A webcomic by Félix Lavallée, which started in 2005 and is ongoing, with updates every Friday.

Flaky Pastry is a LowFantasy SitCom featuring the (mis)adventures of three college roommates, who have to deal with landlord dragons, vindictive halfling mages, impossibly large dungeons, and a whole host of other DungeonsAndDragons-esque characters and situations.

The three main characters are:

* '''Nitrine''', an unusually intelligent (read: about as smart as an average human) goblin girl with green hair. Loves inventing things with dubious purposes. Later learned to make clones of herself (or anything she wanted) using her imagination.
* '''Marelle''', the TeamMom, who is addicted to learning and has been studying at the university for a very long time. Has UnusualEars, making her look suspiciously like a CatGirl, but [[BerserkButton try telling her that]].
* '''Zintiel''', a sociopathic High Elf. Not strictly a student, but tags along with Nitrine and Marelle when she's bored. Surprisingly strong, and a dab hand with apocalyptic magic. Was due to be married to an Elven prince but ran away on their wedding day. Is apparently old friends with Nitrine.

FlakyPastry may be found [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/index.php here]].
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!!Examples:

* AltText: Starting from [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=92 strip 92.]]
* AmazonianBeauty: Zintiel.
* AncientArtifact: The Transcendental Reality Rearrangement Device.
* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: The "Croissant's Corner" strips, where SeriesMascot Croissant presents [[AllThereInTheManual extra info on the Flaky-verse,]] [[FourthWallMailSlot interviews with the characters,]] (mostly) non-canonical nonsense, and other manners of filler.
* AnythingThatMoves: Nitrine.
* ArtifactOfDeath: Again, the Transcendental Reality Rearrangement Device. Though it's unclear if using it would cause someone to die, [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=52 what it does]] certainly sounds like it would cause death, and not just that of the user.
* AxCrazy: Zintiel, so much.
** Prism, too, but only [[spoiler:when her true prime directive, "Rainbow Love Child", is activated.]]
* BadassBookworm: The neighbour.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor
** To elaborate a bit [[spoiler: Kurt, Nitrine's human boyfriend, becomes irritated by Nitrine's seeming disinterest in a serious relationship. Nitrine, who is a goblin, sees the world [[BlueAndOrangeMorality differently from Kurt and does not operate by the same standards.]] Thus, Kurt chooses the only logical option --[[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood brain washing]] -- and changes it so that Nitrine will operate by human standards of decency. Zintiel explains why this is actually a [[FridgeHorror really bad idea.]]]]
* BerserkButton: Never call Marelle a cat-girl.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Mona Theist, of the Sisters of Holy Retribution.
* {{BFS}}: Sister Mona carries one around with her in a guitar case.
* BiTheWay: Nitrine
** Marelle and Zintiel, as they don't show obvious attraction to women at first, but [[spoiler:are married in one of the later story arcs, which takes place 400 years into the future, so they may not hold those orientations in the present.)]]
* BlindingBangs: Tracy Ace.
* BringMyBrownPants: Tares could have benefited from wearing some darker clothes [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=78 here]].
* CatGirl: Marelle, though she insists that she is not one, and [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=127 gets annoyed]] when people suggest it.
* ChaoticNeutral: Zintiel and Nitrine can both easily be identified as this, while Zintiel is this by choice it is revealed that Nitrine on a racial level just operates this was since she is a Goblin.
* ChurchMilitant: It's not really clear if Sister Mona Theist is this or a BadassPreacher. Given she belongs to the "Sisters of Holy Retribution", and considers it appropriate behavior to go around swinging a {{BFS}} at "evil doers", it's probably ChurchMilitant.
* CleavageWindow: Nitrine's super-suit has one.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Morgana.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Tracy Ace, the university professor.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Something terrible, [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=345 indeed]].
* {{Crossdresser}}: Leslie, a very androgynous male, who is often mistaken for a girl. This might have something to do with his part-time job as a ''[[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=57 barmaid.]]''
** [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=199 Later on]], he's MistakenForGay.
*** Leslie is however [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=357 'very' guilty of missing gender as well.]]
* CuteLittleFangs: Nitrine.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Nitrine, a female goblin, looks like a short, cute woman with green hair and lips. The male goblins are classic goblin ugly.
* DungeonCrawling: The trio had to do a supposedly 100-floor dungeon crawl to retrieve a {{Mac Guffin}} in the earliest story arc.
* TheEveryman: Kurt. His relationship with Nitrine is said to be his one oddity. Well that, and he's kind of short at only five foot four.
* EvilChancellor / SmugSnake: The goblin [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=402 Vizier Reptilis]] is an archetypical example of both of these.
* EvilCounterpart: The "Rivalkyries" arc revolves around this. Prism is the counterpart to Marelle, Morgana is Nitrine's, and Mona is the GoodCounterpart to [[HeroicComedicSociopath Zintiel]].
* EyeScream: Nitrine defeats a troll by shooting it in the eye.
* FakeOutMakeOut: "I should [[ChekhovsGag hide]] [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=71 my]] [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=328 face]] or something."[[hottip:*:AltText - Clearly [[LampshadeHanging that could be ANY disheveled white-haired guy and cat-eared lavender-haired girl!]]
* FlatWhat: Probably the only reasonable response to Damian's [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=379 "secret technique."]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mona's WallOfText in the background of [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=2 this]] comic reveals her ChurchMilitant background, although we don't get to see it until she turns up again over a hundred pages later.
* FunetikAksent: most goblins. [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=404 This]] is a good example.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=92 Here]]
* FutureMeScaresMe: [[spoiler: Future Marelle seems to have turned to the dark side.]]
* GadgeteerGenius: Nitrine.
* AGlassInTheHand: Hey, what did [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=346 that orange]] ever do to you?!
* [[HeroOfAnotherStory Heroes Of Another Story]]: Leslie and Daran, [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=358 here.]]
* HeroicAlbino: The neighbour.
* IKissYourHand: [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=352 Arlen to Marelle.]]
* InnocentInnuendo: [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=90 #90]]
* JerkJock: Gabriel
* {{Keet}}: Damian
* KnightTemplar: Mona Theist: When LawfulGood attacks.
* KonamiCode: Oddly enough, it's the [[spoiler:only way to stop Prism from going on a mass murder spree anytime somebody says "Rainbow Love Child".]]
* LowFantasy: The world is a lot like ours, except that it's populated by races straight out of a [[DungeonsAndDragons D&D]] sourcebook.
* LoveableSexManiac: Nitrine is not only bisexual, but will flirt with just about anything and anyone she thinks looks good.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Who would have guessed that [[spoiler: the neighbour is Daran's father]]??
* MacGuffin: The Transcendental Reality Rearrangement Device, whose owner would not retrieve it himself and would rather sacrifice a bunch of treasure-happy dough-heads to the DungeonCrawl on the off chance that they would find it and bring it back to him. He does this because it's too unstable to use magic directly on (so he couldn't just teleport it to himself) and [[strike:he's too lazy to get it himself]] it's very dangerous for someone to touch it.
* MeaningfulName: Mona Theist and her sister Polly.
* MesACrowd: Nitrine
* MidBattleTeaBreak: [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=196 Here.]]
* MismatchedEyes: Prism
* MulticoloredHair: Zintiel's purple-and-orange PrehensileHair.
* MysteriousWaif: Daran seems to be one.
* NiceGuy: Kurt. Unfortunately, it doesn't do him much good.
* NoNameGiven: The neighbour.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Moirganae. Justified, since she's a product of the imagination.
* OverlyLongName: The girls' landlord's full name is Sir Manfred Adalbert Portrind of Frownshire the Twenty-fifth.
* PortalNetwork: The [[CoolGate Elfgates]] (which, despite the name, was built by [[LostTechnology some race preceding the elves]]) are apparently a common method of travel from one universe to another, as featured [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=359 here]].
* PrehensileHair: Zintiel
* TheProfessor: Nitrine, whose inventions are frequently nonsensical and often deadly.
* ProphecyTwist: [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=293 The April Fools' Day strip.]] Everything it claimed actually had some truth to it.
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Zintiel's "punch in the face" method of solving problems [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=140 does not work on Prism]].
* PunnyName: Sister Mona Theist. Not to be confused with her sister, Polly.
* RapunzelHair: Zintiel had this until it got cut off in a fight.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: When [[spoiler: Prism's kill-mode is activated, she closes one eye and the other is seen to turn red.]]
* TheRival: Prism to Marelle, Mona to Zintiel, and Morgana to Nitrine.
* SeriesMascot: Croissant, a character who acts as a host for the comic. She shows up occasionally to present [[AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent extra material.]]
* ShoutOut: When using the Belt Buckle: [[ViewtifulJoe "Henshin A-Go-Go, Baby!"]]
** Also, [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=37 this strip]], to Franchise/MetalGear.
** [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=83 This strip]], too, to Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure.
** [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=179 The neighbour's clothes]] in this strip are possibly a reference to DevilMayCry 3.
** In [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=408 this one]] Nitrine is making the Rage Comics "Forever Alone" face.
* SlapOnTheWristNuke: Omega Murder Blast obliterates the terrain in a substantial area around the target, but doesn't harm anyone other than the person it's centered on--after all, it's a single-target spell.
* SlapSlapKiss: [[spoiler: Nitrine and Morgana.]]
** Zintiel and Graplen. [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=111 Sorta.]]
* SnakeOilSalesman: One was encountered during the dungeon crawl.
* TheSociopath: It's revealed that Nitrine, as a goblin, ''literally'' lacks a conscience. Zintiel, in contrast, has a conscience but ignores it.
* StatuesqueStunner: Zintiel.
* TeamMom: Marelle
* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Nitrine and Marelle's search for a roommate at the start of the comic.
* TriggerPhrase: Don't say "Rainbow Love Child" in front of Prism if you value your life.
* UnusualEars: Almost all of the cast, except for the humans.
* UpgradeArtifact: Nitrine uses the Transcendental Reality Rearrangement Device to solve the problem of her belt requiring phenomenal amounts of energy to function for just thirty seconds.
* WallOfWeapons: Zintiel's wardrobe of weaponry.
* WebcomicTime: Lampshaded [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=239 here]].
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: According to Prism's Pulchritude Estimation Engine, the neighbour ranks an A.
* WrenchWench: Nitrine, as well as possibly future-Marelle.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Zintiel [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=325 drives home]] how nasty what Kurt did to Nitrine really was.
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