Ami's Links
While Ami had often seen Maya at various elegant dances and dinners before, the two only really became friends after he caught Maya attempting to murder one of his employers' friends on Christmas Eve. (Great friendship opportunity, amirite?) While most rational people would turn an assassin in, Ami's curiosity was piqued by Maya and the two quickly realized that they were both holding up false 'personas' over their true identities. Ami feels that Maya is one of the only people he can truly be himself around, and vice versa. However, their friendship must be kept a secret as either could easily be used as a bargaining tool for the other if word got out.
Maya and Ami are actually extremely close friends, although they like to keep their friendship secretive due to the sensitive nature of Maya's work. Both of them feel that the other is among a very small circle of people they can trust.
Ami and Aesop are distantly related and both part of the same family known for producing top-quality butlers and servants. However, as Aesop is estranged from the family, Ami doesn't have much contact with the guy as he's technically not allowed to talk to the guy. Besides, Ami finds Aesop's suburban life rather boring.
Aesop is kind of scared of Ami, mainly because he knows that Ami is interested in recruiting his daughter for the family business which Aesop so vehemently left. However, he can't help but find Ami to be extremely nice and soft-hearted, and despite his better nature is tentatively not stopping Ami and Fable's growing friendship as he feels that Ami could be the nice uncle that Fable could never have.
While Aesop may be estranged from the family, that doesn't mean that his entire genetic line is discredited. As Ami is a loyal part of his family, he has been sent out to see if he can recruit Fable, Aesop's daughter, for the family business several times. Fable shows no interest in being a butler, however, and as Ami doesn't really think she has what it takes himself he spends most of his 'recruiting' time catching butterflies with her and looking at her stuffed animal collection.
When Ami first showed up at the doorstep to meet Fable, Aesop told her to stay away from him very quickly. Of course, for a naive little girl like Fable that kind of statement makes hanging out with a stranger even more enticing. Fable finds Ami rather adorable and nice, and loves how much interest he takes in her stuffed animal collection. While she knows that he does want her to leave with him to join their bigger-scale family, she told him from the get-go that she didn't want to do that and since he hasn't seemed to push the issue she enjoys hanging out with him quite a bit.
Ami really, really wishes that Kyoko was Aesop's biological child instead of adoptive as he is fascinated by her. She is the only genuine PPS kiamara that Ami knows and for somebody who works so hard to put on a childlike persona, the idea of actually being a child after being 30+ years old would make things a whole lot easier on Ami. Plus, Kyoko looks cute but is actually interested in a lot of creepy shit which makes Ami like her even more. If she wasn't part of Aesop's family, he'd probably count her among his small circle of actually trusted friends.
Kyoko likes Ami quite a bit. While she loves her adoptive family dearly, Ami seems like a really cool guy to Kyoko and reminds her a lot of herself in a strange sort of way, despite Ami being an adult. She's fully aware of how manipulative and sly Ami is and wishes she could be more like the guy; unfortunately, Kyoko is an extremely open, if slighty creepy, book.