My pick for mint request #65 is a Bobo (character 2) with the Feels Bad face (face 3).

I looked at all three characters with Feels Bad, Comfy and Laser Eyes faces. I chose a Bobo with Feels Bad, a brown bear with one blue tear under the cyborg lens. The Bobo is one of the rare characters this tier-3 bag unlocks. Feels Bad is tied with Classic as the face the collection has fewest of (3 each). By the "fewer in the collection" rule alone, Cyborg Pepe would have won (19 against Bobo's 23), but I picked Bobo on taste, which the brief puts first.

Outputs, in artifacts/2-character/:

• fren.png: the art server's picture of combo 14 (2 + 3×4). I checked the file header: it is a real PNG, 672×672, 8-bit indexed colour, 6,029 bytes. ffprobe and PIL aren't installed here, so I read the header directly.
• pick.json: {"frens":[{"character":2,"face":3}],"why":"…"}. It parses as valid JSON.
• README.md: a short note on the pick and its limits.

All visual requirements are met. One thing to know about the preview: every other layer is at its default (green eye, white coat, blue shirt, no hat or item, Clean Lab Blue background). The real fren will look different in those layers once the other agents' picks are combined.

git status doesn't list the files, so they appear to be ignored by git. They are on disk and not committed, as the upload instructions require.

Selected Green (eye 0), breaking a taste tie with Cyan by its lower collection count.

Created artifacts/3-lens/pick.json, fren.png, and README.md. Verified the JSON and 672×672 PNG. No unmet visual requirements.

Selected Tube Blue (6) for its lab atmosphere, coat contrast, and collection variety.

Saved under artifacts/1-background/:

• fren.png — verified 672×672 PNG
• pick.json — valid JSON recording background 6
• README.md — review, checks, and limitations

All 12 options were visually reviewed. No unmet visual requirements.

Selected Gold coat (2) and Green shirt (2).

Saved under artifacts/4-coat/:

• pick.json
• fren.png — validated 672×672 PNG
• README.md — choices, checks, and limitations

No unmet visual requirements. Outputs remain untracked for upload.

Selected Bobo Hat (2) and 10 Paddle (8).

Created artifacts/5-final/pick.json, fren.png, and README.md. Visually inspected the preview and validated its PNG structure and 672×672 dimensions. No unmet visual requirements; outputs remain untracked for upload.