Open Thread: Minor Characters

This is the best tweet thread I will ever host, and I wanted to share it here, so I am:

If you were a brief minor character in a novel, what would you want to be?

I'd want to be the mildly eccentric well-off person who gives the heroes bath and bed and board when they most need it and everyone else has turned on them in their time of need.

Click through and read the responses if you have time; they're amazing and so good.