Clover

**Siblings**

* Malcolm (paternal step-brother)

**Clover** is the protagonist of the 2019 short horror film *Taste.* A surly MMA enthusiast, she joins forces with her geeky step-brother when their neighborhood becomes infected by a strange virus contained in Monsino Farms meat. She is the step-sister of Malcolm.

She is portrayed by Danielle Kay.

## Physical Appearance

Clover is a Caucasian girl in her late teens with reddish-brown hair and freckles. She wears a red-and-black plaid jacket, a black top, two gold spike bracelets on her left wrist, and a black choker around her neck. She wears denim jeans and sneakers.

## Characteristics

Clover is a surly teenager, with her only interests being grunge bands, kickboxing, and monsters. She is a fan of Taylor Cook, a kickboxing idol, and appears to like grunge bands. She doesn't appear to care much for her step-brother at first, but upon realizing they have nobody else to turn to, she takes up the responsibility of protecting him.

## Background

Some time ago, Clover's mother left the picture. Her father met and married another woman an indeterminate amount of time later, and Clover gained not only a new mother but a new step-brother from the union.

## Crypt Monster Universe

### *Taste* (2019)

Clover makes her debut in the film *Taste*. She initially refuses to come out of her room to eat with her new stepfamily, but relents after her father presses her to come down. At the table, she is exasperated by Malcolm's ramblings about GMO's, but both are similarly disgusted by their respective parents going to town on the meat. Clover goes back to her room, only to find she's out of snacks, and returns downstairs to find the kitchen in disarray, and her father has killed and eaten her stepmother. Clover narrowly escaped getting eaten and knocked her father out, and took Malcolm with her to go find the Hendersons, who were friends of their parents. When they arrived, they learned that Mrs. Henderson was suffering from the same affliction as their father, and Clover was forced to fight her to defend Malcolm. Mrs. Henderson knocks her down, and Clover hallucinates Taylor Cook, a kickboxing idol, telling her to get up and "knock that bitch out". Clover joins Malcolm in fighting their neighbor, and bashes Mrs. Henderson's head in.

Malcolm brings Clover to Hermit Jim's house, but Clover refuses to go inside. Hermit Jim then appears and brings the teens into his house, but Clover's father follows them in and kills him. Clover and Malcolm hide in the back room and Clover orders him to stay put before going out to fight her father. She manages to put up a good fight, but her father overpowers her and begins to eat her leg. Malcolm then comes out of the back room with Hermit Jim's katana and attacks him, giving Clover the window she needs to get up and fight. Clover knocks her father out by smashing his head against the mantle, and she and Malcolm exit the house to a neighborhood in chaos.

## Powers and Abilities

### Skillset

* **Kickboxing:** Clover is a proficient fighter for her age, having practiced by watching kickboxing videos and presumably taking classes. She is strong enough to be able to take on two grown adults that have mutated with superhuman strength.

### Equipment

* **Meat Tenderizer:** Clover wields a meat tenderizer that she took from her kitchen.

## Relationships

### Malcolm

Clover initially doesn't get along with Malcolm, not wanting to associate with him because he's weak and nerdy. After their parents become infected by the tainted meat, Clover takes charge of the situation and doesn't leave room for Malcolm to argue with her decisions. After they fight her infected father together, Clover begins to warm up to her step-brother, as he is not the wimp she previously thought he was.

### Clover's Father

Clover cared very much about her father, and was willing to try and socialize with her stepfamily for him. She showed great distress when she had to fight him, and told his unconscious body that she would get him help at the end of the movie.

### Malcom's Mother

The full extent of their relationship is unknown.

### The Hendersons

Clover seemingly had a good relationship with The Hendersons, as they were family friends.

### Hermit Jim

Clover was very wary of Hermit Jim due to his reclusive and paranoid nature, stating that she felt safer in the neighborhood with cannibalistic Freaks than inside Hermit Jim's house.

## Trivia

* Clover appears to be a fan of The Rolling Stones, as she wears a pin in the shape of their logo.
* It is possible that Clover attends Journey High, the school from *Troubled Youth*, as she has a news article about the "Journey High Monster" pulled up on her laptop.

## References

1. ↑ *Taste* (dir. Alex Grybauskas; April 5th, 2019)