The Cyantian Chronicles: Difference between revisions

*** The prejudice against the Foxes and the Vulpine Nation is both played straight and subverted. In the past, the hatred was justified due to having a homicidal madman as the ruler. (He tried to exterminate certain colors of foxes, as they were the previous ruling class.) However, by the time of Campus Safari, said madman is dead and the fox nation has taken a turn for the better. The hard part is hatred is formed faster than it dissipates.

* [[Filler Strips]]: With the mentioned below [[Schedule Slip]], Tiffany will use both sketches and guest art to fill the gap.

* [[For Science!]]: (And For Art!) Why else would Genoworks Exotica genetically engineer people like winged kangaroos, Potpourri skunk people and psychic raccoons.

** For Profit?

** Tiffany is a fair author. Certain Cyantians are bastards, too.

* [[Humans Are Special]]: Quoting Darius: "They never give up."

* [[I Can't Believe a Guy Like You Would Notice Me]]: Not specifically said, but implied in a partial Inversion. Twinky is a "regular guy" while Chatin is rich, famous and considered above his reach romantically.

* [[Idiot Ball]]: Alpha and/or The Council, who decided to exile Rama one Earth during the dark ages. Is it really a smart (or moral) move to exile a violent, superpowered sociopath with advanced technological knowledge on an underdevelopped planet full of vastly weaker beings which just happens to be ripe with portals connecting it to Cyantia?

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Twinky. Chatin and Cilke wish they were ordinary skunks, instead of Strawberry and Peach scented skunks, respectively.

** Sean wishes he didn't have wings. If he didn't, he could be back on earth without memories of bad times with the AMIB.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Including technomage familiars and pets, [http://shivae.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Cyantian_Chronicles_Characters the current count is well over 200]. There might be a few more than that if the current crop of cameos hasn't been added in yet.

* [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Sheana in Campus Safari and Celina in Akaelae.

* [[Love Triangle]]: Chatin, Collin and Cisco, before Twinky arrived. Post Twinky it's a [[Love Dodecahedron]].

** Almost like a [[Unwanted Harem|reverse harem]].

* [[Mars Needs Women]]: OK, so no women are kidnapped. (Well, Jules was, but that's for her own good.) But there is a startling lack of human women at Mars Academy during ''Campus Safari''. In fact, there's less than a half a dozen.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: [[Chew Toy|Khaelis]] translates to "Chaotic Good Intentions" and Tiffany herself has pointed that out. Make of that what you will.

* [[Mechanical Lifeforms]]: Xaibars. Familiars are technological creatures created by transferring a specially trained pet's consciousness to a robotic shell when it dies. The familiar creation process should be noted as driving sapient people insane, so it's only used on non-sapient pets who gain a certain amount of sapience from the process.

* [[The Men in Black]]: American Men In Black (AMIB), to be exact.

* [[Non-Idle Rich]]: The Akaelaes are implied to ''own'' most of the Akaelae lands and significant portions of the industry there as well. Not to mention the whole fighting wars and protecting the populace from certain past mistakes.

* [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]]: Averted for the various avian and reptilian species. (Thankfully.)

{{quote| '''Ciphyr''': I will never understand how [[Lampshade Hanging|two curved masses can render some males into slobbering animals]]! They are '''gills!''' }}

* [[The Nose Knows]]: Cyantians, especially the canines, have very sensitive noses. They have used it on occasion.

* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: Two of Chatin's suitors are her "brothers."

** The floor was recently layered, so it's slick.

* [[Schedule Slip]]: Motherhood, conventions, the occasional tornado warning (or actual tornado) and motherhood cause some slips in the schedule. But most of the time we get at least two updated comics every week day.

* [[Seinen]]: Considering the serious, realistic take on romance and the 60/40 male to female audience split, I'd say Seinen is a (mostly) accurate description. Although, I don't think it was the author's intent to create a Seinen comic. Not to mention there's probably a larger audience than the seinen crowd.

** Coincidentally, ''[[Alien Dice]]'', the other "main" comic of Tiffany Ross', has a 40/60 male to female audience split. Odd how that works out.

* [[Shock and Awe]]: {{spoiler|Vin steps out of a cave and displays [http://cyantian.net/blog/2012/04/13/04132012/ a new way to deal with] [[Complete Monster|his father.]]}}

* [[Shout Box]]: ''all'' Shivae Studios Comics, which includes all Cyantian Chronicles comics, have a [[Shout Box]] below the comic.

** Quinn makes me wonder if she has a [[Star Trek the Next Generation|"Q"]] based name.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: The Shivaewiki shows a lot of work in making the comic's world believable, down to Cyantia having a listed mass in the "World" entry.

* [[Single-Minded Twins]]: Kika and Anka Krioka. Due to Neefla genetic memory, Neefla must be taught how to access and use the genetic memory. Usually, this means twins are separated. One pair of parents is usually only enough to teach one Neefla child how to use said genetic memory. Kika and Anka's parents kept both of their twins. As a side effect, they both are codependent on each other and enjoy the same pursuits.

** In a partial subversion, while they are currently codependent on each other, their personalities are [[Different As Night and Day]].

* [[Weirdness Censor]]: Jules and Marcus' college is so heavily populated by wierdos that nobody notices that Chatin and Cilke aren't in costume. Or if they do notice, they don't care.

** Also in effect at Mars Academy, as Twinky notes that most people are used to Technomage antics when Dallas teleports him for the umpteenth time.

* [[When She Smiles]]: Celina is typically scowling or straight faced, but she has one of the warmest smiles of all the cast.

* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Alpha Akaelae (The original from Akaelae) views his thousand year lifespan as a burden. One can understand why when he's had more than one child get killed or die of old age. Not all of his children got his lifespan and old age hits extra hard when it finally catches up with him. Look up "Elites" in the Shivaewiki for more information on this.