Well now he knows her identity
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I can say I definitely enjoy this stuff more than half as much as C&A do. 
oh my god, that is too many degrees D:
Okay, who said Adam’s kid was allowed to be four already? D:
Powerful furry women in the forest, you say? Sign me up!
It’s the Great Wolfhunt, Charlie Byron!
My thought coming out of this story now – and Powerhound beat me to it! – is that Lord Wolfhunt knows she’s Tabitha Taft, so how much is that gonna screw her in the future? I think I might write a letter about that.
Oh, it me! 
Nevermind on that letter then, I guess! But also, hah! I kinda thought their “no one has any idea who this villain is” intro was off! I mean, we didn’t know anything about him, but we at least knew who he was! In their defense, I can’t remember anything they say either. :B
…So what they’re saying is it’s time for a new letter subplot, huh? :V
I just guessed that off the cover since she didn’t have the domino mask. Clearly he couldn’t tell if she did have it.
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Based on that one question, I’m not imagining a “slice of life” issue with the Edge Twins where they have to go to some kind of formal thing and Akari has to (probably literally) wrestle Zane just to get an actual shirt on.
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C&A mentioned that Lord Wolfhunt III doesn’t appear again in the Multiverse era, so I’m guessing that he doesn’t do anything with her secret in that time, either. As to the future - it depends on whether he stays villainous or comes around, probably.
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I didn’t think to write a letter about this, but I’ve been thinking that Alpha and Apex would be better names for the opposite characters.
The whole idea of alpha wolf/dog among a pack so clearly describes how the villain works. It also definitely is an attitude that the villain character would buy into – it’s hard to imagine him letting any other werewolf claim the name “Alpha.” In his mind, he’s the alpha. (As icing on the cake, that’s not how wolf packs actually work – but as a supremacist villain he would clearly embrace the erroneous idea.)
On the other hand, while neither name really seems to fit with the hero character, I could see “Apex” tying into her lineage – perhaps bestowed by the villain, to show how he was trying to form and perfect his line. But she walks away from his intentions, taking the name with it, and boy, would he hate that.
Thank you for coming to my irrelevant TED talk…
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I thought Apex would fit better for an alternate Naturalist, maybe Inverse or Extreme. I don’t recall if we’ve heard about either of those versions. Obviously the animal forms would all be carnivores at the top of the food chain in their respective ecosystems.
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Yeah, we have gotten an alternate Naturalist named Apex, but he’s not Extreme or Inverse, nor is he Michael Conteh—he’s Moris Dugal (known in Universe 1 as Bugbear). He’s from the ¿Quando? Freedom Five universe.
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Surely the arch-nemesis of Apex would be Nadir the Anti-Werewolf, whose powers wax as the moon wanes. Canadian lumberjack with a silvered woodsman’s ax and secretly an ovine therianthrope after being bitten in a dipping accident in his youth. Can hulk out into a giant ram-man whenever the full moon isn’t in the sky. Wears a lot of silver jewelry along with his necklace of werewolf fangs. On Apex’s hit list but the rest of the pack won’t go anywhere near him since the incident with Flint and the clipping shears, and Apex hasn’t got the guts to tackle him solo. Not after seeing Nadir’s collection of veterinary tools.
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Oh, must’ve been my subconscious at work! There have definitely been some recycled names both from within and without Sentinel Comics.
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Pardon me, but Nadir’s nemesis would need to be Zenith especially if we’re to follow Dragon Quest rules. 
We’ll allow it this time as long as his human name can be Ralph. 
The only DragonQuest I’m familiar with is the SPI TTRPG from roughly the dawn of history, but on general principles a were-sheep really ought to be named O. Vine. Oswald? Otto? Ah, Oscar. Yes, I think Oscar Vine would do.
Of course if he were a flying sheep it would be Harold instead.
I meant the JRPG video games from Enix (later merged with Square of Final Fantasy fame) that are chock-full of pun-based names. Specifically DQ IV - VI, the Zenithian trilogy, where the celestial realm is Zenithia and the underworld is Nadiria.
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Oh, right. Knew that series as Dragon Warrior, but I guess I have seen a few of them. The first one is almost as old as the SPI tabletop RPG, bit IIRC I think I dabbled in VII and VIII back in the day thanks to some housemates owning them. Memories are pretty dim at this point, though.
More of a Parasite Eve and fighting game player back in that era, and the mates were always looking for help with Everquest, which was my solitary exploration of MMOs. Long time ago now.
On the other hand, this is a classic case of a hero getting a name that’s just kind of thematic (Alpha gets named because she’s The Wolf-Woman, and the writers are hyping her up) and then decades later a villain shows up that the name fits better, but it’s way too late, so you give them a different name and hope for the best.
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Very true. Trying to change an established character’s name is always fraught with peril, especially if the lawyers get involved. Just ask Lord Smoked Meats & Fishes about that subject.
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WOLF HUNTED! Check it and see! Saint Louis summer is a hundred and three!
(I apologize for nothing. I never had a choice.)
Byron!? So I wasn’t wrong in my initial assumption, this is literally them just canonizing a listener’s “fursona” as a canon character?! I mean, they’ve done almost that kind of thing before, but this feels like a push beyond the previous line.
If they were going to do this at all, why not say that this is tied in to the origin of Wolftek?
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Supposedly they didn’t realize they’d accidentally made Lord Byron Wolfhunt after knowing about Brian le Wolfhunt, and then asked him if it was okay (of course he said yes). I can’t help but feel like it was in their subconscious, though.
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And it’s certainly not the first time they’ve included a meta-meta world person in comic canon… 
Well anyway, I wish he had a name that was less on the nose, and referenced this in a sneakier way. No family in England has Wolfhunt as an actual name, though there are English names that are comparably descriptive, so I would want him to have a name that more roundaboutly gets there (eg combine the German “hunter of” with French for “of the wolf”, and get “Von Jagerduloup” with a silent p…that one sucks, but my knowledge of both languages is fractional). But when they had the BLD-HND drones, I would spell that out as something like “Byron LeDuloup Hunter-Network Drone”.
I do like the idea of Aeturnus deciding consciously to do a sins thing in the nineties. I think the original Edge Twins episode implied that Painstake’s “mother” was just some low-level bakemono that got slain by a random demon killer, who didn’t know it was going to have a grub come out of the body after he stalked off. But I’m now thinking of “mom” as the Sentinels equivalent of D&D’s Queen of Chaos, the original tyrant of Hell who kept the demons unified, and her destruction brought forth the modern Abyssal order.
PS - a week or two before this, we learned that Hermetic’s appearance is based on Adam loosely; I would posit that Halcyon answers the same description.
Ooh, Clive must be a Dragon Age Origins player. I haven’t tackled that game in a year or two, but it made an extremely potent impact on me, and I hope to go back to it someday.