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"I've seen lots of weird stuff from travelling with my family. But an Angel and a Demon being friends is REALLY weird."
Slightly Damned is a Comedic Drama Fantasy webcomic based on the 'life', death, and misadventures of Rhea Snaketail, as well as her ' Demon supervisor', Buwaro Elexion, and later on, the socially awkward but Badass Angel Kieri "Snowy" Suizahn.
The humour and emotional drama is derived from a full cast of varied and compelling characters, and the complex but rewarding plot is sure to inspire many an Archive Binge well into the wee hours of the morning. It updates every Saturday with a large full colour page.
Notable for having the proud honour of being perhaps the only webcomic in existence with Reverse Schedule Slip.
Characters include:
- Rhea - The Jerk With A Heart Of Gold, recently deceased.
- Buwaro - The moron demon given charge of Rhea during her stay. Insufferably cute and naive.
- Kieri - An angel, currently lost in Medius. Socially awkward, with the Cute Bruiser mixed in.
- Thadius - Buwaro's beloved pet rock. Supposedly a girl.
- Death - A kindly fellow who just happens to deal with his namesake everyday. The third god of the world, and lord of judgement.
- Sakido - Buwaro's older sister, and a former elite soldier of Hell.
Tropes used include:
- A Hell Of A Time - The severity of this trope depends on how deep into hell you go. The Ring of the Slightly Damned is harmless, boredom and cliffs notwithstanding, whilst hell itself ranges from a never ending rendition of The Song That Never Ends to being tortured to death every single day for the rest of eternity.
- Accidental Innuendo - Kieri innocently does one here. Buwaro doesn't get it (supposedly), but apparently Rhea does.
- Alien Sky - Medius has two moons, red and green. Hell has an utterly featureless sky that simply goes on and off. According to Word Of God, a god did it.
- Always Chaotic Evil - Averted with Demons. Well, kind of.
- An Ice Person - Kieri, Lazuli.
- Anyone Can Die - Sakido.
- Art Shift - Several times, during Dream Sequences.
- Also, Flash Backs, like when Kieri reads through Darius's diary, are done in the same style.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance - Played with in Angels, who dye their hair and uniforms based on their element while Demon appearance is all over the place with (barely - three example fire demons◊) noticable tendencies.
- Avenging The Villain - Lazuli becomes hellbent on killing Kieri after she kills Talus.
- Awesome But Impractical - Buwaro never actually uses the wings he gets from Sakido's pendant because the group is of unanimous opinion they're too small to do any real good. Also, Kieri's Harmless Freezing powers seem to be like that, used only in one Random Encounter.
- For that matter, Buwaro's Unstoppable Rage is rendered thus by being much more literal than ususal. There are precisely two ways to stop it, and one of those is death. It's also totally indiscriminate.
- Back From The Dead - Rhea.
- Badass Normal - Rhea.
- Baleful Polymorph - Kieri, about half of the time.
- Berserk Button - Buwaro's pendant, inverted since it suppresses the always-on Unstoppable Rage instead of bearing all that much emotional significance to the character.
- Big No - No reincarnation for Rhea
- Blank White Eyes
- Blue With Shock
- By The Lights Of Their Eyes - Demons, justified as switching on the eye glow improves their already good night vision.
- Cat Smile - Rhea, Kieri in bunny form. Justified by non-human anatomy.
- Cerebus Syndrome - While intended as a plot driven story from the beginning, the focus on Rhea and Buwaro in the first several strips makes the beginning much lighter in tone.
- Cloudcuckoolander - Buwaro.
- Cluster F Bomb - Azurai is prone to this.
- Color Failure - Rhea caught with J's letter
- Coming Of Age - As the story goes on, Buwaro seems to be trading his emotional connections with Thadius for Kieri. Indeed, his maturity seems to scale inversely with Thadius's screen time.
- Companion Cube - Thadius, of course.
- Crouching Moron Hidden Badass - Buwaro.
- Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming - Together with a synchronized D'aww... by the main cast.
- Cursed With Awesome - Maybe not "awesome", but Kieri's "curse" is still pretty handy with next to no drawbacks.
- Cute Bruiser - Kieri.
- Dead To Begin With - Rhea, obviously.
- Dream Sequence - In the first few arcs, dream sequences for the characters are fairly common.
- Elemental Powers - Every Angel and Demon is attuned to an element, most (but not all) magic seems to be elemental.
- Mortals are also attuned, but it's not as visible in their case.
- Ensemble Darkhorse - Thadius gets an amazing amount of attention and fanart, despite being a pet rock with absolutely zero lines.
- Fantastic Racism - Mostly against demons, plus some Human-Jakkai animosities.
- Glowing Eyes Of Doom - Demons when angry - or they just want to improve their night vision.
- Gods Hands Are Tied - Death, the most active god around, is surprisingly limited. For example his own creation can disobey and mock him. Ouch.
- Good Wings Evil Wings - Angels have their usual deal, Demons get all varieties of feathery and batlike, Fairies - butterfly wings.
- Gratuitous English: Duster, but it's justified as Fairies normally don't choose to speak.
- Heroic Bystander - Subverted not once, but twice with Kieri.
- Interspecies Romance - Kieri and Buwaro.
- Involuntary Shapeshifting - Kieri.
- Jerkass: Cliff, but he's getting better.
- Jerk With A Heart Of Gold - Rhea.
- Sammy insists Cliff is one, but damn if he doesn't try his best to hide the "heart of gold" part.
- Kick The Dog - Lazuli and Talus.
- Killed Off For Real - Demons and Angels don't get an afterlife.
- Knight Of Cerebus - The hooded archer.
- Les Yay - Rhea wants to avert this, but she doesn't quite manage.
- Luminescent Blush - Entire main cast at various points, with Kieri's blush being the most prominent and frequent.
- Making A Splash - Kieri.
- Mode Lock - Occasionally kicking in, the only reason Kieri's "bunny curse" can be called a curse.
- Mordor - Hell, obviously.
- Mundane Afterlife - The Ring of the Slightly Damned consists of a large open landscape, filled with rocks, a pet rock, mountains made of rock, and flat places made of rock.
- My Name Is Not Durwood - Buwaro keeps calling Kieri "Snowy", as Rhea named her when they thought she was just a bunny. Nobody seems to mind it, though.
- Mysterious Past - Sakido, Buwaro, Iratu, Darius, Death, as well as what Ramirez has been up to since Rhea died, although that's more of a Mysterious Present.
- Nightmare Sequence - Kieri's first "angel" appearance is here, during a nightmare. Her next Dream Sequence also begins like a nightmare, but ends happily.
- Noodle Incident - The readers never learn what the explosion incident involved, only that it was truly spectacular.
- Not So Different - The angelic pendants, one of which Buwaro is never seen without (It's a long story), seem to have reasonably equivalent effects on demons, despite there being enchantments built in to them that make them painful to touch for any resident of hell.
- Offscreen Teleportation - Death.
- Only One Name - Demons and Jakkai; the latter sometimes have nicknames that function like last names.
- Buwaro recently bucked the trend on the demon side and is now Buwaro Elexion.
- Our Angels Are Different - Other than culture, differences between them and humans are pretty cosmetic for a fantasy race.
- Our Demons Are Different - Buwaro is the worst example of a demon ever.
- Personality Powers - All Angels and Demons, an established tendency but not a rule.
- Physical God - Death.
- Pollyanna - Buwaro, given his history.
- Proud Warrior Race - Angels have a pretty militaristic culture for a race of supposedly good guys.
- Puppy Dog Eyes - Buwaro, rarely happens to other characters.
- Sacrificial Lion: Sakido.
- Shapeshifter Hammerspace - Obviously, Kieri turning into a snow bunny (her clothes disappear too). Demons going berserk also gain mass.
- Shock And Awe - Sakido is pretty good at zapping people.
- Shout Out - To The Legend Of Zelda and Ace Attorney, in this comic. Minor shout-outs to Ace Attorney in the form of red, spiky "HOLD IT!" bubbles are also found.
- Squick - The reaction to learning about the source of Iratu's booze. As well it should be.
- Talking Animal - Kieri can speak even in bunny form. Magic.
- Tastes Like Diabetes - Rhea is sick of Buwaro and Kieri.
- The Big Guy - Iratu.
- The Fair Folk - While normal Fairies are of the tiny and playful variety, the Queen of Fairies gives off some bad vibrations.
- The Glomp - Buwaro does this once, though (knowing him) he'll probably do it again in the near future.
- The Gods Must Be Lazy - Despite being one of the divine crowd, Death gets rather lame territory compared to Gaia (heaven) and Syndel (hell), just getting himself purgatory and judgement. Not to mention that given the nastiness of divine politics, his hands are tied in regards to the other gods. There is also no information on the other gods doing anything at all recently.
- The Grim Reaper
- The Unpronounceable - In mild form: nobody gets "Kieri Suizahn" right the first time. Justified, since the official pronounciation is "kee-AIR-ee soo-EE-zahn".
- The Woobie - Buwaro.
- Three Amigos - Rhea, Buwaro, and Kieri.
- Unfunny - Sakido.
- Unstoppable Rage - Demons have the ability to go berserk, gaining great power. Unfortunately, they will Attack Attack Attack everything within sight until they die. There is a temporary solution, thanks to the Not So Different nature of Angels and their pendants, but this is rife with potential for violent hilarity.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting - Kieri can control her transformation most of the time, Death changes size at will.
- Weirdness Censor - The sight of a Demon and an Angel walking around together instead of fighting each other is so unthinkable, everyone assumes Kieri and Buwaro are wearing costumes.
- Winged Humanoid - Angels, of course.
- Whodunnit To Me - The events of the entire comic were all started by Rhea's death, and yet we don't have even the slightest idea why is it that she even died in the first place.
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