Lady Knight is a webcomic published on the Webtoon app and created by Lion Illustration. It updates on Wednesday and all but the latest three chapters can be read here
for free.
The story follows Aurora, a young orphan being raised in an abbey. She and her caretakers are growing fearful of the inquisition, their extreme and highly conservative preaching, and their growing influence. The sisters at the abbey then tell Aurora that she is one of many children cursed with magical power on a night when the spirits crossed over. This means that she can enter the Knights Academy, where only magically gifted children are allowed to enroll. The graduates go on to gain great influence and prestige.
Aurora agrees to enroll and become a knight in the hopes of becoming the change she wants to see in the world. She is also the first woman to be admitted to the academy. There she must not only learn how to control her abilities, but fight for her right to attend, as students who don't show enough promise are sent home without regard for the ostracization cursed children often face.
Lady Knight contains examples of:
- All of the Other Reindeer: Aurora is ostracized by her peers because Dan lies about her being a tease. We also find out that children being cursed by spirits is quite common, but it's only when there's a Mass Empowering Event scale incident that they bother giving them access to the safe haven that is the academy.
- Amplifier Artifact: This along with Power Nullifier and Power Copying is Aurora's curse.
- Blue Blood: Dan is the rare cursebearer born into a noble family, and was raised from an early age to join the academy.
- Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Aurora is the first woman to enroll at the Knights Academy.
- Fantastic Racism: Galvan is treated like a criminal at first for being a member of an ostracized clan of people. He enrolled because one of their own getting the influence that comes with knighthood is their best chance at fair treatment.
- Identical Stranger: Some fans have noted how Aurora bears a striking resemblance to the villain of the author's previous webcomic, House of Stars. They even both bear curse marks, but we know they're not the same person because their marks are on different parts of their bodies and the story is confirmed to take place in a different nation entirely.
- Laser-Guided Karma: It takes more than 30 chapters, but Dan is eventually beaten senseless by Aurora and loses his spot in the academy.
- Living on Borrowed Time: Curses often times kill the cursebearer if and when they lose control.
- Orphanage of Love: The Sisters at the Abbey took good care of Aurora.
- Mass Empowering Event: The spirits regularly do this to groups of children born around the time of the event, with enough frequency and for so long that the academy is a well known institution for training the empowered children.
- Non-Action Guy: Despite having been raised from a young age in the skills of knighthood, the main reason Dan is dangerous in combat is that his curse lets him paralyze people without even touching them. He's easily distracted in fights. The minute that Aurora uses her curse to overcome his, she conks him in the head and wins their final joust.
- Power Copying: This, the ability to disable curses, and the ability to amplify the curses of people around her is Aurora's curse.
- Power Trio: Enforced. Students have to form teams of three and compete together in jousts to stay in the academy.
