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* AuthorAppeal: The original artist, Beowulf, tended to draw Nikki and other female characters with large busts to invoke BuxomBeautyStandard. The current artist, [=DreamTaker=], usually draws them with a bit more realistic proportions.
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* BuxomIsBetter: The original artist, Beowulf, tended to draw Nikki and other female characters with large busts. The current artist, [=DreamTaker=], usually draws them with a bit more realistic proportions.
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* DudeLooksLikeALady: Zakeriah.
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* DudeLooksLikeALady: Zakeriah.[[http://beyondtheveilcomic.com/?comic=05312010 Zakeriah]], and quite CampStraight.
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* ImmortalRuler: Nicodemus Aurelius was one, Uriel is one, and it seems like many of both their regimes' elites are immortal as well.
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[[http://beyondtheveilcomic.com/ Beyond the Veil]] is the story of Emperor Nicodemus Aurelius, ruler of three galaxies, and dead for three centuries. Up until a hapless team of explorers stumbles across one of his supercomputers and the machine downloads his and his four most loyal followers' minds into their bodies.
Unfortunately the damned computer put him in the body of a woman.
Unfortunately the damned computer put him in the body of a woman.
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* CleavageWindow: Nikki sometimes has one, as seen above.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Nikki and Zeeal.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Nikki and Zeeal.]]
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* FullyDressedCartoonAnimal: All the furry characters.
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* VillainProtagonist: Aside from being a body-snatching would-be GalacticConqueror Nikki casually threatens Joshua with mutilation and creates a monster to terrorize the common folk as part of her plan.
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* VillainProtagonist: Aside from being a body-snatching would-be GalacticConqueror Nikki casually threatens Joshua with mutilation and creates a monster to terrorize the common folk as part of her plan.plan.
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* MachiavelliWasWrong: Nikki seems to realize that [[http://beyondtheveilcomic.com/?p=212 fear is not enough]] to ensure the loyalty of her top lieutenants. Though she has no problem terrorizing the peasantry, granted in an elaborate MonsterProtectionRacket
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* TitleDrop: [[http://beyondtheveilcomic.com/?p=1123 The inscription on Nicodemus Aurelius' tomb]].
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* AltText: Experimented with in [[http://beyondtheveilcomic.com/?p=549 chapter six]].
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** Also Feyd, Elder God of Fear and Pain.
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* RapePillageAndBurn: [[http://beyondtheveilcomic.com/?p=392 "Is it... rape the children, burn the women, and take the loot?"]]
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* BountyHunter: The Jumpers run into one dressed in full battle armor named Dolor, apparently sent by Uriel. He does give them an opportunity to come quietly.
* BuxomIsBetter: The original artist, Beowulf, tended to draw Nikki and other female characters with large busts. The current artist, [=DreamTaker=], usually draws them with a bit more realistic proportions.
* BuxomIsBetter: The original artist, Beowulf, tended to draw Nikki and other female characters with large busts. The current artist, [=DreamTaker=], usually draws them with a bit more realistic proportions.
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* BlindJump: At the end of the civil war the Emperor's flagship, the ''Titan'', jumped into the void between galaxies, carrying his corpse with it. Centuries later a crew of professional "Jumpers" find it.
* BodyBackupDrive: Zeeal stored backups of Nicodemus and his inner circle for later downloading.
--> ''Nobody remembers what it's like to die. I am responsible for that. I saw what happened when my scientists used "dead memory" on a clone blank. My law declared the punishment for ever trying that again would be death by torture... To last no less than a month.''
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Zakeriah.
* BodyBackupDrive: Zeeal stored backups of Nicodemus and his inner circle for later downloading.
--> ''Nobody remembers what it's like to die. I am responsible for that. I saw what happened when my scientists used "dead memory" on a clone blank. My law declared the punishment for ever trying that again would be death by torture... To last no less than a month.''
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Zakeriah.
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* GodGuise: Apparently how the Empire rules the planet.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Nicodemus Aurelius is 721 years old, and has experienced 419 of them. Most of the major players in galactic politics are similarly old. And even [[spoiler: Briggs is over three hundred.]]
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Nicodemus Aurelius is 721 years old, and has experienced 419 of them. Most of the major players in galactic politics are similarly old. And even [[spoiler: Briggs is over three hundred.]]]]
* TheUsurper: Uriel, who seized the Empire from Nicodemus.
* VillainProtagonist: Aside from being a body-snatching would-be GalacticConqueror Nikki casually threatens Joshua with mutilation and creates a monster to terrorize the common folk as part of her plan.
* TheUsurper: Uriel, who seized the Empire from Nicodemus.
* VillainProtagonist: Aside from being a body-snatching would-be GalacticConqueror Nikki casually threatens Joshua with mutilation and creates a monster to terrorize the common folk as part of her plan.
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[[http://beyondtheveilcomic.com/ Beyond the Veil]] is the story of Emperor Nicodemus Aurelius, ruler of three galaxies, and dead for three centuries. Up until a hapless team of explorers stumbles across one of his supercomputers and the machine downloads his and his four most loyal followers' minds into their bodies.
Unfortunately the damned computer put him in the body of a woman.
However "Nikki" doesn't seem to mind that much really, all she wants is to get her Empire back, and she'll do whatever it takes to do that.
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* GenderBender: Body-snatching version.
** SecondLawOfGenderBending: "Nikki" is given the opportunity to inhabit a clone of his old body, but says she prefers her new one.
** ThirdLawOfGenderBending: And she acts rather girly for someone who spent over 400 years as a man. Even taking her second-in-command Joshua as a lover.
* GodEmperor: The seemingly primitive planet on which the first few chapters take place is ruled by "The Divine Asta", and the locals know the coup as a distant war of the Gods. And it turns out that even out in the "civilized" universe Nicodemus has a secret cult of Resurrectionists.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Nicodemus Aurelius is 721 years old, and has experienced 419 of them. Most of the major players in galactic politics are similarly old. And even [[spoiler: Briggs is over three hundred.]]
Unfortunately the damned computer put him in the body of a woman.
However "Nikki" doesn't seem to mind that much really, all she wants is to get her Empire back, and she'll do whatever it takes to do that.
!!Tropes
* GenderBender: Body-snatching version.
** SecondLawOfGenderBending: "Nikki" is given the opportunity to inhabit a clone of his old body, but says she prefers her new one.
** ThirdLawOfGenderBending: And she acts rather girly for someone who spent over 400 years as a man. Even taking her second-in-command Joshua as a lover.
* GodEmperor: The seemingly primitive planet on which the first few chapters take place is ruled by "The Divine Asta", and the locals know the coup as a distant war of the Gods. And it turns out that even out in the "civilized" universe Nicodemus has a secret cult of Resurrectionists.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Nicodemus Aurelius is 721 years old, and has experienced 419 of them. Most of the major players in galactic politics are similarly old. And even [[spoiler: Briggs is over three hundred.]]
