Eerie Cuties is a webcomic created and drawn by GisèleLagacé which started on started on June 1, 2009 and follows the adventures of Layla and Nina Delacroix, two vampire sisters, at Charybdis Heights. So far they have met a French teacher with a possessed arm, a young succubus, a catboy, a werewolf and a masked janitor. As with her previous works, the comic is a mix of slice-of-life and sitcom set within a school atmosphere, most of the jokes being typical of a series set in high school, but in a supernatural one.It's co-written by both Gisèle Lagacé and Dave Zero1, with colors done by Miguel Marques in the first volume. With the shift to full page black & white manga style, inks (and other inputs) by Shouri.The Hellrune Coven got a Spin-Off strip, Magick Chicks.Now has a character page.
Eerie Cuties provides examples of the following tropes:
Abhorrent Admirer: Blair to pretty much every female and Nina's doppleganger to Kade.
Absurdly Youthful Mother: Nina and Layla's mother, Maria does not look like someone who could have had 13 children. Justified in that she's a vampire.
Accidental Kiss: Nina, when she falls on Kade (long story). She's upset about it, as it was her first.
Even though Chloe acknowledged that her looks were OK for human standards she was really self conscious about her body/breasts as a Succubus. It didn't last long though. Layla also showed some concern over her own breasts after Chloe's * ahem* sudden growth, although it may be related to Envy rather than self consciousness.
All Girls Like Ponies: Nina is turned into a boy when she's hit by a gender-changing orb; when she changes back into a girl, she says: "Hey! I like ponies again!"
Almost Kiss: Brooke and Layla... then Layla ruins the moment.
Arbitrary Skepticism: Melissa Hellrune and her friends laugh at people who believe in a cursed mirror...despite attending a school for various mythical beings and being witches themselves.
Arranged Marriage: Layla's father chose a future spouse for her when she was an infant. Layla only found out about this when she was 16. Suffice to say, she wasn't happy about it.
Art Shift: Well more like format shift. From colored newspaper like strips to more b&w manga like pages to allow more room for storytelling. The former has been collected in a volume set and now on sale for purchase.
Artifact of Doom: The Orb of Tiresias becomes this after bonding with Blair's perverted mind and starts turning all guys and girls into Blair's feminine ideal: vapid valley girls. The range of effect seems to be spreading too. Before falling victim to its effects herself, Professor Twiggit mentions that if this continues, all human life on Earth will become extinct in a generation or two.
Author Appeal: You can't look at the arc "Big Girls Don't Cry" and not think this.
Back from the Dead: It looks like this happens to Tiffany after Layla bites her. However, she actually never died: as it turns out, that she was stabbed by an astral sword which causes the victim's spirit to leave their body for a brief time and doesn't harm the body at all.
Brooke: At school, my face got all red when I saw Kade half-naked in bicycle shorts. Layla: Well... Anybody's would've... Brooke: A-and when I see Chloe changing in the locker room... Layla:Oh, c'mon. EvenI'mjealous ofthatpair.
Kissing Layla seems to have made her realize that she's attracted to her. She's an emotional wreck and confused out of her mind as a result and it probably doesn't help that the entire school probably knows now after Blair uploaded footage of it to his youtube.
Ninao: Oh noes! Blair turned Brooke into a boy, too! Brooke: I'm...I'm still a girl. Ninao:(lifting Brooke's skirt) No, you're n— oh wait, yes, you are. *SLAP!*
Nina drinks hard when called a big girl and told it has chocolate inside. Brooke is a semi-example, considering how much she wanted the bottle once she saw the brand.
Butt Monkey: Ace. His life has pretty much become a living hell ever since he met Nina. Though, it seems, that since he recovered from the gender bending incident, things are starting to turn around a bit and he may have gained a girlfriend in Brooke.
Buxom Is Better: After puberty hit Chloe, she became a lot more popular among boys.
Creepy Doll: Nina has a doll by the name of Blair who is possessed by the spirit of a man. Creepy because it's a girl doll and all the expression are rather girly, but it's a guy in that shell of plastic. That and he's prepared to stake Nina if she develops a taste for blood. Blair can be funny, though, to the audience and the characters he's not harassing at the moment.
While not enough is shown to confirm or disprove it, fan speculation is that the principal might be a creepy Japanese doll.
The only reason that the whole cast doesn't count is that some are cute monster boys.
Ace as a guy has hairy hands due to not quite being done with puberty. Girl!Ace doesn't, due to werewolf girls maturing faster than boys. (... But really because it wouldn't be cute on her.)
Deadly Prank: Yeah, never tie together the shoes of someone holding a sword. She got better.
Defrosting Ice Queen: Hanging out with Tiffany gives Layla a chance to be seen outside of her usual defensive persona, which is pretty universally considered a good thing by the audience. Naturally, none of the regular cast have gotten to see this side of her yet.
The Ninaganger sure reacted strongly to a wet Kade in bike shorts.
The reaction Ace's father had back when Ace had to write that report during vampire history month.
Ace's Father:(Snatches Ace's textbook away) Vampires!? Is that what they're teaching you at this school!? How dare they—Who's this? Ace: Thats the vampire queen I need to do the report on! Ace's Father: Can Daddy help? ♥
Ace certainly approves. Nina did similar at a point. Perhaps, switching genders affects sexuality, aware of the switch or not?
Double Standard: It's open to argument whether it's a double standard in play in the arc Big Girls Don't Cry, or whether it's simply that Kade is more interested in Layla than she is in him.
Based on his time near Layla, Kade would probably prefer it was just Layla, but she's sort of a tsundere with her affection. She knows he's hers and doesn't feel threatened by other girls. The rare exceptions Layla has are... bad for him.
I am sure that Blair was not the only one happy at this point, not to mention Chloe's shirt getting ripped earlier.
There's the scene with Layla in a bikini...
Ghost Tiffany isn't bad either.
Kade in bike shorts. And not a lot else...
Fan Service Pack: A male example. When Ace finally gets transformed back into a boy, he's taller and more filled out than he used to be, (and no furry hands to boot!). Apparently the changes (due to puberty) that occurred when Ace was female stuck.
Feather Boa Constrictor: Brooke nearly always wears her pet snake, Seth, around her neck. Unlike usual examples of the trope, he's about the size of a typical garden snake.
The Chick: Chloe Once she gets the Doompanties, though, she becomes the Brainwashedand Crazy Big Bad. of the "Doompanties" arc.
Fluffy the Terrible: Mr. Boodles, an adorable fluffy cat whose vampire powers let him kill things much larger than himself with what seems like very little effort.
Friendly Enemy: Tiffany really really means to be hunting Layla, but her airheaded Les Yay seems to be interfering.
Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Especially Nina, who prefers chocolate over blood, but the rest of her family also qualifies since none of their human victims are seriously harmed.
Fur Against Fang: Although there does seem to be an in-universe rivalry between vampires and werewolves, Nina doesn't seem to care about it, nor her family: Layla is equally rude to everyone, Maria is equally flirty with everyone. Nina has a very personal theory about the feud.
Gender Bender: Thanks to a magical orb that can change sexes. Hilarity ensues when Blair gets his hands on it.
Attractive Bent Gender: Happens to a lot of guys in the arc "Big Girls Don't Cry", Case in point: panel 2. And in that same strip, even Kade admits to thinking this. The attractive part at least, since he doesn't know about the other part. There are probably some female fans that could say Nina (or would it be Nino, now?) fits this trope as well.
Third Law of Gender Bending: Played completely straight by Nina, Ace and Kade post gender-swap. After all, it was not just "turn into girls" but bimbofication curse to begin with.
"I don't wanna be a girl! I liked being a boy!... And my clothes don't fiiiiiiiiit!"
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Played with by Professor Twiggit: Ace's new heterosexual attraction to boys? Genetic, apparently. Ace's equally new desire to go shopping for cute clothes? "I've never had those urges. That's just you."
Long-Haired Pretty Boy: Apparently, the orb of Tiresias doesn't actually change anyone's hair, so when it's done its work there's a few guys with very girly hair and a lot of girls with very boyish hair.
Genre Blindness: For being a Slayer, Tiffany has little idea of how one becomes a vampire. Or what she does in general (like what sort of a sword she grabbed).
Girlish Pigtails: Brooke wore her hair like that when she was a little girl, as shown in flashbacks.
Girls Have Cooties: Here, Boys Have Cooties - when Nina first meets Ace, he's in wolf form; she hugs him, then, when he changes into a boy, she slaps him for giving her cooties.
Have I Mentioned I Am Sexually Active Today?: A guest strip features Cess and Laura boasting about all the sex they had with their boyfriends. Layla says she can decide which one is telling the truth by tasting their blood, because "virgin blood tastes especially sweet". When she reveals that she lied about that, the girls both break down crying, admitting that they don't even have boyfriends.
Tiffany whenever she drops the Smart Ball. For example, forgetting vampires and sun don't mix right after helping solve the Evil Twin issue. She blames it on blood loss.
The Orb of Tiresias becomes a literalIdiot Ball when Blair uses it to turn everybody into empty-headed bimbos.
Imagine Spot: Tiffany has one before confronting her parents.
I'm Not Pretty: When introduced, Chloe considered herself okay by normal standards, but not pretty enough by succubus standards. Even after her growth spurt, she called herself "quite plain", despite having a legion of admirers.
Improbably Female Cast: There's only two main characters of note who are male, and one of them was turned into a girl. And then switched genders with the other guy.
Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Chloe, while under the influce of the Doom Panties, seems to see Nina as this to the point where even considering using her corrupting magic on her Chloe physically ill. That said, there are hints that Chloe's impression is not as accurate as anybody would like.
It Makes Sense in Context: Don't bother trying to explain a storyline to someone who's never read the comic. You'll just sound stupid.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Layla has many flaws and can be rather selfish, but she also has some moments of actual kindness and she truly cares for her sister.
Cess: Wouldn't it be neat if we became the school's new alpha females? Chloe: Whatever for? Laura: Well, someone has to! Cess: And you don't want it to be somone stuck-up like Lay- (Layla appears behind them) Cess and Laura: Laah!! La, la, la, we're singing a merry tune!
Magic Pants: Ace, the werewolf, seems to be able to slide out of his clothes, leaving them intact (and him naked afterward). Brooke Lynn averts this trope in that she loses her panties, but somehow she retained her footwear when she reverted. Considering that said undies ended up in Blair's plastic fingers, that aversion is probably to provide for the Rule of Funny.
Probably she just slipped her footwear back on quickly and forgot about her panties. Bare feet are a lot more immediately noticeable than bare . . . ahem.
Ace's shirt does rip the first time we see him transform, but it looks more like he did it himself in a fit of passion.
Jim Beard Sprynter, who is a pirate and coaches track.
Tiffany Winters acts, looks like, and does the same job as another girl whose last name is a season.
You won't convince me Blair, the possessed doll, isn't named after Linda Blair of The Exorcist fame.
All we need now is to discover that Brooke Lynn is from New York and we'll have pretty much all the main cast (though it's possible that her first name is a more subtle than usual pun, given that Melusine are traditionally supposed to be river creatures).
Miss Futakuchi, the history teacher, based on the Japanese Futakuchi-onna myths.
The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: Ace is still a girl and is not liking it. S/he sarcastically suggests to Brooke that maybe they could turn him/her back to a boy if they kiss. They try, it doesn't work, and Ace realizes something rather shocking... Ace felt absolutely nothing when kissing Brooke, which makes him/her realize that s/he might be gay. Or straight, since Ace is a girl now.
Both Nina and Layla discovered this thanks to the Freaky Friday Flip Nina caused, Nina had to deal with blood cravings while inside Layla's body and Layla found herself wanting chocolate inside of Nina's body.
Later, when they actually kiss, the moment is ruined by Nina.
Mood Whiplash: Oh look, Nina's doppelganger is trying to be evil, but the best she can come up with are childish pranks, isn't she so cute? Oh look, that Tiffany girl is dead now.
Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Melissa Hellrune — although she's mostly an Alpha Bitch with her eye on social advancement than anything else. Even so, the Orb was something she brought and had the potential to end all life on Earth, and she's only a student witch!
The Nicknamer: Layla. She calls Brooke "Serpentor", Chloe "Baroness", or "Blondie", and Ace "dog" or "Mutt". Of course, the last was well after her little sister dubbed him "Puppy!"
No, Except Yes: Layla acts like she was dumped, but is adamant about having done the dumping.
Female Ace is sorta glad that he/she doesn't have to compete with other men about who has the "biggest". This said to flat chested Brooke. The focus may change, but Bigger Is Better regardless.
As a point of comparison, in a flashback we see Brooke (who is the same age) acting in a manner similar to Nina's everyday behavior — on her sixth birthday. Brooke even called Nina kiddo once. And covered her ears as Mrs. Delacroix reminisced about her "phase" with Chloe's mother.
They can be born of vampire parents and grow up, they can see themselves in mirrors and Nina was born on Easter, and thus feeds on chocolate. No word yet on how/if they turn people though.
Tiffany thought she got turned from a bite, but this was quickly disproved.
Also, vampires can apparently feed on any living being with blood. Succubus blood tastes truly amazing, and melusine blood, besides being cold or room-temperature, tastes "exotic".
Princess Phase: When Nina gets drunk, she declares herself to be a princess.
Punny Name: Special mention goes to Arman Purvis (read the comic and you'll get it), but the best is taken by the vampire family with the French surname meaning "of the Cross"! Not to mention Brooke Lynn.
Pyrrhic Villainy: The aftermath the "Operation: Breakup" fiasco cost the Hellrune Coven their status as the "Queen Bees" of Charybdis Heights and all the benefits going with said status after the headmistress sends them to Artemis Academy. And Mel sees that Kade got gender-bent (and she has to protect Ash from Kade), though it does give her a momentary Imagine Spot where she sees herself as his girlfriend IF she can undo the Orb of Tiresias' magic.
Really Gets Around: Considering he walked up to his girlfriend, covered in the lipstick from the girl he just made out with, Kade may apply.
Really 700 Years Old: Eugene Delacroix. According to Nina he's older than the French romantic painter of that name, who was born in 1798.
Rebus Bubble: Nina's reaction to Ace transforming the first time. Can be seen in Magic Pants. And Nina seeing Ace here.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ifrit Laura and snow fairy Cessily seem to be operating in this manner.
Reluctant Monster: Brooke seems to dislike her monster form, and is a vegetarian, despite being carnivorus by nature.
Retcon: The last panel of the page posted on the 8th October originally featured the aged up Nina and the blondified Brooke kissing. Due to complaints on the forums the panel was changed two days later.
Orwellian Retcon: Near the end of Brooke's introduction, a line by Blair about her lost underwear was altered by the writers who felt it pushed the PG-13 border to far.
Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Subverted with Brooke, but played straight with the lizard twins Lax and Jux, the school bullies... Though as far as said bullies are concerned played straight with Brooke; see My Instincts Are Showing for details.
We now have a proper crossover. Layla has shown up in Magick Chicks during a story arc focusing on Tiffany, while Mellisa and Faith crossover into Eerie Cuties during a story line wherre Kade calls Mellisa for a date.
Scaled Up: Completely subverted when Brooke, one of the good guys, transformed into a giant serpent(oid)/Gorgon to scare a pair of bullies. Although she seems to be embarrassed of this form. Brooke is a Melusine, a race apparently based on a nymph who apparently was cursed to turn into part snake occasionally and, due to it being a curse rather than a natural facet, got a promise from her human husband never to peek on her at those times. When he did, she forgave him (her own curse was gained when she tried to punish her father for a similar transgression against her mother...mother was not amused with the disrespect she showed her father) until he called her a "serpent" in public at which point she turned into a dragon, left him some parting gift and flew away.
Sealed Evil in a Can: The Doom Panties which Chloe's mother said were meant to be for her but her body isn't ready for them yet. Putting then on prematurely makes Chloe a tad evil.
The Delacroix's dog is called Kujo, a reference to Stephen King's Cujo.
The gender-changing orb is called the "Orb of Tiresias". Tiresias is a famous seer from Greek mythology, who among some other misadventures once was transformed into a woman for seven years.
Layla's middle name is Alucardia, a feminine form of Alucard, which is Draculabackwards (used several times in vampire fiction as an alias for vampires).
Show Within a Show: Recently it was revealed that Eerie Cuties (and likely Magick Chicks as well) exist as a comic (and possibly other mediums) within the Ménage à 3 universe.
Shrinking Violet: Chloe, especially early on; Brooke, due to sexual identity issues.
Slumber Party: Nina invites Chloe and Brooke to one.
Small Reference Pools: Surprisingly averted, in terms of monsters and mythology. We have your standard vampires, werewolves, succubi, etc, but then we have more obscure creatures, like the melusine and the just plain creepy Futakuchi-onna.
Stalker with a Crush: Tiffany is pursuing Layla, allegedly with the intent to stake her and get revenge for her earlier humiliation. It becomes increasingly obvious that Tiffany has a crush on Layla, which is really starting to get in the way of the vampire hunting.
Configuration 3: The Succubi Trio during "The Doompanties" arc
The Big Bad: Chloe once she wears the Doompanties and Layla uses her mind control to cause Chloe to humiliate herself in front of Dio; this speeds Chloe's Sliding Down The Slippery Slope as she becomes determined to strip Layla of EVERYTHING she has after it.
Testosterone Poisoning: Ash, in his Crossover Cameo from Magick Chicks. After the girls "feed" off of his energy, though, he only managed to just get off "needing half a dozen Angus Burgers" instead of dying.
And now that Ace is a boy again, it looks as though he's going to act on it.
Too Much Information: Chloe, Layla and Brooke feel that way about Mrs. Delacroix revealing her history with Chloe's mother. Brooke even covers Nina's ears.
What Do You Mean, It\'s Not Heinous?: When the evil spirit of the mirror steals Nina's body to unleash her evil on the world. However, seeing as it's Nina she's in, all she can manage are lame practical jokes.
When The Planets Align: A vampire born on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox (popularly known as Easter) does not drink blood.
However, the above explanation is not necessary true, as some characters (including the aforementioned vampire) have complained that it make no sense and there is hint that there is more to it.
is a webcomic created and drawn by Gisèle Lagacé which started on started on June 1, 2009 and follows the adventures of Layla and Nina Delacroix, two vampire sisters, at Charybdis Heights. So far they have met a French teacher with a possessed arm, a young succubus, a catboy, a werewolf and a masked janitor. As with her previous works, the comic is a mix of slice-of-life and sitcom set within a school atmosphere, most of the jokes being typical of a series set in high school, but in a supernatural one.It's co-written by both Gisèle Lagacé and Dave Zero1, with colors done by Miguel Marques in the first volume. With the shift to full page black & white manga style, inks (and other inputs) by Shouri.The Hellrune Coven got a Spin-Off strip, Magick Chicks.Now has a character page.
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