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* HairDecorations: Marina wears not one, but eight hair clips.
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''[[https://www.crystalheroescomic.com/page-1/ Crystal Heroes]]'' is an UrbanFantasy {{webcomic}} based on EasternRPG tropes incorporated into a society not unlike our own. Basically, a FantasyCounterpartCulture to modern America.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Don't be fooled; none of the monsters on the cover play a role in the actual comic. It is also only occasionally black-and-white.]]
''Crystal Heroes'' is an UrbanFantasy {{webcomic}} based on EasternRPG tropes incorporated into a society not unlike our own. Basically, a FantasyCounterpartCulture to modern America.
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The comic started in early 2017, and after a [[SeriesHiatus lengthy hiatus]], returned in 2018 with a playable scene made in ''VideoGame/RPGMaker'' featuring full [[UsefulNotes/The16bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames 16-bit style]] sprites and a first-person [[TurnBasedCombat turn-based battle system]].
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The comic started in early 2017, and after went through a [[SeriesHiatus lengthy hiatus]], returned hiatus]] before returning in 2018 2018. Afterwards, it continued in fits and starts, but was ultimately cut short by the end of 2019, with a playable scene made in ''VideoGame/RPGMaker'' featuring full [[UsefulNotes/The16bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames 16-bit style]] sprites and a first-person [[TurnBasedCombat turn-based battle system]].
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* ArtEvolution: Probably due to the year-long hiatus, the art looks quite a bit different in the scene after the game scene than the one before.
* BareFistedMonk: What Garrett is during gameplay.
* BareFistedMonk: What Garrett is during gameplay.
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* ArtEvolution: Probably due to Zig-zagged. The webcomic begins with detailed, full-color art, but the year-long hiatus, the art looks quite a bit absolute majority of it is black-and-white. The two game sequences obviously look ''very'' different from anything else in the scene after comic, while the game scene than high-resolution, full-color art that occurs in the one before.
comic's last dozen of pages looks different to both the usual black-and-white fare ''and'' the artwork in the opening. The ending scene, however, is black and white like the majority of the comic.
* BareFistedMonk: What Garrett is duringgameplay.the gameplay sequences.
* BareFistedMonk: What Garrett is during
** PlayingWithFire: During the actual battle sequence, his two main skills are Fire, and Shimmer, which is a DamageOverTime burn spell (and which is largely useless in the first battle, since the Book Swarms don't have that much HP and you are better off destroying them quickly with Fire or Ice.) In the second battle, he also gains Fire 2, which is his most powerful offensive spell, though it'll burn through his MP quickly as well, and since there's only one mana restoration item left, you better not give it to anyone else!
** AnIcePerson: Isaac has an Ice skill as well, which is a HerdHittingAttack. It's useful in the first battle against the two Book Swarms (he'll deal 6 damage to both instead of 9 to one), but irrelevant in the second, where there's only one boss.
** AnIcePerson: Isaac has an Ice skill as well, which is a HerdHittingAttack. It's useful in the first battle against the two Book Swarms (he'll deal 6 damage to both instead of 9 to one), but irrelevant in the second, where there's only one boss.
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* BlackAndNerdy: Ayanna.
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* BlackAndNerdy: Ayanna.Ayanna, who is first seen by the group reading a book at the park, and who is a huge online rpg nerd.
* BooksThatBite: The first battle is against two literal Book Swarms. They have a normal attack, a slightly more damaging paper cut, and a rush forward that deals limited damage, but to everyone in the group.
* BooksThatBite: The first battle is against two literal Book Swarms. They have a normal attack, a slightly more damaging paper cut, and a rush forward that deals limited damage, but to everyone in the group.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The majority of the comic is done in black-and-white; hence the cover art above is one as well. However, there are sizeable sections that are in full color.
* GreenAesop: Invoked in one of the final pages of the comic, where we learn that apparently, the emission of fire magic to run much of the world's technology has effects equivalent to global warming in real life.
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* {{Retraux}}: Not the comic itself, but the RPG scene is done in a pseudo 16-bit style.
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* TheQuietOne: Ayanna. She has the least amount of dialogue throughout the comic, and her dialogue during the optional conversations in the first game sequence is mostly ellipses. This is subverted during the second such sequence, where she bursts out with a long about her past, and apologizes afterwards for loading up everyone with her problems. Marina responds by saying she should be talking more.
* {{Retraux}}: Not the comic itself, but the two RPGscene is scenes are done in a pseudo 16-bit style.style.
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* StandardFantasySetting: Or used to be one, anyway.
* SuddenVideoGameMoment: The beginning of the library dungeon. Except, in a MediumBlending way, the video game moment is actually playable.
* TurnBasedCombat: In the RPG scene.
* TheQuietOne: Ayanna.
* YaoiFangirl: There was a deleted bonus page where Ayanna was shown to be reading yaoi [[BookAndSwitch underneath the book she's introduced reading]].
* SuddenVideoGameMoment: The beginning of the library dungeon. Except, in a MediumBlending way, the video game moment is actually playable.
* TurnBasedCombat: In the RPG scene.
* TheQuietOne: Ayanna.
* YaoiFangirl: There was a deleted bonus page where Ayanna was shown to be reading yaoi [[BookAndSwitch underneath the book she's introduced reading]].
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* StandardFantasySetting: Or used to be one, anyway.
anyway. It has now undergone its own industrial revolution (that was still powered by magic), and so everyone uses technology essentially equivalent to the modern day.
* SuddenVideoGameMoment: The beginning of the library dungeon. Except, in a MediumBlending way, the video game moment is actuallyplayable.
playable. The later boss battle occurs in the same
* TurnBasedCombat:In The two playable sequences are fought in this manner.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Marine gains "(Fake?) Tears" skill during theRPG scene.
* TheQuietOne: Ayanna.
comic's second and final interactive battle, which reduces the enemy's offense.
* YaoiFangirl: There was a deleted bonus page where Ayanna was shown to be reading yaoi [[BookAndSwitch underneath the book she's introducedreading]].reading]].
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* SuddenVideoGameMoment: The beginning of the library dungeon. Except, in a MediumBlending way, the video game moment is actually
* TurnBasedCombat:
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Marine gains "(Fake?) Tears" skill during the
* TheQuietOne: Ayanna.
* YaoiFangirl: There was a deleted bonus page where Ayanna was shown to be reading yaoi [[BookAndSwitch underneath the book she's introduced
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* ExtraordinaryWorldOrdinaryProblems: The plot is kicked into gear when the characters go into a MagicalLibrary RPG-style dungeon to get a library book that Marina needs for a lit study class which got put there by a clerical error.
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* MundaneFantastic: Nobody regards monsters, magic, or dungeons as anything more than slightly uncommon to deal with. Nobody is surprised about their existence, and magic has been scientifically analyzed over the years, as opposed to being thought of as physically impossible.
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* RolePlayingGameVerse: The setting is intended to be a play on RPG settings. However, though the characters may refer to black and white magic, bosses, and dungeons by name, it's nothing so in-depth to make it a RPGMechanicsVerse.
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* CrystalDragonJesus: The religion of the setting itself involves worshipping a goddess, and the Christ figure is a stereotypical RPG party, but the trappings of the religion and its position in modern society resemble Christianity.
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* InelegantBlubbering : [[spoiler:Marina]] does this, complete with wailing and trails of snot, when the party's [[spoiler:first battle goes poorly.]]
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* ManlyTears: Parodied when Garrett bursts into them while telling a story in which nothing particularly tragic happened.
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* FreakOut: [[spoiler:Marina bursts into tears and tries to run away from the dungeon when the party badly loses their very first fight.]]
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* RoseHairedSweetie: Marina. [[spoiler: Though how sweet one finds her is up to personal interpretation.]]
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* RoseHairedSweetie: Marina. [[spoiler: Though [[spoiler:Though how sweet one finds her is up to personal interpretation.]]
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* OpeningMonologue: Parodied. Not only does it make the setting look more like a StandardFantasySetting than it really is, it's also being delivered by an evangelist preaching on the university's campus.
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* OpeningMonologue: OpeningNarration: Parodied. Not only does it make the setting look more like a StandardFantasySetting than it really is, it's also being delivered by an evangelist preaching on the university's campus.
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To undertake this quest, she recruits her friend Isaac, a mages' rights activist; Garrett, a stoic jock with HotBloodedSideburns; and Ayanna, a [[ShrinkingViolet shy girl]] who joins to [[OccidentalOtaku live out her favorite video games]].
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To undertake this quest, the quest to retrieve the book, she recruits her friend Isaac, a mages' rights activist; Garrett, a stoic jock with HotBloodedSideburns; and Ayanna, a [[ShrinkingViolet shy girl]] who joins to [[OccidentalOtaku live out her favorite video games]].
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''[[https://www.crystalheroescomic.com/page-1/ Crystal Heroes]]'' is an UrbanFantasy {{webcomic}} based on EasternRPG tropes incorporated into a society not unlike our own. Basically, a FantasyCounterpartCulture to modern America.
The story follows Marina, a young woman going to Wyrmcaller University, which may seem like an ExtranormalInstitute, but is just a normal college in their extranormal world.
The plot starts when the university's librarians accidentally misplace a book she needed for a literature class into the Forbidden Section, an [[DungeonCrawling RPG dungeon]], [[MagicalLibrary Magical Library-style]] built below the completely ordinary school library.
To undertake this quest, she recruits her friend Isaac, a mages' rights activist; Garrett, a stoic jock with HotBloodedSideburns; and Ayanna, a [[ShrinkingViolet shy girl]] who joins to [[OccidentalOtaku live out her favorite video games]].
The comic started in early 2017, and after a [[SeriesHiatus lengthy hiatus]], returned in 2018 with a playable scene made in ''VideoGame/RPGMaker'' featuring full [[UsefulNotes/The16bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames 16-bit style]] sprites and a first-person [[TurnBasedCombat turn-based battle system]].
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!!''Crystal Heroes'' contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: [[spoiler:Subverted. Marina readily charges into the dungeon but responds to the party's first battle by freezing up and bursting into tears.]]
* AnimateInanimateObject: The party's first battle is with a swarm of flying books.
* AntimagicalFaction: The dominant religion of Ramecia appears to be one, though they practice WhiteMagic themselves.
* {{Animesque}}: The art style has something of a 70s/80s shoujo look to it, especially after the...
* ArtEvolution: Probably due to the year-long hiatus, the art looks quite a bit different in the scene after the game scene than the one before.
* BareFistedMonk: What Garrett is during gameplay.
* BlackMage: Isaac, though he seems to prefer the term "elemental mage."
* BlackAndWhiteMagic: In typical ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'' fashion.
* BlackAndNerdy: Ayanna.
* DamagerHealerTank: With Marina as the tank, Garrett and Isaac as the damage, and Ayanna as the healer.
* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:Marina decides to actually go in the dungeon when her boyfriend Tom goes inside to fetch her book and never returns.]]
* TheDulcineaEffect: Isaac joins Marina's party purely because he think's Garrett's hot and wants to spend time with him if he's going. [[spoiler:Then grows to dislike him soon after, and states he would go for Marina's sake anyway.]]
* DumbJock: Garrett. Or, at the very least, more concerned with parties and girls than his homework.
* DungeonCrawler: Both in the sense of what the plot is about, and in that the gameplay segment actually is one.
* TheEmpire: The books in the library mention multiple, including the one that colonized Ramecia.
* EveryoneIsASuper: One of the books in the library states that all humans are capable of using both white and black magic, most just choose not to, and some are better than others at it.
* {{Expy}}: Garrett looks like if [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]] or [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Jotaro]] tried to dress and act like a modern jock.
* FacelessMasses: Background characters tend to range from nebulous silhouettes to literally faceless people.
* GenkiGirl: Marina [[spoiler:acts like one, anyway]] and Ayanna, to an extent, at least where her [[OccidentalOtaku interests are involved]].
* HairDecorations: Marina wears not one, but eight hair clips.
* HotBlooded: Garrett switches between this and TheStoic on a dime.
* HotBloodedSideburns: Garrett has them, but they're drawn fairly realistically.
* LowFantasy: Low, low fantasy, almost to the point of MagicalRealism.
* MagicalLibrary: Though it's implied that it's a pretty normal library by the characters' standards.
* MysteriousPast: Tom and Marina are stated to have been in an adventurer party together in the past, and imply that he did something to get hurt for her sake at some point, but nothing else has been revealed beyond that.
* NoNameGiven: No one's last name has been mentioned so far. We do know, however, that Tom's starts with an S.
* OpeningMonologue: Parodied. Not only does it make the setting look more like a StandardFantasySetting than it really is, it's also being delivered by an evangelist preaching on the university's campus.
* PamphletShelf: Played with. Though there's not much more to read than normal for this trope, the books the player can read in the library are stated to just be excerpts of single pages, rather than entire books.
* PostModernMagik: Ayanna's staff is very clearly electronic in nature, and there are books in the library about the scientific study of magic as a biological process.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Marina. [[spoiler: Though how sweet one finds her is up to personal interpretation.]]
* SignificantAnagram: To drive home the "modern fantasy setting" point, Ramecia, the country the story takes place in, is an anagram for America, rearranged to sound more fantasy-y.
* ShoutOut: Tom is introduced having a long argument on the phone about Franchise/ScoobyDoo, even though the comic doesn't take place in the real world.
* StandardFantasySetting: Or used to be one, anyway.
* SuddenVideoGameMoment: The beginning of the library dungeon. Except, in a MediumBlending way, the video game moment is actually playable.
* TheQuietOne: Ayanna.
* YaoiFangirl: There was a deleted bonus page where Ayanna was shown to be reading yaoi [[BookAndSwitch underneath the book she's introduced reading]].
The story follows Marina, a young woman going to Wyrmcaller University, which may seem like an ExtranormalInstitute, but is just a normal college in their extranormal world.
The plot starts when the university's librarians accidentally misplace a book she needed for a literature class into the Forbidden Section, an [[DungeonCrawling RPG dungeon]], [[MagicalLibrary Magical Library-style]] built below the completely ordinary school library.
To undertake this quest, she recruits her friend Isaac, a mages' rights activist; Garrett, a stoic jock with HotBloodedSideburns; and Ayanna, a [[ShrinkingViolet shy girl]] who joins to [[OccidentalOtaku live out her favorite video games]].
The comic started in early 2017, and after a [[SeriesHiatus lengthy hiatus]], returned in 2018 with a playable scene made in ''VideoGame/RPGMaker'' featuring full [[UsefulNotes/The16bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames 16-bit style]] sprites and a first-person [[TurnBasedCombat turn-based battle system]].
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!!''Crystal Heroes'' contains examples of:
* ActionGirl: [[spoiler:Subverted. Marina readily charges into the dungeon but responds to the party's first battle by freezing up and bursting into tears.]]
* AnimateInanimateObject: The party's first battle is with a swarm of flying books.
* AntimagicalFaction: The dominant religion of Ramecia appears to be one, though they practice WhiteMagic themselves.
* {{Animesque}}: The art style has something of a 70s/80s shoujo look to it, especially after the...
* ArtEvolution: Probably due to the year-long hiatus, the art looks quite a bit different in the scene after the game scene than the one before.
* BareFistedMonk: What Garrett is during gameplay.
* BlackMage: Isaac, though he seems to prefer the term "elemental mage."
* BlackAndWhiteMagic: In typical ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'' fashion.
* BlackAndNerdy: Ayanna.
* DamagerHealerTank: With Marina as the tank, Garrett and Isaac as the damage, and Ayanna as the healer.
* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:Marina decides to actually go in the dungeon when her boyfriend Tom goes inside to fetch her book and never returns.]]
* TheDulcineaEffect: Isaac joins Marina's party purely because he think's Garrett's hot and wants to spend time with him if he's going. [[spoiler:Then grows to dislike him soon after, and states he would go for Marina's sake anyway.]]
* DumbJock: Garrett. Or, at the very least, more concerned with parties and girls than his homework.
* DungeonCrawler: Both in the sense of what the plot is about, and in that the gameplay segment actually is one.
* TheEmpire: The books in the library mention multiple, including the one that colonized Ramecia.
* EveryoneIsASuper: One of the books in the library states that all humans are capable of using both white and black magic, most just choose not to, and some are better than others at it.
* {{Expy}}: Garrett looks like if [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro]] or [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Jotaro]] tried to dress and act like a modern jock.
* FacelessMasses: Background characters tend to range from nebulous silhouettes to literally faceless people.
* GenkiGirl: Marina [[spoiler:acts like one, anyway]] and Ayanna, to an extent, at least where her [[OccidentalOtaku interests are involved]].
* HairDecorations: Marina wears not one, but eight hair clips.
* HotBlooded: Garrett switches between this and TheStoic on a dime.
* HotBloodedSideburns: Garrett has them, but they're drawn fairly realistically.
* LowFantasy: Low, low fantasy, almost to the point of MagicalRealism.
* MagicalLibrary: Though it's implied that it's a pretty normal library by the characters' standards.
* MysteriousPast: Tom and Marina are stated to have been in an adventurer party together in the past, and imply that he did something to get hurt for her sake at some point, but nothing else has been revealed beyond that.
* NoNameGiven: No one's last name has been mentioned so far. We do know, however, that Tom's starts with an S.
* OpeningMonologue: Parodied. Not only does it make the setting look more like a StandardFantasySetting than it really is, it's also being delivered by an evangelist preaching on the university's campus.
* PamphletShelf: Played with. Though there's not much more to read than normal for this trope, the books the player can read in the library are stated to just be excerpts of single pages, rather than entire books.
* PostModernMagik: Ayanna's staff is very clearly electronic in nature, and there are books in the library about the scientific study of magic as a biological process.
* RoseHairedSweetie: Marina. [[spoiler: Though how sweet one finds her is up to personal interpretation.]]
* SignificantAnagram: To drive home the "modern fantasy setting" point, Ramecia, the country the story takes place in, is an anagram for America, rearranged to sound more fantasy-y.
* ShoutOut: Tom is introduced having a long argument on the phone about Franchise/ScoobyDoo, even though the comic doesn't take place in the real world.
* StandardFantasySetting: Or used to be one, anyway.
* SuddenVideoGameMoment: The beginning of the library dungeon. Except, in a MediumBlending way, the video game moment is actually playable.
* TheQuietOne: Ayanna.
* YaoiFangirl: There was a deleted bonus page where Ayanna was shown to be reading yaoi [[BookAndSwitch underneath the book she's introduced reading]].
