After the Academy
is a Ragnarok Online Play by Post roleplay site. Although based on the MMORPG, it takes liberties with the lore, plot, and even characters.
Although each character is free to take his/her path, the forum has an overarching plot and several sub-plots, moved along by the admin and participated in by other members. Examples would be the story of the Somatology Labs and the fued between the Assassins Guild and Rogue Guild. To facilitate battles, they use a dice system.
The website the roleplay was hosted on was bought out, and thus it's no longer available.
After the Academy contains examples of:
- Action Mom: Hazme, who is both a mother and a melee bard.
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Iroi's reaction after Hazme crawls on a bed over him... to reach a basket at the bedside table.
- Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The Assasin Guild's leader arrives at his/her position by killing the former guildmaster. The Black Hand, which are more or less his generals and council, are the best fighters in their respective weapons specialties.
- Badass Family: Ayin's father is the current assassin guild leader. His mother is also an assassin, and so is his little sister, his cousins, aunts and uncles...
- Butt-Monkey: Silverius, in-character and in the discussion threads. Is it Bully a Priest Day yet?
- Body Snatcher: Hemming, in the process of coming back from oblivion. Sid was also a temporary victim of this, and also Silphene. Apparently one priest gets possessed every few years.
- Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Admins usually read threads and will sometimes swoop in to add twists to the story, more often in direct consequence to characters' (bad) actions. For example:
- Boy character ran away from his assassin family and returns => An assassin comes in to punish him with death (He gets around it)
- Knight accidentally burns down a neighborhood => She gets in-RP punishment
- Monk socks a priest in public => Both get called in by the Church
- Child Soldiers: Averted, despite swordsmen, acolytes, archers and such being around twelve to fifteen years old. It's the adults (or older teens) who get sent on dangerous quests.
- Follow in My Footsteps: Oliver's father is committed into turning his son into an assassin of his calibre. Unlike most examples of this, Oliver actually wants to live up to the old man's expectations.
- I See Dead People: All Soul Linkers, although Momohara has an inherent ability.
- Improbable Weapon User: Commonly those in the bard class.
- Soul Encore uses a megaphone at one point.
- Hazme's large instruments case doubles as a blunt weapon.
- Karma Houdini: Hemming— reformed, in a way, but it doesn't change the fact that he was a crazy serial killer and rapist.
- Naked First Impression: Meno gives Oliver this in Hand of Death. He freaks out, and asks her to dress when he's forced to be in the same room.
- No Guy Wants to Be Chased: Ayin. He's been unnerved by every girl who has come on to him (or pretended to) so far.
- Stupid Sexy Flanders: With all the bishounen, this is bound to happen:
- Teacher/Student Romance: Croix for his "Mistress". Who happens to be High Wizard Kathrynne Keyron.Even so, if he wanted to become strong enough to achieve his goals, and probably even marry his mentor one day, he needed to think outside of the box.
