Pony Fantasy VI Remake

The issue is the static sprite is sprite 70. It's a single sprite. So the game is trying to load Chupon's side-facing sprite and skips to sprite 71, Owzer.

How do I just make it load the static sprite?

Sprite 70 is the Umaro's Cave boneclub object, so look on that map (11B) how they set it up to be shown correctly, and you will solve this issue.
Needs to be sprite 71, facing north, flag 8.5 set.