Fierce (BrackenStorm268)

***Spoiler Warning:** This article contains spoilers for the comic!*
> I’m not going to sit here anymore and continue to watch our parents hurt and separate our family!
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> **Fierce** to Felicity, after Stoic leaves the Golden Grove

## Basic Information

### Name(s):

Fierce
Ferocity (by Vigilant)
Sis (by siblings/cousins)
Daring (by Stoic)

## Relations

### Sibling(s):

Hope, Adamant, Quiet, Stoic, and Felicity
Leery, Aggravating, Joyous, and Troublesome (half-siblings/cousins)
Daybreak (half-sister/cousin)

### Other:

Watchful, Wild, Jasper the First, and Breccia (grandparents)
Clever, Careful, Vigilant, and Heliotrope (aunts)
Radiance, Bold, Cheerful, Elegant, Charming, and Sunny (cousins)
Daffodil and Bean (first cousins, once removed)
Aurora (attraction)

**Fierce** is a fan character of *I Hope So* made by BrackenStorm268.

## Summary

> *Born after Hopeful and Adamant's departure, Fierce is the youngest of Vicious and Jasper's children. Named for her attitude and sharp personality, she won't hesitate to fight her parents verbally (especially her mother). She hopes for a better future for herself and her siblings.*
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## Appearance

Fierce is almost a spitting image of her father as a brown lion with a dark dorsal stripe and tail. She also inherited Jasper's dark ear markings with a dot on the back of them. She has a pale markings on her underbelly, paws, and muzzle. Her muzzle marking connects to underneath her eyes. She had a hair fringe similar to Adamant's. She has two notches in one of her ears and scars on her lower back from a far-leaper during her first hunt.

## Personality

Fierce is a determined and, as her name implies, fierce adolescent lioness. Growing up without much parental guidance and love, Fierce is disconnected from her parents and is more connected to her two aunts, Vigilant and Careful. She loves her siblings and especially enjoys spending time with her half-siblings. Fierce is a skilled huntress and loyal lioness, but tends to pick the wrong fight or causes fights, mostly between herself and her parents. She’s also protective and very quick to judge just based on actions and behavior. She will not hesitate to stand up for herself or others, but struggles to get others to see the truth behind her words.

Much like Hopeful though, she’s curious about the lands and world beyond the borders of the territory, but shows minor fear due to Vicious’s stories about Travelers and how they eat their young and how dangerous the outside territory is. But upon Vigilant taking her to meet her cousin, Sunny, she’s slowly lightening up on her beliefs about Travelers. In the pride, Fierce is mostly hanging out with the cubs and tends to go on solo hunts or hunts with Vigilant just to avoid her mother and father.

But despite having siblings, her relationship with her sister, Stoic, is strained. Due to her father paying attention to her more than Fierce (despite Fierce not knowing about the blackmail Jasper pulled), Fierce struggles to keep a relationship with her. But when Stoic is attacked and hurt by Vicious and Jasper, Fierce pushes all the differences away to stand up and defend her sister from their mother, proving that she still cares about and loves Stoic deeply that she won’t let differences stop her from being there for her sister. And when Careful ends up leaving the pride one night and Stoic leaves after having enough of their parents, Fierce is left alone with Felicity and her half siblings and is devastated at both losses that she refuses to eat much, but with the help of her family, she pulls through.

Fierce returns to being herself, but is determined to keep her family together, even if it means at the risk of her own life against her parents and prays and hopes for a better future for everyone that she loves. Even though she wants to leave, she doesn't want to abandon the ones who love her.

## Relationships

#### **Aurora**

Upon their first time meeting, Fierce was hostile and mistook Aurora to be a rogue king only to learn that she’s actually a maned lioness. After their first meeting, Fierce originally wasn’t interested in seeing Aurora again, but somehow manages to run into Aurora again when Fierce goes out hunting alone. Soon, their meetings became frequent. Whenever Fierce had a bad day or an argument with her parents, she would vent to Aurora and sometimes the pair would sleep under the stars just outside of the territory and Fierce would use Aurora’s mane as a cushion for her head when she sleeps. When Stoic and Careful leave the Grove, Fierce goes to Aurora for comfort and is reassured and feels a sense of relief that Aurora’s friends who were Fierce’s kin, Sunny and Elegant, had taken in Careful who renamed herself to Loess. Even though they haven’t revealed their feelings for each other, they both have grown to love one another deeply.

#### **Vigilant and Careful**

When Vicious and Jasper start to ignore and neglect their youngest daughter, Fierce ends up growing up with Careful and Vigilant as her parental figures rather than her birth parents. Fierce would join Vigilant and Prosperity in learning how to hunt and join Careful in playing with her half siblings. Whenever she got in an argument with her sister, Stoic, or her parents, she would go to either of her aunts for comfort and vent to them which would mainly be Vigilant due to Careful not being very vocal about conflicts.

After Careful runs away from the Grove and Stoic leaves, Fierce is heartbroken entirely at losing an aunt and one of her siblings. If it hadn’t been for Vigilant’s perseverance to encourage and comfort her niece, Fierce wouldn’t have made it through a season. However, when Aurora tells her that Careful, who renamed herself Loess, had joined Sunny’s coalition of Travelers and was safe, Fierce was a little more happy and relieved to know that her aunt was close, but safe from her parents.

#### **Prosperity**

Fierce and Prosperity have a mentor-apprentice relationship with each other. When Fierce was growing up, Prosperity and Vigilant worked together to train the cubs in hunting, but also secretly teach them survival and fighting tactics due to both lionesses disapproving of Vicious’ training methods and excluding Fierce mainly from training with her kin. Fierce always enjoyed Prosperity’s lessons and words of wisdom and stories beyond the Golden Grove. When learning Prosperity and Vigilant had a thing for one another, Fierce was supportive and extremely happy that her aunt was happy with someone.

#### **Felicity**

Fierce’s littermate, Felicity was extremely close to her sister and did her best to support and comfort her while also acting like the mediator between Stoic and Fierce through their adolescence. Despite being timid and more reserved than the two, Fierce loved her sister and enjoyed joining lessons with her which helped Fierce get through the jealousy and hate she had for Stoic. When Stoic and Careful leave the Golden Grove, Felicity tries to calm down and get Fierce to settle before she blows up, but only failed when Fierce said that she was done watching their family fall apart because of their parents which finally made Felicity realize that her younger sister was right about one thing - Their parents were behind the reason the family they had was broken.

#### **Stoic**

Through cubhood, Fierce and Stoic had a close relationship until one day when Stoic began to train with their dad and Vicious wouldn’t let Fierce train with her sister. This caused Fierce to grow with bitterness towards her older sister, thinking that Stoic was the favorite heir when in reality, Stoic wasn’t the favorite and was forced to stay away from her sister after being blackmailed and threatened by her father that he would kill Fierce if she didn’t train with him.

But in the end, when Stoic was attacked by their parents, Fierce pushed aside everything that happened between them and protected her sister from Vicious and Jasper. Fierce did everything she could to convince her sister to stay and in the end before Stoic left, the truth about Jasper’s blackmail and threats came out which made Fierce realize that her sister was only avoiding her to protect her. Fierce and Stoic forgive one another before Stoic leaves the Golden Grove which would lead to Fierce understanding that she now had to protect her family from their parents.

#### **Aggravating, Joyous, and Troublesome**

Careful’s bunch of cubs that were born before Fierce, she ended up growing up close with her older half siblings and helped them choose different names when realizing that Aggravating and Troublesome’s names were named for their behavior as cubs which led to the pair being renamed Wonderful and Vivacious. When their mother ran away, Fierce comforted them with her family as much as she could before she could go and let herself find Aurora for comfort. She may find her half siblings/cousins annoying, but she knows that they're still her family at the end of the day.

#### **Sunny and Elegant**

Upon learning that she had cousins from before Jasper was king, Fierce was excited to meet them when Aurora brought her to meet the coalition located just outside of the territory’s perimeters. Sunny was excited to meet Fierce and even shared stories when Fierce stayed with the small group of lions to stay away from her family from time to time. However, Elegant was immediately suspicious of Fierce and her father due to already not liking the fact that there’s been things going on within the Golden Grove after the death of her and Sunny’s father, Merry.

Fierce tries to form a relationship with Elegant, but is constantly shoved away due to Elegant’s suspicions and Sunny just tries to keep things settled for them both until Fierce finds her near death and comforts Elegant in her final moments with Fierce forgiving her cousin and reassuring her that the Traveller would reunite Elegant with her parents before Elegant dies.

When finding out his half sister is dead, Sunny is wrenched with pain and guilt and Fierce comforts him that Elegant didn’t die alone and that they would find out what happened and who had killed her before helping share memories and times in their lives with herself, him, Aurora, and Loess.

#### **Vicious and Jasper**

Fierce’s parents who literally have no relationship with their own daughter. Due to Vicious believing Fierce to be the reincarnation of Adamant, Vicious refuses to really raise her and pushes her off to Vigilant and Careful while helping Jasper focus on the other cub’s training as a way to keep Fierce from learning how to be independent all the time and as a way to help Jasper keep Stoic focused on training rather than her siblings. When learning Vigilant gave her daughter a nickname, she reluctantly does give Fierce her official name, just to keep Vigilant off her back.

When Stoic is attacked by Jasper and soon Vicious, Fierce is not hesitant to stand up to both of them and yell at their parents to protect her sister, establishing that she doesn’t respect her parents due to their abuse and pain they inflict on Fierce’s siblings and cousins. Even when threatened to be thrown out of the pride, Fierce stands her ground and keeps her distance after the argument and Stoic’s departure. When learning her father had threatened her sister, Fierce is ready to follow the Laws of The Great King and kill her father for his actions.

## Trivia

* Name meaning:
	+ Fierce: *"Having or displaying an intense or ferocious aggressiveness."*
* If Fierce was...
	+ ...a Traveller, her name would be "Harmattan."
	+ ...in Red Stone, her name would be "Gladiola."
	+ ...in Thundering Mountains, her name would be "Quartz."
	+ ...in Edge's Kingdom, her name would be "Ivory."
	+ ...in Kingblessed Coast, her name would be "Seashell" or "Shell" for short.
	+ ...in Moonlit Grove, her name would be "Pounce."
	+ ...in Dark Canyon, her name would be "Shadow."
* Fierce has Barbary lion ancestry through her father, Jasper.
* Fierce was originally going to be blind in one eye, but the idea was scrapped for certain reasons.
* Due to Vicious’ negligence, she sees Careful and Vigilant as her mothers.
* Her favorite prey to hunt are pickers and sharp-horns.
	+ Her least favorite prey to hunt are far-leapers.
* Due to Adamant vanishing, Vicious thinks that she's dead and that Fierce is her reincarnation.
	+ This is the main reasoning behind Vicious and Jasper's neglect towards her.
* She was designed and created on March 11th, 2023
* If she was in the series, My Pride, her name would be Valorgrowl.
* Fierce has acrophobia (Fear of heights).

## Gallery

Reference artwork of Fierce (@Base by CalicoPikachu)Reference artwork of Fierce as a cub (@Base by CalicoPikachu)Reference artwork of Fierce as a young cub (@Base by CalicoPikachu)Reference artwork of Fierce as an adult (@Base by CalicoPikachu)Fierce stalking wildebeest (@DrowsyBigCat)Fierce fullbody (@CrunchyCaramel0)Fierce looking to the skies (@lynx the animator#4598)Fullbody of Fierce (@Mildly\_Confused)Fierce standing tall (@CalicoPikachu)Fierce at nightFierce baring her teeth (@\_Frostbite\_)Fierce headshot (@Dust\_Hunter)Headshots of Brash (@orphic), Stoic (@TheCartonistCat), and Fierce (@TheCartonistCat)Bust of Fierce (@Mildly\_Confused)Aurora and Fierce lovingly headbutting each other (@CalicoPikachu)Headshots of Aurora and Fierce embracing (@orphic)Fierce growling and smiling (@ItsWrenly)Headshot of Fierce (@Mildly\_Confused)Fullbody sketch of Fierce in a tree (@Sillyyy<33)Headshot sketch of FierceChibi of Fierce (@Ausilotus)Aurora and Fierce taking a stroll (@Gamba\_16)