History Webcomic / NeverSatisfied

* TheFaceless: [[spoiler: Yvette is never shown without her helmet. However, on his Tumblr, he did publish a sketch featuring Yvette without a helmet. [[https://ohcorny.tumblr.com/post/746780691216449536/do-you-have-any-art-of-ivys-human-form-without]]]]

* TheFaceless: [[spoiler: Yvette is never shown without her helmet.]]

* AmplifierArtifact: Magicians wear jewelry the same color as their magic, which serves to refine and enhance their power.

* AnimalMotifs: The type of animal a familiar is typically says a lot about their magician. It's more evident with some characters than others, especially [[spoiler:husks]]. See also: UncattyResemblance.
* ArtEvolution: Though Corny frequently retouches already-published pages, there's a stark difference between the saturated colors and thick lines of chapters one through three and the more mature style of later chapters.
** This is especially notable when moments that have already been depicted are flashed back to -- there's a stark improvement from [[http://www.neversatisfiedcomic.com/comic/chapter-1-page-20 the first time]] we see Philly lift Lucy over her head to [[http://www.neversatisfiedcomic.com/comic/chapter-7-page-44 Lucy remembering the same moment]] two weeks later.
* BadassCape: Ana, Broom Girl, Lucy, Sylas, and Tetsu in the fourth test round.

-->[[spoiler:'''Joe''']]''':''' No matter how much it... hurts to think about, I know what happened wasn't the husk's fault. Anything you could do wouldn't be your fault either.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Lucy's crush on Tobi has shades of this, as he seems to be the first person other than Ivy in a long time who's told them how much they mean to other people.

--->'''Corny:''' [[https://twitter.com/cornhime/status/996031898160914432 i do miss those glorious first three chapters of NS where kids and goofs was the main thrust. someday the goofs will return from the war.]] [[https://twitter.com/cornhime/status/996032422037917698 i fooled you all with fun colorful children and now you have to suffer with them]]

** ColorCodedWizardry: By extension. This magic color runs in families and has no bearing on anything beyond what kind of jewels they can use as a [[AmplifierArtifact power focus]] and personal color schemes.

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Chapters typically span a single day. So far, only two weeks have elapsed in comic, and Corny has specified that no matter how long the story gets, [[http://ohcorny.tumblr.com/post/177239404405/ it won't extend past a single summer]].
** This is more evident with longer chapters. Chapter four, the longest complete chapter, consisted of 81 pages and covered midmorning to sunset of a single Saturday. Chapters five and six, together 104 pages, covered midday Sunday to the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning. Chapter seven, which opened on Saturday morning and is nearing chapter four's page length, hasn't even hit sunset yet.

* [[spoiler:FakeWizardry]]: [[spoiler:Lucy's managed to make it through four rounds of the representative competition without a single ounce of magic to their name.]]

* FantasticCasteSystem: Although it's not formalized, there's a sharp disconnect between how magicians and non-magicians are treated in society. Most jobs require at least a little magical talent, everyone who's been shown to be in a poor financial state has also lacked magic, and Tobi admits to Lucy that those without magic are essentially invisible to magicians.
** Although Tobi is doing fairly well for himself now, with a stable job and a modest townhouse, he mentions to Neith that his friend [[spoiler:Morgan]] developing magic was the reason they [[spoiler:and Su-Yeong]] were no longer living in destitution.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Lapointe affects a polite demeanor in public and when talking to [[spoiler: January]], but as soon as she no longer needs to put up a charming front, she's quick to turn ''nasty''.
** This is most evident at the end of chapter four. We first see her in the middle of a pleasant tea party, socializing with other aristocrats such as Sylas' father, [[{{Webcomic/Widdershins}}Invidia and Superbia]], and Rin Soga. Once she receives a call from Derry with bad news[[note]]and worse news![[/note]], however, she storms into her private study to yell at Derry.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: [[http://www.neversatisfiedcomic.com/comic/chapter-4-page-70 Seiji listening to Lapointe's phone conversation.]]

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: [[http://www.neversatisfiedcomic.com/comic/chapter-5-page-47 Seiji's indignation]] when Rin calls him out on taking his frustration with having upset Sylas out on January.

* ParentalSubstitute: Tobi [[spoiler:and Su-Yeong]] to Peony, who is homeless and refuses to talk about her family.

* SmugSnake: Sylas, who has an actual two-headed snake as a familiar, ''tries'' to be this, but comes across as dorky at best.

* TheStoic: Broom Girl's face never changes, no matter the situation.
* StylisticSuck: The poem Sylas reads to Philomena.
-->'''[[TheRant Corny]]:''' sylas' wonderful garbage poem was written by friend miri of ''Webcomic/RiversideExtras''! i couldn't bear to write something so embarrassing, so i enlisted her as his bad poem ghost writer.
* TheSilentBob: Broom Girl rarely speaks. She communicates mostly through physical gestures, like a thumbs up or a pat on the head.

-->'''Rothart:''' I don't need you to tell me how to clean my room, ''cat''.
-->'''Ivy:''' Apparently, you need me to tell you how to raise your child, ''Thierry.''

** January's bangs evoke Friday's crest, and her pigtails flare out like wings.

* WhamLine: Broom Girl [[spoiler: knocking out Siobhan and handing Lucy her broom all while giving them a series of very specific orders]] in Chapter 7 is shocking enough, but when [[http://www.neversatisfiedcomic.com/comic/chapter-7-page-84 Lucy protests that they didn't actually break any rules]] she pulls out all the stops:
--->'''Broom Girl:''' Lucy. Listen. Forget about the contest, forget about winning, forget about what's ''fair''. [[spoiler: The magistration doesn't care.]]
--->'''Broom Girl:''' [[spoiler: They'd kill you for what you just did.]]

--->'''Ana:''' Merrylegs.
--->'''Ana:''' [[spoiler: Where is Merrylegs?]]

On April 4, 2024, Taylor Robin announced the hiatus would continue and is leaning towards discontinuing the comic. Read [[
https://ohcorny.tumblr.com/post/746745955759669248/so-its-been-a-year-since-i-put-never-satisfied/ here.]]

On April 4, 2024, Taylor Robin announced the hiatus would continue and is leaning towards discontinuing the comic. [[
https://ohcorny.tumblr.com/post/746745955759669248/so-its-been-a-year-since-i-put-never-satisfied/Read here ]]

A Monday/Friday webcomic by Taylor Robin, better known as Corny, running since April 2015 and winner of Comics Alliance's [[https://comicsalliance.com/comics-alliance-best-of-2015-best-new-webcomic-of-2015/ Best New Comic of 2015]] award. In February 2019, {{Website/Hiveworks}} ran a {{Website/Kickstarter}} [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hiveworks/never-satisfied-book-1 campaign]] to print the first five chapters that raised $28,186. It can be read [[http://www.neversatisfiedcomic.com/comic/never-satisfied/ here.]]

* AnythingThatMoves: Seiji, his feelings for Sylas notwithstanding.
-->'''Seiji:''' [[http://ohcorny.tumblr.com/post/154770569670/ All right, everybody line up!]]

* PeekABangs: Lucy and [[Webcomic/RiversideExtras Siobhan]], on opposite sides of their face.

* HidingInPlainSight: Ever since Philomena's introduction, her familiar, Tully, has had an emerald on his forehead. Nobody ever calls attention to this until [[spoiler:the climax of chapter four, when she uses the emerald as a focus to operate her glove]].

* OverprotectiveDad: Philomena's dad dotes on Philomena extensively, to the degree that Philomena feels stifled by his behavior.
** He was only deterred from throwing a party for her passing the third test round at all by the other competitors already ''throwing'' a potluck.
** His first impulse upon seeing Philomena with a dirt on her dress is to clean it off for her, and then laugh it off when she complains she isn't a kid.
** He ordered Philomena an entire custom outfit for the fourth test round... without her having asked for it.
** He's implied to have yelled at and fired Su-Yeong over a relatively mild disagreement with Philomena.

* HappilyMarried: Isra and Neith Karim.
* HasTwoMommies: Tetsu works for Isra and Neith Karim, two wives who run a bakery/bookshop together, and Neith -- who used to be a member of the city guard -- trains them in magic.
** WordOfGod [[http://ohcorny.tumblr.com/post/146433557170/ states]], however, that Tetsu lives with their parents and is not under Isra and Neith's care.
* [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend He's Not My Boyfriend]]: [[http://www.neversatisfiedcomic.com/comic/chapter-5-page-47 Seiji's indignation]] when Rin calls him out on taking his frustration with having upset Sylas out on January.

* HotBlooded: January. See [[Characters/NeverSatisfied her character page]].

* The Faceless: [[spoiler: Yvette is never shown without her helmet.]]