Webcomic / Flaky Pastry

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.

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Flaky Pastry contains examples of:

• Accidental Truth: Zintiel, expressing surprise at Tares having a daughter, sarcastically asks if she fell out of the sky. Funny how she phrased that.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Marelle is surprised when Nitrine did so, as she was just joking - she thought Nitrine would have more pride than that.
  Nitrine: I do, but I also have a profound need to not get murdered by a secret agent.
• All Trolls Are Different: Marelle reads off the standard entry for fantasy trolls.
  Dungeon Troll: Yep, that's all fact. Well, except the "limited intelligence" part. I don't agree with that one.
  • Later, the leader of the Troll delegation is "Biggest Brunk", who's so massive that the Orc leader is about as tall and wide as his shin.
• All Women Love Shoes: Yes, including those who lack the feet to wear them.
• Alt Text: Starting from strip 92.
• Amazonian Beauty: Zintiel is muscled and portrayed as attractive, as showcased here, where she appears in her underwear with the light shining around her.
• Ambiguous Syntax: Nitrine says she should just go back home, and Marelle thinks she means the apartment, not her childhood home.

• Anguished Declaration of Love: Cassean, under the effects of a Chaos mark, nearly does this to Trivine, his sister.

• Anything That Moves: Nitrine.
• 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.

• Bag of Holding: Arlen has a full-blown one, while Puce can pull a cell phone the size of her from her sleeve.
• Barrier-Busting Blow: Marelle hides behind a wall while kill-mode Prism stabs at her through it, the knife going through the wall.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Kurt, Nitrine's human boyfriend, becomes irritated by Nitrine's seeming disinterest in a serious relationship. Nitrine, who is a goblin, sees the world differently from Kurt and does not operate by the same standards. Thus, Kurt chooses the only logical option —brain washing — and changes it so that Nitrine will operate by human standards of decency. Zintiel explains why this is actually a really bad idea.
• Berserk Button: Never call Marelle a cat-girl.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Mona Theist, of the Sisters of Holy Retribution.
• Beyond the Impossible: In a world full of magic, things still generally follow the laws of physics. Unless you're Zintiel, anyway. She has no respect for gravity or Euclidean Geometry.
  • For the record, she managed to use clay to sculpt a Necker Cube- which is an impossible optical illusion- and managed to change the direction of gravity so she was standing on the wall. Magic can explain the gravity part, but nothing will make her sculpture make sense.
• BFS: Sister Mona carries one around with her in a guitar case.
• Big Brother Instinct: Cassean with his sisters, even slapping Tares over it.
  Cassean: Say what you will about me, Tares, but I will defend Trivine's honour against anyone, even you. And furthermore, Zintiel saved my life today. I am proud to call her my sister. You do not get to insult her either. I challenge you.
• Bilingual Bonus: The 'Fro Mage's specialty is cheese.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Tares could have benefited from wearing some darker clothes here.
• Brought Down to Badass: Zintiel's Chaos powers are blocked while she's inside the Cavernball dome, leaving her... still capable of beating up the opposing team's players.
• The Cameo: Tycho Brahe of Penny Arcade is seen waiting for a bus. Also appearing is that webcomic's running gag of Tycho getting his prized gold watch stolen.
• Can't Argue with Elves: Subverted when Arlen is about to talk about how proud they are of the Elf Gates, only for Zintiel to interrupt and admit that the Elves actually have no clue where they came from - they just took the credit.
• Cat Girl: Marelle, though she insists that she is not one, and gets annoyed when people suggest it.

• Chekhov's Gag:
  • The stapler that Nitrine wanted to "borrow" from their Neighbour - first it's just a Brick Joke when Nitrine winds up dropping it in the future, but turns into this when it's revealed that Future!Marelle is using it to keep the portal stabilized for some plan.
  • And Nitrine is hit with this again when her Spirit Advisor turns out to be the Excrementor elemental.
  • The Unicorn that Zintiel killed in the Real Dungeon? Puce encounters it in the XTreme version, where it had become an Un-icorn due to the grisly death it suffered at Z's hands.
• Chekhov's Gunman: The penguin thief was the indirect cause of a whole story arc, as explained in the commentary on that page.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Pretty much Zintiel's default expression. If she's not wearing one, she's either asleep or something has gone wrong.
• Church Militant: It's not really clear if Sister Mona Theist is this or a Badass Preacher. Given she belongs to the "Sisters of Holy Retribution", and considers it appropriate behavior to go around swinging a BFS at "evildoers", it's probably Church Militant.
• Cleavage Window: Nitrine's super-suit has one, which did not escape Kurt's notice.

• Clue, Evidence, and a Smoking Gun: When Zintiel and Marelle discover that Nitrine is gone, the Alt Text implies an exchange between them with Marelle undercutting Zintiel's deduction by pointing out the obvious.
  She can't have been gone long... the gum from her posters is still fresh - Ahem. Also we both saw her yesterday.
• Comically Missing the Point:
  • Something terrible, indeed.
  • Zintiel's "Cult of Chaos" ask her for advice on how to be just like her.
• Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: Mona turns a little boy around before she draws her sword against Zintiel.
• Crossdresser: Leslie, a very androgynous male, who is often mistaken for a girl. This might have something to do with his part-time job as a barmaid.
  • Later on, he's Mistaken for Gay.
    • Leslie is however guilty of mistaking somebody's gender as well.
• Curse Cut Short: Nitrine when she meets her Spirit Advisor.
  Nitrine: No way YOU're my "spirit guide"! You're full of sh—
• Cute Little Fangs: Nitrine.
• Cute Monster Girl: Nitrine, a female goblin, looks like a short, cute woman with green hair and lips. The male goblins are classic goblin ugly.

• Desperately Craves Affection: Nitrine thinks Morgana is this, and not actually a lesbian.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Mona attacks Zintiel with a sword for stealing a kid's ice cream cone.
• Dissimile:
  • In the Alt Text for this page, after Mona cuts off Zintiel's hair, which, being animate, then turns on her:
    Sister Mona is reminded of the biblical story of Samson and Delilah, except... y'know... totally different.
  • A later strip has Zintiel's sister try to needle her about being a Runaway Bride, but Zin quickly points out the flaws.
    Zintiel: So there's no ghost, no lake, no song and certainly no watery doom.
• Do Wrong, Right: Nitrine is appalled that Griplen stole some of their Neighbour's stuff.
  Nitrine: Idiot! I told you not to steal them from people I know!
• The Dreaded: Zintiel has garnered a bit of a reputation...
• Dungeon-Based Economy: A slightly scaled back one, but the Wizard has developed a theme park attraction involving adventurers buying supplies to conquer a 100-floor dungeon. He's less than happy when they wreck the place in the process of retrieving the final prize...
• Dungeon Crawling: The trio had to do a supposedly 100-floor dungeon crawl to retrieve a MacGuffin in the earliest story arc.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Cee, the roommate of Prism's boyfriend whose first featured appearance occurs in strip number 708 can be seen in the background of a much earlier strip nearly 11 years before punching the lights out of Pliskin Oleum Saltzman.
• Emperor Scientist: Future Marelle uses her knowledge of just about everything to take over.
• The Everyman: Kurt. His relationship with Nitrine is said to be his one oddity. Well that, and he's kind of short at only five foot four.
  Kurt: Is everyone totally crazy around here?
  Marelle: I'm thinking yes, pretty much. Sorry.
• Everyone Knew Already: Arlen and Lumigado unnecessarily tried to keep their romance secret.
• Evil Chancellor / Smug Snake: The goblin Vizier Reptilis is an archetypal example of both of these.
• Evil Counterpart: The "Rivalkyries" arc revolves around this. Prism is the counterpart to Marelle, Morgana is Nitrine's, and Mona is the Good Counterpart to Zintiel.
• Evil Gloating: Nitrine provokes one of Tares' underlings into this.
• Extended Greetings: All royal elves have multiple stacked titles to their names, by which they are introduced. The ones in Zintiel's family have six or seven each.
• Eye Scream: Nitrine defeats a troll by shooting it in the eye. Even a Healing Factor doesn't make him immune to this trope.
• Fake-Out Make-Out: "I should hide my face or something." ^note Alt Text - Clearly that could be ANY disheveled white-haired guy and cat-eared lavender-haired girl!
• Fantastic Caste System: Of a sort, the Four Main Biznesses of Gobhood: Rigging, Digging, Filching, and Whacking.
• Flat "What":
  • Probably the only reasonable response to Damian's "secret technique."
  • Also the response from Nitrine and Marelle in learning about Zintiel's fiancee, Prince Camambar.
  • And prior to these, Zintiel's reaction to someone actually blocking one of her blows.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Mona's Wall of Text in the background of this comic reveals her Church Militant background, although we don't get to see it until she turns up again over a hundred pages later.
  • Pay close attention to this page. The final stab actually hits, as evidenced by the 'twinge!' and the red spot on Marelle's back in panel 6. This was a hint to her immortality.
• Forgot About His Powers: Nitrine has a habit of forgetting that she can clone herself, as lampshaded here - the Alt Text says it's because of Rule of Funny.
• Formula-Breaking Episode:
  • The "Croissant's Corner" strips, where Series Mascot Croissant presents extra info on the Flaky-verse, interviews with the characters, (mostly) non-canonical nonsense, and other manners of filler.
  • The 100 milestone comics. With the exception of the first one and the seventh one, they're A Day in the Limelight for various side characters.
  • The 800th strip is a Gamebook story from the perspective of Prism, and continuing their story arc.
• Funetik Aksent: Most goblins. This goblin dialogue is a good example.
• Funny Background Event:
  • Here, Griplen and Graplen can be seen working in the background. When Griplen winds up with a mallet, the mallet head falls off and onto Graplen's head, and the next panel has Graplen strangling Griplen.
  • After Zintiel's first Omega Murder Blast, you can spot Neighbour falling in the background.
• Future Me Scares Me: Future Marelle seems to have turned to the dark side.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Nitrine, and goblins seemed to be an entire race of then earlier.
• A Glass in the Hand: Hey, what did that orange ever do to you?!
• Go for the Eye: Nitrine defeats a troll by shooting him in the eye.
• Good Parents: Zintiel's mother and father are unfailingly supportive of their children, even when their lives lead in strange directions. Once they reestablish contact, they make sure to talk with Zintiel regularly.
• Happiness in Slavery: Nitrine's maybe-cousins would rather work for her as her slaves then not. Not because she's any nicer to them, but because she's away from home so often, so they get a nearly year-round vacation.
• Hero of Another Story: Leslie and Daran, here. But we do eventually get to see how that turned out in strip 500
• Heroic BSoD: Nitrine gets stuck in one when she's given a conscience against her will. Eventually, though, she learns how to live with it... just before it's removed by the Cavernball arena's magic-cancelling field.
• Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: Puce slept with an Orc woman, which baffles Nitrine in terms of the sheer mechanics of doing so.
• Hurricane of Puns:
  • The Alt Text for this comic uses a ton of mole puns when Zintiel mentions having fought an army of mole-people.
  • Zintiel unleashes a flurry of pee-based puns to goad Tares about his Bring My Brown Pants moment.
• Hypocrite: Gabriel embodies the Entitled to Have You trope regarding Marelle, yet delivers this line to her date.
• Ice Queen: Princess Pulmatrah.
• Immortality: Marelle.
• Impact Silhouette: Too bad Cryptos didn't account for this method of escaping his traps.
• I Kiss Your Hand: Arlen to Marelle.
• I'm Standing Right Here: Mona feels relieved that it's just a robot wolf, so she can carve it to pieces while standing right next to Prism.
• Innocent Innuendo: #90
• It Amused Me: The reason Zintiel does nearly anything. For example, at one point she fights Mona, who abandons the fight to save people from a collapsing building. Zintiel then starts rescuing people, too... as a competition to see who rescues more.
• I Will Only Slow You Down: While uninjured, Neighbor invokes this trope during the dungeon crawl - though he's quietly offended that none of the other three even tried talking him out of it.

• Knight Templar: Mona Theist.
• Konami Code: Oddly enough, it's the only way to stop Prism from going on a mass murder spree anytime somebody says "Rainbow Love Child".
• Lingerie Scene: This strip has a fanservicey shot of Zintiel in her underwear.
• Loophole Abuse: When Zintiel challenges Gabriel to a duel to prove she's competent, he refuses because he Would Not Hit a Girl. According to her, this means he forfeits and she wins by default.
• Lost Technology: Goblins used to be a highly advanced civilization before a catastrophe drove them underground; they built very high-tech things like the Cavernball stadium.
• Low Fantasy: The world is a lot like ours, except that it's populated by races straight out of a Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook.
• Loveable Sex Maniac: Nitrine is not only bisexual, but will flirt with just about anything and anyone she thinks looks good. It even extends to her artwork.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Who would have guessed that the neighbour is Daran's father?
• MacGuffin: The Transcendental Reality Rearrangement Device, whose owner would not retrieve it himself and would rather sacrifice a bunch of treasure-happy dough-heads to the Dungeon Crawler on the off chance that they would find it and bring it back to him. He does this because it's too unstable to use magic directly on (so he couldn't just teleport it to himself) and he's too lazy to get it himself it's very dangerous for someone to touch it.
  • The Black Heptagon. An ancient, powerful, light-devouringly dark, and seven-sided gem that contains seven worlds that imprison a great evil, though with conflicting accounts of exactly what great evil is sealed within it.
• Manly Gay: Prince Lumigardo.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Mona Theist and her Evil Twin sister Polly, referring to "monotheist" and "polytheist" respectively,
  • Pliskin Oleum Saltzman, whose name refers to Snake Oil Salesman.
  • The elemental creature Excrementor.
• Me's a Crowd: Nitrine and her clones.
• Mid-Battle Tea Break: Here.
• Mistaken for Racist: Marelle initially thinks that Prism's "animal-thing" insult is based on her cat ears - turns out, it's actually a result of her roboticism, and it's her insult for all organic lifeforms.

• 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.

• No Name Given: The neighbour.
  • At one point, Nitrine claims Marelle doesn't know his name either. She doesn't dignify the statement with an answer.
  • This page hints that his name might be Falingard.
• Open Mouth, Insert Foot: The leader of the Wizard delegation does this by using only male pronouns in regards to who would be welcome as a new wizard, making him come across as a misogynist despite a female wizard standing right behind him.
• Order Versus Chaos: This emerged in the wake of Zintiel's trip home, and the neighbor helpfully relates the tale afterward. Each society - the Oracles (Order), Chaos, and the Builders - have some part in creating new universes. The Builders construct them, the Oracles maintain them, and eventually, Chaos destroys them.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Moirganae. Justified, since she's a product of the imagination.
• Out-of-Clothes Experience: Nitrine when she falls unconscious and enters her mindscape.
• Overly Long Name: The girls' landlord's full name is Sir Manfred Adalbert Portrind of Frownshire the Twenty-fifth.
• Overly Narrow Superlative: Trivine calls Arlen and Cassean her two favourite brothers. Arlen points out that she only has three brothers, and the third one is Tares, who — as the cast page puts it — is a stuck-up meanie. The Alt Text jokes, "And you, Trivine, are my favourite blonde sister!" (Trivine is the only blonde sister in the family.)
• Perception Filter: Daran, as a side effect of her situation.
• Portal Network: The Elfgates (which, despite the name, was built by some race preceding the elves) are apparently a common method of travel from one universe to another, as featured here.

• The Professor: Nitrine, whose inventions are frequently nonsensical and often deadly.
• Prophecy Twist: The April Fools' Day strip. Everything it claimed actually had some truth to it.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: The leader of the Dwarves is upset at the Orcish hordes incursion on their lands.
  Chief Tapposh: Orcs are a warrior people. We gotta be at war with somebody. Whatcha trying to do, repress our culture??
• Psycho Knife Nut: When Prism becomes Ax-Crazy, she produces a knife. Lampshaded by the alt text, which wonders where she got it from.
• Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh...: Zintiel's "punch in the face" method of solving problems does not work on Prism.
• Punny Name: Sister Mona Theist. Not to be confused with her sister, Polly.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: Nitrine can sport an impressive enough set to get Zintiel to stand down.
• Really 700 Years Old: Zintiel is about two hundred, in the time travel arc she doesn't look much older four centuries later, while Marelle doesn't appear any older.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: When Prism's kill-mode is activated, she closes one eye and the other is seen to turn red.
• Repetitive Name: Kurt's boss, according to the cast page, is named Eldritch Eldritch.
• Replacement Goldfish: Prism's father built her as a robotic replacement for his missing daughter.
• Ridiculous Future Inflation: While in the future, Nitrine buys some sort of fast food that cost fifty trillion, two hundred sixteen thousand, nine hundred forty three dollars and eighty one cents. Fortunately the cashier just assumes it'll be deducted from her CredPass as she leaves.
• The Rival: Prism to Marelle, Mona to Zintiel, and Morgana to Nitrine.
• Runaway Bride: Zintiel - though uniquely for this trope, she does genuinely love her betrothed, she's just too chaotic to want to settle down into domesticity.
• Scenery Porn: When it goes there, it goes all-out. Used mostly for establishing new settings, especially in the later years of the comic.
• Screw Yourself: Apparently this is how Nitrine refuses her clones back into herself... though that particular time may have just been to mess with Marelle and Zintiel.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Nitrine discovers that Moirganae (the evil vampire created by Morgana) has been trapped in the belt-buckle of her Powered Armor for all the time since their fight. Moirganae promises to fight Nitrine's enemies and suck their blood whenever she gets summoned - until she becomes powerful enough to free herself, that is. Then she'll kill Nitrine.
• Selective Obliviousness: Nitrine is angsting over how to stop the Evil Chancellor's plot, missing the most obvious answer.
• Series Mascot: Croissant, a character who acts as a host for the comic. She shows up occasionally to present extra material.
• Shout-Out:
  • When using the Belt Buckle: "Henshin A-Go-Go, Baby!"
  • Also, this strip, to Metal Gear.
  • This strip, too, to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
  • The Alt Text for this strip is "If they don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy".
  • The hair and clothing of another bus-stop patron looks very familiar.
  • The Halloween costumes for Neighbour and Marelle are Dr. McNinja and Antimony Carver.
  • The neighbour's clothes in this strip are a reference to Dante's outfit in Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, as alluded to by the Alt Text ("Devil may be in the details").
  • When Zintiel shows off her Prehensile Hair, the first hairdo looks like Goku's.
  • Nitrine makes the Rage Comics "Forever Alone" face.
  • This one is a 300 reference.
  • The title of this comic is Adventure Time's tagline.
  • The Princess Bride gets one with this comic's alt-text, as it's what the Dread Pirate Roberts would say to Westley after the latter was shanghaied into service.
  • Drake takes Prism to see a movie that's also titled A.I., though with slightly different subject matter.
• Singing in the Shower: Zintiel, when she first applies as a roommate, dumps a bag of gold on the table, then heads to their bathroom and starts using their shower, singing in Elvish. It contrasts with her appearance as a filthy hobo.
• Slap-on-the-Wrist Nuke: Omega Murder Blast obliterates the terrain in a substantial area around the target, but doesn't harm anyone other than the person it's centered on—after all, it's a single-target spell.
• Slap-Slap-Kiss: Nitrine and Morgana. It's something of a "thing" for Morgana.
  • Zintiel and Graplen. Sorta.
• Sleeps in the Nude: Implied for Zintiel; in this strip, she appears in the middle of the night wearing only underwear. When this is pointed out to her, she supposes that she forgot to take it off last night.
• Snake Oil Salesman: Colonel P.O. Saltzman's Miracle Elixir and Medicinal Liniment.
• The Sociopath: It's revealed that Nitrine, as a goblin, literally lacks a conscience. Zintiel, in contrast, has a conscience but ignores it.
• Stating the Simple Solution:
  • Morgana drops one on Nitrine here, along with a healthy dose of Forgot About His Powers.
  • Ditto for the Elven King, who points out that Lumigardo can simply adopt to avoid a Succession Crisis rather than remain in the closet.
• Statuesque Stunner: Zintiel.
• Sticky Bomb: The Cavernball has a setting that makes it stick to the holder's hand, and it explodes after being held for 30 seconds.

• Straight Gay: Zintiel's brother Arlen.
• Stunned Silence: Zintiel dumps a bag of treasure on Nitrine and Marelle's table, leaving them staring at it in shock for three panels while she heads off to use their shower.
• Super-Speed Reading: Marelle spots Prism scanning the insides of books while flipping through them in seconds.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: The Alt Text name-drops the trope regarding Marelle's reply.

• Terrible Interviewees Montage: Nitrine and Marelle's search for a roommate at the start of the comic. First up is Mona, who talks their ears off. Next is Morgana, who talks herself up as a force of darkness, then gets upset when Nitrine points out her hair roots, curses her, and runs off. Then there's Leslie, who is attractive and charming, but can't pay the rent. After that is Tracy, who is turned down on account of being one of Nitrine and Marelle's teachers. And finally there's Zintiel, who by all appearances is a filthy hobo. However, Zintiel subverts first impressions by turning out to have a ton of money and to clean up nicely with a proper shower.
• A Threesome Is Hot: When Zintiel hits on Kurt, he turns her down - only for Nitrine to casually mention how hot the concept would be when she gets back in the room.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Nitrine's technique for remerging her doppelgangers seems to even make Zintiel blush.
• Trigger Phrase: Don't say "Rainbow Love Child" in front of Prism if you value your life.
• Try to Fit That on a Business Card: Apparently elven nobles, that is to say almost all of their species, such as Zintiel, tend to have a lot of titles.
• Twitchy Eye: Marelle gets one when a fan question is filled with questions regarding her behavior as a catgirl.
• Too Kinky to Torture: Drake's with Prism for just this reason, apparently.
• Ugly Cute: In-universe. Nitrine thinks that Schlomp (a chaos demon that looks like a head with arms and legs) is this. Everyone else thinks he's just plain ugly.
• Unusual Ears: Almost all of the cast, except for the humans.
• Upgrade Artifact: Nitrine uses the Transcendental Reality Rearrangement Device to solve the problem of her belt requiring phenomenal amounts of energy to function for just thirty seconds.
• Villain Cred: Zintiel stops Nitrine from ruining Mona's opinion of her.

• Wall of Weapons: Zintiel's wardrobe of weaponry.
• Webcomic Time: Lampshaded here.
• Would Not Hit a Girl: Gabriel refuses to fight Zintriel on these grounds, which she points out means that he forfeits her challenge, meaning he's no longer undefeated.
  Alt Text: Do you hear that, Fezzik? That is the sound of ultimate suffering.
• Wrench Wench: Nitrine, as well as possibly future-Marelle.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Zintiel drives home how nasty what Kurt did to Nitrine really was.

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