Yes and no. He's always been a very solitary kind of person and struggles to connect with others on a personal level. He never felt his peers understood him in school. That continues into his adulthood. He finds socializing to be easy, as he enjoys asking others about themselves and listening to their stories, but reciprocating that is something that he struggles with deeply.

It's not something I've talked about publicly about Grayson yet, but because of the way his mother invaded his privacy and exploited his vulnerabilities as a child, he has deeeeeep seated intimacy issues that make him incredibly averse to being vulnerable in any way with people. There's also a trend of the people in his life that he does end up allowing himself to get close to dying (or the occasional betrayal).

He doesn't ever really get lonely, per se, but he does often long for the companionship he found in his first friend, Alec Underwood, an oc created by my friend @Macbeth

He has two different mentors in his life. First, Hugo, his academic advisor in grad school, another oc created by Mac. Then, his mentor in the kink space when he moves to Chicago, a man named Dominic. He moves away from Hugo, and he has to deal with Dominic’s death when he’s 40.

He gained one more friend in Grey Achrom, an oc by my friend @veresvoros, a model turned fashion designer. They originally meet because Grey becomes Grayson’s tailor. (Their name is Greyson, and yes they make fun of each other for “spelling it wrong.”) They end up having a falling out and Grayson returns to having zero friends for a few years.

He socializes, he has what he considers ‘acquaintances,’ but none of those people are truly ever close enough to him for him to consider them friends. He socializes a lot in the kink community, giving demonstrations in honor of Dominic. He stays active as a philanthropist, donating to many charities across Chicago. He also attends conferences in his field of psychology and specially about dissociation & trauma.

As his Menagerie grows and he has more emotional custodial work he has to do with them he has less and less capacity for other social endeavors.