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The Boy Who Died
A story based fantasy Web Comic by Kat Santoro.
Cat Legend is a rather unusual blend of Medieval European Fantasy and Urban Fantasy, with the narrative switching back and forth between two time periods. The comic follows the adventures of a core cast of characters which slowly expands as their places in the medieval portion of the story are revealed.
It can be found Here.
Major cast includes:[]
- Cat Nymdemise- The Kid Hero and major protagonist. Starts out dead, but is revived at the beginning of the comic. Has no memory of his past life.
- Sarah Montagnaro- Fox-ear-and-tailed Half Fae, Older-sister figure and Love Interest of Cat.
- Kristin Bing- Blue skinned Fae with fire powers. Sometime guide and companion to the rest of the cast, his own aventures are a side-story to the main plot.
- Dorian Nymdemise- Secret son of the king and queen of Faerie, spent most of his life locked in a small room. Learned practically everything he knows from books.
- Alexandria- The last Delphic oracle. Usually answers to the name of Truth. Cannot be lied to.
- Deedra- Captured in a raid on a human village, she spent most her life in Castle Nymdemise. Has a rather unnerving appearance ever since she had her early memories erased
- Libby- The Vortex, whose presence in the world drains away magic. Starts out as a baby but doesn't stay that way. When she speaks, it may not be just her talking.
And many others whose stories are still being revealed.
Tropes used in Cat Legend include:
- Anti-Villain
- Art Evolution: Significant change both in terms of quality and character design. Understandable when you consider how long the comic's been running.
- The Blank: Mindy and Leelah
- Blind Seer: Mendel was a Seer before ever going blind, but retains a form of his sight even in blindness.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Shadowmancers.
- Dark-Skinned Redhead: Sarah
- Dead to Begin With: Cat, but he gets better.
- Elemental Powers: Several.
- The Fair Folk
- Fantastic Racism: All over the place.
- Four-Fingered Hands
- Ghost Amnesia: Cat isn't dead (anymore), but dying did take away nearly all memory of his previous life.
- Glamour Failure: In a literal sense; some faeries in the modern-day setting, particularly Vali, seem to be having difficulty keeping their glamour going.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Sarah, with human father and faery mother.
- Happily Adopted: They don't get to see each other often, but Vali and adopted daughter Dee are nonetheless very close.
- How We Got Here: As of the end of the first act, Cat's retelling of past events is revealed as the Framing Device.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Threnody, the Mad Fae of Forget, possesses the ability to induce this.
- Living Lie Detector: Alexandria, aka Truth
- Living Shadow: Sunny.
- Mad Oracle: Not all the time, but to prophesize, Truth has to become temporarily insane.
- Meaningful Name: Again, Truth. Also Stone.
- No Social Skills: Dor grew up locked in his room, with no companionship but books and an occasional visit from Bing. Social skills are...lacking.
- Prophet Eyes: Mendel the Seer
- Relationship Reboot: Sarah and Dor
- Super Empowering: Lily to Cat
- Tap on the Head: Subverted. When Bing hits Mercutious Nymndemise in the back of the head with a candlestick, it doesn't simply knock him out, it puts him into a coma, from which his vassals fear he may never awaken.
- Unusual Euphemism: "What the crumb?"
- Verbal Tic Name: Mr. Peeps, as revealed in the companion comic.
- Winged Humanoid: Harpies and several faeries.