I'm sure people still remember the "business executive" HA thing, and it seems like that HA didn't get used for anything (sorrynotsorry if I haven't read every topic related to this issue to find the answer).

Anyway, turns out we have HA's as NPCs for the Libertine Lounge and Steamworks Menagerie.

So why not have HA contests for stores like this? Next year we could have a little competition to "elect" new assistants for the store. It could happen each year, or maybe just next year (the male HA has no eyes!!). It also works out well since we could have a male AND female winner.

Other possible places we could have user designed HAs as "NPCS" (some of these places have HA NPCs already, but we could have new ones!):

-Gift center Link -Snowtapult Link -Donation centre

..ok just had another idea. Why not have them everywhere where there's no image/NPC? .. ok maybe not everywhere. But maybe even in places like the Beanbag Shop which doesn't have an NPC. We could just say that the HA NPCs are "assistants", no need to give them names or back stories.

Of course, the whole method of how to judge HA contests is a whole nother can of worms.. :P