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** [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 Thethe Limelight]]: Chapter 13 starts with the side characters from Trace's old home town, now on the run from an advancing Keidran raiding force.
* [[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.
* [[Almost-Dead Guy]]: {{spoiler|1=Laura held on until she got to see Keith [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=594 one last time.]}}
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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 Onon the Tin|Neutral]] is the goddess of this--as well as the [[Big Bad]] (mostly because she's so cynical).
* [[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 Withwith Awesome|This kinda backfired in the latter case, as she likes the look, and she gets a hightened sense of smell]].
* [[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 Animals]]: The furry characters.
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* [[Black Speech]]: Anytime {{spoiler|Templar!Trace}} wakes up, of the creepy-as-hell scrawling font variety. Bonus points for having elements of [[Zalgo]] in there.
{{quote| {{spoiler|Templar!Trace: Kill my wife, '''<big> W'''''i'''''l''l'' ''You''? </big>'''}}}}
* [[Blade Onon a Stick]]: Traditional Basitin weaponry is a spear or glaive.
* [[Bleached Underpants]]: Remember when Flora and Kathrin were [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|Innocent Fanservice Girls]], with Kathrin having a healthy dose of [[Innocent Innuendo]] included on top of that? With the recent switch in hosting to [[Keenspot]], this has been dropped off the main page -- all the characters are wearing mostly conservative outfits, with only Eric having something that wouldn't be appropriate at a mall in the US (and even he is dressed as a [[Shout-Out]] to Hugh Hefner). Remembering that at least [http://twokindscomic.com/images/twokindsv6_1.jpg one point] the comic title banner had a (nonsexually) nude Flora on it...
** The fanservice content in the comic itself has been dialed back as well -- Flora and Kathrin's [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]] tendencies have dialed back immensely, although Flora has a few excuses about it<ref>being pregnant and being around Eric</ref>. Kathrin does go around nude still, although in the chapter post-switchover (Chapter 14), she instead wears a [[Naked Apron]] designed to minimize her fanservice content outside of a single specific scene.
* [[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 Onon Him|threw him off a bridge]].
** {{spoiler|Though it turned out to all be part of a masterful [[Thanatos Gambit]] for Keith, proving his [[Crazy Prepared]] status.}}
* [[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 doctor -- the doctor was racist (insinuating that Flora must have found some random Keidran stranger to have sex with during their trip) and also [[What an Idiot!|wore a blindfold]] because '''looking at her patients unclothed would be obscene.''' And as Flora herself noted, Keidrans and humans had coexisted -- yes, [[Interspecies Romance|she meant that]] -- for centuries and there had never been any hybrid offspring. But she's finally accepted the truth and has now begun debating when and how to tell Trace, though she still can't figure out how they're the ''one'' couple who conceived. Unbeknownst to Flora, but knownst to us, [[Jerkass God|Euphemural]] has decided to [[Deus Ex Machina|allow the pregnancy to occur]] after a long time of actively preventing such reproductions.
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{{quote| '''The Tigra/Flora Paradox:''' If you'd hit it you're a furry; if not you're gay.}}
** Kathrin
* [[Caught Withwith Your Pants Down]]: Keith and Natani repeatedly avoid this [[Trope]]. The latest instance, Keith and Natani, both naked (remember, {{spoiler|Natani is hiding her true gender}} from the group), with Keith being paralyzed, in a inn room that was just set on fire, looks like it might be harder to get away from. Mike and Evals recently played this trope [http://twokinds.net/?p=482 more straight]. Well, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|sorta straight]].
* [[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.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: King Adelaide has shades of this.
{{quote| [http://twokinds.net/?p{{=}}578 "Tragically I survived"]}}
* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]: The old High Templar asked Neutral to give her her human form back. In exchange, Neutral possessed her for a time. Flora also got the short end of the stick when she accepted Neutral's help.
* [[Defeat Byby Modesty]]: An inverted example -- the artist has posted a few "lost strips" on his [[Deviant ART]] page showing that Flora and Natani almost defeat the Eastern General with nudity. Not his, but ''Flora'''s -- Natani notices the general reacts poorly to her not wearing socks, so she steals Flora's clothing, leaving the general a blushing, stammering mess.
* [[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.
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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 Byby My Own Sexy]]: [http://twokinds.net/?p=380 Illusion-bent Mike] was attracted to his/her own reflection in the mirror.
* [[Distracted Byby the Sexy]]: Bastilins are prone to it. See [[Head-Tiltingly Kinky]].
** 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 Withwith Princesses]]: {{spoiler|Flora}}, who was put into an arranged marriage with a prince of another tribe. She [[Runaway Bride|decided not to go through with it.]] Unfortunately, {{spoiler|this means there will not be a Keidran alliance to oppose the humans,}} but then again, {{spoiler|Templar!Trace is no longer there to lead the humans}}, and {{spoiler|Flora and Trace's falling in love}} has screwed ''everything'' up, plan wise. In other words, princesses [[Spanner in Thethe Works|screw up the plan.]]
* [[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].
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** 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 Basitins -- the Easterns are the only ones we've seen so far, who tolerate humans but consider Keidrans a slave race which are [http://twokinds.net/?p=544 insanely promiscuous] at all times.
* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|Fantasy Writers have no Sense of Scale]]: The Keidran tribes are stated to be very fast breeders (what with their views on sex is the same as a [[Babylon Five5|Centauri]] and their short lifespans) yet the largest city of the Wolf Clan (the largest tribe) is less than six thousand, even for a faux-Medieval setting that's low. Also there is a timber forest and a rain forest rather close to each other (and on the same latitude line no less). Possibly justified in that they're nomadic -- so the people living in a city are the minority -- and that they've been on the losing end of a war of genocide / slavery with humanity for the past few decades. The 6,000 population has been [[Retcon|retconned]] to be 36,000.
** 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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* [[Humans Are Cthulhu]]: Given the rapacious manner in which they take over and enslave Keidran villiages, most Keidrans assume [[Always Chaotic Evil|humans are devoid of mercy or compassion]]-and even that they're cannibals (taking the D&D meaning in that they eat sapient prey). That, and they think Humans live "unnaturally long" (Humans live about twice as long as Keidrans), and can use magic with suprising ease (see next). So humans, to keidrans, are nigh-immortal magical beings who swipe the population of entire cities for to become brainwashed slaves or snack food (or even clothing, at the start of the strip, the guy Trace gets Flora from states her skin will fetch a good price). Imagine their shock when they meet a pleasant human, and/or when it's explained to them that humans are really just a sort of bald ape-creature that happens to have a slow metabolism and a mean streak. So, Flora and Katharin are pretty much iae Iae IAE HUMANITAS FHTAGN!!!
** 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>. So, humans are pretty much the "elves" of the setting. Remembering what [[Terry Pratchett (Creator)|Terry Pratchett]] said [[The Fair Folk|about elves]], that is...
** 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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* [[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 Byby Orcs|Raised by Humans]], meaning she ''should'' have human modesty, and Natani (indeed, most other Keidran shown, outside of the feral and tribal ones) has no real interest in undressing. Perhaps a way of rebelling against her human upbringing. A better example would be Kathrin. She's a well-endowed and passively sexual catgirl that was the result of breeding for a ''perfect Keidran sex slave''. Eric treats her more like a little sister than anything. Add this to the fact that she's poorly dressed or naked a majority of the time. [http://twokinds.net/?p=274 These] [http://twokinds.net/?p=288 are] [http://twokinds.net/?p=296 a] [http://twokinds.net/?p=435 few] [http://twokinds.net/?p=337 examples] [http://twokinds.net/?p=427 of] [http://twokinds.net/?p=309 this].
* [[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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* [[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 Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Keith. Might be also a [[Tsundere]].
** 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.}}
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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 Withwith Rosie Palms|head for the washroom with a jar of petrol jelly and Keith's picture.]] As it was, her report on Keith's duel with Alaric was part offical document, part gushing fan-letter, and has a "disturbing number of hearts drawn on it".
** 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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* [[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-Common Kink|they have a species wide foot fetish]], and thus consider bare feet nudity. Alaric's statue of Keith has ''only'' the feet covered.
* [[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 ''[[War CraftWarcraft]]''.
** 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]]
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* [[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 Onon the Fourth Wall]] if the line hadn't sounded so forced.
* [[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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* [[Quickly-Demoted Woman]]: The last Grand Master was outed by Trace by using magic to make her look like a Keidran, causing the nearby solders attack her and drag her into slavery. And for some reason she doesn't blame Trace for this... (Granted, he was crazy at the time, but still.)
** Most likely due to her possibly being aware he [[Not Himself|wasn't well]] when he did it.
* [[Raised Byby Orcs]]: Flora, who was more-or-less raised by humans.
* [[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]] -- he was told he could come back when he had Trace in tow. Roughly equal to someone saying: "Hey, you can come home when you bring Osama bin Laden with you for tea."
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* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: Keith killed his drunken father in self-defense, but got the blame because the father was a war hero and the best friend of one of the Basitin Generals.
* {{spoiler|[[She Is the King]]:}} Adelaide.
* [[Shipper Onon Deck]]: [[Matchmaker Crush|Nora]], unwittingly or not.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The Author will sometimes reference the fanbase in alt text.
** [http://twokinds.net/?p=483 The Arms General] is a dead ringer for [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Major Armstrong.]]
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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 Thethe Kitchen]]: Averted with humans and Basitins. Played straight with the Keidran assassin guild; if they catch a female in their ranks, they just off 'er. Female wolf-Keidrans also seem to stay home and let the men fight.
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: {{spoiler|Trace,}} in spades.
* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Natani, so very much.
* [[Tap Onon the Head]]: Though this was the guy who tossed Natani hard enough to knock her out, after shattering a bunch of throwing knives with his '''abs'''.
* [[Tempting Fate]]
** [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=497 "I can't believe I made that!"]
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* [[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!]
{{quote| "I, Lieutenant Madelyn [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses|Adelaide]], witnessed a duel between Keith Keiser and Nickolai Alaric...and it was awesome! You should have seen it! At first Keith was all like 'oh noes!'..." }}
* [[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..."
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* [[You Should Know This Already]]: {{spoiler|Natani is a woman.}}
* [[You Will Not Evade Me]]: The little Keidran in the first HONF link wanted to run...
* [[Zig -Zagging Trope|Zig]] [[Fluffy the Terrible|Zagging]] [[Sealed Evil in Aa Teddy Bear|A]] [[Killer Rabbit|Trope]]: [http://twokinds.keenspot.com/archive.php?p=33 Keith vs Flora].
 
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