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1[[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/complicatednessbookcover_8581.jpg]]
2[[caption-width-right:256: From left to right: Muzzy, Nolan, Ozzie, Ness, and Jess.]]
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4->"Why is life so, complicated?"
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6->"Well, what is life without complication?
7->If there was nothing complicated, then we would never learn.\
8Never grow. Never become better animals.\
9Complication is what life is Ness."
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11In the Summer of 2011 Foster Eber jumped off a 10 meter diving platform at a swim camp in Annapolis, Maryland. for the split moment that he was airborn, the idea of flying materialized into his brain. Fixated with the idea, he simply drew himself as a dragon.
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13The Character seemed to be more than just himself, and he began to create the plot for ''Complicated Ness'' soon afterwards.
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15The idea soon became and obsession, a story he had to tell to the world, but through which medium? First there were Simple Comic Strips, then Flash Animations, then a Novel, and then finally, it wrapped its way back to Full Page Comics located on Website/SmackJeeves!
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17The website for the comic can be found [[http://www.smackjeeves.com/comicprofile.php?id=103270 here.]]
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19Currently the web comic is on hiatus. This is due to the fact that Foster wants to be sure he's telling the story he wants to tell. The webcomic is still up on Website/SmackJeeves if you want to read it, but there is no news about an update or reboot at this time.
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21Ness Roo, The Last Orange Dragon left in the entire world, struggles to find out the difference between who he is, and who people think he is. Ness must overcome his fear of growing up, as well as his fear of his older brother Ozzie Roo (A Professional Football Playing Kangaroo). The power of music helps Ness to figure out who he is, who his parents were, and what his life was always meant to be about.
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23!! [Webcomic/ComplicatedNess] contains examples of:
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25* AllThereInTheManual: Information on Dracology, maps of the area, Character profiles listing information not brought up in any of the work's past incarnations, and the history of Complicatedness can be found on the Website/SmackJeeves website.
26* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Every living being is an animal.
27* ArtEvolution: The comic becomes more detailed as it goes on. This slowed the updates from two pages a week to one a week.
28* CarnivoreConfusion: Happens in one of the older comic strips before the full length comic came out.
29* CartoonConductor: Ness is one.
30* CatapultNightmare: Happens to Ness in the begining.
31* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The comic is mostly black and white. When color is added it means that Ness is diving into a musical world. In the novel this actually means he is [[spoiler: going undomesticated.]]
32** The color of the dragons also counts. Each dragon has a basic personality with the color of its scales. Meanings can be found here [[http://complicatedness.smackjeeves.com/Dracology/]]
33* EverythingIsAnInstrument: Ness has the ability to recognize musical notes in anything, like bell tones, to teacher's voices, to ice in a pitcher of water.
34* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: In the graphic novel it is revealed that [[spoiler: Ozzy did this because he was young when he took in Ness.]]
35* FlashBackEcho: Type 1 and Type 2. In the novel the four notes have significant meaning to Ness' early life.
36* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Nolan.
37* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: In the novel, Ozzie reveals that he is Ness' adoptive father, not his adoptive brother. Ozzie did this because he was 18 at the time he found Ness and felt that their relationship would be better if they had a brother relationship as opposed to a father sun relationship.]]
38* MosesInTheBulrushes: [[spoiler:In the novel Ozzie finds a baby Ness in his bag at the airport when he first lands in the USA. This was to protect him from the color war.]]
39* NoSocialSkills: Nolan due to the fact that he is a porcupine. He can't touch anyone else unless he asks first due to his quills.
40* {{Paparazzi}}: Ozzie and Ness come home to find the paparazzi sawarming the front to their apartment.
41* ParentalAbandonment: No one knows the fate of Ness' parents. Ness has no idea weather his parents are alive or not.
42* PromotionToParent: Happens to [[spoiler: Ozzie]] in the novel. [[spoiler: He finds toddler Ness and takes care of him.]] In the web comic he takes Ness with him because it is in Ness' best interest.
43* SociallyAwkwardHero: Ness at times.
44* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Muzzy has a pony tail and eyelashes on the novel cover.
45* TheNapoleon: Ness is known to be one at times.

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