The Cryptids is an unpublished comic series by CJ Croen 1393. It is about moe-fied cryptids who live under the same roof. The plot is almost non-existent, except for some humorous romances.
Patty Fu Tage and her childhood friend Corey Chupacabra are accepted into a Boarding School called The Fallshadow School for Cryptids, run by Minda Fallshadow. They meet the other colorful residents, including spoiled, rich thunderbird-girl, Lawnie Lawndale; her cloned boyfriends / bodyguard thylacine boys; Tom and Thom; shy, Emo Teen Hellhound, Stanley O'Harris; his friends, Cassandra and Travis; Sickeningly Sweethearts, Hawk and Sam, and others. They quickly realize that it's going to take some getting used to.
A character sheet is in the works.
Tropes
- Mama Bear: Touch her kids or her students, and Minda will KILL you.
- Shameless Fanservice Guy: Cory sleeps naked.
- Pretty in Mink: Patty and Gimmly have built in examples. Lampshaded:Lawnie: I like the fur lining on your jacket Patty, nice to see you have some fashion sense.
Patty': What fur lining? - Sibling Yin-Yang: Patty and Gimmly. Patty's calm, collected and smart. Gimmly's also smart, but she's also hyper, cheery, spacy and loud.
Characters
Main Characters
Patty Fu Tage
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: She prefers Sasquatch. Violently.
- Stealth Pun: Her name (Patty Fu Tage=Patterson Footage)
- Berserk Button: She's a Sasquatch, NOT a Bigfoot.
- Also, don't ever hurt Cory. You WILL regret it...
- Pretty in Mink: What mink? That fur is part of her body!
- Statuesque Stunner: She's tall and tough. Comes with being part Sasquatch.
- Ship Tease / Childhood Friend Romance: With Cory.
Cory
- Chupacabra
- Keet: The author decided to make him hyper and cheery because he didn't think it would be expected of a chupacabra.
- Winged Humanoid: His wings aren't big enough for flight though.
- Berserk Button: Don't EVER touch Patty...
- Cute Monster Guy
- Expy: Of Ryuichi Sakuma.
- No Sense of Personal Space
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Tekno (the "heterosexual" part is subverted, though, because Tekno is bisexual).
- The Ditz / Genius Ditz / Brainless Beauty
- Clingy Jealous Guy: To Patty.
- Single-Target Sexuality: He's strictly Pattysexual.
Trevor "Tekno" Adams
- #1 Dime: His plush pterodactyl toy.
- Meaningful Nickname: "Tekno" because he's really good with technology.
- Manchild: He's 18, but he likes reading comics, watching cartoons, playing with toys and sleeping.
Bertie Bird
- Snarky Non-Human Sidekick: Not many characters are human but he's also not an anthro.
R.E.Y.N.A.L.D.O
- Cyber Cyclops: His species is even listed as "Cyclops Robot".
- They Killed Kenny: Gets blown up every chapter.
Lawnie Lawndale
- In the Hood: sometimes wears a black hoodie.
- Shock and Awe: She can shoot lightning from her eyes.
- Winged Humanoid: She is a Thunderbird girl.
Tom and Thom
- Kleptomaniac Hero: Both of them.
- Single-Minded Twins: they're cloned thylacine boys.
- Bodyguard Crush: Both of them, on Lawnie.
- Classy Tasmanian Tiger Burglars
- Expy: Of Lifty and Shifty
- Those Two Guys
- The Dragon: To Lawnie.
- Dark and Troubled Past
Stanley O'Harris
- Hellhound: More like Hellpuppy.
- Hidden Depths: He's a great singer.
Travis Leeds
Cassandra Darktone
- Power Trio: With Travis and Stanley.
- Succubi and Incubi: A Succubus; subverted because she's not horny at all.
- Parental Substitute: To Stanley.
Gimmly Fu Tage
- Puppy Love: With Stanley
- Gadgeteer Genius: Tricked out her wheelchair with every gadget and weapon conceivable just because she was bored.
- Disabled Means Helpless: YEAH RIGHT!
Cody "Hawk" Parker and Samantha "Sam" Nocturne
- Winged Humanoid: Sam (a bat).
- The Vamp...ire bat: Sam, but she's loyal to Hawk.
- Luminescent Blush: Hawk. Sam thinks of this as a fetish.
- Fetish: Sam has 20 but Hawk blushing is her favorite.
- Tuckerization: Hawk's real name is based off of a friend of the author's.
- That Man Is Dead: Hawk no longer views himself as "Cody".
Wicker
- Platonic Life-Partners: He and Marie are so close that they both refuse to get into any romantic relationships, as they view their own friendship as a higher priority.
- Berserk Button: He's an anaconda, NOT a naga.
- Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
- The Prankster: He hypnotizes people and makes them act like morons for giggles.
- Big Brother Instinct / Intergenerational Friendship: With Marie.
Marie Suzaku
- Platonic Life-Partners: With Wicker. See his entry for more details.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With Wicker.
- Cheerful Child: She's 6-years-old. In human form.
- Giant Flyer: As a Phoenix.
Georgie Nocturne
- Winged Humanoid
- Cool Big Bro: To Sam.
- Casanova Wannabe
- Brother–Sister Incest: He's not even above hitting on his sister!
- Likes Older Women: Minda is the main item of his affections.
Minda Fallshadow
- Cool Teacher: Cool headmistress even.
Schroeder and Inger Fallshadow
- Creepy Twins: Parodied; they're certainly creepy, but they're also so over-the-top that they're laughable.
- Dark and Troubled Past: The only thing about them not played for laughs; Schroeder still has nightmares about it and Inger has a series of scars on his wrists.
- Scars Are Forever: The scars on Inger's wrists.
- Humanoid Abominations: Essentially.
- Little Miss Badass: Schroeder.
- Winged Humanoids: They're "death birds" (think The Mothman
).
- Katanas Are Just Better: Inger.
- Woobies Destroyers Of Worlds
- Emotionless Girl and Boy
- Red Eyes, Take Warning/Glowing Eyes of Doom: comes with the territory of being Death Birds.
Finn
- Keet: Though not as much as Cory.
- Surfer Dude: The accent is (thank God) averted, but the overall personality is not.
- #1 Dime: His lucky shark's tooth.
Petey
The Pigeon Mafia
- The Don: The "Donbird".
- Archenemy: To Bertie. Unlike Petey, they're actual threats.
- Ancient Conspiracy: Not ancient, but Bertie tends to think they're behind everything bad.
- Creepy Twins: The Donbird's bodyguards. Even moreso than Shroeder and Inger!
- Villainous Glutton / Large and in Charge: The Donbird.
- Shout-Out: The Donbird's bodyguards are named Firo and Maiza.
- Mafia Princess: The Donbird's daughter. Unlike most examples, she knows what her father does, she just doesn't care as long as she's not involved.
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