Line #34 Literature/TheVillainAcademy


1	->''"I swear, this is the weirdest school in the entire world."''
2	-->-- '''Tori, the main character lady'''
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4	The Villain Academy is a UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo 2009 winner, published on Website/LiveJournal. It tells of a sadistic school for villains and one lone hero girl trying to infiltrate them. Featuring death, giant mutant electric squids, plot twists, creepy twins, pyromaniacs, non-sparkly vampires, death, dinosaurs, ninjas, filler, and death. Clocks in at 51k+.
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6	!!The tropes used are:
7	* AbusiveParents: Rune is shunned by his parents for being born a {{Dhampyr}} and not a pureblooded vampire.
8	-->'''Rune:''' "I only learned to cook to feed myself so I wouldn't starve."
9	* ActionGirl: Angie, but the other girls could be as well.
10	* BlackEyesOfEvil: Rune. It's a vampire thing.
11	%%* BlackAndGreyMorality
12	* BlatantLies: Pretty much everything the villains tell Tori before [[spoiler: they find out Tori is actually the Snowflakes' long-lost little sister.]]
13	* BlessedWithSuck: Rune can read people's thoughts by touching them. Apparently it isn't as cool as it sounds; he's basically shunned human contact.
14	** Version two: Charlie's sister can control plants, but his "superpower" is the ability to disguise his voice perfectly.
15	--->'''Tori:''' [[DoubleEntendre "So you're only good over the phone?"]]
16	* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Subverted; the villain kids are ''far'' from innocent.
17	* BringIt: Tori's [[spoiler: foster]] parents to the Snowflakes.
18	* ChandlersLaw: NINJAS!
19	* CreepyTwins: The Snowflakes.
20	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Oh, ''God.''
21	** [[spoiler: Truculent]] gets thrown off a second-story glass window. Characters observe his body on the grounds for the remainder of the novel.
22	** [[spoiler: Charlie]] gets stabbed quite horribly and with a very squick-worthy description.
23	** [[spoiler: Joy]] gets chased by the kid villains, slashed by a Velociraptor, and falls down the stairs losing blood and suffering brain damage before finally dying. And then she gets eaten by Velociraptors.
24	* CuteLittleFangs: Rune has them.
25	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Basically all the villains have them in varying degrees.
26	* DeadpanSnarker: Ensemble snarkers. It's noted that Tori is, but she quickly becomes tired of everyone else being one too.
27	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Tori-Aimee basically causes the deaths of her foster family and her sisters]] at the end of the final chapter.
28	** But a BittersweetEnding for the [[spoiler: rabid Tori/Rune shippers.]]
29	* Dhampyr: Rune. But dhampyrs and vampires aren't so different, really.
30	* DistressCall: Ends badly for all involved.
31	** Secondary distress call doesn't end too well, either.
32	* DoomedAppointment: Charlie's with Tori, as well as Felicity and Edgar's.
33	* DualityMotif: Tori. [[spoiler:It's because when her foster parents took her home, they had her appearance changed and she got one eye from each of them.]]
34	* EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Villain Academy is described to have an ominous tower. But the whole building is just one dark, ominous mass.
35	* Filler: It's UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo. Filler is required.
36	* FinalBattle: An [[IncrediblyLamePun explosive one]] in "Finale."
37	* FluffyTheTerrible: Rex, the giant mutant electric squid, was apparently raised and trained by Headmaster Truculent.
38	* ForTheEvulz: Oh, sure, the villains angst their little brains out, but they're [[ItAmusedMe in it for the lulz.]]
39	* GratuitousNinja: It's UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo. Of course there are entirely unnecessary ninjas!
40	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: [[spoiler: Tori. She goes from hero to villain to indecisive villain to neutral.]]
41	* IJustWantToBeNormal: [[spoiler: Tori at the end.]]
42	* IsItAlwaysLikeThis: Apparently ninja break-ins are a normal, annoying occurence.
43	* ItWasADarkAndStormyNight: Always.
44	* MeaningfulName: Most everyone in the novel has a name with a deeper meaning or a name that describes their character. Angie's full name Angana means "fire," Gemelle and Tamsyn both mean "twin," and so on.
45	* PyroManiac: Angie.
46	* Shipping: Many readers are devout Tori/Rune shippers, to the point where they plotted to hunt the author down when [[spoiler: Rune betrayed Tori to the other villains by kissing her.]]
47	** Plotting is such an ugly word, don't you think?
48	* ShipSinking: The Tori/Rune ship was once sunk so horribly that the author commented: "The Titanic went "odamn.""
49	* ShoutOut: Several. To UsefulNotes/NaNoWriMo itself, to Music/MyChemicalRomance, and to [[Series/TwentyFour 24]].
50	* SiblingTeam: After Tori finds out she's actually [[spoiler: sister to the Snowflakes,]] they team up.
51	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Rune.
52	* WhatTheHellHero: Tori calls out her hero parents and her uncle [[spoiler: because they blew up Tori's biological parents, who were mad scientists.]]

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