Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-30079834-20180924035931/@comment-30079834-20181111010232

He torments him mercilessly, which ends up nudging White Fang along the path to the Dark Side. Or, as London puts it, "Lip-lip continued so to darken his days that White Fang became wickeder and more ferocious than it was his natural right to be".

He's basically a warm-up for Beauty Smith, something that White Fang has to deal with, endure and eventually get used to if he wants to survive in the Big Bad World. Unlike Beauty Smith, however, White Fang can handle Lip-lip on his own: after years of torment, the two finally face off in the woods during a famine. There's no greater revenge than being able to eat your tormentor.