History Webcomic / StarcrossedRavenloft

** NiceMeanAndInBetween: Santine, Marie, and Fred respectively
* PurpleEyes: Fred has them, and they glow when freaky things are happening

* AlchemyIsMagic - Both averted (Marie is an alchemist, but in practice this seems to amount more to being a pharmacist/chemist) and played straight (Girot)
* AnimateDead - Baron Samedi's specialty
* AffablyEvil - Baron Samedi
* AristocratsAreEvil - Both played straight and Averted - This is Ravenloft, and both Souragne and Dementlieu are known for their thoroughly depraved landowners and aristocrats (and M'sieu Gravois is a stellar example of the former), but Jean Girot and Lord Montpellier come across as surprisingly nice people despite their wealth and power.
* {{Artificial Human}} - Zoe
* BadassPreacher - Father Desmarais.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands - [[spoiler: Marie does this to Fred and Trivedi, ''at the same time''.]]
* {{Buried Alive}} - What Rene Gravois did to his wife
* BuffySpeak - Santine occasionally degenerates into this when really surprised.
* CharmPerson - Trivedi's favorite ability
* CorruptChurch - More 'apathetic' church, really - The Church in Dementlieu is more interested in books than people, and the one member of the High Church in Souragne who's mentioned has the nickname of ''Pere Laissez-Faire''
* CrystalDragonJesus - Ezra
* CynicalMentor - Marie has shades of this, being older and more experienced than the other main characters and excruciatingly cynical
* DidntSeeThatComing - [[spoiler: Trivedi was probably expecting something other than Fred stabbing him after being [[CharmPerson enchanted]] ]]
* DeadPersonImpersonation - [[spoiler: Poor Vormov]]
* DeadpanSnarker - Lots, with Marie as the reigning champion of sarcasm, though Captain Chevalier puts a lot of snarking into his very limited screentime.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome - The entire comic is mostly a heavily-shaded black and white, but there are bits of color that show up, especially around the climaxes or when something weird or supernatural is going on.
* DetectEvil - Fred seems to have something like this, at least for extremely freaky supernatural evil things.
* DualWielding - Marie does this with pistols. Starcrossed being based on the {{TabletopGame/Ravenloft}} Campaign Setting, this seems to indicate that she's in the Pistoleer Prestige Class, which specializes in doing improbable things with pistols.
** ImprobableAimingSkills - See {{Blasting It Out Of Their Hands}} above.
* TheFairFolk - Epitaph is an elf, which isn't really very fey in most D&D-based settings, but around here he's an extremely creepy elf who lives underground, surrounded by dead people, and has powerful sorcerous abilities.
* {{Familiar}} - Dirge the Whippoorwill seems to serve Epitaph as one of these.
* GoodShepherd - Father Desmarais is one of these, and Santine might be considered a Good-Shepherd-in-Training.
* GothicHorror - It's ''{{TabletopGame/Ravenloft}}'', what do you expect?
** SouthernGothic - In particular, as the comic starts in Souragne, which is a Gothic version of...
** TheBigEasy - Louisiana, though ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans is averted.
* HollywoodVoodoo - Done carefully. There's a blood-soaked Veve at one point, but the [[WordOfGod author]] explicitly states that it's a fictional one, and while Baron Samedi shows up, it's the Ravenloft Darklord, not the actual Loa.
* KnightInSourArmor - Marie
* LeParkour - Fred uses this, and calls it by name. It's apparently popular in Paridon.
* MasqueradeBall - The finale of Chapter 3: City of Masks, fittingly takes place at one of these.
* TheMentor - Father Desmarais is a classic example. Wise, badass older character who serves as a father figure to the protagonist? Check.
* MentorOccupationalHazard - [[spoiler: Desmarais, though he vanishes instead of dying]]
* TheNameless - Santine, since she's never gotten around to picking a name
* NouveauRiche - Jean Girot, showing that he's a good guy and not a case of AristocratsAreEvil. To quote Marie, "You're so Nouveau Riche, Jean. It looked even stranger to your fellow land-owners when you ''didn't'' have some underaged plaything to dote on."
* ObiWanMoment - [[spoiler: Father Desmarais even has one of these, though he doesn't exactly die but...]]
* OurDemonsAreDifferent - [[spoiler: Trivedi shows definite signs of being a Rakshasa, a kind of Indian pseudo-demon (they're local to the world, not from Hell or the Abyss)]]
* OurGhostsAreDifferent - [[spoiler: The Living Wall, a rather odd gestalt-ghost/zombie/genius loci thing-- fittingly, it shares its name with a coporeal undead construct from the actual game, which is basically a wall-like slab of undead flesh and bone melded together & reanimated by {{necromancy}}.]]
** GhostlyGoals - Vengeance
** GeniusLoci - Haunted house variation
* PowerTrio - The main cast
** NiceMeanAndInBetween - Santine, Marie, and Fred respectively
* PurpleEyes - Fred has them, and they glow when freaky things are happening
* TheQuietOne - Elias Gauvain
* ReplacementGoldfish - [[spoiler: Turns out that Santine is this for Father Desmarais, at least in part]]
* RetiredBadass - [[spoiler: Literally, in Marie's case, as she's a former (honorary) officer of the Port-a-Lucine Gendarmerie.]] Father Desmarais has shades of this as well, a former adventurer promoted to a quiet life at a church
* SaintlyChurch - The Low Church of Souragne seems to be big on ministering to the poor.
* SarcasticClapping - How we're introduced to Baron Samedi
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere - [[spoiler: Thierri pulls this after Fred stabs Trivedi at a party and the Gendarmes arrive. *foof*]]
* StageMagician - Thierri

* SuperPoweredEvilSide - [[spoiler: Not necessarily ''evil'', but both Fred and Santine have moments when their eyes start glowing, they start acting much less human, and they become a lot more scary and competent - in Santine's case, she's flat-out bulletproof.]]
* SuperSmoke - [[spoiler: Father Desmarais vanishes into mist after praying for a miracle. Not as odd as it seems, since he's a ranking priest of Ezra facing certain death and Ezra is the Goddess of the Mist]]
* TurnUndead - Desmarais, as a high-ranking cleric, is good at this
* UndeadChild - [[spoiler: The ''original'' Santine]]
* UnsoundEffect - Used occasionally, such as when Marie is consoling Jean (*pat pat*)
* [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villain of the Week]] - So far we've had M'sieu Gravois in Chapter 2: Descent and Trivedi in Chapter 3: City of Masks
** TheDragon - A role filled in Chapter 2 by Gravois's son, Etienne
** TheBrute - In Chapter 2, the big, tough, overseer employed by Gravois
* VoluntaryShapeshifting - Trivedi
* {{You Cant Go Home Again}} - At the end of Chapter 2, the main characters are forced to make a rapid escape from Souragne to avoid being charged with Gravois's murder, losing their best allies (Father Desmarais and Jean Girot) in the process.

* [[spoiler: {{Artificial Human}} - Zoe]]

* [[spoiler: {{Buried Alive}} - What Rene Gravois did to his wife]]

* [[spoiler: {{You Cant Go Home Again}} - At the end of Chapter 2, the main characters are forced to make a rapid escape from Souragne to avoid being charged with Gravois's murder, losing their best allies (Father Desmarais and Jean Girot) in the process.]]

* TheObiWan - Father Desmarais is a classic example. Wise, {{Badass}} older character who serves as a father figure to the protagonist? Check.
** [[spoiler: {{Obi Wan Moment}} - Even has one of these, though he doesn't exactly die but...]]
** [[spoiler: {{Super Smoke}} - Vanishes into mist after praying for a miracle. Not as odd as it seems, since he's a ranking priest of Ezra facing certain death and Ezra is the Goddess of the Mist]]