History Webcomic / ShatteredStarlight

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Aeslinn's is blue, Farah's is pink, both stand out given the comic's limited color palette.

* BeautyMark: Farah has two along her cheekbone below her right eye.

** There's also the Sidereal Empire, which the former refers to as "space elves", she herself is half human half Sidereal on her dad's side, and BigBad is the Empress Phaedes, with her nephew Orion as her Dragon.

* OurElvesAreBetter:

* DeadEndJob: Literally, as Farah's ongoing slide down the social and economic ladder eventually lands her a helper's job at ''Cafe Le Dead End''

* BigBad: Orion's aunt Phaedes, ruler of the Sidereal Empire was this to Farah's team, and appears to be making a resurgence on Earth.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The background images in the prologue hint at why the surviving Flower Rangers and Star Guardians are all ShellShockedVeteran[=s=]: ugly glimpses of blood and mayhem, lost teammates and slaughtered enemies, and horrified ReactionShot[=s=], culminating in a battered and bloody Farah prostrate before someone wearing evil-looking CombatStilettos. Each team has one member glimpsed in the prologue who is still unaccounted for in the narrative.

* GratuitousFrench: the comic is set in Quebec and Farah apparently [[IncrediblyLamePun swears by]] bilingual profanity.

* MyGreatestFailure: Farah was supposed to be the leader of the Star Guardians. That didn't go so well.

* OurElvesAreBetter: Aeslinn: Pointed ears: check. Snooty Attitude? check. HellishPupils? check. Archaic sounding pseudo-Gaelic name? check, check and double check. (the conventional spelling is ''Aislin''.)

* WeirdnessCensor: "Bystander magic" apparently prevents muggle witnesses from remembering monster attacks, though it takes a while for it to kick in.

** Later, Orion is seen leaving flowers at the grave of someone named Rachel Melrose, whom Flarah apparently was coming to visit as well.

[[caption-width-right:350:Sucks to be you, Magical Girl]]

Farah Shaughnessy is a magical girl. Or rather, she ''was'' a magical girl. Now that she's a young woman things don't seem so magical anymore. Instead of saving Montreal from the forces of Chaos and Entropy, she’s just trying to hold down a decent job, pay her rent and get her life together a decade after the breakup of her team. When strange things start happening around her and old enemies start to reappear, Farah has to make a choice: face the things she’s been running from all these years or put down her astral weapon and walk away for good.

-->'''Farah:''' ''What?!'' A transfer? ''You can't!'' W-where?! Space? [[ReassignedToAntarctica Antarctica?]] The ''{{suburb|ia}}s?!''

* GenreDeconstruction: Has started to show some of the realistic results of a MagicalGirl lifestyle, especially after growing up, with Farrah showing some signs of PTSD and having trouble keeping a regular job (being fired from her last one after she used a magical attack on her boss), the team aparently having broken apart after some event hinted to have ended with a member dying, and the former team mentor is now near-constantly drunk.

** As Farah notes, even the magical characters have to deal with enough weirdness that they tune background stuff out.

* GenreDeconstruction: Has started to show some of the realistic results of a MagicalGirl lifestyle, especially after growing up, with Farrah showing some signs of PTSD and having trouble keeping a regular job, the team aparently having broken apart after some event hinted to have ended with a member dying, and the former team mentor is now near-constantly drunk.

** Aeslinn's non-human features don't seem to attract any comment or attention either.