Clive

Clive arrives in the jungle as a school doctor after working at an urban hospital.

He describes his move as "something like volunteer work," though his exact reason for coming is never fully explained.

He was formerly Weda's attending physician.

After reuniting with her in the jungle for the first time in about ten years, he learns that he is Haré's father.

His relationship with his son is famously terrible.

Clive and Haré are essentially at each other's throats, making them a classic pair of mutual antagonists.

Gender: Male

Age at first appearance: 29

Clive is a brilliant prodigy who became Weda's attending physician while he was still in his late teens.

As a doctor, he is extremely capable and highly talented.

At the same time, he is a shameless womanizer with serious flaws in his character.

When Haré once asked Weda what kind of person his father was, she described Clive as a "personality wreck."

He also harbors resentment toward his mother.

According to Clive himself, she was a woman who loved men and lacked restraint, and because he grew up feeling unwanted by her, he came to hate her.

Haré mocks this hatred as simple self-loathing directed at someone too similar to himself.

That remark neatly captures one of Clive's most unpleasant, and most human, contradictions.

Weda

Clive once treated Weda as her doctor.

Although he had approached her casually at the time, he later came to regret it when he learned that her pregnancy with Haré had caused her to be disowned by her family.

That guilt reveals a rare trace of conscience beneath his usual behavior.

Later, when Weda became pregnant for a second time, he finally resolved himself and proposed to her.

From that point on, the two became husband and wife in both name and reality.

Their relationship is messy, but it does ultimately become official.

Haré

Clive is Haré's biological father, though he only learns this after meeting Weda again in the jungle.

Father and son do not get along at all.

Their relationship is defined by constant friction.

Even so, Haré does occasionally influence him in surprisingly practical ways.

Dama

Clive normally dyes his hair white, even though his natural hair color is black.

However, this creates a serious problem: when his hair is white, Dama mistakes him for her late husband and attacks him.

The experience becomes traumatic for him for a time.

Following Haré's advice, he eventually dyes his hair black again.

Clive's natural hair color is black.

His white hair is the result of dye.

He later returns to black hair because the white hair repeatedly causes Dama to mistake him for her dead husband.

That misunderstanding is dangerous enough to leave him genuinely traumatized.

Clive has a very low tolerance for alcohol and barely drinks.

When he does get drunk, he becomes childish and starts acting clingy and affectionate toward other people.

This side of him sharply contrasts with his usual cynical and irresponsible demeanor.

It is one of the character quirks that makes him both irritating and memorable.

Clive appears as an important supporting character in Haré+Guu.

In the later Haré+Guu material, however, his number of appearances drops significantly.