In fact, we considered these versions of The Once-ler so distinct, that we started shipping him with himself. It’s true: we conjured up a relationship between two versions of the same character.
Oncest - the ship name for The Once-ler x The Greed-ler - exploded with cosplays, AMVs, and every kind of fanwork you can imagine.
But we didn’t stop there. We created hundreds of AU versions of The Once-ler: a robot Once-ler; a swag Once-ler; even a cannibal Once-ler.
The Once-ler went from a character people found attractive, to a character in a relationship with himself, to an infinitely changeable character shipped with countless different versions of himself.