Ummm… maybe because besides Verne, there are only two full time characters, plus a bunch of part timers, gig workers, hangers-on, passers-by, and miscellaneous weirdos.
Wait… If Verne is a conformist, and everyone else is a non-conformist, then they are all conforming and thus conformists, and Verne is the only conformist, and thus the only non-conformist. Or something like that.
Ummm… maybe because besides Verne, there are only two full time characters, plus a bunch of part timers, gig workers, hangers-on, passers-by, and miscellaneous weirdos.