A webcomic by Félix Lavallée, which started in 2005 and is ongoing, with updates every Friday.Flaky Pastry is a Low FantasySitcom 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 Dungeons & Dragons-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 Team Mom, who is addicted to learning and has been studying at the university for a very long time. Has Unusual Ears, making her look suspiciously like a Cat Girl, but 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.
Artifact of Death: Again, the Transcendental Reality Rearrangement Device. Though it's unclear if using it would cause someone to die, what it does certainly sounds like it would cause death, and not just that of the user.
To elaborate a bit Kurt, Nitrine's human boyfriend, becomes irritated by Nitrine's seeming disinterest in a serious relationship. Nitrine, who is a goblin, sees the world differently from Kurt and does not operate by the same standards. Thus, Kurt chooses the only logical option —brain washing — and changes it so that Nitrine will operate by human standards of decency. Zintiel explains why this is actually a really bad idea.
Marelle and Zintiel, as they don't show obvious attraction to women at first, but are married in one of the latest story arcs, which takes place 400 years into the future, so they may not hold those orientations in the present.)
Cat Girl: Marelle, though she insists that she is not one, and gets annoyed when people suggest it.
Chaotic Neutral: 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.
Church Militant: It's not really clear if Sister Mona Theist is this or a Badass Preacher. 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 Church Militant.
Foreshadowing: Mona's Wall of Text in the background of this comic reveals her Church Militant background, although we don't get to see it until she turns up again over a hundred pages later.
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 Dungeon Crawl 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 he's too lazy to get it himself it's very dangerous for someone to touch it.
In this one Nitrine is making the Rage Comics "Forever Alone" face.
Slap-on-the-Wrist Nuke: 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.
Trigger Phrase: Don't say "Rainbow Love Child" in front of Prism if you value your life.
Unusual Ears: Almost all of the cast, except for the humans.
Upgrade Artifact: 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.
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