when Lloyd is Banished, Genis demands to be exiled with him.
  • Estelle and Rita from Tales of Vesperia. A prim and proper book-smart princess with little worldly experience, and an aggressive mage who's big on getting stuff done on her own when no one can help.
• Team Fortress 2:
  • The Medic and the Heavy are widely known as being closer than any of the other classes — mostly because of how well they work together in battle, and several in-game lines coming from the Heavy (offering to take bullets for the Medic with "Get behind me, doctor!", "You are great, doctor!", "I love this doctor!"). One of them is a German doctor implied to hail from the Nazi era (although he's confirmed as not being involved with the party), exhibiting fairly Camp mannerisms, the other a Russian testosterone-poisoned Boisterous Bruiser who enjoys calling everyone and anyone "cowards" and "babies". How strong is the Heavy's fondness of the Medic? The Medic calls the Heavy a baby in the "Meet the Medic" video ''while pinching his cheek''. Not only does he survive, he actually comes out of it without a scratch.
  • The Pyro and the Engineer. Like Heavy and Medic, their personalities appear to be opposites, but they appear to be close friends in and out of battle. Pyro is a Cloudcuckoolander, and Engineer is a down-home Southern-Fried Genius who appears to be the Cloudcuckoolander's Minder. Even knowing the Pyro is, well, a Pyromaniac, he still invites him to his house and reads him a Christmas story in one update comic. In gameplay, the Pyro is very good at rooting out Engineer's hard counter the Spy. They can also equip a melee weapon called The Homewrecker that allows them to remove Spy's sappers from Engineer's buildings, an ability only usually reserved for the Engineer himself. In the community Pyro's that tend to equip The Homewrecker are affectionately nicknamed "Pybros."
• Neil and Eva from To the Moon, though some people view them as more than "friends".
• The World Ends with You: Career driven Uzuki Yashiro and laid back Koki Kariya.
• In Warframe the Grineer and Corpus, the ruling powers of the Origin System, hate each other with an intense passion, to the point that the Steel Meridian and the Perrin Sequence are violently opposed, even though they're both trying to help the oppressed civilian populace. Against this background, the greatest bromance in the game is Darvo Bek, a rogue Corpus trader, and Clem, a Grineer clone with the 'flaw' of free will (and a limited vocabulary). Darvo gets to be the smartest one in the room and let Clem go on the acquisition misions; Clem gets a friend who can understand the nuances of the two words "Clem" and "Grakata" and plentiful opportunities to point his Twin Grakatas at very deserving people. They both also bond over the Tenno: Darvo is a friendly Black Market Arms Dealer who gleefully sells stolen military equipment to the Tenno, while Clem idolizes the Tenno and enjoys following them on Darvo's acquisition missions.
• Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey: Despite viewing Eurylochus as annoying and unhelpful, Wishbone says he's actually going to miss the guy after the latter heads for home.
• Yakuza has the weird (and somewhat belligerent) friendship between Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima; Kiryu is a stoic Nice Guy who generally wants to keep his head down, while Majima is an Ax-Crazy Bad Boss always itching to get into fights. Still, the two greatly respect each other's fighting skills, and Majima is always happy to help Kiryu with whatever problem he's dealing with at the time.