History Webcomic / Tamberlane

** Some characters like Cur suffered from a mix of this and ParentalAbandonment. Effectively speaking, his parents left for abroad without, seemingly without even caring about their son since he was left behind. It's not confirmed how much his parents did or did not care for him, though.

** Highlighting this point is the fact that Nora and Henry gave Belfrey supplies typical of a newborn baby the day after Belfry took in Tamberlane, such as a bottle and diapers. Admittedly, Tamberlane was only a toddler and still in diapers at the time, but a bottle would be necessary since Tamberlane already had fully grown teeth at that point and no longer required milk.

* FreeRangeChildren: Downplayed and justified. Treehollow is a small, close-knit community where there is very little in the day of actual danger (there are not even any cars that might make one worried about kids getting hit), and everyone there typically knows of and looks out for each other. Older kids are allowed to walk around on their own, but it's typically considered safe. A toddler like Tamberlane is given appropriate supervision, and when she runs off from Penny after being scared by Piper in the second chapter, the first adult who finds her attempts to have her returned to her family. (Tamerlane mentions Parsley, as she was going to with Penny at the time to learn to read and cannot talk nor articulate herself properly yet due to her young age) She sent Tamberlane to Parsley with the supervision of her daughter.

* KarmaHoudini: Played with and zig-zagged heavily by Cur in chapter 5. He does not seem to have been ofificaly punished yet by teh adults, but tehy know of his roll in pushing Tamberlane into the ice and he has been called out on this by Jonas' parents. Interestingly, Cur is clearly shown to be feeling deep remourse for what he did and is actually trying to get himself punished, confessing to his adoptive mother and yelling at her to punish him somehow. He is even refusing to eat, implying he is trying to starve himself as a form of punishment.

** Cur, the local [[TheBully bully]] is antagonistic towards Tamberlane, but deep down he's hurting his mother and father abandoned him to go Abroad. He's also fiercely loyal to his gang, which is why he lashes out at anyone who he thinks is hurting them.
* KarmaHoudini: Played with and zig zagged heavily by Cur in chapter 5. He does not seem to have been ofificaly punished yet by teh adults, but tehy know of his roll in pushing Tamberlane into the ice and he has been called out on this by Jonas' parents. Interestingly, Cur is clearly shown to be feeling deep remourse for what he did and is actually trying to get himself punished, confessing to his adoptive mother and yelling at her to punish him somehow. He is even refusing to eat, implying he is trying to starve himself as a form of punishment.
** Given that Treehollow is a close-knit community and Cur's issues are pretty well known, it could be that he adults are not letting him off the hook but know being too harsh could get him to shut down emotionally completely adn be closed off to them again, which is an issue that they have been trying to help him with for years. Seeing as Cur is only a young kid, it puts his adoptive family in a difficult spot on how to actually go about handling him. It might be that they feel is clear remorse (that he is trying to brush off by making claims to the contrary)

** Highlighting this point is the fact that Nora and Henry gave Belfrey supplies typical of a newborn baby the day after Belfry took in Tamberlane, such as a bottle and diapers. Admitably, Tamberlane was only a toddler and still in diapers at the time, but a bottle would be necessary since Tamberlane already had fully grown teeth at that point and no longer required milk.

* SpotLightStealingSquad: Cur seems to be getting this to an extent in chapter 5, seeing as (of early 2024) he has had about three scenes focusing on him while the actual title character has had only about two in depth scenes(tehicnally three with but one was very brief and Tamberlane was only seen briefly being carried into hospital) , with Belfryh having only two (albeit one of those is showing up in the aforementioned earlier brief scene) and Oakwood so far only showing up in one scene respectably and a large, multi-page gap between when Tamberlane first appeared in this chapter and then later on.) Only time will tell how this plays out. By contrasts, Cur's scenes have been longer so far and more in-depth.

* SpotLightStealingSquad: Cur seems to be getting this to an extent in chapter 5, seeing as (of early 2024) he has had about three scenes focusing on him while the actual title character has had only about two, with Belfry and Oakwood so far only showing up in one scene respectably( and a large, multi-page gap between when Tamberlane first appeared in this chapter and then later on.) Only time will tell how this plays out.

* TheDiaperChange: On the first night Belfry took her in, Tamberlane has an accident, much to Belrey's chargin. Belfrey is at a loss of what to do until Oakewood helps her.

* PapaWolf: Don't mock Tamberlane in Oakewood's presence unless you want a verbal and possibly physical beatdown. [[spoiler:This heartbreakingly goes into BrokenPedestal territory when he uncovers information on her species, and he can't control [[FantasticRacism his disgust]] that she's not an animal.]]

** Silver Sage has written their hatred of [[spoiler:humans]] in the Edicts, meaning their constitution actively orders the purge of [[spoiler:humanity]]. What makes this fantastically ironic is that ''nobody remembers what they looked like after they were exterminated'', so there are minorities of this race walking among the inhabitants of Treehollow and nobody realizes they're 'breaking the law' every waking moment by being decent people to these scapegoats.

* CerebusSyndrome: Although the early chapters had touched on things like family drama and hinted to the xenophobic nature of Tree Hollow and their taboos of other places, the comic noticeably becomes much more dramatic after [[spoiler: Tamberlane falls through the ice. After that, Oakewood realizes that Tamberlane is human and the following chapter is nonstop emotional devastation.]]

* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler:When Oakewood finds TheVitruvianPose to shed light on Tamberlane's species, he rips it to pieces. Apparently deciding, just as discussing Abroad is taboo, humans must stay a mystery.]]

** Cur, the local [[TheBully bully]] is antagonistic towards Tamberlane, but deep down he's hurting his mother and father abandoned him to go Abroad.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Schoolteacher Callie reports her assistant Jentzen to the council for trying to talk about the outside world which puts him at risk due to the xenophobic laws of the Silver Sage. However, an actual Council member tells her that that won't happen.

** The retcon, Inquisitive Ivan, portrays Abroad as a trickster demon who offers to save Ivan's father. And they do - by turning him into an ugly monster with sharp claws. [[DealWithTheDevil propaganda is trying to portray the medical aid Abroad offers as a devil's deal]] [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor whose true price is 'curing' the patients with corruption]], [[ThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow and that it's better to just ignore forbidden hopes]].

* ScaryDogmaticAliens: During the last epidemic, the population of Treehollow was practically hemorrhaging. The laws and edicts that forbade them from asking for help from Abroad, resulted in many families perishing or being banished, all because the statutory instruments cannot be changed.