History WebComic / HowToBeAMindReaver

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Some translations from Chinese to English makes it clear English is not the author's fluent language, and thus there are some wording oddities. One example is when Cthu gives a female adventurer ginger tea to warm her up. The translated version calls it hot chocolate despite not looking like it.

* AmnesicHero: When Cthu was born, he has no idea who or what he is. Only that he used to be a scholar who failed in his past life.

* CerebusSyndrome: Despite its light-hearted premise, the series can get surprisingly dark at times. As such, Hank and Diana turning against the CorruptChurch for burning innocent girls because of their magic potential, Little Troll loses both of his parents to monster hunters, leaving him all alone, Nico visiting a refugee camp and despite his best efforts, they die to the Blackfoot disease; and Nico's uncle trying to outright murder him before he turns the tables on him, and his zombie friends kill him. Then we're introduced to Hex, a mercenary and a weapons master who has a little sister named Monica who's in suspended animation due to injuries, and he wants to find a way to save her.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Kess is a girl who can voluntarily transform into a werewolf.

* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: The undead ''hates'' whoever controls them. Nico however, ''befriends'' zombies, which allows them to serve him ''willingly''.

* CerebusSyndrome: Despite its light-hearted premise, the series can get surprisingly dark at times. As such, Hank and Diana turning against the CorruptChurch for burning innocent girls because of their magic potential, Little Troll loses both of his parents to monster hunters, leaving him all alone, Nico visiting a refugee camp and despite his best efforts, they die to the Blackfoot disease; and Nico's uncle trying to outright murder him before he turns the tables on him, and his zombie friends kill him.

* ActionDressRip: A healer comes to the Mind Weaver's dungeon, and the latter uses mind control to rip her dress in order to avoid a SpikesOfDoom pit she accidentally set off. His reasons for saving her is that he wants to get rid of the spikes himself and he doesn't want to be haunted by her ghost. [[spoiler:And he actually ''means'' it. The reason he moved out of his tower was because the fork-tailed cats kept giving him corpses of robbers near the cat village, and the cats gave him so much corpses that he decided to move out. His old tower is now haunted by those ghosts]].

** Cthu captures a female adventurer and chains her in his dungeon, Force-feeding her a drink that makes her feel really hot… which turns out to just be ginger tea. The reason is because she was wearing ChainmailBikini, she nearly froze to death since it was really cold.

* BrickJoke: In the second chapter, Cthu prevents a female adventurer from getting herself killed by mind controlling her, and avoiding a SpikesOfDoom pit because he wanted to remove them, and he did not want to be haunted by her ghost. 41 reveals that he moved out of his tower because forked tailed cats kept giving him corpses of dead robbers, which not only haunted his tower, but that he moved out as a result.

* ExposedToTheElements: Deconstructed. ChainmailBikini is ''not'' a practical choice to wear, especially in cold weather. Cthu points out an adventurer wore so little, she almost froze to death, and gives her ginger tea and a fur coat to keep her warm.

* TroubleEntendre: Averted for laughs; if Cthu says something ominous like "it's time to end your suffering" then he actually really means it: He'll make sure you're well fed, well dressed, warm and happy.

Cthulu is just a simple Mind Reaver who would just enjoy a peaceful life and a turn of events lead to him meeting a little girl named Luna, who is a prodigy in magic, whom he adopts as his daughter. Along the way, while Adventurers would attack him in his dungeon, he'd rather not fight them and opts to help them out.

* HeelFaceTurn: Hank the Paladin, who had a spell put on him by Chtu that forced him to realize the error of his ways and turn against the CorruptChurch he was part of. He's ''not'' really evil, but misguided. This helps him realize that what the church was doing is wrong, and innocent girls with magic potential should not be killed for it.

* ActionDressRip: A healer comes to the Mind Weaver's dungeon, and the latter uses mind control to rip her dress in order to avoid a SpikesOfDoom pit she accidentally set off. His reasons for saving her is that he wants to get rid of the spikes himself and he doesn't want to be haunted by her ghost.

''How to be a Mind Reaver'' is a web comic by Taiwanese artist [[https://www.facebook.com/eddlai608/ Wei]]. There exists both Chinese and English versions as well as physical copies of the Chinese version. [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/edd-lais-stories-how-to-be-a-mind-reaver/list?title_no=301213&webtoon-platform-redirect=true Read it here, on webtoons, if you'd like.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: Hank the Paladin, who had a spell put on him by Chtu that forced him to realize the error of his ways and turn against the CorruptChurch he was part of. This helps him realize that what the church was doing is wrong, and innocent girls with magic potential should not be killed for it.