Line #6 Webcomic/Miamaska


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2	[[caption-width-right:348:''You have dreamed too well, oh wise Archdreamer.'']]
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4	[[http://miamaska.tidalcomics.com/?strip_id=0 Beginning here]]!
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6	''Miamaska'', a webcomic by [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/Jeinu Jeinu]], follows the story of a girl who wound up in another dimension after walking into a parking garage.
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8	The world into which Amity wandered has been dragging people from other dimensions into its own for as long as anyone can remember. Unfortunately, most don't live long enough to find their way back. Amity's lucky enough to have appeared in the world near a somewhat non-hostile resident, whose father takes her under his wing for the time being.
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10	Currently on indefinite hiatus, with the last update being in October of 2018.
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12	!!This webcomic provides examples of:
13	* AliensSpeakingEnglish:
14	** Subverted. How is it that people from another dimension speak English? They don't. Otherworlders speak and understand [[http://miamaska.tidalcomics.com/index.php?strip_id=33 all languages]].
15	** The translation effect is part of what Aleco refers to as the [[http://miamaska.com/index.php?pn=109 the "miamaska"]], and either using it or listening to it can cause headaches. Amity hears odd echoes of different words at times, shown to the audience as overlapping word balloons with [[http://miamaska.com/index.php?pn=154 different text in them]] (revealed to be alternate translations and/or hidden intent, making the Miamaska an effective lie detector). After Kit and Ket talked to the Masked Man (who is an outworlder named Loric using an actual translator device, possibly indicating that the Miamaska effect isn't universal, since Loric evidently believes the translator is needed [[http://miamaska.com/index.php?pn=78 here]]) [[http://miamaska.tidalcomics.com/index.php?pn=139 Ket comments that he didn't hear the Miamaska effect.]]
16	*** Loric traverses worlds via technology, thereby circumventing whatever “natural” process endows the Miamaska effect.
17	* ArrowCatch: Guere pulls this off [[http://miamaska.tidalcomics.com/?strip_id=55 pretty well]].
18	%%* AudienceSurrogate: Amity. Clearing up [[http://miamaska.tidalcomics.com/index.php?strip_id=33 plot holes]] and [[http://miamaska.tidalcomics.com/index.php?strip_id=43 odd pronunciation]] galore!
19	* BrotherSisterTeam: Kit and Ket.
20	* CastOfSnowflakes: Even with unimportant mob characters, author Jeinu takes care to construct [[http://miamaska.tidalcomics.com/index.php?strip_id=49 unique characters]]. Apparently he gets ticked off at OnlySixFaces and even made a [[http://fav.me/d2j3z86 tutorial series]] about it.
21	* {{Chiaroscuro}}: Extensive use in darkly lit scenes.
22	* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Each character has a unique color for their word balloons, so you can tell who is speaking even if you can't see the speaker.
23	%%* EasingIntoTheAdventure
24	%%* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Kit. Just... Kit. Not so much Ket.
25	%%* TheFaceless: [[http://miamaska.tidalcomics.com/index.php?strip_id=36 The masked man]].
26	* FutureShadowing: Amity is shown with longer hair and different companions. WordOfGod says [[http://miamaska.tidalcomics.com/index.php?strip_id=38 this]] won't make sense for another [[http://fav.me/d3gc6u9 three years]].
27	* LaserGuidedAmnesia:
28	** Averted. There's a four-day time-skip, during which Amity apparently asked the same questions over and over, but all her previous memories are intact, if fuzzy.
29	** Later, she forgets about the change in her eye color and the massive breakdown learning about it caused. [[spoiler: She's faking it to fool Aleco into staying with her longer.]]
30	%%* NaiveNewcomer: Amity.
31	* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Subverted (inverted?). Diseases carried by otherworlders are not only compatible with the Alodian locals, as they are all humans, but also highly dangerous because the locals have no exposure and no immunity to them. This is part of the reason the general reaction to otherworlders is "kill on discovery". On the flipside, Amity is mentioned to have gotten sick from local raw milk during her amnesiac period, presumably because it contains bacteria ''she'' has no immunity to.
32	* RainbowSpeak: To some degree, with the speech bubbles.
33	* RedEyesTakeWarning: At least, that's how it is for the Alodian citizens...
34	* ScaryShinyGlasses: The masked man's first appearance.
35	* SiblingsInCrime: Kit and Ket are being set up as the story's villains, and they are brother and sister.
36	* TapOnTheHead: Results in a concussion, causing memory problems (see LaserGuidedAmnesia), headaches, dizziness, and confusion.
37	* TechnicolorEyes: The otherworlders have red irises and purple sclera, and people native to Amity's world have blue sclera (which changed to the otherworlder scheme when Amity got transported).
38	%%* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Amity, Guere, and Trosce.
39	* WakingUpElsewhere: After waking from a tap on the head in an open field, Amity finds herself sitting at a table indoors.

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