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* {{Expy}}: Alex's dad is quite visibly based on [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendo Ikari]], performing his [[ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive signature pose]] on multiple occasions.
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* {{Expy}}: Alex's dad is quite visibly based on [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendo Ikari]], performing his [[ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive [[FingerTenting signature pose]] on multiple occasions.
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* DroppedABridgeOffHim: [[spoiler:Daniel]] is killed off-screen and his death announced via a news broadcast.
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* DroppedABridgeOffHim: DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:Daniel]] is killed off-screen and his death announced via a news broadcast.
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''Blue's Diary'' is a {{Webcomic}} created by Indonesian artist; Rong Rong. It started in June 2016 on [[https://www.facebook.com/RongRongArts Rong Rong's Facebook page]], and is still ongoing, with updates more or less daily. It follows Alex Blue, the pampered son of the CEO of the MegaCorp Blue Royals. His father plans to step down and hand the reins over to Alex, but in order for Alex to inherit the company, he must first gain some real-world experience and find himself a girlfriend. Simple... right?
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''Blue's Diary'' is a {{Webcomic}} created by Indonesian artist; artist Rong Rong. It started in June 2016 on [[https://www.facebook.com/RongRongArts Rong Rong's Facebook page]], and is still ongoing, with updates more or less daily. It follows Alex Blue, the pampered son of the CEO of the MegaCorp Blue Royals. His father plans to step down and hand the reins over to Alex, but in order for Alex to inherit the company, he must first gain some real-world experience and find himself a girlfriend. Simple... right?
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* JerkassGenie: Discussed after Alex and Daniel complete the summoning ritual. When the Cornelia-succubus Alex wished for does not materialize, he and Daniel remark that the demon must have twisted the wish in some way (with reference made to ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal''). [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Cornelia is ''already'' a succubus, and that she had cancelled the deal entirely.]]
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* JerkassGenie: JackassGenie: Discussed after Alex and Daniel complete the summoning ritual. When the Cornelia-succubus Alex wished for does not materialize, he and Daniel remark that the demon must have twisted the wish in some way (with reference made to ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal''). [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Cornelia is ''already'' a succubus, and that she had cancelled the deal entirely.]]
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** Cornelia Angeles, the initial object of his affection. [[spoiler:She is later revealed to be a succubus, and is removed from the equation in #292 when she disappears along with Ricky]].
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** Cornelia Angeles, the initial object of his affection. [[spoiler:She is later revealed to be a succubus, and is removed from the equation in #292 when she disappears along with Ricky]].Ricky.]]
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** Lily's eyes are seemingly the same shade of red. [[spoiler: Her encounter with Diana in Series 4 heavily implies that she is, in fact, Hong]].
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** Lily's eyes are seemingly the same shade of red. [[spoiler: Her encounter with Diana in Series 4 heavily implies that she is, in fact, Hong]].Hong.]]
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** Strips 228 to 292 form one extended WhamEpisode. When Alex goes to meet the "demon debunker", he first sees a news report revealing that [[spoiler:Daniel has been murdered]]. Then, when the debunker arrives, he is revealed to be [[spoiler:the man who slept with Cornelia in the previous arc]]. Eventually, the debunker proves that [[spoiler:Cornelia is a demon]] before inadvertently revealing that [[spoiler:he is also a demon... and her ''brother'']][[note]]Incidentally, this one actually [[spoiler:[[OnceMoreWithClarity re-contextualises the ''previous'' Wham Episode and removes all the "wham" from it]].[[/note]] Finally, [[spoiler:Cornelia confesses that her "time is up", and vanishes never to be seen again]].
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** Strips 228 to 292 form one extended WhamEpisode. When Alex goes to meet the "demon debunker", he first sees a news report revealing that [[spoiler:Daniel has been murdered]]. Then, when the debunker arrives, he is revealed to be [[spoiler:the man who slept with Cornelia in the previous arc]]. Eventually, the debunker proves that [[spoiler:Cornelia is a demon]] before inadvertently revealing that [[spoiler:he is also a demon... and her ''brother'']][[note]]Incidentally, ''brother'']].[[note]]Incidentally, this one actually [[spoiler:[[OnceMoreWithClarity re-contextualises the ''previous'' Wham Episode and removes all the "wham" from it]].[[/note]] Finally, [[spoiler:Cornelia confesses that her "time is up", and vanishes never to be seen again]].
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''Blue's Diary'' is a {{Webcomic}} created by Vietnamese artist Rong Rong. It started in June 2016 on [[https://www.facebook.com/RongRongArts Rong Rong's Facebook page]], and is still ongoing, with updates more or less daily. It follows Alex Blue, the pampered son of the CEO of the MegaCorp Blue Royals. His father plans to step down and hand the reins over to Alex, but in order for Alex to inherit the company, he must first gain some real-world experience and find himself a girlfriend. Simple... right?
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''Blue's Diary'' is a {{Webcomic}} created byVietnamese artist Indonesian artist; Rong Rong. It started in June 2016 on [[https://www.facebook.com/RongRongArts Rong Rong's Facebook page]], and is still ongoing, with updates more or less daily. It follows Alex Blue, the pampered son of the CEO of the MegaCorp Blue Royals. His father plans to step down and hand the reins over to Alex, but in order for Alex to inherit the company, he must first gain some real-world experience and find himself a girlfriend. Simple... right?
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** There are several hints in Season 1 that Cornelia is more than she appears to be. When a rejected boy starts to harass her, Cornelia somehow scares him off before seemingly vanishing, and during the water-balloon fight, she is implied to teleport away briefly (something her opponents seem to notice). She also laughs at a haunted house: a lack of fear is later revealed to be one of the identifying characteristics of a succubus. The clincher is when [[spoiler:she apparently appears in two places at once]].
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** There are several hints in Season 1 that Cornelia is more than she appears to be. When a rejected boy starts to harass her, Cornelia somehow scares him off before seemingly vanishing, and during the water-balloon fight, she is implied to teleport away briefly (something her opponents seem to notice). She also laughs at when she was watching a haunted house: horror movie with Alex: a lack of fear is later revealed to be one of the identifying characteristics of a succubus. The clincher is when [[spoiler:she apparently appears in two places at once]].
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* DealWithTheDevil: The 'magic circle' summoning ritual is allegedly this. By drawing a summoning circle and providing a sacrifice, one can supposedly summon a demon that will grant you a wish, but if the sacrifice is insufficient, the demon will instead kill you. After a reader vote, Alex tries out the ritual with Daniel, sacrificing two years of his life in exchange for a single night with Cornelia. The ritual appeared to work, but [[spoiler:in strip 268 it's revealed that Cornelia cancelled the deal]].
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* DealWithTheDevil: The 'magic circle' summoning ritual is allegedly this. By drawing a summoning circle and providing a sacrifice, one can supposedly summon a demon that will grant you a wish, but if the sacrifice is insufficient, the demon will instead kill you. After a reader vote, Alex tries out the ritual with Daniel, sacrificing two years of his life in exchange for a single night with Cornelia. The ritual appeared to work, but [[spoiler:in strip 268 #268 it's revealed that Cornelia cancelled the deal]].
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** Cornelia emerging from her hotel room in her underwear would count as this trope [[WhamShot if not for the context in which she does so]].
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** DoubleSubverted with the shot of Cornelia emerging from her the hotel room in her underwear would count as this trope [[WhamShot if not for underwear. It's a WhamShot when it first happens, but when seen again [[OnceMoreWithClarity with the context in which she does so]].proper context]] is really ''is'' quite fanservice-y.
* FirstGirlWins: [[spoiler:Averted. At the end of #292 Cornelia vanishes along with Ricky, and it's stated that Alex never saw her again.]]
* FirstGirlWins: [[spoiler:Averted. At the end of #292 Cornelia vanishes along with Ricky, and it's stated that Alex never saw her again.]]
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** There are several hints in Season 1 that Cornelia is more than she appears to be. When a rejected boy starts to harass her, Cornelia somehow scares him off before seemingly vanishing, and during the water-balloon fight, she is implied to teleport away briefly (something her opponents seem to notice). She also laughs at a haunted house: a lack of fear is later revealed to be one of the identifying characteristics of a succubus.
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** There are several hints in Season 1 that Cornelia is more than she appears to be. When a rejected boy starts to harass her, Cornelia somehow scares him off before seemingly vanishing, and during the water-balloon fight, she is implied to teleport away briefly (something her opponents seem to notice). She also laughs at a haunted house: a lack of fear is later revealed to be one of the identifying characteristics of a succubus. The clincher is when [[spoiler:she apparently appears in two places at once]].
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: After Alex shows the debunker Cornelia's picture, and he realizes who she is, he attempts to make his leave and promises that they'll talk about Cornelia some other time. Alex catches it and points out that he never told the man Cornelia's name.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: After Alex shows the debunker Cornelia's picture, and he realizes who she is, he picture to Ricky, Ricky attempts to make his leave and promises that they'll talk about Cornelia some other time. Alex catches it and points out that he never told the man him Cornelia's name.
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* LoveDodecahedron: At the moment, there are three potential love interests for Alex: Cornelia, her friend Lily, and Natalia. Cornelia [[spoiler:is a demon, and]] has already rejected Alex once; Lily acts as a wingwoman, trying to help Alex win Cornelia over, but is strongly implied to have feelings for him herself; Natalia is a {{Tsundere}} and implied GoldDinner whose family is heavily in Blue Corp's debt.
* TheMasquerade: Initially inverted, then played straight and justified. [[spoiler:Flashbacks reveal that it was Ricky who first posted the instructions on how to summon demons, but Cornelia admonished him for breaking the masquerade. By the time Ricky took the post down, it was too late, so he instead created a new "debunker" persona to try and convince people that the ritual didn't work.]]
* TheMasquerade: Initially inverted, then played straight and justified. [[spoiler:Flashbacks reveal that it was Ricky who first posted the instructions on how to summon demons, but Cornelia admonished him for breaking the masquerade. By the time Ricky took the post down, it was too late, so he instead created a new "debunker" persona to try and convince people that the ritual didn't work.]]
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* LoveDodecahedron: At the moment, there are Alex has three potential primary love interests for Alex: Cornelia, her friend Lily, and Natalia. interests:
** Cornelia[[spoiler:is Angeles, the initial object of his affection. [[spoiler:She is later revealed to be a demon, and]] has already rejected Alex once; Lily succubus, and is removed from the equation in #292 when she disappears along with Ricky]].
** Lily, Cornelia's best friend. She acts as awingwoman, wingman to Alex, trying to help Alex him win Cornelia over, but is strongly heavily impled to have a crush on him herself.
** Natalia, an employee of Blue Royals whose father is in significant amounts of debt with the company. She is heavily implied tohave feelings for him herself; Natalia is be a {{Tsundere}} and implied GoldDinner whose family is heavily in Blue Corp's debt.
GoldDigger.
* TheMasquerade: Initially inverted, then played straight and justified. [[spoiler:Flashbacks reveal that it was Ricky who first posted the instructions on how to summon demons, but Cornelia admonished him for breaking the masquerade. By the time Ricky took the post down, itwas too late, had already gone viral, so he instead created a new "debunker" persona to try and convince people that the ritual didn't actually work.]]
** Cornelia
** Lily, Cornelia's best friend. She acts as a
** Natalia, an employee of Blue Royals whose father is in significant amounts of debt with the company. She is heavily implied to
* TheMasquerade: Initially inverted, then played straight and justified. [[spoiler:Flashbacks reveal that it was Ricky who first posted the instructions on how to summon demons, but Cornelia admonished him for breaking the masquerade. By the time Ricky took the post down, it
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: Done masterfully with the "The Truth" arc. Alex sees Cornelia with a strange man and follows them to a hotel, where the man heavily implies that [[spoiler:he has hired Cornelia as a prostitute]]. Around 200 strips later we see the scene again, this time from the perspective of Cornelia and the man, and with the knowledge that [[spoiler:they are both demons, and are siblings. Ricky's remarks about "money buying anything" are revealed to have been a snarky critique of human greed, rather than an implication that he had "bought" Cornelia]].
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* MrExposition: Ricky, who appears in person for about seventy strips and spends the majority of them clearing up the events of the previous 220.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Done masterfully with the "The Truth" arc. Alex sees Cornelia with a strange man and follows them to a hotel, where the man heavily implies that [[spoiler:he has hired Cornelia as a prostitute]]. Around 200 strips later we see the scene again, this time from the perspective of Cornelia and the man, and with the knowledge that [[spoiler:they are both demons, and are siblings. Ricky's remarks about "money buying anything" are revealed to have been a snarky critique of human greed, rather than an implication that he had "bought"Cornelia]].Cornelia, while the fact she's in her underwear is because she was trying out different outfits in a bid to impress Alex and just happened to have been interrupted at a bad time]].
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Done masterfully with the "The Truth" arc. Alex sees Cornelia with a strange man and follows them to a hotel, where the man heavily implies that [[spoiler:he has hired Cornelia as a prostitute]]. Around 200 strips later we see the scene again, this time from the perspective of Cornelia and the man, and with the knowledge that [[spoiler:they are both demons, and are siblings. Ricky's remarks about "money buying anything" are revealed to have been a snarky critique of human greed, rather than an implication that he had "bought"
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** Strips 228 onwards deliver one WhamShot after another. When Alex goes to meet the "demon debunker", he first sees a news report revealing that [[spoiler:Daniel has been murdered]]. Then, when the debunker arrives, he is revealed to be [[spoiler:the man who slept with Cornelia in the previous arc]]. Finally, the debunker proves that [[spoiler:Cornelia is a demon]] before inadvertently revealing that [[spoiler:he is also a demon... and her ''brother'']]. Interestingly, however, it also [[spoiler:[[OnceMoreWithClarity re-contextualises the ''previous'' Wham Episode and removes all the "wham" from it]].
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** Strips 228 onwards deliver to 292 form one WhamShot after another.extended WhamEpisode. When Alex goes to meet the "demon debunker", he first sees a news report revealing that [[spoiler:Daniel has been murdered]]. Then, when the debunker arrives, he is revealed to be [[spoiler:the man who slept with Cornelia in the previous arc]]. Finally, Eventually, the debunker proves that [[spoiler:Cornelia is a demon]] before inadvertently revealing that [[spoiler:he is also a demon... and her ''brother'']]. Interestingly, however, it also ''brother'']][[note]]Incidentally, this one actually [[spoiler:[[OnceMoreWithClarity re-contextualises the ''previous'' Wham Episode and removes all the "wham" from it]].[[/note]] Finally, [[spoiler:Cornelia confesses that her "time is up", and vanishes never to be seen again]].
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* DealWithTheDevil: The 'magic circle' summoning ritual is allegedly this. By drawing a summoning circle and providing a sacrifice, one can supposedly summon a demon that will grant you a wish, but if the sacrifice is insufficient, the demon will instead kill you. After a reader vote, Alex tries out the ritual with Daniel, sacrificing two years of his life in exchange for a single night with Cornelia. The ritual appeared to work, but whether it actually did or not remains to be seen.
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* DealWithTheDevil: The 'magic circle' summoning ritual is allegedly this. By drawing a summoning circle and providing a sacrifice, one can supposedly summon a demon that will grant you a wish, but if the sacrifice is insufficient, the demon will instead kill you. After a reader vote, Alex tries out the ritual with Daniel, sacrificing two years of his life in exchange for a single night with Cornelia. The ritual appeared to work, but whether it actually did or not remains to be seen.[[spoiler:in strip 268 it's revealed that Cornelia cancelled the deal]].
* DroppedABridgeOffHim: [[spoiler:Daniel]] is killed off-screen and his death announced via a news broadcast.
* DroppedABridgeOffHim: [[spoiler:Daniel]] is killed off-screen and his death announced via a news broadcast.
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** Cornelia emerging from her hotel room in her underwear would count as this trope [[GutPunch if not for the context in which she does so]].
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** Cornelia emerging from her hotel room in her underwear would count as this trope [[GutPunch [[WhamShot if not for the context in which she does so]].
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** A food poisoning incident at the fast-food restsurant where Natalia works is later revealed to have been the work of the NED, setting up their introduction in Series 3.
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** An animated episode showing Cornelia walking to a hotel with [[spoiler:her brother Ricky]] is actually ''titled'' "Foreshadowing". We later see the scene in context ''200 strips later''.
** A food poisoning incident at the fast-foodrestsurant restaurant where Natalia works is later revealed to have been the work of the NED, setting up their introduction in Series 3.
** A food poisoning incident at the fast-food
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* HiddenDepths: Two of the potential love interests so far: Cornelia [[spoiler:is seemingly a succubus demon]], and Lily [[spoiler:is seemingly Hong Bak Ung, the NED's top enforcer (and thus an enemy of Alex's)]].
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* HiddenDepths: Two of the potential love interests so far: Cornelia [[spoiler:is seemingly a succubus demon]], and Lily [[spoiler:is seemingly Hong Bak Ung, the NED's top enforcer (and thus an enemy of Alex's)]].
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* JerkassGenie: Discussed after Alex and Daniel complete the summoning ritual. When the Cornelia-succubus Alex wished for does not materialize, he and Daniel remark that the demon must have twisted the wish in some way (with reference made to ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'').
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* JerkassGenie: Discussed after Alex and Daniel complete the summoning ritual. When the Cornelia-succubus Alex wished for does not materialize, he and Daniel remark that the demon must have twisted the wish in some way (with reference made to ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal''). [[spoiler:It's later revealed that Cornelia is ''already'' a succubus, and that she had cancelled the deal entirely.]]
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* LoveDodecahedron: At the moment, there are three potential love interests for Alex: Cornelia, her friend Lily, and Natalia. Cornelia [[spoiler:is potentially a succubus, and]] has already rejected Alex once; Lily acts as a wingwoman, trying to help Alex win Cornelia over, but is strongly implied to have feelings for him herself; Natalia is a {{Tsundere}} and implied GoldDinner whose family is heavily in Blue Corp's debt.
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* LoveDodecahedron: At the moment, there are three potential love interests for Alex: Cornelia, her friend Lily, and Natalia. Cornelia [[spoiler:is potentially a succubus, demon, and]] has already rejected Alex once; Lily acts as a wingwoman, trying to help Alex win Cornelia over, but is strongly implied to have feelings for him herself; Natalia is a {{Tsundere}} and implied GoldDinner whose family is heavily in Blue Corp's debt.debt.
* TheMasquerade: Initially inverted, then played straight and justified. [[spoiler:Flashbacks reveal that it was Ricky who first posted the instructions on how to summon demons, but Cornelia admonished him for breaking the masquerade. By the time Ricky took the post down, it was too late, so he instead created a new "debunker" persona to try and convince people that the ritual didn't work.]]
* TheMasquerade: Initially inverted, then played straight and justified. [[spoiler:Flashbacks reveal that it was Ricky who first posted the instructions on how to summon demons, but Cornelia admonished him for breaking the masquerade. By the time Ricky took the post down, it was too late, so he instead created a new "debunker" persona to try and convince people that the ritual didn't work.]]
* OnceMoreWithClarity: Done masterfully with the "The Truth" arc. Alex sees Cornelia with a strange man and follows them to a hotel, where the man heavily implies that [[spoiler:he has hired Cornelia as a prostitute]]. Around 200 strips later we see the scene again, this time from the perspective of Cornelia and the man, and with the knowledge that [[spoiler:they are both demons, and are siblings. Ricky's remarks about "money buying anything" are revealed to have been a snarky critique of human greed, rather than an implication that he had "bought" Cornelia]].
* UrbanFantasy: Becomes this after the reveal that demons really ''do'' exist, and that [[spoiler:Cornelia is one of them]].
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** Strips 228 through 242 deliver one WhamShot after another. When Alex goes to meet the "demon debunker", he first sees a news report revealing that [[spoiler:Daniel has been murdered]]. Then, when the debunker arrives, he is revealed to be [[spoiler:the man who slept with Cornelia in the previous arc]]. Finally, the debunker appears to prove that [[spoiler:Cornelia is a succubus]].
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** Strips 228 through 242 onwards deliver one WhamShot after another. When Alex goes to meet the "demon debunker", he first sees a news report revealing that [[spoiler:Daniel has been murdered]]. Then, when the debunker arrives, he is revealed to be [[spoiler:the man who slept with Cornelia in the previous arc]]. Finally, the debunker appears to prove proves that [[spoiler:Cornelia is a succubus]].demon]] before inadvertently revealing that [[spoiler:he is also a demon... and her ''brother'']]. Interestingly, however, it also [[spoiler:[[OnceMoreWithClarity re-contextualises the ''previous'' Wham Episode and removes all the "wham" from it]].
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** There are two hints in Season 1 that Cornelia is more than she appears to be: when a rejected boy starts to harass her, Cornelia somehow scares him off before seemingly vanishing, and during the water-balloon fight, she is implied to teleport away briefly (something her opponents seem to notice). Lily later refers to both incidents while jokingly claiming that Cornelia is an alien. WordOfGod confirms that the incidents are indeed foreshadowing ''something''.
--->'''Rong Rong''': Everything weird that happened in Season 1 [is] part of something much larger.
--->'''Rong Rong''': Everything weird that happened in Season 1 [is] part of something much larger.
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** There are two several hints in Season 1 that Cornelia is more than she appears to be: when be. When a rejected boy starts to harass her, Cornelia somehow scares him off before seemingly vanishing, and during the water-balloon fight, she is implied to teleport away briefly (something her opponents seem to notice). Lily She also laughs at a haunted house: a lack of fear is later refers revealed to both incidents while jokingly claiming that Cornelia is an alien. WordOfGod confirms that be one of the incidents are indeed foreshadowing ''something''.
--->'''Rong Rong''': Everything weird that happened in Season 1 [is] partidentifying characteristics of something much larger.a succubus.
--->'''Rong Rong''': Everything weird that happened in Season 1 [is] part
* HiddenDepths: Two of the potential love interests so far: Cornelia [[spoiler:is seemingly a succubus demon]], and Lily [[spoiler:is seemingly Hong Bak Ung, the NED's top enforcer (and thus an enemy of Alex's)]].
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: After Alex shows the debunker Cornelia's picture, and he realizes who she is, he attempts to make his leave and promises that they'll talk about Cornelia some other time. Alex catches it and points out that he never told the man Cornelia's name.
* INeverSaidItWasPoison: After Alex shows the debunker Cornelia's picture, and he realizes who she is, he attempts to make his leave and promises that they'll talk about Cornelia some other time. Alex catches it and points out that he never told the man Cornelia's name.
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* LoveDodecahedron: At the moment, there are three potential love interests for Alex: Cornelia, her friend Lily, and Natalia. Cornelia [[spoiler:is allegedly a prostitute, and]] has already rejected Alex once; Lily acts as a wingwoman, trying to help Alex win Cornelia over, but is strongly implied to have feelings for him herself; Natalia is a
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* LoveDodecahedron: At the moment, there are three potential love interests for Alex: Cornelia, her friend Lily, and Natalia. Cornelia [[spoiler:is allegedly potentially a prostitute, succubus, and]] has already rejected Alex once; Lily acts as a wingwoman, trying to help Alex win Cornelia over, but is strongly implied to have feelings for him herself; Natalia is a {{Tsundere}} and implied GoldDinner whose family is heavily in Blue Corp's debt.
* RapeAsDrama: It is heavily implied in strips 197-199 that [[spoiler:Daniel kidnaps and rapes Natalia]].
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* WhamEpisode: The six-part "The Truth" arc, in which Alex discovers [[spoiler:Cornelia is apparently working as a prostitute, with a man having paid her to sleep with him]]. Counts as a PlayerPunch since this reveal only took place due to the readers' decisions; they could have chosen for Alex to simply walk away from the incident.
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* WhamEpisode: The six-part "The Truth" arc, in which Alex discovers [[spoiler:Cornelia is apparently working as a prostitute, with a man having paid her to sleep with him]]. Counts as a PlayerPunch since this reveal only took place due to the readers' decisions; they could have chosen for Alex to simply walk away from the incident.incident.
** Strips 228 through 242 deliver one WhamShot after another. When Alex goes to meet the "demon debunker", he first sees a news report revealing that [[spoiler:Daniel has been murdered]]. Then, when the debunker arrives, he is revealed to be [[spoiler:the man who slept with Cornelia in the previous arc]]. Finally, the debunker appears to prove that [[spoiler:Cornelia is a succubus]].
** Strips 228 through 242 deliver one WhamShot after another. When Alex goes to meet the "demon debunker", he first sees a news report revealing that [[spoiler:Daniel has been murdered]]. Then, when the debunker arrives, he is revealed to be [[spoiler:the man who slept with Cornelia in the previous arc]]. Finally, the debunker appears to prove that [[spoiler:Cornelia is a succubus]].
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''Blue's Diary'' is a {{Webcomic}} created by Vietnamese artist Rong Rong. It started in June 2016 on [[https://www.facebook.com/RongRongArts Rong Rong's Facebook page]], and is still ongoing, with updates more or less daily. It follows Alex Blue, the pampered son of the CEO of the MegaCorp Blue Royals. His father plans to step down and hand the reins over to Alex, but in order for Alex to inherit the company, he must first gain some real-world experience and find himself a girlfriend. Simple... right?
What could be a straightforward teenage RomCom is instead complicated by several more sinister elements that overlap with the main story: a sinister crime syndicate opposing the Blue Royals; a series of gruesome deaths that are seemingly linked to a demon-summoning ritual; and subtle hints that Alex's love interests - blonde beauty Cornelia, her friend Lily, and Blue Royals employee Natalia - are more than they appear. Layered on top of all of this is Rong Rong's love of cleverly-foreshadowed plot twists and extreme BlackComedy; the comments sections of most strips are filled with EpilepticTrees and very dark jokes.
''Blue's Diary'' can be found [[https://www.facebook.com/pg/RongRongArts/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1041042875971086 here]]. While it's technically Safe For Work, reader discretion is advised.
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!!The series contains examples of:
* ArtShift: The series is generally in black and white, but shifts into colour for important scenes. ''Very'' important scenes, such as series finales, get minute-long animations instead of strips.
* AudienceParticipation: At certain points, Rong Rong presents the readers with two choices of what Alex should do next, and lets them vote, with the story progressing differently depending on which choice is selected.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Alex's twin sister, Diana, is flat-chested and very masculine. Even her ''own father'' mistakes her for a male on occasion.
* CerebusRollercoaster: The series switches back-and-forth between the main RomCom storyline and the more sinister subplots at the drop of a hat.
* ClingyJealousGirl: There are heavy hints throughout Series 4 that Lily is one towards Alex, such as badgering him for information about Natalia, and punching out Diana after she beats up Alex during a sparring session.
* CurbStompBattle: Diana infiltrates an illegal underground fighting tournament in an attempt to defeat the NED's top enforcer, Hong Bak Ung. She makes it to the final of said tournament only for Hong to immediately knock her unconscious.
* DealWithTheDevil: The 'magic circle' summoning ritual is allegedly this. By drawing a summoning circle and providing a sacrifice, one can supposedly summon a demon that will grant you a wish, but if the sacrifice is insufficient, the demon will instead kill you. After a reader vote, Alex tries out the ritual with Daniel, sacrificing two years of his life in exchange for a single night with Cornelia. The ritual appeared to work, but whether it actually did or not remains to be seen.
* {{Expy}}: Alex's dad is quite visibly based on [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendo Ikari]], performing his [[ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive signature pose]] on multiple occasions.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Daniel, a former classmate of Alex's, and the one who introduces him to the demon-summoning ritual, has his eyes perpetually closed.
* {{Fanservice}}: Season 1 contains an arc in which Alex and Cornelia enter a water-balloon dodgeball tournament, to try and win books for Lily. They're in swimsuits for the whole thing, and the arc is preceded by Lily trying on some rather revealing bikinis.
** Cornelia emerging from her hotel room in her underwear would count as this trope [[GutPunch if not for the context in which she does so]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** There are two hints in Season 1 that Cornelia is more than she appears to be: when a rejected boy starts to harass her, Cornelia somehow scares him off before seemingly vanishing, and during the water-balloon fight, she is implied to teleport away briefly (something her opponents seem to notice). Lily later refers to both incidents while jokingly claiming that Cornelia is an alien. WordOfGod confirms that the incidents are indeed foreshadowing ''something''.
--->'''Rong Rong''': Everything weird that happened in Season 1 [is] part of something much larger.
** A food poisoning incident at the fast-food restsurant where Natalia works is later revealed to have been the work of the NED, setting up their introduction in Series 3.
* GoldDigger: When Alex is first given his mission to find a girlfriend, he immediately remarks that he could just win over a gold-digger using his riches, but his father forbids him from doing so (even threatening to ''castrate him'' if he does). Turns out Alex and Diana's mother was a gold-digger who took advantage of their father and then left him holding the babies, and he doesn't want Alex to repeat his mistakes.
** In Series 4, after Alex tells Lily about Natalia, she remarks that Natalia sounds like a gold-digger, and Alex agrees.
* JerkassGenie: Discussed after Alex and Daniel complete the summoning ritual. When the Cornelia-succubus Alex wished for does not materialize, he and Daniel remark that the demon must have twisted the wish in some way (with reference made to ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'').
* LateForSchool: Alex, after performing the demon-summoning ritual the previous night. He's not the only one: Cornelia is also late, something Alex takes as a sign.
* LoveDodecahedron: At the moment, there are three potential love interests for Alex: Cornelia, her friend Lily, and Natalia. Cornelia [[spoiler:is allegedly a prostitute, and]] has already rejected Alex once; Lily acts as a wingwoman, trying to help Alex win Cornelia over, but is strongly implied to have feelings for him herself; Natalia is a
* MeaningfulName:
** Miss Hong's name means "Red". Not only is this fitting for some who opposes the '''Blue''' Royals, she also has blood-red eyes.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Hong Bak Ung, the NED's top enforcer, has blood-red eyes, as shown just before she curb-stomps Diana in the underground fighting tournament.
** Lily's eyes are seemingly the same shade of red. [[spoiler: Her encounter with Diana in Series 4 heavily implies that she is, in fact, Hong]].
* StockFootage: The same establishing shot of Beta City is reused in multiple strips, [[WordOfGod as confirmed by Rong himself]].
* WhamEpisode: The six-part "The Truth" arc, in which Alex discovers [[spoiler:Cornelia is apparently working as a prostitute, with a man having paid her to sleep with him]]. Counts as a PlayerPunch since this reveal only took place due to the readers' decisions; they could have chosen for Alex to simply walk away from the incident.
What could be a straightforward teenage RomCom is instead complicated by several more sinister elements that overlap with the main story: a sinister crime syndicate opposing the Blue Royals; a series of gruesome deaths that are seemingly linked to a demon-summoning ritual; and subtle hints that Alex's love interests - blonde beauty Cornelia, her friend Lily, and Blue Royals employee Natalia - are more than they appear. Layered on top of all of this is Rong Rong's love of cleverly-foreshadowed plot twists and extreme BlackComedy; the comments sections of most strips are filled with EpilepticTrees and very dark jokes.
''Blue's Diary'' can be found [[https://www.facebook.com/pg/RongRongArts/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1041042875971086 here]]. While it's technically Safe For Work, reader discretion is advised.
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!!The series contains examples of:
* ArtShift: The series is generally in black and white, but shifts into colour for important scenes. ''Very'' important scenes, such as series finales, get minute-long animations instead of strips.
* AudienceParticipation: At certain points, Rong Rong presents the readers with two choices of what Alex should do next, and lets them vote, with the story progressing differently depending on which choice is selected.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Alex's twin sister, Diana, is flat-chested and very masculine. Even her ''own father'' mistakes her for a male on occasion.
* CerebusRollercoaster: The series switches back-and-forth between the main RomCom storyline and the more sinister subplots at the drop of a hat.
* ClingyJealousGirl: There are heavy hints throughout Series 4 that Lily is one towards Alex, such as badgering him for information about Natalia, and punching out Diana after she beats up Alex during a sparring session.
* CurbStompBattle: Diana infiltrates an illegal underground fighting tournament in an attempt to defeat the NED's top enforcer, Hong Bak Ung. She makes it to the final of said tournament only for Hong to immediately knock her unconscious.
* DealWithTheDevil: The 'magic circle' summoning ritual is allegedly this. By drawing a summoning circle and providing a sacrifice, one can supposedly summon a demon that will grant you a wish, but if the sacrifice is insufficient, the demon will instead kill you. After a reader vote, Alex tries out the ritual with Daniel, sacrificing two years of his life in exchange for a single night with Cornelia. The ritual appeared to work, but whether it actually did or not remains to be seen.
* {{Expy}}: Alex's dad is quite visibly based on [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Gendo Ikari]], performing his [[ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive signature pose]] on multiple occasions.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Daniel, a former classmate of Alex's, and the one who introduces him to the demon-summoning ritual, has his eyes perpetually closed.
* {{Fanservice}}: Season 1 contains an arc in which Alex and Cornelia enter a water-balloon dodgeball tournament, to try and win books for Lily. They're in swimsuits for the whole thing, and the arc is preceded by Lily trying on some rather revealing bikinis.
** Cornelia emerging from her hotel room in her underwear would count as this trope [[GutPunch if not for the context in which she does so]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** There are two hints in Season 1 that Cornelia is more than she appears to be: when a rejected boy starts to harass her, Cornelia somehow scares him off before seemingly vanishing, and during the water-balloon fight, she is implied to teleport away briefly (something her opponents seem to notice). Lily later refers to both incidents while jokingly claiming that Cornelia is an alien. WordOfGod confirms that the incidents are indeed foreshadowing ''something''.
--->'''Rong Rong''': Everything weird that happened in Season 1 [is] part of something much larger.
** A food poisoning incident at the fast-food restsurant where Natalia works is later revealed to have been the work of the NED, setting up their introduction in Series 3.
* GoldDigger: When Alex is first given his mission to find a girlfriend, he immediately remarks that he could just win over a gold-digger using his riches, but his father forbids him from doing so (even threatening to ''castrate him'' if he does). Turns out Alex and Diana's mother was a gold-digger who took advantage of their father and then left him holding the babies, and he doesn't want Alex to repeat his mistakes.
** In Series 4, after Alex tells Lily about Natalia, she remarks that Natalia sounds like a gold-digger, and Alex agrees.
* JerkassGenie: Discussed after Alex and Daniel complete the summoning ritual. When the Cornelia-succubus Alex wished for does not materialize, he and Daniel remark that the demon must have twisted the wish in some way (with reference made to ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'').
* LateForSchool: Alex, after performing the demon-summoning ritual the previous night. He's not the only one: Cornelia is also late, something Alex takes as a sign.
* LoveDodecahedron: At the moment, there are three potential love interests for Alex: Cornelia, her friend Lily, and Natalia. Cornelia [[spoiler:is allegedly a prostitute, and]] has already rejected Alex once; Lily acts as a wingwoman, trying to help Alex win Cornelia over, but is strongly implied to have feelings for him herself; Natalia is a
* MeaningfulName:
** Miss Hong's name means "Red". Not only is this fitting for some who opposes the '''Blue''' Royals, she also has blood-red eyes.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Hong Bak Ung, the NED's top enforcer, has blood-red eyes, as shown just before she curb-stomps Diana in the underground fighting tournament.
** Lily's eyes are seemingly the same shade of red. [[spoiler: Her encounter with Diana in Series 4 heavily implies that she is, in fact, Hong]].
* StockFootage: The same establishing shot of Beta City is reused in multiple strips, [[WordOfGod as confirmed by Rong himself]].
* WhamEpisode: The six-part "The Truth" arc, in which Alex discovers [[spoiler:Cornelia is apparently working as a prostitute, with a man having paid her to sleep with him]]. Counts as a PlayerPunch since this reveal only took place due to the readers' decisions; they could have chosen for Alex to simply walk away from the incident.
