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Kevin & Kell by Bill Holbrook
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Fiona Fennec: Let's celebrate!
Rudy Dewclaw: Let's party!
Bruno Lupulin: Let's...not.
Corrie Dale: Let's perform CPR, please...
—Comic for August 7, 2000, after Corrie (under her name in reverse) had been placed in the Species Registry by Fiona; dismayed at its suddenness, this put Corrie into a panic attack

Characters that are around Rudy's age, mostly his friends and teammates from Caliban Academy. As of 2015, they have graduated from Caliban and spread to colleges, mostly Beige University. As of 2023, most of them have graduated college, and are now moving all over the country.

Bruno Lupulin (Trans-Ram, Biologically Wolf)

Rudy's best friend. Practically engaged to Corrie. Trans-diet and trans-species vegetarian. Long story. Originally wore Corrie like a sheepskin to keep their relationship discreet, but switched to a fake sheepskin when Corrie entered society, and eventually decided to become a ram himself. Currently getting his college education through a correspondence school, and has now moved in with Corrie at the Fennec boardinghouse.

  • The Big Guy: Because he's the only full-blooded wolf of his group of friends, he stands head and shoulders above the other teens in the strip. This usually doesn't come into play, except for the time he and Rudy fought.
  • Childhood Friend Romance: He met Corrie on his first hunt as a pup.
  • Coming-Out Story: Revealing to the hunting team he was trans-diet was framed to be this.
  • Mistaken for Gay: Rachel thought he was a ewe at first thanks to wearing Corrie's fur, and being a lesbian, she kissed him. To prevent that from happening again, he started wearing ram horns with his sheepskin.
  • Parental Obliviousness: His parents, who have only been seen twice, have been depicted as very detached. Both times they have been seen, they were planted in front of the TV. Bruno could get them to agree to anything (even his diet reassignment surgery) as long as it would stop him from interrupting their TV time. As a result, it was natural for him to seek Kevin for the parental guidance he lacked.
  • Voluntary Transformation: A 2016 storyline revealed he wasn't done getting four stomachs done as part of his trans-diet nature. He got follicles implanted so he could grow wool, making his sheepskin permanent, and got his ears docked to be more sheeplike. According to Lindesfarne's blog, his ram horns are now permanently implanted into his skull, he's also going to get hooves done on his lower limbs, and have his claws removed on his hands.

Corrie Dale (Sheep/Wolf)

Bruno's girlfriend, Ralph's daughter. Was originally given up for adoption. Escaped a research facility, and lived much of her childhood acting as a sheepskin Bruno wore. When she found out Ralph was her father, he adopted her.

  • Aborted Arc: She originally ran into Ralph a lot earlier in the comic strip and clearly something was being set up for them. Then because of time constraints revolving around the Y2K storyline, Mr. Holbrook had to cut out their planned meeting that was intended for that arc. They eventually did meet, it just took a couple more years.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Her best friend Fiona was attacked by a cougar. Corrie's inner wolf awakened and she ate the cougar.
  • Conveniently an Orphan: Originally what she thought she was. Her actual family heritage proved to be a lot more complicated.
  • Death by Childbirth: Her mother. Later it was discovered Corrie had the same genetic defect, causing her to end efforts to have a baby with Bruno and instead seek adoption.
  • Gender Equals Breed: Her mother was a sheep, and for many years, Corrie thought she was a full-blooded sheep too.
  • I Have Many Names: It's unknown how Corrie got her name; whether it was actually given to her by the lab that adopted her (though, given how livestock animals are sometimes treated, this is not certain), or if she came up with it when initially with Bruno. It's possible she only knew herself as Corrie before setting up the name of "Dale Corrie" for her real name connected to the online alias "Darkeyes" for her online affair with Rudy ("Redfang"). Or she was actually previously "Corrie Dale," and the name has stuck. Oddly enough, she did not take the last name of Dewclaw after Ralph, her biological father, took her back in.
  • Improbable Age: Getting a job at Herd Thinners, a prestigious organization where it's shown even top predators have trouble making the grade, when she was fourteen was pushing it. Being able to save enough money to buy a house from that same job pushed it into this trope.
  • Innocently Insensitive: When they first decided to have children, Corrie initially wanted to adopt a lamb, since even though they both identified as sheep, Bruno was genetically a wolf, and she was half-wolf. Lindesfarne asked why simply having what would likely be a wolf cub was a big deal, showing Turvy to drive the point home.
    Lindesfarne: I still don't see the problem.
    Corrie: Now that you mention it..
    Bruno: (facepalming) Sheesh... and I once accused Rudy of not being open to diversity.
    • She would ultimately take that lesson a step further, as the child they adopted after she learned natural childbirth wasn't a good idea for her was neither wolf nor sheep.
  • Interspecies Romance: Was the product of one, her parents being a sheep and wolf. Now currently in one too with Bruno.
  • Missing Mom: Her mother and Ralph's girlfriend, Wanda Woolstone, died in childbirth.
  • My Biological Clock Is Ticking: She and Bruno determined to have children eventually, originally thinking of adoption. In 2018 they started trying to conceive a child themselves. But they gave up when they found out Corrie had the same genetic defect that caused her mother's Death by Childbirth.
  • Vague Age: If you look at the 20th anniversary comics from 2015 (around the point that Bill started aging the cast roughly on real-time), it shows Kell pregnant with Rudy and Ralph having already lost his hunting skill. This suggests that Corrie had already been born, since her mother's Death by Childbirth is what triggered Ralph's incompetence. So Corrie is definitely the oldest amongst Rudy's immediate peers, though it's not likely by much.

Fiona Fennec (Red Fox/Fennec)

Rudy's long-time girlfriend. Mother Martha (vixen) and father George (fennec) are divorced; both re-married into the Dewclaw family. Originally made rich when she helped cut society's dependency on the Great Bird Conspiracy, but the wealth eventually evaporated in a financial downturn. Her mansion is now a boardinghouse managed by her mother. After cohabitating—splitting time between a burrow on her mansion's grounds in Domain and George Gopher's former burrow by Lindesfarne's tree near Beige University—during their later college years, Fiona and Rudy got engaged, and moved to the Rabbit Warren into the condo once owned by Miranda's dads.

  • Altar the Speed: In total, averted. Fiona and Rudy's relationship has has been permitted to develop naturally from their early teens into adulthood, maturing as they dealt with various pressures in either direction until finally getting engaged after both graduated college.
  • First Girl Wins: Not without some bumps along the way, but they've gotten through it all.
  • Either/Or Offspring: She looked like a purebred red fox until her father's ears came in during a growth spurt.
  • Important Haircut: Each time her hair changes, it's because something significant has happened in her life.
  • Jerkass Ball: As Rudy experienced Character Development during their later years at Caliban, Fiona has had moments where she has dealt with him in an irrational manner. In some cases, the reaction was uncalled-for. But even this has waned as they've gone through college and eventually moved in together.
  • Riches to Rags: She was rich for many years after gaining a bunch of money during the Y2K crisis where she went around fixing all the computers, but lost her liquid assets during an economic downturn. She ended up sharing Rudy's scholarship so she could go to college, while her mother let out her side of the mansion as a boardinghouse to pay the bills.
  • "Shut Up" Kiss: Fiona did this to Rudy when he was about to pop the question as she could hear his heart racing.
    Rudy: Can you at least wait until I ask you to marry me?
    Fiona: "Preventative care".
  • Super-Hearing: Her hearing is well beyond that of other characters thanks to her fennec heritage. She can hear fur growing or know which stomach of a ruminant is digesting their food. This became useful when she was switched to the Gardening team as she patrols Beige's crops for pests.
    • Lindesfarne revealed in her Tumblr blog that Fiona's hearing even goes well beyond that of even other Fennec foxes. No one is sure why, though Lindesfarne theorizes the experimentation done on her as a young teen by the birds might have had some lingering affects.
    • After moving into the Rabbit Warren, Fiona noted having to tune out the constant background noise of all the bustle around them from all side.
  • Technopath: During the Y2K storyline, she was temporarily given the power to fix electronics by the birds under the guise of an "alien abduction." This allowed her to fix everything that was going to be affected by the bug coming up for the year 2000. It's never been fully explained why the birds singled her out for this.
  • "Ugly American" Stereotype: While traveling the world and using her powers to fix the Y2K Bug, Fiona abused them to alter/restore landmarks and take blood sausage off a British restaurant's menu. Once she consciously realizes what she's doing, she calls herself an ugly American.
  • Victorious Childhood Friend: Averted; they actually despised each other when they were in the same daycare. It was only after Fiona and her parents returned to Domain from living overseas a few years that she and Rudy bonded romantically. When they first met at Caliban, it was as if they had forgotten they previously knew each other (which is plausible, since the animosity was when they were toddlers).

Vin (Station Wagon)

Rudy and Fiona's second car. The first one literally fell apart in Aby's repair shop, and she bought the parts, enabling them to finance a better vehicle. This car failed testing as a self-driving car, but still has latent AI.

Edgar Carnassial (Lion)

One of the fellow students of Caliban Academy when Lindesfarne and Rudy went there. He was originally in a relationship with Rhonda, who dumped him and married her Ninth Life boyfriend after he was too needy and requested she hunt for him all the time. He responded by trying to hunt for himself, and formed a relationship with Leona when he tried out for the hunting team. When they went to college, she got caught up in sorority affairs, so he cheated on her with Miranda. After trying to mend their relationship over the summer and failing, they made a clean break, and he started going out with Miranda, whom he eventually married.

  • Hidden Depths: Turns out he could act and sing, going out for the school musical play while in high school. It led to him become a Theater Major in college.
  • Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: He actually has to kneel down to hug Miranda.
  • In-Series Nickname: As part of the Rhizome Trophy relationship ruse, his name as a mouse is "Whiskers". He lampshaded that getting it as a nickname outside the ruse was inevitable.
    Edgar: That's common for both felines and rodents.
    Rudy: You do realize you just acquired a nickname for life.
    Edgar: A chance I had to take.
  • Interspecies Romance: A lion dating (and eventually married to) a rabbit.
  • Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Ended up in an affair with Miranda, with evidence that Leona's obsession with her sorority led to the affair.
  • Retcon: Originally around Rhonda and Lindesfarne's age, but aged-down to Rudy's so that he could continue to be in the strip on the hunting team.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: He started off as Rhonda's self-centered, misogynistic Jerkass boyfriend who treated her like a drive-thru window. When he tried to win her back and fell in love with Leona, he started to lose some of these characteristics and become a friend to the main cast.
  • Traumatic Haircut: Shaved his mane so he'd look like a female lion while on the Caliban hunting team. He let his mane grow back after initially getting together with Leona.

Leona Mangle (Lioness)

Frank's daughter. Expert huntress, as you'd expect a lioness to be. Originally joined the hunting team at Caliban Academy to impress Edgar, who she'd had a crush on for a while. They dated, but when she went to college, she got involved with sorority activities and neglected him. He cheated on her with Miranda, which upset her. After trying to patch things up, she got a crush on Carl, and ended things between them. Leona and Carl got married in March 2020, and Leona found out she was pregnant with their first child that May.

  • Babies Ever After: Leona wasted no time getting pregnant with her and Carl's first child after they got married. The COVID-19 storyline led to them being cooped up together, with Leona finishing classes online and Carl's gardening team shut down, permitting them to draw out their honeymoon once they returned home from it.
    Carl's Mom: Congratulations, Dear. You'll make me a grandmother around January 25[, 2021].
    • In the end, she gave birth a few weeks early, on January 8, by C-section due to the baby's large size.
  • Chronic Hero Syndrome: After saving him from drowning at summer camp in 2016, Leona ended up saving his skin an additional two times by the end of the year (first from choking, then from poachers). After the third time, Carl called her out on it.
  • Daddy's Girl: Prior to her marriage, Leona was virtually Frank's entire world. A perfect example is when she conned Frank into helping Edgar with hunting.
  • Freudian Excuse: We found out during the drama around Carl turning pro that she was initially attracted to him because he reminded her of a unicorn. She liked unicorns as a cub, but developed intimacy issues after her mother's death, running from relationships at the first sign of trouble so they wouldn't disappear like a unicorn...or her mother.
    Frank: Blame the illness, not her.
  • Interspecies Romance: Went to this with Carl after she broke up with Edgar.
  • Missing Mom: Her mother died when she was eight after a long illness, according to Lindesfarne.
  • Rescue Romance: With Carl, as a rare case of the female rescuing a Distressed Dude. See: Chronic Hero Syndrome
  • Scars Are Forever: She has a scar over her left eye. It was the result of an accident in a hunting competition in 2010.
  • Surprise Pregnancy: Though Savanna's conception was unplanned according to Lindesfarne, there's no evidence that Leona and Carl were trying not to have a baby during their extended honeymoon.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: When matched up against any of her friends, she's definitely the most tomboyish. Carl actually mistook her for a boy until he got his glasses.

Carl (Rhinoceros)

A large rhino, introduced as an elder student on Beige University's competitive gardening team. Originally depicted as normally quadrupedal, he began walking on two feet regularly after he entered a relationship with Leona, whom he eventually married. Fairly Hot-Blooded initially, but much cooler later on. Currently a pro gardener for the Tidewater Pitchforks.

  • Blind Without 'Em: Like most rhinos, he's very short-sighted. Rudy helped him out with his gardening and eventually got him some glasses so he could see properly.
  • Bodyguard Crush: Averted, and later Defied. Carl was hired to be Miranda's bodyguard after a bad high-school relationship with a fox. Somewhere along the way, her uncle's partner started shipping them, but Miranda was never interested, and Carl respected that. In fact, when she began officially dating Edgar, he outsourced his bodyguard duty to Rudy. A likely presumed understanding was that Edgar was good enough to protect her, with Rudy as backup just in case. This ultimately proved to be true.
  • Delivery Guy: Picked up knowledge on being a midwife from his mother, and ended up in this situation one summer specifically with Lindesfarne for Turvy's birth. He and Leona took formal midwife classes together later, but he was not directly involved in Savanna's birth.
  • Distressed Dude: Tends to end up needing help a lot, despite being such a tough guy. But that comes with the territory for being a rhino, as poachers go to great lengths to get his horn. Once, when he was pursued on his and Leona's honeymoon, he offered to saw off his horn to get out of a jam.
  • Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better: Although usually seen on four legs early on, he was once seen on two legs with his parents after the first Summer Camp incident that landed him in the hospital. But on his first date with Leona, he rose from four legs to two, and would be seen more often on two legs from then on.
    Leona: Why now?
    Carl: First time I had a reason.
  • Freudian Excuse: The final reason why Carl resisted Leona's crush was because of the drama surrounding Miranda's affair with Edgar; particularly, that Leona wanted to hunt Miranda down. Miranda spoke up in Leona's defense, clearing the way for their relationship.
  • Hidden Depths: His mother is a midwife, so he knows what to do when Lindesfarne goes into labor.
  • Hired Guns: Was originally a bodyguard hired by Miranda's fathers to protect her after a brief relationship with a fox. It's unknown if this arrangement still exists after they accepted her relationship with Edgar.
  • Interspecies Romance: He started dating, and eventually married, lioness Leona Mangle.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he was suspicious and didn't accept Rudy at first, he still defended him from the rival teams, and eventually accepted him as a friend.
  • The Lancer: Given his demeanor, could be considered one to Rudy when he was on the gardening team. But once he turned pro...
  • The Leader: Not content to fall in line and tank with the rest of his team, Carl took a leadership role, with the assistance of Leona. See further down.
    Carl: (after being overrun with kudzu) Leona? I know you're busy planning our wedding, but I need you up here...
  • Mistaken for Cheating: During the preseason for Carl's first season with the Pitchforks, he was practicing at Beige University, while Ophelia was visiting with Greta. Greta's dorm was underneath the gardening stadium at Beige. So Leona thought they were in the same place, and her mind ran off with her about the implications. Exasperating that was that Ophelia lost her phone in her shell, so she was missing Leona's calls.
  • Oblivious to Love: Really, more actively in denial than actually oblivious; Carl resisted Leona primarily because he recognized her from the aftermath of Edgar and Miranda's affair (namely, Leona going after Miranda). It was only after Leona and Miranda teamed up on the third rescue, when Miranda spoke up in her defense, that Carl finally accepted Leona's advances.
  • Poor Communication Kills: He initially kept his intentions to turn pro and leave the gardening team under wraps. A good presumption is that he wanted to tell Leona first, and also ask her to marry him. But because someone in the press leaked the news, Leona ended up the last one to know, hurting her feelings and putting the proposal on hold. She held the grudge long enough that he actually returned an engagement ring. When she finally opened up enough for him to pop the question, he had to use the return receipt as a stand-in.
  • Took the Bad Film Seriously: Invoked with his draft. The owner of his pro gardening team is trying to tank to stockpile more talent. Carl is having none of that, and has taken a leadership role to whip the rest of his team into shape, to the ire of his team owner. Of course, the team owner expected Leona to devour Carl eventually, so his talent wouldn't get in the way. Whether or not this will remain the case after Angelique bought the team remains to be seen.

Miranda Hutch (Rabbit)

Niece of one of the members of the Rabbit Council. Has two fathers, a Straight Gay couple. On Beige University's competitive gardening team. Was the first to accept Rudy, likely due to Kevin being on the Rabbit Council. She became involved with Edgar, but backed off to let him and Leona patch up their relationship. She predicted this would fail and was waiting for Edgar. She served at the Domain area Easter Bunny between 2019 and 2023, receiving the title from Dorothy Kindle and passing it to Wendell Luckyfoot.

Greta Garter (Garter Snake)

Fiona's roommate after Leona joined a sorority, leaving her in the lurch. She's quite vain, but very friendly and kind.

  • Artistic License – Biology: She sheds her skin far more then any normal snake should.
  • The Fashionista: Always has her make-up done.
  • Healing Serpent: As a snake she seems to be intending to become this with her pre-med major. She also has been known to mimic the Rod/Staff of Asclepius while posing for her selfie stick.
  • Hidden Depths: Although incredibly vain, she's also very sympathetic, and proved to be a very good friend for Fiona at Beige U.
    • Fiona also thinks she's a pre-med major, which means she has to be quite intelligent under the vanity.
  • The Makeover: Is adept to giving them to people. She gave Miranda a temporary one and used her make-up specifically for scales so that Fiona could wear her many piercings in her ears again.
  • Power of Trust: Fiona at first didn't want to hug for obvious reasons. After a year of living together, she lets Greta give her a big hug goodbye at the end of the year.

Todd (Toad)

Greta's boyfriend. Greta had set up a blind date with a turtle, but it ended up eaten, leaving an empty shell. Todd crawled in, and the rest is history. He eventually gave up the shell, and is now living as a toad again.

  • Commuting on a Bus: Todd does not go to Beige, though he still appears quite frequently, suggesting his relationship with Greta is strong enough that it's worth the extra trips to Beige.
  • Failed a Spot Check: Todd and Greta had been dating for three years before she found out he was really a frog wearing a turtle shell.
  • Long-Distance Relationship: Todd and Greta began dating while in high school, and he goes to a different college.
  • More than Meets the Eye: In his initial appearances, he stayed withdrawn in his shell. It was only after saving Greta from a ceiling vent grate, going unnaturally fast for a turtle in order to do so, that he revealed the truth.
  • Red Herring: When Fiona returned for her sophomore year at Beige U, she found Greta with a rather large bulge. She asked "Todd?", wondering if he had been eaten. Todd then showed up.
    Fiona: How's... ...Todd?
    Todd: I'm here.
    Greta: Oh this? Just a burrito.
  • Removable Shell: One of the more macabre takes, as he assumed the shell of a freshly-predated turtle, stumbling into a relationship as a result. While it had its advantages, he gave the shell to Ophelia for her own protection, deciding to resume living as a toad with Greta.
  • True Love's Kiss: Invoked when Greta kissed Todd after finding out he was really a toad. After a brief moment of Post-Kiss Catatonia, Todd looks at himself.
    Todd: Still a toad.
    Greta: (smiling) Warts and all.

George Turtle née Gopher (Gopher)

When Carl graduated and turned pro gardener, George appeared via the transfer portal. Being a gopher that is into gardening runs afoul of his species' reputation, and especially his family's nefarious activities.

  • Above the Influence: When the pelt hunters saw George disguised as Ophelia, they think she's really a gopher, and instead take "her" to a bar and try to ply "her" with alcohol. George dumps the drinks in a nearby planter until he can get away from them, presumably once they've gotten too drunk and passed out themselves.
  • All of the Other Reindeer: Gophers in this comic normally cultivate a reputation of stealing produce. So George wanting to be a gardener is indeed very strange among his species, and it took a bit for his Beige teammates to accept him.
  • Chick Magnet: George accidentally became this after Greta completed his disguise with a mask she designed off the face of a popular fictional turtle character. It is feared this will complicate efforts to keep him out of the spotlight.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: He prints out a 3-D turtle shell so he and Ophelia can safely go on a date but doesn't identify as being an actual turtle. They lampshade it in the strip by wondering if either of them is committing cultural appropriation. Though that was ultimately averted when the greater turtle community accepted them both, and encouraged George to live as a turtle.
  • Gone Horribly Right: With the 2023 gardening season at Beige, Greta makes a mask to finish George's turtle outfit so he doesn't attract attention from his fugitive family. The problem is that Greta used a popular turtle character as model for the mask. This made him extremely popular with other lady turtles.
  • Innocently Insensitive: Accidentally thinks Ophelia is merely wearing the turtle shell for protection, causing her to correct him because she now considers herself an actual turtle.
  • Love Makes You Dumb: Despite only being in a relationship for at the most a matter of months, George was willing to quit college and move to be with Ophelia as she became Savanna's nurse, despite the fact he had no offers to join the pro gardening leagues, which is the only work he knows how to do. Carl wisely talked him out of it.
  • Rescue Romance: Had the makings from the beginning when he saved Ophelia from fur traders, but was initially complicated since she's a weasel, and eats gophers. Since they were masked, they each initially thought they were their own species.
  • Took the Wife's Name: Interesting take on the trope, as the greater turtle community encouraged George to live as a turtle, as Ophelia had been, after their wedding. Since his family had not only disowned him, but was actively out to kill him, he accepted it.

Ophelia Turtle née Stoat (Trans-Turtle; Biologically Weasel)

A vagabond who was robbed of her family by pelt hunters. She was saved from them by George, but gopher being on her personal menu complicated matters. She now lives as a turtle, using Todd's previous shell, to conceal her species.

  • Badly Battered Babysitter: Played for Laughs. Savanna plays a game with her she labels "Spin the Caretaker."
  • Crash-Into Hello: An understated version more related to Non Sequitur, *Thud* as she collapsed at George's feet while digging her way under Tree to escape pelt hunters.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Though she definitely hunted to stay alive—which complicated early feelings between her and George, since she did count gophers among her prey—she definitely had scruples about it. She could've easily eaten Carla when she hatched since she was going to eat her egg anyway, but was instantly smitten, and tried to raise her instead. She even admitted that, under different circumstances, she would've eaten Carla.
  • Hidden Depths: During her time on the run, she found Carla's egg after the latter's parents were eaten, and fostered her until the pursuing fur traders forced her to turn Carla in for adoption. She later uses the skills she had learned to become a nanny to Leona and Carl's daughter Savanna.
  • I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: A familial example. Ophelia loved the little chameleon Carla that she had found, but knew her life on the run was dangerous and no way to raise a child, so she gave her up to the adoption agency.
  • Mysterious Veil: Since the ventral side of the shell obscures her muzzle, and she can easily pull her entire body (and, sometimes, someone else) inside, it gives this impression. It's invoked during her and George's wedding, when she lifted her head out of the shell after saying "I do".
    Ophelia: That's the turtle version of lifting the veil.
  • Orphan's Ordeal: Of the characters in this comic subject to this trope, Ophelia's situation has been most extreme: her entire family was gradually picked off by pelt hunters, leaving her orphaned, completely homeless, and on the run by age 13.
  • Plot Allergy: An attempt to permit her to escape from poachers by having Greta disguise her was confounded because she's allergic to makeup.
    Greta: Oh... I had such plans.
    George: We were going to disguise you as an iguana.
  • Red Herring: A mysterious benefactor funded her and George's wedding and honeymoon. They accepted, but remained suspicious as to who. It turned out it was the fellowship of the various turtle species, which welcomed both of them because of rumors of unnatural speed rooted in the incident where Ophelia saved Savanna from poachers. Of course, there did end up being some quid pro quo involved: They were tasked with protecting eggs laid by sea turtles during their honeymoon. They were monetarily compensated for their work, however.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Ophelia learned George's real species, she ran from Lindesfarne's tree, unable to reconcile that someone of a species she considered prey had saved her from pelt hunters. Of course, she immediately gets caught by her pursuers again, forcing George and Lindesfarne to re-rescue her.
  • Sent Into Hiding: The original plan for protecting Ophelia was to have her live as a gopher with George. The fur traders came too soon to fully implement the plan, so she ended up hiding with Greta instead, even after she was finally "declared dead" and given a separate identity as a turtle.

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