YMMV / TwoKinds

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Eric pretty much embodies all of the contradictions inherent in institutionalized slavery - he's a slave trader who appears to be an otherwise decent man who genuinely cares for his slaves, even while he exploits their labor and even uses them for sex. He's a hypocrite, but he can claim (with some justification) that by keeping them, he's protecting them from others far worse. In short, he's a bundle of contradictions, rather like real world people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
  • Mike is an extension of this; is his pseudo-Happiness in Slavery cowardice or pragmatism? As he has lived his whole life among humans, he not only sees humans as his culture, but finds Keidran society to be frighteningly alien;
  I can’t just run out into the wilderness to live among wild Keidran. I have no survival skills. I don’t know Keidran customs or traditions. I can’t even speak the Keidran language very well! I would not survive!
• Base-Breaking Character: The protagonist of the series, Trace Legacy has been a contentious character for the fandom, the reason being that many feel that the story is passing over the fact that he had attempted genocide and is just excusing him just because he has amnesia, which many feel is a poor justification, what doesn’t help is that his end goal involves him leaving to Lyn’knol, a secret place where humans and keidran live in harmony to escape his problems rather than confronting it. On the other side people have argued that while what he did was terrible, the current Trace we’re following is not the same genocidal Trace from before, and that they believe he will try to fix the damage that he’s caused, even arguing that he isn’t just gonna ignore what he’s done and that since he’s having a child with Flora, a tiger keidran, he will be able to end the war with her help. Whether or not that’s enough depends on who you’re asking.
• Broken Base:
  • Natani's gender and related issues are the source of a constant ongoing war amongst the fandom, with the predominant fields of combat being over which gender pronouns are appropriate^note TV Tropes, after some edit warring, ultimately settled on male pronouns, in mimicry of the author's choice and just how accurate the term "transgender" really is in Natani's case. After all, a female having their soul literally broken and a shards of a male's soul plastered into the gaps is very much not the origin for real-life transgender people, and "Youngtani's" comments on liking being seen as a boy whilst not minding being a girl are legitimately ambiguous, especially when one takes into account the misogynistic overtones of wolf keidran culture.
  • The website itself does little to clarify things either, as though his character bio refers to Natani as male, the Archive plot summaries use female pronouns for Natani, and many, many Patron draws use Natani's female body as fanservice.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • King Adelaide is very popular amongst the fandom, mainly because of her Amazonian Beauty and Reasonable Authority Figure personality. Also helped by the fact that she’s often requested for sketches.
  • The group introduced in Chapter 18, consisting of Seraphina, Sealeen, and Landen were also very well-liked for their designs and surprisingly funny personalities, including a ship tease between Sealeen and Lynn. Many fans even want them to join the main cast.
  • Therie Sah-Van and Daniels have been viewed very favorably by the fandom despite simply being background characters.
  • The western basitins introduced in the epilogue of Chapter 19 have gained quite some traction as well.
• Fandom-Specific Plot: Someone (always a guy for some reason) gets BAMF!'d into Mekkan, fights some templars, and meets a keidran girl friend; bonus points if she's a runaway slave. There's very few fanfics where someone's OC joins either party, alternate events, or even crossovers for that matter.
• Fanon: The human language being English rather than a Translation Convention.
• Fridge Horror:
  • Eric keeps all of his slaves under a spell (except for Kathrin) that compels them to obey him. Coupled with the fact that he admitted that he slept with some of the female slaves, we can only conclude that Eric is a rapist. ...Unless they were all released temporarily to choose for themselves like Kathrin, or it was just Kathrin he actually slept with.
  • Eric specifies that he is not having sex with Kathrin because he considers her more a little sister than love interest (bummer for her, since she's one Keidran actually in love with him), but also that he is active with his other female slaves. Considering how terrified Mike was about Eric finding out his apparent Gender Bender situation, the implications are unfortunate.
    • He does, however, admit to having occasionally "fooled around" with her as kids out of curiosity on that same page.
• Growing the Beard: From Chapter 7 onwards the comic shows a vast deal of improvement from previous chapters, especially the one directly preceding it.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In comic #814, Natani absently notes how glad he is Zen is currently "absent" from his mind and thusly can't tease him about planting The Big Damn Kiss on Keith after what was essentially a mutual love confession. Unfortunately, he doesn't know that the reason for Zen's absence is because his quarry just knocked him out cold and are planning on executing him because it's too dangerous to let him go (They don't).
• Ho Yay:
  • Keith and Nickolai; Mike and Evals. The latter pair can somewhat be overlooked, considering Mike was (temporarily) cursed to look like a hot girl. Keith and Natani are also this, and it has been commented on by characters in the comic a few times, though Natani is actually female but thinks and acts like a male due to Black Magic. Mike and Evals is making a revival too as Mike blushes when Evals hugs him.
  • Page 1134 goes pretty heavy on the Brutus/Clovis (who still identifies as male), with Clovis looking tenderly at Brutus while talking about how much he values him.
• Les Yay:
  • Flora and Kathrin's relationship on the ship and right after was somewhat uncomfortable due to Kathrin's flirty nature.
  • Tom has done several sketches pairing an older Maddie and Maeve in a romantic relationship, with the two having taken over running Adira's tavern. The 2022 Pride Month sketch shows Maddie has no clue what "les-bean" means, but they've got their tails affectionately coiled around each other.
  • In the canon side comic, The Dragon Masquerade, Trace's late, then future wife Saria and her keidran friend Rose have chemistry resembling an openly gay person trying to get their closeted partner to come out of their shell. Later there have been several sketches of the two in intimately domestic situations, including Rose modelling nude for Saria's paintings.
  • After Karen accidentally hit on Maddie by twining their tails together—an intimate act in Bastian culture—fans started shipping them either as a rival pairing to older Maddie and Maeve or as an OT3.
• Moral Event Horizon: Clovis was always a greedy, selfish jerk, willing to do whatever it takes to gain more power for his own ends. But the moment that he murders Brutus, the wolf who has been nothing but absolutely loyal to Clovis all his life, and deceives him in thinking he was there to rescue him is the point where he becomes irredeemable.
• Nightmare Fuel: We'll let the image speak for itself.
  • Berserk!Trace: StOp hURtINg fLoRa.
  • Natani: But I was so young when I lost them, and it was so long ago... They... they had no face. I couldn't remember their faces, their voices...
  • "Yes... master?"
  • Turns out that there is more left of Trace Legacy than just a ghost in Trace's mind. It also turns out that the only reason he ever dated Maren was so that he could use her as a vessel for the soul of his wife.
    • Detritus is made even more horrifying in a bonus sketch.
• The Woobie: Poor, poor Keith. To start, at 13 years old he returned home from military school to find his mother murdered by his father, who drunkenly kills himself by falling on Keith's spear, resulting Keith being ostracised to a foreign land, unable to return unless he can complete the Impossible Task of capturing the Grand Templar. He was taken in by Laura, a female fox keidren, and he was about to get married and give up on going home when she gave in to fear and peer pressure, running away the night before their wedding day. Years later it is revealed his mother was murdered by the Intelligence General in an extremely misguided attempt to "save" Keith's father, who chose Suicide by Cop in despair, and Laura was drugged and forced against her will to have sex with someone else. When this is revealed, the Intelligence General kills Laura.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: The comic gets heavily hit with this. Despite NSFW content, most parental advisory sites still rate it "kid friendly". The fact that NSFW content only appears later in the comic may have something to do with that.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?:
  • Raine's magic anti-transformation talismans are slave shackles
  • The argument for locking up the wolves of Edinmire in strip 871 is rather similar to the arguments for Japanese internment camps during World War II. This may even be an Allohistorical Allusion, since the author is Asian-American.

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