History Webcomic / Dreamkeepers

* ScheduleSlip: The Prelude webcomic went from a weekly to a bi-weekly schedule due to medical issues the creators were having, and was kept that was so Volume 3 could be completed sooner.

->''All Dreamkeepers have a power… But in the city of Anduruna, powers have been outlawed. 'Infractors' face the regulatory force of the shock troopers. Because in a perfect city, there is no place for violence, and the nightmares of legend can be safely dismissed as ancient fiction.''
->…Until now.

** One must also remember, however, that once she gets her powers (and even before) Namah is able to fight head-to-head with an experienced power user [[spoiler:like Tinsel.]]
*** [[spoiler: She also easily took out three Tower guards in Volume 3.]]

** Well, there is Mr. Nibbs in the Novels. And that other Teacher [[spoiler: who blamed Mace for the fight, despite the fact it was Bast who threw Mace into a locker.]] He didn't seem too pleased with Bast either.

* BadassNormal: [[spoiler: Without using his powers, Mace is able to survive several monster attacks and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome collapse a temple with his bare hands,]] not to mention surviving an encounter with Ravat.]]

* BeautifulAllAlong: Lilith is called ugly by her more popular peers in the webcomic, [[spoiler: but eventually grows into a girl pretty enough to cause a rivalry between two of the main characters.]] See LoveAtFirstSight.

* BlobMonster: [[spoiler:Tendril. Although he's apparently not slimy, he is amorphous.]]

* BigDamnHeroes: In Prelude: Essentially. [[spoiler:To condense what leads to it, [[TheAlcoholic a drunken]], [[UnstoppableRage enraged Grunn]], after losing most if not ALL of his fishing boats, finally gets so angry that he just snaps and starts throwing the orphans several meters out to sea so that they'd be forced to bring them back. (Admittedly, he had few choices left to get his boats back, his only viable means of making money was selling the catch brought in by those boats, and he had just been repeatedly hit in the face with an oar...) [[ActionGirl Vi]], who somehow avoided Grunn, swims all by herself out to the other orphans (Who are just hanging out on an overturned boat, apparently forgetting that Grunn is waiting for them on land...), putting herself in danger. Why would she do something so reckless? To tell the others that the tide is going out and that the boat is riding lower. If she had shown up much later, the roughly six or seven guys just chillin' out would have been stranded at sea and, eventually, ''drowned''.]]

** Slightly justified, because in the course of one arc Namah [[spoiler: [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior breaks into the ventilation system, steals knives, and pours hot sauce into one of the guard's eyes.]]]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Small, though bound to make a bigger bang in due time. In Prelude, Bobby is apparently just an orphan seeking to find a better future for himself; he actually tends to vanish from the mind due to his long absences from the orphanage. [[spoiler:However, when he gets a suspicious mention by the Indigos during a meeting with Igrath and Scinter, one really starts to wonder...]]

** [[spoiler: To many, the girl that was sacrificed at the beginning of Volume One is simply a nameless mystery-girl. However, those who don't recognize her at all are advised to take a look at the Cast Page for Namah and Lilith's part of the Prelude webcomic, and scroll down to the section for students. Yes -- ''Jeneviv''. Mind not blown yet? Go to page twenty-eight of Volume One. Focus on Mace. Then, look around behind him. There's a startled-looking girl about to duck into an alley. ''And here, we've found Kalei.'' And she shows up ''again'' in Grunn's basement in Volume Three. When you piece all of this together, you can tell that [[TheConspiracy something]] [[AncientConspiracy is up.]]]]
** [[spoiler: As if there weren't enough Gunmen, we find a fellow that we thought we knew about right on time, but whose early appearance we actually missed. On the exact same page we find Kalei, we find ''Ravat'', of all people. TheConspiracy in''deed.'' Not to mention one of the Indigos. And the Tower Librarian.]]
** [[spoiler: First panel of page 85 in the second volume, Nainso Ziska (Director of Executive Relations, introduced in strip 123 of the prelude) can be seen a little to the left of the overturned cart - and he's sporting a faint blue halo.]]

* ExecutiveSuiteFight: [[spoiler: Namah and Tinsel duke it out in the [[EvilTowerOfOminousness gigantic tower in the middle of Anduruna.]]]]

* [[spoiler:FaceStealer: Tendril uses the skinned Tower Librarian as a tactic to horrify Lilith.]]
* FetishFuelStationAttendant: Tinsel usually just walks around the Sabbaton Towers in her underwear. Strangely, when meeting with an associate she puts on a small robe to cover herself… But by the next day, she apparently didn't have the time to find another robe before ''walking through the middle of a construction zone, filled with workers, while wearing only lingerie''.
** Indi and Digo Marrallang, more commonly known as The Indigos, are a bit more...[[RefugeInAudacity Active]], in this particular department.

* ForgottenFallenFriend: Averted with [[spoiler: Paige]] who is mentioned multiple times in Volume 2 after her death in Volume 1. This remains the case in Volume 3, as [[spoiler: Mace angrily calls Randy out for not caring about her death.]]

* GentleGiant: Igrath Winters, Lilith and Namah's uncle. Although, he ''has'' shown a few times that one shouldn't underestimate him at anytime. [[spoiler: The whole ripping-a-teleportation-system-out-of-the-floor thing, and the whole throwing-said-teleportation-system-over-his-shoulder-and-out-the-door-to-clobber-some-Shock-Troopers thing, should be enough evidence to make this case.]]

* {{Gorn}}: Volume 3 shows us exactly what happens [[spoiler:when Dreamkeepers who can use their Powers really get rolling]]. Then we have what Tendril does to his victims.

* [[spoiler: KillTheCutie: Poor Paige.]]

** [[spoiler:Jeneviv]] is one Lilith's best friends in prelude comic. She dies via sacrifice in the opening of Volume 1.

* LittleMissBadass: Namah most definitely qualifies, as she got right back up after being hit [[spoiler: by Tinsel's hair tendrils, and almost got close enough to lay down some smack (After dodging a rampage of hair attacks right up until a kick). And when she awakened her Power, she very nearly took Tinsel '''''down.''''']]
** However, there are some who probably need more convincing. [[spoiler: Powers are identified by halos; when fully activated, the halo is bright, colored, and clear. When, say, being used at minimum potential, it's basically just a ripple above the user's head. When Lilith first tapped into her Power, she needed so much energy to take down a Nightmare that the halo was fully-formed. Namah, however, had her halo at near-complete transparency -- And deflected the experienced Tinsel's attack with one move. And then, almost curbstomped Tinsel, had the latter not dodged. By this logic, Namah's already dangerous Power will be in a whole 'nother league when her halo is fully formed.]] A haunting thing to realize.
** [[spoiler: She also took down a Tower guard nearly twice her height, and what appears to be a couple dozen times her breadth. In addition to two others.]]

* LoveAtFirstSight: Mace and [[spoiler:Bast]] for Lilith.

* MissingMom: The identity of Namah and Lilth's mother(s) is completely unknown, and of course there's everyone in the orphanage.

* NoodleIncident: The mysterious Magenta Incident, [[spoiler: perpetrated by Mace and Whip a year before the story starts in the graphic novels. Apparently bad enough to have made the local news, and prime suspect for the reason the Social Learning Center installed non-lethal automated guns.]]

* OrphansPlotTrinket: Paige gives Mace a trinket pendant that bears her image. [[spoiler: As of yet, it serves no purpose aside from giving Mace something to look at as he mourns his dead friend.]]

* TheRival: [[spoiler:Bast is this to Mace.]]

* SecretRelationship: Lilith's father, Viscount Calah, had one of these. [[spoiler: It resulted in [[BadAss Namah]], so he can be forgiven.]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: A 15-foot-long blade falls, slices straight through the sacrificial girl's chest, and drags an indeterminate length of chain through the wound after it.

* {{Gorn}}: Volume 3 shows us exactly what happens [[spoiler:when Dreamkeepers who can use their Powers really get rolling]]. And then we have what [[CompleteMonster Tendril]] does to his victims.

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Averted with pretty much everybody. A few female characters are Stripperific, and some male characters don't wear shirts, but almost every character is dressed in a way that would be fairly reasonable in real life.

* {{Gorn}}: Volume 3 shows us exactly what happens [[spoiler:when Dreamkeepers who can use their Powers really get rolling]]. And then we have what [[CompleteMonster Tendril]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel does to his victims.]]

->…Until now.

** [[spoiler: As if there weren't enough Gunmen, we find a fellow that we thought we knew about right on time, but whose early appearance we actually missed. On the exact same page we find Kalei, we find ''Ravat'', of all people. TheConspiracy in''deed.'' Not to mention one of the Indigos.]]

->…Until now.

The comic doesn't exactly have a set genre. The author himself admits on the Intro page that "[Dreamkeepers] has been described as fantasy, as sci-fi, horror, humor, action, anime, Disney, etc." though he does not nail it down as any of these. On top of the print and digital versions of the books, the entirety of Volumes 1 and 2 are [[http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/GNSaga.phpavailable to read for free on the official site]], with Volume 3 being made available as soon as Volume 4 goes to print. They intend to keep this release schedule for future volumes.

* GraveClouds

* InsubstantialIngredients

* SpeechBubbles

The comic doesn't exactly have a set genre. The author himself admits on the Intro page that "[Dreamkeepers] has been described as fantasy, as sci-fi, horror, humor, action, anime, Disney, etc." though he does not nail it down as any of these. Suffice to say, it's been well-received by many and the art itself is phenomenal. [[http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/home.html Give it a look]].

** [[spoiler: To many, the girl that was sacrificed at the beginning of Volume One is simply a nameless mystery-girl. However, those who don't recognize her at all are advised to take a look at the Cast Page for Namah and Lilith's part of the Prelude webcomic, and scroll down to the section for students. Yes -- ''Jeneviv''. Mind not blown yet? Go to page twenty-eight of Volume One. Focus on Mace. Then, look around behind him. There's a startled-looking girl about to duck into an alley. ''And here, we've found Kalei.'' When you piece all of this together, you can tell that [[TheConspiracy something]] [[AncientConspiracy is up.]]]]

* DeadLittleSister: [[spoiler: Paige, Best friend to Mace and Whip, is horribly, gruesomely murdered. Mace swears to find the one responsible.]]
--> '''Mace''': I'll find that thing… And I'll kill it. I promise.

** [[spoiler:Paige]] looks to be rather important right up until she turns into SceneryGorn and relegated to DeadLittleSister.

** She also took down a Tower guard nearly twice her height, and what appears to be a couple dozen times her breadth. In addition to two others.

** While only appearing in Prelude, Vi is quite possibly the most qualified. At least, if her ability to knock out a boy close to twice her size by ''doublefisting '''pillows''''' is anything to go by. Apparently it isn't a very uncommon thing for her to go "[[AxeCrazy Vi-Zerk]]", either...

* BadassNormal: [[spoiler: Without using his powers, Mace is able to survive several monster attacks and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome collapse a temple with his bare hands.]]]]

** Actually, at the point the series is actually in, [[TheRival Bast]] could qualify. His only appearance in the first Volume is starting a fight with Mace. Things start to change in Volume Two, though. (It comes off as more of an [[ChekhovsGunman example of this trope]] when you look at things purely from the perspective of someone who's only read the graphic novels.)

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: There used to used to be a radar around Volume 1 before David went into business for himself. As of Volume 2 and beyond, the radar just gave up.

** WordOfGod says that Volume 3 will feature a strip joint as a setting. Though that might be taking [[RefugeInAudacity a different approach to things.]]

** [[spoiler:Jenevive]] is one Lilith's best friends in prelude comic. She dies via sacrifice in the opening of Volume 1.

** A specific example could come from the Prelude, where the comedic banter and chase scene of Namah is followed by her accidentally injuring Woods and seeming rather traumatized by it.

--> '''Commander''': How hard can it ''be!?'' They're a couple of ''bright pink, half-naked stripping twins!!'' Grab any girl who ''remotely'' matches that description, '''''now!!'''''

* ForgottenFallenFriend: Averted with [[spoiler: Paige]] who is mentioned multiple times in Volume 2 after her death in Volume 1. Time will tell if this remains the case in Volume 3.

* [[spoiler:Face Stealer: Tendril uses the skinned Tower Librarian as a tactic to horrify Lilith.]]

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Averted with pretty much everybody. A few female characters are Stripperific, and some male characters don't where shirts, but almost every character is dressed in a way that would be fairly reasonable in real life.

** [[spoiler:Paige]] looks to be rather important right up until she turns into SceneryGorn.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Sure, Grunn's a surly drunk who smacks kids around and forces them to fish for slimy fish-things. But he used to do ''actual'' sailing - It can't be good for his temper to have to take care of kids at all.
** Namely, two of the orphans ''do not'' belong under Grunn's care ''at all'': Mace and Vi. Mace is a prankster and rebellious - And Vi is a teenage girl who's having her dreams slowly crushed in the same way Grunn probably did (In her case, dreams of being a fashion designer) ''and'' has a hairtrigger temper to match his. It's hard to tell which prospect would make one question the point of getting out of bed. A bed which, by the way, probably has bugs considering the orphanage's condition.
** Not to mention that Igrath and Scinter are always up for picking on him.

** Well, there is Mr. Nibbs in the Novels. And that other Teacher [[spoiler: who blamed Mace for the fight, despite the fact it was Bast who threw Mace into a locker.]]
*** [[spoiler: With the latter, he still didn't look very happy at all with Bast. Bast probably just needed his bloody nose treated before he got punished too -- And of course, the teacher who broke up the fight only entered just in time to see Mace punch Bast. That teacher wasn't there for the full fight. However, Nibbs is still, for all intents and purposes, useless. (Then again, on ''that'' note, it was hardly a fair matchup -- He only had nonlethal guns. Mace and Whip had cunning and the agility of youth; as well as a ''very'' convenient ceiling vent.)]]

*** [[spoiler: As if there weren't enough Gunmen, we find a fellow that we thought we knew about right on time, but whose early appearance we actually missed. On the exact same page we find Kalei, we find ''Ravat'', of all people. TheConspiracy in''deed.'']]
*** [[spoiler: Not to mention one of the Indigos.]]

*** Volume two opens with the historical writings of one Nainso Ziska II, esq. (see AndManGrewProud above). [[WildMassGuessing Theories abound]] on whether this is the same Nainso Ziska from Prelude or [[BabiesEverAfter his son form the future]].

** How Lilith meets '''any''' love interest.
*** Not just the first meeting, either.

** The roles of said FiveManBand are arguable at this stage in the story. Not perfectly defined as of yet, but one thing is certain - Namah is ''definitely'' not TheChick.
*** Lilith is more suited for the duties associated with TheChick, Namah seems to be alternating between the roles of other characters depending on the plot points.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Averted with [[spoilers: Paige]] who is mentioned multiple times in Volume 2 after her death in Volume 1. Time will tell if this remains the case in Volume 3.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Lots, actually.
*** Don't know if this counts, since there is no radar to sneak crap past.
*** It could probably count, since their used to be a radar before David went into business for himself.

** "Dude! ''Hot chicks'' want '''''beads!'''''"

*** "Surely there must be some way I can repay you!" "Yeah hold on, I've got a list".
** WordOfGod says that Volume 3 will feature a strip joint as a setting.
*** Though that might be taking [[RefugeInAudacity a different approach to things.]]

* SmallReferencePools: Center left of page 79; A black cat guy is throwing an empty bottle into a trashcan but the overfilled can spills some trash on ... [[ComicBook/Bone FONE BONE]]!

** It could be argued that she just fluctuates between two extremes, like Freckle from LackadaisyCats.
*** In that case, it would be [[MesACrowd way more than just two extremes]].

* FetishFuelStationAttendant: Tinsel usually just walks around the Sabbaton Towers in her underwear. Strangely, when meeting with an associate she puts on a small robe to cover herself… But by the next day, she apparently didn't have the time to find another robe before ''walking through the middle of a construction zone, filled with workers, while wearing only lingeree''.

*** Lilith is more suited for the duties associated with TheChick, Namah seems to be alternating between the roles of other characters depending on the plot points

* Half-DressedCartoonAnimal: Averted with pretty much everybody. A few female characters are Stripperific, and some male characters don't where shirts, but almost every character is dressed in a way that would be fairly reasonable in real life.

** [[spoiler:Paige]] looks to be rather important right up until she turns into SceneryGorn and is relegated to ForgottenFallenFriend.

* Mood Whiplash: It's a story about the antics of brightly colored cartoon animals before the Nightmares entered the scene.

* SmallReferencePools: Center left of page 79; A black cat guy is throwing an empty bottle into a trashcan but the overfilled can spills some trash on ... FONE BONE!

* GirlPosse

* MissingMom

* NoirEpisode

* CrazyAwesome: Spring-action rifles that can pierce stone walls, teleporting squid that are used in a public transit system, and if old exploration reports mentioned once or twice on the site are to be believed, possbily still out there somewhere, in the coastal seas to the south, is ''an all-female, entirely nude crew.''

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Don't let the bright colors and cartoon animals fool you. This comic contains violence, blood, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar suggestive]] [[RefugeInAudacity material]] and swearing.

* BizarreAndImprobableBallistics: Spring-loaded rifles. YourMileageMayVary on if that makes sense or not.

* CrazyAwesome: Spring-action rifles that can pierce stone walls, teleporting squid that are used in a public transit system, and if old exploration reports mentioned once or twice on the site are to be believed, possbily still out there somewhere, in the coastal seas to the south, is ''an all-female, entirely nude crew.'' [[YourMileageMayVary This is all depending on your definition of the trope,]] of course.

* MagicFromTechnology: The various exotic technological advances available to Dreamkeepers. May be [[{{Magitek}} Technology From Magic]] [[YourMileageMayVary depending on your viewpoint.]]