History Webcomic / MadMagic

* PurpleEyes: Joy has a pair, meant to accentuate her magical nature and to add a bit of visual flair to her drab aesthetic.

* DrinkOrder: "The Bad Day" is Joy's favoured cocktail whenever she chooses to plague the Devastatorium with her presence. To wit, it contains One Bloody Mary, One Long Island, and One Margarita all mixed and sipped out of a blender jar. She doesn't share.

* DrugsAreBad: Unwilling to get a regular job, Joy pays her part of the rent (ranging from half of it to a mere quarter) by selling her old school textbooks to occult enthusiasts online and buying legal magically-charged substances from the wizarding world so she can repackage them and peddle them to junkies as exotic narcotics.

* InkSuitActor: Lucy's design is heavily based off of the appearance of indie musician, Kimi Recor.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Joy's is Fat Frank's Slippery Sweet Suicide. Aptly named due to being made up of Bacon, Bacon Fries, Bacon Bread Wrapped in Bacon, Eggs in Bacon, and Lettuce (read: Bacon painted Green) wrapped up all together and covered in Bacon-Based Ketchup.

* NotWhatISignedOnFor: One of Alix's fellow [[spoiler:sacrificial victims]] screams about how she only accepted the backstage pass to the Balls Grinders concert for the free bear as [[spoiler:she's being burnt alive.]]

* VirginSacrifice: The unfortunately named [[spoiler:Virginio]] is lured onstage by the Balls Grinders so that Kuusta can [[spoiler:beat him to death with his spiked microphone]] to start their ritual.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Timmie and his fellow drug enthusiasts might buy illegal narcotics for a quick high, but even they found the Battle Mushrooms that Joy sold them to be over the line. Firstly because when they were opened, one of them broke one of their jaws in an attempt to escape, and secondly, after they were subdued and rolled up into joints, they wouldn't stop screaming as they were being smoked.
* {{Expy}}: If not necessarily one to [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter himself]], Joy is one to his fellow students from Slytherin, even going to a similarly named wizarding school and receiving her (mostly junk) mail through owls which swarm around her building. She also has shades of the author ILLUMINATED's rendition of [[Comicbook/MsMarvel Carol Danvers]] from his other webcomic [[http://illuminatingcomics.tumblr.com Everything is Illuminated...and then Dies]], a crass, acid-tongued, self-righteous, self-loathing, violent, and overall toxic garbage fire of a fantastically empowered woman.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Timmie and his fellow drug enthusiasts might buy illegal narcotics for a quick high, but even they found the Battle Mushrooms that Joy sold them to be over the line. Firstly because when they were opened, one of them broke one of their jaws in an attempt to escape, and secondly, after they were subdued and rolled up into a joint, they wouldn't stop screaming as they were being smoked.

* BrickJoke: Tuomas of the Balls Grinders is introduced mixing what he believes to be a homemade aphrodisiac which is composed of [[BreadEgssMilkSquick Beer, Cologne, Pheromones, and his own semen.]] He returns over a dozen strips later during the concert where he sprays Alix with it. Twice. [[EyeScream In the eyes.]]

* BrickJoke: Tuomas of the Balls Grinders is introduced mixing what he believes to be a homemade aphrodisiac which is composed of Beer, Cologne, Pheromones, and his own semen. He returns over a dozen strips later during the concert where he sprays Alix with it. Twice. [[EyeScream In the eyes.]]

* {{Expy}}: If not necessarily one to [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter himself]], Joy is one to his fellow students from Slytherin, even going to a similarly named wizarding school and receiving her (mostly junk) mail through owls which swarm around her building. She also has shades of the author ILLUMINATED's rendition of [[Comicbook/MsMarvel Carol Danvers]] from his other webcomic [[http://illuminatingcomics.tumblr.com Everything is Illuminated...and then Dies]], a crass, acid-tongued, self-righteous, self-loathing, violent, and overall toxic garbage fire of a supernaturally empowered woman.
* GenreBlind: Through a wretched combination of apathy, inebriation, and being just that self-absorbed, would-be witch Joy has been living in Blight Court for years while failing to recognise that several of her fellow tenants are bloodthirsty, wrathful supernatural beasts.

* BrickJoke: Tuomas of the Balls Grinders is introduced mixing what he believes to be a homemade aphrodisiac which is composed of Beer, Cologne, Pheromones, and his own semen. He returns over a dozen strips later during the concert where he sprays Alix with it. Twice.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: Joy was once an earnest, but incompetent, teenaged witch. Now she's a cynical and still incompetent grown-up slacker.

* {{Expy}}: If not necessarily one to [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry Potter himself]], Joy is one to his fellow students, even going to a similarly named wizarding school and receiving her (mostly junk) mail through owls which swarm around her building. She also has shades of the author ILLUMINATED's rendition of [[Comicbook/MsMarvel Carol Danvers]] from his other webcomic [[http://illuminatingcomics.tumblr.com Everything is Illuminated...and then Dies]], a crass, acid-tongued, self-righteous, self-loathing, violent, and overall toxic garbage fire of a supernaturally empowered woman.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Joy's is Fat Frank's Slippery Sweet Suicide. Aptly named due to being made up of Bacon, Bacon Fries, Bacon Bread Wrapped in Bacon, Eggs in Bacon, and Lettuce (read: Bacon painted Green) wrapped up all together and covered in Bacon-Based Ketchup.

* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Nightmare Bible is an Assyrian text that hides the secrets of cruel worlds beyond human understanding with the souls of demons and madmen trapped in its pages. Said pages are made from the scalps of a thousand newborns and written with the blood of a thousand whores. Joy was allowed to borrow it for a month from her Flabscab's library when she was still a student. 14 years later, she [[spoiler:sold it on eBay]].

* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Nightmare Bible is an Assyrian text that hides the secrets of cruel worlds beyond human understanding with the souls of demons and madmen trapped in its pages. Said pages are made from the scalps of a thousand newborns and written with the blood of a thousand whores. Joy was allowed to borrow it for a month from her Flabscab's library when she was still a student. 14 years later, she [[spoiler:sold it on [[=eBay==]]].

* TomeOfEldritchLore: The Nightmare Bible is an Assyrian text that hides the secrets of cruel worlds beyond human understanding with the souls of demons and madmen trapped in its pages. Said pages are made from the scalps of a thousand newborns and written with the blood of a thousand whores.

* {[Squick}}: Kuusta Katastrophe takes a long hard sniff of Alix's hair to [[spoiler:determine her viability as a sacrifice]]. Creepy enough. It's made disgusting by the fact that his bandmate Tuomas had recently sprayed her with one of his home-brew "love potions" whose ingredients are listed above.