History Webcomic / AquaRegia

''Aqua Regia'', formerly known as ''Acid Rain'', is an Argentinian cyberpunk comic published through Website/{{INKR}}, made by Fluhor. The setting is a fairly typical {{Cyberpunk}}, set in a version of Argentina where [[UsefulNotes/NationalReorganizationProcess the dictatorship of the '70s]] never ended.

''Aqua Regia'', formerly known as ''Acid Rain'', is an Argentinian cyberpunk comic published through Website/{{INKR}}, made by Fluhor. The setting is a fairly typical {{Cyberpunk}}, set in Argentina which has been on a dictatorship since the seventies (and counting).

The year 2054, Daniel Dietrich, a [[HiredGuns merc]][[OnlyInItForTheMoney enary]], who tries to live as better as [[ForcedintoEvil he can]], taking [[WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs odd jobs]], from the most [[{{Courier}} mundane]], to including [[HitManWithAHeart murders]], [[JustifiedTrope not that he's happy with his life]], he's even [[HeroicBSOD shown]] being stressed because of this. [[FromBadToWorse Shit hits the fan]] when he interrupts a robbery in a [[TheConvenientStoreNextDoor local market]], he engages in a fight with a thief, and ends with Daniel badly injured and the thief dead.

Moments later he escapes because he doesn't want to end up in jail, after all, a murder it's still a crime. Daniel collapses in a back alley, where he's found by [[RebelLeader Rouge]], and contracted to fight against the country dictatorship, [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse after deliberating]], he reluctanctly accepts.

A few days later, in a hidden base, Daniel starts telling Rouge and the others how he came to be a mercenary, [[WholeEpisodeFlashback the second arc of the story starts with his teenage years and first years of mercenary, and up until the time of the prologue, apparently]].

* BigDamnHeroes: Daniel stars one moment when he saves his mentor and friend, [[StraightGay Leo]] from three other soldiers. Which, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome ends with]] Daniel's face badly scarred through ColdBloodedTorture.

* VillainTakesAnInterest: Both The Captain and Sirio are interested in grooming Daniel and Anahí into killing machines pushing the human limits, their reasoning are firmly on the YouGotSpunk territory, however:

* {{Dystopia}}: The entire setting.

* VillainTakesAnInterest: Both The Captain and Sirio are interested in grooming Daniel and Anahí into killing machines pushing the human limits, their reasoning are firmly on the YouGotSpunk territory, however:

** Sirio on the other hand, wants Anahí after she dared to defy him in their first meeting due her fighting spirit, but also [[LustObject wants her]] and then to join his BodyguardBabes.

* GoodProstheticEvilProsthetic: Explored, good prosthetics are not only the ones Rouge and the good guys have, but also the ones who work for the government, while look clean and sleek, their users are... Varied. The evil prosthetics are there for everyone, but also are prone to malfunction, even if they're top of the line Machina Revoltrae ones, see BodyHorror.
* HomeSweetHome: [[spoiler: after his first kill, Daniel goes back with Anahí at his home, they spend a couple of months into hiding, and healing their scars... Until [[ImNotDoingThatAgain Sirio calls him back. Much to his displeasure]]]].

Read it [[https://inkr.com/ik-title-331 here]] and [[https://medibang.com/mpc/titles/fk2209010124558330007326053/ for free]] in English! Character sheet in progress!

** However this trope is deconstructed several times when a character acts this way, when someone acts recklessly everything goes wrong.

* HellBentForLeather: All the way due AuthorAppeal, both for heroes and villains.

* HandCannon: Daniel is wielding a [[RareGuns RSh-12]], one of the meanest revolvers in existence, it's yet to be explained, but for now is pure RuleOfCool, that and it looks [[OurWeaponsWillBeBoxyInTheFuture very futuristic]].

* LatinoIsBrown: The entire cast so far is shown to be mixed, while one could argue that the characters are white, they're all Latinos, Argentina is called Melting Pot for a reason. The named characters that play this straight are [[DarkSkinnedRedhead Anahi]] and [[RebelLeader Rouge]], so far.

Read it [[https://inkr.com/ik-title-331 here]] and [[https://medibang.com/mpc/titles/p22208312346294170007326053/ for free]] in English!]] Character sheet in progress!

Read it [[https://inkr.com/ik-title-331 here for free in English!]] Character sheet in progress!

* FanArt: The BonusMaterial at the end of Volume 1 has officialy submitted fanart with Fluhor talking about it and linking their twitter handles.

--->"Use the media to make the truth come out, while people is aware that we live in a dictatorship, [[DareToBeBadass we're pushing them to act]], our greatest weapon is the truth, expose everything, the reality of our world, [[ClosedCircle not only our country]], the people just caughts glimpses of it, [[TheOutsideWorld not USA, France, Japan, Russia, among many others]]."

* RevolversAreJustBetter: While there's a variety of weapons present, revolvers are shown to be of more significancy.

The year 2054, Daniel Dietrich, a [[HiredGuns merc]][[OnlyInItForTheMoney enary]], who tries to live as better as [[ForcedintoEvil he can]], taking [[WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs odd jobs]], from the most [[{{Courier}} mundane]], to including [[HitManWithAHeart murders]], [[SubvertedTrope not that he's happy with his life]], he's even [[HeroicBSOD shown]] being stressed because of this. [[FromBadToWorse Shit hits the fan]] when he interrupts a robbery in a [[TheConvenientStoreNextDoor local market]], he engages in a fight with a thief, and ends with Daniel badly injured and the thief dead.

* AdultFear: It's part of the premise, and the story is not overly implausible when it comes to setting at least, knowing the [[UsefulNotes/NationalReorganizationProcess history of the country]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility "Noblesse Oblige"]]]]

** CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain: The first chapter opens with a cloudy, gray day, and many other characters have rain ocasionally.

* AlwaysNight: Averted in the chapters themselves, with only briefly seen in the prologue, the rest of the episodes re seen in daylight, the covers play this trope straight.

* ArtEvolution: A {{Downplayed}} variant, the first episode had a crude and somewhat off sense of coloring, which is the version that can be found on agreggator sites, when published in INKR got an overhaul with more pleasant hues. Also, with each passing chapter the art becomes more and more detailed.
* AdultFear: It's part of the premise, the nightmare of the author, and the story is not overly implausible when it comes to setting at least, knowing the history of the country.
* BadassLongcoat: The heroes don one in chapter 3 to hide the armor beneath them. The handlers in Daniel's flashback have them too.

* BigBrotherIsWatching: Oh yeah, by the end of the second chapter, Daniel gets confirmation that he's still being pursued.
* BigDamnHeroes: Daniel stars one when he saves his mentor and friend, [[StraightGay Leo]]. Which, sadly, ends with Daniel's face badly scarred through ColdBloodedTorture.

* BloodierAndGorier: Due the place in which is published it'll be uncensored most of the time.

* {{Cyberpunk}}: Well, yeah, it's the core of the entire premise
** CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain: The first chapter opens with a cloudy, gray day
* {{Cyborg}}: One of the thieves at least, among several other people. Rouge has ElectronicEyes for example. It's been pointed out in-universe that only the army and very wealthy people can afford it, so cyborgs are not something that's seen much in the city.

* {{Fanservice}}: Downplayed, but still present. [[FemaleGaze Daniel taking a shower]] and [[MaleGaze Rouge taking showers]] are totally this.
* ForegoneConclusion: The first pages show a flashback in the year 2052 in which Anahi and Daniel break up. How? Well, the flashback will tell us how it happens...

* HellBentForLeather: All the way due AuthorAppeal.
* HeroicBuild: Daniel in the flashback of the first chapter looks positively buff.

* LowerClassLout: The thieves of the first chapter.
* NeonCity: Mohron on the first episode, but not overtly shown due the fact it's plain day, thus making it a much more CityNoir example. The covers play this trope straight.

* ReCut: A year later after being released on Manga Rock, it had an updated version on INKR, with flashier colors, textures and more.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: The revolvers present in the comic.

* TheirFirstTime:[[spoiler: Chapter 7 ends this way, and although it wasn't Daniel's first, Anahi is happy she's doing it with him]]
* UndergroundCity: Downplayed, the tunnels beneath Buenos Aires are real, there's underground tunnels that connect different parts of it, but here's greatly exaggerated for purely RuleOfCool.

* WouldHitAGirl: One of robbers at the end of the first chapter gropes the poor cashier and then punches her [[PervertRevengeMode because she actually defended herself]].

Read it [[https://inkr.com/ik-title-331 here for free in English!]] and [[https://norami.net/amateur/webcomic/aqua-regia here in it's native Spanish!]] Character sheet in progress!

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