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And the rest of the cast covers a whole diverse spread of relationships -- online flirting (there's a magic internet), school crushes, one-night stands, lifelong marriages.
LGBTQ characters everywhere. (I'm sure you got that from the art, but now it'll come up in text searches.)
Running through it all is the Leif/Thorn romance, in stages...
1) Like at first sight
2) Friendship
3) Mutual pining
4) Confession
5) Frantic wrestling w/language barrier
6) Delicate equilibrium of not-dating to sidestep the nastier clauses in Leif's contract
7) ???
8) Profit!
It's a classic long-running multi-arc comic, with subplots like:
🌿 Monster plant interrupts Magic Reincarnated Hamilton
☀️ Evil megacorp uses Dark Magical Boy to take out the competition
⛑️ Mine collapse requires multi-month rescue w/tiny engineers
🎶 Bilingual karaoke!
The fantasy worldbuilding includes things like modern spelltech, realistic language barriers, and:
✨ Institutional support for magical girls (boys, enbies, etc)
🏝️ Adorable Borrower/Lilliputian-sized tiny people
🧛♀️ Govt positions for vampire aristocrats
🎤 Magic Eurovision
Other favorites from the ensemble:
💎Agents D10 and Delphinium: glamorous undercover monster hunters
💀Hyacinth: Thorn's niece, tol, earnest, social justice goth
💥Kale: grumpy neighbor, dark secret, hallucinations (unrelated)
⚫️The Woman in Black: who? I don't know her
Our heroes:
🌹Leif: embassy gardener, "indentured servant." Skills: singing, doublethink
⚔️Thorn: dragonslayer w/PTSD, embassy guard. Skills: magic sword, bilingual (ish)
🐱Tiernan: Soulbonded therapy cat, fan-voted Best Character. Skills: emotional support, 4th-wall vision
A #MeetTheWebcomic thread for Leif & Thorn!
🌹https://t.co/JEMjmZo80c
💵https://t.co/sVMxsdEB4r
📕https://t.co/Z3p8tnZykJ
It's a fantasy comedy about a magic knight trying to have a romance in his second language. Get 2 volumes in print, or read the 4-year archive online.
And if you also like those, check out Agents Dex and Delphinium, Leif & Thorn (https://t.co/JEMjmZ6x8E)
Glamorous secret agents, who specialize in tracking down (respectively) dark magical girls and vampires. Rivals, but friendly about it (...mostly).
#tdov #TransVisibility
Zoe, Sleepless Domain (https://t.co/CdrE7n7r0I)
Shy newbie magical girl who wasn't even out until her powers awakened. Good news is, her world is very accepting! Now all *she* has to be afraid of is the nightly giant monster attacks.
Starlet Pony, Apricot Cookie(s)! (https://t.co/65GZF1C8Pk)
Amateur comic artist, helpful friend, and magical girl. The system here isn't friendly to trans girls, but she made it work! Now if she can just get the idea across to her dad...