Seriously, what is the deal with Pip! I was experimenting with childrens' fiction more than a year ago and 9 times out of 10 you'd get a character named Pip unless you were specific in the prompt not to do so.

I recently saw a study on this actually. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492

I saw that, tested it in Qwen. Elias Thorne, on the first run, as a clockmaker too.