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Jack is quite honestly AJ's dream boy, despite the fact they're not the best influences on each other AJ absolutely loves and adores almost every inch of jack whenever he gets the chance to be around him. He's never the most forward with his feelings, keeping his confessions of love about Jack for when he's high/drunk to avoid embarrassing himself which unfortunately might make him come off as insincere, Jack is the one person who AJ would do almost anything for to see him smile (even if that means going sober for a little while)
In a poly relationship with AJ and Azon.
Together they’re just a mess, Jack needs stability most of the time but AJ gets him hyped up into a manic state. They get into ridiculous twink shenanigans more ofthen than not, including but not limited to theft and arson. Jack occsionally gets stoned with AJ when he's feeling it but generally just makes weed brownies for him.
AJ has conflicted feelings about Nat, appreciating her compassion and concern for him when he's in bad spots in his life but he's also slightly suspicious and doesn't always understand why she would care for him the way he does. That's not to say he thinks she has some sort of secret motive, he just doesn't feel he's a person who deserves to be helped, he'd be her friend in a heartbeat though. While he's unwilling to quit his awful habits for her he does do his best to make sure she's comfortable and happy around him, wanting to be close with her since she does have a very soothing and motherly feeling to him
Nat cares deeply about AJ's health and wellbeing, having helped him gain the correct certificates to change his gender marker, as well as it being a mix of motherly instinct to protect this man and a lot of squish type affection. She wants to be friends with him outside of work but is offput slightly by the drug habit, but not enough to completely deter her from helping him sort his life out if he ever asks for it.
There's very little to be said about these two that you couldn't find in a police report, absolutely chaotic together as their mutual desire to be constantly living in the moment and not thinking about the risks of their actions does certainly lead to them getting into heaps of trouble regularly. AJ can never quite be sure of Emery's true feelings about him, always wondering if there's something about him that keeps xem from wanting him in a serious relationship, that being said if these two do ever end up together AJ would be more than willing to put his life on the line to make Emery happy, utterly adoring xem and always wanting to be around Emery since xe's always a person that can put a smile on AJ's face even at the worst of times, AJ regards Emery as his closest friend (even if he always feels himself wanting so much more)
Stoner friends, Emery is too drugged up around him most of the time to realise xe cares deeply about is wellbeing. Unfortunately and true to Emery's nature, xe doesn't ever express these feelings very well leading to some risky situations. They both smoke weed together along with Oskar, their dealer.