History Webcomic / ButImACatPerson

Not to be confused with ButImACheerleader. Also has nothing to do with actual [[{{Catfolk}} Cat People]].

* AsTheGoodBookSays: Used in wildly different ways by Timothy and Ann Walker.

* {{Expy}}: Several AU versions of characters from the artist's [[Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow earlier works]].

** Ann Walker is a derivative of Shine's version of ''LittleOrphanAnnie''.
** Several readers have identified Stuart Cohen as resembling (a sinister AU version of) [[TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]].

** The raven goes by [[EdgarAllanPoe Poe]]. No wonder Miranda was first seen lurking in a graveyard.

* RuleThirtyFour: In-story. Sparrow searches the web for information about Beings, and finds, among other things, links to Being porn. Some of them quite squicky.

* UnreadableDisclaimer: Unreadable-entire-contract, even. There's no written version of Bianca's agreement with Patrick, and the spoken version consisted entirely of "I, Bianca Washington."
** Of course given how short their memory is, [[FridgeBrilliance they would (or may already have) forget anything longer]]

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Both Timothy/Camellia (actually bigender) and Bianca.

* HairTropes and HairColors:
** CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Several of the Beings, including Reseda (gold), Cybele (pink), Kaguya (teal), and sometimes Patrick (brown).
** DarkSkinnedBlond: Timothy, both with his natural hair and the wig he wears as Camellia.
** EveryGirlIsCuterWithHairDecs: Miranda's omnipresent beads, and Bianca's [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/chapter-two-page-17/ butterfly clip]].
** HairColorSpoiler: The comic is all in greyscale except for green spot-coloring...and the eyes and hair (or, in Miranda's case, hair decs) of certain characters, mostly Beings and their Masters. If you see someone with colorful hair, odds are they're going to be important.
** MulticoloredHair: Patrick, whose blonde hair includes a brown SkunkStripe.
** PowerHair: Ann Walker.
** YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Bianca and Jany, unless they're examples of PurpleIsTheNewBlack; Cybele, a RoseHairedSweetie; Bennett, whose dark hair is kind of magenta-ish; Kara Lynn, lavender. Justified in the cases of the Beings.

* NamingConventions and MeaningfulNames: Lots.
** EmbarrassingMiddleName: Sparrow Elbereth.
** FluffyTheTerrible: Taking into account the powers Beings have, they have the capability to be this.
** IKnowYourTrueName: Beings are unable to even ''say'' the names their Masters use to make Contracts, that's how little power they have in the relationship. Other magic in the series is related to the Contract names of both Beings and humans.
** IronicName: Bianca, whose name means "white" in Italian, is black and proud of it.
** Since a Being's name is chosen by its master, it doesn't tell you much about the Being's nature, but might give you a clue about the master's interests.
*** The raven goes by [[EdgarAllanPoe Poe]]. No wonder Miranda was first seen lurking in a graveyard.
*** Cybele ("soothsayer", "prophetess"), however, indeed tends to spell out truths to her master that he'd rather not acknowledge.
*** Karen Park gave [[ADogNamedDog the Bear the straightforward name "Cub"]].
*** ThemeNaming with Reseda, whose previous name was Sister Lily. Her Master also made a contract with her under the self-chosen name Camellia.
** OnlyOneName: Most of the Beings. Also, temporarily, characters like Cohen and Miranda, whose full names took a long time to be revealed.
** ShedTheFamilyName: Miranda goes by her mother's surname, Lake. It's also the one she used when entering into the Contract with Poe, meaning that he's not able to say it, but ''is'' able to refer to her by her father's surname.

* [[spoiler: ArmoredClosetGay]]: There are hints that Bennett is one.

* FanNickname:
** When his real name was still a mystery, Cybele's Master had been referred to as Nevada-san, based on his [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada-chan unfortunate]] choice of [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/chapter-two-page-22/ sweatshirt]].
** When the tiger-Being made its first full appearance, two readers immediately referred to it as [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Hobbes]].
** Before his first name was revealed, Stu Cohen had readers calling him Jon, after another [[Series/TheDailyShow adult male Jewish media figure]] with whom he shares design similarities.

* GeniusBonus: The entirety of Interlude Three might just be one of the greatest stories ever told.

* OneOfUs: Erin edits this page.

''But I'm A Cat Person'' is the latest comic from ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' creator Erin Ptah. The official description from [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/ the website]] is "what happens when you take a heap of shounen-power-up and mahou-shoujo tropes, dump them all in a blender, and then [[SubvertedTrope throw the blender away and make a sandwich instead]]."

** ShapeshifterShowdown: Understated so far; Beings tend to enter battle in a single form and stick with it, sometimes with the Masters [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-four-page-4/ agreeing on that form beforehand]].

** ShapeshifterWeapon: So far, averted; Beings fight mostly with energy attacks and the natural weapons of their standard forms (fists, claws, etcetera). When [[spoiler: Patrick [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-five-page-25/ used his arm as a club]] that one time]], it stayed in its usual shape and was damaged accordingly.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Timothy.

* YouJustToldMe: [[spoiler: How Cohen confirms that Bennett is Cybele's Master.]]

* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Bennett, [[spoiler: [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-eight-page-2/ insisting he doesn't care about Cybele]].]]

* TravelMontage: Lampshaded. "I wish we were in an anime or something, so that this whole trip could go by in a montage."

* EmbarrassingMiddleName: Sparrow Elbereth.

* FluffyTheTerrible: Taking into account the powers Beings have, they have the capability to be this.

* IronicName: Bianca, whose name means "white" in Italian, is black and proud of it.

* MeaningfulName: Since a Being's name is chosen by its master, it doesn't tell you much about the Being's nature, but might give you a clue about the master's interests.
** The raven goes by [[EdgarAllanPoe Poe]]. No wonder Miranda was first seen lurking in a graveyard.
** Cybele ("soothsayer", "prophetess"), however, indeed tends to spell out truths to her master that he'd rather not acknowledge.

* ParentalObliviousness: Although Miranda's father is [[one of the world's foremost Being researchers]], it doesn't take much effort to convince him that her Being is [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/chapter-eighteen-page-11/ an ordinary human boyfriend]].

* ShedTheFamilyName: Miranda goes by her mother's surname, Lake. It's also the one she used when entering into the Contract with Poe, meaning that he's not able to say it, but ''is'' able to refer to her by her father's surname.

* ThemeNaming: Reseda, whose previous name was Sister Lily.

* FluffyTheTerrible: Taking into account the powers beings have, they have the capability to be this.

** CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Reseda (gold) and Cybele (pink).

* AsTheGoodBookSays

* BreakTheCutie: Jany's entry on the character page of the comic lampshades the trope.

* {{Expy}}: The full cast will bring in several AU versions of characters from the artist's [[Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow earlier works]].

** With his real name still a mystery, Cybele's Master has been referred to as Nevada-san, based on his [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada-chan unfortunate]] choice of [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/chapter-two-page-22/ sweatshirt]].

** Miranda originated in TheEagleOfHermes.

* GirlsNeedRoleModels: Ann Walker starts out looking like this: a blind young woman making her way in the sexist, man-dominated business culture of the 1960s. [[SubvertedTrope Later...]] [[TheSociopath not]] [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman so much]].

** YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Bianca and Jany, unless they're examples of PurpleIsTheNewBlack; Cybele, a pink-haired girl; Bennett, whose dark hair is kind of magenta-ish; Kara Lynn, lavender. Justified in the cases of the Beings.

*** Again with a Being called [[NaughtyTentacles Kaguya]]: [[http://erinptah.com/catperson/comic/interlude-two-page-4/ "She's also a great boon to my film studio."]] Also GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

* GirlsNeedRoleModels: Ann Walker starts out looking like this: a blind young woman making her way in the sexist, man-dominated business culture of the 1960s. [[SubvertedTrope Later...]] [[TheSociopath not]] [WhatMeasureIsANonHuman so much]].

** When the tiger-Being made its first full appearance, two readers immediately referred to it as [[CalvinAndHobbes Hobbes]].

** YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Bianca and Jany, unless they're examples of PurpleIsTheNewBlack; Cybele, a RoseHairedGirl; Bennett, whose dark hair is kind of magenta-ish; Kara Lynn, lavender. Justified in the cases of the Beings.

** Mr. Cohen (first name unrevealed) has readers calling him Jon, after another [[Series/TheDailyShow adult male Jewish media figure]] with whom he shares design similarities.

* MagnificentBastard: Ann Walker.