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Rita met Emmy originally through a forum about gardening and plants. Rita was always happy to answer his questions and eventually thy got to talking, with Rita sending pictures of her harvest and seeds to Emmy, getting to the point of exchanging some plants. It's refreshing for Rita to see a non Xuxian care so much for plants, and she will defend the man from anyone who tries to accuse him. It's a rare sight to see and Rita doesn't want his passion or drive for learning more to dwindle because of it. She also totally send him silly plant pictures from time to time.
Emanuel first found Rita while doing some research leading up to his visit to Xuxia. As soon as he found out about the lunar gardener, he got in contact. As a fellow plant enthusiast, they have gotten along quite well and have shared countless tips, tricks, and methods for how they each nurture the plants under their care. Emanuel is very excited to visit Rita in person one of these days.
Kreah was one of the first people Rita met on Xuxia, an they've developed a sorts of comfortable friendship. Whenever Rita isn't on her harvest moon, she spends a lot of time wit Kreah, enjoying various Xuxian café's, bars and drink places, satiating both hers and Kreah's sweet toothes. Although Rita doesn't share much, she hopes Kreah knows that her friendship means a lot, she heavily enjoys that they can both just relax together, drinking their sweet lil cocktails as they laugh at tourists getting their limbs eaten by the planet <3
Meeting through outings and leisure, these two get along quite well, bonding through how much their coworkers give them a hard time. Kreah doesn't have that many friends that don't take part of her work line, so it is a bit fresh air to simply have someone to talk to who isn't worried about tomorrow's work.
Leni is one of the most unique Xuxians Rita has met, she thinks that Leni can be a little extreme when it comes to judging others, especially when Rita has seen the things tourists do when they have free reign. But she finds her determination commendable. Rita and Leni have the same mindset, just very different goals, Rita has definitely been pulled into Leni's pond a couple times during their squabbles.
A fellow Xuxian farmer, Leni has a begrudging trust in Rita's character when it comes to taking care of plants off planet, even if they love her otherwise. Occasionally, Leni will even let Rita take cuts from their pond without alerting Xuxia, even if they continue to guard a few species from even Rita's prying eyes.
Rita has ADORED Terumi ever since she got to Xuxia. Having the same values and way of expressing them really fast forwarded their friendship. One may say they don't make the best decisions together, due to their enabling of loud chaotic behaviour, but so what! They have fun.
Rita heavily enjoys someone she can share her music with too, sending Terumi new bands every other week to listen to.
Rita was one of Terumi's first friends on Xuxia. It was a rather instant bond between the two with their same music tastes and hard stances on the environment. Even though Terumi's considered an outsider on the planet, she will insult the living shit outta stupid ass tourists with Rita. She did her research, they didn't. She's allowed to laugh.
Rita thinks Nessie is talented af. Being able to manage a whole club AND still make drinks? Is crazy to her/ And how she cultivates her audience to be so good is a huge skill in her eyes. Since Nessie is one of Abril's close friends, Rita considers Nessie a friend as well. Whenever she can visit Ono she brings all sorts syrups and ingredients to her, along with stories of unfortunate toursits.
While she was surprised to see a landwalker at her club, she was also excited to meet someone from Xuxia! She hit it off with Rita pretty quick when they first met, and since then has thoroughly enjoyed her visits to Ono. The new ingredients Rita provides her with are always appreciated, and she makes sure they never go to waste. While the tourist stories caught her off guard at first, she can now laugh at them with Rita. Seriously, is it that hard to read a sign that says "DANGER: CARNIVOROUS PLANTS AHEAD" ??? Maybe she has her own "stupid tourist" stories to share... Though unfortunately hers can just come back again.
While Rita loves hitting the bars with Ilri, the horror stories of Ilri's "caring" of plants has led there to a spray botte with her name on it. Outside the garden? Rita and Ilri always watch the current cycles' Moon race together.
Ilrium visits Rita whenever she feels like bothering the gal and catching up; however she isn't allowed to be near Rita's garden. The stories of no plant has ever survived in Ilri's care must have reached her ears, so the spray bottle is always nearby.
Rita met Jay through Kreah, where, in Rita's humble opinion, they got along pretty well, Rita's taboo humour amusing Jay, and vice versa. Since travelling back, they send links to goth clothing to each other, with Rita sending progress of her garden fauna, especially the plants with funny eyes and teeth.
One of Ex-Officer Kreah’s friends and thus, friend of hers aswell, they share fashion tastes and sometimes go out to pubs when Kreah feels like it. The xuxian has morbid humor which matches Jay’s easily. It is maybe one of the few ways Jay learns about the xuxian fauna, considering they cannot visit the planet at all.
Rita loves having Minka's positive and chaotic energy around, I mean, eco-friendly fireworks? What's more metal than that. Well their bad decision making doubles when she's with Minka, landing them in some precarious situations. Wil this stop them? Absolutely not. Rita is always up for helping Minka create more unique fireworks as well.
Minka looks forward to hanging out with Rita whenever possible. She loves getting into trouble with her. Often goes to Rita with questions about her plants whenever they get out of hand.
Rita sees Toukha as that one cool lady who goes to her for tattoo recommendations. After a while of helping design some of the tats and recommending her designs she enjoys seeing Toukha from time to time.
Abril is her ride or die, especially when she managed to crack the tough shell that Rita had put up since a young age, she'll never not appreciate what Abril has done for her. It was a hard decision to leave for Xuxia, but ever since she's gotten the hang of her schedule, the visits between Ono and Abril coming to her moon have been getting more constant.
Abril grew up with Rita, both being moon-dwelling, there wasn't many other children, leading these two to basically be siblings, Abril's parents being workaholics, hence these two doing everything together. Although they're apart now, the midnight calls, and packages being sent to each other stay strong. Abril does her best to visit Rita, and vice versa. They're the besties with opposite styles and horrible dating advice for each other.