I don't have pictures right now (and also this got kinda long) so bear with me
So I'm looking for Strawberry Shortcake books from the 80s because why not and I come across 4 in particular with a rather different art style than most 80s illustrations. These books were illustrated be Mercedes Llimona and were made while Plum was still a boy.
When I looked at the cover for The Adventures of Strawberry Shortcake and Her Friends, I noticed 2 characters that I didn't recognize: a kid in a green hat, and someone I would've mistaken for Raspberry Tart if she weren't in the foreground.
When looking through the pages of this and the other 3 books, I noticed 2 other characters: a blonde girl in a blue bonnet & dress, & a boy in a red shirt with black polka dots.
There was at least one more I found in the book of Mother Goose rhymes; specifically, the pages about the old woman who lives in a shoe. This one honestly just looks like Peppermint Fizz with way messier hair. On that page there was also what looked like a blonde girl in blue at the top of the shoe, who's probably just the same girl as the one with the bonnet, but she looks smaller so I'm not sure. Maybe that was just a weird way of trying to show perspective. I don't know.
While I'm certain that the messy haired kid & the small girl in blue (assuming she is a separate character from the other girl in blue) don't have names, and the boy in red probably doesn't have one either since so far I've only seen him appear again in The Seasons with Strawberry Shortcake (which doesn't seem to have a real story besides talking about what the kids do each season), I was wondering if any of these characters had names or if they were just filler characters. I've listened to a reading of the Winter That Would Not End and none of them were named there, & so far none of the pages for Adventures I've seen gave them names, and I find this very frustrating for some reason. God I wish I had enough money or could find a scan or something of Adventures (& maybe the other books) or something so I could get a better look at these random kids' designs and/or see if any of them had actual names. From the looks of it I doubt it, but now I kinda wanna make ocs out of them.
Now I'm wondering if any of the other books (not the comics I know they did) had exclusive characters. I kinda doubt it but it'd be neat I guess.