Line #21 WebAnimation/Satina


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2	[[caption-width-right:310:One Hell of a family.]]
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4	Originally just a short 2019 student film called "Satina Wants a Glass of Water", ''Satina'' is a web series and the brainchild of newcomer artist [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1fjSSxPEEHb7WqAdd6xChQ Hannah Daigle]].
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6	''Satina'' details the life and (mis)adventures of the eponymous cambion and her parents. Satina (Sharon Hobby) is the daughter of the overworked Queen of North American Hell, Lucia (Laila Berzins), and her father Dave (Hans Van Harken), an ordinary man working as an IT consultant in the human world. Despite her demonic nature, Satina is charismatic, playful, naughty, and a little weird. She loves her parents to the ends of both realms, even though Dave is estranged from Lucia following a relationship breakdown in the past.
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8	The original short film can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrywhCp1W1s here]], and the first official episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjMh_iE8bf0 here]]. The series has made its debut on Newgrounds on April 20, 2020.
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10	You can support the series on Patreon [[https://www.patreon.com/satina here]].
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12	!!''Satina'' provide the following tropes:
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14	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Satina wonders why they don't have a Christmas Tree and Dave explains that he is Jewish and doesn't believe in it. Satina points out he has literally been to Hell.
15	* AmbiguousSituation: While it's obvious Lucia and Dave had Satina together, the actual relationship between Lucia and Dave is unclear. Are they exes? Still married? Since Lucia is a demon from Hell, did they even get married in the first place?
16	* BaitAndSwitchComparison: Dave gives one when he's afraid he's going to lose his job.
17	-->'''Dave:''' I can't go back to staying in the motel! I'm gonna have to live in hell, and never see the light or, or anyone I love ever again...or maybe I could just stay with Lucia instead of my parents' house.
18	* BaseballEpisode: The short ''Satina at the Bat!'' shows the little princess of Hell playing Little League Baseball for the Jersey Devils, but [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny forgets how to swing a bat]].
19	* BigEntrance: Lucia herself attempts this on Dave, using a display of all her power and unholy glory to terrify him. It falls completely flat as he's ''well'' acquainted with her, leaving the Hell Queen to exasperatedly sigh.
20	* CantGetAwayWithNothing: Melvin sleeps during work, then later has his soul sucked out of him.
21	* CassetteFuturism: Hell seems to operate like this; the technology such as phones are old and cumbersome.
22	* CatGirl: Melvin at Dave's place of work has Nekomimi as his terminal's screensaver.
23	* CirclesOfHell: There's Eight for the [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/476/229/6c4.png number of continents]] on the planet according to the creator. Lucia rules North America, whereas her fellow Archdemon, Azalea, is the [[TheRival Queen of European Hell]].
24	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Dave brings Satina to work, he notices everyone staring at her, and after looking around at the other workers' daughters, comes to the conclusion that they're doing so because she's naked (see NonHumansLackAttributes entry).
25	* ContinuityNod: As seen in the fourth short, Dave's car still has the indentation of Satina's horns left on the roof after the first episode.
26	* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: After Satina points out his ArbitrarySkepticism, Dave forces her to watch ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights''.
27	* CreatorCameo: Along with storyboarders making cameos, artist Hannah Daigle is also briefly seen in the background working at Dave's company.
28	* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: Lucia is an Archdemon, specifically in charge of North American Hell, Hell's [[CelestialBureaucracy busiest division]], making her very tired and mostly always pissed off with someone or something. In the hierarchy she has enough power to force Death to do her bidding in ending mortals lives prematurely. Other Archdemons are in charge of Hells corresponding to the other continents.
29	* DevilButNoGod: A variant. There are certainly Hell (well, eight -- one for each continent) and Archdemons running them, but no evidence or mention of corresponding Heavens or their natives are present.
30	* DownToTheLastPlay: In ''[[BaseballEpisode Satina at the Bat!]]'', Satina needs to score in order for her team to win, as it's in the last inning.
31	* DraggedOffToHell: What Lucia threatens to do to Dave if he doesn't follow through with child support. It's hard to say if that's her idea of [[CirclesOfHell damnation]] or her way of resolving Dave's CommitmentIssues. Or maybe it's both.
32	* TheElevatorFromIpanema: Satina notes that the company where Dave works uses the same elevator music as does Purgatory.
33	* ExactWords: Before going to bed, Satina asks Lucia to get her a "glass of water", because she likes how it tastes. She didn't actually say anything about wanting the ''water'' itself.
34	* FireAndBrimstoneHell: Very much North America's depiction of Hell, or at least Lucia's throne-room/office.
35	* FlatEarthAtheist: Dave is revealed to be one in ''A Very Satina Christmas!'':
36	-->'''Satina''': Daddy, why don't we have a Christmas tree like everyone else?
37	-->'''Dave''': Well, uh, I'm Jewish, honey. I don't really believe in Christmas or anything like that.
38	-->''({{Beat}})''
39	-->'''Satina''': ...The ideals and concepts of Christianity have been proven to you to be true on multiple occasions.
40	-->''({{Beat}})''
41	-->'''Satina''': ...You've ''been'' to Hell!
42	* GenericName: The company where Dave's employed is simply called Generic Technology™.
43	* GettingReadyForBedPlot: The entirety of the ''Satina Wants a Bedtime Story'' animated short.
44	* HauntedTechnology: The end result of [[spoiler:Satina "repairing" the server using Necromancy]]. It sucks out a guy's soul and everything.
45	* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: Implicitly in the backstory. Lucia is a demon around eighty feet tall, Dave is a normal-sized human, and there's no implication Lucia can change sizes, which means that Satina's existence obviously came about from such a union.
46	* InsultBackfire: In the short ''Satina at the Bat!'' the kid pitcher for Midvale Mothmen team threatens Satina that, with this final strike, she's going down. Naturally, the cheerful demon takes it [[{{Hell}} as an accolade]].
47	* LonelyBachelorPad: Dave is a deadbeat dad, and lives in a dump of an apartment he refuses to move out of.
48	* MadeOfIncendium: The server room at Dave's work. After Satina accidentally starts a small fire, it was only seconds later that the servers are completely engulfed in flames.
49	* NoAnimalsWereHarmed: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlIPFSoTn5g Satina has a Knife]]" ends with a notice that "no demon children were harmed in the making of this video".
50	* NonHumansLackAttributes: Lucia has nipple-less breasts and HartmanHips, but no actual visible genitalia. Satina has no indication of her sex beyond her voice and [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics eyelashes.]]
51	* ParentsAsPeople: Both Lucia and Dave love Satina dearly, but both of them have things in their lives that make properly raising her a bit difficult, from Lucia's reign over hell to Dave's draining tech job, though they do try their best to make her happy.
52	* ShoutOut:
53	** Dave has a "Weezus" poster in his apartment, a tribute band to American rock band Music/{{Weezer}}.
54	** A short segment of ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion A Cruel Angel's Thesis]]'' plays in the elevator. Satina believes its the same music that's used in {{Purgatory\|AndLimbo}}.
55	** The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5RHu1lTv14 bedtime story]]" Lucia reads to Satina is [[VideoGame/Doom2016 the Slayer's Testament]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA9D32aEO00 word-for-word]].
56	** Satina has a copy of "[[Franchise/EvilDead My first Necronomicon]]" and "[[Literature/GreenEggsAndHam Green Eggs & Devilled Hams]]" in her bedroom.
57	* SoulCrushingDeskJob: Dave's IT job is portrayed as this. Dave himself describes it as "like therapy, but with computers...and a lack of emotional fulfillment."
58	* SurprisePregnancy: Downplayed, but Lucia is ''less than impressed'' her romance with Dave brought Satina into being and doesn't [[IHaveNoSon acknowledge her own offspring]] half the time.
59	* TakeThat:
60	** In "A Very Satina Christmas," after Satina makes Dave question his beliefs in Judaism, he forces her watch ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'' with him as punishment. Her reaction is one of horror, quietly begging him to stop.
61	** In a comic, Satina swats and kills a spider that bears a strong resemblance to Angel Dust from ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel''.
62	* TakeYourChildToWorkDayPlot: The first episode centers on one of these. Satina is reluctantly brought by Dave to his workplace. It doesn't go well initially, causing many problems for Dave. However, things get better when Satina manages to repair his workplace's server issues through necromancy, which results in Dave getting the rest of the day off with Satina and a living, demonic server eating the soul of an {{Otaku}} sleeping in the server room.
63	* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Dave and Lucia. Dave's of average height, whereas Archdemon Lucia towers over him at approximately ''[[GiantWoman 80 feet]].''
64	* UltimateJobSecurity: Dave mentions Melvin comes to work just to sleep, and yet for reasons unknown he still has a job.
65	* YourSoulIsMine:
66	** Dave's co-worker Melvin gets his sucked out by the end result of Satina's necromancy, leaving his body as a shriveled-up dead husk.
67	** In ''Satina at the Bat!'', Satina sucks out all the other players' souls in the baseball match to avoid costing the Jersey Devils the game, but [[HideYourChildren the kids are still alive]].
68	* YouSayTomato: Lucia pronounces Satina's name as "Say-tinna", which is close to the original pronunciation of "Satan". Dave however pronounces her name as the phonetically more correct "Sah-tee-nah".

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