Well i heard this theory somewhere else i would like to paraphrase:IHeartMaeve wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:51 pm Today we find several characters at a Pride Parade.
Sheesh, there's a lot of Basitins here. This can't be a coincidence now, can it?
All those characters are from during or after the basitin arc. At that point Tom had grown a bit as a person and may have decided to add more diversity to the cast and since the rest of the characters were already written he had to do with the Basitins.