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* ColorFailure:
** Selkie [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1262/ spends an entire page without color]] after being lectured for using her father's credit card without permission while at school.
** Todd goes white and [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1805/ takes the color of the rest of the panel with him]] when his sister asks him a question that he could get in a lot of trouble for answering.
** Selkie [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1262/ spends an entire page without color]] after being lectured for using her father's credit card without permission while at school.
** Todd goes white and [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1805/ takes the color of the rest of the panel with him]] when his sister asks him a question that he could get in a lot of trouble for answering.
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* TeacherParentRomance:
** Todd has some chemistry with Mina, his daughter's third grade teacher. While both of them would probably want a relationship, Mina calls it off because she doesn't think it's appropriate to date the father of one of her students.
** Jessie is only a student teacher, but she still ends up romantically involved with Andi, the mother of one of her students. While the two didn't meet at any sort of parent-teacher night (instead they happen to be neighbors), there's still all the requisite awkwardness with Andi's daughter.
** Todd has some chemistry with Mina, his daughter's third grade teacher. While both of them would probably want a relationship, Mina calls it off because she doesn't think it's appropriate to date the father of one of her students.
** Jessie is only a student teacher, but she still ends up romantically involved with Andi, the mother of one of her students. While the two didn't meet at any sort of parent-teacher night (instead they happen to be neighbors), there's still all the requisite awkwardness with Andi's daughter.
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* InsistentTerminology: Selkie isn't blue - she's periwinkle.
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* InsistentTerminology: Selkie isn't blue - -- she's periwinkle.
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* LuringInPrey: The sarnothi farm a species of massive eel that can mimic voices and phrases they hear to lure in lost sarnothi.
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* HideYourOtherness: Selkie doesn't usually bother to hide her nonhuman features (not that it's easy to hide [[InsistentTerminology periwinkle]] skin, webbed hands and feet, and a mouth full of razor sharp teeth), but when her eyes start glowing, she [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1002/ wears sunglasses]] until she can learn how to make them stop.
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* InhumanEyeConcealers: Selkie doesn't usually bother to hide her nonhuman features (not that it's easy to hide [[InsistentTerminology periwinkle]] skin, webbed hands and feet, and a mouth full of razor sharp teeth), but when her eyes start glowing, she [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1002/ wears sunglasses]] until she can learn how to make them stop.
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* OhCrap: Todd's realization in [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie764/ this comic]] that things may ''not'' be going well between Selkie and Amanda, [[spoiler:her arch-antagonist and recently-discovered adoptive step-sister]].
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* OhCrap: Todd's realization in [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie764/ this comic]] that things may ''not'' be going well between Selkie and Amanda, [[spoiler:her arch-antagonist and recently-discovered adoptive step-sister]].half sister]].
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* ParentalAbandonment: The story starts at an orphanage, so lots of characters have missing parents.
** Selkie's mother left her at the orphanage for reasons that aren't fully explored three years before the story begins. Her biological father didn't even know she existed, so he wasn't in the picture either. Luckily, the story starts when she's HappilyAdopted.
** Amanda was given up for adoption at birth by her mother who didn't believe she was ready to raise a kid. Her father, who was actually looking forward to parenthood, was told she was stillborn. She was later adopted, but her new siblings abused her, and the parents ended up returning her to the orphanage, abandoning her a second time. Thankfully her original parents return to her life, her mother deciding that putting her up for adoption was a mistake, and her father immediately agreeing to be a part of her life once he learned she was still alive, but the ordeal left her with some rather understandable issues.
** Tony's parents are in prison. He remains in the orphanage until the authorities are able to track down his grandmother.
** Selkie's mother left her at the orphanage for reasons that aren't fully explored three years before the story begins. Her biological father didn't even know she existed, so he wasn't in the picture either. Luckily, the story starts when she's HappilyAdopted.
** Amanda was given up for adoption at birth by her mother who didn't believe she was ready to raise a kid. Her father, who was actually looking forward to parenthood, was told she was stillborn. She was later adopted, but her new siblings abused her, and the parents ended up returning her to the orphanage, abandoning her a second time. Thankfully her original parents return to her life, her mother deciding that putting her up for adoption was a mistake, and her father immediately agreeing to be a part of her life once he learned she was still alive, but the ordeal left her with some rather understandable issues.
** Tony's parents are in prison. He remains in the orphanage until the authorities are able to track down his grandmother.
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* OhCrap: Todd's realization in [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie764/ this comic]] that things may ''not'' be going well between Selkie and Amanda, [[spoiler:her arch-antagonist and recently-discovered adoptive half-sister]].
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* OhCrap: Todd's realization in [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie764/ this comic]] that things may ''not'' be going well between Selkie and Amanda, [[spoiler:her arch-antagonist and recently-discovered adoptive half-sister]].step-sister]].
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* GoodScarsEvilScars: Scar's scars are highly disfiguring, and he's missing an eye, an arm, and much of his throat including his vocal cords. The latter two are replaced by prosthetics of his own making. These kind of textbook evil scars seem strange on an odd but kind man who spends his days building houses for refugees, but, back when he got the scars, he was at least as evil as they make him look.
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* NamedAfterTheInjury: Scar takes his name from his multiple, disfiguring scars. His actual given name is never mentioned (and he seems to prefer the nickname to avoid association with the person he used to be). Everyone talking about him from back before he got the scars refers to him as "the old farmer."
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* PopCultureOsmosisFailure: Being a member of an amphibious species who hasn't spent much time on the surface, Scar is [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie980/ confused by]] Then's ''Franchise/StarWars'' references.
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* PopCultureOsmosisFailure: PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Being a member of an amphibious species who hasn't spent much time on the surface, Scar is [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie980/ confused by]] Then's ''Franchise/StarWars'' references.
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* PopCultureOsmosisFailure: Being a member of an amphibious species who hasn't spent much time on the surface, Scar is [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie980/ confused by]] Then's ''Franchise/StarWars'' references.
-->'''Scar:''' Something is wrong. I am feeling of it.
-->'''Then:''' What are you, a Jedi?
-->'''Scar:''' What is... "Jehd Eye"?
-->'''Pohl:''' No... something is wrong. There's a tone shift in the Resonance. The Eternal Song has gone down in tempo a bit.
-->'''Then:''' If you say so, Obi Wan.
-->'''Scar:''' My translator is not knowing "Oh Bee Whan".
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-->'''Then:''' "Punch it"? Oh great, she's Han Solo.
-->'''Scar:''' Stop making fake words, Then.
-->'''Scar:''' Something is wrong. I am feeling of it.
-->'''Then:''' What are you, a Jedi?
-->'''Scar:''' What is... "Jehd Eye"?
-->'''Pohl:''' No... something is wrong. There's a tone shift in the Resonance. The Eternal Song has gone down in tempo a bit.
-->'''Then:''' If you say so, Obi Wan.
-->'''Scar:''' My translator is not knowing "Oh Bee Whan".
-->Later
-->'''Then:''' "Punch it"? Oh great, she's Han Solo.
-->'''Scar:''' Stop making fake words, Then.
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* OminousCrack: After a vicious attack by Pants the eel, a small crack is shown forming [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie979/ on the helmet of Todd's diving suit.]]
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* TheIllegible: When Pohl gives Todd a handwritten note [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie375/ explaining some details about Selkie]], none of the adults are able to read it (he is a doctor after all). Thankfully, as a third grader just learning cursive, Selkie has lots of experience with terrible handwriting.
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* FiveFiveFive: When Pohl gives his number to Todd, it's shown as [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie375/ 534-555-3474.]] The "534" places him in northern Wisconsin, where the comic is set. The "555" places him in fictionland.
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* OhMyGods: One common Sarnothi curse is "[[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie944/ teeth and scales]]" in reference to the eel god. Selkie herself, having lived among humans for much of her life, translates it to english and [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1773/ adds some human profanity for flavor.]]
* PosterPatchup: When Selkie accidentally causes burn damage to her bedroom wall, she tries and fails to [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1773/ cover it up with a picture.]] Luckily [[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1774/ her dad isn't mad.]]
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* SideBet: * Dr. Pohl and Agent Then have an ongoing bet on [[spoiler:[[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1558/ the existance of human echoes.]]]] Agent Then wins $10 and the opportunity to give one hell of an "I told you so."
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* SideBet: * Dr. Pohl and Agent Then have an ongoing bet on [[spoiler:[[https://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie1558/ the existance of human echoes.]]]] Agent Then wins $10 and the opportunity to give one hell of an "I told you so."
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