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{{quote|''"After losing his memory to a mysterious battle, Trace Legacy, a former leader for an organization of mages called the Templar, finds himself in the company of [[Catgirl|Flora]], a girl of strange, tiger-like qualities. As Trace gradually begins to re-learn what he once knew, he soon discovers that Flora belongs to a race of people who are enemies of his kind. As friendship confects with racial differences, Trace and Flora find themselves in a situation more critical than either of them can imagine."'' |[http://2kinds.com/aboutme.htm
{{quote|''"Awkward [[Interspecies Romance]] at its best!"''|
''
Along their way, they discover that the world is in a state of near open war, with Flora's race, the Keidran, openly targeted for enslavement and slaughter by the humans, led by the murderous Templars. Meanwhile, they discover Keith, a member of the mostly forgotten Basitin race.
Quickly caught up in the politics of the
While they may not show anything, there are still NSFW moments.
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* [[A-Cup Angst]]: Flora, [[Informed Attribute|for some reason.]]
** [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=56 "Their breasts... ...are bigger than mine."]
** As of the creation of this [http://twokinds.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=72#/d1ky3wq handy and somewhat hilarious chart] (Warning: spoilers!) she actually does have the second-smallest breasts of the female cast.
* [[A Day in
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Kathrin seems to genuinely have feelings for Eric, but though he treats her infinitely better than most humans would treat a slave, he still considers her to be his property. The only thing that indicates ''his'' feelings might be different is that he released her from the mind-control spell that forces a slave to follow any order.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: [[Word of God]] is that the Western Basitans are just as free-spirited and debauched as their Eastern Basitan cousins are stiff and prudish. Of course, we don't ''see'' anything of all that before the cast sets course back to their own lands.
* [[Almost
* [[Alt Text]]: Sporadic, and only on the most recent pages.
* [[Alphabetical Theme Naming]]: of the rhyming variety; Flora, Nora, and Laura.
* [[
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Alaric, according to the cast page.
* [[Amnesiac Dissonance]]: Interesting in that the ''only'' person not aware of his past is Trace, nearly everyone else is well aware of who he is/was and ''openly terrified'' of him.
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** It's even ''[[Lampshaded]]'' [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/ here.]
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'''Trace''': What? Why? What kind of evil person would make a law like th.... It was me wasn't it?
'''Eric''': Yes. }}
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: Kathrin to Eric, in [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=654 this] strip. Doubles as an in-universe [[Wham! Line]] and [[What Have I Done]] moment for Eric, as well.
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** Unfortunately, he remains oblivious to her true feelings, and in the end {{spoiler|agrees to release her because}} he thinks of her as a sister.
* [[Animal Eye Spy]]
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** {{spoiler|At Keith's court hearing, he's been charged with disobeying orders, trespassing on royal grounds, destroying royal property, committing treason, and breaking curfew.}}
*** Which is still a federal crime amongst the basitins
* [[Art Evolution]] - A lot.
** Compare [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=22 this] or [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=23 this] early page to [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=531 this].
* [[Art Shift]]: The Towers originally looked much like something you'd see in a far-future science fiction setting, nowadays though they look almost exactly like a standard issue Medieval castle turret . . . with a crystalline superstructure and a big glowing orb floating above the top.
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* [[Bad Boss]]: The Intelligence General kills one of his solders {{spoiler|for pointing out the inn they're going to set on fire in order to kill the main cast still has some of his solders and a group of civilians in it. [[Karma Houdini|And he's the one that appears to live the longest.]]}}
** While he was a [[Jerkass]] of epic proportions, ''that'' was probably {{spoiler|magic-induced insanity, since his [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment happened right after the tower started to blow.}}
* [[Balance Between Good and Evil]]: [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: Trace does this twice; he turns his old boss into a wolf Keidran and makes his ex-girlfriend's annoying sister grow cat ears and a thin fur coat because she was annoying him. [[Cursed
* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]: Justified with the Keidrans, their naughty bits are obscured by their fur. However, that doesn't explain why the human characters don't got anything going on.
* [[Barefoot Cartoon
* [[Battle Cry]]: The red haired warrior uses "In the name of meaningless battle!" as a battle cry.
* [[Beam Spam]]: Arguably [http://twokinds.net/?p=513 here] [http://twokinds.net/?p=518 and here]. Could also be [[Combat Tentacles]], but since the tentacles are made of black mana, they would be non-corporeal.
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* [[Berserk Button]] - Don't hurt or threaten Flora within earshot of Trace. Seriously, ''don't''.
** Hurting Trace's love interests is fairly unwise period.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Post mind-wipe Trace is normally nice, friendly, and easygoing, but he used to be one of the (if not ''The'') most powerful and feared mages in the world. Pressing his [[Berserk Button]] is a very, ''very'' bad idea.
* [[Big No]]
* [[Bishie Sparkle]]: Arms General.
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* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Ho boy, where to begin? Well, how about with the Basitins? They have super dense muscles, no libido, gain a pleasurable response to following orders (though, judging by Keith, that probably also has something to do them usually enlisting in their military at the age of ''five''), are immune to most poisons, and, and they heal very quickly and with a minimum of scarring.
** Actually, the Basitins have a libido, it's just extremely repressed and only is evident during the breeding periods. And, occasionally, while watching fights.
* [[Black Speech]]: Anytime
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* [[Blade
* [[Bleached Underpants]]: Remember when Flora and Kathrin were [[Innocent Fanservice Girl
** The fanservice content in the comic itself has been dialed back as well
* [[Blood Knight]]: The Red-Haired Swordsman, whose war-cry is "In the Name of Meaningless Battle!!!".
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: The Basitins consider nudity heinous and not following orders unthinkable, while the Keidrans literally use sex to get to know people. As one might expect, humans and Basitins think they're promiscuous, but its actually supported by their biology: {{spoiler|They're only fertile the week ''after'' they're in heat.}}
* [[Bury Your Gays]]: Alaric was the only male character with alter-sexual connotations (that thing with Mike and Evals was just a gag). The author [[Dropped a Bridge
**
* [[But I Can't Be Pregnant]]: Despite a doctor confirming it, Flora refused to believe that she's pregnant until Chapter 14. The reasons for this were many: The doctor who told her was a Basitin
* [[Cameo]]: Hero and Dianne from [[RPG World]].
** PenPen (the penguin) from [[Yosh!]].
* [[Can't Hold His Liquor|Can't Hold Their Liquor]]: Keidrans get completely smashed off a mouthful or two of normal ale.
** Probably their hyper metabolism. It does what it's made for quick.
* [[Cast
** The spell that caused Natani {{spoiler|to need Zen to get a part of his soul copied onto hers, as well as mentally-linking them}}, considering the caster died using it, was most-likely something similar.
* [[Catgirl]]: Flora, although with fur, ears, tail, claws and ''muzzle'', she is [[Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism|much further down the scale than most.]] Helps that she looks a lot like [[Marvel Comics|Tigra]] who has an internet paradox named after her.
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** Kathrin
* [[Caught
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: The Arms General can deflect throwing knives ''with his abs''!
** Keith and Alaric damaged the (stone) ground in their fight with their bare feet.
*** King Adelaide can fight Templar!Trace (who can fight gods) to a stand still despite Templars poisoning her for some time.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
** That necklace Trace gave Flora early on. {{spoiler|Turns out that's the only thing that made Ephemural lose control of Flora.}}
** Madelyn's, AKA Stalker Girl's, letter that she wanted Natani to give to Keith turns out to be {{spoiler|a document showing her being a witness to Alaric and Keith's fight.}}
* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Eric to a T. Though sometimes he does get kinda creepy. See [[Fridge Horror]], below.
** It's made fairly blatant that Eric is only a slave trader because it's the only socially acceptable way available to explore his Keidran (and, once he discovers them, Bastilan) fetish. He's far, far more interested in flirting and painting portraits of nude Keidrans and Bastilans than anything
* [[Conveniently
* [[Cosmic Chess Game]]
* [[The Corruption]]: The author seems to be treating Dark Mana like this now.
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* [[Dark Magical Girl]]: [http://twokinds.deviantart.com/art/Kathrin-The-Archmage-40442350 This] picture of Kathrin done by the author may be this. Not really stated.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: King Adelaide has shades of this.
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* [[Deal
* [[Defeat
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Yeah, remember when Natani (and her brother) tried to kill the group? Now Natani has a crush on Keith and is being very lax about following her orders to kill Trace...
* [[Depleted Phlebotinum Shells]]: Poisoned arrows. Magic-infused arrows are also the best way to take out a tower.
* [[Determinator]]: {{spoiler|King Adelaide}} gives us this incredibly [[Badass]] quote when informed that she was expected to have died by a mortal wound at this point.
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* [[Deus Ex Machina|Deus]]/DiabolusExMachina: Divine help rarely doesn't end up breaking rules or getting people injured, but {{spoiler|Trace impregnating Flora}} couldn't have happened otherwise and it's looking like a good thing currently.
** {{spoiler|Ephemerul/Neutral wiping Trace's memory probably saved Keidran-kind.}}
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** Holy Crap Trace, stop killing everyone when your girlfriend/wife gets hurt/killed, not cool dude.
** The old Intellegance General {{spoiler|murdered Keith's mother, blinded and scarred Alaric in one eye, and got Keith banished for self-defense.}} Because he didn't like the choices his friend made. And all this before the comic starts.
* [[Distracted
* [[Distracted
** Laura had it planned [http://twokinds.net/?p=416 until]...
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Dark Mana is very similar to Defiling Magic from the [[Dark Sun]] campaign setting.
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* [[Ear Ache]]: Cathleen left her mark on {{spoiler|General Alabaster}}.
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: What sets the story in motion.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]: The Templars seem interested in making a large number of these, basically magic batteries. Oh, and they cause brain damage to Basitins - a fact that they are unaware of, but that the Templars are. They also do ''something'' to Keidrans' instincts, but this has not been explored yet.
* [[Eyes of Gold]]: Beware any human displaying this [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=599 trait].
** Raine{{spoiler|, in human form, as well as Keidran.}}
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* [[Fallen Hero]]: Trace was shown to be a fairly nice guy, before {{spoiler|his first wife is killed by a Keidran highwayman,}} which causes him to...''snap''. He tried to bring her back to life and failed, warping his mind with dark magic in the process, and ''then'' slaughtered the Master Templars, replaced them with his hand-picked acolytes, and became pretty much the bane of the Keidran race.
** The fact that he was also experimenting with dark magic ''before'' his wife was killed would likely not have helped.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Humans hate Keidrans (it's mutual) and can barely recognize the difference between Keidrans and Basitins. Speaking of Basitins, they're split up between Western and Eastern
* [[Sci
** Let's not forget Zen's hint about the race {{spoiler|being at risk of dying out.}}
* [[Fascists' Bed Time]]
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: For a top class assassin, Natani sure does suck at it, same goes for the rest of the female cast, up to the last Grand Master. For the leader of an army of magic-using knights, she sure got tricked. According to the Author, Natani and her brother have always "Managed to cause their targets to die by proxy" and never actually killed a target themselves. And the only time we've really seen Natani fight was against someone whose stomach was hard enough to shatter knives.
* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: It isn't the most noticeable, but Keith at one point grudgingly says something that represents this trope:
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* [[Flat What]]: Not yet, but [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=579 these faces] scream it.
** Has happened as of the latest page. Natani's reaction to Mike telling her and Kathrin about the time [[Gender Bender|he was turned into a girl]]. It's just her reaction that seals it.
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* [[Otaku Surrogate|Furry Surrogate]]: '''Eric.''' He has a ''huge'' Keidran (and Basitin) fetish, and since the only socially acceptable way to explore this in his society is to be a slave trader, well, that's what he does. It's implied that he treats his slaves far better than the average trader, and we never see him buying or selling slaves, so that may be a cover.
** [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=615 But]...
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: We know Ephemural isn't the only god who has Plans for Trace, plus Trace/The Templar's plans, plus whatever the Basitins want from Trace,<ref>Which turned out to be "hand him over to the Templar for magical goodies."</ref>
* [[Gender Bender]]: Mike is hit with an illusion that makes him ''look'' female, but is still male. The artist does a fair amount of this stuff on his [http://twokinds.deviantart.com/ DA] account. And a
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: in [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=274 strip 274], looking closely reveals {{spoiler|a touch of pink on Kathrin's groin}}.
* [[The Glomp]]: [http://twokinds.net/?p=133 Flora] and [http://twokinds.net/?p=572 Nora], both to Trace.
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** Basitins that are enraged can also have these.
** Human Templars as well.
* [[Go Out
* [[Good All Along]]: {{spoiler|1=It was recently shown Keith's father, Cornelius, cared about him and his mother Cathleen. It wasn't even him who attacked her. The statement Keith said about [http://twokindscomic.com/archive/?p=379 'falling onto his spear'] might be [http://twokindscomic.com/archive/?p=560 exactly] [http://twokindscomic.com/archive/?p=561 right].}}
* [[Gorn]]: In one of the later chapters one of the characters gets killed off in a manner befitting the bastard love child of a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120815112238/http://animal.discovery.com/fish/river-monsters/candiru-catfish/ ''Candiru asu''] and a hand grenade. The reaction from some of the fans was mostly ''positive''.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: {{spoiler|Trace and Flora's unborn child}}.
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: ''And How!'' Kathrin seems to be just happy being a type 1 slave. The fact that Eric goes easy on her doesn't hurt, either. And to a certain extent, Flora looks back on her days as a slave "with a ... fondness."(No, really) Though to be fair Kathrin and the rest of Eric's crew are treated like human servants/pets, and Flora was treated about the same way until she was disowned by her childhood friend.
** Mike is definitely a type 3. He was born into slavery and wouldn't survive in the wild.
** Plenty of other enslaved characters avert it, including members of Eric's crew. The comic simply seems willing to treat the subject with more shades of grey than is typically socially acceptable.
* [["Happy Ending" Massage]]: Kathrin's "services".
* [[Head-Tiltingly Kinky]]: Deconstructed. The Basitin culture is so sexually repressed that an entire tavern drops everything to watch a disrobed Flora chase Kathrin (also naked) out of her room for calling her fat. It takes Trace shouting them down {{spoiler|with a little help from [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Templar Trace]]}} to smooth things over.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: A textbook example from the local [[The Woobie|woobie]].
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* [[Horror Hunger]]: Parodied. Flora jokes that she wants to taste human flesh (to set up a [[Reaction Shot]] gag from Trace).
* [[Hot Amazon]]/[[Amazonian Beauty]]: "King" Adelaide
* [[Humans Are
* [[Humans Are Cthulhu]]: Given the rapacious manner in which they take over and enslave Keidran villiages, most Keidrans assume [[
** Which explains [http://twokinds.net/?p=431 Laura] freaking out quite well.
* [[Humans Are Special]]: Humans are the only race that can use magic without special equipment (Mana batteries for Keidrans and brain-rotting mental conditioning for Basitin). Humans can also drain mana from the surrounding area to fuel their own spells.<ref>Or at least, Trace can. It's considered a very poor idea.</ref>
** Actually keidran can manipulate mana; they're just not very good at it, as shown when Natani tried to recharge his batteries they didn't last nearly as long the second time.
* [[Hyperactive Metabolism]]: A minor example; Keidran have a metabolism about two times that of a human. They gain less weight and age twice as fast. This is one of the subtle hints of Flora's pregnancy; she notes in one strip that she's put on a little weight.
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* [[Idiot Hair]]: Trace and Flora, however, they fit the letter of the trope, not the spirit.
* [[Imagine the Audience Naked|Imagine Keith Naked]]: Worked a [http://twokinds.net/?p=415 little too well].
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: While fighting {{spoiler|the Ephemural-possessed Flora}}, Trace magically throws a wooden crate at her, leading her to observe: "You used...a crate...I mean, really...a crate? Come on..." There's also Eric's brother, who uses . . . Wait, [http://twokindscomic.com/archive/?p=287 what the frak is that]? I think that's a pizza cutter of some sort. That ''can't'' be useful in a fight.
* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: Flora, to the point that the author has complained on the forums that he ''wants'' to clothe her, but she keeps slipping out of her clothes. Less "Innocent" and more "Not really needed since she has a built in fur coat", however. Interestingly enough, Flora was [[Raised
* [[Instant Fanclub]]: {{spoiler|King Adelaide}} had men lining up from Lisbon to Vankarem to become her concubines just hours after appearing in her first strip, laws of reality be damned. [[Even the Girls Want Her|And not only men either]].
** Definite [[Hot Amazon]] territory with that one!
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** Hell even people who hated the comic think she's awesome!
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Practically every possible pairing introduced in the comic, especially the main one, Trace and Flora.
* [[Intoxication Ensues]]: When Flora gets drunk, she starts to speak [[LOLcats|Kitteh Pigdin]].
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Trace's first wife{{spoiler|'s ghost}}, who's just happy Trace is back to his old, not-evil self.
* [[Jerkass Gods]]: They're attempting to manipulate events on the mortal plane, but their methods are antagonistic at best.
* [[Jerk
** or [[Kuudere]]. His [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Race]] isn't supposed to show emotion
** {{spoiler|Alaric was one, based on how quickly Keith realized he was playing a trick on him.}}
* [["Join the Army," They Said]]: page #98
* [[Kangaroo Court]]: [[Zig Zagged]] Kieth recieves as fair a trial as expected, but anyone [[Fantastic Racism|not a Basitin]] doesn't even get one.
* [[Klingon Promotion]]: How Basitins determine the best people to be leaders. You know, the type that the rest of them are ''genetically programmed to obey?'' [[What an Idiot!|Nothing could go wrong with that, nope...]]
** Leads to a bit of [[Fridge Brilliance]] in a recent chapter: {{spoiler|Keith ''did'' defeat Alaric in single combat!}}
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* [[Knight Templar]]: The Templars, duh. A bit lighter on the initially good goal part than most, though.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: [http://twokindscomic.com/archive/?p=224 This comic page specifically]
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* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Trace, {{spoiler|after a particularly nasty magical duel}}.
* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Nicholai "Alaric" Alaric, King Adelaide
* [[Lawful Stupid]]: The entire Eastern Bastilin race is [[Lawful Stupid]]
** It hasn't been revealed if it's true for Western Bastilins, but more than likely is not the case.
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: [[The Legend of Zelda|Sheik]] [http://twokinds.net/?p=150 once in the first panel]
* [[Let Them Die Happy]]: {{spoiler|Keith to Laura, as she dies in his arms.}}
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** {{spoiler|Alaric knew his defeat would begin a chain reaction of events he planned out that would make Keith acknowledged as part of Basitin society, smiling to himself as he succumbed to his wounds and knowing his efforts wouldn't be in vain.}}
* [[Longest Pregnancy Ever]]: Flora - [[Webcomic Time|five years]] and counting. That's in real life only, however; in-universe the events of the strip have only taken a few months.
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* [[Luminescent Blush]]: They are very prominent and happen with a startling regularity.
* [[Mana]], and it's got an [[Evil Counterpart]]; Dark Mana.
* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: It is highly suggested in the series that Keidran lifespans are extremely short. Flora is 11. The oldest Keidran mentioned is
** It takes Nora to remind him that she's alive ''now''.
* [[Meaningful Background Event]]: A glowing pair of eyes watching the Party in #142.
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* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: Both played straight and subverted, for example when an airborne drug/spell causes the various Keidran nearby to become drunk, the first thing Flora does is replace her clothing with ribbons. Later subverted, when a naked Flora runs out in public in the Basitin inn, it requires a stern, out-of-character threat/lecture by Trace to save her from the enraged bar patrons. Essentially, any time the crew are away from civilization, Flora disrobes.
* [[Necromancy]]: Dark Manna uses life-energy as magic.
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* [[Necromantic]]: Trace's backstory. He uses [[Black Magic|Dark Manna]] to try and resurrect his dead wife. It backfires. No, not [[Came Back Wrong]], it instead flashes back through his brain, nearly killing him and driving him [[Omnicidal Maniac|mad]].
* [[Never Found the Body]]: {{spoiler|1=[http://twokinds.net/?p=584 Laura].}}
** {{spoiler|But there's a reason for that}}.
* [[No Biochemical Barriers]]: Subverted, not only are there limitations on what they can eat, but the three races in the comic can't interbreed {{spoiler|At least with out [[Deus Ex Machina|Deistic Intervention]] }}
** Though it's implied that the {{spoiler|intervention is what '''''stops''''' it from happening, not what allows it.}}
* [[No Biological Sex]]/[[Ambiguous Gender]]: The Masks. No gender stated, no known gender, and Ephemutal has been shown using males and females as hosts.
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* [[Not Quite Dead]]: {{spoiler|King Adelaide}}. "We were told you were fatally wounded!" "Yes, I'd been told that as well. [[Badass|I chose to ignore it and continue living.]]"
** Laura... for a while, anyway. In spite of calls for "Don't let her die!", she has since been cremated.
* [[Not So Different]]: The Basitins pride themselves on being morally restrained. On closer inspection, their duels seem to be mate-attracting combat displays. Honestly, One almost expected to see the female lieutenant watching Keith's battle with the harbor guard to [[A Date
** Humans enslave Keidrans. Keidrans enslave humans.
** Hell, Keidrans enslave other Keidrans, often under the pay of humans. Note: [[Truth in Television|this is not entirely dissimilar to how the slave trade in Africa worked]]. There was an internal slave market, which foreign slavers ended up feeding off of and encouraging.
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** His [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=582 reaction] makes sense.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: {{spoiler|Post-Dead Wife, Pre-Amnesia Trace}}
* [[Oops, I Forgot I Was Married]]: Amnesia Trace. His wife, Saria, did not forget.
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: They're telepathic shape shifters, and rather friendly to certain people.
* [[Our Nudity Is Different]]: Bastin always hide their feet, wrapping them from ther ball of their toes to their ankles. [[Word of God]] is [[Conveniently
* [[Our Orcs Are Different]]: Okay, they're beastmen, but the parallel between the Basitin and Orcs/Orks/Your favorite spelling of the Phonetic rendering Or+ hard "K"; of other works are undeniable; immune to poison, can't use magic worth a damn, enlist in the military at a very early age, and their equivalent of a Saturday-night paintball match is a long and bloody conflict. Oh, I almost forgot, the bigger ones are in charge and they're slavishly loyal to their superiors. Their honor system pretty much follows that of the Orcs from ''[[
** But their sense of modesty is on the completely opposite end of the spectum. Orcs are rapists. Basitins think you're indecent if your FEET are uncovered.
** Wait... Resistant to poison, isolated society, strict rules for decency, individually badass, Lawful to an extreme, militant, significantly shorter than humans, and unable to use magic? [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|Orcs aren't the most apt fantasy comparison]]
*** Adelaide musta caused a hell of a lot of nosebleeds on her way to the court, decency or no...
* [[Out of Focus]]: Trace's old friends. We also know next to nothing about Nora. Or the "gods."
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]:
** The character biography page. Trace has two entries, one for his current persona, the other for his original/real self, openly hostile to the rest of the cast. One of the character's name is replaced with [database error] as well.
** Karen in the beginning of Chapter 12, which started in 2009: "It feels like we haven't done anything in four years!" [[Don't Explain the Joke|Their last appearance was in 2005]]. It would have been [[Leaning
* [[Pardon My Klingon]]: In one of the early chapters, Flora breaks her foot. When Trace checks it out (by squeezing gently), she lets loose with a string of (untranslatable) Keidran phrases.
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* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Keidran slaves are required by law to be magically bound to follow their owner's orders. Let that sink in. The artist has also done a small number of pics showing some possibilities for magic [http://twokinds.deviantart.com/art/Trading-Halves-102753649 mishaps.]
* [[Power At a Price]]: Black magic. The mage that attacked the Magi brothers killed himself using black magic. Also Trace in the Basitin arc. "There's a reason it's forbidden."
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: A good trait, considering the world they're living in.
** Eric is properly paranoid of everyone around him, except for Kat, even if it might be too much regarding certain individuals. More than anything, he just wants to keep the people he cares about safe, and is willing to be ''ruthless'' if you give him reason to doubt.
** Alaric wasn't convinced one of his plans would be enough, [[Crazy Prepared|coming up with]] ''[[Crazy Prepared|dozens.]]''
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* [[Punny Name]]: Trace Legacy lost his memory, with a name like that he really should have been expecting something like that.
** It's always nice to have one [[Meaningful Name|like that]].
* [[Quickly
** Most likely due to her possibly being aware he [[Not Himself|wasn't well]] when he did it.
* [[Raised
* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: King Adelaide and the Arms General.
* [[Redemption Quest]]: Keith is sent on one by the Basitin leaders as punishment for his father's murder. Except that it wasn't [[Impossible Task|meant to be possible]]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: When Trace used dark mana, the thing he summoned and him both had red eyes and when we meet Roderick (Eric's brother), he is first shown with them. Roderick is an active Templar and enemy of the main cast.
* [[Red Right Hand]]: {{spoiler|Trace, as of the May 5, 2010 comic.}}
* [[Remix Comic]]: The [http://twokinds.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8710 "Panel Shuffles"] on the forum.
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* [[Scenery Censor]]: When {{spoiler|Keith and Natani}} fight each other while naked, it appears that {{spoiler|Natani}}'s tail has a will of its own and is determined to guard {{spoiler|Keith}}'s modesty no matter what.
* [[Schedule Slip]]: Has dropped to <s>2</s> 1 comic a week from it's original MWF schedule, with <s>a few</s> numerous long pauses, including when the author's father passed away.
* [[Schizo
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: The very ability to do this at all (even if it's incredibly difficult) is what makes Keith so dangerous in the eyes of the Basitins. In addition, {{spoiler|after his supposed [[Ungrateful Bastard]] moment, Eric finally decides to sell Mike and Evals to Trace (knowing they were just getting released,) and free Kat himself. Note that both acts are ''explicitly'' against Templar!Trace's law, and if he was found out, Eric and anyone connected to him would be in serious trouble. He's so concerned with this the only thing that could convince him to do these acts is Kat's [[Kirk Summation]].}}
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: Evals is slave backwards.
* [[Self
* {{spoiler|[[She Is the King]]:}} Adelaide.
* [[Shipper
* [[Shout
** [http://twokinds.net/?p=483 The Arms General] is a dead ringer for [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Major Armstrong.]]
** Flora dressed in a [[Rambo]] costume for the Jan 19 2011 strip.
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* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: The villiagers have fallen by the wayside. The [[Lower Decks Episode]] that was originally meant for them got snatched by the regular cast.
* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Literally! Neutral's only motivation seems to be to maintain a constant stalemate between the three regional powers. Though it and the rest of the Masks aren't gods by standard definition, considering that they can be destroyed, or a least disabled.
* [[Stay in
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: {{spoiler|Trace,}} in spades.
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Natani, so very much.
* [[Tap
* [[Tempting Fate]]
** [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=497 "I can't believe I made that!"]
** [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=509 "My technology is infallible."]
* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]: Eyelashes
* [[The Lifestream]]: Dark Mana works by sucking the life-energy from the earth and using it to cast shadow magic. The catch is that it will never work for anything more than the occasional cantrip, because it kills the caster before they can complete the spell they're using it for.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Officially, as of {{spoiler|the latest comic, Alaric.}} And boy howdy, is it deserved.
* [[Through a Face Full of Fur]]: Every Furry who sports a [[Luminescent Blush]].
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Flora and Natani are tomboys, Natani (on occasion), Kathrin, and Laura are girly girls. Adelaide seems to have gotten [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=605 a happy medium between the two.]
* [[Translation Convention]]: Keidran speech has "<" and ">" on the ends usually. Bastilin has "[[
* [[
* [[Uh-Oh Eyes]]: If a character is dangerously psychotic, they have [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|a red glow in their pupils]]. If they OD on Mana, they get [[Blank White Eyes]]. Keidrans, when drawing on the Feral side of themselves, get [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]. {{spoiler|Templar!Trace? All of them, AND [[Black Speech]]. ''Run.''}}
** Bastilins can also have glowing eyes.
* [[Under the Mistletoe]]: Invoked [http://twokinds.net/?p=418 here.]
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: As stated below in [[What the Hell, Hero?]], Eric refuses to let his slaves go even though they risked their own lives and sacrificed their chance at freedom to wait for him to return to the ship. And these slaves weren't even under a control spell at the time.
** [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Then again,]] considering who [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=566 makes the decision to wait,] and that nobody wanted Eric to let them go in the first place, only to let them be bought their freedom, it's not all that clear cut. Eric even specifically made sure Kat and the slaves were [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=476 ready to escape on their own if he and the others failed.] Besides, even one half of the slaves aren't sure about [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=618 how good an idea it is to be that free in the first place,] and if both mind-controlled slaves were set free, that would leave the ship to be crewed by just Kat and Eric, making travel almost impossible. Eric's got a lot more reasons not to set them free besides being a jerk, even if that turns out to be his main reason.
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Possibly Kathrin. Eric likes Keidran women noticeably and Kathrin likes him. Because they're so near each other, Eric has yet to show any reciprocation for her fondness beyond treating her well.
* [[Unwanted Harem]]: It seems Keith is quickly getting one of these. He has three girls who like him!
* [[
* [[Vague Age]]: Due to the art, all humans (save Master Mage, but even he looks too young) look like teenagers but are in their mid to late 20's (Trace is 25)
* [[Valley Girl]]: [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=581 In letter form!]
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* [[Visible Sigh]]
* [[Webcomic Time]]: The Basitin Isles story arc has gone on for almost four years. It takes place in the space of three days. This is lampshaded by Karen saying "It feels like we haven't done anything for four years..."
* [[Wacky Cravings]]: [http://twokinds.net/?p=33 Flora] and [http://twokinds.net/?p=385 bugs.]
* [[Warped Aesop]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|Used sarcastically in an]] [[Alt Text]]: "if caught in a lie, just add more lies. That always helps, right?"
* [[Webcomic Time]]: The comic celebrated 8 years of existence in November
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Keith's trial, where we've just found out {{spoiler|Gen. Kaiser didn't kill Keith's mother like he'd thought; Gen. Alabaster did. We find this out from Alabaster's son, to boot.}}
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: A minor example, when a telepathic character makes Trace realize {{spoiler|he's ignoring the still perfectly alive Flora in lieu of studying a way to magically extend her life while keeping her in the dark about it.}} Another would be when Keith calls Trace out for [[Fridge Horror|calling Flora an animal]] ''[[Fridge Horror|in the same paragraph where he's contemplating marrying her]]''. Considering just [http://twokindscomic.com/archive/?p=323 how very much is wrong with Trace's speech] probably everyone was reading that and cheering Keith on.
** The Keith example makes more sense when you realize {{spoiler|that "Grand Templar Trace" probably would consider Flora nothing more than a mildly dangerous animal,}} while Trace respects and cares for her. {{spoiler|1=[[Fridge Brilliance|The cognitive dissonance was being caused by Grand Templar Trace leaking through.]] Especially as he [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=194 said the exact opposite] earlier.}}
** Despite freedom being handed over to them on a silver platter, Eric's slaves (apart from Kat) are convinced by Flora to wait for him and Trace to return, risking going back to being slaves though making Flora promise to convince Eric to release them. [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=615 He's about as grateful as you'd expect].
* [[What Could Have Been]]: [http://twokinds.deviantart.com/gallery/?loggedin=1#/d259ndu "It Could Have Been"]
* [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]: "[http://twokindscomic.com/archive/?p=467 My technology is infallible]."
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Apparently all users of Dark Mana, especially {{spoiler|Trace}}. And ANY Magic does a number on Basitin brains.
* [[The Worf Effect]]: The Eastern Basitin Islands Arms General does this with Natani, the professional assassin, beating her with little effort. {{spoiler|Then he gets ripped to shreds by an unknown foe off-screen (presumably the master spy).}}
* [[Xanatos Gambit]] / [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Ephemural's plan to unite the Keidran tribes (and when this one failed, continuing with his (her?) facilitating Flora's apparent pregnancy). There are several dozen others (Gods are fun!), most of which focusing on Trace, Flora, or one of their friends.
* [[You Fail Your Medical Boards Forever]]: Because of a double taboo (first against nudity, second against seeking aid) the Basitin doctors blindfold themselves and navigate by ear.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: The Templar's Master Spy does this a ''lot'', even going as far to once change his race to a Basitin (or so it seems due to the uncanny resemblance).
**
*** The Master Spy´s "disguise" is so weak it´s actually very funny nobody has called him out for that. Mid-lengh brown hair, blue eyes, wears a cross-pendant and ALWAYS keeps the bandages on his right hand. So far, he´s been the shop-keeper giving trace the pendant that later decides the fight with Ephemural, an inn-keeper, he´s been a guy organizing a ship for them (altho without the cross necklass), he´s been the basitin inn-keeper and most probably the {{spoiler|Arms generals murderer}}. He´s been nothing but helping Trace and the crew, which makes his goals seem kind of blurry.
* [[You Should Know This Already]]:
* [[You Will Not Evade Me]]: The little Keidran in the first HONF link wanted to run...
* [[Zig
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