I think cliques are inevitable if, for no other reason, than that it's typically the nature of role-play. Most of us role-play to find friends, lovers, family, enemies, allies, rivals, etc. for our character. To get these relationships, we have to role-play with these people more than once to establish a bond and a story. And often, we want our characters to have these relationships for the sake of finding other characters to ride out the storyline we have planned for our character alongside him or her. These become the people we role-play with most often, and therefore likely get to know best OOC. If every major plot point in your character's life was endured with a different stranger by his/her side each time rather than people your character actually knows and has interacted with on one more occasion, your character's story arc may still remain overall the same, but I think it would feel shallow knowing that no one else go to see the majority of your character's story IC or OOC to share the experience with you.
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