Personally, I don't care.
TDW has Paul and Kan, even though Paul doesn't have a template, he's used as an NPC. If it's unanimous and more people would like the option of having a Partner Character or NPC, then I'd be open to making a new forum for it. Zack would have to approve of it as well though, but I'm pretty sure he'd be open to the idea as well.
The whole thing here is pretty lenient-- generally speaking of course, just don't think up anything beyond retarded that doesn't have to do with what high school kids would ever do because then that ruins the point of this being a high school based site.