History Webcomic / Godslave

* HowWeGotHere: Chapter 2 begins the morning after Edith's run-in with "Anpu" as she wakes up, then cuts to the previous evening to deliver exposition.

* JerkassGods: Most of the deities carry themselves with a smug sense of superiority, but Aset takes the cake -- having blackmailed Ra to learn his true name, and trying to kill Edith and Alma.

** In the flashback to Ancient Egypt, Set murders Ausir in a fit of rage after catching him sleeping with his wife, having already put up with centuries of CondescendingCompassion from his brother and derision from the other gods.

* ShipTease: Edith and Kai, Hathor's nonbinary high priest, start getting very friendly towards each other after being teamed up to track down the remaining ba.

* crack!* (cue OhCrap expression)

* WouldntHurtAChild: When Imsety, Hapy, Duamutef, and Qebehsenuef -- who all appear as young children despite being thousands of years old -- attack her, having been tricked by Djehtuy into doing so with the suggestion that their father, Heru, will accept them, Edith offers to help them get to know their other father and saves them from the skull-headed winged lion ba when it tries to eat them.

* MistakenIdentity: With her utter lack of knowledge regarding Egyptian mythology, Edith assumes that the red-furred fox-like creature with a forked tail is the Egyptian god of death Anpu/Anubis despite his enmity with Heru/Horus and stating himself to be a god of storms and war. [[spoiler:Set plays along to give her plausible deniability (which saves her life when she's captured by Heru), Sobek finds it so utterly hilarious that he doesn't bother correcting her, and Heru is incredulous when he learns about it. Edith is less than amused when she learns the truth from Heru, though Sobek teasingly points out it's her own fault for not having bothered to read up on Egyptian mythology when she got involved]].

** Is also VERY protective of Alma in the presence of other gods.

** In the flashback to Ancient Egypt, Set murders Ausir in a fit of rage after catching him sleeping with his wife, having already put up with centuries of CondescendingCompassion from his brother.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Edith has dark skin, but she's clearly not black - compare her with girl Blacksmith.

** The girl Blacksmith when her colleague, Chen, is concerned.

* LethallyStupid: Lena, the girl Blacksmith calls Turner an idiot. Chen, her co-worker clearly agrees, noting that the "errand boy" was sent only because the jar was supposed to be unbreakable.

* PerpetualSmiler: By contrast, the girl Blacksmith is always smiling, only in different ways depending on situation.

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

After narrowly escaping, Edith discovers that the "fennec" 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...

* EvilDuo: Heru's two main blacksmiths are Adrian Chen and Lena, who repeatedly antagonize Edith on behalf of their boss, ranging from trying to kill her to just messing with her to run her ragged and annoy her. Chen is hot-tempered and impulsive, while Lena tends to be more calm and smug.

* LeeroyJenkins: Adrian Chen has all the markings of one. He loudly complains about his assignment being just about observation and in the end gets out of the car, deciding to go against the plan and get Edith himself.

** [[spoiler:When Set and Heru's four children are sicced on her by Djehtuy/Thoth, Adrian and Lena attack her ''again'', and a particularly powerful Ba incarnation shows up, Edith decides she's had ''enough'' and lashes out in rage after absorbing the ba, terrifying everyone present... until Hathor shows up]].

** Of the two Blacksmiths watching Edith, Lena is a DeadpanSnarker stuck to her phone, while Adrian Chen is HotBlooded and impatient.

* LightEmUp: When Anpu needs to get himself and Edith to safety, he summons a giant burst of light as a flashbang to cover his escape.

** Two Blacksmiths watching Edith. The girl's a DeadpanSnarker stuck to her phone, while the man's HotBlooded and impatient.

* SecretOtherFamily: It's revealed that Heru, in his guise as a mortal man, has a wife and children who are in the dark about his true nature as a god. When Edith runs into them, Heru assumes she's going to go after his family to get revenge on him, though they work out an uneasy truce.

* EntertaininglyWrong: Edith has little-to-no knowledge of Egyptian mythology and wrongly assumes the crimson fox-like creature she rescued from the museum is Anpu, better known as Anubis, [[spoiler:when his true identity is Set]]. He does not correct her on this, but he does not hide that he is a god of [[spoiler:storms and war]]. Sobek -- who is very amused by her assumption -- does not bother to correct her either. Unfortunately for Edith, Heru and his Blacksmiths assume she knows who she's working for and thus go out of their way to try to kill her, only relenting when they discover she's been tricked. Edith is not amused to discover that "Anpu" lied to her, and lashes out at Sobek over not telling her the truth.

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

* LeeroyJenkins: Chen has all the markings of one. He loudly complains about his assignment being just about observation and in the end gets out of the car, deciding to go against the plan and get Edith himself.
* LethallyStupid: The girl Blacksmith calls Turner an idiot. Chen, her co-worker clearly agrees, noting that the "errand boy" was sent only because the jar was supposed to be unbreakable.

* MoreThanMindControl: "Anpu"'s ''ba'' seems to be manipulating Edith into sometimes more dangerous action to protect itself.

* RefusalOfTheCall: Edith doesn't want to go on a FetchQuest for "Anpu," but Blacksmiths don't know that.

* SayItWithHearts: When Alma sees "Anpu," her speech bubbles get a whole lot more heart-ey.

* TheCharmer: The moment Anpu realizes that staying on Alma's good side will force Edith to keep him, he starts to pretend he's an adorable puppy, instantly winning Alma over.
* TheFaceless: Turner's boss (likely Heru) has his face always hidden either by panel borders or shadow.
* TheStoic: Edith takes everything that happens to her pretty much in stride, barely ever showing any strong emotions.

* WhatAnIdiot: [[invoked]] The girl Blacksmith says this word by word when talking about Turner. Chen, her co-worker clearly agrees, noting that the "errand boy" was sent only because the jar was supposed to be unbreakable.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Edith doesn't hesitate for a second in helping a fennec she's only just seen escape from the Blacksmith even before she knows that one's a god and the other a {{shapeshifter}} out to kill him.

* {{Shapeshifting}}: The Blacksmiths can shapeshift their limbs into things like blades and hammers.

* 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 Turner can shapeshift and instead choses to follow Anpu in their escape.

* RealityEnsues: Anpu may want to send Edith on a quest, but she rightfully points out that she won't be able to search for anything if she doesn't go to work and get money for her groceries.

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

* {{Adorkable}}: It's hard to dislike Edith's boss at the restaurant. He's joking, ever-smiling and genuinely saddened when he has to lay her off.

* ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: Edith -- who knows almost nothing about Egyptian mythology -- wrongly guesses that [[spoiler:Set is Anpu/Anubis]], which he decides to roll with -- both because he wasn't sure he could trust her and to afford her clemency in case she was captured. The Blacksmiths and Heru assume she knows who she's working for and thus don't bother to just calmly explain to her why [[spoiler:"Anpu"]] is such a bad guy.

--->'''Chen:''' Don't try to stop me! *runs off to [[MuggingTheMonster confront Edith]]*\\
'''The girl:''' (flat monotone): Oh no. Don't.

* EntertaininglyWrong: Edith has little-to-no knowledge of Egyptian mythology and wrongly assumes the crimson fox-like creature she rescued from the museum is Anpu, better known as Anubis, when his true identity is [[spoiler:Set]]. He does not correct her on this, but he does not hide that he is a god of [[spoiler:storms and war]]. Sobek -- who is very amused by her assumption -- does not bother to correct her either. Unfortunately for Edith, Heru and his Blacksmiths assume she knows who she's working for and thus go out of their way to try to kill her, only relenting when they discover she's been tricked. Edith is not amused to discover that "Anpu" lied to her, and lashes out at Sobek over not telling her the truth.

* EvilIsPetty: After she regains the second ba, the Blacksmiths take Edith's backpack -- which was left at the scene of the fight -- and make her fight them to get back the objects she had inside it. When she regains her mobile phone, she finds out they not only changed the password to her Instagram account but posted selfies of themselves on it.

** It's eventually revealed that Anpu is, in fact, [[spoiler:Set]] -- which is obvious to everyone except Edith and Alma, who know nothing about Egyptian mythology. This was made evident due to [[spoiler:the red glow of his magic, his ambiguous shape resembling a fennec fox, the fact that his tail is often two-pronged[[note]]a characteristic of Set's Animal[[/note]], Heru's animosity towards him, the title of the first chapter being "An Evil Day", the very first panel showing a carving of Set fighting Apep, and of course the image of Set's Animal that adorns the comic's banner]]. Given that one of the blacksmiths refers to him as a [[spoiler:storm god and his second ba creates a storm and teleports Edith using a bolt of lightning]], it's official; and is later explicitly spelled out to Edith by Heru.

** In his true form, Set is massive both in terms of height and musculature, and in a dream-flashback scene (jokingly?) asks Edith if she finds his true form handsome. She is less-than amused.

* DancesAndBalls: Hathor invites "Anpu" and Edith to a party - where the guests are all gods.

* BattleInTheRain: Played with - it's raining heavily when Edith and Turner are fighting, but as they fight inside, not a drop of water falls on them.

* AnatomyOfTheSoul: As in real life Egyptian mythology, the souls is [[http://www.godslavecomic.com/comic/the-living-being divided into eight parts]]:

* BloodKnight: As observed by "Anpu" and Alma, Edith is good at and enjoys fighting. This makes a natural choice for the receptacle of one of Egypt's gods of war.

-->'''Alma:''' Welcome back, ANPU! Or should I say...\\

* EntertaininglyWrong: Edith has little-to-no knowledge of Egyptian mythology and wrongly assumes the crimson fox-like creature she rescued from the museum is Anpu, better known as Anubis, when his true identity is Set. He does not correct her on this, but he does not hide that he is a god of storms and war. Sobek -- who is very amused by her assumption -- does not bother to correct her either. Unfortunately for Edith, Heru and his Blacksmiths assume she knows who she's working for and thus go out of their way to try to kill her, only relenting when they discover she's been tricked. Edith is not amused to discover that "Anpu" lied to her, and lashes out at Sobek over not telling her the truth.

-->'''"Anpu"''': What happened to you? You've always been close with Asir's family, but this? If I had to guess... it had to with a woman.\\

** It's eventually revealed that Anpu is, in fact, Set -- which is obvious to everyone except Edith and Alma, who know nothing about Egyptian mythology. This was made evident due to the red glow of his magic, his ambiguous shape resembling a fennec fox, the fact that his tail is often two-pronged[[note]]a characteristic of Set's Animal[[/note]], Heru's animosity towards him, the title of the first chapter being "An Evil Day", the very first panel showing a carving of Set fighting Apep, and of course the image of Set's Animal that adorns the comic's banner. Given one of the blacksmiths refers to him as a storm god and his second ba creates a storm and teleports Edith using a bolt of lightning, it's official; and is later explicitly spelled out to Edith by Heru.

* GodOfEvil: "Anpu" -- who is actually Set -- is characterized by Heru as a violent, chaotic god seeking to destroy the order imposed by Ma'at. Given his attitude towards Edith and Alma, he is at least AffablyEvil.

* InUniverseNickname: Before learning his name, Edith calls Set "Bun-dog" and "Dog-Guy".

* ImprovisedWeapon: At one point of museum fight, both sides use heavy metal door against each other.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: "Anpu" is impossibly self-absorbed, likes attention and lopes Edith into aiding him pretty much without asking, but he's definitely willing to put himself on the line when she's endangered.

* MasqueradingAsTheUnseen: Despite him rolling with Edith's assumption that he's Anpu/Anubis, Bun-Dog is actually Set, god of storms and chaos. The {{foreshadowing}} is strong with this one, but Edith doesn't realize this until [[spoiler:Heru himself spells it out to her]].

** At the beginning of chapter 2, we briefly cut to Oziris and Heru having a CrypticConversation in Duat before returning to Edith and Anpu.

* MoreThanMindControl: "Anpu"'s ''ba'' seems to be manipulating Edith into sometimes more dangerous action to protect him.

** Edith's irises turn red whenever she uses her powers extensively. She gets this from Set, whose own irises turn red.

* RevenantZombie: As the undead god of the underworld, Ausir -- aka Osiris -- looks like a shriveled husk. When he was alive he was much more handsome.

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

* TheUnreveal: Anyone with a degree of familiarity with Egyptian mythology (which Edith lacks and is called out on by Sobek and Heru) can tell the crimson fennec-like creature with the forked tail isn't Anpu/Anubis -- who's traditionally depicted as a black jackal -- but Set.

* YouCanTalk: Edith expresses this with her expression alone when Anpu speaks up, having been silent for entirety of museum fight.

* ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: Edith -- who knows almost nothing about Egyptian mythology -- wrongly guesses that Set is Anpu/Anubis, which he decides to roll with -- both because he wasn't sure he could trust her and to afford her clemency in case she was captured. The Blacksmiths and Heru assume she knows who she's working for and thus don't bother to just calmly explain to her why "Anpu" is such a bad guy.

* CrypticConversation: Oziris and Heru (Horus) 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.

It's the 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. Crushed in Edith's hands, the jar is revealed to have a fennec fox inside. Oddly enough, given it's place of being, the fennec is alive, and the strange man is ''very'' unhappy with the fact that it has been freed.

** ''Ba'' - for human, their personality; for god, embodiment of power. High-level gods have nine ''ba''.

* BavarianFireDrill: Villainous example - before going after Edith and Anpu, Turner fakes a fire alarm to empty the museum so that he can fight freely.
* BigWhat: Museum guide's reaction to seeing a live fennec inside centuries-old canopic jar.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: How Anpu characterizes his pantheon, the Ennead/Pesedjet, and Sobek seems to agree.
-->'''Anpu''': There is one thing you should know about my family. ({{beat}}) They're all awful.\\
'''Sobek''': The only thing that family ever agreed on was [the jar that trapped Anpu]!

* BloodKnight: As observed by Anpu and Alma, Edith is good at and enjoys fighting. This makes a natural choice for the receptacle of one of Egypt's gods of war.
* BondCreatures: Anpu inserts his ''ba'' into Edith so that she can defeat Turner and refuses to take it out afterwards.

* BroughtDownToNormal: What Anpu's family did to him, stripping him of his ''ba'' until he's little more than a talking fennec.
* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: When Anpu starts to stray too close to the real reason of why Sobek is helping Heru, Sobek quickly changes the subject.

* ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: With the Blacksmiths seemingly unable to just calmly explain to her why Anpu is such a bad guy and Edith not knowing a lot about Ancient Egypt, Anpu's claimed identity is pretty much impossible to prove or disprove at this point, and if the EpilepticTrees are right, it's not his real one.

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

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

* EternalRecurrence: The universe's existence depends on the gods of Egypt 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 any longer.

* FetchQuest: Anpu gives one to Edith when he sends her after his ''ba''.
* FingerTenting: Turner's boss does this when he considers Anpu escaping and Edith showing up in his equation.
* 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 water running from the tap. Edith's smartphone seems to fascinate him, too.

-->'''Anpu''': What happened to you? You've always been close with Asir's family, but this? If I had to guess... it had to with a woman.\\

** Before Anpu is introduces, focus is briefly put on a mural depicting Anubis and Set in the museum.

** It's eventually revealed that Anpu is, in fact, Set pretending to be his kin. This was made evident due to the red glow of his magic, his ambiguous shape resembling a fennec fox, the fact that his tail is often two-pronged[[note]]a characteristic of Set's Animal[[/note]], Heru's animosity towards him, the title of the first chapter being "An Evil Day", the very first panel showing a carving of Set fighting Apep, and of course the image of Set's Animal that adorns the comic's banner. [[spoiler:Given one of the blacksmiths refers to him as a storm god and his second ba creates a storm and teleports Edith using a bolt of lightning, it's official.]]
* FreeSamplePlotCoupon: The fennec Edith finds is already the first part of Anpu's soul.

* GiveMeASword: As Edith gets ready for a final showdown with Turner, Anpu throws her a khopesh.
* GodOfEvil: Anpu is characterized by Heru as a violent, chaotic god seeking to destroy the order imposed by Ma'at. Given his attitude towards Edith and Alma, he is at least AffablyEvil.

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

* HowWeGotHere: Chapter 2 begins the morning after Edith's run-in with Anpu as she wakes up, then cuts to the previous evening to deliver exposition.
* HumanityEnsues: Heru made this happen to Sobek for his purposes.

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

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

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Anpu is impossibly self-absorbed, likes attention and lopes Edith into aiding him pretty much without asking, but he's definitely willing to put himself on the line when she's endangered.

* MasqueradingAsTheUnseen: Despite his claims to be "Anpu", Bun-Dog is actually Set, god of storms and chaos. The {{foreshadowing}} is strong with this one, but Edith doesn't realize this until [[spoiler:Heru himself spells it out to her]].

* MoreThanMindControl: Anpu's ''ba'' seems to be manipulating Edith into sometimes more dangerous action to protect him.

* NighInvulnerability: After Anpu heals her, Edith is pretty much impossible to kill.

* ParrotPetPosition: It seems that while Anpu won't let people pick him up, he's perfectly fine with travelling on their shoulders.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Both Turner and second Blacksmith would probably fare much better if they bothered to explain Edith just why Anpu needs to be kept locked up. As it is, they insist on saying "he's no good for you", which, understandably, does little to help.
* POVCam: We briefly see Anpu through Edith's eyes when she wakes up after Turner knocks her out.

* RagsToRoyalty: Inverted - Anpu went from having dozens of followers and a lot of money to being (comparatively) powerless and broke.

** Edith's irises turn red whenever she uses her powers extensively.

* RefusalOfTheCall: Edith doesn't want to go on a FetchQuest for Anpu, but Blacksmiths don't know that.
* RevenantZombie: Oziris looks like a shriveled husk.
* RoyalBrat: Anpu believes Heru (Horus) to be this, claiming that no-one ever stood up to him. The Blacksmiths are unflinchingly loyal to him, he locked his own brother in a jar for two thousand years and is willing to kill Edith to get what he wants, while, at the same time, not willing to destroy a statue of himself for the same purpose.
-->'''Anpu''': Heru is a classic example of too much power at too young an age.

* SayItWithHearts: When Alma sees Anpu, her speech bubbles get a whole lot more heart-ey.

* SourSupporter: It's a mystery how exactly Heru convinced Sobek to help him, as Sobek is clearly unhappy about this. Generally, going by his interactions with both sides, it seems that if it wasn't for Heru and Anpu both wanting him to help them out, he'd stay on the sidelines. In a pinch:
-->'''Anpu''': In all the time I've known you...\\

'''Anpu''': ...my friend...\\

'''Anpu''': You've never looked so unhappy.

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