Raywood Season 2A poster
Raywood Academy (2020-present) is a webcomic created by Jaydreamer, adapted from the Discord roleplay of the same name. It starts as a Slice of Life, but quickly devolves into something more sinister, as many odd occurrences seem to happen in the town of Raywood.
The comic can be read on Tapas
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Raywood Academy contains examples of the following tropes:
- Always in Class One - The main cast are all in Class 2A.
- Asleep in Class - Sanjay.
- Animal Goes to School - Kyubi keeps following Nathan to school, showing up on school grounds more than once.
- Boarding School - Only for the international students, like Harvey.
- Cherry Blossoms - Kamei/Hiromi and Sven/Aimi both encounter these during their outings in Episode 20.
- Class Clown - Robin is this, pulling pranks stemming from stealing a megaphone to attempted arson.
- Class Princess - Rakari is this.
- Class Representative - Rakari (and Aimi) both become this in Episode 17.
- Emotion Suppression - Katsuri blocks Hiromi's powers in Episode 20 by doing this.
- Everyone Went to School Together - Hinata, Raikano, Kota, and Katsuri all went to Raywood Academy together in the past.
- First Day of School Episode - The Prologue and Episode 1 feature this.
- Foreign Exchange Student - Raywood Academy accepts students from abroad as part of a special program. This is how Harvey and Jade were able to join.
- Hyde Plays Jekyll - Steven pretends to be Sven multiple times.
- Idol Singer - Rino is currently on break from being this.
- New Transfer Student - Nathan used to attend Kyrogi HA, Raywood Academy's rival school.
- Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here:
- Prologue - Harvey: Raywood Academy.. A regular school in the middle of a nowhere town called Raywood.
- E19 Part 2 - Rakari (narrating): [Sano is] just a simple fishing town, and nothing important ever happens there.
- Passing Notes in Class - Tekashi does this with his boyfriend, Harvey, during Miss Salvia's art class.
- Popular Is Evil - Toshiaki.
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Portmanteau Couple Name - Saiko tries to create one of these for Tekashi and Sisako.- I still need a ship name for them...Tekasako? Sisashi? Oh, what about Yokozu?
- Sailor Fuku - All female students wear a stylised version of this.
- School Is for Losers - Tekashi stops attending school after Episode 16.
- School of No Studying - These guys do get homework, but it's usually something cool.
- School Festival - Happens in Episode 19.
- Scooby Stack - Tekashi, Sven, and Ren do this in E9.
- Single Girl Seeks Most Popular Guy - Rakari pursued Toshiaki in her previous year at the academy.
- Skipping School:
- Tekashi tricks Harvey into doing this in Episode 11.
- Harvey mentions in the same episode that he used to skip class in his old school, too.
- Split-Personality Makeover - Whenever one of Sven's alters are fronting, his eyes magically change colour.
- For Steven, they go red/brown.
- For Sebastian, they go blue.
- For Sophie, they go yellow.
- For Sawyer, they go grey.
- Split-Personality Team - Sven and the other alters are this - though they do get into fights and disagreements sometimes.
- The Empath - Hiromi can "vibe check" people, allowing her to see a coloured aura that relates to certain emotions.
- Webcomic Time - Raywood Academy was created and is set in 2020, despite it now being (insert current year here).
