Left to Right: Olive, Callie, Christy, and Dani
My Dragon Girlfriend is a Sapphic Urban Fantasy Romantic Comedy Webcomic by Courtney aka Fawnduu.Christy attempts to leave a blind date gone south, but her suitor won't take a hint. Thankfully, a diminutive girl from across the bar named Dani scares him off by revealing that she's actually a dragon, then takes the intoxicated Christy home to care for her. Thus begins a fast romantic relationship between the pair.
The comic runs in standard four-panel strips three times a week on Webtoon here
and in (uncensored) compiled weekly editions on TapasMedia here
Includes examples of:
- Animorphism:
- Callie, a nekomata witch, is able to transform herself into either a Cat Girl or a small pet cat, with her nature as a Half-Human Hybrid meaning that she can never appear completely human nor completely like a nekomata.
- Olive, a vampire, is able to transform between a tiny white bat and a human form at will.
- Louie, a werewolf, can transform from a wolf to a humanoid with pointy ears at will rather than just under a full moon.
- Beta Couple: Despite the series being named after Christy's dragon girlfriend Dani, later volumes start examining the relationships of their close friends, primarily Callie/Olive and Casey/Louie.
- Bilingual Bonus: In one page when Christy has her mother on the phone, she calls her "anak", which means "child" in many Malayo-Polynesian languages.
- The Casanova: Callie is a rare queer female example.
- Cast Full of Gay: Casey maintained that she was the only straight member of the main cast, but even that didn't last.
- Cat Girl: Witches in this universe are Cryptid-Human hybrids, Callie being part-nekomata.
- Cat Up a Tree: Fittingly, Callie flees up a tree and gets stuck when she gets startled by the scent of a werewolf.
- Closet Key: Casey, Christy's roommate, sincerely believed that she was straight up until she saw Louie transform from her werewolf to humanoid form, at which point a gauge appears to show her shift in sexuality.
- Companion Cube: Casey is addicted to collecting lawn gnomes and using them to prank Christy, to the point that she's broken up over having to give one away despite having twenty others at home.
- Fire-Breathing Diner: At the cryptid bar when Christy downs a vodka with a cockatrice's feather in it, flames erupt from her mouth.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Witches are a hybrid between humans and cryptids, with Callie being half-nekomata.
- Insecure Love Interest: Olive has clear romantic feelings for Callie, and Callie reciprocates. However, due to Olive being a Shrinking Violet and Callie being The Casanova, Olive constantly frets that Callie doesn't actually see her as more than a "fling" that can't give Callie the same passion that other girls could.
- Lesbian Vampire: Olive fits the technical definition, although she's more of an inversion of the trope, with a personality closer to Shrinking Violet.
- Love Potion: The Story Arc of Volume 3 has Callie convince the other girls to take her into a cryptid-exclusive forest in order to sell these, specifying that they're mainly confidence boosters that help people admit their true feelings and can't just spontaneously create attraction from nothing.
- Magic Versus Science: Towards the end of Volume 3, the cryptids in the main cast are more than a little concerned when Casey is somehow able to navigate their way out of the magically-kept-secret Feral Forest just by pulling up Google Maps on her phone.
- The Missus and the Ex: Dani tries to avoid this situation when her ex Cynthia shows up at the cryptid bar, but the latter ends up in a standoff with Christy.
- Poor Communication Kills: In Volume 3, Louie the werewolf attacks Dani and kidnaps Casey because, after being accidentally exposed to a Love Potion and falling for Casey, she confused Casey's disdain at being a third wheel and not having fun during their forest adventure for genuine distress, and thus attempted a Rescue Romance. As soon as Casey learns this, she demands that Louie return her and apologize to her friends.
- Rescue Romance: Christy and Dani first met after Dani decided to step in and scare off the creep Christy was on a date with who couldn't take "no" for an answer and tried to force Christy to go home with him.
- Running Over the Plot: Volume 3 ends with Louie the werewolf getting hit by a car on their way back to the forest, with Volume 4 mainly focusing on the other girls helping her recover and Casey starting to connect with her.
- Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: All cases of Voluntary Shapeshifting excludes clothes; some characters shrink out of their outfits, while others tear them to shreds as they grow. When a comic page has to be censored for distribution, the character is depicted in just their underwear with a note that states they're supposed to be naked.
- Shout-Out:
- When a cat (actually Callie in cat form) follows Christy back to her and Casey's apartment, Christy suggests naming her Jiji, the name of Kiki's cat from Kiki's Delivery Service.
- The name of Christy's workplace, "Soy Long, Thx for the Beans", references So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.
- Shrinking Violet: Olive is painfully shy, and struggles to admit her feelings for Callie.
- Vampiric Draining:
- Olive, being an actual vampire, sometimes has fits of extreme bloodthirst that she can only sate by biting into Callie. Callie is actually turned on by this, but often ends up with blood spurting from her neck afterwards.
- A flashback dream in Volume 3 reveals that Callie used to be in a passionate relationship with a succubus, but whenever they were intimate, the succubus couldn't control her instincts and started draining Callie's magic. Callie didn't mind this either, as witches have an excess of magical power, but the dream ends with Callie's skin being scarred as a result.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: Several of the cryptids can switch to more human forms.
- Weakness Is Just a State of Mind: In issue 666, Dani, already contemptuous of Louie, gets angry when Louie runs out of strength to maintain her wolf form, despite Louie's best afforts.
