Number of Character Appearances VII - To Absent Friends

[ByzantiumBhuka]

I'm going to disagree here, and say that the Stool Mimics make their first appearance here. The furniture in the comics you identify looks like a nightstand more than a stool, and the coloration is a little different. The nightstand is more of a warm tan, while the stools are a darker, more gray color. I think the mimics have been off-camera or behind the table until this comic. As always, I could be wrong.

In that case, where do you think the nightstand went over the course of 1251-1260?

[Chronos]

1270: Banjo, Durkon Thundershield (in flashback), Elan (and in flashback), Haley Starshine (in flashback), Serini Toormuck (in flashback), Sunny.

Plus Pitcher's Mound Mimic and Bat Mimic, but I don't think we've seen them before.

And also confirmation that Sunny was the beholder seen in comic 32, and thus the "character seen only once before who will become a significant ally".

[ByzantiumBhuka]

1271: Minrah, Stool Mimic, Durkon, Belkar, Haley, Roy, Elan, Serini, Sunny, Mr. Scruffy, Lien, O-Chul.

Also, more possible support for my nightstand-mimic theory: Note that panel 1 has a sad mimic for whom (as of right now) there is no demand as a seat, and a smooth bed.. Also note that in panel 7, the bed has rumpled covers, even though nobody is seen rumpling or has reason to rumple said covers. The best reason I can think of for this strange occurrence is that the mimic hid beneath these covers, rumpling them in the process. ("Rumpling" is a fun word.) This, if true, would provide evidence for the idea that our mimic lives or hides in the general area of the bed-- all the more reason for it to have been that nightstand.

[b_jonas]

1271: […] in panel 7, the bed has rumpled covers, even though nobody is seen rumpling or has reason to rumple said covers.

I disagree. Serini is lifting the covers because she's about to lie down. She just said in the 4th and 5th panel that she wants to take a break, and in the 7th panel she says that Sunny will help out with the cooking because she won't be there to help because she'll be sleeping. There may be mimics around the house, but that duvet doesn't prove it.

Update: Also don't forget to count some inanimate characters. #1252 (5th panel), #1256 (1st), #1258 (1st), #1259 (9th) have Lutey. #1252 (5th), #1253, #1254, #1255, #1256, #1257, #1258, #1259, #1268 (1sth), #1271 have the Greenhilt sword (but #1269 doesn't as far as I can se).

[Squire Doodad]

Seconded that Serini is just ruffling the sheets herself.

[Yxylu]

For 1270 Batter's Eye:
1 Page, 10 Panels, 228 Words

Character	Count	Last Appearance	Words	Total Words	Rank
Armand Vestinghole	+1	1203, 25 May, 2020	+0	0	1109
Banjo	+1	949, 17 Apr, 2014	+0	0	1109
Bat Mimic	+1	First Appearance	+1	1	1049
Durkon Thundershield	+1	1269, 1 Oct, 2022	+0	23,137	6
Elan	+1	1259, 8 Jun, 2022	+90	36,092	3
Haley Starshine	+1	1269, 1 Oct, 2022	+0	40,795	2
Lutey the Lute-tastical Lute	+1	1259, 8 Jun, 2022	+0	0	1109
Mimi	+1	1243, 7 Sep, 2021	+0	0	1109
Serini Toormuck	+1	1269, 1 Oct, 2022	+23	2,857	28
Sunny	+1	1259, 8 Jun, 2022	+112	616	79 (98)

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Sunny was the only one who changed in ranking, but it was a doozy. The 112 new words, plus the correction for adding what was previously called Beholder (in comic 32, the Board Game Rule Book, and one of the cards), caused a jump up to 79th place, between the Narrator from the first book (618) and Ho Thanh (612).

This is the first time Elan's coat has been off, so the first appearance of Armand Vestinghole, since May of 2020, and Banjo's first appearance since "healing" Felix way back in 2014 (over eight years!).

I'm thinking that the pitcher's mound is Mimi, but the bat is a previously unknown mimic.

This is the fourth panel with a "CRAACK" sound, but the first with two exclamation marks. This is also the first "boop."

[Yxylu]

For 1271 Make or Break:
1 Page, 11 Panels, 364 Words

Character	Count	Last Appearance	Words	Total Words	Rank
Armand Vestinghole	+1	1270, 12 Nov, 2022	+0	0	1109
Belkar Bitterleaf	+1	1269, 1 Oct, 2022	+56	34,833	4
Durkon Thundershield	+1	1270, 12 Nov, 2022	+10	23,147	6
Elan	+1	1270, 12 Nov, 2022	+62	36,154	3
Haley Starshine	+1	1270, 12 Nov, 2022	+21	40,816	2
Lien	+1	1269, 1 Oct, 2022	+37	4384	20
Lutey the Lute-tastical Lute	+1	1270, 12 Nov, 2022	+0	0	1109
Minrah Shaleshoe	+1	1269, 1 Oct, 2022	+22	3,531	25
Mr. Scruffy	+1	1268, 19 Sep, 2022	+0	124	237
O-Chul	+1	1269, 1 Oct, 2022	+14	10,316	10
Roy Greenhilt	+1	1269, 1 Oct, 2022	+61	66,096	1
Serini Toormuck	+1	1270, 12 Nov, 2022	+49	2,906	28
Stool Minic	+1	1269, 1 Oct, 2022	+0	0	1109
Sunny	+1	1270, 12 Nov, 2022	+32	648	77 (79)

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Sunny moves up two spaces, passing the Cliffport Police Chief (641), but not quite up to Lirian (672). Not much else of note.

[Yxylu]

For 1272 Relative Progress:
1 Page, 11 Panels, 249 Words

Character	Count	Last Appearance	Words	Total Words	Rank
Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator	+1	1242, 18 Aug, 2021	+3	124	821 (903)
Illusionary Julia Greenhilt	+1	1196, 23 Mar, 2020	+50	629	79 (83)
Roy Greenhilt	+1	1271, 25 Nov, 2022	+196	66,292	1

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Bloodfeast increases his total words by 60%! Impressive! He's in a 27-way tie for 821st place.

Illusionary Julia is between the Narrator (618) and the Cliffport Police Chief (641).

Roy is still in first place (ahead of Haley by over 25,000 words). That won't change anytime soon.

[Yxylu]

For 1273 Clearly They Do Not:
1 Page, 12 Panels, 407 Words

Character	Count	Last Appearance	Words	Total Words	Rank
Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator	+1	1272, 16 Dec, 2022	+0	124	821
Illusionary Julia Greenhilt	+1	1272, 16 Dec, 2022	+82	711	75 (79)
Roy Greenhilt	+1	1272, 16 Dec, 2022	+325	66,617	1

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Illusionary Julia is between the Melisander (726) and Horace Greenhilt (689).

Roy is still in first place.

[Yxylu]

For 1274 Better Than One:
1 Page, 12 Panels, 385 Words

Character	Count	Last Appearance	Words	Total Words	Rank
Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator	+1	1273, 18 Jan, 2023	+0	124	821
Illusionary Julia Greenhilt	+1	1273, 18 Jan, 2023	+139	850	70 (75)
Roy Greenhilt	+1	1273, 18 Jan, 2023	+246	66,863	1

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Illusionary Julia is between the Loki (852) and all the indistinguishable Goblin Warriors (828).

Roy is still in first place.

[Ron Miel]

Oh dear, #1275 retroactively changes the count. Eugene increases and Julia decreases.

How does it work, anyway? Is Eugene-impersonating-Julia counted as an appearance of both?

[Precure]

Julia doesn't decrease since her appearance still appeared.

[Sir_Norbert]

Every strip from 1272 to 1276 is +1 for Eugene, but unless I've missed something, we don't have a definite answer yet as regards 1191-1196.

[Ron Miel]

1191-1196 was definitely Eugene.

See 1193 panel 9.
Then see 1276 panel 8 to 10.

[Tass]

Wow. It feels wierd that Minrah already has more views than Hinjo or Sabine.

[b_jonas]

1191-1196 was definitely Eugene.

Yeah. And even before that. Eugene probably never had a daughter. Julia was an illusion all the time. Roy diapered an illusion, grew up with an illusion, teased each other with an illusion, saw an illusion go to wizard school, rescued an illusion kidnapped by Nale. In OotPC page 31, when Eugene gives up a flimsy excuse about how only the eldest son can complete his blood oath, that's all a cover, the reality is that Julia can't complete the blood oath because she doesn't exist.