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[[File:Kaboom_5534.png|frame|You get used to it....]]

 

 

 

The strip was completed, with a grand total of 2,100 entries, on May 27, 2011.

 

 

* [[Abdicate the Throne]]: Any King or Queen of Umbria when his or her companion dies, because there must be two people on the throne.

** Victoria cons her parents into doing this in favor of her firstborn in the epilogue.

** The Gorgon has a long, hard to pronounce name. To get around this, she asks people to simply call her 'The Gorgon', because shortening names is ''not'' a good thing in Gorgon society. She does not like people who manage to screw up something as simple as ''calling her by her species''.

** The Crown Prince of Ligand steadily annoys Aylia as soon as he's introduced, but he ''really'' pisses her off when he says that since he was hoping for a wife of royal blood but the princess of Umbria vanished, Aylia was 'close enough' and would do. Aylia may not be the princess, but as the niece of King Richard, she is of royal blood, and she's actually of higher status than he is (Umbria is a much larger country than Ligand, and more important).

* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Humorously inverted with Daria, who is absolutely disgusted that humans eat ''plants''.

** And later, completely shocked to find out Fairies eat BUGS!!!! The horror, the horror!

*** ...and eleven strips later, briefly mentions the oracle of Lycanth. This becomes a plot point in EIGHT HUNDRED strips, kicking off a small story arc.

* [[The Chosen One]]: Aylia is suspected of being a Child of Prophecy... {{spoiler|but it's actually X.}}

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Daria.

* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: "That's it. You have now lost all privileges to call my instrument by its proper name. From now on, you will call it 'pufferball.' Or 'squeegy-toy.'"

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: What we're told in the comic is that due to Daria being a Child of Prophecy, her parents were killed. What the extras tell us is that an Oracle freedom fighter used Daria's being a Child of Prophecy as a lever in order to get Dragoria to attack them, leading hundreds of dragons to attack Dragoria. Over a hundred thousand humans died, and maybe five dragons (not including Daria's family).

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Almost everyone snarks once, but X keeps the snarks deadpan.... by making them monosyllabic!

* [[From a Certain Point of View]]: Jenny's first letter home after getting to college describe's X's habit of blowing stuff up on a regular basis as "Moving in has been a blast."

* [[Genki Girl]]: Daria, usually. Also Steffanee, and Loretta around swords.

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Nicole, Alexis, Aylia (the latter two don't want to be [[Weirdness Magnet|the Child of Prophecy.]])

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: This actually figures heavily into the backstory, as four members of the core cast wouldn't even have been born if it hadn't happened.

* [[Kawaiiko]]: Duchess Lettie is a rare non-Japanese example. And she's in her forties!

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Aylia's ever-more-complicated extended family makes up about a third of the central cast.

* [[Loophole Abuse]]: The fairy kingdom of Daironya has a law that marriages can only be performed by a member of a higher fairy race than the couple involved. Normally, this isn't a problem, but Victoria, the Crown Princess, and her boyfriend Mordran, a black fairy (a race that aren't meant to be marrying purple fairies, the nobility of the fairy world) can only be married by Victoria's parents, the King and Queen, who are very opposed to their relationship. Faced with an ultimatum of either losing Mordran or her throne, Victoria defaults to another law that says that it's perfectly legal for the heir to a throne to trick the current ruler out of it. And that's exactly what she does.

*** And then, once she finds that she cannot get the nobles to support her claim to the throne due to her unorthodox marriage, she tricks her parents into abdicating in favor of her infant son - and naming her as his regent.

* [[Made of Explodium]]: Well, it's more like "X carries around Explodium and pours it on whatever she wants," but X being X, the principle stands.

* [[Magitek]] Many readers will laugh at the following exchange:

'''Aylia:''' Nah, her machine's aren't talismans. Give magical engineering a few hundered years, and it will have its own name too. }}

* [[Muggles Do It Better]]: Magic and technology are roughly on the same level, but there are some core differences in operation which make one a better choice then the other. There's a fairy that wears glasses instead of using a spell to correct her vision.

* [[Mundane Utility]]: All over the place. Lampshaded after Aylia rejoined with her clone:

'''Jenny:''' Don't act like it was an everyday occurrence. }}

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: X.

* [[Needs a Better Description]]: This page needs an all around revamp...

* [[Noodle Incident]]: The Spaghetti Incident. It apparently involved spaghetti and a borrowed book, and is the reason why Adelaide is more careful about loaning her books out nowadays.

* [[Open Secret]]: The existence of our world is highly classified. [[Blatant Lies|Nobody outside the nobility knows about it.]]

* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: They're long-lived flying saurians who look more like reptilian rhinos than graceful lizards.

* [[Prophecy Twist]]: Kuralla retrieves her lost prophecy and tells a [[I Just Want to Be Normal|relieved Aylia]] that {{spoiler|the Child of Prophecy will be 'born one of two sisters', not 'one of two sisters'- thus Aylia, who is the older sister, cannot be the Child of Prophecy.}}

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: A common phenomena in Aylia's world. Must be all that ambient magic...

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Cecelia's adopted son Gavin. He's ''adorable''.

* [[Running Gag]]: X gets weird roommates.

* [[Weddings for Everyone]]: Four weddings take place during the story, and another ten are mentioned in the epilogue. The only major character who doesn't end up married at the end of the story is X.

* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: This is a recognized trait of children of prophecy.

* [[Wings Do Nothing]]: {{spoiler|X and Alexis. Their wings aren't strong enough to hold them up, though X can fly with them if she drinks a weightlessness potion.}}

* [[Worthless Yellow Rocks]]: X is loaded. {{spoiler|With aluminum. She also plans to make a net profit off of another pointless grey metal...}}

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