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7	''[[http://tnbtu.com/ The Night Belongs to Us]]'' is a supernatural (and occasionally NSFW) webcomic by L. R. Hale.
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9	Hank gets attacked by a werewolf. Ada saves her life. Hank then becomes a werewolf. Ada is a vampire. Hank discovers the underground society of vampires, werewolves and more. Ada sells weed for money, and is kind of a bounty hunter. Hank is a medical illustrator. Ada is complicated. Hank is attracted to Ada. Things get complicated. Hank is trying to adjust to her new life.
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11	It stopping being updated abruptly in July 2021, so it is safe to consider it an OrphanedSeries.
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13	!!This comic provides examples of the following tropes:
14	* AlienCatnip: Ada claims that werewolf blood acts like "a mix of PCP and steroids" for vampires.
15	* AlliterativeName:
16	** Ada Argyle.
17	** Antoine Anton.
18	* AffectionateNickname: Hank's werewolf form becomes "Fido" to Ada. Less affectionately, she calls Sienna "Rover" .
19	* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Hank, for her werewolf form.
20	* AmbiguouslyBrown:
21	* ArtEvolution: The figures get more realistic, the shading more subtle. Compare [[https://tnbtu.com/comic/02-04 chapter 2 Ada]] with [[https://tnbtu.com/comic/09-02 chapter 9 Ada]].
22	* ArtShift: [[https://tnbtu.com/comic/i1-2/ Side stories from the point of view of Hank's cat]] are cartoonier in style, and almost all in monochrome/sepia with a few muted colors.
23	* AmbiguouslyBi:
24	** Ada specifically tells Hank that she's [[ExactWords "not gay,"]] but Ada's only love interests in the story, including her ex-girlfriend Miss Chief, are female.
25	** Lendfire, though calling Ada beautiful, is also possessed of an unhealthy obsession with his master, Gustav.
26	* AttackOnTheHeart: To immobilize a vampire you have to impale him/her through the heart... So, whoever attacks Ada usually goes straight for the center of her chest. Curiously, Ada is never attacked with a stake, but instead with a knife or a crossbow. When her heart is hit, she will go down after just long enough to curse, but will immediately wake up as soon as the weapon is removed.
27	* BlackComedy: Ada often makes light of the fact that she's technically already dead. Such as when she narrowly avoided be burnt up by the sun:
28	-->'''Ada''': HA! HA! HA! ''I'm ALIVE!'' {{beat}} Er, well, more or less.
29	* CastFullOfGay: Hank, [[SupportingProtagonist the main character]]; Miss Chief, [[BigBad the main antagonist]]; and Antoine Anton are all gay. Ada, [[{{Deuteragonist}} the deuteragonist]], is at least bisexual, and Lendfire might be as well.
30	* CatsAreMean: Macintosh can be pretty cranky. See the interlude from his POV, especially when [[https://tnbtu.com/comic/i1-3/ a seriously-wounded Hank is returned]] to the apartment, where he nips at her for forgetting to feed him.
31	* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: when the speakers are out of sight, the color of the letters in the speech bubble/the color of the thought bubble will denote the speaker: blue for Hank, red for Ada, and white letters on black for Ada or any other vampire who is in full vampire mode.
32	* CueTheSun: After Hank and Ada flee the "greenhouse of death" and narrowly make it into a funeral palour just before the sun rises and could kill Ada, this never-the-less signals the safety they have found.
33	* DefrostingIceQueen: Hank starts having this affect to Ada, who feels guilty when she acts unkindly around her.
34	* DisappointedByTheMotive: "Muscles"' reaction when Lendfire reveals to him that revenge is the reason why he stalks Ada and Hank is to literally scoff and call it "Lame."
35	* DistractedByTheSexy:
36	** Ada is clearly distracted by Hank's breasts after seeing her naked for the first time after Hank shifts back into human form after the sun rises.
37	** This happens again with ''Hank'' being distracted by Ada's naked body when Ada changes back into human form.
38	* DomesticAbuser: It's {{implied}} that [[https://tnbtu.com/comic/08-02 Mick is abusive to Sienna]], at least when he's drunk. He doesn't really revel in bastard behavior, though.
39	--> '''Sienna:''' Christ, babe, I'm not in the mood f-- [in pain] Oh, shit!,\
40	'''Mick''': Uh, my bad. Blame the booze.\
41	'''Sienna:''' For once, you didn't do this [to me].
42	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Ada.
43	* ExactWords: Antoine points out that even though Ada said that she's "not gay", that doesn't necessarily mean that she is straight.
44	* FaintInShock: Hank is prone to fainting when under a lot of stress (like faced with a werewolf who attacked her or vampires that attacked Ada).
45	* FurAgainstFang: Vampires and werewolves [[https://tnbtu.com/comic/03-09 don't get along in general]], which makes it awkward when [[https://tnbtu.com/comic/02-16 Ada gets appointed]] as Hank's [[CynicalMentor "sire"]].
46	-->'''Hank:''' Are werewolves and vampires enemies?
47	-->'''Ada:''' God, nothing as dramatic as that...it's more like how Democrats and Republicans feel about each other.
48	-->'''Hank:''' OH! That's horrible!
49	-->'''Ada:''' Bad example. Uh, maybe it's more like, I don't know, um, Broncos and Raiders fans?
50	-->'''Hank:''' ACK! THAT'S WORSE!
51	* GallowsHumor: Ada decides to sing "Here Comes the Sun" by the Beatles while [[spoiler: tied to a stake to be burnt alive at sunrise]].
52	* GameFace: A thing with vampires. Ada [[https://tnbtu.com/comic/05-13 is afraid hers will scare Hank]].
53	** Werewolves can have this going on as well. Check out [[https://tnbtu.com/comic/08-03 Mick Murphy's version.]]
54	* HomeschooledKids: Hank and her two siblings were homeschooled.
55	* ICallItVera: Hank calls her car "Lucy".
56	* INeedAFreakingDrink: When [[spoiler: explaining to Molly]] that she is a werewolf, Hank opts to grab a bottle of vodka to make it go down easier for both of them.
57	* LesbianVampire: Ada is a grouchy low-key variation.
58	* MonstersAnonymous: There's a self-help group for werewolfs that Hank visits after gaining SuperSenses.
59	* MoralityChain: Because Ada doesn't want Hank to be afraid of her, Hank acts as this for Ada. As illustrated during their confrontation with Sienna.
60	-->'''Ada (thought bubble)''': If you weren't here, she would be dead.
61	* NeckLift: Ada once lifts Sienna up one-handedly by grabbing her t-shirt's collar to intimidate her.
62	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Ada breaks up her bounty hunt, treats Hank's wounds, takes her home and introduces her to to the shephards after Hank was attacked by Murphy, and is in turn saddled with the responsibility of being her (on-paper) sire. Ada even invokes the trope as things continue to get more complicated. She admits that legally-dead vampires are given a fake identity so that they can live somewhat normal lives, but that is ripped away from them as soon as they turn someone, to discourage them from making more vampires.
63	* QueerRomance: Developing between Hank and Ada.
64	** There's a lot of this in various character's backstories too. For example, "Miss Chief" was turned by Ada from back when they were dating, and Antoine Anton became a werewolf after some particularly heated sex with his ex-boyfriend.
65	* TheRenfield: Lendfire fills the spot as Gustav von Heiden's Renfield.
66	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Justified. Ada was born in 1901 and turned into a vampire in 1927, making her over a century old, though she is still biologically 26 as confirmed in [[https://tnbtu.com/comic/i3-3/ this Q&A]]. She is a vampire, and in this setting, vampires stay the age they are at when they were turned.
67	* SignificantAnagram: Lendfire is an anagramm to Renfield... the position Lendfire fulfills for Gustav von Heiden.
68	* SpikedBlood: Werewolf blood can make vampires high. After Ada forces Sienna to donate blood for her to drink...
69	--> '''Ada:''' Aw, yeah, I feel it. Werewolf blood is ''intense. ''
70	--> '''Sienna:''' Are you high now?
71	* StraightGay: Hank and Antoine are both gay, but neither really display any stereotypical or flamboyant behavior.
72	* TomboyishName: Hank. Unusually, she's not much of a tomboy herself.
73	-->'''Maria:''' With a name like Hank Woolsey, I was expecting a man. A very burly, woolly man.
74	* VampireVannabe: Lendfire's main reason for serving Gustav von Heiden is to be made a vampire one day.
75	* VictoriasSecretCompartment: ShipTease version. To transport Ada safely while the sun is out, Hank borrows Ada's jacket and [[https://tnbtu.com/comic/07-18 ferries a bat-formed Ada in her shirt]].

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