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3''[[http://www.forthewicked.net/ No Rest For the Wicked]]'' is a WebComic by Andrea L. Peterson set in a world where many {{Fairy Tale}}s are true, in all their grim glory.
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5Some are {{Fractured Fairy Tale}}s, but that does not prevent them from being as grim as the originals.
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7The main plot features the insomniac Princess November from "Literature/ThePrincessAndThePea" setting out to save the moon, buried as in the fairy tale "[[https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/book.php?id=24&tale=656 The Dead Moon.]]" She gathers a RagtagBunchOfMisfits about her [[FairyTaleFreeForAll from various tales]], and they encounter more fairy tale characters along the way.
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9Other included fairy tales are "Literature/PussInBoots," "[[https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/a-g/diamonds-toads/diamonds-toads-tale.html Diamonds and Toads,]]" "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood," "Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast," "Literature/HanselAndGretel," "[[https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/book.php?id=33&tale=1150 The Girl Without Hands,]]" "Literature/SleepingBeauty," "[[https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/book.php?id=33&tale=1123 The Boy Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was]]," "Literature/{{Bearskin}}," "Literature/SnowWhiteAndRoseRed," and "[[https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/book.php?id=33&tale=1214 The Raven.]]"
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11Unfortunately, it appears to be an OrphanedSeries, as it hasn't been updated since February 28, 2013.
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14!!Characters:
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16* November, the princess from "Literature/ThePrincessAndThePea." Suffering from insomnia ever since the moon vanished. (Not that she slept well at any time.)
17* Perrault the cat from "Literature/PussInBoots" -- except that he's a FunnyAnimal, not a TalkingAnimal. Still working for his master, the Marquis, until November persuades him to leave.
18* Red from "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood." Has an ax. [[AxCrazy Uses it freely.]]
19* Jack-or-maybe-Hans, The Boy from "The Boy Who Set Out To Learn What Fear Was."
20* Clare, the Girl Without Hands.
21* The Witch, an old woman who's lived alone in the woods. For a long time.
22* Anna & Klaus, two children the witch has kidnapped.
23* Prince Ricardo, AKA "Picky Dick," the prince from "The Princess and the Pea." A PrinceCharmless if there ever was one.
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25!!Provides examples of:
26* AbusiveParents: Clare strongly implies that the village parents are like this.
27* AllTrollsAreDifferent: This one lives under a bridge.
28* AnArmAndALeg: Clare's hands were lopped off.
29* AngelUnaware: Perrault convinces the innkeeper that he's a fairy in disguise and if he is kind to them (by say, giving them free rooms) he'll reward him in the morning.
30* AntiVillain: The forest witch from Chapter 3, by virtue of being the reanimated shell of a woman who is clearly [[ObliviouslyEvil too insane to understand what's wrong with her actions]]... [[spoiler: Which were the cooking and eating of multiple children, including her own. A [[SlidingScaleOfAntiVillains Type III]] {{WellIntentionedExtremist}}, who only did it as a measure to keep her children safe.]]
31%%* ArrangedMarriage: November and "The Boy."
32* ArtificialLimbs: Clare has a pair of silver gauntlets that work like mechanical hands.
33%%* AxCrazy: Red, literally.
34* BackFromTheDead: Red says that three people died in a certain bed, and she was one. Perrault wonders how she's alive:
35-->'''November:''' [[UnexplainedRecovery Well obviously]] [[ShoutOut she]] ''[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail recovered!]]''"
36* BadassNormal: To be just, Ricardo can pull this off.
37* BarehandedBladeBlock: [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04i-02.html The boy's meeting with Ricardo.]]
38* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: November's mother knows this.
39* BearsAreBadNews: Or so the characters assume.
40* BerserkButton: Perrault speaks of "beauty" to the Beast, as an abstraction; Beast assumes it's his Beauty and goes berserk.
41** Considering her back story and reaction to the Hansel and Gretel witch, it's safe to say Red hates people who hurt -- or at least ''eat'' -- children.
42** She also hates anyone who gets in her way.
43** Ricardo may be a prat, but he is genuinely anguished when his horses are killed.
44* TheBigBadWolf: is alluded to and a number of their skins appear in Red's cottage, although she claims they left the woods because of the moon's disappearance.
45%%* BigDamnHeroes: Red at the witch's house.
46%%* BigFancyHouse: The Beast's manor.
47* BilingualBonus: November's mother is named Avril, which is French for "April" (thus fitting into the TemporalThemeNaming).
48* {{Blackmail}}: Perrault accuses November of this.
49* BlatantLies: November denies stories about a witch in the woods.
50* BreakTheCutie:
51** Red and Clare both went through hell in their backstories; Red, especially, is a BrokenBird.
52** Clare is just as much of a BrokenBird, but expresses it in more of a [[Manga/OnePiece Nico Robin]] sort of way.
53* BurnTheWitch: Clare almost gets this treatment. [[spoiler: The actual Witch does, though less publicly.]]
54* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Beast and November, in his shadow.
55* CatchYourDeathOfCold: One danger of playing in the snow.
56* CatsAreMean: Played entirely straight with Perrault.
57* ChronicPetKiller: Ricardo is on his 13th horse named Artax.
58%%* ClearTheirName: The group for Clare.
59%%* ColourfulThemeNaming: Red.
60%%* CoolGate: With ravens!
61* {{Curse}}: The beggar woman laid one on November for not being generous enough to part with ''all'' of her food. [[spoiler: A frog pops out of her mouth whenever she says "altruistic."]]
62* CuttingTheKnot: While Perrault thought up a clever plan to get Red and November through a gate by manipulating the owners of the mansion, Red simply smashes the gate with her axe.
63%%* DancesAndBalls: November met Princess Colette at one.
64%%* DangerousSixteenthBirthday: November is sixteen.
65%%* DarkAndTroubledPast: Clare and Red.
66* DeadpanSnarker: Red gets snarky comments in every chance she gets. They pretty much make up half her dialogue.
67%%** Perrault.
68* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: Clare's parents made one with the actual devil to get riches in exchange for her. Luckily, the Moon intervened, though she still lost her hands.]]
69* DeathByDespair: Beauty thinks the Beast's condition is caused by this.
70* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Limited Palette; Red's cloak is red, as are the roses at the Beast's castle.
71* DespairEventHorizon: Clare resigns herself to be burned as a witch. She won't talk about what happened, but it involved her losing her baby somewhere along the way.
72* DisappearedDad: The Boy's threw him out. Even his foolish and cheerful nature does not entirely protect him from this; he is wistful about how November's father loves her.
73* ADogNamedDog: The Boy. He is implied to actually have a name, but even he himself doesn't know what it is and refers to himself as "Boy."
74* DoggedNiceGuy: The Beast, who asks Beauty to marry him ten times a day, although he doesn't keep her imprisoned in this version.
75%%* DomesticAbuse: The Beast accuses Perrault of this.
76%%* DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat: Perrault startles November.
77%%* DramaticThunder: When November feels desperate.
78%%* DrowningMySorrows: A Jack the Boy remembered.
79* TheEmpath: November is extraordinarily sensitive. Against her, this means that she gets hurt by things such as ''having leaves fall on her face.'' More impressively, she can sense death, tell when people have noble blood -- or even if they've only married into royalty! -- and is usually able to surmise the intentions of the people she brings into the group(she senses Perrault's boredom, as well as Clare's innocence). This is a CallBack to her source story, The Princess and the Pea, where it is the Princess's sensitivity that is used to determine her royal lineage.
80%%* FairWeatherFriend: Red calls Perrault this.
81* FairyTaleFreeForAll: The supporting cast draws from a wide variety of classic fairy tales.
82%%* FallenPrincess: Clare.
83%%* FamedInStory
84%%* FearlessFool: The Boy.
85%%* FencePainting: Perrault's technique for getting the bear to dig.
86%%* TheFool: The Boy.
87* ForbiddenFruit: Red picks the Beast's roses and puts one behind November's ear. The Beast is furious. Of course it doesn't help that first they smashed down his gate, broke into his house and wandered around taking random objects from it.
88%%* ForcedTransformation: Prince Orson.
89* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chapter 3 is titled a modest proposal...
90* AFriendInNeed: They search for the information to save Clare, and then Clare joins to help them.
91* FriendToAllChildren: The children, sanely, do not like her, but Red is passionate about defending children.
92* FriendToAllLivingThings: The Boy sings a song about how Ricardo would think such a princess must have fleas.
93%%* FunnyAnimal
94* FrustratedOverheadScribble: November's got an discontented scribble as a speech bubble while she listens to Perrault trick an enchanted prince.
95* GhostStory: When November was little, her sister September told her about how a queen once wished her daughter into a raven.
96%%* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Red and her axe.
97* GenreSavvy:
98** "Aha, I can see where this is going. Mysterious old beggar women need to be handled very, ''very'' carefully."
99** Invoked intentionally by Perrault when tricking an inn keeper to let them stay the night for free. He convinced the man that they were fairies, figuring he probably knew his fairy tales well enough that he wouldn't question strange forms of payment (like a dead bird) if they came from the Fair folk.
100--->'''Perrault''': Now, if you were to bury this bird behind your inn... Should you then find, say, a golden tree with diamond fruit growing upon that very spot three days later... Well, that would be quite something, wouldn't it?
101* GetOut: Red to November, during the fight with the witch. It's for her protection.
102* GuileHero: Perrault, very much. Well, maybe Guile Anti-Hero.
103%%* GrammarNazi: Prince Ricardo.
104* GraveRobbing: Clare is suspected of digging up a grave to steal from it on top of serial child murder by the townsfolk who plan to burn her.
105%%* GrayRainOfDepression: November, plodding through the forest.
106%%* GreenEyedMonster: The Beast has it, bad.
107* HappilyMarried: Clare and King Gareth, before Satan intervened.
108* TheHeart: November. She's fragile enough to be bruised by a leaf, but she knows people well enough to keep her group together.
109* TheHedgeOfThorns: Prince Ricardo tackles the one around Sleeping Beauty's castle, and is apparently the only prince to have successfully done so.
110* HellIsThatNoise: [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-66.html THWOK.]] The GoryDiscretionShot may or may not be helping. Also almost said word for word and PlayedForLaughs for why Ricardo doesn't like Sleeping Beauty.
111%%* HitchhikerHeroes: The group.
112%%* HomeSweetHome: November wants it.
113%%* HonoraryUncle
114* HumanoidAbomination: The witch had long since become one of these by the time November's group encountered her.
115%%* ImAHumanitarian: In the ''[[NightmareFuel worst]]'' way possible.
116* IAmNotLeftHanded: Ricardo, though the princess had to take his word for it.
117* IAmXSonOfY: The Boy: "I'd tell you 'Jack, son of...' ...But my dad made me swear never t' let on I'm his."
118%%* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Red explains that the witch was already dead.%%Why is this an example of the trope?
119%%* InelegantBlubbering: Klaus says Anna does this.%%Does what?
120%%* IHaveAFamily: [[spoiler: The Witch.]]
121* InHarmsWay: Perrault joins the quest because his life is too dull.
122%%* IronicEcho
123* TheInsomniac: November, which drives the comic.
124* ItAmusedMe: Perrault's appropriately cat-like motivation. He had as plush a lifestyle as he could hope for after turning a bumpkin into a marquis by [[GuileHero guile]] and complains about the dangers in November's quest, but when presented with an opportunity to escape easily... "No, not yet."
125%%* ItsNotYouItsMe: November to the Boy.
126%%* IWasBeatenByAGirl: The Boy asks if this trope applies to Ricardo.%%How?
127%%* TheJeeves: Perrault, albeit somewhat frustrated with it.%%How is he an example?
128%%* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Ricardo accuses the Boy of this.%%Of what?
129%%* KillItWithFire: For witches:%%Quotes aren't context.
130%%-->'''Perrault''': ''[[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-63.html There is a reason why fire is the traditional method of dealing with your kind.]]''
131%%* TheLeader: November.
132* ALightInTheDistance: Gives November hope for a refuge.
133* LightLiegeDarkDefender: November is a {{Magnetic Hero}}ine who doesn't have many talents beyond bringing and keeping people together, while Red is a severely-traumatized LittleRedFightingHood who was on the verge of violent insanity before meeting November, and grows extremely protective of her thereafter. As November's very first companion, Red also seems to have the closest relationship with her.
134* LightningReveal: In the storm, the one bright panel is with lightning.
135%%* LiteraryAllusionTitle
136* LittleRedFightingHood: She's got an axe.
137* LonersAreFreaks: Red has lived by herself in the middle of the forest for several years and is seen as a witch by the locals who see her. Admittedly, she didn't seem to go out of her way to correct this idea. Perrault and November even conclude that Red, should she not have joined the group, might have been at risk of [[spoiler: turning into a witch like The Witch from Hansel and Gretel.]]
138%%* LosingYourHead
139%%* LoveHurts: Every couple thus far.
140%%* LoveMakesYouCrazy: The Beast.
141%%* LoveTriangle: Perrault suspects this.
142%%* MagneticHero: November.
143* MagpiesAsPortents: November's sisters teased her for using the ''One for Sorrow, Two for Joy'' rhyme for ravens.
144%%* MaliciousSlander: Drove the witch and her children out of the village.
145%%* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover
146* MeaningfulRename: When November asks Red to give her her name, Red pretends to believe it's asking for this.
147* MercifulMinion: Claire's mother-in-law, receiving a letter to execute Claire, had her flee for her life. Oops. Turns out the letter was tampered with; her husband had actually ordered her treated well and is now heartbroken.
148%%* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: This pretty much defines Prince "Picky Dick" Ricardo's entire life.%%What does? How?
149%%* MixedMetaphor: One of those minor flaws.
150%%* MoralityPet: November, for Red.
151* TheMunchausen: Perrault's attitude to November's story, at first.
152* MyBelovedSmother: Taken to nightmarish levels with the Witch.
153* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: November can tell there was death in that bed.
154* NiceToTheWaiter: November is genuinely kind, but she also deliberately invokes this; she doesn't want anyone to see the king's daughter being unkind to a beggar.
155%%* NoIndoorVoice: The Beast.
156%%* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: In Red's backstory.
157%%* TheNoseKnows: Red.
158%%* NotNowKiddo: A mother to her daughter about Red.
159%%* NotQuiteDead
160* NotWhatItLooksLike: Perrault is standing by November when the wind blows a leaf into her face and bruises her. Red reacts badly.
161%%* OddShapedPanel: [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04-50.html Feather-shaped.]]
162%%* OffWithHisHead
163* OldBeggarTest: November meets an old beggar woman at the start of her journey. She was in too much of a rush to remember that you have to be ''very'' careful with such ladies--however, she still gave up her food because she didn't want anyone to see the king's daughter being stingy. It's when the "beggar" asks for her last piece of bread that November balks, since she wants to have at least one for her journey. So the woman gives her the aforementioned curse.
164%%* OnlyInItForTheMoney: November tries this on Perrault.
165* ParentalAbandonment: Clare says she suffered it, and now knows she's no better. (She used to have a baby with her. It's gone now, and she refuses to explain.)
166* ParentalNeglect: Why the children vanished. [[spoiler: As it turns out, Perrault does this too -- he's not even sure how many children he ''has.'' Of course, [[JustifiedTrope he is a cat.]]]]
167* PokingDeadThingsWithAStick: The [[FearlessFool Boy]] finds Prince Ricardo in a heap after he was knocked out by a thrown rock, so the boy [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04i-02.html pokes him]] with his walking stick, asking if he's dead. Ricardo jumps up, cuts the stick into pieces, and {{faint|ing}}s again.
168-->'''Boy:''' --Wow! You're the third-liveliest dead man I ever met!
169* ''Webcomic/WhiteNinjaComics'': The comic prominently features an image of its title character, the White Ninja, looking sad and poking a dead fish out of water with a stick.
170* PrincessProtagonist: Princess November is the main character, and her party adds another fallen princess when they rescue Claire.
171%%* PlayingPossum: Recommended for dealing with bears.
172* PrimalFear: November can't sleep because the darkness feels like it's smothering her.
173* PrinceCharmless: Ricardo, son of King Ricardo, who is better known as "Picky Dick" for rejecting princesses on the basis of such flaws as fat arms and whistling through their noses while they sleep.
174* ThePromise: The Beast got one.
175* ProperLady: Perrault describes November's upbringing as this.
176%%* PublicDomainCharacter: All of them, just about.
177%%* TheQuest: The cast is seeking the moon.
178%%* RagsToRoyalty: Backstory for the Boy, Pierre, Clare...
179* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: So far, a runaway princess, a talking cat, Literature/LittleRedRidingHood, and a woman with silver-wrought hands.
180%%* RefusalOfTheCall: Perrault, until November points out that he's bored.
181* RightInFrontOfMe: [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04i-03.html The Boy and "Picky Dick."]]
182%%* RingOfPower: Perrault steals one.
183* RoyalBlood: November can sense it and knows that the Marquis doesn't have a drop of it the moment she saw him. She can even sense that Clare doesn't have royal blood herself, but is ''married'' to some.
184* RuleOfThree: November is the youngest of three.
185* RuleOfSeven: The soldier has to last seven years.
186* RunawayFiancee: Played with. November runs away the night before her wedding, but not because of her fiance. She decides she can't get married until she solves her problem.
187* RunOrDie: Perrault's reaction to his first meeting with Red.
188* RunningGag:
189** "Altruistic."
190** Youngest daughter, if you know what I mean!
191* SacredHospitality: Or lack thereof.
192* SandInMyEyes: The Beast claims he got dust in his eye when he starts talking about Beauty.
193* {{Satan}}: The devil appears in Clare's backstory [[spoiler: convincing her parents to sell her to him]] and promises the soldier riches if he does not shave, bathe, or pray for [[RuleOfSeven seven years.]] Seems to be of the deception and [[DealWithTheDevil bargaining]] version. Seems to work in opposition to and may be connected to the disappearance of the Moon, [[spoiler: who stops him from taking Clare in her backstory.]]
194* TheScapegoat: The villagers are eager to blame Clare for the disappearance of their children, [[spoiler:rather than admit to their complicity in letting them wander too far into the woods.]]
195* SecretTestOfCharacter: The beggar woman. November ''nearly'' passes, but not quite.
196* SelfFulfillingProphecy: The Witch was driven from her village because the townspeople accused of being a witch after her husband abandoned her and her children. Living alone in the woods [[spoiler: with a sick and dying son and unable to feed both children]] turned her into [[HumanoidAbomination something]] [[ImAHumanitarian much]] [[TheUndead worse.]]
197%%* SheCleansUpNicely: Inverted.
198%%* ShirtlessScene: The Boy gets one.
199%%* ShoutOut: Perrault's name. Among others.
200%%* ShroudedInMyth: Red.
201* SlasherSmile: [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/03-47.html And how!]] In an interesting subversion, the one time where Perrault actually freaks out about Red's smile is when [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness she ''doesn't'' have it and actually looks friendly.]]
202* SoProudOfYou: Colette says this of November's mother.
203* SpeechBubblesInterruption: The boy to Ricardo.
204* StandardHeroReward: The Boy got November, the youngest of three sisters, and half a kingdom.
205* StayOnThePath: Perrault prefers it to following Red.
206* StickEmUp: Clare tried this, but her prey had nothing to give.
207* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: [[spoiler: Klaus and Anna finally get rescued from the witch and taken back to their weepy father... ''But they still remember how he sent them off to die alone in the woods.'']] Clare points out that when something horrible happens, it's never really home again.
208* TheStrategist: Perrault. November seeks him out because of this reputation.
209* TalkingAnimal
210* TastyGold: Slightly non-standard use: while rummaging through a room full of gold, Perrault bites a ring to confirm that it's [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/02-28.html enchanted.]]
211* TemporalThemeNaming: November, her sisters August and September, and their father, King January. And their mother, Avril.
212%%* TenderTears: Anna cries over the freed Klaus.
213%%* ThickerThanWater: The Beast resents this.
214%%* ThinkNothingOfIt: The innkeeper tries this.
215%%* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity
216* TownWithADarkSecret: The village where they find Clare. That there is a witch in the forest is well-known. [[spoiler: But few parents try to stop their hungry children from wandering in.]]
217* TheTragicRose: Red is drawn to them.
218* TheUndead: The forest witch. She can [[OurZombiesAreDifferent still control bits that get hacked off her main body, and re-attach them to the whole.]]
219* UnexplainedRecovery: Red. It's [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] with a blatant reference to ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail:''
220-->'''November:''' Well obviously she ''recovered!''
221%%* UpperClassTwit: The Marquis.
222%%* VisibleSilence: Often invoked.
223* WasItReallyWorthIt: November charges into a forest to find two recently-vanished children and clear the name of the woman the villagers plan to burn, thinking she is a witch who has abducted and killed their children. [[spoiler: As it turns out, there is a real witch in the forest who has indeed killed many children. Thing is, the two who went missing most recently were abandoned there by their father, because life is so hard in the village that the villagers can barely feed themselves. Not all parents can find the balls to abandon children they can't feed there- instead, they simply take no measures to stop them from doing so.]] November and the others take the rescued kids home, have the scapegoat freed and tell everyone that the witch is dead. Problem is, life isn't going to get any easier for the village, the rescued kids will forever remember how [[spoiler: their father abandoned them to die,]] and thus will probably leave to find a new home. November ends up wondering if she really helped anyone.
224* WeakenedByTheLight: The Moon used to keep creatures of darkness at bay.
225* WellIntentionedExtremist: The witch just seems to want to keep her children safe, she just has... [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness Unfortunate]]... views on who exactly her children are and the nature of [[ImAHumanitarian safety.]]
226* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: When November, Red, and Perrault reach the Beast's estate gate, Perrault, having gotten on the other side by himself, lays out a detailed plan of tricking the then unknown owners of the mansion into vacating the place and letting the other two in. Red just smashes the gate in.
227* WickedWitch: Attributed to both Red and Clare. It's not true for either.
228* TheWormThatWalks: [[spoiler: The witch's true form has elements of this. Her outer skin is just a shell keeping the corpses of all the children she's eaten "safe," they even pulled her back together when she got cut to pieces.]]
229%%* YoureNotMyMother: November says this to the witch.
230* YoungestChildWins: The Boy chose November because she was the youngest. This is lampshaded, when The Boy and The Marquis imply that the youngest implies that she is the most attractive.
231%%* ZanyScheme

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