History Webcomic / TheChapelChronicles

** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/6 The Folly of Chivalry]], the chess pieces are drawn in the style of ''VideoGame/{{Through the Looking Glass}}'', the first game for the UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh.

* LongPants: While other on-screen characters are drawn with shoes on, Chapel's feet are always portrayed as long skin-colored blobs, even though she has well-defined fingers. It's never clear whether that's the case of artistic simplification or Chapel [[DoesNotLikeShoes being perpetually barefoot]], but she is portrayed wearing shoes inside her [[FreakyFridayFlip personality flip nightmare]], so it probably might be the latter. Interestingly, this trope also applies even after the comic undergoing ArtEvolution for ''The Hats of London''!

* CoolPet: In Chapter 4, [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/22 The Elegance of the Hedgehog]], Chapel adopts a hedgehog. She names him Rupert as a ShoutOut to Rupert Giles in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.

* LimitedWardrobe: Chapel's wardrobe is mainly limited to her LittleBlackDress and loads of [[NiceHat hats]] and is easily recognized by her clothing. In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/19 Gaga Dress Code]] and [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/20 Oblivious to the Obsession]], Chapel dresses in Lady Gaga outfits.

* NiceHat: Chapel almost always wears a hat. In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/17 Lobster Delivery]], [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/18 Phone Call]], and [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/19 Gaga Dress Code]], she wears Lady Gaga hats. In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/27 Hedgehog Constitutional]], she wears her own hedgehog as a hat. In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/38 A Chobits Disaster]], she is wearing a hat from ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' which is a representation of Chiyo-chan's father.

* LongPants: While other on-screen characters are drawn with shoes on, Chapel's feet are always portrayed as long skin-colored blobs, even though she has well-defined fingers. It's never clear whether that's the case of artistic simplification or Chapel [[DoesNotLikeShoes being perpetually barefoot]], but she is portrayed wearing shoes inside her [[Film/FreakyFriday personality flip nightmare]], so it probably might be the latter. Interestingly, this trope also applies even after the comic undergoing ArtEvolution for ''The Hats of London''!

The strips center around the adventures of Chapel Smith, a zany 11 year-old girl and her hedgehog sidekick, Sir Rupert Tennyson Bollingsworth the First. Chapel loves hats, hates chores, has a little bit of an obsession with Music/LadyGaga, an archenemy, Fred, with whom she plays games, and in Season One adopts a pet hedgehog. The art has evolved in Season Two to give backgrounds to Chapel, such as a house, and to explore other aspects of her personality. The author sells a [[WebcomicPrintCollection Webcomic Print Collection]] of the 32 strips in Season One.
comic starts [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com here]]. You probably should start from the beginning to get a real sense of Chapel's character and to understand later references.

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# Premise

--> The strips center around the adventures of Chapel Smith, a zany 11 year-old girl and her hedgehog sidekick, Sir Rupert Tennyson Bollingsworth the First. Chapel loves hats, hates chores, has a little bit of an obsession with Music/LadyGaga, an archenemy, Fred, with whom she plays games, and in Season One adopts a pet hedgehog. The art has evolved in Season Two to give backgrounds to Chapel, such as a house, and to explore other aspects of her personality. The author sells a [[WebcomicPrintCollection Webcomic Print Collection]] of the 32 strips in Season One.

# The Characters

--> ''Chapel Smith'': an 11 year-old girl who loves hats, hates chores, and has a little bit of an obsession with Lady Gaga. She has an archenemy, Fred, who is a plumber and a friend of her dad, with whom she plays various games like Risk, Pictionary, and Battleship.
--> ''Fred'': a plumber, the best friend of Chapel's father, and Chapel's adversary in playing games such as Risk, Pictionary, Chess, and Battleship.
--> ''Mr. and Mrs. Smith'': Chapel's parents. Their voices appear in the strips but they have not yet appeared in the strips.
--> ''Rupert'': Chapel's pet hedgehog whose full name is'' Sir Rupert Tennyson Bollingsworth the First''. Chapel adopts Rupert in The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

# External Links

--> The comic starts [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com here]]. You probably should start from the beginning to get a real sense of Chapel's character and to understand later references.

* SpiritedYoungLady: Chapel is a [[SpiritedYoungLady spirited young lady]] even though she is only 11. Of course, she is [[WiseBeyondTheirYears wise beyond her years]].

* HatShop: Chapel has an obsession with hats. Since most of the action occurs outside, she violates the indoor the rule of hat etiquette and substitutes the [[RuleOfCool rule of cool]]. She wears real hats, such as Lady Gaga's famous lobster and telephone hats, author designed hats, and occasionally her pet hedgehog as an emergency hat accessory.
** Chapel wears a cowboy hat while doing her homework in [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/1 The Babysitter Arrives]], [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/12 Work Schedule]], and [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/14 The Good, the Bad, and the Hatted]]. The hat is a Shout Out to the manga ''One Piece'' as it's the hat worn by the character Nico Robin.

* {{Poker}}: Chapel plays various [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/39 games]] of poker against Fred with predictable results.

--> The strips center around the adventures of Chapel Smith, a zany [[RedheadedHero 11 year-old girl]] and her hedgehog sidekick, Sir Rupert Tennyson Bollingsworth the First. Chapel loves hats, hates chores, has a little bit of an obsession with Music/LadyGaga, an archenemy, Fred, with whom she plays games, and in Season One adopts a pet hedgehog. The art has evolved in Season Two to give backgrounds to Chapel, such as a house, and to explore other aspects of her personality. The author sells a [[WebcomicPrintCollection Webcomic Print Collection]] of the 32 strips in Season One.

* [[TheMerch Merch]]: The author sells [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/catalog Chapel merchandise]], such as pins, prints, greeting cards, charms, earrings, etc., on her website.

* GuitarHero: In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/3 Jam Session]], Chapel plays ''GuitarHero'' against, who else, Fred.

* IndulgentFantasySegue: When Chapel plays games with her archenemy Fred, she sometimes engages in these. When she is playing ''TabletopGame/Risk'' in [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/7 Chapel the Conqueror]], she imagines herself taking over the world before discovering that in reality, she has just lost the game. In the [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/6 Folly of Chivalry]], she imagines herself as Sir Lancelot when in reality, she has just been checkmated.

* Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer: In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/32 Waiting for Buffy]] and the [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/33 Whedon Addiction]], Chapel is waiting to watch the [=DVDs=] of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
* CoolPet: In Chapter 4, [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/22 The Elegance of the Hedgehog]], Chapel adopts a hedgehog. She names him Rupert as a Shoutout to Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

--> The strips center around the adventures of Chapel Smith, a zany [[RedheadedHero 11 year-old girl]] and her hedgehog sidekick, Sir Rupert Tennyson Bollingsworth the First. Chapel loves hats, hates chores, has a little bit of an obsession with Lady Gaga, an archenemy, Fred, with whom she plays games, and in Season One adopts a pet hedgehog. The art has evolved in Season Two to give backgrounds to Chapel, such as a house, and to explore other aspects of her personality. The author sells a [[WebcomicPrintCollection Webcomic Print Collection]] of the 32 strips in Season One.

--> ''Mr. and Mrs. Smith'': Chapel’s parents. Their voices appear in the strips but they have not yet appeared in the strips.

--> ''Rupert'': Chapel’s pet hedgehog whose full name is'' Sir Rupert Tennyson Bollingsworth the First''. Chapel adopts Rupert in The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

* DreamSequence: The comic book ends in a four page Dream Sequence entitled [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/28 Chapel in Wonderland]] in which Chapel finds herself dressed as Alice from Alice in Wonderland. Fred, her archenemy is the Cheshire Cat, Music/LadyGaga appears having [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]] Music/JustinBieber, wanting to play chess with flamingos and using Rupert as the ball. Chapel finally leaves and walks off but is still dressed as Alice at the end.

** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/17 Lobster Delivery]], the packing labels on the box (almost impossible to read) say 42 Penny Lane, referring to Music/TheBeatles, Millinery Co. Drum Isle, Grand Line, referring to a place in [[OnePiece One Piece]].

* HalloweenCosplay: In a special [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/35 Halloween strip]], Chapel tried on a Gorgeous Period Dress, the [[TimeMachine Tardis]] from [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]], finally deciding to wear the outfit of [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Cardcaptor Sakura]] with her hedgehog dressed as Kero-chan.
* HatShop: Chapel has an obsession with hats. Since most of the action occurs outside, she violates the indoor the rule of hat etiquette and substitutes the [[RuleOfCool rule of cool]]. She wears real hats, such as [[LadyGaga Lady Gaga’s]] famous lobster and telephone hats, author designed hats, and occasionally her pet hedgehog as an emergency hat accessory.
** Chapel wears a cowboy hat while doing her homework in [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/1 The Babysitter Arrives]], [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/12 Work Schedule]], and [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/14 The Good, the Bad, and the Hatted]]. The hat is a Shout Out to the manga [[OnePiece One Piece]] as it’s the hat worn by the character Nico Robin.

* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: In the [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/15 Gaga Saga]], Chapel dresses in an outfit from the [[LadyGaga Lady Gaga]] video Bad Romance and a Versace outfit parodied on ''{{Series/Glee}}''.
* IndulgentFantasySegue: When Chapel plays games with her archenemy Fred, she sometimes engages in Indulgent Fantasy Segues. When she is playing Risk in [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/7 Chapel the Conqueror]], she imagines herself taking over the world before discovering that in reality, she has just lost the game. In the [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/6 Folly of Chivalry]], she imagines herself as Sir Lancelot when in reality, she has just been checkmated.
* LimitedWardrobe: Chapel’s wardrobe is mainly limited to her [[LittleBlackdress Little Black Dress]] and loads of [[NiceHat hats]] and is easily recognized by her clothing. In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/19 Gaga Dress Code]] and [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/20 Oblivious to the Obsession]], Chapel dresses in [[LadyGaga Lady Gaga]] outfits.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The last four panels of Volume One entitled “[[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/28 Chapel in Wonderland]]” are a reference to ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''.
* LittleBlackDress: Chapel wears a little black dress in almost every strip. It’s one of her fundamental characterizations. In Chapter 3 of Season One entitled [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/15 The Gaga Saga]], Chapel wears various Music/LadyGaga outfits, one from the video Bad Romance and one which was also worn by Quinn on ''{{Series/Glee}}''.

* NiceHat: Chapel almost always wears a hat. In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/17 Lobster Delivery]], [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/18 Phone Call]], and [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/19 Gaga Dress Code]], she wears [[LadyGaga Lady Gaga]] hats. In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/27 Hedgehog Constitutional]], she wears her own hedgehog as a hat. In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/38 A Chobits Disaster]], she is wearing a hat from [[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Azumanga Diaoh]] which is a representation of Chiyo-chan’s father.

* {{Poker}}: Chapel plays various [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/39 games]] of ''{{Poker}}'' against Fred with predictable results

** In the [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/1 The Babysitter Arrives]], Chapel is wearing a hat worn by the character Nico Robin in [[OnePiece One Piece]].
** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/14 The Good, the Bad, and the Hatted]], Chapel is reading Hereville by Barry Deustch.
** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/16 Google Epiphany]], the computer Chapel is using has the Newton logo from [[AppleMacintosh Apple Macintosh]].
** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/6 The Folly of Chivalry]], the chess pieces are drawn in the style of Through the Looking Glass, the first game for the [[AppleMacintosh Apple Macintosh]].
** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/20 Oblivious to the Obsession]], the color of the [[LadyGaga Lady Gaga]] outfit is a Shout Out to the color worn by Quinn in ''{{Series/Glee}}''.

** In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/28 Chapel in Wonderland]], Chapel references a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven.

* [[Characters/OnePieceStrawHatPirates Straw Hat Pirates]]: In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/1 The Babysitter Arrives]], [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/12 Work Schedule]], and [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/14 The Good, the Bad, and the Hatted]], Chapel is wearing a hat styled after Nico Robin from One Piece.

* WebcomicPrintCollection: The [[http://chapelchronicles.com/catalog Chapel Chronicles Volume One]] collects the first 32 strips in Season One in a 44 page paperback edition. You can also buy it in select comic stores in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (Showcase Comics), Chicago, Illinois (Chicago Comics), Berkeley, California (Fantastic Comics) and a toy store in San Mateo, California called Talbots Toyland.

* [[{{Characters/OnePiece-StrawHatPirates}} Straw Hat Pirates]]: In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/1 The Babysitter Arrives]], [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/12 Work Schedule]], and [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/14 The Good, the Bad, and the Hatted]], Chapel is wearing a hat styled after Nico Robin from One Piece.

* BuffyTheVampireSlayer: In [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/32 Waiting for Buffy]] and the [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/33 Whedon Addiction]], Chapel is waiting to watch the [=DVDs=] of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

* LittleBlackDress: Chapel wears a little black dress in almost every strip. It’s one of her fundamental characterizations. In Chapter 3 of Season One entitled [[http://www.chapelchronicles.com/comic/15 The Gaga Saga]], Chapel wears various [[LadyGaga Lady Gaga]] outfits, one from the video Bad Romance and one which was also worn by Quinn on ''{{Series/Glee}}''.
* MeaningfulName: Rupert, the hedgehog, is named after Rupert Giles in ''[[BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.