History Literature / DoomValleyPrepSchool

Story available on [[https://www.scribblehub.com/series/549869/doom-valley-prep-school/ Scribblehub]], and [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57688/doom-valley-prep-school Royal Road]].

Despite his best efforts, none of his appeals swayed them, ''the best'' reaction he got out of them was [[AppealToWorseProblems "oh it's not so bad. It used to be much worse!"]]. Even the temple of ''[[GodOfEvil The God of Murder]]'' was sympathetic to his plight, but offered nothing more than a tin dagger. With a heavy heart, certain he won't last the week, and having no means of escape, he boarded the Roc drawn airborne carriage taking him to the school.

%%* WomenAreWiser: At least among the first year students. After the entrance ceremony, when it's time to enter the dorms, the girls showed some very, very interesting people, in terms of guile and cunning, especially Petra who made the staff re-evaluate their first impression that Peter is just a naive dunce, as Petra managed to auction off her key, ''and got the ploy to work'' while the boy's dorms was just mindless violence, of the strongest boys fighting each other, the rest either forming gangs or diving for cover, to Sir Grieve's disappointment. %%fix run-on sentence, please

* BreakingTheFourthWall: After several comments calling for Petra to end up in sexual situations that went beyond fan service, the author pointedly added this dialogue. ''Ella sighed. “Let's not go there please, I'd like to keep this somewhat PG.'' to a suggestion that Petra act as a seductress to deal with one of their enemies.

* MassivelyNumberedSiblings: The norm in royal families is to have ''a lot'' of children and potential heirs. Ella has over 350 siblings, of both genders. Aghast, Petra offers condolences to Ella's poor mother but then learns that Ella's mother is wife number 259 in a RoyalHarem, who is very, very happy being that far down the totem pole.
* MoralMyopia: Michael and Victor do a lot of nastiness to Peter then Petra and her genuine friends yet have the gall to genuinely see themselves as the wounded party when either Petra retaliates or the consequences of their actions come back to bite them. Case in point, Michael gender-bends Petra and tries a bunch of hypnotic suggestions to make the latter see him as romantically irresistible and gets mad when Petra fakes being romantically attracted to him when he trips the suggestion, just to get close enough to [[GroinAttack knee him in the groin]] and then kick the stuffing out of him when he's down, retaliating by ambushing Petra on the way to class with another alchemical concoction that results in Petra's clothes not fitting ''again'' by BreastExpansion, and then ambushing Petra again with the intent of sending her to possibly lethal detention, but when he's sent to detention instead for the attack, conspires with Victor to attempt straight-up murder. The reason Victor has a grudge and agreed? Victor had tried to mind-control Ella, one of the daughters of the "Mad Immortal Emperor" and Petra, Ella's friend and room-mate, came to the rescue.

* PhysicalGod: Ms. Parch, the history teacher, is the goddess of written history. Listening to lectures from several of her classes, it appears that gods and demons play an active part in the world, from ruling nations, to going to the best and wildest parties.
* PassThePopcorn: this is a common reaction by the adults when they realize Petra is Fate's Chew Toy or witness her amazingly improbable luck. The teachers are mostly sitting back and laughing while betting on if Petra will survive the insanity. And later, [[spoiler:Blood Wing's Succubus mother actually convinces another demon to come to her kingdom where they watch Petra with 'beer and popcorn'.]]

* StuffBlowingUp: During a safety lecture in Potions class, there is a passing reference explaining why blowing stuff up for fun is a bad thing. [[spoiler: 'We'd spent the first part of the class going over safety procedures. It was all pretty standard stuff. What to do if you got poisoned. Knowing when to grab the extinguisher stone, duck, run away, or bend over and start praying to the deity of your choice. The difference between various types of mercury. And how trying to make a bigger boom nearly drove Gnomes to extinction.']]
* SuicideMission: The detentions are frequently this, with students having to collect dangerous items and deal with monsters that will happily eat them. While it's possible for very clever or powerful students to survive, it's not easy. And if they really annoy a teacher, their detention will be made virtually unsurvivable, without an amazing amount of luck, as Petra discovers.

* TrainingFromHell: The curriculum is so harsh, the teachers have a betting pool going as to ''when'' not ''if'' Petra is going to be KilledOffForReal.
* WomenAreWiser: At least among the first year students. After the entrance ceremony, when it's time to enter the dorms, the girls showed some very, very interesting people, in terms of guile and cunning, especially Petra who made the staff re-evaluate their first impression that Peter is just a naive dunce, as Petra managed to auction off her key, ''and got the ploy to work'' while the boy's dorms was just mindless violence, of the strongest boys fighting each other, the rest either forming gangs or diving for cover, to Sir Grieve's disappointment.

* Magitek: The world seems to have many magical items that are the equivalent of technology. Magic mirrors act like videophones, Petra wishes she could afford a pen that can write down what it hears, a golem caravan is used like a bus inside a city, and more things are mentioned or heavily implied.

* Magitech: The world seems to have many magical items that are the equivalent of technology. Magic mirrors act like videophones, Petra wishes she could afford a pen that can write down what it hears, a golem caravan is used like a bus inside a city, and more things are mentioned or heavily implied.

* BoardingSchoolOfHorror: Played for laughs. Doom Valley is a well known school for creating villains, and is quite proud of it's reputation as the #2 school in the world. Bullies are allowed to do almost anything they want that doesn't involve murder or causing a fellow student to be sent home due to injuries. Teachers are allowed to murder students, although they usually just give them detention where they could, and sometimes probably will, die. Shadow monsters keep students out of the wrong dormitories by eating intruders. Teachers bet on which students will die, be crippled, or transformed and unable to stay at school. The school is a maze and being late for class will get a detention. Eldritch tentacle monsters are a frequent pest and will attack students. And combat class involves live practice dummies, rabid dogs, and a lava field. And this is just for the freshmen, it gets worse as students advance.