is a Magical Girl webcomic by RockyBloo, hosted on ComicFury along with their other webcomic, Beanstalked.Sweetheart's got a lot on her plate as a Beloved, sworn to defend Decking City from various abberations sent by the despicable Lord Vile, a conqueror-tyrant from another dimension. She's promised to be ready for anything, but she never did expect that Bitterbat, the strongest of Lord Vile's enforcers, would fall head-over-heels in love with her.
Tropes featured in Glitter and Guilt include:
- Anthropomorphic Personification: The Beloveds' primary Monsters of the Week are Vents, "monsters created by high levels of human emotion". It appears that they can be formed from a variety of emotions, like rage, sorrow, and excitement.
- Bait-and-Switch: After a young Bitterbat shrugs off Sweetheart's attack in the prologue, he looks like he's gearing up to make some cheesy We Will Meet Again remark before a Villain: Exit, Stage Left, not for him to declare his love for her.
- Boom, Headshot!: Sweetheart inflicts one on the Sorrow Vent in Chapter 1. However, since its body is made of water, this doesn't do it in.
- Color-Coded Speech: Each of Sweetheart's friends' texting-speech bubbles bear a different color: Val's are emerald green, Tristan's are sapphire blue, Melly's are amber, and Sweetheart's herself are rose pink.
- Content Warnings: The very first page warns of adult content to come:WARNING
Glitter and Guilt is intended for an adult audience.
This comic contains strong language, graphic violence, and sexual scenes and themes.
Lovely: Reader discretion is advised! - Curtains Match the Window: Both Sweetheart's eyes and hair are hot pink in her magical form.
- Dating Catwoman: The primary focus of the comic is of Sweetheart and Bitterbat's relationship.
- Ear Fins: Although technically they're wings, Bitterbat's ear-wings visually resemble this trope.
- Guns Akimbo: Sweetheart generates a second sidearm in her right hand to face the Sorrow Vent in Chapter 1.
- Idiot Hair: Sweetheart has an ahoge in the shape of a heart.
- In a Single Bound: Sweetheart bounds several stories into the air to escape being squashed by the Sorrow Vent in Chapter 1.
- Interspecies Romance: Bitterbat, an otherworldly creature called a Monstrum, has a massive crush on Sweetheart, a human magical girl.
- Making a Splash: The body of the Sorrow Vent seen in Chapter 1 is a watery mass.
- Mentor Mascot: Lovely, a multicolored bird with a heart shape on her chest, has supervised Sweetheart throughout her Beloved career.
- Mercury's Wings: As a Beloved, Sweetheart gains a pair of feathered wings on her head and feet, and Bitterbat has a pair of bat wings in place of ears.
- No One Could Survive That!: When Sweetheart first pulverizes Bitterbat in their first encounter, she remarked to Lovely that she was certain that he wouldn't have survived the blow, and is unsettled to watch him pull himself out of the wreckage.
- Pink Heroine: Sweetheart is the protagonist of the comic, and her hair and outfit are reddish-pink.
- Power Dyes Your Hair: Sweetheart's hair is fuschia in her Beloved form but is black in her human form, and the same goes for her fellow Beloveds.
- Quirky Miniboss Squad: Bitterbat is a member of the Flavor Four, a group of young Monstrums who act as Lord Vile's enforcers.
- Superhero Packing Heat: Sweetheart's weapon is a sidearm.
- Transformation Name Announcement: In Chapter 1, Sweetheart gives one to the Sorrow Vent whose head she put a hole in:"Heartache is a painful feeling... one that is hard to control and makes the world seem like your enemy. But your pain is not an excuse for you to behave however you like without consequence! That's why I, Beloved Sweetheart, will soothe your sorrowful heart with my love!"
- Villain-Possessed Bystander: Vents form from humans gripped by extreme emotion, and one arises in Chapter 1 out of a woman anguished over a breakup, and angrily dismissive of her friends' attempts to comfort her.
- We Need a Distraction: In Chapter 1, Lovely momentarily taunts the Sorrow Vent to buy time for Sweetheart's Transformation Sequence.
- White-and-Grey Morality: Briefly discussed by Sweetheart, when she learns from her conversations with Bitterbat that the monsters she fights aren't wholly evil through and through.Sweetheart: These conversations taught me the most dangerous thing about villains. They're not just black and white. They're gray like everybody else.
