History Webcomic / KeychainOfCreation

** [[SweetBroAndHellaJeff and there she goes the dawn caste.... HASS the initiative.]]

* BrickJoke: All the way back in Marena's backstory, when Luna showed up, he was in fully-drawn art. Cut to the godrealm they enter hundreds of strips later...

Unfortunately, the webcomic is on hiatus as the author is recovering from tendonitis. Even so, he has been devoting the time he would have otherwise spent on the comic to writing homebrew material for the ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' setting, which is worth a look at. It is currently not known when (or unfortunately "if") it will begin updating again, as tendonitis can take a long time to heal (and also has the possibility of turning chronic, hence the "if").

** Misho and Marena are just friends. [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0153.html That's what they agreed on.]] [[UnresolvedSexualTension The agreement]] [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0077.html is not]] [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0302.html ironcloud...]]

* CoolSword: The Keys, of course, but also Misho's other sword, the Blade of Vitality. It makes its wielder immortal, even compared to the Exalted.

** Later in the comics, this is expanded upon. [[spoiler:It's not that Misho is completely unwilling to start a relationship with Marena. Rather, it's that she doesn't want him to use her solely as a replacement for is wife from the First Age -- who just so happens to be her Exalted self's past life...]]

* MailmanVsDog: Nemen Yi [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0257.html claims to be the reason dogs hate mailmen]], apparently due to some feud she has with the messenger gods.

* MailmanVsDog: Nemen Yi claims to be the reason dogs hate mailmen.

** That Nova looks so much like [[MyLifeAsATeenageRobot Jenny XJ-9]] ''can't'' be coincidence.

** [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0256.html This]] Christmas-filler comic contains a [[{{Snowlems}} snowlem]] who is pretty much identical to a certain disturbing snowman created by [[CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]].

* [[StoneSoup Rockodile Soup]]: [[IncrediblyLamePun Used as a]] {{brick joke}}.

* FanNickname: Notably, Secret's OverlyLongName was initially going to be shortened as 'Sorrowful Herald'. 'Secret' was coined by a fan before a practical-sized name was established, however, and the author liked it, so it was taken up in the comic as well.

* IncrediblyLamePun: [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0145.html ...he just sort of...]] ''[[BondOneLiner fell to pieces]]''. [[LampshadeHanging Even the dismantled clawstrider, who can't hear the pun, is disgusted.]]

* {{Jossed}}: The author has a neat way about handling this: He insists, constantly, that every single EpilepticTree is completely true, as sincerely as possible. No matter what context, IM, forum, in actual discussion, he insists they are always correct, so that in the end, everyone, including him, is proven wrong. It's absolutely [[http://www.patternspider.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=119647#p119647 hilarious.]] Jukashi has gone so far as to create a ForcedMeme out of this. [[http://www.patternspider.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=6922&p=125265&hilit=+nooooo+my+scheme#p125265 "nooooo my scheme"]]

* ScheduleSlip: Since the author got tendonitis, the comic has gone on an indefinite hiatus.

* ShrugOfGod: Someone notes in the forum that the word "monstrosity" was misspelled as "monstrocity" [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0212.html when Misho was fighting the Band]]. Another poster comments that Monstrocity would be a good name for a band... The creator's response: ''':D'''

** The above is possibly also a shout-out to ''{{Megatokyo}}'', [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/377 which used a similar gag]].

* FiveBadBand: Resonance Ben's "band."
** BigBad: The First and Forsaken Lion, who finally shows up in [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0278.html strip #278.]]
** TheDragon: Resonance Ben.
** The EvilGenius: Flame.
** TheBrute: The drummer.
** Two {{Dark Chick}}s: The keyboardist and the bassist, both apparently ghosts.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero / TheSmartGuy: Misho (Solar)
** TheLancer: Marena (Lunar)
** TheBigGuy: Ten Winds (Terrestrial)
** TheChick: Secret (Abyssal)
** SixthRanger: Ragara Karen (Solar) -- The odd one out, thematically, as the logical fifth party member would be a Sidereal. ([[spoiler:Ten used to work for the Sidereals, though.]])

* FiveManBand: There are 5 major types of Exalted and 5 keys. However, the current group doesn't ''quite'' fit:
** TheHero / TheSmartGuy: Misho (Solar)
** TheLancer: Marena (Lunar)
** TheBigGuy: Ten Winds (Terrestrial)
** TheChick: Secret (Abyssal)
** SixthRanger: Ragara Karen (Solar) -- The odd one out, as the logical fifth party member would be a Sidereal. ([[spoiler:Ten used to work for the Sidereals, though.]])

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Elegant Nova of Progression and her fellow Alchemical Exalted are all examples. To be fair, the Alchemicals have human souls, like their fellow Exalted, and are closer to being cyborgs than true robots due to their artificial flesh. And at higher Essence levels, they're the foundation and central part of entire ''cities''.\\

* SaveTheVillain: Misho does this to [[spoiler: Elegant Nova.]] And ''it worked'', despite [[spoiler:Nova not being in much actual danger.]]

* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Ben and Flame are pretty much at the bottom of The First And Forsaken Lion's chain of command: Ben's department is Morale, since he's a musician, and Flame's is Recruitment, since he summons the undead. Neither of these ''requires'' any actual combat skills, implying that they weren't recruited for their combat prowess, but rather for their abilities in those areas instead.\\

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Marena and Racer are [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0251.html most definitely not members of a secret society]]. That doesn't exist. And has no political influence. Or {{ninja}}s.\\

** Marena's mother apparently inflicted TrainingFromHell on her at an early age, though this training was for ''[[DeadlyDecadentCourt social]]'', rather than physical combat.

** Misho and Marena are just friends. [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0153.html That's what they agreed on.]] [[UnresolvedSexualTension Sure]] [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0077.html they]] [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0302.html are...]]

** Based on what he's used in the comic, he has over half of the corebook melee Charm tree and should be an extremely tough opponent.

* HeroAntagonist: Elegant Nova of Progression. Sure, she's a MadScientist, but it's clear from the point where we actually meet her that she's a charitable and kind person who just happens to be ''really'' stubborn about test subjects. [[spoiler:The fact that she happily surrenders when Misho saves her from being badly injured helps too.]]

* OneHundredAndEight: [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0108.html Turns out to be quite the lucky number]].

* SurferDude: Costora, cod of the beach. Now imagine him with Music/WeirdAlYankovic's voice.

''[[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0001.html Keychain of Creation]]'' is a comic (formerly a StickFigureComic) set in Creation, the world of the ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' roleplaying game. It follows the adventures of a quartet of Exalted as they quest to retrieve five magical keys that hold the evil Primordials sealed away: Misho, a Twilight Caste Solar, who has all of his Exaltation's memories dating back to the First Age, but no memory of his current mortal life, which can't ''possibly'' be suspicious; Marena, a Changing Moon Caste Lunar with a fox totem, a flirtatious, fun-loving, confident woman... who's quite possibly the most terrifying of the group; Secret, a renegade Day Caste Abyssal with some major self-esteem problems; and Ten Winds, an elderly Air Aspect Terrestrial, formerly a monk in the Immaculate Order, who left because he [[DefectorFromDecadence grew disillusioned with the Order]], and because he enjoyed the pleasures of the world a bit too much.