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All Myths Are True: Played with-apparently fictional animals from our world have been known to pop up as anthros in that world.To his great dismay, it turns out she's not a ditzy cheerleader, but an Action Girl. All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Flores, whom Jon-Tom had a crush on back at UCLA.
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This also applies to Mudge, as he is eager to have a drink to the point where it puts his health at risk (as noted in Day of Dissonance).Then again the end of the sixth book hints that he gave up alcohol for good. Which makes sense as Clothahump was at the end of his rope with him by book five he would never be able to keep his sanity if Sorbl stayed for eighteen years. Though in book seven, he is replaced by a much more competent owl. On the other hand, his alcoholism actually comes in handy in book five, since he's so used to seeing the world through a distorted, hallucinogenic lens that the permabulator's reality tweaks don't faze him, letting him be the Only Sane Man when things go wonky. Very unfortunate, since he is a very good student in the rare times he's actually sober. The Alcoholic: Sorbl, Clothahump's replacement famulus after Jon-Tom transforms Pog into a phoenix.But in Chorus Skating he resets to his default Jerkass persona. Also in "Time of the Transference", once he found true love, he was friendlier and mature than usual, mainly because Weegee was keeping him in line and he was terrified of alienating her, but notably his emotional speech to Jon-Tom really hammered it in that he had changed.Which in turn, made him realize he has a conscience. Which tears him apart two-fold, as he has feelings for her, but feels massively guilty about the possibility of cheating on Weegee. A young beautiful flirtatious otter princess, reverts him back to his old ways. He had sworn off all other women in Book Six. This was put to the ultimate test in Chorus Skating.Example: after having been inflicted with a venereal disease by the perambulator, he swears off bedding a different lady every night: "I guess I'll 'ave to restrict meself to a different lady every other night." Or it will be Played for Laughs and the Aesop will be subverted or broken by Mudge Comically Missing the Point about what he was supposed to learn. Aesop Amnesia/ Ignored Epiphany: Invariably, whenever something bad happens to Mudge, he will either forget the lesson he learned from it the next time a similar situation shows up, or he'll have an epiphany and swear to change his ways which he ends up dismissing/abandoning a short time later.All that is known about its inhabitants is that, like some ancient or primitive Earth cultures, they seemed to dislike or fear having images of themselves included in their artwork. Advanced Ancient Acropolis: The Lost City they find in book six is a downplayed version of this, for while there's no actual evidence that they had great or unusual technology, the place is very large and impressive and contains some rather unusual magical artifacts.The Quasequa Quorum in Moment of the Magician.