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-Arthur Pendragon
This page is a listing of characters in My Superhero Academy - FE. Beware of spoilers in these pages.
Students
Quiet, brooding and not too social, Kyle is hard to get to know, and has a hard time making friends. But under all that, and his own fear of what his blood carries, he genuinely wants to do some good for others, even if he is terrible with emotion. Straightforward and honest, with a hot temper, but smarter than most would think in spite of living by jumping on the fire. Fiercely loyal, and more jokey than he pretends to be.
Tropes
- The Straight Man: Compared to the class so far is rather reserved and straight laced.
A quiet, melancholy and shy girl with dangerously low self-esteem and confidence. Lucy believes herself to be made invalid by default, and as such rarely expresses her opinion and focuses exclusively on other people rather than herself. Deeply empathetic and emotional, she goes out of her way in helping others even though she downplays her own achievements and actions by the end of it. Lucy is also remarkably determined and assertive at her core, to the point where she is afraid that the harsher and more unforgiving person she is at heart may alienate people she's trying to help, and so tries to only show her more positive traits and hide away her negative inclinations instead. This has unfortunately ended up splitting her perception of good and bad to a tremendous extent (internally and externally), and she's ended up in an even worse state than she originally started in as a result of that. Lucy is ultimately kind and well-meaning, but is regularly held back by her own flaws—despite her attempts at suppressing them, they are ingrained in her as a fundamental part of her personality.
Tropes:
- Art Attacker: Her primary ability is the power to psychically manipulate ink, with which Lucy can weaponize against her enemies. Though it's less of a creative medium in her case, and more just clocking people in the face with tendrils directly instead.
- Beneath the Mask: Underneath it all Lucy is not nearly as selfless as the person she promotes herself to be. Her actual personality is much more cynical, crass, and quick to judge, and her instinctive tendency to snap back at the slightest provocation makes it especially hard for her to hide this side of herself. Though she's still empathetic and well-meaning, the negatives overpower the positives.
- Combat Tentacles: The main shape Lucy uses with her ink for all purposes. Their versatility is undeniable, after all, and given her own weak physicality they help close the gap significantly between her and other superhumans.
- Emotional Powers: Lucy's ink is psychokinetically controlled, so it's naturally tied very intimately to her mind. As a result of this they tend to react to stress or frustration, revealing her hidden desires even if they don't reach her face. This is most commonly seen as an ink ‘ripple’ across her body—a reaction comparable to a shiver that occurs when she's feeling something intensely. Her ink has also been seen slowly stretching out as weaving tendrils as her emotions deepen.
- Shadow Archetype: Her more negative side fits into this perfectly. Lucy is deeply ashamed of the person she is at her core, and actively tries to segregate and repress the aspects of herself she hates or otherwise perceives as being ‘wrong’. Unfortunately, it isn't working.
- Shrinking Violet: As a result of her mental practices rather than anything else. Lucy is rendered socially timid and cautious due to her fear that she'll alienate people from her, and even though she genuinely likes being with them her hesitation can end up obstructing her from being fully extraverted around them.
- Stepford Smiler: Tries to pass herself off as ‘okay’ despite the fact she's clearly the opposite, primarily because she simply doesn't want to trouble people with what she perceives to be irrelevant issues. This also translates into her general mood as well—as long as there's people around for her to distract herself with, she'll be in an apparently lighter mood than when she's alone.
- The Empath: Naturally empathetic, but Lucy has the tactile variation alongside it that allows her to momentarily connect with others mentally. It has the potential to develop into tactile telepathy, but as of right now it's limited to fleeting glimpses into people's minds. And of course the connection goes both ways.
Marcel is quiet but not introverted. Very much a comic, he has a tired, dry wit, yet paradoxically desires to see hope and wonder in others. He enjoys entertaining people, unless they’re overly aggressive, in which case he enjoys messing with them. He’s also a hopeless romantic, with a tendency to flirt or to play matchmaker with others when he can.
Silent Tropes
- The Pollyanna: Always look on the bright side of life, or so Marcel tells others.
- The Speechless: Averted. Marcel's 'natural' voice is gone, but he speaks just fine with applied technology.
- Your Mime Makes It Real: Marcel's power in a nutshell. He can create objects by miming them.
A curious and vivacious researcher and explorer still growing up in Jena, Germany. (Mostly. She has a plane). Ortrun did come to a hero school and has a sort of bravery but is rarely the first in due to natural fear response and lack of training. She knows that she has extranormal abilities and has ideas of their theoretical extent but never tested them in combat before the school. She in fact came to the school to develop them and help in new ways. She's very studious and observant (of things), but that's also overshadowed by her near complete lack of guile and presence. Personally, Ortrun is reserved and anxious not quiet. If one finds her in a comfortable place, they may see very different things from her.
A Few Tropes
- Afraid of Their Own Strength: Ortrun doesn't think of herself as particularly strong but it is notable that she has scarcely shown off any powers (beyond being a good climber) as the students introduced themselves and took their first classes.
- Apologises a Lot
- Being Personal Isn't Professional: Ortrun met and got to know the others as much as she did by accident. Of course, being in school the personal/professional line cracks as enough as not.
- Bookworm: Obviously. She read the first classes books ahead of time. Though that wasn't just for fun.
- By-the-Book Cop: Particularly compared to the others in class. She at least suggested mediating some of the disputes in class. Of course, Orturn is not quite able to put herself between the warring sides.
- Cool Plane: Her prized possession and main method of commuting.
- Dudley Do-Right Stops to Help: Ortrun actually was successfully avoiding notice by some of the scarier members of the class until she offered to help Sue learn to read & write.
- Fear Is the Appropriate Response: While Ortrun is in a superhero school and knows that fighting villains is in the job description, she... has never been in a fight up to entering the school. Never even swatted a fly. And while willing to suggest that others back down in a fight, she is well aware that she didn't have the chutzpah to physically stop them. Or even yell. Or not hide under the desk. Or, in the case of the first flash mob, not freeze up.
- Hates Small Talk: Ortrun speaks to transmit information. Which does not stop her from babbling about weather when at a social gathering and stuck.
- Hippie Plane: Yes, really. Its what the aforementioned plane is.
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Paranoia Fuel: Her classmates are a great source of it, especially Ryan and Sue. Her living within blast radius of a ready and able living thermonuclear device is one more thing keeping her up at night. Of course, she can add to the fuel herself were she to put her mind to it... - Work Hard, Play Hard: Not that she'll consider anything she does in the presence of others 'play'. Except for Clue.
Power Tropes
- Asteroids Monster: Not something Ortrun prefers but she still has Helping Hands even if they're cut off.
- Cannibalism Superpower: She is not what she eats but gains anyway.
- Eat Brain for Memories: In particular, this is one way for her to gain information. How did she find out about that? Trying to find out who ran over a neighbor's dog and seeing it from the dog's POV. What? She doesn't eat people.
- Master of Your Domain: When she's altogether. Its more like first among equals when Ortrun's er disseseembled for whatever reason, as her various cells go about trying to survive and get back to the main on their own.
- Shapeshifting Obviously. It ain't pretty. Nor painless. She is snapping and rearranging flesh and bone. Her nerves don't go anywhere and have no problem transmitting 'pain'.
- The Virus: A limit break that she can only theoretically make but she could attack people from within. You Will Be Assimilated.
Ryan is best described as troubled and more than a little put upon. He's anxious due to having to repeatedly uproot and leave home, the last time being the most drastic occasion. He's got a bit of a chip on his shoulder and prefers it if he's recognized, coming from a highly competitive sport like football, he's already quite aggressive and prone to flying off the handle and making assumptions. He tends to latch on to those who seem able to be trusted, due in part to the sheer number of betrayals he's dealt with. Ryan's rather fiery and despises people like racists and elitists, owing to his upbringing and the troubles that came with it. Ryan tries to be a flirt and get to know girls his age, due to his loneliness, but can come off as awkward and a little stunted. He's quick to shout and make ready to throw a punch when his friends are in danger.
Tropes
- Berserk Button: At least mind reading. Violating his privacy in general seems to be one.
- Picking on or hurting girls is a fast way to get on his bad side. "You don't hurt girls you fucker!!"
- Boisterous Bruiser: And how. Informal, loud, always ready for a fight.
- Book Dumb: Slightly. Ryan isn't exactly a well learned man. He explicitly finds book learning very frustrating.
- Captain Oblivious: He doesn't realize Ortrun is afraid of him, and that Lucy is not exactly how he perceived her. He's not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.
- The Dreaded: To Ortrun, who learned too well not to cross him, and is wary of his casual use of nuclear power.
- Heroic Build: Stockier than most, but Ryan is easily over 230 lbs and very capable of throwing that weight around, giving him some impressive strength even before superpowers come in.
- Hot-Blooded: Again, just like Sue. 'Quite aggressive' and 'prone to flying off the handle' is no exaggeration.
- No Social Skills: Played with: Ryan is more the loud dudebro than anything else, and is prone to some rather tactless statements. Whereas most of the other kids are more withdrawn.
- Undying Loyalty: "The linebacker protects the quarterback."
Sue is wild, wily, fun-loving, rambunctious, curious, arrogant, and stubborn as all hell. She does whatever she wants whenever she wants, regardless of what anyone else tells her or expects of her. She is capable of following orders, but whoever's giving them has to earn or command her respect before that can happen. She does have a more insecure side. One that isn't sure if she's doing the right thing. But it never bothers her for too long, or if it does she tries not to show it. She's also rather temperamental, quick to anger and quick to judge. But she's also quick to make friends, and eager to make them. And she'll stick by her friends to the end. (Assuming they don't stab her in the back.) She also has her own sense of justice. An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. If someone's done wrong to her or people she cares about, she'll do wrong back. Or perhaps worse.
Tropes
- Boisterous Bruiser: And how. Informal, loud, always ready for a fight.
- Hot-Blooded: The wild part above is no exaggeration. She entered on the first day swinging on the ceiling and has no problems smashing a teacher's desk into pieces if she's displeased.
- Never Learned to Read: She did live in the jungle after all. Sue treats it as a shameful secret even after she yelled it in the class.
Bubbly and outgoing, there doesn't seem to be a thing that Cheryl fears. She'll charge headfirst into any situation, often letting her curiosity and confidence get the better of her. She's fierce, impulsive, and yet also with a soft-hearted and devoted side. A free spirit only accentuates her stubbornness and individuality. To her, life's goal has become to live it to the fullest, knowing that she most likely doesn't have much left.
Quite a nice fellow, if quiet because of the seal holding his youkai instincts back. Therefore, he uses sign language and muffled grunts of varying intensity to make up for his lack of speech. He generally does not approach new environments or people easily, and has a sensitive heart despite his menacing appearence and strength. He would fight to the death to defend his friends once he has them.
Jenna's current state has left her moody, sarcastic, and bitter, with a strong undercurrent of self-repulsion. She's slow to warm up to people, but she has no malice for anyone but herself.
Tropes
- Blessed with Suck: Jenna is a colony of insects that can regenerate and are hard to damage. She also well, looks like a colony of buzzing insects and they are all she has as a body. Maintaining herslef also takes up alot of her psychic potential.
- Hive Mind: Naturally. Jenna assimilates and new members of her colony into herself.
- The Worm That Walks: What Jenna is
Energetic and upfront to the world, he lives each day as if it might be his last. Which given his rather cheerful nihilistic attitude he always assumes that it will be. That being said it hasn't stopped him from offering to help or give his life in service.
A Trope or Two
- The Anti-Nihilist: He is cheerful about his 'nothing matters' attitude. YOLO
- Homeless Hero: He is noted to have been bouncing between foster homes as a child... which he still is.
- Perpetual Poverty: Sue did take him shopping. Its not really known what either of them did for money. They also ended up in jail, so...
Staff
- Principal (and King) Arthur Pendragon
- Merlin
- Mr. Holmes
Villains and Antagonists
Transferred / Runaway Students
Tropes
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Reading Ryan's mind got him on the jock's bad side in the first place. (The others just joined the growing mob).
- Boisterous Bruiser: Oddly enough, just like Ryan and Sue. Loud, informal, always ready for a fight. Unfortunately for him, he usually ended up outnumbered.
- Funetik Aksent: Hector takes up an accent in the Final Battle of his rivalry with Ryan and Sue. Ryan is not impressed.
- Kick the Dog: How Ryan sees Hector zapping Jenna's bug.
- Nerves of Steel: He kept trash talking even when surrounded by an angry mob of classmates for the second time.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Made a notworthy getaway during the second flash mob incident, burning part of the classroom as a distraction on the way out before driving off into the distance.
- Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: To Ryan and Sue who are even quicker to the trigger when Hector is involved.
- Cadoc Davies / The Silver Seer
- Gavin Paxton / Beholder
- Sabrina Lawson / Titania
