>>6668855I think NPC is actually a broader term.
Lonely incels whose only goal is to "fit in" and urge for materialistic things and don't care about anything else are NPCs.
That nerdy kid who has no friends and just wants to get good exam results so he can go to university and become a privileged slave and cares about nothing else, be it political, theological, philosophical or spiritual is an NPC.
Most people here wouldn't consider these two examples to be "normies". However, they're very much NPC tier.