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1	->Gorgon Academy is the only school where the cute girl sitting next to you may really be a giant catfish.
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3	During the 1990s, cryptids and mythical creatures around the world gained the ability to switch between a human form and their normal form, and any mix thereof. The only way a disguised Cryptid can be identified is by their unusual hair color, and some were lucky enough to not even have that. The younger Cryptids are sent to a school called Gorgon Academy, where they can be around others like them and learn how to avoid discovery by humans.
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5	The show itself centers around the six students residing in the Nessie Dorm at the titular school. It's mostly SliceOfLife meets UrbanFantasy, with a hearty spoonful of comedy and AuthorAppeal.
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8	!! This show provides examples of:
9	* AuthorAppeal (The main reason this show exists is because the creator is a total cryptozoology nut.)
10	* AuthorAvatar (Isa, who has the rare distinction of being a ''villainous'' one.)
11	* AxCrazy (Katrina, Isa, and [[spoiler:post-possession Iggy.]])
12	* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy (The Loch Ness Monster was actually five different monsters of five different species, the Bell Witch was two ghosts that were simply only seen separately, and after the Transformation, entire families, including those of at least three major world leaders, magically wrote themselves into history.)
13	* BerserkButton (God help you if you mispronounce Lis's name.)
14	* {{BFS}} (Phoenix's scythe and Isa's battleaxe.)
15	* {{Bifauxnen}} ([[spoiler:Phoenix.]] Pax is also shown as being this in the future.)
16	* ButtMonkey (Taro. And Daniel. And Devin. And almost every other named male character.)
17	* CanNotSpitItOut (Poor Taro.)
18	* ChekhovsGunman (Daniel, who appears in the first episode, leaves due to a "mysterious sickness slash injury slash [[BreakingTheFourthWall plot device]]", [[spoiler: and then reappears in Season 2 as Phoenix's apprentice.]])
19	* CuteGhostGirl (Arabella.)
20	* CuteMonsterGirl (The Cryptids in their partially-transformed state state are this. Their true forms? Not so much.)
21	* DarkIsNotEvil (Phoenix, Devin, and Belladonna, despite being TheGrimReaper and a pair of angel/demon hybrids, are on the side of good.)
22	** ([[spoiler:Chuck]], too, after [[spoiler:Katrina lets him go and possesses Iggy instead.]])
23	* DeadpanSnarker (Lis.)
24	* TheDitz (Arabella)
25	* EmbarrassingFirstName ([[spoiler:Asherah]] Pax and [[spoiler:Aiolos]] Taro Kawasaki.)
26	* TheEveryman (Daniel [[spoiler:until his sort-of death, which is actually the beginning of his importance in the story.]])
27	* TheFairFolk (Iggy is a pixie.)
28	* FilleFatale (Belladonna seems oddly flirtatious for a ten-year-old girl.)
29	* {{Foil}} (Pax and Taro are this for each other.)
30	* FreudianExcuse ([[spoiler: Katrina, although what she did was [[DisproportionateRetribution way worse than what anyone else had done to her.]]]])
31	* GenderBlenderName (Iggy's real name is Igraine. [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Don't expect to learn this just by watching the show, though.]] "Taro" is also commonly a girl's name.)
32	* GenkiGirl (Pax.)
33	* GeniusBonus ([[spoiler: Arabella and Katrina being related]] shouldn't come as a surprise when you learn that Arabella was one of the two spirits that made up the Bell Witch, whose [[spoiler:fake]] name was Kate.)
34	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl ([[SternTeacher Working]] [[TheGrimReaper Phoenix]] is scary. Non-working Phoenix is... not.)
35	* HeelFaceTurn ([[spoiler:Chuck.]])
36	* HeroicSacrifice ([[spoiler:Iggy voluntarily being possessed by Katrina to save her friends smacks of this.]])
37	* HeterosexualLifePartners (Leila and Arabella. Pax and Lis seem to become the VitriolicBestBuds variation of this in the later seasons. [[spoiler:As of season 2, Leila and Arabella have officially become a couple]].)
38	* HugeSchoolgirl (Leila.)
39	* JerkAss (Pax.)
40	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold (Lis, Phoenix, and in the later seasons, Pax.)
41	* {{Kuudere}} (Lis.)
42	* LesYay (Unavoidable considering the gender ratio of the cast. Leila and Arabella might actually be [[spoiler:and later ARE]] lesbians, and Pax just seems to love getting ''especially'' [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace close]] to Lis and Iggy.)
43	* LooksLikeCesare (Phoenix.)
44	* LightIsNotGood (The angelic-looking Belladonna is actually a JerkAss and a bully, although she's still technically "good".)
45	* LukeIAmYourFather ([[spoiler:Katrina and Arabella are actually twin sisters.]])
46	* ManBehindTheMan ([[spoiler:Katrina]] to Chuck, [[spoiler:Isa]] to [[spoiler:Katrina]].)
47	* MeaningfulName (Think for a moment about what Lis [[PronouncingMyNameForYou repeatedly asserts her name rhymes with.]] Also, "Devin" (an angel/demon hybrid) is just one letter away from "devil".)
48	* MindGameShip (Pick either ManBehindTheMan pair. Chances are, people who ship them portray them as this.)
49	* TheOneGuy (Taro. [[spoiler:Well, until Daniel, Devin and Chuck come into the picture.]])
50	* OurMonstersAreDifferent (The entire premise of the series.)
51	* ThePollyanna (Arabella. Even after the CerebusSyndrome takes effect. ''Especially'' after the CerebusSyndrome takes effect.)
52	* PronouncingMyNameForYou ([[BerserkButton "Lis! Rhymes with hiss! Not that hard!"]])
53	* TheQuietOne (Leila and Devin. Lis starts as this, too.)
54	* QuirkyWork
55	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld (Pax and Taro are kitsunes and therefore approximately two hundred and forty-seven years old, Phoenix is as old as the concept of Death itself, and Arabella has been a teenager since the 1600s.)
56	* RedEyesTakeWarning (Inverted--the ''good'' ghosts are the ones with red eyes.)
57	* RunningGag: "[[UnsettlingGenderReveal I'm a GUY]]!"
58	* SacrificialLamb (Although her fate wasn't actually death, [[spoiler:Iggy ''did'' certainly seem to exist solely to be possessed in Chuck's place.]])
59	* SevenDeadlySins (Isa is all of them. [[CompleteMonster At once.]] [[ManipulativeBastard Not that you wouldn't do what she says anyway.]])
60	* ShrinkingViolet (Leila.)
61	* SiblingYinYang (Pax and Taro, despite being twins, are polar opposites.)
62	* StringyHairedGhostGirl (Katrina)
63	* UnsettlingGenderReveal (Pax and Taro. [[{{Bokukko}} Oh.]] [[ViewerGenderConfusion So.]] [[DudeLooksLikeALady Much.]])
64	** ([[TheGrimReaper Phoenix Morte]] is [[spoiler:female.]])
65	* VillainousCrossdresser (Chuck. [[DemonicPossession Not of his own free will, though.]])
66	* WeirdnessCensor (Regular humans can't see Cryptids in their real forms. The few humans in the series that can [[spoiler:(except Daniel)]] usually turn out to have been Cryptids themselves all along.)
67	* WholesomeCrossdresser ([[spoiler:Phoenix. It's part of her job.]])
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69	* WiseBeyondTheirYears (Devin, on the rare occasion that he speaks.)
70	* TheWoobie (Pretty much everyone as the series [[CerebusSyndrome progressively gets darker.]])
71	* {{Yandere}} ([[spoiler:Iggy, after Katrina possesses her.]])

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