History Webcomic / Godslave

** It's heavily suggested that Anpu is, in fact, Set pretending to be his kin - namely, the red glow of his magic, ambiguous shape of the supposed fennec, the fact that his tail is often two-pronged[[note]]a characteristic of Set's Animal[[/note]], Heru's animosity towards him and of course the image of Set's Animal that adorns the comic's page's banner. Whether it's a RedHerring or not remains to be seen.

* {{Golem}}: Blacksmith in his true form brings this to mind.

** Heru is no better - he stops his Blacksmith from what may've been a killing blow on Edith because it would destry a statue of him.

-->''There is one thing you should know about my family. ({{beat}}) They're all awful.

* RoyalBrat: Anpu believes Heru (Horus) to be this.
-->''Heru is a classic example of too much power at too young an age.''

--->''Calm down, it's fine...''\\

-->''I pity your future children.''

-->''Why won't... you... BREAK?''

* MegatonPunch: Both Edith and Turner can utilize this, albeit due to both having NighInvulnerability, it works only half as good as it probably should.

* RunOrDie: First part of first Edith vs Turner confrontation is this for Edith, as the Blacksmith is ''way'' out of her league.

* RefusalOfTheCall: Edith doesn't want to go on a FetchQuest for Anpu.

* BlondesAreEvil: The first Blacksmith is a blonde and tries to murder Edith.

* CrypticConversation: Oziris and Heru have one at the start of chapter 2, with Oziris commenting ominously that he wonders how long Heru would be "content", indicating that he knows what's hapenning.

* DeathGlare: Anput gives Turner [[http://www.godslavecomic.com/comic/page-11 one]] when Heru's servant tries to take him.

* DontFearTheReaper: Anpu - the reaper in question - encourages this heartily, claiming that his job is necessary part of the universe.

* EternalRecurrence: The universe's existence depends on gods dying and being reborn every so often, the process which Anpu is supposed to be in charge of. His problems started when the other gods refused to take part in it.
* EyeScream: Edith takes down her first Blacksmith by piercing his Horus-eye.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Downplayed with Anpu, but he's quite surprised that people would use Greek instead of Egyptian names for his pantheon and freaks out at the sight of tap water.

** If you know what ''ba'' looks like, you can guess what he does to Edith before he tells her.
** It's heavily suggested that Anpu is, in fact, Set pretending to be his kin - namely, the red glow of his magic, ambiguous shape of the fennec, the fact that it's often seen with two-pronged tail[[note]]a characteristic of Set's Animal[[/note]], Heru's animosity towards him and of course the image of Set's Animal that adorns the comic's page's banner. Whether it's a RedHerring or not remains to be seen.

* GenkiGirl: Alma has all the marking, including trying to get Edith to do something and squeeing over rather baffled Anpu.

* GroinAttack: When Turner tries to take Anpu from Edith, she - conveniently on the floor at the moment - kicks him when it hurts. His expression says it all, really.

* InUniverseNickname: Before learning his name, Edith calls Anpu "Dog-Guy".

* LetsGetDangerous: When Edith discovers that it won't be so easy for Turner to kill her now, she turns into full-blown ActionGirl and takes the fight to him rather than evade him like she did until then.

* MessyHair: Out of all the powers Anpu grants Edith, WakeUpMakeUp is ''not'' one of them.

* NoSell: Whatever it is the Blacksmiths are made of, the one Edith punches with full power of her SuperStrength barely flinches and ends up with nothing more than a tiny bump where she hit him.

** He OhCrap expression at hearing the jar break.

* OhCrap: Edith when she realizes that the canopic jar she has just saves is about to break after all.

* PlayingPossum: Edith pretends to have passed out so that Turner would stop pounding her into the walls. The moment he turns he attention to Anpu, she goes for the killing blow.

** The same happens to Edith just before she lands what should be a killing punch on Turner. Subverted in that he {{No Sell}}s her.

** Edith and her flatmate. Edith is TheStoic, while Alma has the personality of GranolaGirl.
** Two Blacksmiths watching Edith. The girl's DeadpanSnarker stuck to her phone, while the man's HotBlooded and impatient.

* SealedGoodInACan: A bit more literal example than most, as Anpu is sealed in a jar. His family seems to consider him a SealedEvilInACan, thought, and if EpilepticTrees running wild among the fans are correct, they may just as well be right.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: After she punches Turner, Edith takes her time to turn away from him and comment on his {{No Sell}}. Subverted, as he uses this time to sneak up on her.

* TheFaceless: Turner's boss (likely Heru) has his face always hidden either by page's cut or shadow.

* UnfamiliarCeiling: After being knocked out by Turner, Edith's surprised to see museum library's ceiling over her head.

* CuttingCorners: Edith's boss at the restaurant regrets it, but he has to lay her off for holidays, because after summer the number of clients sinked and he can't afford hiring more people than absolutely necessary.

* SharpDressedMan: Turner wears a nice suit and is certainly a villain {{Badass}}.

* TheFaceless: Turner's boss (likely Horus) has his face always hidden either by page's cut or shadow.

* LazyBum: If her flatmate is to be believed, Edith has turned into one after leaving school.

** Edith and her flatmate. Edith is TheStoic, while her flatmate has the personality of GranolaGirl.

* MeanwhileScene: As Turner throws Edith around, we cut to see that the {{Masquerade}} is stopping the police from entering the museum.

* AffablyEvil: The Blacksmith in the museum tries to be this when he searches the museum for Edith. Given how he tried to murder her twice at this point, it's not very effective.

* BadassInANiceSuit: The Blacksmith Edith faces in the museum has a really nice suit. Subverted somewhat in that he ditches it when the fighting starts, to have free use of his [[{{Shapeshifting}} powers]].
* BattleInTheRain: Played with - it's raining heavily when Edith and the Blacksmith are fighting, but as they fight inside, not a drop of water falls on them.
* BavarianFireDrill: Villainous example - before going after Edith and Anpu, the Blacksmith fakes a fire alarm to empty the museum so that he can fight freely.

* BondCreatures: Anpu inserts his ''ba'' into Edith so that she can defeat the Blacksmith in the museum and refuses to take it out afterwards.
* BringIt: Even after the Blacksmith tossing her several times across the room like a rag doll, Edith still has fight in her to taunt him and call "come on then!".

* ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre: In the museum, Edith and the Blacksmith play this for a moment, although the Blacksmith tries to be polite about it.
* CoolSword: Edith's khopesh turns out to be an excellent weapon against the Blacksmith and she obviously considers it cool too, as she carries it with her everywhere.
* DeathGlare: Anput gives the Blacksmith [[http://www.godslavecomic.com/comic/page-11 one]] when Heru's servant tries to take him.
* DesperateObjectCatch: Edith dives to catch the canopic jar when she and the Blacksmith collides. She succeeds, but it breaks anyway.

* EnemyRisingBehind: The museum Blacksmith does this to Edith after she unwisely turns her back on him.

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: the Blacksmith Edith faces in the museum has another eye on his neck, albeit its function seems to be communicating with Heru rather than seeing.

* ForcedSleep: The spell the Blacksmith uses on the museum guide to maintain the {{masquerade}} puts him to sleep.

* GiveMeASword: As Edith gets ready for a final showdown with the museum Blacksmith, Anpu throws her a khopesh.

* GroinAttack: When the Blacksmith tries to take Anpu from Edith, she - conveniently on the floor at the moment - kicks him when it hurts. His expression says it all, really.

** Heru is no better - he stops his Blacksmith from what may've been a killing blow because it would destry an object sacrificed to him.
* IShallTauntYou: When Blacksmith attacks her with handblade again, Edith mockingly calls him one-trick pony. He promptly changes the technique.
* {{Jerkass}}: The first Blacksmith. He's furious with Edith for breaking the jar even though she's the one who dived for it and he's the one who wasn't looking where he's going in the first place.

* {{Kiai}}: As she attacks the Blacksmith with her khopesh, Edith screams ''Haaaa!''

* LetsGetDangerous: When Edith discovers that it won't be so easy for the Blacksmith to kill her now, she turns into full-blown ActionGirl and takes the fight to him rather than evade him like she did until then.

* {{Masquerade}}: It seems to be enforced either by magic or money - the police is seen waiting outside the museum until the fight between Edith and Blacksmith finishes before entering.
* MeanBoss: Heru seems to be this - the museum Blacksmith alternates between trying not to upset him and asking him to ''please'' stop talking and let him do his work.
* MeanwhileScene: As the Blacksmith throws Edith around, we cut to see that the {{Masquerade}} is stopping the police from entering the museum.

* MetronomicManMashing: Edith first realizes that she now has SuperStrength when she does it to the Blacksmith.

* NeckLift: The museum Blacksmith tries to get information out of Edith this way. Unfortunately for him, that's when she discovers her SuperStrength.

* OffscreenCrash: When museum Blacksmith punches Edith from behind, the comic cuts to sound effect of "WAM!" and Anpu's exasperated expression.

* POVCam: We briefly see Anpu through Edith's eyes when she wakes up after the Blacksmith knocks her out.

** When Anpu and Blacksmith talk in Egyptian, the former's eyes lit up in red. A moment later, he performs an impressive LightEmUp.
** The same happens to Edith just before she lands what should be a killing punch on the museum Blacksmith. Subverted in that he {{No Sell}}s her.

* RunOrDie: First part of first Edith vs Blacksmith confrontation is this for Edith, as the Blacksmith is ''way'' out of her league.

* SharpDressedMan: The Blacksmith in the museum wears a nice suit.

* SuperStrength: Apparently a generic divine gift, as both Edith and the Blacksmith have it.
* SymbolSwearing: After ''something'' with lightning happens to the Blacksmith, he curses this way.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: After she punches the Blacksmith, Edith takes her time to turn away from him and comment on his {{No Sell}}. Subverted, as he uses this time to sneak up on her.
* TalkToTheFist: When Edith tries to tell the Blacksmith that she doesn't have Anpu with her, she doesn't manage to finish before he slams her into a wall with his blade-hand.

** The museum Blacksmith states that the jar is stronger than it looks and won't break. Of course, it's barely seconds before he collides with Edith and discovers that the jar is more fragile than he thought.

* ThreePointLanding: After freeing herself from Blacksmith's blade, Edith lands this way. Doubles as her LetsGetDangerous moment.
* UnfamiliarCeiling: After being knocked out by the Blacksmith, Edith's surprised to see museum library's ceiling over her head.

* WhyWontYouDie: The museum Blacksmith says this almost word by word when Edith's NighInvulnerability is discovered.

* YouShallNotPass: When Edith realizes that the Blacksmith isn't playing around, she tries to hold the line while telling Anpu to run for it. Subverted when she realizes that the Blacksmith can shapeshift and instead choses to follow Anpu in their escape.

* SharplyDressedMan: The Blacksmith in the museum wears a nice suit.

* SuperStrength: One of the powers Edith gets from Anpu.

It's holidays and Edith doesn't feel like doing anything in particular. On her friend and flatmate's insistence, however, she decides to take a trip to the local history museum and is somewhat enjoying herself when she collides with a strange man carrying a canopic jar. Crushing in Edith's hands, the jar reveals to have a jackal inside. Oddly enough, given it's place of being, the jackal is alive, and the strange man is ''very'' unhappy with the fact that it has been freed.

After narrowly escaping, Edith discovers that the jackal is, in fact, god Anubis - or rather Anpu, as he prefers to be called - sealed away by his siblings, great gods of Egypt. With Edith already being entangled in the events, he tasks her with retrieving eight missing parts of his soul - and all the while, Horus' men are after both of them...

* BroughtDownToNormal: What Anpu's family did to him, stripping him of his ''ba'' until he's little more than a talking jackal.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before Anpu is introduces, focus is briefly put on Anubis mural in the museum.
* FreeSamplePlotCoupon: The jackal Edith finds is already the first part of Anpu's soul.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Anpu often fails to notice that Edith may not appreciate him messing with her life and body for his own purposes.

* NotSoStoic: Edith is absolutely ''furious'' when she learns that Anpu placed part of his ''ba'' in her without her knowledge nor consent.

* TemptingFate: The museum Blacksmith states that the jar is stronger than it looks and won't break. Of course, it's barely seconds before he collides with Edith and discovers that the jar is more fragile than he thought.

* EyesDoNotBelongThere: the Blacksmith Edith faces in the museum has another eye on his neck, albeit its function seems to be communicating with Hora rather than seeing.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Downplayed with Anpu, but he's quite surprised that people would use Greek instead of Egyptian names for His pantheon and freaks out at the sight of tap water.

* RoyalBrat: Anpu believes Hora (Horus) to be this.
-->''Hora is a classic example of too much power at too young an age.''

* SiblingRivalry: One of the hiatus-filling strips suggests that this is what's going on between Anpu and Hora.

* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Hora seems to be this for his Blacksmiths.

* CoolSword: Edith's khopesh turns out to be excellent weapon against the Blacksmith and she obviously considers it cool too, as she carries it with her everywhere.

* EternalRecurrence: The universe's existence depends on gods dying and being reborn every so often, the process of which Anpu is supposed to be in charge. His problems started when other gods refused to take part in it.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Downplayed with Anpu, but he's quite surprised that people would use Greek instead of Egyptian names and freaks out at the sight of tap water.
* FreeSamplePlotCoupon: The jackal Edith finds is already a first part of Anpu's soul.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Anpu often fails to notice that Edith my not appreciate him messing with her life and body for his own purposes.

* {{Masquerade}}: It seems to be enforced either by magic or money - the police is seen to be waiting outside the museum until fight between Edith and Blacksmith finishes before entering.

-->''Heru is a classic power of too much power at too young an age.''

* AffectionateNickname: People tend to call Edith Eddy.

After narrowly escaping, Edith discovers that the jackal is, in fact, god Anubis - or rather Anpu, as he prefers to be called - sealed away by his siblings, or rather part of him. With Edith already being entangled in the events, he tasks her with retrieving eight missing parts of his soul - and all the while, Horus' men are after both of them...

* {{Shadenfreude}}: In-universe, the girl Blacksmith is just waiting to see Edith wipe the pavement with her overeager colleague.

* SiblingRivarly: One of the hiatus-filling strips suggests that this is what's going on between Anpu and Hora.