# Slow-and-Solid — Just So Stories character guide

> Slow-and-Solid in Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Slow-Solid, Slow - and - Solid

**First appearance:** 0006-the-beginning-of-the-armadillos

## Snapshot

A slow, steady tortoise who teams with the Hedgehog to outwit the Painted Jaguar through clever advice and unshakeable patience.

## Who they are

He is the Hedgehog's calm ally in the tangled jungle, where the Painted Jaguar hunts by confusing his two prickly prey. While the Hedgehog panics and practices rolling into a ball, Slow-and-Solid supplies the crucial plan: one of them curls up, the other swims, and neither must ever mix the two. His deliberate, unflappable nature balances the Hedgehog's jittery energy and drives the trick that leaves the Jaguar baffled and hungry.

## Relationships

### [Painted Jaguar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/just_so_stories_se/characters/painted_jaguar)

_rivalry_

Painted Jaguar tries to catch and eat Slow-and-Solid the tortoise, but is repeatedly outsmarted.

### [Painted Jaguar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/just_so_stories_se/characters/painted_jaguar)

_rivalry_

Painted Jaguar tries to catch and eat Slow-and-Solid the tortoise, but is repeatedly outsmarted.

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