History YMMV / Digger

* AcceptableProfessionalTargets: Among the feats ascribed to The Good Man by the people of Saltlace are healing the sick, raising the dead, speaking to wild beasts, and converting politicians...
-->'''Digger:''' Okay, now I ''know'' this is a myth!\\
'''Murai:''' There may have been some creative embellishments. It's been a thousand years.

* IronWoobie: Ed.
** Murai.
* {{Moe}}: Murai.

%%* Crazy Awesome: Surka, former pirate shrew who guards bridges and rides trolls for a living. %% Doesn't explain the "crazy" part.

* CrazyAwesome: Surka, former pirate shrew who guards bridges and rides trolls for a living.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Let's look at Digger. Is she really having these adventures or is she, [[LampshadeHanging as she herself initially feared]], merely [[LotusEaterMachine trapped in a hallucination]] [[AllJustADream caused by cave gas]] [[FeverDreamEpisode and lack of food and sleep]] [[DeadToBeginWith as she dies slowly,]] [[DownerEnding all alone and trapped deep,]]'' [[DugTooDeep deep,]]'' [[DownerEnding under ground?]]
** [[NightmareFuel "You can even tunnel in circles until you drop dead.]] [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=3 It's nasty stuff."]]
*** "[[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=16 I assure you,]] I am ''not'' hallucinatory." "Says the ''talking elephant statue''."

* HellIsThatNoise: Digger uses [[PaintingTheFourthWall distinctive fonts]] for characters, resulting in a certain race speaking in ''strange, scary fonts''. [[spoiler: The creepy skin lizards are actually quite nice, but the protagonists don’t know that initially.]]

* TheWoobie: Ed, kind artist and exiled victim of [[FantasticRacism fantastic misandry]] and [[spoiler: [[DomesticAbuse spousal abuse]]]]. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. He manages to function pretty well for all he's been through.
** In a variation on the typical fan treatment of a Woobie, fans don't want to just comfort Ed, they seem to want to [[BewareTheNiceOnes KILL]] [[BerserkButton ANYONE]] [[MamaBear WHO]] [[PapaWolf HARMS]] [[BigNo HIM!]] Despite no Digger HurtComfortFic being known, certain commenters have made it clear that if any ''did'' appear, the time between it appearing and a ''[[KillItWithFire decisive]]'' [[WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum PPC response]] would be [[InternetBackdraft measured in nanoseconds.]]
** And then he [[TookALevelInBadass rocketed up the]] [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Echeladder]] when facing down Sweetgrass-Voice.[[spoiler: Ed isn't nameless any more]].
*** [[spoiler: Not that he's going to have a chance to use it any longer...]]

** In a variation on the typical fan treatment of a Woobie, fans don't want to just comfort Ed, they seem to want to [[BewareTheNiceOnes KILL]] [[BerserkButton ANYONE]] [[MamaBear WHO]] [[PapaWolf HARMS]] [[BigNo HIM!]] Despite no Digger HurtComfortFic being known, certain commenters have made it clear that if any ''did'' appear, the time between it appearing and a ''[[KillItWithFire decisive]]'' [[ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum PPC response]] would be [[InternetBackdraft measured in nanoseconds.]]

** With the hyenas it's deliberate: ''Digger'' has to check the sex of who she's taking to sometimes because, well, that's what spotted hyenas are really like.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Lets look at Digger. Is she really having these adventures or is she, [[LampshadeHanging as she herself initially feared]], merely [[LotusEaterMachine trapped in a hallucination]] [[AllJustADream caused by cave gas]] [[FeverDreamEpisode and lack of food and sleep]] [[DeadToBeginWith as she dies slowly,]] [[DownerEnding all alone and trapped deep,]]'' [[DugTooDeep deep,]]'' [[DownerEnding under ground?]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: The Statue of Ganesh, the Ocular Slug, the GrotesqueCute Skin-lizards, the Hag. [[InstantFanClub Boneclaw Mother!]]

* CrazyAwesome: Surka, former pirate shrew who guards bridges and rides trolls for a living. [[SoCoolItsAwesome A-yup.]]

* CompleteMonster: Sweetgrass Voice is the closest thing Ursula can get.

*** [[spoiler: Not that he's going to have a chance to use it any longer...]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[spoiler:He-Is was manipulated by a demon into nearly killing his mate and killing their child in the process. Then he was exiled, and broke free of the manipulations long enough to request a MercyKill, but it wasn't enough, because the demon ''kept him alive against his will''. Poor guy...]]
** Particularly, [[BeatStillMyHeart his]] [[InvertedTrope heart]]. In-story, Digger is about the only person who isn't intensely disturbed by it.

-->"[[AC:No. One. Leaves. The deeps.]]"

--->"[[AC:It. Is. Foolish. To run. We. Do not. Tire. The. Blood. Of our. Master. Sustains us.]]"

** Particularly, [[BearStillMyHeart his]] [[InvertedTrope heart]]. In-story, Digger is about the only person who isn't intensely disturbed by it.

-->"'''It. Is. Foolish. To. Run. We. Do not. Tire. The. Blood. Of our. Master. Sustains us.'''"

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: He-Is
* IronWoobie: Ed
* {{Moe}}: Murai

** With the Hyenas it's deliberate: ''Digger'' has to check the sex of who she's taking to sometimes because, well, that's what spotted hyenas are really like.

-->'''Digger:''' Okay, now I ''know'' this is a myth!
-->'''Murai:''' There may have been some creative embellishments. It's been a thousand years.

** And then he [[TookALevelInBadass rocketed up the]] [[{{Homestuck}} Echeladder]] when facing down Sweetgrass-Voice.[[spoiler: Ed isn't nameless any more]].

* CharacterAlignment:
** LawfulGood: Murai, The Hag, Helix, Grim-Eyes, [[spoiler: Shadowchild]] after a forced coming-of-age.
** NeutralGood: [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=188 Digger,]] Ed, The Statue of Ganesh, Boneclaw [[SelfDemonstratingArticle “I can bend the law, but I cannot break it outright, or I break the source of my own power”]] Mother.
** ChaoticGood: Surka and the Trolls.
** LawfulNeutral: Jhalm and The Veiled.
** TrueNeutral: [[SelfDemonstratingArticle “What’s True Neutral? Am I A True Neutral?”]] [[SureWhyNot “err, sure, why not.”]] [[RuleOfCute “Yay!”]]
** ChaoticNeutral: The Vampire Squash. [[RuleOfFunny Grrr.]]
** LawfulEvil: [[spoiler: Blood-tail and (possibly) Blood-Mare, insisting that Ed be punished according to the letter of the law even when it is manifestly unjust to do so, and it was them that drove him to do it.]] Possibly the Cold Servants.
** NeutralEvil: [[spoiler: Sweet Grass Voice.]] The Cold servants, although that’s debatable as they don’t seem to have much in the way of free will.
** ChaoticEvil: [[spoiler: According to Shadowlescent,]] most demons either end up as this, [[spoiler: or are killed or recruited by the ones who do. The fact SGV even offers to take the Shadowchild onboard rather than just attacking makes SGV an unusually bright NeutralEvil exception.]] [[CrystalDragonJesus The Black Mother.]]

* FridgeBrilliance: On the way back from the monastery, Digger, Murai, and Grim Eyes are hurrying, knowing that they are weeks away but feeling as if there is a savage urgency to their return. Only when they arrive, it is [[JustInTime only an hour before disaster]] -- ''there was''.

** Ed, Ed and '''Ed'''. WordOfGod is that he was originally supposed to be just a throwaway snarling monstery thing to attack the protagonist, and that he just happened to be a hyena because she couldn't draw a bear properly.

** Surka, [[AllTrollsAreDifferent the greatest troll ever.]]