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8->''"Awkward interspecies romance at its best!"''
9-->-- '''[=TwoKinds=] ad banner'''
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11''[[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/ TwoKinds]]'' is a [[WebcomicsLongRunners long running]] {{Webcomic}} with heavy [[{{animesque}} anime]] and [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom furry]] influences. It revolves around Trace, a human who has [[LaserGuidedAmnesia lost his memory]], and his anthropomorphic [[CatGirl Tiger-girl]] friend, Flora. It debuted on October 22, 2003.
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13Along their way, they discover that the world is in a state of near open war, with Flora's race, the Keidran, openly targeted for enslavement and slaughter by the humans, led by the murderous Templars. Meanwhile, they discover Keith, a member of the mostly forgotten Basitin race.
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15Quickly caught up in the politics of the world--and its gods--Trace and Flora travel eastward, interested in finding out more about Trace's past, as well as a place that a Human with a dark (and forgotten) past, a misfit Keidran, and an outcast Basitin can call home.
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17While they may not show anything, there are still NSFW moments.
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19The author/artist, Tom Fischbach, has a Platform/DeviantArt page [[http://twokinds.deviantart.com/ here.]] His brother, Mark, is none other than the famous Let's Player WebVideo/{{Markiplier}}, and Tom has appeared in several Markiplier videos.
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22!! ''[=TwoKinds=]'' contains examples of:
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26* AdorableFluffyTail: The Keidran are a race of humanoid cannids and felids who often sport some large, adorable, furry tails. Special mention goes to Adira, a snow leopard Keidran sporting a long, incredibly fluffy tail that her shy, even more adorable daughter Maeve likes to nibble on.
27** The TeamPet, Mrs. Nibbly is a cute squirrel, so of course she counts too, and her tail becomes even larger in the ''Magical Mishaps'' side comics when a magic collar turns her humanoid.
28* AlchemyIsMagic: Sealeen has a form of alchemy. Since she has little magic skill, she can bottle spells as potions that she throws during battle to activate, so that spells that would otherwise take her hours to gather enough energy for can be used at a moment's notice.
29* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/967/ Discussed]] with Mrs Nibbly. Maren points out that squirrels typically aren't comfortable around predators, several theories are thrown around, from diseased to an escaped pet to a baby dragon in disguise.
30* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: This is one reason Sythe thinks Flora's baby is [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1009/ Natani's]], the other is the hair.
31* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Kathrin seems to genuinely have feelings for Eric, but though he treats her infinitely better than most humans would treat a slave, he still considers her to be his property. The only thing that indicates ''his'' feelings might be different is that he released her from the mind-control spell that forces a slave to follow any order.
32** It has progressed (somewhat) from "property" to "like a sister," but the problem remains.
33* AlmostDeadGuy:
34** [[spoiler:Laura held on until she got to see Keith [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=594 one last time.]]]]
35** For a humorous example, this is literally [[AuthorAvatar Tom's]] only [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=531 purpose]] [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=532 in the story.]] [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=70 No]], [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=71 really.]]
36* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: Of the rhyming variety; Flora, Nora, and Laura.
37* AlphaBitch: Iris[[note]]a tiger woman on the diplomatic envoy sent to the human lands[[/note]] gets most of the bullet points.
38* AltarDiplomacy: Flora (the long-lost Tiger princess) was supposed to marry Sythe (a Wolf duke) to cement their two tribes' alliance against the humans, whom Trace had whipped up into a xenocidal frenzy during his EvilSorceror days. She was so opposed to the idea that the first thing she said to Sythe was "Your ponytail looks stupid" in an effort to drive him away. She eventually ran off on the way to their wedding, running splat into Trace, who was out to kill them in an effort to stop the alliance. Luckily, Neutral [[TapOnTheHead whomped]] Trace with the LaserGuidedAmnesia stick, driving his evil side underground before he could get them.
39* AltText: Sporadic, and only on the most recent pages. Each new page seems to have alt text, but when the page is thrown into the archive, it loses the text for some reason. For instance: the alt text for page 769 was "[[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=770 Save the bucket helmet.]]"
40%%* AmazonianBeauty: "King" Adelaide.
41%%* AmbiguouslyGay: Alaric, according to the cast page.
42* AmbiguousGender: Lynn appears to be a male, but we're not certain. No entry on the cast page means we might never know since Lynn's not talking.
43** Lynn later reveals that he is asexual which is useful to Basitin society as a whole (they are so rigorously segregated along gender lines they need "messengers" like Lynn as go-betweens) but doesn't benefit Lynn so much (pity is implied). How Lynn got this way (birth, accident, surgery, or drugs) is still a mystery though he is referred to with male pronouns, meaning he's probably physically male, at least.
44*** [[spoiler:Surgery (as in, being castrated) is unlikely, since he did once get an "[[FantasticArousal ear boner]]" when he saw Keith and Natani kissing.]]
45* AndIMustScream: The slave collars, which slowly lobotomize any Keidran wearing them. Most obvious when Eric re-collars Evals and [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/651/ he goes from screaming to dead-eyed and apologizing]]. The alt text refers to the trope by name.
46* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Kathrin to Eric, in [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=654 this]] strip. This doubles as an in-universe WhamLine and WhatHaveIDone moment for Eric, as well.
47-->'''Kathrin:''' Maybe I've been foolish. I think a part of me has always hoped one day... you'd care enough... That I wouldn't have to ask.
48** Unfortunately, he remains oblivious to her true feelings, and in the end [[spoiler:agrees to release her because]] he thinks of her as a sister.
49* AnimalEyeSpy: Master Seer's daughter possesses a cat to spy on the main character, but Lady Nora uses her shapeshifting powers to distract it. He later possesses a horse. Its rider is suitably wielded out.
50* AnimalFacialHair: Many of the Keidran and Bastitins (particularly the older males) have various kinds of facial hair. Keith eventually grows a small goatee.
51* AnimateDead:
52** [[spoiler:Trace]] does a telekinetic variant of this in strip 514, abusing the corpses of a few soldiers to block attacks.
53** [[spoiler:Trace]] tried to use this on [[spoiler:Saria after she died]], which went wrong and drove [[spoiler:Trace]] insane and genocidal or [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal]].
54* AntiMagic: Dispel and Mana Sinks. Dispel shuts off mana flow or dissipates it, while Mana Sinks steal mana from whom or whatever is placed on its platform.
55* ApologeticAttacker: Laura, when [[spoiler:she starts strangling the Intelligence General with his own [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=519 necklace.]]]]
56* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Mike is informed by Evals that [[spoiler:not only has his gender changed, but also that the fur pattern on his rump was changed to a heart shape. He says that messing with his gender is one thing, but changing his fur pattern is unforgivable]].
57** [[spoiler:At Keith's court hearing, he's been charged with disobeying orders, trespassing on royal grounds, destroying royal property, committing treason, and breaking curfew]] -- which is still a federal crime amongst the Basitins.
58* ArtEvolution: A lot.
59** Compare [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=22 this]] or [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=23 this]] early page to [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=531 this]]. Or any of the previous to [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=835 this]].
60* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: Because of a double taboo (first against nudity, second against seeking aid), the Basitin doctors blindfold themselves and navigate by ear.
61* ArtShift: The Towers originally looked much like something you'd see in a far-future science fiction setting; the most recently seen one, however, looks almost exactly like a standard-issue medieval castle turret... with a crystalline superstructure and a big glowing orb floating above the top.
62** Could be due to refinements in the tech, allowing them to ''disguise'' them as ordinary wall turrets.
63*** Notice that this particular Tower is built on the Basitin Islands and not on the Human-controlled mainland, and is built without the knowledge of the Basitin people as to what it really does. The new look might be intentional, as -- unlike the others -- it doesn't look like a doom fortress.
64** The Templar logo at the start of the comic is a blue circle with three black lines on it. In later comics, it resembles a stylized sword superimposed on a wheel.
65** After Natani awakens from his coma in Chapter 18, he seems to be drawn with softer lines and more rounded edges, indicative of his mental merger with his pre-soul splice, more-feminine aspect.
66* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: Red and Sythe take mutual roles as the leader of group B simply because they have more combat experience... and because they're being chased by an assassin. Justified as they're the only ones who can take Zen out.
67** A high-ranked Basitin is quite capable of fighting, in fact, this turns out to be ''how'' they choose their generals and king. Even the Intelligence General was capable of [[spoiler:fatally striking an obviously younger soldier with a single attack]].
68* AsYouKnow: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=462 "You are familiar, of course, with the basic fundamentals of magic and how our towers function,"]] but let me explain it to you anyways.
69* AuthorAppeal: A surfer viewing the artist's Website/{{DeviantArt}} page will find tons of {{fanart}} of his own characters... but mostly Flora. If you idle in the IRC chat room long enough and at the right hours, you can sometimes catch the author chattering about why he writes the comic. He admits it was mostly personal appeal at the time.
70** The author also seems to have a thing for drawing his own characters naked, or showing off their feet-paws.
71* AuthorAvatar: Tom has shown up in the comic twice -- one time as a pizza delivery man, the other as a postman. On both occasions, he was struck down by a character as soon as he appeared.
72* AwkwardKiss: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=808 How Keith kisses Natani]] when they finally explore their feelings. When he starts thinking he sucked at it because, though he does feel for Natani, Natani is "one of the guys," [[TheBigDamnKiss Natani kisses him with a lot more confidence]].
73-->'''Natani''' (thinking)''':''' Well it wouldn't hurt to try again!
74* BadBoss: The Intelligence General kills one of his solders [[spoiler:for pointing out that the inn they're going to set on fire in order to kill the main cast still has some of his solders and a group of civilians in it, [[KarmaHoudini and he's the one that appears to live the longest.]]]]
75** While he was a {{Jerkass}} of epic proportions, ''that'' was probably [[spoiler:magic-induced insanity, since his MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment happened right after the tower started to blow]].
76* BaitAndSwitch: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/25/ in this early comic,]] Trace and Red discuss that they're going to "help out," Keith- said while they both have evil glowing eyes, aggressive postures, and angry faces. The next panel shows Trace cheerfully asking Keith how he can help, with Red showing exasperation.
77* BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil: Ephemural, known to the humans as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Neutral]], is the goddess of Neutrality as well as part of the BigBadEnsemble.
78* BarbieDollAnatomy: Somewhat justified with the Keidrans, as their naughty bits are obscured by their fur. However, that doesn't explain why the human characters don't have anything going on. Well, in other cases it's just covered with background objects.
79* BarefootCartoonAnimal: The furry characters. When they elect to wear clothes, anyway.
80* BeamSpam: Arguably [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/513/ here]] [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/518/ and here]]. Could also be CombatTentacles, but since the tentacles are made of black mana, they would be non-corporeal.
81* BeardOfEvil: The most recent High Templar is an absolute bastard and has a goatee. It’s the same with the Intelligence General.
82** We've seen the Intelligence General's son. The look appears to be genetic.
83* BeastMan: Keidrans are a species based off of wolves, cats, and dogs.
84* BeePeople: Basitins, of a sort. They lack the hive mind aspect, but they do have a really big [[spoiler:female "King"]] leader, a very rigid class system, gender segregation, an alien culture (dialing the nudity taboo up to 11), and a biological compulsion to obey orders.
85** Although recently, it has been revealed that all of this only applies to Eastern Basitins. The Western Basitins at the very least do not have a biological compulsion to obey orders, and are hinted at having an entirely different culture.
86*** A [[WordOfGod character sheet]] on the author's Platform/DeviantArt page suggests that Western Basitins are much closer to Flora than Keith. BodyPaint (or at least, "patterns in their fur") covered [[InnocentFanserviceGirl hippies]].
87* TheBigDamnKiss: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=808 Averted.]] [[spoiler:Until the next page, at least.]]
88* BigShutUp: Trace [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=739 does this]] after Flora tells him about her pregnancy. He wasn't yelling at her, however; he was telling the [[SuperpoweredEvilSide annoying smoke hallucination]] to [[ShutUpHannibal stuff-it]], leading to one of the [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=740 comic's biggest CMOH.]]
89%%* BishieSparkle: Arms General.
90* BizarreAlienReproduction: Whilst not as strange as some examples... Keidran women have a fairly regular heat period, during which their libido increases markedly. However, they only ovulate in the week ''after'' their heat period ends; they use the enhanced sex drive to, basically, find a compatible mate and ''then'' make babies with him.
91* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The Basitins consider nudity heinous and not following orders unthinkable, while the Keidrans literally use sex to get to know people. As one might expect, humans and Basitins think they're promiscuous, but it's supported by their biology: [[spoiler:They're only fertile the week ''after'' they're in heat.]]
92* BrickJoke:
93** On [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=876 this page]], Keith makes a call back to [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=356 this page]]. To the other characters on the page, it's an InsideJoke for which they had to be there and weren't.
94** 6 chapters and 14 years later, Flora's excited to ''finally'' meet someone with a smaller bustline then her.
95** Also many chapters and years later, Trace once again yeets a crate at a powerful enemy, who's more surprised than injured.
96* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Alaric]] was one of the only male characters with alter-sexual connotations (that thing with Mike and Evals was just a gag). The author threw him off a bridge. Averted by [[spoiler:Natani and Keith]] thus far.
97* ButICantBePregnant: Despite a doctor confirming it, Flora refused to believe that she's pregnant until Chapter 14. The reasons for this were many: the doctor who told her was a Basitin doctor; the doctor was racist (insinuating that Flora must have found some random Keidran stranger to have sex with during their trip) and also wore a blindfold because '''looking at her patients unclothed would be obscene.''' And as Flora herself noted, Keidrans and humans had coexisted -- yes, [[InterspeciesRomance she meant that]] -- for centuries and there had never been any hybrid offspring. But she's finally accepted the truth and has now begun debating when and how to tell Trace, though she still can't figure out how they're the ''one'' couple who conceived. Unbeknownst to Flora, [[JerkassGods Euphemural]] has decided to [[DivineIntervention allow the pregnancy to occur]] after a long time of actively preventing such reproductions.
98** Apparently, whatever magic that Euphemural was using wasn't perfect, as one human/keidran half-breed does already exist. Apparently her father's innate magical ability to [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent shape shift into a human form]] allowed him to "work around" that limitation.
99* CallForward: In the Tenth Anniversary "flashback" to Trace and Flora's first night, in which she explains what Keidran and Basitin are.
100-->I can guarantee you'll never have to worry about meeting a Basitin. They live far off on some weird island or something.
101* [[CantHoldHisLiquor Can't Hold Their Liquor]]: Keidrans get completely smashed off a mouthful or two of normal ale.
102** Probably their hyper metabolism. It does what it's made for quickly.
103* CanonForeigner: One book-exclusive story has the "A" cast (plus Eric and his crew) get punk'd by a [[TheFairFolk fairy]]. They don't show up in the comic proper.
104* CanNotSpitItOut: Flora is still trying to work up the nerve to break the news of her pregnancy to Trace. Granted, in the [[WebcomicTime comic's time]], it's only been a week or two since she learned about it (in real time, it's been a couple of years). In recent strips, it's less that she can't spit it out; rather, she keeps getting interrupted before she can do so.
105** As of May 16th, 2013, she's finally told him, and Trace's reaction was... well:
106--->'''Flora:''' Trace, you promised not to freak out. I consider [[FaintInshock falling unconscious]] to be a form of freaking out.... Trace?
107* CastFromHitPoints: The spell that caused Natani [[spoiler:to need Zen to get a part of his soul copied onto Natani's, as well as mentally-linking them]], considering the caster died using it, was most likely this.
108* CastFromSanity:
109** Dark Mana spells [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity damage the caster's mind]] (this was what led to Trace going AxCrazy), and will eventually kill you if you keep using them.
110** Regular magic does this to Basitin who cast it, which is the basis of the Templar conspiracy on their island: Teach them magic and encourage them to destroy themselves.
111* CastFullOfGay: Many main and supporting characters are queer:
112** Keith and Kathrin were shown to be attracted to men, women and transgender people, which likely makes them pansexual.
113** Natani is transgender male and gay.
114** Alaric was confirmed to be gay and attracted to Keith.
115** Madelyn and Maeve were confirmed to be lesbians.
116** Lynn is genderqueer.
117* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Keith and Natani repeatedly avoid this {{trope}}. The latest instance, Keith and Natani, both naked (remember, [[spoiler:Natani is hiding his body, since he is trans]] from the group), with Keith being paralyzed, in a inn room that was just set on fire, looks like it might be harder to get away from. Mike and Evals recently played this trope [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/482/ straighter]]. Well, [[IncrediblyLamePun sort of straight]].
118* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: The Arms General can deflect throwing knives ''with his abs''!
119** Keith and Alaric damaged the (stone) ground in their fight with their bare feet.
120** King Adelaide can fight Templar!Trace (who can fight gods) to a standstill despite Templars poisoning her for some time.
121* ChekhovsBoomerang: The [[https://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/971/ summoning tables]].
122** First, they are connected to a central mainframe through which it can [[https://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1092/ sense and interact with objects of interest]].
123** Second, they are a [[https://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1147/ convenient source of items]].
124* ChekhovsGun:
125** That necklace Trace gave Flora early on. [[spoiler:Turns out that's the only thing that made Ephemural lose control of Flora.]]
126** Madelyn's, AKA Stalker Girl's, letter that she wanted Natani to give to Keith turns out to be [[spoiler:a document showing her being a witness to Alaric and Keith's fight.]]
127%%* TheChessmaster: Officially, [[spoiler:Alaric]], and boy howdy, is it deserved.
128* ChivalrousPervert: Eric is this to a T, though sometimes he does get kind of creepy. See FridgeHorror, below.
129** It's made fairly blatant that Eric is only a slave trader because it's the only socially acceptable way available to explore his Keidran (and, once he discovers them, Basitin) fetish. He's far, far more interested in flirting and painting portraits of nude Keidrans and Basitins than anything else. In addition, we haven't seen him buy or sell any of his slaves, so he may actually just be a slave ''collector.''
130* ConvenientlyCommonKink: Basitins have a species-wide foot fetish, according to the author.
131* ConvenientlyTimedDistraction: When Keiren apologizes to Trace for trying to arrest him, Keiren begins to almost recognize him and questions who he is. Luckily, they hear an explosion in the distance and Keiren leaves to investigate, promising to continue their "discussion" later. The explosions came from Seraphina who Keith, Lynn, and Addy are dealing with. When Keith said they need something to distract her to get an opening, Keiren comes along and fires a arrow at her but the head of the arrow is all that makes it to her due to her fire ability burning it and it hits her head. When Seraphina turns to see who hit him, Keith, Addy, and Lynn use this opportunity to destroy her emblem.
132* TheCorruption: The author seems to be treating Dark Mana like this now.
133** Magic-wielding or tower-exposed Basitins. Magic is bad for their brains.
134* CosmicChessGame: The gods seem to be doing this with the humans and keidrans.
135* CrapsackWorld: The continent that Twokinds takes place on is in the middle of a massive war that has taken countless lives and is fueled by magic slavery. The humans are KnightTemplar purge fanatics, the Keidran infight and enslave each other so much that humanity took notes, and the Basitins -- the only people who could affect a change in the war -- are xenophobic isolationists [[spoiler:(and have recently lost most of their major civilian and military leaders)]]. Under regular circumstances, the main characters would be leading their respective factions to battle against each other, and one of them is starting to have aspects of his murderous alter-ego (who started the war in the first place) become more and more prevalent. The "gods" that watch over this world are [[JerkassGods sadistic parasites]] that refuse to stop the war or ''outright encourage the conflict'', as it represents [[CosmicChessGame their own power struggles]] to become the one TopGod. You know it's a Crapsack World when, out of the nicer characters in the comic, one is a literal ''[[SympatheticSlaveOwner slave trader]]'' and another is implied to suffer from depression due to her... peculiarities and differences. [[spoiler:As in, having an as-of-current-events poorly controlled shape-shifting capability, that was suppressed by her mother due to the racism of the setting, and terrified that she might be killed as a result.]]
136* CrazyPrepared: Alaric. From the time Keith was banished, [[spoiler:Alaric had been working nonstop, becoming a general, exploiting every loophole in the law he could, and writing hundreds of documents, all so Keith would have to be acknowledged by society. Keith is now recognized as the Ambassador for Basitin society, representing their entire civilization to the world.]]
137* CrossoverCameo:
138** [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=28 Hero and Dianne from]] ''WebComic/RPGWorld.''
139** [=PenPen=] (the penguin) from Webcomic/{{Yosh}}.
140* CultureClash: Quite a few. It's no wonder why the three don't get along most of the time.
141** The humans are perfectly OK with the concepts of slavery and racism, regardless of who's doing it to whom.
142** The Keidran have a blatantly different biology then the other two races and live a mostly tribal existence; the wolf Keidran like killing civilians.
143** The Western Basitins live in a ''very'' orderly and militaristic republic.
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146[[folder:D to G]]
147* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: BlackMagic, which is more-or-less {{Necromancy}} with a bad habit of MagicMisfire (as stated elsewhere on the page).
148** Basitin magic, since they have a relationship with the stuff comparable to the one between oil and water.
149* ADayInTheLimelight: Chapter 13 starts with the side characters from Trace's old hometown, now on the run from an advancing Keidran raiding force.
150* DeadpanSnarker: King Adelaide has shades of this.
151-->[[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/578/ "Tragically I survived."]]
152* DealWithTheDevil: The old High Templar asked Neutral to give her human form back. In exchange, Neutral possessed her for a time. Flora also got the short end of the stick when she accepted Neutral's help.
153* DeathGlare: Eric is not amused when Messenger Lynn also appears on his boat. It lasts up until Lynn reveals [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=823 he prepared tea and coffee cake.]]
154* DeathWorld: Invoked, the Basitin Isles are so toxic as to have rendered their inhabitants [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity immune to nearly all known poisons and diseases]], and given them a [[{{Downplayed}} mild]] HealingFactor.
155* DefeatByModesty: An inverted example, the artist has posted a few "lost strips" on his Website/{{DeviantArt}} page showing that Flora and Natani almost defeat the Eastern General with nudity. Not his, but ''Flora'''s; Natani notices the general reacts poorly to her not wearing socks, so he steals Flora's clothing, leaving the general a blushing, stammering mess.
156* DefeatMeansFriendship:
157** Yeah, remember when Natani (and his brother) tried to kill the group? Now Natani has a crush on Keith and is being very lax about following his orders to kill Trace...
158** Later on, the exact same thing happens between his brother and the B team.
159* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Eric is a Keidran slave dealer. He's downright progressive in his treatment of Keidrans compared to most other human characters (he refuses to put "control spells" on his favorite slave, Kathrin, and is more than willing to deal with free Keidrans as equals), but he still sees his other two slaves, Mike and [[SdrawkcabName Evals]], as little more than his property and refuses to sell them to Trace (who wants to free them). He later reveals that this is because he can't; Templar law not only forbids freeing your own Keidran slaves, but forbids selling them to someone you know is going to free them. Doing so results in prison for the humans and reenslavement for the Keidran. [[spoiler:Eric eventually agrees to sell his slaves to Trace anyway.]]
160* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: Poisoned arrows. Magic-infused arrows are also the best way to take out a tower.
161* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:King Adelaide]] gives us this incredibly badass quote when informed that she was expected to have died by a mortal wound at this point.
162-->'''[[spoiler:King Adelaide:]]''' Yes, I'd been told that as well. [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction I chose to ignore it and continue living]].
163* DeusExMachina:
164** Divine help rarely doesn't end up breaking rules or getting people injured, but [[spoiler:Trace impregnating Flora]] couldn't have happened otherwise and it's looking like a good thing currently.
165** [[spoiler:Ephemural wiping Trace's memory saved Keidran-kind.]]
166* DidISayThatOutLoud: Happens to more than one character.
167-->'''Flora''': ''[[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/17/ "If he gives me trouble, I'll just kill him myself!!"]]'' "<Uh... What language did I say that in again?>"
168-->'''Reni''': ''[[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=898 ...The captain is kinda cute.]]''
169** She doesn't say anything but her slightly panicked expression and hurried INeedToGoIronMyDog speech in the last panel just scream this trope. But it was the author's [[https://twitter.com/TwoKinds/status/684707493252100096/photo/1 tweet]] that seals the deal. Keiren wisely decides to ignore it.
170* DidntThinkThisThrough: In a non-canon strip, Mike makes a horrible move in regards to [[https://twokinds.gallery/download/art/171/2011.04.06_Basitin_Black_Magic.jpeg using black magic.]]
171* DisproportionateRetribution:
172** Trace, stop killing everyone when your girlfriend/wife gets hurt/killed, not cool dude.
173** The old Intelligence General [[spoiler:murdered Keith's mother, blinded and scarred Alaric in one eye, and got Keith banished for self-defense.]] Because he didn't like the choices his friend made, and all this before the comic starts.
174* DistractedByMyOwnSexy: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/380/ Illusion-bent Mike]] was attracted to his/her own reflection in the mirror.
175%%* DistractedByTheSexy:
176%%** Basitins are prone to it.
177%%** Laura had it planned [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/416/ until]]...
178* DivideAndConquer: The Templars split up and recruit ''both'' subraces of Keidran, each legion pretending to ally with one subrace while villainizing the other, ensuring that they remain in control of the ensuing civil war.
179* DivineIntervention: [[spoiler:Flora's half-human baby is due to Ephemural's intervention. Although it's strongly implied it's more that the god in question has been ''preventing'' human/Keidran sex from producing crossbreeds until now.]]
180* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Dark Mana is very similar to Defiling Magic from the TabletopGame/DarkSun campaign setting.
181** Keith keeping watch for Natani. [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/345/ Keith's tail.]]
182* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: [[CatGirl Flora]] and Kathrin trying to bully Mike and Evals into finding Trace and Eric right after being freed (meaning Eric would most likely re-enslave them) is played for laughs. [[DudeNotFunny Fans were not laughing]], and [[AuthorsSavingThrow this was quickly corrected]].
183* DracoInLeatherPants:
184** Directly invoked. Remember that Eric is a ''slave trader'' who ''collects Keidrans'' because he ''doesn't consider them people,'' just objects of his own perverted lust? The fan base mostly forgot, so we're forcibly reminded when [[spoiler:he accuses Evals of attempting to sabotage the ship and flee and decides to re-enslave them.]] [invoked]
185** Trace smacks ''himself'' with this repeatedly once he discovered [[AmnesiacDissonance who he used to be]]. As in, an unapologetically EvilSorcerer responsible for the deaths of countless Keidrans, [[spoiler:and the plan that nearly lobotomized the Basitins.]]
186* DragonKnight: Adrakists, although they're more like dragon ''clerics.'' People (at least humans, we're not sure about keidrans and definitely not basitins) sometimes worship dragons instead of the gods and are granted dragon magic and a PartialTransformation into a dragon (it's implied this is a slow change into an actual dragon).
187* DudeLooksLikeALady: Even without the illusion, Mike does have feminine features. He has a kind of hourglass figure with wide hips. He sports long hair and has a thin face. He also lacks muscles. He has has the same amount of "chest hair" as Flora. [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1044/ It's more obvious when he stands next to Evals who is more manly looking.]]
188* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: [[spoiler:[[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=529 Seen here.]] More like Dull Eyes of Death, though.]] Keith, and possibly all Basitins, are a strange case; they seem to have "standard eyes" (i.e. pupils and sclera) when young, but change into these as they grow older.
189* EarAche: Cathleen left her mark on [[spoiler:General Alabaster]].
190* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
191** The Keidran SuperMode..
192** Towers looking like a cross between [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Barad-Dur]] and [[Franchise/StarTrek the Enterprise]].
193** One early strip mentions airships; these haven't shown up anywhere. Although, given the context, it may have simply been a NonSequiturThud.
194%%* EasyAmnesia: What sets the story in motion.
195* EveryoneHasStandards: Although a pervert who enjoys taking advantage of Keidran females, Eric considers Madelyn Adelaide too young for his tastes.
196* EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Templars seem interested in making a large number of these, basically magic batteries. Oh, and they cause brain damage to Basitins, a fact that they are unaware of, but that the Templars are. They also do ''something'' to Keidrans' instincts -- probably something ''very'' bad -- but this has not been explored yet.
197* {{Expy}}: The Intelligence General looks a lot like [[VideoGame/{{Overlord}} Gnarl]].
198** Lynn seems very similar to [[Literature/{{Slayers}} Zellos.]]
199* FalseFlagOperation: Turns out the "Templar" attacking the town were [[spoiler:wolf Keidran impersonating Templar in order to drag the tiger Keidran into their war with the humans.]]
200** This might go even further, as [[spoiler:the Templar have recruited turncoat wolves to their cause, and could easily stage the attack to goad the Tiger clan into joining the Templars]].
201* FantasticArousal:
202** Having one's ears rubbed is a turn-on for Basitins.
203--->"Natani... you do realize [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=764 Basitins consider ear-rubbing to be... an intimate gesture?]]"\
204'''Natani:''' Oh... do... do you want me to stop? \
205'''Keith:''' *sigh* No.
206** Raine's tail is also shown to be rather sensitive.
207* FantasticRacism: Due to separatism and the resulting whirlwind of misconception and propaganda, everyone in ''[=TwoKinds=]'' thinks everyone else is AlwaysChaoticEvil.
208** The [[BeastMan keidran]] rarely meet humans other than slavers, while human culture portrays keidran as wild, dangerous animals. In the backstory, this allowed Trace to whip human culture into a xenophobic frenzy, leading to widespread hatred and prejudice towards keidran in human lands.
209** The eastern basitins, a proud and isolationist people, believe that humans are undisciplined rabble and keidran are ''perverse'' undisciplined rabble. The few basitins that don't follow that doctrine -- including the western basitins -- are hated above all others.
210** Wolf keidrans have some [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/964/ internal tension]] between the brown forest tribes and the white snow tribes. Although Natani could just be making this up, as the supplemental story "The Dragon Masquerade" shows that Natani and Rose have met before, which would explain Natani's apprehension towards Rose.
211** Some kind of [[https://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1045/ animosity]] between dog and fox keidran is also alluded to by Mike and Evals.
212* FascistsBedTime: Basitins rigorously enforce their curfew.
213* FastballSpecial: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=892 Lynn launched Addy and Keith]] so that Addy can give Keith an additional boost to defeat the wannabe dragon.
214* FireForgedFriends: It isn't the most noticeable, but Keith at one point grudgingly says something that represents this trope:
215-->'''Keith:''' Huff... If it wasn't for the fact I still need you for my mission... Well... I'd probably still save your ass. But then I wouldn't have an excuse for it.
216* FlatWhat: On page 648, this is Natani's reaction to Mike telling him and Kathrin about the time [[GenderBender he was turned into a girl]].
217--->'''Natani:''' ''[[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=648 Wat]]''
218* ForcedTransformation: Trace does this twice; he turns his old boss into a wolf Keidran and makes his ex-girlfriend's annoying sister grow cat ears and a thin fur coat because she was annoying him. [[CursedWithAwesome This kind of backfired in the latter case, as she likes the look, and she gets a heightened sense of smell]].
219* {{Foreshadowing}}: A fairly unsubtle example [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/304/ here]].
220** There's a silhouette with yellow eyes in the background [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=782 here]] and [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=784 here]]...
221** In [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=71 strip 71]], Sythe and Maren are shown sharing a pizza; lamenting that they'll have to be enemies when it's finished. Several hundred strips and nine years later, they've teamed up.
222** In [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/203/ this comic,]] Trace and Flora get intimate for the first time. In-universe, the day before is when Flora came out of her Heat (a condition that makes her and other Keidran... well, horny). Years later, [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/494/ Eric reveals that]] Keidran bodies aren't able to conceive until the week ''after'' Heat is over, since the Keidran use sex as a way to get to know the partner. This directly foreshadows that Flora did get pregnant, and in the correct time period as well.
223* FormerlySapientSpecies: This is the fate of any Keidran that stays in feral mode for too long; they become less and less sapient until they forget how to turn back.
224* FreakyFridayFlip: Natani offers, perhaps seriously, to do this permanently with Kat if he ever learns a spell for it, even though it would mean both of them switching species. The reason being that because of the [[MentalFusion soul-bond between Natani and Zen]], Natani mostly identifies as a heterosexual male, but has a female body which still goes into estrus (heat, during which Natani feels a female's biological compulsion to mate with a male). Meanwhile Kat was specifically bred to be barren (and has never experienced estrus) but wants to have children and therefore can't.
225* FreezeSneeze: The only thing that can get a Basitin sick is being cold and wet. It apparently clears up as their body heat stabilizes.
226* FunnyBackgroundEvent:
227** During King Adelaide's speech about her near fatal wounds, the younger Basitins are... [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=578 impressed]].
228** Earlier, you can see Lady Nora shooting flame at seabirds in the second-to-last panel [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=367 here.]]
229** When Reni asks Raine where she teleported Carver, [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1022/ Ms. Nibbly is crawling into Maren's shirt.]]
230** [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/871/ Daniels, a member of the guard, ogling a female Keidran]], who is smiling flirtatiously at him. Later on, we see the portions of his face not covered by his helmet covered in lipstick kisses. This got somewhat expanded in a series of [[https://www.deviantart.com/twokinds/gallery/68319933/Therie-and-Daniels images]] which reveal that the two did get together and had a child.
231* FunSize: Basitins don't get much bigger than 5 and half feet. They're pretty much anti-hobbits.
232** Except their King, good lord. She must be closer to seven or eight feet tall. And she's built like a brick house!
233* GambitPileup: We know Ephemural isn't the only god who has plans for Trace, plus Trace/The Templars' plans, plus whatever the Basitins want from Trace [[note]] Which turned out to be "hand him over to the Templar for magical goodies."[[/note]], PLUS the groups chasing Trace and Co., PLUS... it looks like all the people on the Templar Grand Council are playing XanatosSpeedChess against ''each other'', not just the governments of all the nations and the main party. To what ends is anyone's guess at this point.
234* GambitRoulette: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} by Master General Alaric. Instead of devising a risky plan that involved precise timing, coincidence, and the other hallmarks of a traditional roulette, he [[spoiler:planned for "many things" by crafting hundreds of documents that exploited every loophole in the system]].
235* GenderBender: During the Basitin Isles arc, Mike is hit with an illusion from Lady Nora that makes him ''look'' female, but is still male. The artist does a fair amount of this stuff on his [[http://twokinds.deviantart.com/ DA]] account. And a [[http://twokinds.deviantart.com/art/Gender-Bender-2-185173335?q=gallery%3Atwokinds%2F4930286&qo=5 recent incentive]] has the main characters with swapped genders.
236* GiveHimANormalLife: Discussed. Trace doesn't consider himself very good father material due to his [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Amnesia]], little world experience because of said amnesia, dark forgotten past, bunch of people wanting him dead, others wanting him back to the way he was, and a SuperpoweredEvilSide that's becoming more active. All very good reasons, of course, but... uh... well, the reason the subject came up was because Flora was trying to find a way to break the news of her pregnancy to him.
237%%* TheGlomp: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/133/ Flora]] and [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/572/ Nora]], both to Trace.
238%%* GlowingEyesOfDoom:
239%%** Angry or simply feral Keidrans and occasionally Trace.
240%%** Basitins that are enraged can also have these.
241%%** Human Templars as well.
242* GoodAllAlong: It's shown in strip 560 that [[spoiler:Keith's father, Cornelius, cared about him and his mother Cathleen. It wasn't even him who attacked her. The statement Keith said about [[http://twokindscomic.com/archive/?p=379 "falling onto his spear"]] might be [[http://twokindscomic.com/archive/?p=560 exactly]] [[http://twokindscomic.com/archive/?p=561 right.]]]]
243* {{Gorn}}: In one of the later chapters, one of the characters gets killed off in a manner befitting the bastard love child of a [[http://animal.discovery.com/fish/river-monsters/candiru-catfish/ ''Candiru asu'']] and a hand grenade. The reaction from some of the fans was mostly ''positive''.
244[[/folder]]
245
246[[folder:H to L]]
247* HappinessInSlavery:
248** Kathrin has a wonderful life by slave standards (basically a SapientPet) and is happy with her lot in life (until recent plot lines have caused her to question this).
249** Flora used to be a slave as well. However, she was lucky enough to be purchased by a friendly human family who treated her more like a daughter then a slave, and they actually let her return back to her people after a few years. Thus, Flora recalls her days of slavery with an unusual fondness.
250** Mike is definitely a type 4[[note]]"Slavery Is the Lesser Evil"[[/note]]. [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=618 He was born into slavery and wouldn't survive out in the wild, having neither the physique, skills, connections, or cultural knowledge to rejoin Keidran society.]]
251* HappyEndingMassage: Kathrin's "services."
252* HauntedHouse: The Legacy Estate is haunted [[spoiler:by the ghost of Rose, the former seneschal necromantically bound to the house, both controlling the house and being the house. Later it turns out a remnant of Trace's old personality is in there as well.]]
253* HeadTiltinglyKinky: Deconstructed. The Basitin culture is so sexually repressed that an entire tavern drops everything to watch a disrobed Flora chase Kathrin (also naked) out of her room for calling her fat. It takes Trace shouting them down [[spoiler:with a little help from [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Templar!Trace]]]] to smooth things over.
254* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Laura]] gives her life to [[spoiler:destroy the Templar tower]], hanging on just long enough to say goodbye before dying.
255* HiddenElfVillage: Lyn'knoll, a town populated by all three races in harmony.
256* HonorBeforeReason: Eastern Basitins have such a huge LawfulStupid habit that this is often in play. They consider it more honorable to die in battle than to survive humiliated and/or compromised.[[note]]This is why all their doctors have to be ''blindfolded''.[[/note]]
257%%** Trace [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=586 is pushing it]] for Laura...
258* HowIsThatEvenPossible: How Trace and Flora both view her pregnancy when they learn about it. Flora believes it quicker(since she can see and feel the changes in her body), while Trace gets into a screaming match with his [[SuperpoweredEvilSide barely-suppressed evil side]](who is trying to convince him that Flora's been sleeping around).
259* HumansAdvanceSwiftly: There are three civilized races in the setting, Humans, Basitins, and Keidran. There are other sapient races, like Dragons, but they don't really form societies. Out of the three civilized races, humans are the most advanced, both technologically and magically, and continue to progress the fastest. This is why Chaos, the EthnicGod of Humanity, is winning the DivineConflict and becoming the strongest god.
260* HumansAreBastards:
261** Trace's 'reaction' to [[spoiler:losing his family]] was to go completely insane and start a genocidal war that left the Keidran on the brink of extinction. It took LaserGuidedAmnesia to restore most of his sanity.
262** Sirus seeks to fight the gods... with identity theft, manipulation, and first-degree murder. He bound and gagged a merchant to take his place, and sold Trace a wedding necklace with binding properties. Then he magic-fisted a Basitin general to death. Backstory reveals he put his co-conspirator through a loyalty test by ''forcing him to watch his cousin get hanged''.
263** Eric is one of the nicer ''slave traders'', with exploitation and sexual predation tendencies slightly toned down.
264** The current Grand Templar [[spoiler:staged a FalseFlagOperation to divide the Tigers and Wolves into easily-conquerable factions]].
265** The human nobility clearly have a medieval rich-poor divide, [[TheCorrupter even enticing some Keidran slaves to get in on the fun]].
266* HumansAreCthulhu: Given the rapacious manner in which they take over and enslave Keidran villages, most Keidrans assume that [[AlwaysChaoticEvil humans are devoid of mercy or compassion]] and even that they're [[ImAHumanitarian cannibals]] (taking the meaning that they eat sapient prey). That, and they think Humans live "unnaturally long" (humans live about twice as long as Keidrans, for whom "elderly" means mid-twenties), and can use magic with surprising ease (see next). So humans, to Keidrans, are nigh-immortal magical beings who swipe the population of entire cities to become brainwashed slaves or snack food (or even clothing; at the start of the strip, the guy Trace gets Flora from states her skin will fetch a good price). Imagine their shock when they meet a pleasant human, and/or when it's explained to them that humans are really just a sort of bald ape-creature that happens to have a slow metabolism and a mean streak.
267* HumansAreSpecial: Humans are the only race that can use magic without special equipment (Mana batteries for Keidrans and brain-rotting mental conditioning for Basitin). Humans can also drain mana from the surrounding area to fuel their own spells [[note]]Or at least, Trace can. It's considered a very poor idea[[/note]]. And they live substantially longer than Keidrans. So, humans are pretty much the "elves" of the setting. Remembering what Creator/TerryPratchett said [[TheFairFolk about elves]], that is...
268** Actually, keidran can manipulate mana; they're just not very good at it, as shown when Natani tried to recharge his crystal "batteries" (they didn't last nearly as long the second time).
269* HumansAreUgly: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/900/ One tiger keidran female]] thinks humans are revolting, even though she intends to see if they have tails by sleeping with one.
270** This is shown to not be an wholly-held belief, as one of her subordinates [[https://www.deviantart.com/twokinds/gallery/68319933/Therie-and-Daniels starts a relationship with one,]] not to mention Trace and Flora, and even Dragons are shown to take interest in humans from time to time.
271* HyperactiveMetabolism: A minor example; Keidran have a metabolism about two times faster than that of a human. They gain less weight and age twice as fast. This is one of the subtle hints of Flora's pregnancy; she notes in one strip that she's put on a little weight. [[BigBeautifulWoman She initially passes it off as making herself more attractive by Keidran standards.]]
272* IdeaBulb: [[PaintingTheMedium Clever panel arrangment]] turns Eric's hair being slightly on fire into this on the Basitin Isle.
273* IDidntMeanToTurnYouOn: Red starts playing with Raine's tail after she swats his face with it. He then begins to touch and rub it, with panels showing her humorous facial reactions and blushing.
274* IfItsYouItsOkay:
275** "Red" and Raine's [[spoiler:being Keidran, even if it is part-time]].
276** Keith and Natani, on multiple levels. E[[spoiler:ach seeing the other as "one of the guys" (and still being attracted), opening up to each other, sharing weaknesses.]]
277* ImpossibleTask: Keith was set an impossible -- nay, suicidal -- task ("bring back the Grand Templar") as a condition of his banishment. Nobody dreamed that an (amnesiac) Trace would cheerfully accept an invitation.
278* ImprobableWeaponUser: While fighting [[spoiler:the Ephemural-possessed Flora]], Trace magically throws a wooden crate at her, leading her to observe: "You used... a crate... I mean, really... a crate? Come on..." There's also Eric's brother, Roderick, who uses... Wait, [[http://twokindscomic.com/archive/?p=287 what the frak is that]]? I think that's a pizza cutter of some sort. That ''can't'' be useful in a fight.
279* InstantFanClub: [[spoiler:King Adelaide]] had men lining up from Lisbon to Vankarem to become her concubines just hours after appearing in her first strip, laws of reality be damned. [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer And not only men either]].
280%%* InternalReveal: "[[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/941/ I guess the jig is up]]..."
281* InterspeciesRomance: Practically every possible pairing introduced in the comic, especially the main one, Trace and Flora. Another, between Edinmire Guard Daniels and tiger Kiedran Therie, was explored in supplementary material [[https://www.deviantart.com/twokinds/gallery/68319933/Therie-and-Daniels here.]]
282* IntoxicationEnsues: When Flora gets drunk, she starts to speak [[WebOriginal/LOLCats Kitteh Pigdin]].
283* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Trace's first wife[[spoiler:'s ghost]], who's just happy Trace is back to his old, not-evil self.
284* JerkassGods: The three Mask Gods, hands down. Humanity's patron god ''endorses'' the genocidal conflict between Humans and Keidran, with the end-goal of exterminating all non-human civilization, including Basitins and Dragons. Ephemural, the goddess of Keidran and Balance, seeks to manipulate the war into a perpetual stalemate so that all sides will be equal, regardless of the damage that stagnation and isolation will wreak on all sides. The Basitins' god endorsed an oppressive dictatorship on one half of the island and made them wage a Cold War on the less-advanced other half (which may have backfired as half the island worships the law instead of their god and he may have starved to death). All three are puppeteer-parasites who use their 'avatars' as meatshields and discard them once the damage to their soul has become irreparable.
285* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: During Chapter 18, Natani -- knocked into a coma after the events of Chapter 17 -- retreats into his mind, and meets a fragment of his soul that retains ''her'' pre-soul splice personality.
286* KangarooCourt: Keith's trial seems rigged to end up with him getting banished again, what with one count Conflict of Interest (the victim's son is the judge) and two counts of Unclean Hands (Murder and Disobeying a Superior). In fact, Alabaster Jr. would have succeeded if Adelaide and Lynn hadn't shown up at the last second and made it known Keith beat Alaric, making him the Master General. The final straw for Keith was that all non-Basitins with criminal charges are ''automatically'' declared guilty in court, regardless of evidence or testimony[[note]]The slaves are considered incapable of crime due to lack of citizenship and automatically declared innocent, but it's still a slap in the face[[/note]].
287* KansasCityShuffle: The "Templar" attack [[spoiler:served as a cover to draw the guards on the "wolf pens" away from their stations so wolf Keidran prisoners of war would be left unguarded]].
288* KlingonPromotion: How Basitins determine the best people to be leaders. It's not merely custom, either -- the law expressly states that "rank can only be earned through succession or combat". This is exploited when it's brought up that [[spoiler:Keith ''did'' defeat Alaric in single combat]].
289-->'''AltText:''' You can't do that! Only we can use the law to manipulate the system!
290* KnightTemplar: The Templars, duh. The lower ranks are fairly reasonable, but the high ranks are ruthless manipulators seeking total domination of their grand design (including the ones on Trace's side).
291* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler:The masks. The Black Mask[[note]]God of Order or Chaos, currently unknown[[/note]] seeks the total genocide of all non-human races, in order to gain total supremacy and worship from their human followers. Ephemural, the Neutral Mask, seeks to restore the status quo, even though it will drive the war into a permanent stalemate and lead to endless bloody border skirmishes. Neither of them care for the individuals of each race beyond 'unwitting pawns' and 'spare bodies'.]]
292%%* LampshadeHanging: [[http://twokindscomic.com/archive/?p=224 This comic page specifically]].
293* LanguageBarrier: Natani's [[NeverLearnedToRead illiterate]] and can only speak Keidran. Thus, he's often left in the dark during conversations between species.
294* LargeAndInCharge: King Adelaide is twice the size of any other Basitin and the tallest character in the comic -- [[WordOfGod Tom]] stated that King Adelaide's height would be ''7'5"''.
295* LastNameBasis: Some characters, such as Nicholai "Alaric" Alaric and King Adelaide, are only referred to by their last names.
296* LawfulStupid: The entire Eastern Basitin race is LawfulStupid; they have a biological imperative to obey their natural pecking order, regardless of their own opinions. [[spoiler:Keith is so torn over disobeying his superior's command to kill Natani that he tries to kill himself rather than have to continue feeling the pain of disobeying.]]
297** Western Basitins, however, have no biological imperitive to do so, which is why Keith can disobey- he's half-Western.
298** Keith's [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech speech about it]] has become the page quote.
299* LawyerFriendlyCameo: [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Sheik]] shows up [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/150/ once in the first panel]].
300%%* LeaveNoSurvivors: The Keidran assault.
301* LetThemDieHappy:
302** [[spoiler:Keith to Laura, as she dies in his arms.]]
303--->[[spoiler:'''Keith:''' No... Laura, you're fine. You're fine! Everything's okay now... We can finally be happy... please... I'm sorry... I'm sorry I asked for more time. I shouldn't have waited... But we can still go back... to the way things were... When you wake up, we'll be together again...]]
304** [[spoiler:Alaric knew his defeat would begin a chain reaction of events he planned out that would make Keith acknowledged as part of Basitin society, smiling to himself as he succumbed to his wounds and knowing his efforts wouldn't be in vain.]]
305* TheLifestream: Dark Mana works by sucking the life-energy from the earth and using it to cast shadow magic. The catch is that it will never work for anything more than the occasional cantrip, because it kills the caster before they can complete the spell they're using it for.
306* LiveMinkCoat: In a set of spinoff comics, a half-dragon girl wears her half-brother as living clothes.
307* LivingMemory: Keith begs Natani to cast the "heart's desire" illusion on him again, so he can see and talk to Laura again. Natani tells him that it runs off his life-force and will kill him if he lets it go too long, and that it won't really be her, but he says he just wants to say goodbye. At least until [[spoiler:the "illusion" claims to actually be Laura's soul having finally found a way to manifest]].
308* LogicalWeakness: Trace sucks at coming up with fake names on the spot, because he's an amnesiac and thus only ''knows'' the names of the 15 or so people he's met since waking up. This leads to a crowning moment of funny when he realizes this while trying to think of baby names.
309* {{Loincloth}}: Wolf keidran wear these on the regular when they're not just naked. Their Special Occasion clothes are a little more substantial.
310* LongestPregnancyEver: Due to the glacial movement of WebComicTime in the canon, Flora has been pregnant for 16 years as of the end of 2023.
311* LoveConfession: Unintentionally played with in recent pages. What Tom had intended was for Kathrin to express to Eric a desire to be free, but the way the dialogue is written made fans believe she was confessing her love to him.
312** Then again, given Kat's reaction when Eric ''does'' set her free (and declaring their relationship LikeBrotherAndSister in the process), perhaps she really ''did'' mean it as a LoveConfession...
313* LovePotion: Sealeen [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=885 attempts to use one on Lynn]] that releases a gas cloud to force a male opponent to help her. [[spoiler:It fails because he's asexual, though he is flattered by the attention.]]
314* LowTechSpears: The primitive-seeming [[BeastMan keidrans]] are often seen wielding serrated spears. However, upon inspection, these are clearly metalwork rather than knapped flint (the serrations are drawn out of the metal like claws, and moreover only appear on one side), and are fastened to the haft with a pin-and-cup attachment rather than sinew lashing. Despite this obvious craftsmanship, no keidran is seen with swords or halberds (they use nothing larger than a dagger made with a similar technique to the spearheads), pinning down a "primitive" aesthetic.
315* LuminescentBlush: They are very prominent and happen with a startling regularity.
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318[[folder:M to Q]]
319* MagicAIsMagicA: Regular magic is video-game style attack magic, such as tossing fireballs and creating DeflectorShields. Fuelled by {{mana}} usually stored in a crystalline matrix called a "mana stone." BlackMagic is necromancy and SummonMagic fuelled by stealing life-force from the earth itself, and it's got a nasty habit of backfiring and frying your brains.
320* MagicKnight: Templars and the Basitin generals [[spoiler: until it's revealed that it's not natural for Basitins to use magic, and that it was taught to them so that the Templars could have influence over the highest levels of Basitin society (magic deteriorates the minds of Basitinians when they use it).]]
321* MagicMisfire: Black Magic has a nasty habit of backfiring on the user, either killing them instantly or driving them [[InsaneEqualsViolent violently insane]].
322* {{Mana}}, and it's got an EvilCounterpart; Dark Mana.
323* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: The groping in front of a mirror [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/380/ here]].
324* MarshmallowHell: Zen did this to himself with Kathrin while he was loopy after his ankle injury.
325* MayflyDecemberRomance: Keidran life spans are extremely short, typically topping out in the mid-twenties, and most keidran characters are mid-to-late teens; as humans and basitins live for much longer, this presents a complication to most interspecies relationships. When Trace [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=334 is informed of this]], he is Not Happy. ''[[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=336 Really]]'' Not Happy. It takes Nora [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=342 to remind him]] that she's alive ''now''.
326* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: A glowing pair of eyes watching the Party in #142.
327* MeatgrinderSurgery: One of the voter bonuses states that [[http://twokinds.deviantart.com/art/The-Basitin-Doctor-153561165 Basitin medicine]] is essentially this due to their medieval technology and lack of magic. In fact, a common job of Basitin doctors is to grant their patients an "honorable" death.
328* MentalFusion: Twin brothers Natani and Zen are capable of this due to [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=448 Zen using his soul to rebuild Natani's.]] [[{{Synchronization}} They also share emotions]], [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=837 which comes back to bite Zen when he uses the link to threaten Natani's boyfriend, Keith.]]
329-->'''Zen:''' Natani's been through a lot of crap, and the last thing he needs is more. He won't admit it, but he's vulnerable, and he's put a lot of trust onto you. So just remember: '''''I'm watching you.''''' And if you betray that trust, I will '''''feel it.''''' And it won't matter how [[FreudianSlip cute]] you are, I'll find you."\
330'''Keith:''' Uh, "cute"?\
331'''Zen:''' Huh? [[ThatCameOutWrong Wait, I meant far! How ''far'' you are!]] '''''I, uh, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I need to go bye!]]'''''
332* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: Princess Reni, mentally verifying Trace's identity, [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=958 comes across his memories]] of being intimate with Flora.
333-->'''Reni''': '''''NO no no! Nevermind! Next!''' Sorry! That... I-I didn't think you... with a Keidran? Oh, my...''
334* MirroringFactions:
335** The Basitins pride themselves on being morally restrained. On closer inspection, their duels seem to be mate-attracting combat displays. Honestly, one almost expected to see female Lt. Madelyn Adelaide[[note]]aka Maddie, aka Madness[[/note]] watching Keith's battle with the harbor guard to head for the washroom with a jar of petrol jelly and Keith's picture. As it was, her report on Keith's duel with Alaric was part official document, part gushing fan-letter, and has a "disturbing number of hearts drawn on it."
336** Humans enslave Keidrans. Keidrans enslave humans.
337** Hell, Keidrans enslave other Keidrans, often under the pay of humans. Note: this is not entirely dissimilar to how the slave trade in Africa worked. There was an internal slave market, which foreign slavers ended up feeding off of and encouraging.
338* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Mrs. Nibbly has a [[http://cdn.twokinds.keenspot.com/comics/20190824.png rather interesting reflection in the waterfall.]]
339* MomentKiller: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=600 "Wait."]]
340* MoodWhiplash: Apparently, [[spoiler:Laura getting fatally wounded takes a back seat to [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=524 comedy]]]]. It's only temporarily, of course.
341** [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=531 Our author avatar is murdered]] in the space of four panels with Karen cheering about the fact that they are all about to die.
342* MorphicResonance: Shapeshifters retain certain attributes of themselves, such as eye and skin colors. For instance, Princess Remi, a Black Dragon, has a human form with dark skin, and Nora shapeshifts into a white cat.
343* MulticulturalAlienPlanet: The humans are the only race shown to have a monoculture. Keidran culture varies from tribe to tribe (tigers are rather egalitarian whereas wolves are [[NoWomansLand quite stringently patriarchal]], just for one example), and Basitins have two variants that take after [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves]] and [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs]]; the strictly-regimented, armor-clad Easterners and the tattoo-covered, hedonistic, colorfully-garmented Westerners, respectively. [[FantasticRacism Naturally, they all hate each other.]]
344* MustHaveCaffeine: Landen carries his/her coffee cup into battle and is [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=884 incensed when they find that Addy has drunk the coffee]]. [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/889/ She even abandons her allies when bribed with coffee.]]
345* TheMutiny: Attempted by Evals, as a means of SlaveLiberation. However, due to unforseen circumstances, he's prevented from carrying it out.
346* MyFistForgivesYou: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/962/ Trace]] does this to Keith for punching him earlier, it apparently is also the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Basitin]] way of settling these kinds of things.
347%%* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: General Alabaster.
348* NakedApron: Done by Kathrin in [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=622 this]] strip. Notable due to [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Kathrin]] usually wearing even ''less'' -- with the addition of this trope to her catalog, Kat is rapidly becoming [=TwoKinds=]' [[MsFanservice premier fanservice model]].
349-->[[AltText "Strange how wearing an apron can seem more revealing than nothing at all."]]
350** This [[https://www.deviantart.com/twokinds/art/Keith-s-Birthday-Suit-141890011 image]] features Keith in one of these.
351** Done in [[https://www.deviantart.com/twokinds/art/6-Years-of-Twokinds-147074368 this anniversary image]], with Keith, Laura and Natani.
352** Flora does the same for [[https://www.deviantart.com/twokinds/art/Twokinds-12th-Anniversary-567889567 this 12th anniversary image]], which (in a CallBack to Keith's previous example) seems to give Natani some ideas...
353* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Both played straight and subverted; for example, when an airborne drug/spell causes the various Keidran nearby to become drunk, the first thing Flora does is replace her clothing with ribbons. Later subverted, when a naked Flora runs out in public in the Basitin inn; it requires a stern, out-of-character threat/lecture by Trace to save her from the enraged bar patrons. Essentially, any time the crew is away from civilization, Flora disrobes.
354* {{Necromancy}}: Dark Mana uses life-energy as magic.
355-->"Theoretically, it ''is'' possible to use Dark Mana to revive a dead person..."
356* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ephemural was the one who wiped Trace's memories, and set up Flora to fall for Trace. The intention was to have him deliver her to the wolves, break her heart, and her to marry Sythe, which would unite the Wolves and Tigers against the humans, who would be weakened with the loss of the Grand Templar (Trace). This would then mean that all three major races are in balance, as Ephemural is also the mask of Neutrality. Unfortunately, Neutral didn't count on Trace reciprocating Flora's feelings, meaning no alliance between the Wolves and Tigers. This leads to war between the Wolves and Humans, where the arrogance of the wolves (which would have been tempered by the isolationist Tigers) would lead them to think they can win, no problem. This war, further, is implied that the Wolves will lose, and being one of the stronger tribes of Keidran, will remove a great deal of the species' strength. The rest of the races won't be able to stand up to the humans, who will eventually drive the Keidran to extinction or servitude. All because Ephemural's plan hinged on Trace not reciprocating the affections of a beautiful, kind, and friendly Keidran who genuinely loved him thanks to a nice helping of RescueRomance. Which Ephemural set up. And because she was beaten by Flora and Trace, Ephemural can't re-enter the mortal realm to fix their massive screwup. Whoops.
357* NoBiochemicalBarriers: Subverted, not only are there limitations on what they can eat, but the three races in the comic can't interbreed, [[spoiler:at least without [[DeusExMachina Deistic Intervention]]]]. Though it's implied that the [[spoiler:intervention is what '''''stops''''' it from happening, not what allows it.]]
358* NoBiologicalSex: The Masks. No gender stated, no known gender, and Ephemural has been shown using males and females as hosts.
359* NoPeekingRequest: When Rose is helping Raine turn her InvoluntaryShapeshifting powers into VoluntaryShapeshifting, Raine orders Red to stay outside because she doesn't like being watched while she's transforming.
360* NoPreggerSex: Averted -- the first thing Flora does after finally confessing her pregnancy to Trace is [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=741 tempt him into the bedroom]], and Trace eagerly accepts after the weeks of unintended abstinence they've had. He isn't the least bit put off by making love to Flora despite her visibly pregnant state, and in fact is eager to celebrate the truth being out when she suggests they do so. Afterwards, he's [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=748 shown commenting on how much he's missed being intimate with her]]. Neither is put off by the fact she's visibly pregnant by this point.
361* NoodleIncident: Minor, but apparently Trace "destroyed" the Templar Academy at least two times (before becoming evil, that is). [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=405 The second has been shown,]] but the first...?
362* NonMammalMammaries: Keidran women have human-like breasts, [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/951/ but also]] several pairs of mammaries down their stomach (all hidden by fur)-[[UnreliableNarrator if Sythe's teasing of Red is true, that is]].
363* NonhumansLackAttributes: Generally follows the "covered in fur" approach. Lampshaded using those exact words when Maren reminds a shy [[spoiler:Raine]] that "You're covered in fur, remember? Nothing's going to show." [[spoiler:Raine]], who has severe body image issues due to her [[spoiler:barely controllable VoluntaryShapeshifting]], admits her modesty is silly but helps her feel human. The nipples are definitely there, though, as told by one character that female Keidran have rows that go below the two "primary" mammaries.
364* {{Nosebleed}}: Every main character has had at least one, even Flora.
365* NoTrueScotsman: Free keidran don't consider slave keidran to be real people.
366* NotWhatItLooksLike: Used when Flora saw [[spoiler:Keith and Natani]] in the tub together. [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/281/ Hilarity ensues.]] Also used when Flora drinks milk laced with some kind of aphrodisiac. [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/69/ She falls asleep with Trace on top of her, just as the entire cast of the comic bursts into the room.]] Subverted [[http://twokindscomic.com/archive/?p=189 here]], in that it rapidly becomes what it looks like.
367* NoWomansLand: Wolf clans are extremely sexist; Natani had to hide her gender because they wouldn't accept female soldiers. Everywhere else has equal-gender rights, even if racism is at an all-time high during the story. Though, the Basitins segregate the men's houses from the women's, but that's mainly because they have a low libido so it works out.
368* ObfuscatingStupidity: Flora does [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/321/ a]] [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/325/ little]] at a point.
369* OhCrap: Flora gets several in a row from comic 736 on, when she finds out that Trace's SuperPoweredEvilSide is actively ''talking to him''. Worse, it's trying to turn him against her.
370%%** "... Oh crud... [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=483 We're screwed."]]
371%%** His [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=582 reaction]] makes sense.
372* OneSteveLimit: Averted to a perplexing degree. Cathleen, Kathrin, and even Karen are all variants of the name Katherine. What are Tom's reasons for his interest with the Katherine name?
373%%* OneThingLedToAnother: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=312 Flora tries to explain her relationship to Eric.]]
374* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They're telepathic shape shifters, and rather friendly to certain people. And apparently humans can be transformed into dragons.
375* OurHumansAreDifferent: Hailing from a forgotten continent far over the eastern sea, have [[WorldOfTechnicolorHair Amazing Technicolor Hair,]] and are treated the way a more orthodox fantasy epic treats elves. Humans passively absorb mana from the environment and store it within themselves, allowing them to cast, basically, until they've sucked all the magic from the immediate vicinity (although a spell exists to supercharge this and it's something of a DangerousForbiddenTechnique-once all the mana's gone, it starts guzzling up LifeEnergy, and having more that ones fair share of that is the basis of the settings BlackMagic). Keidrans can only cast as many spells as they have mana stones, and basitins can't cast at all unless they're irradiated with a large ammount of mana (which slowly erodes their mental faculties). This affinity for magic, rather than intellect and opposable thumbs (which three, possibly four or five if the rumors of merpeople and LizardFolk are true, of the settings other peoples have), is what led mankind to becoming Mekan's dominant sapient speciese.
376* OurNudityIsDifferent: Basitins always hide their feet, wrapping them from the ball of their toes to their ankles. One can get away with {{Sarashi}}-like bandages, but the fashion seems to be an armored foot-sleeve dealie-o. WordOfGod is they have a species-wide foot fetish, and thus consider bare feet nudity. Alaric's statue of Keith has ''only'' the feet covered.
377* OutOfClothesExperience: [[http://twokinds.comicgenesis.com/d/20050418.html Some strips]] near the climax of the "Ephemural" arc. Trace's mind/soul looks ''really'' young in there, which is probably due to his amnesia...
378* OutOfFocus: We know next to nothing about Nora or the "gods".
379* PaintingTheMedium:
380** The character biography page. Trace has two entries, one for his current persona, the other for his original/real self, openly hostile to the rest of the cast. One of the character's names is replaced with [database error] as well.
381** Karen in the beginning of Chapter 12, which started in 2009: "It feels like we haven't done anything in four years!" [[DontExplainTheJoke Their last appearance was in 2005]]. It would have been LeaningOnTheFourthWall if the line hadn't sounded so forced.
382* PantheraAwesome: Flora is a tiger Kiedran. And now, in a bar in a human village we have a snow leopard barkeeper and her daughter.
383* PardonMyKlingon: In one of the early chapters, Flora breaks her foot. When Trace checks it out (by squeezing gently), she lets loose with a string of (untranslatable) Keidran phrases.
384* PetTheDog: Templar!Trace had one such moment five years ago: [[spoiler:Laura had been captured by a group of wolves while she had been trying to find Keith. They had been planning to sell her into slavery, but were attacked by Trace en route. What happened was... not pretty, to say the least, as Trace was well into his "Death to all Keidran" mentality at the time. He spared Laura, however, because she reminded him of his late wife.]]
385* PillarOfLight: The [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=525 results of]] [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=526 the destruction]] of one of the Templars' mana towers.
386* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The Magi Brothers tout a fearsome reputation as skilled, lethal assassins. When they get involved in the story, charged with assassinating Trace, they repeatedly get beaten off in battle, and then separate for different reasons. Natani gets ''taken prisoner'' by the protagonists, ultimately comes to befriend them, and falls in love with Keith. Zen, on his own mission, ends up being tricked by two of the more ''incompetent'' members of the cast and subsequently captured. Heck, the official cast page actually says that the Magi Brothers' reputation mostly stems from a mixture of dumb luck and bragging, and they're actually not very good at it. [[spoiler:In fact, the reason that they became so notorious in the first place is that their first target accidentally killed ''himself'' using a DangerousForbiddenTechnique that splintered Natani's soul, which was the cause of all his [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} identity issues]].]]
387* PokeInTheThirdEye: While reading Trace's mind, Reni finds a memory of Trace talking with Lady Nora... and learns the hard way just how ''terrifyingly'' powerful the nigh-demigod elder white dragoness is when she forcibly ejects Reni from Trace's mind ''from inside a memory!'' (Seriously, ''don't mess with Lady Nora.'')
388* {{Power At A Price}}: Black magic. It warps the mind of the user, which is typically fatal. Trace is one of the few mages who have used massive amounts of black magic and survived, but it drove him insane.
389-->"There's a reason it's forbidden."
390** The mage that attacked the Assassin Brothers killed himself using black magic.
391** In short, it will either [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity drive you mad]], physically mutate you, or kill you.
392* PowerCrystal: Large concentrations of mana solidify into crystals. Humans have an internal core, allowing them to recharge mana from the environment over time. Keidran lack a core and require mana crystals to cast spells, but they do have their own advantage. While humans can recharge anywhere, they can only cast spells from their core, and therefore take more time to recharge, even if they have crystals on hand to accelerate the process. Keidran are better adapted at using mana crystals and can cast spells out of them directly.
393* PowerPerversionPotential: Keidran slaves are required by law to be magically bound to follow their owner's orders. Let that sink in. The artist has also done a small number of pics showing some possibilities for magic [[http://twokinds.deviantart.com/art/Trading-Halves-102753649 mishaps]].
394* ProperlyParanoid: A good trait, considering the world they're living in. Alaric wasn't convinced one of his plans would be enough, [[CrazyPrepared coming up with]] ''[[CrazyPrepared dozens]]''.
395* ProportionalAging: Keidran can live up to their mid-twenties and are adults around age 8 or 9 (about a third of their lifespan).
396* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The Basitins ([[LawfulStupid in theory]]).
397** West Basitins embrace the tribal amazonian tribe culture, while East Basitins are a relaxed PoliceState.
398* PsychicLink: Natani and Zen. Natani's uncomfortable with it because his brother can poke through his memories (particularly his developing feelings for Keith), and annoyed by it because they're separated by thousands of miles and Natani can't hit him.
399** In a voting incentive, Natani gets around this problem by making Zen feel thoughts about Keith.
400** It's recently been confirmed that Zen found himself experiencing Natani's heat the first time Natani went into estrus after the link was forged, something that immediately makes Kathrin wince in sympathy.
401** Something of the sort is how Trace beats the Ephemural-controlled Flora.
402* PublicBathHouseScene: Two, one where Trace, Flora, and Keith go to the baths in their second town, and once on the Basitin Isles. In the first instance, the bath house staff make a special announcement, telling the other patrons not to rough Flora up or Trace gets to kill them. In the second, Natani is astonished that the ultra-conservative Basitin even have bath houses. Keith explains that not everyone can afford in-home baths, so they do exist, but they're strictly gender-segregated. Patrons must also keep their foot-wraps on at all times.
403* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Flora demonstrates that tigers can pull off this trope very well [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=874 here]].
404* QuicklyDemotedWoman: The last Grand Master was ousted by Trace by using magic to make her look like a Keidran, causing the nearby solders to attack her and drag her into slavery. [[note]]And for some reason, she doesn't blame Trace for this... (Granted, he was crazy at the time, but still.)[[/note]]
405* TheQuisling: [[spoiler:Clovis]] is willing to sell out his own kind just do get his hands on magical artifacts.
406[[/folder]]
407
408[[folder:R to Z]]
409* {{Realpolitik}}: Played surprisingly straight whenever Trace and his allies find themselves in a sticky diplomatic situation.
410** The Templar further the divide between tigers and wolves, so they can ally with the tigers to fight the wolves now, and enslave the surviving Keidran later. [[spoiler:They stage a KansasCityShuffle FalseFlagOperation to seal the alliance. There are also wolves joining other divisions of the Templar.]]
411* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Saria, after being temporarily resurrected in Maren]] gives Trace one ([[spoiler:Actually, to the inner locked-away consciousness of Evil!Trace, rather than the outer friendly version we all know.]]):
412--> '''[[spoiler:Saria]]''': Trace... ...I'm ashamed. The things you've done... not just here, but out there... To the Keidran... To my Rosey... It's just unforgivable. You've caused so much pain to the world. In [[spoiler: my name]]! I am gone. And so is [[spoiler:the man I once loved]]. I only hope the man you are now is willing to undo some of the damage left behind... ...and what you became after [[spoiler:I died]] never comes back!
413%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: King Adelaide and the Arms General.
414* RedemptionQuest: Keith is sent on one by the Basitin leaders as punishment for his father's murder. Except that [[ImpossibleTask it wasn't meant to be possible]]; he was told he could come back when he had Trace Legacy, a hotshot talented mage. Roughly equal to someone saying: "Hey, you can come home when you bring UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden with you for tea." So when Keith showed up with Trace in tow, especially after after Trace rose to the top of the ranks as Grand Templar, ''no one'' had any idea how to handle it, as pretty much ''all'' "redemption quests" are meant to permanently exile the convict, and no one had ever accomplished their ImpossibleTask before.
415* RedEyesTakeWarning: When Trace used dark mana, the thing he summoned and he both had red eyes, and when we meet Roderick (Eric's brother), he is first shown with them. Roderick is an active Templar and enemy of the main cast.
416* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Maeve is a young snow leopard. We get to see her doing the stereotypical tail nom [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=865 here]]. A vote incentive picture featured her mother, Adira posing for a painting doing the [[http://twokinds.deviantart.com/art/Adira-Portrait-535796618 same thing]].
417* RightBehindMe: Seraphina angrily and proudly delares herself [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=896 a dragon]]. Just as a ''very'' large shadow approaches. The last panel seems to do double duty as an OhCrap moment.
418* RightForTheWrongReasons: It's accepted as fact that humans can't interbreed with Keidrans or Basitins, with no examples of hybrid children recorded in any modern history. After learning Flora is pregnant, Trace wonders if hybrid children are really "so unprecedented" and makes the quite logical guess that that perhaps the reason no one knows about them is because of how few people are literate, saying they might be "so rare they've just gone undocumented". As readers have long known, the ''real'' reason hybrids haven't been around in centuries is because Ephemeral has been actively preventing their conception, and only allowed Trace and Flora's child to exist due to some unrevealed plan.
419* RightHandVersusLeftHand: [[spoiler:The current Grand Templar has signed a peace treaty with the Tiger Clans to take out the Wolf Clans. Meanwhile, Templars in the west have recruited Wolves to fight as Templars]].
420* ReassignedToAntarctica: Keith's role as Ambassador. Keith, who is now a StrangerInAFamiliarLand due to his experiences, isn't sure if it's a punishment or mercy. King Adelaide knows it's both, allowing him to leave but tying him to home. At least it gives Keith a purpose.
421* RelationshipUpgrade: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/974/ "Come on. How about, for once, we actually share a bed on purpose?"]]
422* RemixComic: The [[http://twokinds.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8710 "Panel Shuffles"]] on the forum.
423* RevealingHug: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=709 Eric threatened to molest a 13 year old girl!]] [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=710 Or did he?]]
424%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: King Adelaide. ''Definitely'' King Adelaide.
425* RunningGag: Any time it looks like the red-haired swordsman is going to give his name, something happens to prevent it. This even extends to the cast page, where he is listed as [database error]. Whenever there's a fire around Eric, the top of his head catches fire. He never notices it.
426* SadClown: There is a pic of Evals on Website/{{DeviantArt}} by the comic author, and with WordOfGod about his past, he could be either this or ThePollyanna.
427%%* SafeSaneAndConsensual: Apparently, Keith and Laura's sex life, if you believe the artwork on the author's Platform/DeviantArt page.
428* SapientFurTrade: It's mentioned on multiple occasions that humans have killed keidran for their pelts and according to Adira's reference sheet snow leopard keidran were hunted extensively for their fur which left them scattered and near-extinct.
429* SapientHouse: [[spoiler:The Legacy Estate]] is infused with a sapient will, which has vast control over both the house and grounds, though with some limits magically imposed on it by its creator.
430* SapientPet: Keidran, by some of the nicer humans (of course, they're also seen as a source of cheap labour by more dickish humans). The Keidran are officially slaves.
431%%* SayMyName: "MADDDELYYYYYYN!!!"
432* SceneryCensor:
433** When [[spoiler:Keith and Natani]] fight each other while naked, it appears that [[spoiler:Natani]]'s tail has a will of its own and is determined to guard [[spoiler:Keith's]] modesty no matter what.
434** There is a noticeable evolution of the censorship as the comic progresses. Very early on, all Kiedran nudity was covered up like this, but after a short while bare breasts began showing up completely uncensored, albeit in BarbieDollAnatomy form. The lower regions kept the censorship longer, but eventually switched as well. The censorship stuck around with males, though, as the Barbie-doll trick would be somewhat harder to explain away.
435* SchizoTech: As pointed out on [[http://twokinds.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11275 a certain forum thread]], despite the author saying that this is a pre-Medieval setting, many things in the comic can only be achieved with modern technology. For example, the characters order a pizza without phones or long-term sustainable farming being available. Also: bronze and architecture in a culture that's remembered when it was non-evolved animals by a character who is only 2000 years old.
436* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: The Keidran tribes are stated to be very fast breeders (what with their views on sex being the same as a [[Series/BabylonFive Centauri]] and their short life spans), yet the largest city of the Wolf Clan (the largest tribe) is less than six thousand; even for a faux-Medieval setting, that's rather low. Also, there is a timber forest and a rain forest rather close to each other (and on the same latitude line, no less). Possibly justified for the Keidrans in that they're nomadic -- so the people living in a city are the minority -- and that they've been on the losing end of a war of genocide[=/=]slavery with humanity for the past few decades. (The 6,000 population has since been {{retcon}}ned to be 36,000.) Let's not forget Zen's hint about the race [[spoiler:being at risk of dying out.]]
437* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Landen, after Addy offers to pay Landen a salary that can buy all the coffee Landen can drink.
438** One of the Templar zaps out the moment they realize they're ''really'' facing Trace.
439** It becomes combined with KnowWhenToFoldThem when the leader of the Templars realizes that the dragon, Reni, doesn't have to breathe fire (which they're shielded against) to hurt them by using her sheer physical bulk to swat one of his men off the wall and into the ground, ironically the same man he tried to convince not to run away.
440* SeriesContinuityError:
441** Red originally had brown eyes. These became green after the Basitin Islands arc.
442** Eric's ship, the ''Nai'Ren,'' was white but switched to brown after the same arc. Although it might just have lost its paint job after a month at sea.
443* SevenDeadlySins: All of them, though some may not be obvious:
444** Pride: Master Seer Brahn, as he thinks he's a better leader of Templar Order than Trace, and refuses to entertain the idea that his gift of foresight is flawed.
445** Greed: Clovis, self-dubbed "Prince of Greed", doing everything only for money, putting his self interests above everyone else, and killing/backstabbing anyone who could be a potential hindrance to his plans.
446** Lust: Lady Nora, is a flirtatious 2000 year old dragon always seeking pleasurable experiences, who is completely obsessed with Trace Legacy, and has been shown having several sexual fantasies about the two of them.
447** Envy: Detritus, as he's jealous of Trace's life with Saria.
448** Gluttony: Landen, who is obssessed with coffee and even betrays her friends for it.
449** Wrath: General Albion Alabaster, always seen angry, abusing his own underlings and being responsible for deaths of most of [[spoiler:Keiser family members]] for petty reasons.
450** Sloth: Trace Legacy (Pre Amnesia), had all the talent, potential, and power that would have allowed him to accomplish practically anything if he put his mind to it, yet never bothered to push himself until he lost everything.
451* SdrawkcabName: Evals is "slave" backwards.
452* SheIsTheKing: The current Basitin ruler is called a king, regardless of gender. Such as it is with the current one, Adelaide.
453* ShortLivedOrganism: Keidrans live for about twenty years naturally, and hit adulthood at age 8 or 9. Since this gives them an effective adult lifespan of just a little over a decade, this can be a serious issue for inter-species relationships, romantic and non, with the longer-lived humans and basitins.
454* ShoutOut: The Author will sometimes reference the fan-base in alt text.
455** [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/483/ The Arms General]] is a dead ringer for [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Major Armstrong]]. See [[http://www.deviantart.com/art/That-Basitin-looks-like-Alex-Armstrong-466525161 here]].
456** Flora dressed in a Franchise/{{Rambo}} costume for the Jan 19 2011 strip.
457%%** [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=841 When Karen first sees full wolf!Raine:]] [[Webcomic/{{Freefall}} DOGGY!!]]
458* ShutUpHannibal: After Flora reveals she's pregnant, Trace's inner voice tries to drown her out in order to be able to drive Trace to a jealous rage. Trace yells at him to shut up -- out loud, which makes Flora think he's yelling at her.
459* SideStoryBonusArt: The author's whole Platform/DeviantArt is full of [[http://twokinds.deviantart.com/ such images]]. (Some are NSFW, so they can't be seen without registering.)
460* SlapSlapKiss: Keith and Natani literally after Keith tried to kill Natani at the Basitin tavern.
461* SlaveLiberation: Attempted by Flora, who offers to let Trace buy Eric's Keidran slaves in order to set them free... even though Eric knows Trace can't afford them, even if he was selling. Meanwhile, Evals attempts to organize a [[TheMutiny mutinous]] version of this trope.
462%%* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Keith's example of DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything.Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
463* SoulFragment: After Natani's soul was fragmented by an evil mage, a piece of his brother's soul was used to hold the remnants together. [[spoiler:Because one of the missing soul-fragments was Natani's gender identity, "he" thinks of himself as male, despite being biologically female -- and does his best to ensure that everyone else does, too.]]
464* SpitTake: Red on being told that [[spoiler:Raine in her keidran form has [[{{Multiboobage}} a row of nipples going down her stomach]]. (Although Sythe is most likely just trying to mess with him -- no evidence of this has been provided. ''And Red knew it, too.'')]]
465** Reni, when Trace realizes she's dragon royalty and asks if Nora takes orders from her. She ends up soaking Sythe.
466** Keith, when Madelyn decides to walk out her room bare-ankled [[https://twokinds.gallery/download/art/1790/2020.01.08_Uncovered.png in an extra page]].
467* SpotlightStealingSquad: The villagers have fallen by the wayside. The LowerDeckEpisode that was originally meant for them got snatched by the regular cast.
468* SquareRaceRoundClass: PlayedForDrama. Basitins (a three-way hybrid of [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs,]] [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves,]] and [[BeastMan beastmen]]) biologically cannot use magic. Their three generals become {{Magic Knight}} SuperSoldiers through [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic human magical experimentation]]. However, normal magic damages the Basitin brain in the same way BlackMagic damages the human mind, leading to the Basitin High Command slowly lobotomizing themselves. Something the human magicians were fully aware of, but the Basitins were not.
469* {{Squee}}: While it's not exactly a proper "Squee", the same general effect happens when dragon wannabe Seraphina actually meets genuine dragon Princess Reni [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=897 here]]. She even does the overexcited puppy tailwag.
470* StatusQuoIsGod: Literally! Ephemural's only motivation seems to be to maintain a constant stalemate between the three regional powers.
471* StayInTheKitchen: Averted with humans and Basitins. Played straight with the Keidran assassin guild; if they catch a female in their ranks, they just off her. Female wolf-Keidrans also seem to stay home and let the men fight.
472* StealthHiBye: While Maddie Addie might be an absolute master of this trope, [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=854 this page]] shows that Lynn is no slouch at it.
473* SuperStrength: Basitin minds cannot handle magic and will slowly fry if forced to, but it is speculated that their bodies ''can'', which may be what makes their their superhuman feats possible.
474* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: [[https://c10.patreonusercontent.com/3/eyJwIjoxfQ%3D%3D/patreon-media/p/post/34204330/6d14c5198a454f509b20dfb827560f7d/1.png?token-time=1583452800&token-hash=wbWf7KTil8fN-JXDdu9iwzZt-ig6lZGJoG88LWBYnbg%3D Sythe's reference sheet]] specifically notes that there is "Nothing strange" about his pet squirrel Mrs. Nibbly. [[http://cdn.twokinds.keenspot.com/comics/20190824.png Just ignore the reflection in the waterfall, she's a totally normal squirrel.]]
475* TamerAndChaster: Remember when Flora and Kathrin were {{Innocent Fanservice Girl}}s, with Kathrin having a healthy dose of InnocentInnuendo included on top of that? With the recent switch in hosting to Platform/{{Keenspot}}, this has been dropped off the main page and all the characters are wearing mostly conservative outfits, with only Eric having something that wouldn't be appropriate at a mall in the US (and even he is dressed as a ShoutOut to Hugh Hefner). Remembering that at least [[http://twokindscomic.com/images/twokindsv6_1.jpg one point]] the comic title banner had a (non-sexually) nude Flora on it...
476** The Fanservice content in the comic itself has been dialed back as well, and Flora and Kathrin's InnocentFanserviceGirl tendencies have dialed back immensely, although Flora has a few excuses about it [[note]]being pregnant and being around Eric[[/note]]. Kathrin does go around nude still, although in the chapter post-switchover (Chapter 14), she instead wears a NakedApron designed to minimize her fan-service content outside of a single specific scene.
477** As of strip 900, nudist keidran make a reappearance.
478* TapOnTheHead: Multiple times -- Trace gets knocked out by Basitin soldiers and spends a good while unconscious, Natani and Flora are knocked unconscious and captured when attempting to rescue Trace, and Red ambushes Zen by knocking him out with a rock.
479* TemptingFate
480** [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=497 "I can't believe I made that!"]]
481** [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=467 "My technology is infallible."]]
482** [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=748 "I'm just glad there's nothing ELSE for us to be worried about."]] [[note]]*facepalm* "Why! Why did I say that out loud?!"[[/note]]
483* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Eyelashes.
484* ThanatosGambit: Thought it might be better titled the Thanatos Crapshoot, [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=583 it still counts.]]
485* ThanksForTheMammary: Seen [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=540 here.]]
486-->'''Medic:''' My Lord! This man is horribly disfigured! I... Oh... Oh my...
487** Natani creates an illusion to hide his breasts and shows it off to Keith. Keith, curious about Natani's seemingly flat chest, tries to run his hand through the "air" in front of Natani with [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/697/ the expected result]]. Natani is [[UnresolvedSexualTension flustered]], but shrugs it off and just suggests they pretend it didn't happen.
488* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Lampshaded; someone else enters through the door, pointing out that it was unlocked. in the same scene.
489** Somehow, one of Trace's memories directly addresses someone who is reading his mind. [[spoiler:Given how said memory is of [[{{Troll}} Nora]], it makes sense.]]
490* TheirFirstTime: When Trace and Flora have sex for the first time in strip #203. It's technically not Trace's first time (what with his having been married before), but it still counts since he doesn't remember that. Then in strip #804, Flora states that she had never been with anyone before Trace.
491* ThereWasADoor: Used ''twice'' in [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/68/ the same scene]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Keith enters through the door, pointing out that it was unlocked.
492-->'''Trace''': [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/71/ Um... could I get a new room? Mine seems to have a few holes...]]
493* TheyWereHoldingYouBack: The reason the [[spoiler:Intelligence General murdered his best friend's wife and exiled his son, Keith. Keith's father had illegally married a Western basitin, worried that he would soon be found out, and was prepared to sacrifice his career over them. So, the Intelligence General got his wife out of the way "for his own good" by murdering her, and when that resulted in his death too, "avenged" him by exiling his son.]]
494* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: Every furry who sports a LuminescentBlush.
495* TimeForPlanB: A rare, non-comic example: [[spoiler:Flora's pregnancy (among ''many others'') is Euphemerial's plan B when her attempt to pit them against each other fails.]]
496* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Flora is a tomboy, Kathrin, and Laura are girly girls. Adelaide seems to have gotten [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=605 a happy medium between the two.]]
497* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Happens in [[https://twokinds.gallery/download/art/205/2013.03.02_Raine_Displaying_Proof_Comic_Spoof.jpeg an extra page gag]], when Zen attacks the group disguised as Maren, Raine tries to expose he's a fake by removing the illusion's shirt and displaying the lack of wounds only the real Maren had suffered, leaving Zen-as-Maren topless in front of Red and Sythe who [[DistractedByTheSexy forget about the situation]] as they both start EatingTheEyeCandy.
498* ToServeMan: Parodied. Flora jokes that she wants to taste human flesh (to set up a ReactionShot gag from Trace).
499* TranslationPunctuation: Keidran speech has "<" and ">" on the ends usually. Basitin has "[" and "]" on the ends. Human speech has no marking indicators thus far.
500* TwentyPercentMoreAwesome: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/groupb/?p=1 The B Group archive]] has been determined to be 67% cooler than the main group.
501* TwoLinesNoWaiting: The comic cuts back and forth between the primary protagonists and a simultaneous subplot featuring the secondary characters. The two plots intersect through the assassin siblings, with Natani being a protagonist in the A story while his brother Zen is an antagonist in the [[TwoLinesNoWaiting B story]].
502* UhOhEyes: If a character is dangerously psychotic, they have [[RedEyesTakeWarning a red glow in their pupils]]. If they OD on Mana, they get BlankWhiteEyes. Keidrans, when drawing on the Feral side of themselves, get GlowingEyesOfDoom. [[spoiler:Templar!Trace? All of them, ''AND'' BlackSpeech. ''Run.'']]
503** Basitins can also have glowing yellow or white eyes (depending on the emotion causing the distress). Yellow for extreme anger. White for calmer pride AND anger.
504* UnderTheMistletoe: Invoked several times.
505** Like [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/418/ here]], where Flora ties mistletoe to Keith's tail, leading to an uncomfortable situation between him and Natani.
506** And [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=705 here]], where Flora is trying to hang an enchanted sprig of Mistletoe that'll cause whoever stands under it to kiss whoever they first see, only to try and hide it behind her when several bit characters show up. Hilarity Ensues as it causes Trace to give her a kiss under her tail as a result.
507** Also [[http://twokinds.deviantart.com/art/Mistletoe-2015-580600563 here]], where Kathrin wears the enchanted mistletoe as a necklace, and [[http://twokinds.deviantart.com/art/Xmas-Aftermath-580811266 the aftermath]].
508* UnresolvedSexualTension: Flora and Trace before they get in bed. Keith and Natani all the time. Mike having his body turned "female" temporarily has revealed something similar with him and Evals. [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1044/ It seems to still be there for Mike.]]
509* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=395 Dragon bathing in the harbor?]] No big.
510* UnwantedHarem: Keith gets one of these in the Basitan Island Arc, between Natani, Laura, Maddie and maybe [[AmbiguouslyGay Alaric]]. [[spoiler:Laura and Alaric die, Maddie is revealed to be a teenager and thus too young for Keith, and Natani becomes Keith's official LoveInterest.]]
511* UnwittingPawn: Both Trace and Flora. [[spoiler:Ephemural/Neutral was the one who set the plot in motion; first by wiping Trace's memories and then arranging the circumstances in which he met Flora. The plan was to have Flora form a close bond with Trace as they traveled, and at the very end unleash Trace's old personality and vicious racism in the vicinity of the Wolf clan, breaking Flora's heart enough to truly marry Sythe, and ensuring Trace would be mauled to death by a vengeful pack. With the Keidran clans united by the marriage and the former Grand Templar Trace dead, the power imbalance between the winning Humans and the divided Keidran would be stabilized and restored to their equilibrium of an endless cold war. Then Sirus used her pawns against her and strengthened their bond to overpower Trace's hatred, and channeled his hate into a weapon that could cripple Ephemural.]]
512* VagueAge: Due to the art, all humans (save Master Mage, but even he looks too young) look like teenagers but are in their mid to late 20's (Trace is 25).
513%%* VisibleSigh
514* WarIsGlorious: Not just glorious, but ''fun''. The Basitins purposefully abandon any ground they've captured so their "enemies" can take it back and keep the war going.
515* WeAreAsMayflies: Zig-zagged. Humans live a lot longer than keidrans, who typically reach twenty-some years at most, but basitins live around as long as humans do and dragons have no maximum lifespan.
516* WebcomicTime: The Basitin Isles story arc has gone on for almost four years. It takes place in the space of three days. This is lampshaded by Karen saying "It feels like we haven't done anything for four years..."
517* WhamEpisode:
518** Keith's trial, where we've just found out [[spoiler:Gen. Kaiser didn't kill Keith's mother like he'd thought; Gen. Alabaster did. We find this out from Alabaster's son, to boot.]]
519** The February 11 2015 issue: [[spoiler: To prevent the spell-casting Zen from escaping, his captors put him in a magic-nullifying shackle. As mentioned earlier above, Zen and his sibling Natani share a PsychicLink based on melded souls, which kept Natani from dying. The second the shackle is closed, Natani ''collapses'' onto the floor, with both of his eyes [[DullEyesOfUnhappiness blank and lifeless]]... and with the brown eye he developed as a result of the link having changed back to gray. In shorter terms, it's implied that Zen's captors may have just '''killed''' Natani.]]
520** On page 1113, Trace and Flora find a painting on the third floor [[spoiler:that reveals that Rose [[DeadAllAlong died two years prior]] to the beginning of the comic.]]
521* WhamLine:
522** Between Keith and Natani:
523--->'''Keith:''' But I know you wouldn't like ''me'' suddenly kissing ''you'' for no reason and saying it was the "heat of the moment"!\
524'''Natani:''' '''''Well maybe I would!'''''
525** And then this heartbreaker:
526--->'''Flora:''' [[spoiler: A crib?]] What's something like this doing here?
527** After Sythe breaks the crystal holding Maren hostage (which ties into the WhamShot below):
528--->'''Detritus:''' ...! [[spoiler:[[SoulJar Saria!]]]]
529* WhamShot:
530** Carver surrounded by basitins. ''Western'' basitins. Raine ended up teleporting the fox half way around the world.
531** [[spoiler:Rose also has Perfect Shapeshifting.]]
532** In a hidden room of the Legacy Estate, Trace and Flora [[spoiler:find an unused crib. When Saria died, she was ''pregnant''.]]
533** Trace and Flora also find a portrait of Rose that shows her year of birth... [[spoiler:and death, ''two years ago''.]]
534** Detritus stops a few inches from killing Sythe, who shattered the crystal containing Maren, and spots a familiar [[spoiler:shock of white hair]] on her bangs.
535* WhatCouldHaveBeen: This is mentioned InUniverse. [[http://twokinds.deviantart.com/gallery/?loggedin=1#/d259ndu "It Could Have Been."]]
536* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: "[[http://twokindscomic.com/archive/?p=467 My technology is infallible]]."
537* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Maddy upon [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=822 trying to fall asleep under Trace's bed]].
538** Sythe [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=1008 when he noticed that Flora was pregnant.]]
539** [[spoiler: Trace]] [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1105/ when he remembered]] that [[spoiler:Saria]] was, too. Even moreso [[http://twokindscomic.com/images/20200509_sketch.png in the sketch version.]]
540* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Apparently all users of Dark Mana, especially [[spoiler:Trace]]. And ANY Magic does a number on Basitin brains.
541* TheWorfEffect: The Eastern Basitin Islands Arms General does this with Natani, the professional assassin, beating him with little effort. [[spoiler:Then he gets ripped to shreds by an unknown foe off-screen (presumably the master spy).]]
542* WritersCannotDoMath: Appears in one of the Modern AU [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/78958740 Patreon bonuses]], in which Tom explains the value of a [[CheapGoldCoins G]] (in the context of an [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNE]][[{{Pun}} P]] selling for [=24.99 G=]) but gets digit-shifting wrong[[note]]Given the picture, the correct answer is that the dollar is [=1/10=] of a G[[/note]]:
543-->For those wondering about the prices, the Modern AU's currency (G) is around 1/10 of a dollar. (It's actually slightly less, but 1/10 makes it easy to just move the decimal over to the right one place and get a rough idea of the equivalent value.) I have a fondness for settings that uses smaller values for prices, so that the pennies are still useful. I just think the novelty of it is fun. :9
544* WrongContextMagic: Originally, the Keidran learned how to use magic by storing Mana in special marbles -- no marbles, no source of magical energy, no spells. Then the Humans appeared, learned the magical arts of the Keidran, and proceeded to break the rules by drawing mana directly from the surrounding environment, usually killing nearby plant-life and small animals in the process. This came with its own drawbacks, namely what happens if you kept drawing energy from the land after all the nearby sources ran out. They then compensated for THAT by building huge towers that stored enormous amounts of mana that nearby human spellcasters could draw on. Then main character Trace is shown to be capable of using BlackMagic without the usual associated side-effects of 'permanent insanity and/or death', instead getting away with nothing more than a temporary UnstoppableRage, a SuperPoweredEvilSide, and a RedRightHand. And finally, the Basitin were well-known to have NO magical power whatsoever... until someone figured out how to break THAT rule, too. (Hint: It was the humans. Humans are really not big on rules, as it turns out.)
545* XanatosSpeedChess: Ephemural's plan to unite the Keidran tribes (and when this one failed, continuing with his (her?) facilitating Flora's apparent pregnancy). There are several dozen others (Gods are fun!), most of which focus on Trace, Flora, or one of their friends.
546* YaoiFangirl: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/904/ Unsurprising for a love mage, Sealeen is one of these.]]
547* YouCantGoHomeAgain: the conditions of Keith's banishment were likely to get him killed and intended to be impossible for him to fulfill. (Let's just invite the OmnicidalManiac to tea, shall we?) Ironically, after he does manage to fulfill them (though not without a generous heaping of divine meddling) he finds himself a StrangerInAFamiliarLand who can't bear to stay anyway.
548%%* YouDontLookLikeYou: When Zen [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/1023/ initially comes to in his link with Natani]] after conking out following the Carver incident, he initially sees ''younger'' Natani, and is surprised to see Natani with breasts, as Natani (who was also there) normally looks male in the Link. This trope is when an adaptation makes changes to a character's appearance making it hard to tell it's the same character in all but name. It doesn't apply in this case.
549%%* YouLookFamiliar: The Templar's Master Spy does this a ''lot'', even going as far as changing his race to a Basitin (or so it seems due to the uncanny resemblance). This trope is a trivia trope, where an actor comes back as a different character in the same continuity. It doesn't apply in this case.
550** [[spoiler:If you look carefully at the mysterious killer of the Arms General [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/492/ here]], then at the [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/comic/363/ innkeeper]] mentioned above and consider that the murder was done by strong magic, we can pretty much infer that Master Spy killed the Arms General]]. The Master Spy's "disguise" is so weak, it's actually very funny nobody has called him out for that. Mid-length brown hair, blue eyes, wears a cross-pendant, and ALWAYS keeps the bandages on his right hand. So far, he's been the shop-keeper giving Trace the pendant that later decides the fight with Ephemural, an inn-keeper, he's been a guy organizing a ship for them (although without the cross necklace), he's been the Basitin inn-keeper, and he's most probably the one who [[spoiler:murders the Arms General]]. He's has been nothing but helping Trace and the crew, which makes his goals seem kind of blurry.
551* [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig]] [[FluffyTheTerrible Zagging]] [[SealedEvilInATeddyBear A]] [[KillerRabbit Trope]]: [[http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=33 Keith vs. Flora]].
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