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Scorpion451
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KD
Since: May, 2009
2025-07-11 15:16:16
Artificial Atmospheric Actions in some cases. Many of the examples are of NPCs pretending to do something productive but actually just walking in circles.
Edited by KD
Florestan
Since: May, 2015
2025-07-11 15:32:58
Or, if you wish to have an in-universe description of such a character, you might call them an Absurdly Dedicated Worker...

Basically when a character is shown in one mission doing something like playing video games and then even after the mission either they are still doing it forever or the sound continues and they are just on loop doing whatever it was they did during the mission
maybe they will always be sweeping the floor etc
if you know this tropes name or if it falls under something else please reply!
Edited by SKULLRVLT