Line #13 Webcomic/BeyondTheVeil


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Nikki and Zeeal.]]
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4	''[[http://beyondtheveilcomic.com/ Beyond the Veil]]'' is the story of Emperor Nicodemus Aurelius, ruler of three galaxies, and dead for three centuries. Up until a hapless team of explorers stumbles across one of his supercomputers and the machine downloads his and his four most loyal followers' minds into their bodies.
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6	Unfortunately, the damned computer put him in the body of a woman.
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8	However "Nikki" doesn't seem to mind that much really, all she wants is to get her Empire back, and she'll do whatever it takes to do that.
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10	!!Beyond the Tropes:
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12	* AltText: Experimented with in [[http://beyondtheveilcomic.com/?p=549 chapter six]].
13	* AuthorAppeal: The original artist, Beowulf, tended to draw Nikki and other female characters with large busts to invoke BuxomBeautyStandard. The current artist, [=DreamTaker=], usually draws them with a bit more realistic proportions.
14	* BlindJump: At the end of the civil war the Emperor's flagship, the ''Titan'', jumped into the void between galaxies, carrying his corpse with it. Centuries later a crew of professional "Jumpers" find it.
15	* BodyBackupDrive: Zeeal stored backups of Nicodemus and his inner circle for later downloading.
16	--> ''Nobody remembers what it's like to die. I am responsible for that. I saw what happened when my scientists used "dead memory" on a clone blank. My law declared the punishment for ever trying that again would be death by torture... To last no less than a month.''
17	* BountyHunter: The Jumpers run into one dressed in full battle armor named Dolor, apparently sent by Uriel. He does give them an opportunity to come quietly.
18	* CleavageWindow: Nikki sometimes has one, as seen above.
19	* DudeLooksLikeALady: [[http://beyondtheveilcomic.com/?comic=05312010 Zakeriah]], and quite CampStraight.
20	** Also Feyd, Elder God of Fear and Pain.
21	* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: All the furry characters.
22	* GenderBender: Body-snatching version.
23	** SecondLawOfGenderBending: "Nikki" is given the opportunity to inhabit a clone of his old body, but says she prefers her new one.
24	** ThirdLawOfGenderBending: And she acts rather girly for someone who spent over 400 years as a man. Even taking her second-in-command Joshua as a lover.
25	* GodEmperor: The seemingly primitive planet on which the first few chapters take place is ruled by "The Divine Asta", and the locals know the coup as a distant war of the Gods. And it turns out that even out in the "civilized" universe Nicodemus has a secret cult of Resurrectionists.
26	* GodGuise: Apparently how the Empire rules the planet.
27	* ImmortalRuler: Nicodemus Aurelius was one, Uriel is one, and it seems like many of both their regimes' elites are immortal as well.
28	* MachiavelliWasWrong: Nikki seems to realize that [[http://beyondtheveilcomic.com/?p=212 fear is not enough]] to ensure the loyalty of her top lieutenants. Though she has no problem terrorizing the peasantry, granted in an elaborate MonsterProtectionRacket
29	* RapePillageAndBurn: [[http://beyondtheveilcomic.com/?p=392 "Is it... rape the children, burn the women, and take the loot?"]]
30	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Nicodemus Aurelius is 721 years old, and has experienced 419 of them. Most of the major players in galactic politics are similarly old. And even [[spoiler: Briggs is over three hundred.]]
31	* TitleDrop: [[http://beyondtheveilcomic.com/?p=1123 The inscription on Nicodemus Aurelius' tomb]].
32	* TheUsurper: Uriel, who seized the Empire from Nicodemus.
33	* VillainProtagonist: Aside from being a body-snatching would-be GalacticConqueror Nikki casually threatens Joshua with mutilation and creates a monster to terrorize the common folk as part of her plan.

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