Ghost Wolf

> I only paint that which is true... and nobody likes the truth.
>
> Ghost Wolf, "Ghost Wolf's Art"

**Ghost Wolf** is a recurring character in the series *Kiff*. He is an ancient entity who lives on a mountain in Table Town, as well as an amateur artist.

## Profile

Ghost Wolf is an ancient entity who lives in a cave atop a mountain overlooking metropolitan Table Town. He plays a protective role on the mountain, sensing the presence of lost travelers and shepherding them to safety.

## Appearance

Ghost Wolf is a white wolf with a black nose, the rings around his eyes being the same color. As he is a ghost, he floats and is surrounded by a ghostly blue aura. He possesses ghostly abilities such as flight, teleportation, invisibility, and intangibility, and is also capable of temporarily passing these abilities onto organic beings. While painting, Ghost Wolf wears a pink bathrobe.

## Personality

Although he seems scary at first glance, Ghost Wolf is actually a benevolent creature who guides lost travelers to safety. In "Totally Table Town", Kiff and her friends encounter him on his mountain and flee from him in fear, but later discover that he only intended to give them back their lost wireless speaker. In this appearance, he communicates only in grunts and howls.

He later has a more prominent role in "Ghost Wolf's Art", where it is revealed that he has two modes of communication: through wordless grunts which he translates into English to others by manifesting floating captions, and through spoken English, which he uses for most of the episode when talking to Kiff and Barry (after having initially used the first mode because he was "not aware of at what age non-ghost children become literate", according to him).

In "Ghost Wolf's Art", Ghost Wolf is revealed to be a talented artist, able to paint and sculpt what he sees with startling clarity. He is nonetheless very humble about his talent, noting that he creates art for personal expression rather than praise, and being initially hesitant to publicly display his work. Ghost Wolf is also an avid horticulturist who maintains a rich garden of ferns in his cave.

## Relationships

### Kiff Chatterley and Barry Buns

In "Totally Table Town", Kiff takes her friends to Ghost Wolf's mountain to film their "Totally Table Town" music video there, despite being warned about his presence. After being approached by Ghost Wolf while filming the video, the terrified children flee from him and end up lost on the mountain. Ghost Wolf eventually catches up to them, but to their surprise, he simply returns their lost wireless speaker and leaves peacefully. His intervention leads to the children being spotted and rescued by a passing helicopter. At the end of the episode, Ghost Wolf says (via a caption) that Kiff and her friends have taught him the power of civic pride.

Wanting to thank Ghost Wolf for helping her and her friends, Kiff, accompanied by Barry, returns to Ghost Wolf's cave in "Ghost Wolf's Art". The two meet Ghost Wolf and discover that he has created an amazing painting of Kiff, Barry, Candle, Reggie, Renée, and Trevor. Wanting to convince Ghost Wolf that the world is ready to see his art, Kiff commissions ten paintings from him and secretly organizes an art show of his work. Barry assists Ghost Wolf as an apprentice, and the two fly together through Table Town to find inspiration for the paintings by observing people's everyday lives. At the show, Ghost Wolf's subjects are at first offended by his paintings of them doing private activities, but they end up bonding with the other attendees over said activities, and the show is a success. Ghost Wolf later invites Barry to continue his apprenticeship in the summer.

## Trivia

* His interest in art is first mentioned at the end of "Totally Table Town", where one of the captions translating him reads: "Perhaps one day I will leave my dark woods and try my paw at painting".
* He says that he only paints the truth, and indeed his paintings are all depictions of real people. The paintings that Kiff commissions from him in "Ghost Wolf's Art" show:
	+ Glarbin measuring his height.
	+ Martin ice dancing.
	+ Miss Deer Teacher having a dinner party with her stuffed toys.
	+ Roy not wearing his false eyebrows.
	+ The Pone wrapped in toilet paper.
	+ Secretary Prince eating plates.
	+ Rat turning on the nightlight in his bedroom (painted in an extremely abstract style).
	+ Principal Secretary sulking over a picture of his ex.