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* MorphicResonance - Severin maintains her ponytail when transformed into a squirrel, unicorn, or dragon, and the Witch similarly maintains her hairstyle across forms.
** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Marc, who becomes unrecognizable as a tiger.
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[[folder:''Academic Comics'']]
'''''Academic Comics''''' is the tentative name for a series of comics I initially produced as part of a course in comics theory and design, eventually moving away from the confines of the syllabus and instead working on comics with the advice and direction of my professor. So far, there are 29 comics with plans to make more before I graduate. Though there is not yet a centralized place to view them, the longest comic, "Severin and the Witch," can be read in [[https://twitter.com/byzarru/status/1543981357298245633 this Twitter thread.]] I wanted to try to inventory tropes in my own work without getting into Administrivia/AutoEroticTroping so I'll reflect on them on my own Troper page. Hopefully one day I'll make something that merits its own page, but this section here is for dreaming... 😉
!!Tropes found in ''Academic Comics:''
* {{Animorphism}} - Occurs several times in the comics but the Witch in particular and eventually Severin engage in VoluntaryShapeshifting for fun.
** An organization named 'People Turning Into Animals' ([[FunWithAcronyms PTIA]]) transforms stressed people into therapy dogs and cats.
** Also seen in "What Men Really Want" as a young woman uses magic Valentine's Day candy to turn her boyfriend into a tiger. [[OhNoNotAgain His reaction implies that this isn't the first time.]]
* ArtShift - Occurs in "Epilogue" as Zack finishes a phone call and is depicted in [[PhotoComic photos]] in the last two panels.
* AuthorAvatar - Appears in a few of the comics.
* AuthorPowers - Demonstrated in "The Art of Social Interaction" as Severin is drawn from a sketchbook into existence.
* CasualInterstellarTravel - As seen in "To Say, To Go, To Do," as Severin readily takes herself and Zack to a distant ice world using a shuttlecraft.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness - The first four comics are single-panel cartoons, the first of those being an adaptation of Literature/Gulliver'sTravels, and none featuring characters that appear in later comics.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep - The Witch, natch.
* LifeEmbellished - Some comics are this, in particular "1/27" to "2/1" and the Fortnights, being responses to assignments prompting reflection on real events.
* MagicVersusScience - The theme of "Severin and the Witch," though the Witch focuses more on comparing technology favorably to magic to disillusion Severin from the idea that magic is necessarily superior to science.
* NoNameGiven - None of the recurring characters receive names until "Severin and the Witch" names [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Severin and the Witch]], and the AuthorAvatar is named Zack in "Epilogue."
* ShoutOut:
** All "Chance Operation" comics are based on the randomly-generated "Chance Operations" comics of Todd Webb, themselves inspired by the musical ideas proposed by Music/JohnCage.
** Severin and Xen appear as [[UsefulNotes/{{Mii}} Miis]] in a panel of "Severin and the Witch"
* SpaceIsAnOcean - complete with a space mermaid seen in "2/1," no less.
* ThreeDimensionalEpisode - "The Tower."
* {{Transflormation}} - The Witch counts a tree as one of the many forms she has taken during her lifetime.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting - One of the Witch's powers, she can transform at will and spends most of her debut as a unicorn. She can also transform other people, turning Severin into a squirrel mid-conversation.
** Severin's necklace grants her this power, using it to become a unicorn and a dragon.
* {{Wingdinglish}} - The Witch's letter to Severin at the end of "Severin and the Witch," though the script actually appears a couple of times earlier in the comic albeit more subtly.
[[folder:''Academic Comics'']]
'''''Academic Comics''''' is the tentative name for a series of comics I initially produced as part of a course in comics theory and design, eventually moving away from the confines of the syllabus and instead working on comics with the advice and direction of my professor. So far, there are 29 comics with plans to make more before I graduate. Though there is not yet a centralized place to view them, the longest comic, "Severin and the Witch," can be read in [[https://twitter.com/byzarru/status/1543981357298245633 this Twitter thread.]] I wanted to try to inventory tropes in my own work without getting into Administrivia/AutoEroticTroping so I'll reflect on them on my own Troper page. Hopefully one day I'll make something that merits its own page, but this section here is for dreaming... 😉
!!Tropes found in ''Academic Comics:''
* {{Animorphism}} - Occurs several times in the comics but the Witch in particular and eventually Severin engage in VoluntaryShapeshifting for fun.
** An organization named 'People Turning Into Animals' ([[FunWithAcronyms PTIA]]) transforms stressed people into therapy dogs and cats.
** Also seen in "What Men Really Want" as a young woman uses magic Valentine's Day candy to turn her boyfriend into a tiger. [[OhNoNotAgain His reaction implies that this isn't the first time.]]
* ArtShift - Occurs in "Epilogue" as Zack finishes a phone call and is depicted in [[PhotoComic photos]] in the last two panels.
* AuthorAvatar - Appears in a few of the comics.
* AuthorPowers - Demonstrated in "The Art of Social Interaction" as Severin is drawn from a sketchbook into existence.
* CasualInterstellarTravel - As seen in "To Say, To Go, To Do," as Severin readily takes herself and Zack to a distant ice world using a shuttlecraft.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness - The first four comics are single-panel cartoons, the first of those being an adaptation of Literature/Gulliver'sTravels, and none featuring characters that appear in later comics.
* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep - The Witch, natch.
* LifeEmbellished - Some comics are this, in particular "1/27" to "2/1" and the Fortnights, being responses to assignments prompting reflection on real events.
* MagicVersusScience - The theme of "Severin and the Witch," though the Witch focuses more on comparing technology favorably to magic to disillusion Severin from the idea that magic is necessarily superior to science.
* NoNameGiven - None of the recurring characters receive names until "Severin and the Witch" names [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Severin and the Witch]], and the AuthorAvatar is named Zack in "Epilogue."
* ShoutOut:
** All "Chance Operation" comics are based on the randomly-generated "Chance Operations" comics of Todd Webb, themselves inspired by the musical ideas proposed by Music/JohnCage.
** Severin and Xen appear as [[UsefulNotes/{{Mii}} Miis]] in a panel of "Severin and the Witch"
* SpaceIsAnOcean - complete with a space mermaid seen in "2/1," no less.
* ThreeDimensionalEpisode - "The Tower."
* {{Transflormation}} - The Witch counts a tree as one of the many forms she has taken during her lifetime.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting - One of the Witch's powers, she can transform at will and spends most of her debut as a unicorn. She can also transform other people, turning Severin into a squirrel mid-conversation.
** Severin's necklace grants her this power, using it to become a unicorn and a dragon.
* {{Wingdinglish}} - The Witch's letter to Severin at the end of "Severin and the Witch," though the script actually appears a couple of times earlier in the comic albeit more subtly.
