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1	[[quoteright:190:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/paladin_ik_fite_tiny.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:190:The Iron Knight fighting the Paladin]]
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4	''[[http://everett.cfw.me Everett]]'' is a fantasy/noir webcomic written by Joshua Nye using CG graphics. It began in 2015 and is ongoing with a MWF page release schedule, except for a hiatus in the summer of 2017 (which the author worked on a mech, apparently). Its currently in the middle of an OrwellianRetcon
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6	The story follows Chester, a mage who's magic is constrained by his haunted past, enrolls in a mage college and stumbles into the Paladin Project, a mage-enhancing program to win the GreatOffscreenWar. The project gets out of control and creates general mistrust towards mages to the point where they're rounded up and shipped off.
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8	Five years later Darian, a laid-back blacksmith in a ''[[GreenHillZone rural area]]'' of the Tyastian Empire meets the Iron Knight, a ''[[BigDamnHeroes legendary hero]]'' from the war and who mysterious vanished fighting the Paladin. The two get to know one another and eventually start a rebellion against the Tyrannical Emperor Claudius. But it seems that someone else is starting to research Paladins again and Darian knows too much to just be a ''[[BadassBystander random bystander]]''.
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10	[[quoteright:155:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/breakfast.png]]
11	[[caption-width-right:155:All part of a balanced breakfast]]
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14	!! Everett contains examples of:
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16	%%* ActionGirl: Everett
17	%%* ActionSurvivor: The Iron Knight [[spoiler: Everett too]].
18	%%* AllLoveIsUnrequited: At least for Everett.
19	* ArtEvolution: In late 2017 the characters started getting better hair.
20	%%* AntiHero: Darian
21	* BelligerentSexualTension: Darian & Everett butt heads often.
22	%%* BigBad: Emperor Claudius
23	* BlackAndGreyMorality: Darian [[spoiler: when he is goaded into killing his terminally-suffering ex-lover and mother of his child]]
24	%%* CatGirl: Everett, and Tyastians.
25	* DistressedDude: Chester is abducted into the Paladin project.
26	%%* TheEmperor: Claudius
27	%%* EvilUncle: Claudius too!
28	* ExtraEyes: The Paladin has 16 eyes.
29	%%* FaceMonsterTurn: [[spoiler: Chester/Darian]]
30	* GreatOffscreenWar: Subverted. A movie was made starring the Iron Knight.
31	%%* TheHero: Everett
32	* LoveConfession: [[spoiler: Everett confesses to Darian, but also calls him an asshole]]
33	* MagicAIsMagicA: To the point where one studies it as a degree, if adept in it.
34	* MultiArmedAndDangerous: The Paladin has six limbs, two of which are abdominal and possibly vestigial.
35	* OurMonstersAreDifferent: Tyastians are cat-eared people, and Paladins are nightmare fuel monsters.
36	%%* PintSizedPowerhouse: Everett.
37	* SchizoTech: There planes, machine guns and a mechanical knight fighting them with a sword.
38	* SecretIdentity: [[spoiler: Darian is Chester/the Paladin and Everett is the Iron Knight]]
39	%%* TheUsurper: Everett [[spoiler: and Claudius was to Everett's father]]
40	%%* WasOnceAMan: The Paladin
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