Clover

4 Clover
AKA	“PURPLE HAT”

Clover is the fourth member of the Felt.

Concept and creation

Clover's hat is designed after the purple billiard ball numbered 4, and his name references the shamrock associated with Ireland and leprechauns in popular culture; in particular it refers to the four-leafed variety of the clover, which is said to bring great luck, alluding to Clover's abilities.

Biography

Caliborn's session

Clover originated on a planet colored like a purple billiard ball, formed when the Battlefield in Caliborn's session exploded. Caliborn was awarded Clover as his fourth follower when he destroyed the planet by sending it into the black hole formed by the Battlefield's death, where he spent most of his time dancing with Lil' Seb.

Intermission - original timeline

In the intermission, Clover first appears giggling at Hearts Boxcars from above Lord English's vault as he gets trampled by multiple time-clones of Eggs and Biscuits, and would've gladly offered to provide advice to the Midnight Crew if they were able to solve one of his mindbending time-based riddles.

After gleefully watching them fight for about five hours, Spades Slick comes in and solves the time-clone problem with Crowbar's crowbar, but just as they're about to pry open the vault, Clover comes in and insists that they stop trying to open it, as it would cause as much bad luck as breaking a thousand mirrors at once. He then starts doing a very freaky jig and begins spinning a fanciful series of riddles illuminating the true path to opening the vault as everyone's minds turn pretzel shaped.

Diamonds Droog then politely asks Clover to open the safe, however Clover giggles at the threat, and declares that due to his luck the gun would probably jam or something predictable like that, so Droog simply whacks him with a newspaper (actually the wrappers of Droog's private sordid literature), as it is sort of a grey area in terms of luck.

Though some of the private reading material slips out as the whole crew gets distracted by a sudden tremor, giving Clover the opportunity to take a good ogle at it before Cans bursts through the wall Kool-Aid Man style to his aid. But after Cans clocks two of the crew's members, Slick decides to just ignore them and crack the vault open, as the whole intermission was getting a little punchy anyways.

While testing out his canon-altering powers, John Egbert briefly warps right beside Clover just as Boxcars eats Eggs' head off, much to the Heir of Breath's disgust. He assumes what is currently happening is completely irrelevant to history and thinks of a way to travel to more specific places before warping away, making Clover's little hat jump up in shock.

Intermission - unfavorable timeline

Clover is assumed dead in the unfavorable timeline created when Spades Slick destroys English's vault.

After a while he suddenly appears in Doc Scratch's apartment, possibly being summoned by Matchsticks somehow. He then switches places with Quarters from the past when he was alive, leading to the latter's timeline-mandated death.

Act 6

He was defeated by Karkat Vantas in Collide. He had his eyes flash with a star, a heart, and a horseshoe, hinting at having some sort of feelings for Karkat in response to that, although our knowledge of leprechaun romance is limited.

Skills and abilities

Clover's power is incredible luck, which makes him very difficult to actually harm; he states that a gun pointed at him would probably just jam. Despite this making him immune to grievous harm, he can still be influenced with the use of less lethal instruments, such as a rolled-up newspaper.

Due to his seemingly never-ending luck, he is the only member of the Felt who is never seen to have died of natural causes; it is possible that the temporal energy resulting from the opening of English's vault caused enough bad luck to render his powers useless.

Weapons and paraphernalia

He has also been shown to be in possession of one of Quarters' coins, namely the one coin that allows Quarters and himself to switch places.^{[citation needed]}

As seen in Collide, Clover uses a Glock .45 as a ranged weapon, and a 2x4 piece of lumber - or "a 4x2 held sideways", something he shares with fellow Felt member Doze - as a melee weapon.

References

Lord English •  Doc Scratch •   1  Itchy •   2  Doze •   3  Trace •   4  Clover •   5  Fin •   6  Die •   7  Crowbar •   8  Snowman •   9  Stitch •   10  Sawbuck •   11  Matchsticks •   12  Eggs •   13  Biscuits •   14  Quarters •   15  Cans

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