Wait. So, if time works different on nation people, can a np keep going with their ordinary life without sleeping for a decade? Can they skip meals for weeks and still be pretty healthy? After all, a certain amount of nation people's health depends on their country's present situation. I might make this a headcanon of mine.
Note: i hope Canada kept in touch with Barbara until her death. I feel like most nation people avoid human including friendships because everytime they will have to witness a death and grieve for them eventually.
I think that while NPs perceive time differently, it's more connected to their perception of growth rather than their basic needs. So they see humans as the ones who grow super fast and themselves as growing normally.
They would need to eat and sleep as much as a human. While their healing abilities make them resistant to injuries, their bodies will still deal with the effects of starvation and sleep deprivation. The only major difference is that they can't die from it.
Also Barbara visited Canada while she was on parole. It was a very wholesome interaction, but she violated the "not allowed within 100 meters of the Canadian NP" condition and got in trouble. He hasn't seen her in person since, but he checked her Facebook every once in a while to see how she was, even until her passing in 2017.
