Grrl Power #478 – Clover DNGAF
Fun story, when I designed Clover (as in Clover honey… honey badger, clover honey badger, hah hah I’m clever you guys.) I made her haircut look like badger stripes, coming down over her eyes. Only, that’s the way a regular badger looks (one might say, a vanilla badger), not a honey badger. Womp waa. I guess if she wore her hair like a honey badger it’d be a bottle bleached crew cut. But then she’d almost definitely have to be a high school girls’ volleyball coach or a ladies tennis pro. Hah hah! Stereotypes, y’all!
Clover being a honey badger isn’t a result of the previously mentioned genus drift that sometimes affects weres, instead more simply, her mom is a honey badger as well. Usually the offspring of a mixed species union is one or the other, but occasionally bizarre hybrids have been known to happen. So someone could conceivably be a were-jackalope for instance, but it’s pretty rare.
Lycans have enhanced attributes based on their animal form. Most in the Carnivora Order, and especially those in the Canidae Family and the Canis Genus have a considerably enhanced sense of smell, as well as better night vision, though most suffer from reduced color sensitivity, i.e. they can’t tell red from yellow. This is hugely pronounced in their hybrid forms, but still present in their human forms to some degree. Various species have other abilities based on their particular species. Kat’s hearing is off the charts, and Clover has tremendous resistance to toxins and disturbing pain tolerance.
BTW honey badger ears are weird. Not “the male seahorse gives birth” weird, just, they’re not sticky out ears like most animals have. They’re even less sticky out than human ears.
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Clover and clovee? He’s certainly been cleaved…
Cloven.
Clothe her? What am I a tailor?
Yes.
But real question is, Is Clover able to enter a bloodrage?
More to the point do they ever leave it? Their reputation is that they will attack anything, at any time, without provocation. Clover was just laid back, because once she moves, destruction ensues!
Yes a ratel or “honey badger” toughest creature in Africa, they can make an adult lion back off. When they are born they look like a leopard in coloration,which protects them. They follow the honey bird to find bees hives to rip them apart for the hone and think skin and fur to protect from stings. That is an interesting animaform too. In one of my stories is a girl who is a were wolverine.
Actually the leopard thing is the other way around, in my opinion. Leopards are lightweights, of the cat kingdom. They are runners, not fighters. So baby leopards, which have to be left alone whilst the mother hunts, look like honey badgers, because that gives them a chance of not being attacked!
For info most leopard cub images have them looking like small leopards. But you can find the ones that mimic honey-badgers too. Perhaps it is down to the ages, or maybe it varies by region (presumably those evolving near honey badgers would have an evolutionary advantage with these mutations)?
Checking out if my take has any veracity, it seems I am not alone. Not that I thought I would be, as a fellow commentator has already pointed out that relationship, this way round.
Waitaminute. Since Katrina went “Ka-Bun!”, shouldn’t Clover have gone “Ka-Badger!”?
She’s too lackadaisical to make sound effects.
And that mannequin emotes more than Kristen Stewart.
You know that there is a manga with a slightly different, but not THAT far, theme.
Just gene-xperiments and the Ratel-protagonist is a chick.
HONEY BADGER DON’T GIVE A FUCK
Were Honey Badger…..normal Honey Badger would have done…making it Were is almost redundant….
I want to send this to Shelly Laurenston. She’s got a book series about honey badgers. It’s awesome!