Line #23 Webcomic/BlackAnnis


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Wolverine ''definitely'' won't sue us…]]
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4	->''"Let the games begin."''
5	-->-- '''Champ'''
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7	A {{Webcomic}} on Website/{{deviantART}} created by the troper known here as MiyuMiyu2, Black Annis is set in a [[AfterTheEnd post-]][[ZombieApocalypse apocalyptic]] world where zombies were organized by members of their kind that retained their sentience to destroy everything in sight. Unlike most situations like these, though quite a bit of damage was incurred, major population centers like London and New York were able to beat the zombies back and protect some of the rural areas. Though the threat of zombies has not disappeared, most people in large cities can easily pretend it has.
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9	Our story centers in on [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Tokyo]], or to be specific New Tokyo, since quite a bit of it was destroyed in the zombie apocalypse and only half of it has been properly rebuilt. Kimyou Monomezurashii, an orphaned high school student, is tracking down the legendary man known as Champ to avenge her brother's death by his hands. When she finds her man, things go awry and she finds herself enslaved to the very man she set out to kill.
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11	Kimyou finds herself in a very distressing situation, since her new master is both one of the most powerful kinds of zombies out there AND a [[HandsomeLech womanizing]] AttentionWhore. The former fact leads them to clashing with Nefastus, an organization dedicated to keeping zombies down that just happens to employ Kimyou's best friend and crush Kuroi Kaede. Along the way, they pick up a French girl named Antoinette ([[HalfHumanHybrid who isn't as normal as she seems]]) and a [[TeamPet dog]] with some rather remarkable abilities. However, there's another organization in the shadows pulling the strings of the zombies, and soon enough Nefastus and Champ's team will have to team up to fight them while Kimyou will have to fight her oncoming Necrophilia towards her new master.
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13	The series hasn't progressed far enough for anyone to know whether it's bad or good, but it can be read [[http://miyuki-chan-7.deviantart.com/gallery/#-BA-Comic-Pages here.]]
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16	!!This comic provides examples of:
17	* ActionGirl: Kimyou, Kira, Ryoka
18	* AllThereInTheManual: Since the comic itself hasn't gotten very far, most important details are within the official bios of the characters on their character portraits and in other reference pieces. This page counts as well, since MiyuMiyu2 herself created it.
19	* ArtEvolution: Soon won't be ''as'' noticeable since the artist is redrawing all of the old pages, but it is quite drastic. The updates are so sporadic that the art style changes from page to page sometimes.
20	* BlackEyesOfCrazy: All zombies from the 'intelligent' class up.
21	* BrainFood: The first two rungs of the zombie hierarchy.
22	* ChildSoldiers: Subversion. [[spoiler: Inferous are human adults, but when they're turned into Inferous they're de-aged down to thirteen at the oldest]].
23	* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Kimyou, Antoinette, Ryoka, and this is assumed of the Nefastus members [[spoiler: until you figure out what went into making them.]]
24	* TheDeadHaveEyes: Subversion- common zombies seem not to have eyes while the sentient zombies have eyes with [[BlackEyesOfCrazy inverted colors]]. [[AllThereInTheManual Supplementary material says]] that common zombies hunt using their sixth sense.
25	* DeadlyLunge: Common zombies do it on reflex
26	* DontYouDarePityMe: Fifty percent of the good guys HATE being pitied.
27	* EnforcedColdWar: Champ's group and Nefastus
28	* {{Foreshadowing}}: There's some in the bios, like the fact that Champ reacts [[HeroicBSOD badly]] to betrayal and that Kimyou violently hates liars, even if they're her own friends.
29	* [[FreeRangeChildren Free Range Teenagers]]: Explained away by the fact that most of them don't have parents while the rest of them have [[YakuzaPrincess Hanabusa]] as their only kind of authority figure.
30	* FreudianExcuse: Too many to list
31	* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: The eyes that sentient zombies have give the illusion of this with the contrast of white against black.
32	* HealingFactor: Black Annises by design.
33	* HeroicBSOD: [[{{Foreshadowing}} Champ's bio says that this is how he reacts to betrayal]].
34	* HorrorHunger: The first two 'ranks' in the zombie hierarchy feed solely off human brains and flesh and are said to be completely intolerant of human food/drink/drugs.
35	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Kimyou and Champ; Kimyou is normal sized at five-foot-six while Champ towers over almost EVERYONE at ''six-foot-seven''. Chambers and [[spoiler: Emin]] count as well, with Chambers standing at five-foot-four and [[spoiler: Emin]] at six-foot-five. Armageddon and Celia are a more platonic (and extreme) version of this, with Armageddon at six-foot-three and Celia at three-foot-one.
36	* {{Joshikousei}}: Kimyou starts us off, and most of the female characters aligned on the anti-zombie side of this conflict soon follow. Subverted in that the uniform isn't a sailor suit at all, just a white collared shirt and a long black skirt.
37	* LoveAtFirstPunch: What's the first thing Kimyou does upon meeting Champ? Stab him in the back.
38	* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: The [[{{Yakuza}} Shakihana-gumi was apparently one of the first to respond to the zombie attacks in Tokyo, and they're still sending out Inferous to deal with the problem.
39	* NightOfTheLivingMooks: Common zombies.
40	* NoZombieCannibals: Though the organization provided by the Intelligent Zombies prevents the zombies from feeding off each other, this is said to happen to zombies not [[spoiler: regulated by Aurelia]] in the zombie-infested half of Tokyo, since border patrol and Nefastus keep humans out of their hands and [[spoiler: Aurelia only provides sustenance for the zombies under their control]].
41	* OneHeadTaller: Spitfire to Amku, Vaneila to Hiro.
42	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: The lowest rung of the hierarchy are a combination of types F and V, while the others up from that are possible subversions of type R.
43	** Going into detail, the second rung up in the hierarchy retain their sentience, but their personalities from life are warped and exaggerated dangerously while their living memories are gone forever. The next rung up from that are turned into what are basically undead TalkativeLoons. Up from that they're just human minds in zombie bodies, and then… then there are Black Annises, [[spoiler: who (if they must be put in a category of their own) probably equate best to Type V]].
44	*** These zombies are much different than others in the realm of fiction, since they gain special powers to keep things interesting and Black Annises are based off of/named after a creature in British folklore.
45	* ParentalAbandonment: Let's see, Kimyou's mother died in childbirth and her father went MIA when she was a kid, Antoinette's father and 'step'mother were killed in an attempt by her birth mother to get her back while Antoinette killed her birth mother in half-zombie rage, [[spoiler: most Inferous' families (parents included) were killed by the Shakihana-gumi before their transformation if they weren't dead already]], [[spoiler: Champ's father died of natural causes while Champ killed his mother for reasons of being insane]], and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
46	* PickyPeopleEater: Basic/Intelligent Zombies tend to instinctually prefer the brain over other parts of the human, though they can and do eat other parts of them.
47	* PlayingWithFire: Inferous', though their fire is brown for some reason or another.
48	* RaisingTheSteaks: Heracles somehow managed to turn into the highest level of zombie after he died, which is dumb since [[AllThereInTheManual Champ's bio reveals that]] [[spoiler: you can only become a Black Annis by the ''devil himself'' releasing you back into the world of the living after you've been judged in the afterlife]].
49	* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: Subverted- it's said that just about any mortal wound will work to take down a basic zombie, since they're quite fragile, but most characters seen fighting them go with this approach or [[KillItWithFire killing it with fire]] just to be safe.
50	* SlapSlapKiss: Champ and Kimyou; even though the comic has just started out it's all but guaranteed.
51	* SlidingScaleOfUndeadRegeneration: Oddly enough, all of these types exist, with Basic Zombies being TYPE I, Intelligent/Quagmiracal Zombies being TYPE II, Necromancerial Zombies being TYPE III, and Black Annises being TYPE IV, respectively.
52	* StagesOfMonsterGrief: Champ is stuck in the Defiance stage while [[spoiler: Emin]] is in an intermediate phase of Acceptance and Betrayal. Antoinette is in Denial at the beginning, and most other zombie characters are right about in Betrayal or Acceptance, depending on their personality (Amku is an exception, in a quiet form of Defiant Denial).
53	* SquishyWizard: Kale, [[spoiler: Shinji in human form]].
54	* TalkativeLoon: Quagmiracal Zombies by design, since their minds are scrambled by the transformation.
55	* TemporaryLoveInterest: [[spoiler: Kuroi]] is a subversion in that he actually stays around after [[spoiler: Kimyou falls out of love with him]].
56	* {{Tsundere}}: Kimyou is something of a subversion for two reasons. Reason One: She has a [[YouKilledMyFather VERY good reason]] to be constantly angry at Champ. Reason Two: She's not antagonistic towards her other, TemporaryLoveInterest at all. That said, she best fits as a Type B. Kira is a more traditional Type A, though she's not unnecessarily cruel towards her love interest, just as bitchy as she is towards everyone.
57	* UndeathlyPallor: Zombies from Basic to Necromancerial have grey skin, while Black Annises in their true forms have blue skin.
58	* WolverineClaws: Black Annises by design
59	* ZombieGait: Basic Zombies do this when unorganized, as its their 'natural state'.

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