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for the comic.Pink n Blue is a Just Shapes & Beats fancomic series made by AneesaCampos.
The story mainly follows Wave, a blue shape who wakes up with no recollection or clue of how she ended up stuck in a pit. She befriends the hero Square and his friends Cube, Lycan and Venn, after the latter two rescue her. When Blixer comes along to take over Paradise, he develops a liking towards Wave, and a bond develops between them. Meanwhile, Square and the others battle Blixer's corruption across the land via a course of events similar to that of the original game, with levels from the game appearing to be personified as characters. Blixer later reveals the past to Wave of how their kind had been mistreated, and she feels further conflicted on who to call friend or foe.
The comic can be read on Deviantart here.
Pink n Blue contains examples of:
- Advancing Wall of Doom: When Wave is looking for Blixer in his tower, she finds a room filled with Blixer's minions. She leaves, but is suddenly pushed by a swarm of the pink guys. She continues to flee from them until she bumps into some new shapes. Then Blixer shows up to yell at his minions that they are supposed to watch Wave, not corrupt her.
- Animate Inanimate Matter: When Blixer pulls the Treeangle out of the ground, Wave can hear the tree call for help. Blixer tells it to shut up and stop complaining since it'll be of great use of him. Wave learns from Blixer that apparently only shapes of their kind can hear the (current) tree's voice.
- Animate Inanimate Object: The characters Boat and Heli are respectively a talking boat and helicopter with expressive eyes.
- Anti-Climax: When Venn sees some corrupts lifting Boat's pieces into the factory, she yells at them to give him back and leaps towards them - but it's not enough for him to jump over the pink river in between him and them, and he falls into the water.
- Bad Boss: Blixer is abrasive to his minions. They're fearful when they accidentally disobey him, and that's before Blixer grabs one of them and says "you know what happens next" while opening his mouth wide. Had Wave not sobbed into his arms, he would've eaten his minion on the spot. Not even his fellow monsters that work for him are safe from his wrath, as it takes Wave confirming to Blixer that Remy and Vinn didn't hurt her to make him not launch a cannon their way.
- Backing Away Slowly: After Square beats up Willa and Cass with Cube and Venn cheering him on, they're less happy with their victory when they and another pink shape, Willa's sister Sevie, start crying over each other's injuries. Cube whispers to Venn that they just go away very carefully, and they quietly leave the scene.
- Bear Hug: Remy gives a big hug to Wave out of gratitude to saving them from Blixer's wrath, but Vinn warns her that she's hurting Wave, and Remy quickly lets go and apologises.
- Big "WHY?!": Blixer tries comforting Wave after he's taken the Treeangle and given himself an upgrade with its power, but instead the usually soft-spoken shape is so distraught over his actions that she yells "WHY!? WHY DID YOU DO THAT?"
- The Blank: Downplayed. Square is the only shape so far without a face, but certain shots do give him eyebrows, or even a blank white eye if he's fearful.
- Blank White Eyes: Several shapes are illustrated with blank white eyes bordered with the colour of their given scleras when they are surprised, shocked or scared.
- Chain of People: Venn calls over other green shapes to help her reach Wave in a pit she's stuck in. They grab on to each other with Venn at the far end and pull her out.
- Color-Coded Speech: Words and speech bubbles tend to match the color of the talking shape. Even when a bubble is absent and/or the character is offscreen, the text color indicates who it's from.
- Creation Myth: Blixer tells Wave how there was once nothing until a triangular piece popped into existence and made the land before burying itself into it. Out popped the Treeangle that then made every living shape, including Blixer's kind.
- Cross-Popping Veins: Marcus has a small pink cross popping vein on his head after he shoots Heli, and after a moment of shocked silence from the other shapes, he yells at the others to get moving along, then demands Lloyd to dispose of Heli.
- Cyclops: Wave is a blue one-eyed shape who looks similar to Blixer, who also has only one eye until taking the Treeangle's power gives him a 2nd eye. Other characters with one eye include Cass, Carol, Cuda, Codes, Uriel.
- The Darkness Gazes Back: As Wave leaves her room to look for Blixer, a swarm of eyes in a silhouette of Blixer's minions watch her from behind. Just as she turns around, they disappear until she moves away.
- A Dog Named "Dog": Cube is a blue cube, and his new friend, the square protagonist of the original game, is called Square. The living boat and helicopter are called Boat and Heli respectively.
- Dying Declaration of Love: Downplayed. After Lycan lets go of Venn's hand in the cave, he tells her to take the piece and save himself, followed by "I love you..." in a lower voice, then he falls into dangerous pink water and yells in agony before submerging. It's unclear if it is platonic or more. Moreover, Lycan survives and nothing more is brought up of it.
- Eye Awaken: Venn gradually wakes up after being knocked out from Blixer's attack, and her eyes are first seen shut in one panel and slightly open the next.
- Eye Cam: Quite a few moments in the comic occur in perspective of a character, as if the camera is in their eye.
- The story begins from the perspective of Wave's eye, accompanied by a voice telling her to wake up. She finds herself stuck in a pit with no idea where she is.
- An exhausted Venn can only watch Blixer carry Wave to his tower, with the panel showing the two from behind in an eyelid slowly closing.
- Wave wakes up (again) in Blixer's tower, the scene starting from her eye opening to see Blixer calling her to wake up.
- Extra Eyes: Willa has multiple floating eyes arranged in a circle in place of where a head would be. Her sister Sevie has many floating eyes which are arranged radially with circles alongside them. Probably justified by them being personifications of levels from the game that contain lots of circles.
- Fantastic Racism: Blixer does not like being called a monster for a reason. His species were heavily discriminated against in the past, regardless of if they were good or bad. Things got bad enough that some of those who fared worst fought back, but went too far, so they were hunted to be either sealed away, banished, stripped of their powers or even executed. When the conflict reached a boiling point, the Treeangle suddenly disappeared, before reappearing with no memory of care for Blixer's kind, instead siding with the discriminators and separating the remaining ones to be left to their own luck.
- Grimy Water: Downplayed. After Blixer removes the Treeangle, the surrounding area becomes as pink as him, even the river. Venn accidentally touches the pink water and jolts back in pain, exclaiming that it stings. However, she and Lycan are still able to swim in it.
- Heroic Sacrifice: After Cuda returns to his senses, the volcano rumbles again, and he suddenly throws Venn and Square away from him. A giant rock crashes down on Cuda, forcing Venn and Square to proceed without him. However, he survives.
- "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight:
- In a Single Bound: Blixer tells Wave to hold onto him before leaving the room by launching himself upwards with his arms, sending them towards the tower's roof.
- Insufferable Genius: Marcus is a haughty spectacled shape who's first seen calculating the duration of the corruption's complete takeover of Paradise. He's strongly against being asked too many questions.
- Jagged Mouth: Carol doesn't appear to have a mouth at first, but when she's furious, the area under her single eye turns dark before opening into a mouth, with its teeth appearing like points from her skin.
- Jive Turkey: Zone wears shades and a brightly colored cap, jacket and wristband. He introduces himself with "Yo! Wassup losers! Did too much RAD amaze you!?" much to the confusion of other shapes. Another tower employee reminds him to not use weird words in the tower.
- Juxtaposed Halves Shot: The cover for the comic has half of Wave's blue worried face on the left and half of Blixer's pink smiling, but pained face on the right, accompanied with the comic's title "Pink n Blue".
- Lecherous Licking: Downplayed.
- Morality Pet: Zigzagged.
- Named by the Adaptation: The game itself lacks official names for its characters. Meanwhile, this comic names the game's protagonist "Square", his larger companion "Cube", and the pink monster as "Blixer".
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: After successfully landing a cannon blast on Boat, Blixer picks him up and says "let's get you patched up" before ripping his mast off.
- Pulling Themselves Together: Played with. Boat is incapacitated after Blixer rips off his mast and his pieces are carried away. However, when his pieces break free, they reassemble into the full Boat, who's only dazed for a while.
- Punny Name: The big tree made of three triangles is called the Treeangle, which is a portmanteau of "tree" and "triangle".
- Ridiculously Fast Construction: When Dub inserts the corrupted Treeangle in the ground, the ground briefly rumbles before a giant pink tower appears where the tree once stood.
- Scary Teeth: Blixer can make a terrifying sharp-toothed smile, which he uses while threatening to punish his minions, but he's interrupted by Wave trembling in his arms before he reveals how he would give said punishment.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Light profanities are sprinkled here and there, except when it comes to the angry Carol. Almost every one of her lines contains a curse word, Precision F Strikes included.
- Symbol Swearing: Square swears in symbols (#@!?☠🌪), like he does in the original game, when Blixer shoves another corrupted triangle into the volcano, when Cuda attacks and grabs him, and when Venn pulls him the other way in the cave.
- Villainous Crush: Blixer wants to take over Paradise, but Wave is the only one he cares about because she showed him kindness when others isolated him. However, this culminates in him taking Wave into his tower and claims to be protecting her (the circumstances of which he lies about by saying Boat caused the explosion when it was actually Blixer's cannon). He has Wave stay in his room so they can start to get more "acquainted".
- Wall Pin of Love: Played with. Dub corners a terrified Wave against a cave wall just to tell her that he means her no harm. After failing to stop her from screaming, he admits he crossed a line by yelling and apologises before introducing himself. He says there's something he wants to tell her, and both of them start to blush, but Cube interrupts by throwing a rock at Blixer's head, making him go on a rampage.
- Wham Shot: As Blixer tells Wave what happened to their kind, particularly of how the new Treeangle pushed apart the remaining ones and left them to their own luck, a blue silhouette resembling Wave is seen falling into a pit, where she woke up when the story began.
- Written Roar: After Carol unlocks her more monstrous form out of rage, the word "ROAR" appears above Willa and Cass, who act to stop Carol from attacking Sevie by getting the former to calm down.
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- Fridge Logic: As he dangles above pink water in the cave with Venn holding his hand at a height, Lycan lets go of Venn's hand, allowing himself to fall so Venn could save herself. Although he survives, the giant Cuda was standing right there watching it happen, only acting when Venn tells him to find Lycan in the water. Why couldn't he have caught Lycan then and there?
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- Anthropomorphic Personification: Several characters are the levels in the game, usually with names based off of the title of the song used in it, as well as designs from elements in that level.
- Willa personifies "Art of War"
- Cass is based off of "Cascade"
- Remy is inspired from "On the Run"
- Vinn is the short form for "Vindicate Me"
- Carol is a mundane name to be associated with the level "Termination Shock", but her ghastly appearance and Hot Trigger Temper was designed with the difficulty of her level in mind.[[inuniverse]]
- Sevie is derived from Sevcon, and the multitude of circles in that level is represented as a face of floating eyes.
- Lloyd, the mute robotic cube, is based on "Unlocked", with the main obstacle of that level being a large square in the center.
- Marcus is only known by his codename, in the veins of the James Bond-inspired level "Try This". He has a gun to go with his spy theme
- Zone is a more obvious nod to "Into the Zone"
- Uriel, Carol's husband, - Unlocked
- Codes, Hype, and Wicked are Carol and Uriel's children, named after the levels "", "", and "".
- Yoko - ?
- Always Chaotic Evil: Subverted. Not all corrupted shapes are evil, but being corrupt does make one more aggressive, which can be harmful if they can't control themselves. Otherwise, other corrupts and monsters have been kind to one another, including Wave. It's uncertain
- Big Damn Kiss: Tower (page 77)
- Rage Breaking Point?
- Oh, Crap!: Cuda
- Color Contrast: As the title implies (and per the course of the original game), this comic has a lot of Blue Is Heroic vs. Psycho Pink, as most of the good guys are blue while the corrupted shapes are pink.
