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L-R: Zintiel, Nitrine, Marelle

Flaky Pastry is a webcomic by Félix Lavallée (aka Falingard), which started in 2005 and is ongoing, with updates every Friday. It's a Low Fantasy Sitcom featuring the (mis)adventures of three college roommates, who have to deal with landlord dragons, vindictive halfling mages, impossibly large dungeons, and a whole host of other Dungeons & Dragons-esque characters and situations.

The three main characters are:

  • Nitrine, an unusually intelligent (read: about as smart as an average human) goblin girl with green hair. Loves inventing things with dubious purposes. Later learned to make clones of herself (or anything she wanted) using her imagination.
  • Marelle, the Team Mom, who is addicted to learning and has been studying at the university for a very long time. Has Unusual Ears, making her look suspiciously like a Cat Girl, but try telling her that.
  • Zintiel, a sociopathic High Elf. Not strictly a student, but tags along with Nitrine and Marelle when she's bored. Surprisingly strong, and a dab hand with apocalyptic magic. Was due to be married to an Elven prince but ran away on their wedding day. She and Nitrine had previously crossed paths several years back.

Flaky Pastry contains examples of:

  • Artifact of Death: Again, the Transcendental Reality Rearrangement Device. Though it's unclear if using it would cause someone to die, what it does certainly sounds like it would cause death, and not just that of the user.
  • Art Shift: For Neighbour and Gabriel's fight, it shifts to a pixelated style made to look like a fighting game, complete with Shout-Out to Street Fighter with their outfits.
  • Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Pretty much Zintiel's entire family. They act like your typical noble family with plots and intrigue, but underneath the surface is a very close loving family and not even a God of chaos can break their bonds. Ditto for her fiancée - she may have been a Runaway Bride, but she did and still does love him. She even lampshades it in a Reader Q&A strip.
  • Ax-Crazy:
    • Zintiel, so much. It's part of her broader Crazy.
    • Prism, too, but only when her true prime directive, to kill, is activated via the passphrase "Rainbow Love Child.
  • Never My Fault: Tares has a really bad case of this, laying all the blame for the horrific events on Zintiel rather than accepting his own part.


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