When I graduate, I don't wanna do anything
Everybody Has That One Friend (occasionally abbreviated to EHTOF) is a slice of life/fantasy/sci-fi webcomic set on the strange planet of Ophore. It's mostly centered around three exploits of three groups of teenagers in high school and how said exploits change them and the massive cast of characters that inhabit the school
Sophomores:
- Mary: The tiny chipper gal with a head of purple hair and ready to start a new chapter Fresh out of a breakup and having soured the relationship with her old friends, Mary is going to make her first year in high school the best it can possibly be.
- Garth: A quiet giant never too far from Mary's side. Or he tries to be at least. Sports a gigantic crush on Mary, unbeknownst to her of course. His best friends are Mas and Leo, whom he's known since elementary school.
Juniors:
- Tasha: Athletic, academic, artistic, altruistic and always affable. A regular ace when it comes to anything she sets her mind on. Likes to play team mom to her weirdo group of friends, always there to look over them, especially her dearest and oldest friend Adam.
- Adam: He himself is also an artist, almost singlemindedly so. Sadly the subject of much bullying, thanks his withdrawn nature and artistic sensibilities. Luckily for him, Tasha will always be there to bail him out of any jam.
Seniors:
- Bailski: That irreverent stoner you once knew in high school and now you wonder where he's at now, but in his prime. A dog lover, school skipper, tater tot muncher, and avid counter of the days until he's out of school. Owns a dog named Gilgamesh.
- Missy: Moved to the neighborhood only several months prior and already integrated within Bailski and George's group of weirdos, musicians and stoners. Slack eyed and optimistic, arguably the friendliest of her new set of friends.
- George: Makes Garth look chatty by comparison. Towers over everyone around him, except maybe his godfather, who also serves as a guidance counselor. The one we we know the least of, though apparently he has a way with the ladies.
Also, the high school in question is set on one of many floating islands situated around Ophore, student base of which is populated not only by humans, but by fly people, frog-men, robots of all shapes and sizes, and all technology seems to be set in the late 00's at best (Cassette Futurism), there is a PSI branch of learning that takes place in a giant tree, and lastly, the school just happens to come under regular attack by giant flying creatures that are beaten off by the mech protectors.
Only a little over 100 pages in, but early enough in the story that it shouldn't be too hard to jump on in.
Provides Examples of:
- Cannot Spit It Out: Garth and his feelings toward Mary
- Childhood Friend: As seen in the first intermission arc, Mary and Garth have known each other ever since she moved into the school district at 11.
- Commuting on a Bus: Looks to be this way with M.O.S
- Delinquents: The seniors.
- Drowning My Sorrows: How Mary deals with seeing her old best friends, combined with a rant about them
- Elaborate University High: There's a lot to do all around (School Name)
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Garth and Mary fit this to a 'T'
- Floating Continent: Less 'continent', more 'high school and surrounding neighborhood'
- Genki Girl: Mary seems this way at first. Tyler is a more straight forward example of this, with traces of dickishness dashed here and there.
- Gym Class Hell: Adam doesn't seem to like jetpack baseball all that much
- Jerk Jock: Mikey Monatta the football playing, slightly homophobic froglin.
- I Just Want to Have Friends: Specifically, the kind that won't make Mary feel horrible inside and out.
- Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Contrast the confident, brawny Tasha with her highly artistic and withdrawn best friend Adam.
- Mood Whiplash: Mary comes across her old friends, which leads into this.
- Mundane Fantastic
- Odd Friendship: Tasha and Adam.
- Patient Childhood Love Interest: Though they haven't been together since infancy, Garth is like this toward Mary. just waiting for the perfect opportunity to tell her his true feelings.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Tasha and all of her friends. Can also fit Bailski's little group as well.
- Random Events Plot
- Seinfeldian Conversation: Being teenagers, this happens quite often.
- The Quiet One: Garth and George qualify, but at least Garth is willing to get chatty around his friends.
- There Are No Adults: Maybe three have appeared on page so far, but otherwise...
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Garth, Leo and Mas show shades of this throughout the first part
- We Used to Be Friends: Mary toward her old group of friends, and reverse.
- Wild Teen Party: The focus and centerpiece of the entire first Part. Mocked in later pages due to being a 'sophomore party'
- Weather-Control Machine: Possibly malfunctioning, ill-maintained or just a straight up lie.
- World of Weirdness: Jetpack baseball, insect people, a dominant population of anthropomorphic frogs, slugs, goblins, kidnapped taste testers, weather machines, angels, Gods on fire, and a high school floating high in the sky. Downplayed for the high school drama however
