History Webcomic / DeepRise

Deep Rise builds upon a long running idea-complex of the [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=99545.0 Deep Noble Civilization]], built by Nighzmarquls over the years. It draws inspiration from ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' and is a very complete setting.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Over 25 named non-humans identified by color, hard-to-remember names and eye-configuration.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Makes heavy use of colors, both for conversation, and going so far as to color pronouns to clarify to whom these refer.

* RealityEnsues: [=MetaSeavori=] spends most of Act V watching television from another planet, fascinated with the culture of the Signalers and their Sexist issues and Internet. They spend so much time watching that their kids hate them and their friends and mate have shunned them due to 812 counts of ''negligent homicide''. The few who are still their friends think that this was preferable to going insane with Cabin Fever.

* AccidentalMurder: [=MetaSeavori=] casually throws her laundry on the living Washing Machine's head. The washing machine cannot see its favorite cloth (which it thinks is alive, a sentiment that may be true in this universe), causing it to think that the cloth has disappeared or died, causing it to commit suicide. Whoops.

* BlackBox: The artifacts that the Royals drop upon death. These things are worth billions, as each is capable of powering a space ship for centuries. [[spoiler:They also contain the secret to creating Royal Armor]].

** Act I is about Deep Ones with College Drama and RPG Adventures.
** Act II is about Enslavement, Pillaging, and the horror of war.
** Act III is about politics, industrial devastation, and Kaiju. No matter how many titanic Royals are killed, they always have reserves. It escalates badly.
** Act IV goes into full-blown CosmicHorrorStory as the true might of the Royals is slowly revealed panning out from Earth to a galactic scale. Massive casualties ensue from constant nuclear strikes on colonies and the Nobles end up running away with their strongest warrior failing and even captured by the unfazed Royals.
** Act V concludes the series with the CabinFever of immortals trapped on a space dinghy with nothing to do but watch funny television from a species that is light-years away and slowly dying. The final battle is subverted by the final boss calling out the readers for their part in all this, and the main character shunts the audience out of the story, leaving the main ending unfinished and unknown. Despite the "Happy Ending" epilogue, that star dimming does not bode well.

* CosmicHorrorStory: The Royals are so incomprehensible and massive that the Nobles are the ''good guys''. Then in Act IV the royals pop up on alien planets and the Nobles meet the Royals' space fleet. The Nobles have been fighting ''toenails'' compared to the Royal Horde. And it's implied that there's something ''bigger'' out there.

* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: The King and Eurayle. One's an immortal human king, the other's a Noble who thinks she's human. To be fair, they're both horrible self-righteous people who like to cause death and suffering to those that slighted them but also have a strong sense of duty to protect humanity from the giant rampaging monsters that could snuff out civilization without blinking.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The epilogue features a former noble terraforming Earth after the Royals have left the barren planet to chase [=MetaSeavori=]'s Arkship. The fact that there is any life on the surface of Earth implies that the Royals' plans for Omnicide are screwed beyond all reason. Also, the Royals end their interactions with the readers on peaceful terms.

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:The Hive Mind Collective of Equestria (from another webcomic) assimilates an entire race of sentient lizards with sexist issues, [=MetaSeavori=] and the survivors are transformed into a Royal by The Philosopher, the two forces combine and explode into a sea of black tentacles, and in the center [=MetaSeavori=] and "HER" [[BreakingTheFourthWall stare at the readers]] and [[NoEnding tell them to fuck off]]]]. The epilogue does little to explain any of this, and the antagonists of the story conclude on peaceful terms with the readers.

** Humanity: Desire the power of immortality and enslaving the poor. The Immortal King himself ends up regretting it as the masses willingly mutate themselves into superhuman industry workers and pollute the planet to Matrix levels.
** Signalers: Extermely sexist quadrupedal lizards trying to get by on their planet, their wars are brutal but they're good mothers.
** Attack Element: [[spoiler:Wishes for eternal peace and happiness upon as many people as possible, and can deliver salvation instantly. Too bad her intrusion into various civilizations causes them to panic and kill each other; she's responsible for the deaths of billions.]]

* SurroundedByIdiots: Hoppi. Unfortunately for them, the constant pestering from their kids and grandkids [[DrivenToSuicide drives them to lobotomize themselves]].

* TakeThat: Tender Hater Who Lashes Us With Kindness decides to "do the windy thing" to an in-universe Homestuck fan (a Noble who plays John Egbert) for kicks - who was sitting on a ledge over blue lava. They feel that they have done a service to all of existence.
* TimedMission: One of the Royals decides to play a game with the readers; for every 3.5 in-universe years that they don't kill him, the other royals put one of the fan-favorites on the "kill with extreme prejudice and humorously unmerciful imagination" list. They're somewhat impressed that it took less than 14 years.

* WasOnceAMan: The Philosopher and Dartu. Eurayle is an inversion. They learn to live with their new bodies, but life takes its toll. By the end, Dartu regains her humanity, but is captured by the Royals and left to go insane.

* AtomicHate: What the Royals tend to do to things they want dead.

** Some of the Nobles themselves get so old as to qualify.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The Royals (and at the end, [[spoiler:"HER"]]) are the only ones with MediumAwareness.

* FreudianTrio: [=MetaSeavori=] as Kirk, Cheertwit as [=McCoy=] and Ramaniculs as Spock.

* HiveMind: "Her", an entity made from the minds of the Signalers. She's actually a cameo appearance from another webcomic.
* IAmAHumanitarian: Humans are considered tasty and nutritious.

* HumanResources: They're used for food and "servitors". Cheertwit's "tablet" servitor "Scribblebrite" used to be a little kid.

* LovecraftLite: Zig-Zags between this and CosmicHorrorStory.

* MeatMoss: Taken to the logical extreme in the form of Flesh Fields.
* MercyKill: In a civilization of immortals, this is more often than not the way to go.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: 5 - Hard as diamonds. Almost everything is considered possible in principle by modern science.

* Foreshadowing: The Royals (and at the end, [[spoiler:"HER"]]) are the only ones with MediumAwareness.

[[http://mspaforums.com/showthread.php?46308-Deep-Rise-An-Illustrated-Xenofiction-Adventure Deep Rise]] [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150421102920/http://mspaforums.com/showthread.php?46308-Deep-Rise-An-Illustrated-Xenofiction-Adventure mirror]] is a [[ScienceFiction Science-]] {{Xenofiction}} InteractiveComic written and drawn by Nighzmarquls aka. Morgan J. Heacock.

* BeastMan: Dartu, and any other characters that Hoppi created from combining man with animal.

* PettingZooPeople: Dartu, and any other Beastmen that Hoppi created from combining man with animal.

* {{Hermaphrodite}}: The Nobles are capable of siring, giving birth, or [[BreadMilkEggsSquick infesting other humans into Nobles]].

It then slowly develops into a [[XMeetsY mix]] of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' and Film/PacificRim.

Deep Rise builds upon a long running idea-complex of the [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=99545.0 Deep Noble Civilization]], built by Nighzmarquls over the years. It draws inspiration from OrionsArm and is a very complete setting.

* ShoutOut: Everything from Franchise/CareBears, over ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'', to MontyPython. Both in dialogue and in visuals.

[[http://mspaforums.com/showthread.php?46308-Deep-Rise-An-Illustrated-Xenofiction-Adventure Deep Rise]] is a [[ScienceFiction Science-]] {{Xenofiction}} InteractiveComic written and drawn by Nighzmarquls aka. Morgan J. Heacock.

* ShoutOut: Everything from CareBears, over ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'', to MontyPython. Both in dialogue and in visuals.

* AnyoneCanDie: Invoked by the Royals when they play a game with the readers. Cheertwit[[spoiler:'s father and two best friends]] die.

** Signalers: Extermely sexist quadrupedal lizards trying to get by on their planet, their wars are brutal but relatively short.

** Underground: BlueAndOrange morality and a racist lack of empathy give rise to a surprisingly civilized society of hard-working bioengineers. Who chop up peoples' bodies and minds to become their food and machines.

** Royals: [[spoiler:Desire the destruction of all life, as is the will of the Pattern that they are subservient to. They are ultimately friendly towards the readers and respect their wishes (with some insults and laughter)]].

* MadScientist: Both of [=MetaSeavori=]'s firstborn kids. One develops artillery, the other develops rockets. They blow themselves up every morning.