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* PantheraAwesome: The Tiger.
* RightHandCat: The Tiger serves as one for Ann Walker in [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/interlude-two-page-9/ this strip.]]
* RightHandCat: The Tiger serves as one for Ann Walker in [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/interlude-two-page-9/ this strip.]]
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* EyeScream: Frederick Oliver, the former owner of the Tiger, has a long scar that passes over his right eye.
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* LoveMartyr: plenty of Beings toward less-than-savory Masters throughout the ages, with Patrick's feelings for his last Master being the most notable current example.
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* AprilFoolsDay: [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-eleven-page-04-01/ April 1, 2013]].
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** Mr. Cohen (first name unrevealed) has readers calling him Jon, after another [[TheDailyShow adult male Jewish media figure]] with whom he shares design similarities.
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** ShowTheForehead: Sparrow in her pseudo-drag outfit; Timothy at his day job (except for one [[IdiotHair troublesome strand]]).
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* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: Reseda and Patrick. Averted in the case of the Tiger, whose only human form seen so far is male. (Although it should be said that Beings are implied to be sexless and genderless, due to being shapeshifters, but Reseda and Patrick qualify for this trope since their currently favored human forms are female and male, respectively.)
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* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: Reseda and Patrick. Averted Zig-zagged in the case of the Tiger, whose only human form forms seen so far is male. (Although it include a little girl and a grown man. (It should be said that Beings are implied to be sexless and genderless, due to being shapeshifters, but Reseda and Patrick qualify for this trope since their currently favored human forms are female and male, respectively.)
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** CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Reseda (gold) and Cybele (pink).
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* IronicName: Bianca, whose name means "white" in Italian, is black and proud of it.
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* ThemeNaming: Reseda, whose previous name was Sister Lily.
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* TravelMontage: Lampshaded. "I wish we were in an anime or something, so that this whole trip could go by in a montage."
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* HypocriticalHumor: [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-nine-page-15/ Leave your weird fetishes out of this!]]
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Not to be confused with ButImACheerleader. Also has nothing to do with actual CatPeople.
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Not to be confused with ButImACheerleader. Also has nothing to do with actual CatPeople.
[[{{Catfolk}} Cat People]].
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* CombatStilettos: A realistic way to use them: Camellia [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-four-page-21/ rams her narrow heel on a would-be mugger's toes to get him to release her]].
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** Also on meta level: the first known BICP fanfic to be written is [[SlashFic Sparrow/Reseda]] and rated NC-17.
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* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Sparrow Elbereth.
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* JewishMother: Sparrow's mother has traits of this (even as an ethnically Jewish pagan), as does [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/interlude-one-page-10-2/ her mother before her]].
--> "And when is that lesbian separatist coven of yours going to give me some grandchildren, hmmm?"
--> "And when is that lesbian separatist coven of yours going to give me some grandchildren, hmmm?"
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** ShapeshiftingSquick: There are background references to the use of certain forms of Beings in [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-two-page-nine/ pornography that would otherwise be illegal]].
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** ShapeshiftingSquick: ShapeshiftingSquick:
*** There are background references to the use of certain forms of Beings in [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-two-page-nine/ pornography that would otherwise be illegal]].
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* StrongFamilyResemblance: Sparrow and [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-seven-page-21/ her mother Sharon]]. Justified in that Sparrow was conceived via a sperm donor, whom Sharon chose [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-eight-page-24-2/ to look as much like her as possible]].
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* [[TellMeAboutMyFather Tell Me About My Sperm Donor]]: Sparrow to her mother.
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* LonelyRichKid: Miranda, whose ParentalAbandonment comes in multiple flavors. As a child, she has [[spoiler: a [[WhenYouComingHomeDad workaholic mother]] and a DisappearedDad]]; as a teenager, she has a MissingMom and an ArchnemesisDad.
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* BatmanGambit: Congressman Bennett [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-eight-page-5/ tries to pull one of these on Ann Walker]], introducing a bill that will put limits on her with the assumtion she will [[CorruptCorporateExecutive attempt to buy him off]] to get special treatment. She [[spoiler: easily turns it around on him, playing on his one-note conservative rhetoric to trap him into inadvertently promising her some benefits]].
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* BatmanGambit: [[CorruptPolitician Congressman Bennett Bennett]] tries to [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-eight-page-5/ tries to pull one of these on Ann Walker]], introducing a bill that will put limits on her with the assumtion assumption she will [[CorruptCorporateExecutive attempt to buy him off]] to get special treatment. She [[spoiler: easily turns it around on him, playing on his one-note conservative rhetoric to trap him into inadvertently promising her some benefits]].
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* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Chapter 4 is an extended one of these for Timothy and Reseda. Jany and Kara Lynn get [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-seven-page-7/ a cute little one]]. As of chapter 8, [[spoiler: one for Bennett]] is just starting to be touched on.
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* BatmanGambit: Congressman Bennett [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-eight-page-5/ tries to pull one of these on Ann Walker]], introducing a bill that will put limits on her with the assumtion she will [[CorruptCorporateExecutive attempt to buy him off]] to get special treatment. She [[spoiler: easily turns it around on him, playing on his one-note conservative rhetoric to trap him into inadvertently promising her some benefits]].
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** YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Bianca, unless she's an example of PurpleIsTheNewBlack; Cybele, a RoseHairedGirl; Bennett, whose dark hair is kind of magenta-ish. Character sketches indicate more blue and purple hair to come.
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Bennett, [[spoiler: [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-eight-page-2/ insisting he doesn't care about Cybele]].]]
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* HealingFactor: Beings have this, within limits. Food and appropriate treatment will still make a difference in how quickly they recover. After a few thousand years of dealing with injuries, they can be [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-six-page-7/ pretty blasé]] about the gory details.
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** TransformationIsAFreeAction: Averted. They're frequently drawn out during quiet moments, but when they need to happen fast, [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-six-page-5/ they happen fast]].
** ShapeshifterWeapon: So far, averted; Beings fight mostly with energy attacks and the natural weapons of their standard forms (fists, claws, etcetera). When [[spoiler: Patrick [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-five-page-25/ used his arm as a club]] that one time]], it stayed in its usual shape and was damaged accordingly.
** MyInstinctsAreShowing: Usually played for cuteness. The Cat [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-six-page-11/ will curl up in your lap]] for petting; [[spoiler: the Raven [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-five-page-20/ has a hard time managing legs]].]]
** ShapeshifterWeapon: So far, averted; Beings fight mostly with energy attacks and the natural weapons of their standard forms (fists, claws, etcetera). When [[spoiler: Patrick [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-five-page-25/ used his arm as a club]] that one time]], it stayed in its usual shape and was damaged accordingly.
** MyInstinctsAreShowing: Usually played for cuteness. The Cat [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-six-page-11/ will curl up in your lap]] for petting; [[spoiler: the Raven [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-five-page-20/ has a hard time managing legs]].]]
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** ShapeshiftingSquick: There are background references to Beings used in [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-two-page-nine/ pornography that would otherwise be illegal]].
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** MorphicResonance: Across Every Being has a few visual traits that stay consistent across all human and animal forms, if only for the various forms convenience of the reader. Cybele's pink eyes, Patrick's brown-and-blond hair/fur, Reseda's sharp teeth and claws, and so on.
** ShapeshifterShowdown: Understated so far; Beings tend to enter battle in agiven Being.single form and stick with it, sometimes with the Masters [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-four-page-4/ agreeing on that form beforehand]].
** TransformationIsAFreeAction: Averted.
** ShapeshifterShowdown: Understated so far; Beings tend to enter battle in a
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* GodBeforeDogma: Timothy/Camellia, thanks to [[spoiler: having spent several of his teenage years in a doomsday cult focused on Reseda]]. Identifies as a Catholic, but has a strong aversion to any imposition of one person's dogma beliefs on another.
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** MagicPants: Their outfits are [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-two-page-three/ part of the transformation]], as much as their bodies are.
** ShapeshiftingSquick: There are background references to Beings used in [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-two-page-nine/ pornography that would otherwise be illegal]].
*** And again with Kara Lynn, who [[spoiler: has standing orders to earn her Master's family money as an exotic dancer and prostitute, and [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-seven-page-13/ changes form to suit the fetishes of the highest bidder]].]]
** MorphicResonance: Across all the various forms of a given Being.
** MagicPants: Their outfits are [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-two-page-three/ part of the transformation]], as much as their bodies are.
** ShapeshiftingSquick: There are background references to Beings used in [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-two-page-nine/ pornography that would otherwise be illegal]].
*** And again with Kara Lynn, who [[spoiler: has standing orders to earn her Master's family money as an exotic dancer and prostitute, and [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-seven-page-13/ changes form to suit the fetishes of the highest bidder]].]]
** MorphicResonance: Across all the various forms of a given Being.
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* AnimalTesting: The experiments regularly done on Beings may or may not be comparable to this, [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman depending on who you ask]].
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* WindmillPolitical: Bennett, regarding the possibility of Beings as a terrorist threat.
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** Mr. Cohen (first name unrevealed) has readers calling him Jon, after another [[TheDailyShow adult male Jewish media figure]] with whom he shares design similarities.
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In a world not too different from our own, humans share the planet with a mysterious servant species known as Beings. Shapeshifting, flying [[{{Mon}} battle monsters]], they have spent countless ages dueling each other in a contest with no end, known as the Game...
...which most of humanity has spent just as long ignoring. It's not really that interesting if you're not involved.
Into this contest stumble two [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary College Graduates]], cheerful Bianca and skeptical Sparrow, when a Being on the run drops into their life. He's called Patrick in human form (or Spot, when he's a dog), and at Sparrow's insistence he makes a contract to serve Bianca in return for a place in their home. But mysterious figures are keeping an eye on Patrick, and the Game has a way of not letting you go.
(None of this would have happened if they'd gotten a kitten instead.)
''But I'm A Cat Person'' is the latest comic from ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' creator Erin Ptah. The official description from [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/ the website]] is "what happens when you take a heap of shounen-power-up and mahou-shoujo tropes, dump them all in a blender, and then [[SubvertedTrope throw the blender away and make a sandwich instead]]."
Not to be confused with ButImACheerleader. Also has nothing to do with actual CatPeople.
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!!Tropes found in this webcomic are:
* BadassAdorable: A lot of the Beings have especially cute animal forms.
* CatsAreSnarkers: Reseda. Not so much when [[spoiler: she was known as Lily; it only began to come out after her then-Master died.]]
* ChristmasEpisode: [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/interlude-one-cover/ The first interlude]], between chapters 4 and 5, consists of holiday-themed flashbacks for several of the characters.
* [[DontCallMeSir Don't Call Me Master]]: Bianca to Patrick. (His refusal is one of the few stands he takes, though, so she goes along with it.)
* {{Expy}}: The full cast will bring in several AU versions of characters from the artist's [[Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow earlier works]].
** Miranda originated in TheEagleOfHermes.
** Timothy and Reseda were last seen in ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow''.
* FanNickname:
** With his real name still a mystery, Cybele's Master has been referred to as Nevada-san, based on his [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada-chan unfortunate]] choice of [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/chapter-two-page-22/ sweatshirt]].
** When the tiger-Being made its first full appearance, two readers immediately referred to it as [[CalvinAndHobbes Hobbes]].
* FluffyTheTerrible: Taking into account the powers beings have, they have the capability to be this.
* HairTropes and HairColors:
** DarkSkinnedBlond: Timothy, both with his natural hair and the wig he wears as Camellia.
** EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Miranda's omnipresent beads, and Bianca's [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/chapter-two-page-17/ butterfly clip]].
** HairColorSpoiler: The comic is all in greyscale except for green spot-coloring...and the eyes and hair (or, in Miranda's case, hair decs) of certain characters, mostly Beings and their Masters. If you see someone with colorful hair, odds are they're going to be important.
** MulticoloredHair: Patrick, whose blonde hair includes a brown SkunkStripe.
** ShowTheForehead: Sparrow in her pseudo-drag outfit; Timothy at his day job (except for one [[IdiotHair troublesome strand]]).
** YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Bianca, unless she's an example of PurpleIsTheNewBlack; Cybele, a RoseHairedGirl; Bennett, whose dark hair is kind of magenta-ish. Character sketches indicate more blue and purple hair to come.
* KickTheDog: Literally, from [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/?p=108 the dog's point of view]].
* MeaningfulName: Since a Being's name is chosen by its master, it doesn't tell you much about the Being's nature, but might give you a clue about the master's interests.
** The raven goes by [[EdgarAllanPoe Poe]]. No wonder Miranda was first seen lurking in a graveyard.
* {{Mon}}: The fighters in the Game.
* RuleThirtyFour: In-story. Sparrow searches the web for information about Beings, and finds, among other things, links to Being porn. Some of them quite squicky.
* TalkingAnimal: The animal forms of the Beings. Inconspicuous as long as they don't open their mouths (and aren't of too exotic a species).
* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Bianca, Sparrow, and Patrick.
* UnreadableDisclaimer: Unreadable-entire-contract, even. There's no written version of Bianca's agreement with Patrick, and the spoken version consisted entirely of "I, Bianca Washington."
** Of course given how short their memory is, [[FridgeBrilliance they would (or may already have) forget anything longer]]
...which most of humanity has spent just as long ignoring. It's not really that interesting if you're not involved.
Into this contest stumble two [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary College Graduates]], cheerful Bianca and skeptical Sparrow, when a Being on the run drops into their life. He's called Patrick in human form (or Spot, when he's a dog), and at Sparrow's insistence he makes a contract to serve Bianca in return for a place in their home. But mysterious figures are keeping an eye on Patrick, and the Game has a way of not letting you go.
(None of this would have happened if they'd gotten a kitten instead.)
''But I'm A Cat Person'' is the latest comic from ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' creator Erin Ptah. The official description from [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/ the website]] is "what happens when you take a heap of shounen-power-up and mahou-shoujo tropes, dump them all in a blender, and then [[SubvertedTrope throw the blender away and make a sandwich instead]]."
Not to be confused with ButImACheerleader. Also has nothing to do with actual CatPeople.
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!!Tropes found in this webcomic are:
* BadassAdorable: A lot of the Beings have especially cute animal forms.
* CatsAreSnarkers: Reseda. Not so much when [[spoiler: she was known as Lily; it only began to come out after her then-Master died.]]
* ChristmasEpisode: [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/interlude-one-cover/ The first interlude]], between chapters 4 and 5, consists of holiday-themed flashbacks for several of the characters.
* [[DontCallMeSir Don't Call Me Master]]: Bianca to Patrick. (His refusal is one of the few stands he takes, though, so she goes along with it.)
* {{Expy}}: The full cast will bring in several AU versions of characters from the artist's [[Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow earlier works]].
** Miranda originated in TheEagleOfHermes.
** Timothy and Reseda were last seen in ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow''.
* FanNickname:
** With his real name still a mystery, Cybele's Master has been referred to as Nevada-san, based on his [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada-chan unfortunate]] choice of [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/chapter-two-page-22/ sweatshirt]].
** When the tiger-Being made its first full appearance, two readers immediately referred to it as [[CalvinAndHobbes Hobbes]].
* FluffyTheTerrible: Taking into account the powers beings have, they have the capability to be this.
* HairTropes and HairColors:
** DarkSkinnedBlond: Timothy, both with his natural hair and the wig he wears as Camellia.
** EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Miranda's omnipresent beads, and Bianca's [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/chapter-two-page-17/ butterfly clip]].
** HairColorSpoiler: The comic is all in greyscale except for green spot-coloring...and the eyes and hair (or, in Miranda's case, hair decs) of certain characters, mostly Beings and their Masters. If you see someone with colorful hair, odds are they're going to be important.
** MulticoloredHair: Patrick, whose blonde hair includes a brown SkunkStripe.
** ShowTheForehead: Sparrow in her pseudo-drag outfit; Timothy at his day job (except for one [[IdiotHair troublesome strand]]).
** YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Bianca, unless she's an example of PurpleIsTheNewBlack; Cybele, a RoseHairedGirl; Bennett, whose dark hair is kind of magenta-ish. Character sketches indicate more blue and purple hair to come.
* KickTheDog: Literally, from [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/?p=108 the dog's point of view]].
* MeaningfulName: Since a Being's name is chosen by its master, it doesn't tell you much about the Being's nature, but might give you a clue about the master's interests.
** The raven goes by [[EdgarAllanPoe Poe]]. No wonder Miranda was first seen lurking in a graveyard.
* {{Mon}}: The fighters in the Game.
* RuleThirtyFour: In-story. Sparrow searches the web for information about Beings, and finds, among other things, links to Being porn. Some of them quite squicky.
* TalkingAnimal: The animal forms of the Beings. Inconspicuous as long as they don't open their mouths (and aren't of too exotic a species).
* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Bianca, Sparrow, and Patrick.
* UnreadableDisclaimer: Unreadable-entire-contract, even. There's no written version of Bianca's agreement with Patrick, and the spoken version consisted entirely of "I, Bianca Washington."
** Of course given how short their memory is, [[FridgeBrilliance they would (or may already have) forget anything longer]]
