Line #41 Webcomic/Sunbird


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2	[[caption-width-right:1000:Human colonists struggle to survive in a new world of giant predatory birds.]]
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4	''[[https://sunbirdcomic.com Sunbird]]'' is a {{webcomic}} drawn by the creator of the webcomic ''Webcomic/BeneathTheClouds'' and part of the ''Platform/SpiderForest'' webcomic collective.
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7	Southern Pallas imprisons phoenixes in power stations to fuel their fledgling industrial revolution. Northern Serenthia protects its cities using telepathic sunbirds.
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10	When war breaks out between the continents, a team of Serenthine agents make a discovery that could change the course of history. Unfortunately, it changes their lives instead.
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14	Sunbird updates on Wednesdays. The first page can be found [[https://sunbirdcomic.com/sunbird/cover-chapter-one/ here]] and the artist's website [[http://carolineparkinson.co.uk here]].
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18	!!Tropes:
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20	* AncientGrome: Serenthia looks very like this. Subverted in practice: it's politically similar to Renaissance Venice.
21	* AntiMagic: Vask is a "nullhawk"- a sunbird variant that extinguishes fire and magic rather than creating it.
22	* BondCreatures: Icaros are humans bonded to telepathic birds of prey.
23	* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Subverted. Andraz is a large man who shoots a crossbow, Salva is a tiny woman who prefers ''axe fighting''.
24	* DeadpanSnarker: Vask.
25	* FieryRedhead: Salva has reddish hair, an affinity for fire, and a temper.
26	* GeniusBruiser: Andraz is reserved, bookish and loves the theatre- when he's not punching people through walls.
27	* GreyAndGrayMorality: The main characters are evenly spread across both sides of a war between continents.
28	* HotBlooded: Salva throws herself headfirst into situations and often comes out on top through sheer force of will.
29	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Andraz is well over six feet tall. Salva is [[PintSizedPowerhouse five foot nothing]]. They're married.
30	* ImmuneToFire: Sunbirds and the people bonded to them can't burn.
31	* KillItWithFire: Sunbirds.
32	* KillItWithWater: Serenthia executes traitors by drowning.
33	* LivingBattery: Pallas uses phoenixes as energy sources.
34	* NobleBirdOfPrey: Depending which side of the war you're on.
35	* NoodleIncident: Whatever happened to [[https://sunbirdcomic.com/sunbird/page-19/ that mill in Kandia]].
36	* PhlebotinumInducedSteampunk: Pallas's fledgling Industrial Revolution.
37	* PowerSource: Phoenixes fuel power stations for Pallas, sunbirds feed on pyrite in Serenthia. Unfortunately pyrite is much more common in Pallas, so the two countries are at war.
38	* PropagandaPiece: How Pallas promotes the war effort. [[https://sunbirdcomic.com/sunbird/page-17/ Salva and Andraz are amused]].
39	* PunchClockVillain: Two of the main characters are henchmen for the Serenthine government.
40	* RedOniBlueOni: Salva and Andraz. OppositesAttract.
41	* ThePhoenix: Apia. Phoenixes are implied to be a species, if rare, and a variant of sunbird. The original colonists likely named the species after the legend.
42	* ThePollyanna: Esne is a cheerful, hardworking Ghibli heroine.
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