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Montresor? A drifting charlatan outlaw who is estranged from his family. Duke? Street magician who is from an oppressed minority. Pluto? Works at a carnival and his dad spends all their money on alcohol. Will? Farmer family with too many kids who are going through the Dust Bowl. Prospero? Doctor from an oppressed minority. Morella? Nun. Berenice? Has to rely on a sugar daddy and from an oppressed minority. Ada? Servant. Eulalie? Her dad can buy a house, but they're from an oppressed minority.

Anabel and Lenore grew up with servants. They lived in manors. They're white. Lenore's dad owns a railroad company, Anabel's family has enough money to go overseas in brand new, luxury ships.

there are a lot of notes for understanding how i took these measurements at the end of the post--relevant to read, I think, because some of my policies are pretty arbitrary--but the most important thing to keep in mind is that this is per-episode, not within-episode. So there is no differentiation provided between a character who speaks in 1 panel and a character who speaks in 10 panels. A more accurate measurement would go per-panel, but I love myself too much to deal with all that. Also, I am lazy, so no fancy infographics, you get screenshots of my formatted data from Google sheets. Anyways without further ado;

Full Series (1-161)

Intro+Labyrinth Arc (1-25)

Forming Alliances+Mystery Manor Arc (26-64)

Cask of Amontillado Arc+End of S1 (65-108)

Wild Hunt Arc (109-154)

Data Notes

• "Speaking appearance" applies to speech, but also other verbal sound effects like crying, gasping, or laughing even if they do not speak any actual words during the episode (ie; Annabel crying in the closet at the end of episode 101 is counted as speaking). It counts proper flashbacks, but does not count disembodied quotations.

• "Unspeaking" means they are visually present in the episode, but do none of the above. This includes flashbacks where the character is fully illustrated (ie; the panel with Duke and Pluto in ep 127) and background cameos (Duke and Morella in ep 3)

• "Mentioned" means the character is specifically mentioned by name, obviously alluded to (ie; all those times Lenore panics about Annabel during the wild hunt arc), appears in a more general flashback where they are not fully illustrated (ie; Eulalie Duke and Pluto being only in silhouette during the misfits blood pact flashback in ep 133), or is quoted in a disembodied way (Montresor's deal in ep 125)

• The order of priority: speaking>unspeaking>mentioned

• When Will is transformed into another character, I count it as a Will appearance and a [character] mention

• when Annabel hallucinates Lenore i count it as a Lenore unspeaking appearance, because she is illustrated but her words are entirely Annabel's

• Also I am very fallible there's a chance I made some errors in either counting or following my own rules, but I'm 100% sure the margin of error is no more than like 2 or 3 per character, not enough to change overall trends