Huh, nobody responded and I'm too late.

The more I see how howlers work the less I like it. First of all just to transform you have to find something funny which is not necessary immediately available even though it looks like main character would laugh even if someone show her a finger and wiggle it a bit. And I'm not sure is it good or bad for her.
And the fact that everything looks funny in the howler form impedes decision making.
Powerful form, but quite inconvenient one.

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Not much is said in the original comic about how howlers think. I had to make her laugh at almost anything, because of the laugh problem, which is not bad at all. Think of it as a sunny disposition. And everything funny wouldn't impede decision making at all, it would just make everything that happens to her feel different. Howlers in the comic have full sentience when in howler form, they just can't talk.

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I might come along later and edit the series. I see where you come from with these problems. I might come along later and fix them.