Line #173 Characters/KevinAndKellDewclawExtendedFamily


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5	These are members of Kell Dewclaw's family, her friends, and employees of both Herd Thinners and Dewclaw's Fine Meats.
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7	!!'''Franklin Dewclaw''' (Wolf)
8	Kell's father, he had a full career at Herd Thinners, something he hoped for with both of his children, though only his daughter Kell lived up to it. Died early in the strip's history after a bout with dementia. Stuck around a while in spirit, though he departed for the Great Beyond when she became CEO of Herd Thinners.
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11	* IdentityAmnesia: Due to his dementia, he forgot everyone around him and his own identity. The silver lining was forgetting Ralph, who had been an embarrassment to him for many years.
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13	!!'''Elanor Dewclaw''' (Wolf)
14	Kell's mother. She was a homemaker during Franklin's career. Though his retirement could've provided for her after his death, she misinvested it and lost everything. She now lives with Kevin and Kell, and eventually un-retired, becoming an accountant for Aby's Auto Repair, a job Dorothy assisted with before she married Douglas.
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17	* BetterAsFriends: While she enjoys the long-distance romance with Bentley while he's incarcerated, liking the dramatic fiction of having a LovableRogue for a romantic companion, she gently lets him down when he gets out of prison. She explains both that she's still grieving her husband, and that the romance would fade if she came to know him in real life.
18	* IWasQuiteALooker: Apparently, she was very beautiful when she was young, as seen [[http://kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0623.html here]], to the point where Ralph found it hard to realize that she was the "hot babe" in the old photo he'd found.
19	* MeetCute: [[https://kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0623.html Smashed head-long into Franklin]] when they both tried to catch Bentley, who escaped into a convenient rabbit hole at the right moment.
20	* OddFriendship: Forms one with both Kevin's father Bentley when he's in prison and later on with Dorothy, Kevin's mother.
21	* RichesToRags: She gets a huge amount of money day-trading, but loses it all plus everything she'd already saved up when Herd Thinners Inc stock gets sold, leaving her penniless.
22	* TheOneThatGotAway: A non-romantic example. Bentley is one of the few that she was never able to catch and kill.
23	* ToAbsentFriends: Eleanor is saddened when Franklin's spirit decides to leave for the Great Beyond after Kell becomes CEO of Herd Thinners. Kell interprets it as wishing he were there to see it.
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25	!!'''Randy Foxglove''' (Fox)
26	Kell's first husband, Rudy's father. Died in a hunting accident when he was trampled by a moose. Later revealed to have cheated on Kell, resulting in Vin Vulpen. Very little is known about him.
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29	* BrokenPedestal: Rudy was shocked, hurt, and betrayed to find out his dad cheated on his mother.
30	* DisappearedDad: This for different reasons to both Rudy and Vin.
31	* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: His spirit hung around a while. [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2008/kk0517.html He finally departed for the Great Beyond]] when Kell forgave him for cheating on her.
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33	!!'''Ralph Dewclaw''' (Wolf)
34	Kell's younger brother, Kevin's brother-in-law, Corrie's father. Early on in Kevin and Kell's marriage, he tried to hunt Kevin. Usually resulted in HilarityEnsues due to his ineptitude. He eventually gave up and became a tech, eventually working for Kevin at Hare-Link and rising to Vice President of Marketing.
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36	His ineptitude was eventually revealed to be the result of the death of Corrie's mother. Currently married to Martha Fennec, making him Fiona's stepfather as well.
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39	* AmusingInjuries: Managed to end up hurt every time he hunted Kevin, from getting fried with a bug zapper, shot with his own gun, ripped up with a chainsaw, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking ending up with a poodle cut]] after Kevin shaved him. It got so bad that, at one point, he lost his pelt to Corrie and Dolly.
40	* FormerlyFit: For a number of years, he was thin and resembled just about every other wolf character in the comic. However, after working with Kevin for a while, as well as his mother overfeeding him to help prevent Kevin getting eaten, he gains a terrific amount of weight. He doesn't seem to mind, though.
41	* FreudianExcuse: As part of his added backstory, Ralph tried to hunt Kevin because he didn't want Kell to feel the pain he felt losing Corrie's mother. Ironically, he stopped hunting after her death, and was so out-of-practice by the time Kell began dating Kevin that he was completely inept.
42	* FurIsClothing: This gag would be used once when [[https://kevinandkell.com/1999/kk0430.html he tried to hunt Corrie]] and Dolly.[[note]]At the time, he was not aware Corrie--and, by extension, Dolly--was his daughter.[[/note]] Corrie took his pelt, then wore it when pretending to be a wolf. As part of the joke, [[https://kevinandkell.com/1999/kk0504.html Ralph was shown working from home]] until his fur grew back. Ironically, his pelt would [[https://kevinandkell.com/2000/kk0909.html give Rudy the idea that Corrie was Ralph's daughter]] more than a year before it was revealed that she actually was.
43	* KarmicJackpot: Things came together fairly quickly for him once he was hired at Hare-Link and buried the hatchet with Kevin. Not only did he quickly rise up the ladder with his previously-untapped marketing prowess, but he also fell in love with Martha, and soon discovered his daughter, Corrie.
44	* LanternJawOfJustice: Well, not really, but once he becomes fat, he has a truly ''epic'' set of chins, mainly one big one that's about the size of his head, and it's shaped similarly to a traditional LanternJawOfJustice.
45	* ParentalSexualitySquick: His brain imploded when he found out that an old photograph of a beautiful woman was actually his mother.
46	* VagueAge: He was in his teens when he had Corrie, since he was already an inept hunter in a strip confirmed to be set twenty years from the present. This doesn't really give a good indication of whether he's supposed to be in his thirties or forties.
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48	!!'''L.D.''' (Wolf)
49	The original CEO of Herd Thinners. [[DeathByOriginStory Drowned in his own saliva and died]] [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/1995/kk1115.html when he met Coney shortly after her birth.]]
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52	* ConnectedAllAlong: [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2008/kk0307.html A flashback]] reveals he has a history with Douglas Squirrel, though neither of them knew it -- in 1971, L.D. found the bag of money that Douglas Squirrel had gotten from hijacking an airplane and then lost, and used it to start Herd Thinners.
53	* TheFaceless: Like his replacement R.L., only his snout and hands were ever seen.
54	* UndignifiedDeath: Drowned in his own saliva after seeing Coney.
55	* WeHardlyKnewYe: He dies in his third appearance, less than three months into the strip's run (and about two months after the first two strips he appeared in). Since then, he's only appeared [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2008/kk0307.html in a single flashback]].
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57	!!'''R.L.''' (Wolf)
58	The current Owner, Chairman and CEO of Herd Thinners. Bloodthirsty and malevolent. Was on the sidelines for three years after Kell won the CEO position at Herd Thinners, but [[StatusQuoIsGod eventually ousted her in a corporate hostile takeover]].
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61	* ArmoredClosetGay: The Domain equivalent. He was so petrified of anyone finding out he married a rabbit that she (willingly) underwent cosmetic surgery to become a rat so that he wouldn't lose any standing.
62	* BadBoss: Does everything from eating his employees to making his hunters give up even more food just so he can have a bonus.
63	* BigEater: He's known for eating entire full-grown animals in between meals as snacks. When in prison, he kept eating his cellmate every night (until they made ''Angelique'' his cellmate), thinking they were giving him a second dinner.
64	* TheBigGuy: As shown when he wrestled Kevin, he's ''huge'' for a wolf, standing well over six feet tall, with a muscular build. He's as big as some of the bears and lions shown in the strip!
65	* BrilliantButLazy: As skilled as he is in underhanded tactics, he finds conquest and racketeering to be too much work.
66	* CareerEndingInjury: It was eventually shown that the R.L. who's been appearing in public for the past couple of years was an imposter. R.L. never fully recovered from his fight with Frank Mangle and instead disappeared into the Wild, since he was so weakened that any prison sentence would inevitably end in his death.
67	* TheFaceless: Only his snout has ever been seen. Same goes for his doppelganger.
68	* HesBack: A villainous example when he usurped Kell as CEO of Herd Thinners.
69	** A lesser example would be him eating his {{doppelganger}} [[https://kevinandkell.com/2020/kk0117.html when he was returned to prison]] to finish his sentence.
70	* HiddenDepths: Despite being a jerk otherwise, he's shown to genuinely love Angelique and his adopted skunk children.
71	** Turns out to be domesticated just like Kell and Rudy.
72	** After Kell defeats him during Frank's challenge fight for leadership of Herd Thinners, he reveals he can speak feline and other languages just as well as they can.
73	* SuperPersistentPredator: When someone defects from Herd Thinners for Dewclaws, R.L. typically doesn't take it well. He pursued Dip for some time after he defected. However, [[https://kevinandkell.com/2015/kk1226.html this was averted with Marty:]]
74	-->'''Angelique:''' Marty left to ask Kell for a job.\
75	'''R.L.:''' Meh. Let 'im go. He's been a dead weight...and not the kind with meat value.
76	* UnholyMatrimony: He and Angelique together is an absolute nightmare, causing many headaches for the cast.
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78	!!'''Martha Dewclaw; nee Fennec, nee Redfox''' (Fox)
79	Originally married to George Fennec, they divorced when they mutually cheated on each other with members of their own species. Eventually she fell in love with and married Ralph Dewclaw, adopting Corrie. Fiona lives with her and Ralph.
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82	* ArrangedMarriage: The reason she and George got married was that their families were too inbred. Love never really factored into it.
83	* ChubbyChaser: Is wildly attracted to Ralph, whose shape can charitably be described as rotund.
84	* HumanityEnsues: She got temporarily turned human after going through a portal to the human world. It was thought to be irreversible until she got boomeranged back through the same portal.
85	* {{Irony}}: Broke off her relationship with Ralph after she found out he had a fourteen year old daughter and claiming it made everything different...while having a fourteen year old daughter herself.
86	* RichBitch: Prior to meeting Ralph, she had the attitude. It was implied she and George were reasonably well-off even before the Microtalon arc, but it was her ''daughter'' really got her rich. She mellowed out after some character development.
87	* SpeciesSurname: [[AllThereInTheScript According to]] [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2002/kk0526.html the first attempt at a family tree]] in 2002, Martha's original maiden name was "Redfox".
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89	!!'''Sheila''' (Wolf)
90	Kell's cousin. Sometimes acts as a {{doppelganger}} for Kell due to UncannyFamilyResemblance. Eventually married Frank Mangle offscreen.
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93	* GreenEyedMonster: Envies the fact that Kell has managed to have it all as a career woman and mother while she's been roaming the world without ties. Elanor points out to Kell that what a wolf covets most is territory.
94	* HeroicSacrifice: She attempts to make one for Kell when she's due to have her first fight as CEO. Even knowing she wouldn't stand a chance, she offers to take Kell's place so she'll be there to raise Coney. But Kell won't allow her to.
95	* MistakenForCheating: In order to avert this, Frank makes sure all the pictures in his office of the two of them also include Kell. The ones of just the two of them lead to some awkward questions.
96	* StrongFamilyResemblance: She and Kell perfectly resemble one another when she doesn't wear her make-up.
97	** This was elaborated on by Lindesfarne in one of her blogs. It's not just that Sheila and Kell resemble one another, by a genetic quirk, they have identical ''scents'', and since that's how most of the animal world views each other, it makes them a match.
98	* ThrillSeeker: Loves to do things like take Frank on a motocross journey for a date.
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100	!!'''Aby Eyeshine''' (Cat)
101	Expert [[WrenchWench auto mechanic]]. Owner and head mechanic at Aby's Auto Repair. Originally a Silicon Valley tech, she moved to auto mechanics with the dot-com bust. Her business got so good, she hired Elanor Dewclaw and Dorothy Kindle both to manage the business so she could continue repairing cars. She lives in the Ursals' former cave across the street from Kevin and Kell, and is married to a mouse racecar driver named Mark Meadowvole.
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104	* AgeGapRomance: Aby [[https://kevinandkell.com/2012/kk0213.html briefly fretted about this when initially dating Mark]] since she was 35 and Mark was only 28 when they began dating.
105	* MarriedToTheJob: Aby's Auto Repair was almost the entirety of her life for the longest time. At one point, she turned this into a LiteralMetaphor by [[http://kevinandkell.com/2006/kk0425.html actually getting married to the repair shop.]]
106	** This would be downplayed after she began dating Mark. The "official" part of this came to an end [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2018/kk0505.html after she proposed to Mark]] so he could adopt his orphaned nephew, Tyler. [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2018/kk0715.html They married during one of his races]].
107	--->'''Mark:''' But, Aby! You're married to your career!!!\
108	'''Aby:''' My career...would understand.
109	* RelativeError: When Kell tried to set her up with Sam Pardus, [[http://kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0125.html she didn't realize they were siblings.]] [[{{Foreshadowing}} Naturally, this was right before]] [[http://kevinandkell.com/2005/kk0130.html Sam was outed as a domestic cat.]]
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111	!!Mark Meadowvole (Mouse)
112	A professional race car driver in the MOUSCAR circuit, and cheese delivery truck driver on the side. Also a combat veteran. Aby's husband. Dewclaw's Fine Meats sponsors his #42 car.
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114	* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: Mark's relationship with Aby hit the skids after he found out [[https://kevinandkell.com/2012/kk0124.html his parents were killed in a hunting competition]] coached by Sam several years before. Kevin helped patch things up between them.
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116	!!'''Frank Mangle''' (Lion)
117	One of Kell's closest co-workers at Herd Thinners; frequently TheRival, though a friendly one. Currently he is one of the top executives at Dewclaw's Fine Meats. A single parent of daughter Leona; was forced to begin hunting for himself when his wife died after a long illness. Became good enough to hunt professionally. He has since gotten into a relationship with Sheila.
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120	* AscendedExtra: Frank was [[https://kevinandkell.com/1997/kk0422.html actually introduced earlier on]] [[https://kevinandkell.com/2005/kk1025.html but only appeared twice]] [[https://kevinandkell.com/2007/kk0928.html prior to being established as Leona's father.]] After this, he was further developed by elaborating that he was a widower.
121	* IGaveMyWord: Ensuring a good upbringing and stable relationship for Leona was a promise Frank made to Leona's mother.
122	-->'''Frank:''' (''while witnessing Leona accept Carl's marriage proposal'') Promise kept, dear.
123	* SecondLove: Eventually fell in love with, and later married (offscreen), Kell's maternal cousin Sheila.
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125	!!'''Mrs. Mangle''' (Lioness)
126	Frank's first wife. She died when Leona was 8 years old, following a long illness.
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129	* MissingMom: Died after an illness when Leona was 8. She was first seen in a photograph clutched by Frank when Leona got engaged to Carl.
130	* TheNameless: Her name has not been revealed.
131	* SkyFace: Appeared to Sheila once when she fell asleep, implicitly while watching ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 The Lion King]]''.
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133	!!'''Mei-Li Lee''' ([[strike:Cat]]Tiger)
134	Lin's mother. Is an attorney by profession, and acts as counsel for Dewclaw's Fine Meats. Actually a cat, but decided she preferred to be a tiger instead, and willed herself into becoming one. She is married; her husband, though he's appeared numerous times, has never been named in the strip.
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137	* {{Determinator}}: She is biologically a tabby cat, but decided to [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2011/kk0325.html will herself to be a tiger.]]
138	* EducationMama: Oversees Lin's upbringing with an iron fist.
139	* GiveAManAFish: Mei-Li [[https://kevinandkell.com/2018/kk0727.html invoked this once]] when a wolf got indignant about a rabbit (in this case, Kevin) being her client.
140	-->'''Mei-Li:''' Give a lawyer a meal and she eats for five minutes. Give her a client and she bills hourly for ''years''.
141	* MyBelovedSmother: As connected to EducationMama, she puts incredible pressure on Lin's upbringing, and Lin regularly rebels against it. Most recently, by moving to wearing dresses to subvert Mei-Li's desire for her to begin wearing business suits.
142	* VisualPun: A true "Tiger Mom".
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144	!!'''Mr. Lee''' ([[strike:Cat?]]Tiger)
145	Lin's father and Mei-Li's husband.
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148	* TheNameless: Like Fenton's dad and Leona's mom, his name has never been given despite numerous appearances in connection to Mei-Li and Lin.
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150	!!'''Madelaine''' (Cheetah)
151	One of the rank-and-file predators at Dewclaw's Fine Meats. A young mother, which is why she abandoned the feline conspiracy to oust Kell at Herd Thinners in 2011.
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153	!!'''Caniche Chien''' (Dog)
154	Head of Security at Dewclaw's Fine Meats. Originally from France. Girlfriend and eventual wife of Dip. Specific breed is Standard Poodle. Her former employer keeps trying to kill her after she testifies against him in court.
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157	* AltarTheSpeed: She and Dip have a fairly quick wedding, planning it in only a few weeks, partially because they wanted to make sure she'd be legally able to stay.
158	* BilingualBonus: Caniche is the French word for the Poodle breed, and Chien is [[SpeciesSurname the French word for "dog"]].
159	* ImportantHaircut: She had to cut her hair to hide out in the Rabbit Warren while evading the authorities when they mistakenly thought she was an illegal immigrant. She was ''not'' happy about it.
160	* OfficeRomance: Dip was instantly smitten when he was first interested to Caniche. The feeling was quickly found to be mutual. Toss in some RescueRomance, and the rest is history.
161	* RelationshipUpgrade: Marries Dip after she was almost deported because they both agree they never want to be without each other again.
162	* ShownTheirWork: True to her breed, Caniche is adept in the water. [[http://kevinandkell.com/2013/kk0828.html Once,]] a bus she and Dip were being driven in drove off a pier, and she rescued him from the wreck ''and'' beat up the alligator that drove the bus.
163	* YamatoNadeshiko: Probably the closest Western equivalent in the strip. Caniche is a young, beautiful French poodle who is able to handle herself in a fight, is skilled enough to prepare meals for the Dewclaw family, and always is composed with grace and dignity.
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165	!!'''Wally''' (Pig)
166	Wally was trained to be a limo driver/meal for Herd Thinners, and was the first sent to pick up Kell after she became CEO. She declined the meal, and hired him as her personal chauffeur. He was let go after Kell was removed, and bought his own limousine.
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169	* LetsMeetTheMeat: Defied [[https://kevinandkell.com/2010/kk1103.html in his first appearance]] as he presented himself to be eaten at the end of Kell's ride to work. Being Kell, she declined the offer. Though she [[https://kevinandkell.com/2010/kk1104.html almost reconsidered]] when he suggested she was really going to eat him ''before'' the ride and then walk to work to "walk off the pounds".
170	-->'''Kell:''' Are you here to drive me to the office?\
171	'''Wally:''' '''And''' to provide you with breakfast. It's standard.\
172	'''Kell:''' Okay, I guess. What's for breakfast?\
173	'''Wally:''' Me.
174	* PutOnABus: Literally. After being let go of Herd Thinners, his most-recent appearance [[https://kevinandkell.com/2015/kk0627.html had him as a bus driver]] taking a tour to California. While he was [[https://kevinandkell.com/2012/kk0929.html initially hired as a delivery driver]] for Dewclaw's Fine Meats, either that did not last long or was subject to a {{retcon}}.
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176	!!'''Marty''' (Polar Bear)
177	Back when Kell was CEO of Herd Thinners, a polar bear employee was her first challenger for the position. She defeated him. Years after she left Herd Thinners, he finally followed when he discovered he was about to be downsized. After re-earning her trust, Kell put him to work as a trainer. As of 2022, he is establishing a DFW branch in Alaska.
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180	* TheAtoner: Marty knew he would need to earn Kell's trust back when he came to her for a job.
181	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Marty challenged Kell because [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2010/kk1216.html he wanted to move the company to international waters in the Arctic]] (the North Pole) to sidestep labor laws. That doesn't seem to have extended to his Alaska franchise of DFW.
182	* OfficeRomance: ''Maybe''. As DFW began gearing up for the 2024 hunting season, Marty began appearing on webmeets from Alaska naked, using the excuse that camoflauge was preferable in the snow up there. [[DidYouJustHaveSex Kell and Dip didn't buy it for a second]] (though they didn't explicitly let on about it). [[https://kevinandkell.com/2024/kk0318.html Sure enough, it showed him courting a lady bear.]][[note]]The ''maybe'' is dependent on whether or not Marty's new paramour actually works at DFW Alaska.[[/note]]
183	-->'''Marty's girlfriend:''' She suspects.\
184	'''Marty:''' Don't care.
185	* OldShame: The reason Marty stayed at Herd Thinners when R.L. usurped Kell is because of his own challenge to her. He felt she would not welcome him under those circumstances.[[invoked]]
186	* TeethFlying: Kell defeated him in his challenge [[EveryoneHatesFruitCakes by shoving a fruit cake in his mouth and yanking it out]], [[https://kevinandkell.com/2010/kk1221.html parting him of his teeth.]]
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188	!!Spork Johnson (Leopard)
189	In 2021, Spork escaped from Herd Thinners to The Wild, part of the first trickles that would lead to the company's Great Resignation. Unable to fend for himself, he tried to pick off the Summer Camp with predictably bad results. As part of community service, he got a job working for a dung beetle company. The next year, his co-workers alerted him to the truth about Herd Thinners' bug-sourced fake meat. He eventually went to Marty's Alaska branch of DFW, where he and the dung beetles work.
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192	* TheAtoner: He was paired with the dung beetles for community service after trying to predate the summer camp in 2021.
193	* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: Indirectly, since the offspring he's raising are someone else's. But before they died, his original dung beetle co-workers left him a bunch of eggs for him to raise and continue his work in Alaska. When they hatched, he formally adopted them, and they call him Daddy.
194	* TooDumbToLive: In desperation during his summer in The Wild, Spork tried to hunt the Summer Camp. This being the Domain area's Summer Camp, this brought him snout-to-snout with [[KillerRabbit Coney Dewclaw]] and her friends.
195	* {{Unperson}}: Another indirect trope, but this is essentially his job in Alaska. He and the dung beetles remove the evidence of the existence of DFW prey to limit competition.
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197	!!Gingly (Nurse Shark)
198	In 2023, Kell decided to expand Dewclaw's Fine Meats to seafood, and Mei-Li recommended one of her old colleagues. Gingly is combining her legal skills with her extroverted nature to put together Kell's first seafood-oriented franchise. She is married to a remora fish, Larry
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201	* AnimalOccupationStereotypes: As sharks in the K&K universe tend to be, Gingly started as an attorney. She also has experience with contract law, though she thought it was boring.
202	* TheGadfly: When younger, Gingly had an entourage of remora. She eventually fell in love with one of them, Larry, and along the way dismissed the rest of them.
203	* StockAnimalBehavior: One of Gingly's motivations is [[https://www.kevinandkell.com/2023/kk0717.html to prove sharks can be controlled]] in their predation:
204	-->'''Mei-Li:''' Well, sharks are eager to prove they're not just mindless killing machines...and that they can fish without swallowing.\

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