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Like, for Madagascar 2, would she have gone with Julien and Maurice in the plane, or would she have been tasked with looking after the kingdom while they were gone?

If she had gone with them, I wonder what kind of shenanigans she could've gotten up to, with the plane crash, the sacrifice to the volcano, Madly Madagascar, the whole thing with Europe and the circus, etc etc.

I love to think about Clover traveling the world with the circus. 🥺 I answered here if Clover would stay to watch the kingdom, but in review I am 100% Clover comes with them or nothin.

The plane crash makes me tehehe because the idea is basically the ahkj lemurs are bored and dissatisfied after all their problems go away, so they decide to answer the call of adventure. And what does adventure have in store but shooting them out of a plane thousands of feet in the air over unfamiliar terrain with nothing but a parachute and Maurice clutching at her for dear life? And she's living for this!

With the sacrifice, Clover wouldn't really believe Melman jumping in a volcano will fix the water. She's a skeptic. But if he's dumb enough to jump in, well… he's a grown man. She probably thinks Julien was being nice asking for volunteers. Usually a sacrifice is nominated whether they like it or not, but KJ's a soft touch.

Would she think selling the Madly Madagascar love potion is stupid af? Yes. But her attention would be RAPT on if Maurice will really kiss Mort on the lips just bc Julien told him to. 😭🤭 She also gets to be the muscle enforcing those contracts he wanted people to sign. THAT is something movie Julien did not have and really needed! I wonder if the lemurs occupied themselves the entire time in Africa running schemes on random reserve animals. Clover has her integrity thing so she wouldn't scam people, but it's not HER fault you were so distracted by Maurice in a bra you didn't read the contract you signed.

For the circus, Clover would make a great act bc she can do so many incredible things, and she's never before actually gotten cheered by a crowd for it like she deserves, which is heartbreaking to me. I want her to perform with Sonya bc she can throw that bear. Then she'll backalley brawl those british dogs. While KJ is busy with Sonya, Clover will also take Maurice and Mort out like she does. But maybe Maurice will flip it around on her and be like ok EYE decide where we go this time.

humanised version or half humanised? Idk man whatever ya call.

And yes, you can see that I gave up on Mort

Oh and hey do ppl still ship them or am I going crazy?? 🥹

Like, I wonder how she would've reacted to the areival of the Zoosters, if she would've sided with Maurice about Alex being suspicious, what she would've done when he goes crazy with hunger, and if she would've helped fighting the fossa XD

Or what she'd do when Julien leaves in the plane to "explore other kingdoms"

I wish she was in the movies too! in ahkj-world she does have a reaction to all this, even conversations with King Julien and Maurice about it... off-screen. 😔 They created a Clover puppet for the stage musical version of the movie, so we're not the only ones who want to see her around. Anyway just for fun, I'll share my guess of what she'd do if she were there:

1) I don't think Clover would attack the zoosters! I've seen it said that she'd just kick Alex's butt and that'd be the end of it. But she doesn't attack the alligator ambassador even though he's an active threat. She's probably always weighing the costs-benefits of when to attack a 300lb predator. Despite her reputation, she actually does wait for when she's urgently needed. Clover loves a fight -- and she also loves using her discretion.

2) She and Maurice tend to be a united front, so I think she's on his side. Plus she has a twitchy tail letting her know something's wrong with Alex. But she can't deny Julien's point that the giants look like pansies... especially if she spies on them when they set themselves on fire later.

The crucial thing is her reaction to Julien's plan because I think she could be a little hurt about it. Saving everyone from the fossa is her job. The fossa are afraid of her. She's not indestructible, and sometimes she loses and lemurs get eaten, but she hasn't been just holding the line until someone else could get here. She's been the one who takes care of it. Especially bc the zoosters have NO interest in what's going on, while this is her passion. It'd kind of piss her off.

The lemur dynamics could adjust as well: Julien may callously suggest the plan without regard for Clover's feelings, or, since he can be her biggest believer, maybe he'd suggest it's her job to recruit Alex since it falls under her expertise.

3) For when Alex goes crazy, idk! I don't want to take it from Maurice that he's the one who saves Marty. Another quintessential Clover/Maurice dynamic is he fights at her side even though he's not a figher. She could totally join the fight at the end as well, but when the zoosters start kicking ass, maybe she'd stand back and watch, and be impressed!?

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As for what Clover would do for Julien's plan in mada2 to leave with the zoosters, I have three answers:

She has a serious problem with it. He's abandoning his responsibilities for a flight of fancy AGAIN.

Maybe she's in charge of the kingdom while he's gone, so she could be into it? But she doesn't feel great about going separate ways over this. Is leaving KJ and Maurice to fend for themselves in a strange land of giants really on the table?

She'd go with them!

By mada2's rules, leaving the kingdom is not a big betrayal. So maybe she'd be really excited to go conquer other lands. She loves morally dubious power as much as Julien.

That's another issue with ahkj and the movies—in mada2 he wants to force other lands to give up their homes and adopt his ideology. In ahkj this makes no sense because of what happened with Koto. Would the Julien who welcomes refugees and whose political stance is "why can't we all have a good time" really do that in mada2? without getting haunted by the ghosts of his past, lol? Then the reality is Clover would be super against it because it's what Koto would do. Or she's super for it because her way of dealing with Koto trauma is to become like Koto herself, which is what I guess Julien is also doing in this scenario. Then ahkj Maurice would nawt let any of this slide. So mada2 is not generally in character for ahkj.

Either she, kj, and maurice are just different people in this universe and leaving is not that big a deal. or their ahkj selves are destined to act out the plot of mada2 no matter what, so their reasoning is probably angsty and super troubled and juicy.

And just for fun, I'll tell you why I don't think Clover would stay behind: She puts Maurice in charge when KJ is missing, so she doesn't just seize the crown every chance she gets when she has other priorities. Clover does NOT stay home while the boys go out on adventures. They actually have to work to leave her behind in one episode. She likes to be in the center of the action. Leaving a gecko in charge is insane, but ultimately her loyalty is to protect King Julien, not the kingdom, so if it came to it, she'd bid the kingdom adieu bc she sees it as her job to make sure he doesn't die out there. (And because, let's be real, it sounds really fun and dangerous. She loves quests.)

A fundamental part of the Julien/Clover dynamic is she thinks danger is fun. He's really speaking to the part of her that wants to take that risk.

Clover spends the night. This isn't new, but it's not something she could explain either. She's also run out of clean clothes.

I posted a fic.

that's a tough question bc i'm not joking when i say "every scene with clover is my favorite scene," but off the dome:

Clover making Ted and Dorothy sweat while calmly investigating their house. Very sexy scene. Very powerful.

Maurice telling her to get mad! get angry!

When Clover has fun on the water slide, and acts like she does something wrong because she wants to feel that way again, then fondly smiles to herself thinking how things are better now, then stands up to Uncle and repeats his condescending words back to him NICE AND SLOW. . .

"but his EYES said 😡 maybe! ☺️"