The Law of Purple

Some stories begin in schools, some at a park or in someone's apartment. This one starts on a spaceship.

The Law of Purple is a sci-fi webcomic. It centers around the Fayse family, a set of siblings from the planet Caligula, where race is determined by one's ear shape, not skin color. They crash-land on Earth and quickly make their first real friends since they left their home world. It can be found here

Tropes used in The Law of Purple include:

• Action Girl: Most of the female cast, but most notably Lette.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: The Caligulans, where one family contains kids with red, green, blue, and white skin.
• Anything That Moves: Morgan
• Art Evolution: Compare this page with this ^{[dead link]} one.
• Author Avatar: Jay is based on the author, Jessica Segaard ^{[dead link]} This one is more direct ^{[dead link]}
• Badass Damsel: Lette, in Dogs of War.
• Bald of Evil: Silver is totally bald.
• Bare Your Midriff: Several places. this ^{[dead link]} is a nice example.
• Beautiful All Along: Jel's cousin Vickie actually looks better without her customary layer of makeup.
• Best Woman: Boy cats are not eligible to be bridesmaids. ^{[dead link]}
• Bi the Way: Lynnah, Green and Blue, at least.
• Big Bad: Silver
• But We Used a Condom: Lette's mother was in her mid-forties and using two kinds of birth control when she became pregnant with Lette. This is why Lette is about the same age as her nephew.
• The Caligula: Silver. Possibly lampshaded, as the planet he's the king of is called Caligula.
• Cast Full of Pretty Boys: Lampshaded. Lette is building a harem. ^{[dead link]}
• Catfolk: The Nekojin
• Chainmail Bikini: Lette is forced into one here ^{[dead link]} . That's also the closest thing to a skirt we're ever going to see on that girl.
• Covered in Kisses: ^{[dead link]}
• Covert Pervert: Danni
• Dark-Skinned Blond: Apparently possible on Myrania ^{[dead link]}
• Deadly Doctor: Doctor Dross
• Descriptively Named Species: The Nekojin. (Neko means cat in Japanese)
• Designated Girl Fight: Starts on this ^{[dead link]} page.
• Dumb Blond: Invoked by Shi Shi here.
• Eloquent in My Native Tongue: Thud puts it beautifully.
• Entitled to Have You: Shishi ^{[dead link]} clearly feels this way about Blue. ^{[dead link]}
• Mr. Fanservice: It would be shorter to list the male characters that don't qualify for this than those that do.
• Evil Laugh: Lette, in this comic. And she pulls it off beautifully.
• Expy: The author freely admits that Lette's design is based on Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh!
  • Also, Juni is Alister, and Carli/Carly/Carleigh is Zigfreid von Schroeder
• Face Heel Turn: Synn, before the start of the comic, although it's not clear how bad he really was before Heel Face Turning back.
• Fan Service: ^{[dead link] [dead link] [dead link] [dead link] [dead link] [dead link] [dead link]} . Please note that the page titles for several of these mention their fanserviceyness.
• Filler Strips: Usually very amusing ones.
• Gender-Restricted Ability: Myranian women can access and manipulate peoples' nervous systems. Men cannot.
• The Glasses Gotta Go: Dex looks like the very attractive Lette when his glasses are removed.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: It's not obvious, but Ingrid's skin is green
• Guest Strip: ^{[dead link] [dead link]}
• Half-Human Hybrid: Mentioned in this ^{[dead link]} early comic. Later, we find out that Daimon is a wraith/human hybrid. Even later, Memphis gets Sabre pregnant, and Red and Rose are also expecting.
• Halloween Cosplay: Lette dresses up as Priest Set(o)
• Heel Face Turn: Several characters could qualify for this, although how much of a bad guy they were beforehand is variable. Daimon probably fits best.
• Homosexual Reproduction: baby packs ^{[dead link]}
• Hot Amazon: Lynnah
• Hot Chick with a Sword: Lynnah again.
• Human Aliens: Most alien species look human, with a few differences.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: Only a dream, but... ^{[dead link]}
• Important Haircut: Lette, in Behind Blue Eyes ^{[dead link]}
• Interspecies Romance: Let's see...Sabre and Memphis, Blue and Lette (and Synn), Red and Rose, Aaron and Tuyen...the list goes on.
• It Runs On Nonsenseoleum: The series is named after the in-universe law of purple, which states that nature loves purple, but hates a vacuum. So the vacuum between space is purple. ^{[dead link]}
• Kick Chick: Mari resents ^{[dead link]} not getting the opportunity to be one of these.
• Klingons Love Shakespeare: Krackadoom is most impressed with cake ^{[dead link]} .
• Lady Land: Myrania
• Lecherous Lick: This ^{[dead link]} is only a dream, but the lick at least is absolutely in-character for Robbie.
• Little Green Men: Green until his growth spurt
• Lizard Folk: Non-evil example, the Drakon
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Danni
• Love Triangle: Robbie and Lynnah are both after Green.
• Mad Doctor: Doctor Dross
• Manipulative Bastard: As of this ^{[dead link]} comic, Dross seems to be adding it to his repertoire of villain tropes.
• The Men in Black: Memphis, Rose, and Violet's parents used to be in one of these organizations. Lette and her nephew's boyfriend are currently members.
• Moment Killer: Shishi is really ^{[dead link]} good at this ^{[dead link]}
• Most Common Superpower: ShiShi's wrong, by the way. ^{[dead link]}
• Mundane Fantastic
• No Bisexuals: Mentioned in this ^{[dead link]} comic.
• Nosebleed: Yes, Blue is that sexy ^{[dead link]} . ^{[dead link] [dead link]} lampshaded here ^{[dead link]}
• Our Dragons Are Different: 'Dragons' are actually higher-dimensional creatures that spend most of their time in another plane of existence.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: Wraithe hair ^{[dead link]} changes ^{[dead link]} color ^{[dead link]} when they go in badass-mode.
• Prince Charming Wannabe: Nick
• Psychotic Smirk: Lette pulls this off ^{[dead link]} brilliantly ^{[dead link]} despite not being evil.
• Punny Name: all of the Fayse siblings
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Whitey, Sabre and Vanessa
• Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Lette does NOT appreciate the outfit ^{[dead link]} .
• Reptilian: Non-evil example: the Drakons
• Sarashi: here ^{[dead link]}
• School Clubs Are Serious Business: Dex's excuse for why he'd be willing to help out Robbie.
• Self-Made Orphan: Silver kills all of his family that he can, including his own mother.
• Series Hiatus: From August first, 2011 to November 20, 2011. Also from March 15, 2012 to present.
• Shout-Out: Lette's character design is stated to have been based off Seto Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh!, as referenced here ^{[dead link]} and here ^{[dead link]} . There's also the yearly "beware the ides of March" ^{[dead link]} Tribble ^{[dead link]} joke. ^{[dead link]}
• Space Elves: Second-kind Caligulan.
• Space Pirates: Morgan
• Spared by the Adaptation: The author states that there's a whole lot of people who were going to be killed off in earlier drafts.
• Stalker with a Crush: Shi Shi for Blue, and Nick for Lette
• Talking Is a Free Action: ^{[dead link]}
• Thanks for the Mammary: ^{[dead link]}
• Threesome Subtext: ^{[dead link]}
• Took a Level In Badass: Lette, in the Behind Blue Eyes ministory.
• Unusual Ears: Most notably Caligulan second kind, but some other alien species also fit.
• Uterine Replicator: Baby Packs ^{[dead link]}
• Villain Protagonist: Silver attempts to compel the author to make him the main character.
• Virgin Power: The Wraithe species has the phenomenon of the "Virgin Seer".
• Wacky Cravings discussed by Red and Rose's pregnancy group here
• Webcomic Time: here
• White-Haired Pretty Boy: Synn, post-trauma bleach.
• White-Haired Pretty Girl: Sylvana
• World of Action Girls: Myrania is a planet where the women have kick-ass powers and the men are seen a good for nothing but breeding ^{[dead link]} and moving furniture ^{[dead link]} .
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: The only natural hair color that appears in LOP that doesn't appear in real life is blue. (For humans anyway)