Ophelia, Nalaya, and Yuzu
Soft and Shattered is a webcomic by Vivid Grim. It follows timid Nalaya Curtis as she begins her first year of college with best friends Lucie Jaime and Ismat Badawi, lowkey crushes on roommate Peyton Raleigh, and learns from her resident advisor Yuzu Aoyama that she has the potential to be a magical girl.The comic is available on Tapastic
and ComicFury.
Tropes:
- Alt Text: Most pages have a joke or comment on what's happening here.
- Cast Full of Gay: All of the main cast, and even the main character's family, is LGBT. The college dorm is specifically for LGBT folk as well.
- Color-Coded Characters: Each character has one or two colors: Nalaya (orange/yellow), Lucie (pink/purple), Ismat (red), Yuzu (green), Peyton (black), and Ophelia (purple/blue).
- Curtains Match the Window: Nalaya (gold hair and eyes) and Yuzu (green hair and eyes).
- Giving Up the Ghost: Nalaya's soul is seen leaving her body after Yuzu gets particularly close.
- Magical Girl: Yuzu has been one for two years, and recruits Nalaya. In this world, the enemies magical girls fight are called nightmares.
- Shout-Out: Often by Ismat.
- Ismat is first seen wearing an ironic It's Happy Bunny T-shirt and Invader Zim button.
- The page featuring Nalaya's friend trio at the college club festival shows Ismat referencing Tails Gets Trolled to Riko and You.
- Unsound Effect: These occur fairly frequently, often used for actions being taken like 'step' or 'jump'.
- Webcomic Time: Despite running for two years, the story has only covered a month (and much of that was due to a one panel timeskip).
