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Not to be confused with the ''other'' webcomic ''WebComic/WhiteNoise'', or with the [[Literature/WhiteNoise Don Delillo novel]] or novel]] (which was adapted into a [[Film/WhiteNoise2022 film]]), nor the [[Film/WhiteNoise 2004 film film]] starring Michael Keaton.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Teige and Parker see Liya in Aetheri in Chapter Eight. Teige starts to approach her, but stops himself. He thinks it would be cruel to tell her [[spoiler:that her brother didn't die the day she was taken, and then destroy that hope right away by telling her that on his way to find her, Hawk was abducted and probably killed]]. Parker starts quietly crying, and says how awful it would be for her to never know [[spoiler:how hard Hawk tried to find her]].
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** Teige and Parker see Liya in Aetheri in Chapter Eight. Teige starts to approach her, but stops himself. He thinks it would be cruel to tell her [[spoiler:that her brother didn't die the day she was taken, and then destroy that hope right away by telling her that on his way to find her, Hawk was abducted and probably killed]]. Parker starts quietly crying, and says how awful it would be for her to never know [[spoiler:how hard Hawk tried to findher]].her]].
** Averted with the conflict between Numair and the Assembly over increasing Aetheria's involvement in fighting the slave trade. While as things stand, there are genuinely good reasons they can't do more--Cynn Numair himself points out that expanding the royal order would be a bad idea, since having a large military force loyal to a single ruler never ends well, and committing the army would indeed be an act of war. However, the council continues to stonewall even once Numair comes up with a plan for a multiversal task force, making it clear that their ''real'' issue is being a pack of hidebound racists.
** Teige and Parker see Liya in Aetheri in Chapter Eight. Teige starts to approach her, but stops himself. He thinks it would be cruel to tell her [[spoiler:that her brother didn't die the day she was taken, and then destroy that hope right away by telling her that on his way to find her, Hawk was abducted and probably killed]]. Parker starts quietly crying, and says how awful it would be for her to never know [[spoiler:how hard Hawk tried to find
** Averted with the conflict between Numair and the Assembly over increasing Aetheria's involvement in fighting the slave trade. While as things stand, there are genuinely good reasons they can't do more--Cynn Numair himself points out that expanding the royal order would be a bad idea, since having a large military force loyal to a single ruler never ends well, and committing the army would indeed be an act of war. However, the council continues to stonewall even once Numair comes up with a plan for a multiversal task force, making it clear that their ''real'' issue is being a pack of hidebound racists.
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* DramaticIrony: Hawk believes Liya to have been kidnapped and taken to Enodia, and Liya believes Hawk to be dead, when the truth is that Liya is in Aetheri as an apprentice healer and Hawk is very much alive. The irony only ''intensifies'' when Hawk reaches Enodia: When he learns that Liya has no records in Enodia (because she was never there), it confirms his long-brewing doubts that he imagined Liya's survival...while he's living with Vlad, one of Liya's best friends. Meanwhile, his friends Teige and Parker are living in Aetheri, where they run into Liya by chance, but choose not to mention Hawk to her because ''they'' believe him to be dead or worse, too.
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* DramaticIrony: Hawk believes Liya to have been kidnapped and taken to Enodia, and Liya believes Hawk to be dead, when the truth is that Liya is in Aetheri as an apprentice healer and Hawk is very much alive. The irony only ''intensifies'' when Hawk reaches Enodia: When he learns that Liya has no records in Enodia (because she was never there), it confirms his long-brewing doubts that he imagined Liya's survival...while he's living with Vlad, one of Liya's best friends. Meanwhile, his friends Teige and Parker are living in Aetheri, where they run into Liya by chance, but choose not to mention Hawk to her because ''they'' believe him to be dead or worse, too. [[spoiler: The mixup finally gets sorted out when Numair runs into Hawk by chance, and recognizes Hawk from the pictures in Liya's files.]]
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* CantStopTheSignal: The Cynn's plan to fix the council's corruption is to give radio to Aetheria. There are technically no laws preventing oral transcripts of the council's meetings, because these transcripts have no legal credibility - but if the radios were to blare out every horrible thing the council eagerly says to each other behind closed doors...
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* DramaticIrony: Hawk believes Liya to have been kidnapped and taken to Enodia, and Liya believes Hawk to be dead, when the truth is that Liya is in Aetheri as an apprentice healer and Hawk is very much alive. The irony only ''intensifies'' when Hawk reaches Enodia: When he learns that Liya has no records in Enodia (because she was never there), it confirms his long-brewing doubts that he imagined Liya's surival...while he's living with Vlad, one of Liya's best friends. Meanwhile, his friends Teige and Parker are living in Aetheri, where they run into Liya by chance, but choose not to mention Hawk to her because ''they'' believe him to be dead or worse, too.
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* DramaticIrony: Hawk believes Liya to have been kidnapped and taken to Enodia, and Liya believes Hawk to be dead, when the truth is that Liya is in Aetheri as an apprentice healer and Hawk is very much alive. The irony only ''intensifies'' when Hawk reaches Enodia: When he learns that Liya has no records in Enodia (because she was never there), it confirms his long-brewing doubts that he imagined Liya's surival...survival...while he's living with Vlad, one of Liya's best friends. Meanwhile, his friends Teige and Parker are living in Aetheri, where they run into Liya by chance, but choose not to mention Hawk to her because ''they'' believe him to be dead or worse, too.
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* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Aetheri has its own dark history, but one that was never intended; [[spoiler:a science experiment to invade Earth had the side effect of erasing an infinite subset of alternate universes from existence]]. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone The sheer horror and humiliation of knowing they obliterated]] [[spoiler:entire universes]] ''by accident'' has left even the most corrupt of the overpowered ruling class isolationist and pacifist.
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* BarBrawl: Hawk gets into one with Dimitri, the buffalo shapeshifter who gets physically violent and starts throwing slurs around when he finds out that his ex Felix has been having sex with a half-breed.
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* FromBadToWorse: Hawk is about to get creamed in a drunken brawl with a much larger and much stronger man when suddenly Hawk sees the barn owl perched atop a loudspeaker--which immediately starts blaring a siren, the bar vanishes, and attack dogs start barking...
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* RoadsideSurgery: When Teige is shot in the riot, Hawk has to fly him out in a hurry, and the two wind up in the back of an RV as Hawk tries to stabilize him.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Teige and Parker see Liya in Enodia in Chapter Eight. Teige starts to approach her, but stops himself. He thinks it would be cruel to tell her [[spoiler:that her brother didn't die the day she was taken, and then destroy that hope right away by telling her that on his way to find her, Hawk was abducted and probably killed]]. Parker starts quietly crying, and says how awful it would be for her to never know [[spoiler:how hard Hawk tried to find her]].
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Teige and Parker see Liya in Enodia Aetheri in Chapter Eight. Teige starts to approach her, but stops himself. He thinks it would be cruel to tell her [[spoiler:that her brother didn't die the day she was taken, and then destroy that hope right away by telling her that on his way to find her, Hawk was abducted and probably killed]]. Parker starts quietly crying, and says how awful it would be for her to never know [[spoiler:how hard Hawk tried to find her]].
* CastFullOfGay: ''Hoo boy''. Hawk is bisexual, Teige is transgender, Parker is transgender and a lesbian, Minnie is a lesbian, Yoshi is transgender, Felix is gay, Aram is bisexual, Vlad is gender-nonconforming and intersex...
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* FantasticRacism: The humans in the Archipelago actively oppress the non-human "demons" and their mixed-species children. For all the more advanced it is, Aetheri isn't much better towards humans or mixed species.
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* DramaticIrony: Hawk believes Liya to have been kidnapped and taken to Enodia, and Liya believes Hawk to be dead, when the truth is that Liya is in Aetheri as an apprentice healer and Hawk is very much alive. The irony only ''intensifies'' when Hawk reaches Enodia: When he learns that Liya has no records in Enodia (because she was never there), it confirms his long-brewing doubts that he imagined Liya's surival...while he's living with Vlad, one of Liya's best friends. Meanwhile, his friends Teige and Parker are living in Aetheri, where they run into Liya by chance, but choose not to mention Hawk to her because ''they'' believe him to be dead or worse, too.
* FantasticRacism: The humans in the Archipelago actively oppress the non-human "demons" and their mixed-species children. For all the moreadvanced progressive it is, is with regards to gender and sexual orientation, Aetheri isn't much better towards humans or mixed species.
* FantasticRacism: The humans in the Archipelago actively oppress the non-human "demons" and their mixed-species children. For all the more
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Spirits can live for several centuries. Vlad and Cynn Numair, for example are both around 320 years old and appear to be in their twenties.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Aetheri's ruling council is ''full'' of them. Every proposal Numair makes to help refugees or crack down on the slave trade is shot down as quickly as it's introduced, with none of them offering alternatives.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Spirits can live for several centuries. Vlad and Cynn Numair, for example are both around 320 years old and appear to be in theirtwenties.twenties.
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Slavers run rampant through Earth, Ardh, and even Aetheri. And yet, the Aetherian Council is loath to do anything about it, despite the pleas of their constituents and the Cynn himself.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Spirits can live for several centuries. Vlad and Cynn Numair, for example are both around 320 years old and appear to be in their
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Slavers run rampant through Earth, Ardh, and even Aetheri. And yet, the Aetherian Council is loath to do anything about it, despite the pleas of their constituents and the Cynn himself.
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Hawk, the middle child and a half-human with wings, is working his way through the Archipelago to reach Aetheri to rescue his sister Lilya, who he believes has been abducted. Lilya, the youngest of the three, believes her two older brothers are dead, and is having trouble unraveling who's a friend and who's an enemy as she adjusts to Aetherian life.
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Hawk, the middle child and a half-human with wings, is working his way through the Archipelago to reach Aetheri to rescue his sister Lilya, Liliya, who he believes has been abducted. Lilya, Liliya, the youngest of the three, believes her two older brothers are dead, and is having trouble unraveling who's a friend and who's an enemy as she adjusts to Aetherian life.
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* FantasticRacism: The humans in the Archipelago actively oppress the non-human "demons" and their half-human children. For all the more advanced it is, Aetheri isn't much better towards humans or half-humans.
* FantasticSlurs: Don't call half-humans half-breeds.
* GenderIsNoObject: Aetheria doesn't seem to have the same hang-ups over gender that our Earth has--in fact, even the Archipelago seems more progressive than our world, given Liya had health textbooks in the 1990s-2000s that discussed being transgender.
* FantasticSlurs: Don't call half-humans half-breeds.
* GenderIsNoObject: Aetheria doesn't seem to have the same hang-ups over gender that our Earth has--in fact, even the Archipelago seems more progressive than our world, given Liya had health textbooks in the 1990s-2000s that discussed being transgender.
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* ComingOutStory: [[spoiler:Yoshi]] comes out as transgender in Chapter Six. Chapter Eight focuses in part on [[spoiler:her]] seeking medical transition.
* FantasticRacism: The humans in the Archipelago actively oppress the non-human "demons" and theirhalf-human mixed-species children. For all the more advanced it is, Aetheri isn't much better towards humans or half-humans.
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* FantasticSlurs: Don't callhalf-humans mixed-species half-breeds.
* GenderIsNoObject:Aetheria Aetheri doesn't seem to have the same hang-ups over gender that our Earth has--in fact, even the Archipelago seems more progressive than our world, given Liya had health textbooks in the 1990s-2000s that discussed being transgender.transgender in a positive, or at least neutral way.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: When Hawk [[spoiler:is captured by slavers]], his friends all assume with good reason that he's likely to have been killed.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Spirits can live for several centuries. Vlad and Cynn Numair, for example are both around 320 years old and appear to be in their twenties.
* FantasticRacism: The humans in the Archipelago actively oppress the non-human "demons" and their
* FantasticSlurs: Don't call
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* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: When Hawk [[spoiler:is captured by slavers]], his friends all assume with good reason that he's likely to have been killed.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Spirits can live for several centuries. Vlad and Cynn Numair, for example are both around 320 years old and appear to be in their twenties.
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Not to be confused with the ''other'' webcomic ''WebComic/WhiteNoise'', or with the [[Literature/WhiteNoise Don Delillo novel]] or the 2004 film starring Michael Keaton.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Teige and Parker see Lilya in Enodia in Chapter Eight. Teige starts to approach her, but stops himself. He thinks it would be cruel to tell her [[spoiler:that her brother didn't die the day she was taken, and then destroy that hope right away by telling her that on his way to find her, Hawk was abducted and probably killed]]. Parker starts quietly crying, and says how awful it would be for her to never know [[spoiler:how hard Hawk tried to find her]].
* FantasticRacism: The humans in the Archipelago actively oppress the non-human "demons" and their half-human children. Meanwhile, in Aetheria, the anti-immigrant sentiment is growing almost as bad.
* FantasticRacism: The humans in the Archipelago actively oppress the non-human "demons" and their half-human children. Meanwhile, in Aetheria, the anti-immigrant sentiment is growing almost as bad.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Teige and Parker see Lilya Liya in Enodia in Chapter Eight. Teige starts to approach her, but stops himself. He thinks it would be cruel to tell her [[spoiler:that her brother didn't die the day she was taken, and then destroy that hope right away by telling her that on his way to find her, Hawk was abducted and probably killed]]. Parker starts quietly crying, and says how awful it would be for her to never know [[spoiler:how hard Hawk tried to find her]].
* CallARabbitASmeerp: The Aetheri word for transgender is ''yllur''.
* FantasticRacism: The humans in the Archipelago actively oppress the non-human "demons" and their half-human children.Meanwhile, in Aetheria, For all the anti-immigrant sentiment is growing almost as bad.more advanced it is, Aetheri isn't much better towards humans or half-humans.
* FantasticSlurs: Don't call half-humans half-breeds.
* GenderIsNoObject: Aetheria doesn't seem to have the same hang-ups over gender that our Earth has--in fact, even the Archipelago seems more progressive than our world, given Liya had health textbooks in the 1990s-2000s that discussed being transgender.
* CallARabbitASmeerp: The Aetheri word for transgender is ''yllur''.
* FantasticRacism: The humans in the Archipelago actively oppress the non-human "demons" and their half-human children.
* FantasticSlurs: Don't call half-humans half-breeds.
* GenderIsNoObject: Aetheria doesn't seem to have the same hang-ups over gender that our Earth has--in fact, even the Archipelago seems more progressive than our world, given Liya had health textbooks in the 1990s-2000s that discussed being transgender.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Teige and Parker see [[spoiler:Lilya]] in Enodia. Teige starts to approach [[spoiler:her]], but stops himself. He thinks it would be cruel to say [[spoiler:that her brother didn't die the day she was taken, and then destroy that hope right away by telling her that on his way to find her, Hawk was abducted and probably killed]]. Parker starts quietly crying, and says how awful it would be for her to never know [[spoiler:how hard Hawk tried to find her]].
* FantasticRacism: The humans in the Archipelago actively oppress the non-human Demons and their half-human children. Meanwhile, in Aetheria, the anti-immigrant sentiment is growing almost as bad.
* FantasticRacism: The humans in the Archipelago actively oppress the non-human Demons and their half-human children. Meanwhile, in Aetheria, the anti-immigrant sentiment is growing almost as bad.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Teige and Parker see [[spoiler:Lilya]] Lilya in Enodia. Enodia in Chapter Eight. Teige starts to approach [[spoiler:her]], her, but stops himself. He thinks it would be cruel to say tell her [[spoiler:that her brother didn't die the day she was taken, and then destroy that hope right away by telling her that on his way to find her, Hawk was abducted and probably killed]]. Parker starts quietly crying, and says how awful it would be for her to never know [[spoiler:how hard Hawk tried to find her]].
* FantasticRacism: The humans in the Archipelago actively oppress the non-humanDemons "demons" and their half-human children. Meanwhile, in Aetheria, the anti-immigrant sentiment is growing almost as bad.
* FantasticRacism: The humans in the Archipelago actively oppress the non-human
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''[[http://www.white-noise-comic.com/ White Noise]]'' is a 2011 urban fantasy webcomic written and drawn by Adrien Lee.
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''[[http://www.white-noise-comic.com/ White Noise]]'' is a 2011 urban fantasy UrbanFantasy webcomic written and drawn by Adrien Lee.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Teige and Parker see [[spoiler:Lilya]] in Enodia. Teige starts to approach [[spoiler:her]], but stops himself. He thinks it would be cruel to say [[spoiler:that her brother didn't die the day she was taken, and then destroy that hope right away by telling her that on his way to find her, Hawk was abducted and probably killed]]. Parker starts quietly crying, and says how awful it would be for her to never know [[spoiler:how hard Hawk tried to find her]].
* FantasticRacism: The humans in the Archipelago actively oppress the non-human Demons and their half-human children. Meanwhile, in Aetheria, the anti-immigrant sentiment is growing almost as bad.
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''[[http://www.white-noise-comic.com/ White Noise]]'' is a 2011 urban fantasy webcomic written and drawn by Adrien Lee.
In the early twentieth century, the nation of Aetheri ended its interdimensional isolation and made contact with the Symphony Archipelago, revealing to the humans living there that there was an entire multiverse around them...and then things immediately went downhill. In the 1990s, Aetheri's leadership changed, and a family of three half-siblings in the Archipelago struggled together against the bigotry between humans and non-humans. By 2005, the family has been torn apart.
Hawk, the middle child and a half-human with wings, is working his way through the Archipelago to reach Aetheri to rescue his sister Lilya, who he believes has been abducted. Lilya, the youngest of the three, believes her two older brothers are dead, and is having trouble unraveling who's a friend and who's an enemy as she adjusts to Aetherian life.
The comic updates on Sundays. You can begin reading [[http://www.white-noise-comic.com/comic/1-0 here]].
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In the early twentieth century, the nation of Aetheri ended its interdimensional isolation and made contact with the Symphony Archipelago, revealing to the humans living there that there was an entire multiverse around them...and then things immediately went downhill. In the 1990s, Aetheri's leadership changed, and a family of three half-siblings in the Archipelago struggled together against the bigotry between humans and non-humans. By 2005, the family has been torn apart.
Hawk, the middle child and a half-human with wings, is working his way through the Archipelago to reach Aetheri to rescue his sister Lilya, who he believes has been abducted. Lilya, the youngest of the three, believes her two older brothers are dead, and is having trouble unraveling who's a friend and who's an enemy as she adjusts to Aetherian life.
The comic updates on Sundays. You can begin reading [[http://www.white-noise-comic.com/comic/1-0 here]].
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