Line #139 Roleplay/ShinHyakujiHighSchool


1	[[http://hyakujihigh.net Hyakuji High School]] is a [[LongRunner long running]] anime based RPG, based, believe it or not, on High School life. Unlike normal high schools in Japan, the students [[MagicAndPowers have various gifts]]. [[SuperheroSchool Typically in the forms of superpowers.]] Students from across the world (and sometimes even further) come to learn how to control their gifts, and Hijinx naturally ensue.
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3	Having run for ''8'' years, this Play By Post RPG has a long history, and is always accepting new members. It has no set genre, allowing for everything from {{Mad Scientist}}s to Franchise/KamenRider to [[MagicKnight Magicians]] [[KungFuWizard of]] [[ChildMage many]] [[SquishyWizard types]] to be played.
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5	As of January 1st, 2016, the forum has closed down, but its setting and universe still continue to tell its stories in [[http://www.senki.co.nr/ Senki Academy]].
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7	Has an ever-growing [[Characters/ShinHyakujiHighSchool character page]].
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10	!! This site provides examples of:
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12	* AbortedArc: Wo Shing, the crime syndicate that didn't really do anything.
13	* AcademyOfAdventure: The titular high school of the site.
14	* ActionGirl: Female students are usually some form of this [[SquishyWizard if they don't rely heavily on their powers]].
15	* AfterTheEnd: Season 2 basically takes place after [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the entire Hyakuji universe went bye-bye]], and the Season 4 gaiden covers character stories that explores the world in the aftermath of a robot apocalypse.
16	* AllThereInTheManual: The backstory of the site, as well as records of everything from the past, is contained within the [[http://hyakujihigh.net/topic/184830/1/ History.]]
17	* AlphaBitch: Given that this ''is'' a school setting after all, said trope is pretty much considered par for the course; there had no doubt been more than just a few characters who fit said trope. One of the more recent examples included Atsuku Moeru.
18	* ApocalypseHow: Most of the major plots involve scenarios that have apocalyptic consequences if not stopped.
19	** Season 1: If [[Anime/BlackCat Creed]] had succeeded in [[ColonyDrop crashing]] the floating island of Mu into the city below, the resulting destruction would most likely be a Class 0.
20	** Season 2: The universe itself experienced a Class X-4 apocalypse event, and as the plot progressed it became clear they were in the midst of a Class X-5 apocalypse; and if left unchecked could even culminate into a Class Z.
21	** Season 4: In the prologue showing the BadFuture post robot apocalypse, it would appear that humanity experienced either a Class 2 or Class 3a apocalypse after the Machine Empire's purge of non-organic life. With the time stones, their plan appears to be to escalate this into a Class Z as far as all sentient organic life is concerned.
22	** Season 5: The [[EldritchAbomination nameless thing]] that was unleashed in the season's climax looked to be out to cause at least a Class 6 apocalypse scenario before [[ResetButton remaking the world]] according to the winner's wishes.
23	** Elemancer Guild's current [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Gaia's Vengeance]] plot revolves around a potential Class 3a that AntiVillain Alexander is fighting to prevent, but apparently even if GaiasVengeance could be averted, drastic measures needed to be taken as far as Alexander was concerned, which might still result in either a Class 1 or Class 2, making it seem as though the apocalypse cannot be prevented, but only toned down.
24	* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Barring some exceptions, teachers are generally stronger than students.
25	** Special mention goes to Hiro Tsukasa. It is accepted that he is by and large the most powerful player character, but as he is the admin's character, care is given to often put Hiro in the role of guiding figure to keep threads on track if needed, though the site as a whole embraces OffTheRails if the situation is well-written. Basically, despite being this trope's culmination at Hyakuji, much effort is put into not overshadowing the conventional members' characters.
26	* BadassBiker: While the Franchise/KamenRider characters are mostly this, there are also some relatively non-Kamen Rider characters who are also badass and ride bikes like Nickle to name one.
27	* BadassBookworm: [[ScienceHero Jennifer Chase]], who is also known for [[BadassNormal her lack of superpowers]].
28	** [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Hiro Tsukasa]], who owns a bookstore, teaches supernatural studies (A.K.A. [[DestructiveSaviour Collateral Damage 101)]] and is very possibly [[BigGood the strongest character on the site.]]
29	** Damon Ark, overlapping with CastingAShadow, RedEyesTakeWarning, SquishyWizard, and GlassCannon. Do not [[BerserkButton press his buttons.]]
30	* BadFuture: The premise of Season 4, the Future Seven Saga essentially revolves around this, and it's up to those in the present-day to avert it.
31	* BadassNormal: Though rare, there are some relatively normal characters with little or no powers at all that sometimes shares the limelight with their super-powered friends. [[Delinquent Spike Ito]] provides an example. It is generally quite respectable at Hyakuji to play a character of this archetype, as it tends to lead to characters who are memorable by force of personality rather than their powers.
32	* BattleCouple: Tends to happen to most couples at some point. Examples include [[HeroicFantasy Meglumar and Star]] and [[ShockAndAwe Nickle]] and [[BlowYouAway Chizu]].
33	* BeachEpisode: The WDA'S [V] threads were this. A number of players did try to use it for actual character development though.
34	* {{BFS}}: Mayu's Axebreaker and Nickle's Kaneryuu, as well as the claymore wielded by Selene's summoned Valkyrie.
35	* BigDamnHeroes: Often, whether with HumongousMecha, or through their own abilities, students at the school have an uncanny knack to arrive just in the nick of time to save the day. However, given the variance on this site, its easily subverted by the BigDamnHeroes not quite proving to be as useful as one would hope.
36	* BigGood: While the site doesn't have any single main character, Hiro tends to be a central figure in most plots and is the founder and original leader of [[BadassCrew Arcadia]]. To a lesser extent, the principal also qualifies, being Hiro's boss, though this was analyzed somewhat during Season 4.
37	* BreakTheCutie: [[http://hyakujihigh.net/topic/4261523/1/#new inVERsion]], and its effects are shown clearly in its [[http://hyakujihigh.net/topic/4314545/2/#new aftermath]]. Good lord...
38	* BritainIsOnlyLondon: Averted as of the [JR] plot, though an ArchiveBinge might reveal earlier examples. Whilst its featured Heathrow and Baker Street, which are very much in London, its also had threads take place in Southampton and Bristol, with numerous references to other locations. Non-British writers tend to flub this one, but will gleefully lampshade it usually, sometimes just to tease the UK resident players.
39	* BrokenAce:
40	** Rin Kimiko, also known as the [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil Kaimu Student Council]] President. Not only did she have high level psychic powers, but she designed a machine that was, from a statistical point of view, not only more powerful than Hyakuzor, but was constructed in a significantly reduced time scale. Unfortunately for her (and everyone else of course), she was batshit crazy.
41	** And in a sense, Star Ricci. Beautiful, intelligent, and good with people, but often suffers from self-worth issues due to her [[PowerIncontinence inability to control]] the more potent aspects of her powers, which sometimes lead to her being [[TheLoad more of a burden]] [[FauxActionGirl than a help]]. But she hides all of these issues behind her [[StepfordSmiler smiles]] [[GenkiGirl and cheerful, energetic demeanor]].
42	* BullyingADragon: Some characters are victims of this, although the late [[OurElvesAreDifferent Rozanny]] [[PlayingWithFire Katar]] seemed to have had it [[FantasticRacism especially]] [[BreakTheCutie hard]] for her. Those [[TooDumbToLive poor sods]] really don't know what's good for them...
43	* CanonDiscontinuity: Shinya High. The other OddlyNamedSequel to the original site. Showed up during the CrisisCrossover.
44	* CapeBusters: [[GravityMaster Tarin Richards]] is being [[TykeBomb trained from childhood]] as one, courtesy of her father.
45	* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: A rather frequent occurrence on the site due to [[RealLifeWritesThePlot roleplayers going inactive for any number of reasons]], from being busy in RealLife (such as studies, work, family, etc.), technical issues such as a loss of internet, to even leaving the site due to apathy or disillusionment. In many cases many character plots are LeftHanging and the character himself/herself simply [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse disappears into a proverbial limbo]]. Some of them may get an [[PutOnABus official IC send-off]] with blessings from the character's creator, or the creator may [[TheOtherDarrin entrust a friend or a few to run them as NPCs]], or they may get mentioned in passing in other characters' posts every now and then to show that they still exist in-universe, albeit now shifted OutOfFocus; but these lucky few tend to be the exception rather than the rule.
46	* CityOfAdventure: The adventures don't simply limit themselves to the school. Hyakuji itself is also quite the adventure magnet.
47	** That said, there is a frequently-used "Outside Hyakuji" posting zone, and non-Hyakuji events are stated to happen globally, often in backstories or setting data. This averts TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse.
48	* CommutingOnABus: A frequent occurrence amongst characters played by members whose activity on the site is sporadic (i.e. is active only for several weeks at a time, and no more than 2-3 times every year) rather than regular.
49	* CompetitiveBalance: All new characters are subject to a review and revision (if necessary) process, and the twice-a-real-time-year character upgrades are subject to the same examination. This is to keep GodModeSue characters out of things, as well as ensure that the forum is fun for everybody. As the process is purely subjective to the approval staff, however, there may be occasional slips. As a whole though, members who have settled into Hyakuji and gotten into the swing of things will keep this trope firmly in mind.
50	** As the above implies, the system has a progression for characters who have stuck around for a significant time. The current system is that each character who has been active (largely subjective, but very forgiving, the only exceptions tend to be characters who have literally just been made within the previous 2 months or haven't been used at all) can have one new ability or upgrade an old ability come June 1st and December 1st every year. It is severely frowned upon for veterans to "bully" a newer character, even if it would [[JerkAss make some sense in-character]], though a justified whupping is fine, and often PlayedForLaughs. The core concept is that no player should feel like they don't matter in a situation, so situations are often tweaked to accommodate others. Hyakuji is not hyper-competitive, being more interested in collaborative storytelling as a whole instead of [[PlayerVersusPlayer PvP]] combat roleplays.
51	* ConservationOfNinjutsu: At any point in an Event topic, any {{Mook}} that doesn't come with a specified number beyond terms like "many" or "a horde of" are generally free for players to call automatic hits on them.
52	* TheCorruption: The [[ArtifactOfDoom orange]] [[DeadlyUpgrade materia]] in the Elemancer mission. Grants [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity great power, but at the cost of one's sanity]] [[SuperPowerMeltdown and the strain it puts on the body eventually kills the (unwilling) user]].
53	* CosmicKeystone: The time stones. Whilst not quite as bad as other examples, as moving them about actually doesn't screw over time all that much - if at all. The ''problem'', is that having all seven effectively gives you [[RealityWarper total control over the course of history]]. Hell, having only five of them gave the Machine King enough influence to reverse and stop time, though only within a certain range.
54	* CrapsackWorld: The BadFuture of Season 4.
55	** And the "Last Days of Planet Earth" chapter? [[FromBadToWorse Even more so...]]
56	* CrisisCrossover: Shin Season 2, The Franchise/KingdomHearts season, used a number of [[PlayByPostGames other sites]] the admin and/or member-base had founded or played on as the other worlds.
57	* CrossoverCosmology: Definitely, though how precisely the various pantheons work tends to vary, some being closer to their mythological selves, whilst others operate under, say, ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' mechanics. You've got Babylonian, Celtic, Judeo-Christian, Shinto and a number of others running around. Even the works of ''Creator/HPLovecraft'' shows up, let alone freaking ''DaiZyuJin'' of ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger''.
58	* CuteMonsterGirl: [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Fujioka]] [[HalfHumanHybrid Misora]], who is a ''[[NinjaPirateZombieRobot half-zombie, half-human hybrid]]''.
59	* {{Determinator}}: A good number of characters get things done by sheer force of will. Really, you'd have an easier time listing the number of characters who aren't this.
60	* DarkerAndEdgier: Season 2 was often said to be such by many veterans of the site; it originally opened in the same [[LighterAndSofter lighthearted tone]] as the preceding season, although CerebusSyndrome quickly set in after a couple of Event topics.
61	* DegradedBoss: A non video gaming case of this is played up in the first movie event that took place in mid-Season 4. In this mini-plot, a number of [[BigBad Big Bads]] from past seasons were mysteriously [[BackFromTheDead resurrected]] and reappeared to wreak havoc around the city. But while they were [[HeroKiller world-threatening]] [[OutsideContextProblem outside-context problems]] when they first appeared, their resurrected versions were [[VillainDecay considerably weaker]], being reduced to a city-level threat instead of world threat. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in the end however, [[RoboticReveal as it turns out they were just android copies of the original villains]], whose powers are a pale imitation of the originals.
62	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Various extra dimensional entities have gotten this treatment, up to and including Cthulhu himself.
63	* DuelOfSeduction: One of the Senate of Witches's games is an almost word-for-word example.
64	* DysfunctionJunction: Most characters come in with issues. Those that don't usually get them.
65	* ElaborateUniversityHigh: Goes without saying.
66	* ElementalPowers: The Elemancers, of course.
67	** Should be noted though that elemancy, and elemental ''magic'', are regarded as two distinct and separate things.
68	* EnemyWithin: [[NiceGirl Kara Saito]] has one in the form of a [[JekyllAndHyde malignant]] SplitPersonality that surfaces from time to time to [[SplitPersonalityTakeover control her actions]] [[KickTheDog that]] [[TheSociopath takes]] [[ForTheEvulz pleasure]] in [[MindRape inflicting mental and emotional torment]] on her friends.
69	** [[ShockAndAwe Nickle Ryuko]] used to struggle with one as well in the form of [[PsychoElectro Kinclex]], although in his case thanks to the machinations of scientist [[EvilGenius Lillian]] [[MadScientist Arion]], [[EnemyWithout Kinclex wound up gaining a body of his own]], effectively becoming Nickle's EvilTwin.
70	* {{Expy}}: Takamachi Miyuki shares a host of appearance and personality traits that are clearly inspired by several established characters, but most notably [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Archer]], [[VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia Bazett]] and [[VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno Ein]].
71	* ExtranormalInstitute: Of the SuperheroSchool variety.
72	* EyepatchOfPower: Part of Jameson B. Willicott signature outfit, along with his Fedora.
73	* FantasticRacism: A few characters are victims of this in their backstories, but again, Rozanny seems to a poster girl for this trope.
74	** And in an interesting inversion to the trope, humans aren't always perpetrators when it comes to FantasticRacism. An example of humans being on the receiving end of said trope? Meet [[OverlyLongName Valentine Enigmata Necroelle Malevelencia]], a [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens sufficiently advanced]] [[HumanAliens human alien]] from the future who somehow gets pulled out of her own time and space by a freak accident and deposited in our world, in the present. Suffice to say, [[InsufferableGenius she isn't]] [[DeadpanSnarker impressed]] (to say the least) by what this InsignificantLittleBluePlanet has to offer and [[HumansAreMorons certainly thinks even less]] [[PunyEarthlings of its inhabitants]], [[CulturalPosturing finding them to be unbelievably primitive]] [[SuperiorSpecies by her species' standards]]. Dull and uninteresting at best, and downright annoying at worst. [[CantArgueWithElves And she feels that she knows it]]. Whether or not her attitude changes depends on what CharacterDevelopment plots her creator has in store for her.
75	** Valentine has been subjected to both sides of this, to some degree, though that's in large due to her caste-like views of races and cultures, such as her quick deference to The Doctor.
76	** The Machine Empire is also basically this towards all organic life - particularly humans.
77	** And most recently, Sena Ryoga appears to also hold this view towards [[BewareTheSuperman all powered individuals]] as a whole.
78	* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: To put it in the words of [[GreatDetective Jameson B. Willicott]] - "[[HopelessBossFight If the power of darkness is a million times stronger than I am..]] [[{{Determinator}} THEN I'LL INCREASE MY POWER]] [[SerialEscalation BY INFINITY!]]"
79	* {{Fanservice}}: Almost certainly present, given how heavily influenced by anime the site is. Just how much depends on the roleplayers and characters involved. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades may as well be used as lingerie.]]
80	* FantasyKitchenSink: The very nature of the setting where Hyakuji High School takes place is an embodiment of this trope.
81	* FlashStep: [[PsychoElectro Kinclex]] and [[ActionGirl Chizu]] are notable users. That said, TeleportSpam is a power that raises red flags in the character approval process.
82	* FreudianTrio: Yuki Kobato is basically this, what with having two "voices" in her head that regularly interact with herself and each other. Yuki being ego, Kabato being the superego and shoulder angel, and Shimei being the id and shoulder devil.
83	* GoodAngelBadAngel: Kabato and Shimei are essentially this to Yuki Kobato.
84	* GreatDetective: Who else but [[{{Catchphrase}} "Jameson B. Willicott! Hyakuji's Number One Detective!!!"]]?
85	* HarbingerOfAsskicking: Any plot thread that starts with the words "Season Finale".
86	* HappyEndingOverride: The premise behind Season 6.
87	* HeroesRUs: Arcadia, which serves to not only recruit new members, but train, equip, and use them to fight supernatural menaces in Japan. [[ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} The BPRD]] is their American counterpart. It helps that many of its members are either students or teachers at the High School.
88	** There's also [[Series/KamenRiderBlade BOARD]], which designs, tests, and utilises Franchise/KamenRider suits that are used to help save the day by many a character.
89	** For a smaller scale operation, there's the Willicott Detective Agency. Whilst probably not as well funded as the previous two examples, they've still got enough skill and equipment to be of help if one needs it.
90	* HeroicRROD: Some characters have a FinishingMove that plays out like this.
91	* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Sometimes justified, sometimes not. Due to there being no real main character for the site, and thus no guarantee someone will get to save the day, its indeed quite possible for some characters to prove themselves unable to help, as was the main source of {{Angst}} for Star after the end of Season 3. Whether or not they ''do'' anything about it, or if anyone tries to show where they actually ''have'' helped, of course, depends on the writer.
92	* [[AWizardDidIt Hiro Did It]]: The explanation of how everyone forgot about Arcadia between the Franchise/KingdomHearts season and the current one.
93	* {{Hotblooded}}: Several characters, to the point that amongst the awards given to members, there is one for the most testosterone prone poster.
94	** Hyakuzor meanwhile just seems to make those piloting it suddenly get immensely hotblooded. Perhaps its a requirement to move it?
95	* HotSpringsEpisode: The local shrine has a set of hot springs. Kinda inevitable.
96	* HowDoIShotWeb: New students tend to have this problem.
97	* HumansAreBastards: Subverted. The setting itself portrays humanity itself as neither intrinsically [[HumansAreGood good]] nor [[HumansAreBastards evil]], but many characters who are victims of FantasticRacism at the hands of {{Muggles}}, or [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned]] or [[AbusiveParent abused]] by their (often) Muggle parents in their backstories certainly hold such a notion. Often, a key CharacterDevelopment plot for such characters is coming to learn, via ThePowerOfFriendship or ThePowerOfLove, that HumansAreFlawed rather than being outright bastards.
98	* InnocentFanserviceGirl: [[CountryMouse Wakamurasaki Fuu]]. One could never help but realize how little she cares about [[PantyShot how much her skirt flies]], when she even wears one. Also, her power happens to be VictoriasSecretCompartment.
99	* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: The high school has an adjoining Photon Laboratory holding several mechas of both SuperRobot and RealRobot varieties, just for kicks and the occasional mecha related battles.
100	* {{Joshikousei}}: A good percentage of the female students.
101	* KnightTemplar: The Machine Empire of Season 4 is essentially an embodiment of said trope. Has an ultimately noble goal for humanity to free themselves from the misery of [[WeAreAsMayflies aging]], [[PunyEarthlings sickness]] [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves and conflict]] by having humans trade in their flesh and blood bodies for robotic ones. Never mind the fact that any human who thinks otherwise are instantly branded as [[LuddWasRight retrogressive, and an enemy of progress]], and will take [[NukeEm extreme]] [[GuiltFreeExterminationWar measures]] to eliminate all dissidents, and are essentially [[FantasticRacism racist towards all sentient organics]].
102	* LackOfEmpathy: A prominent characteristic in many of the Seasonal plot main villains.
103	** [[TheSociopath Simon Morris]]
104	* LamarckWasRight: For some, it seems that being a badass runs in the family. Notable examples include the Azumas, the Ryukos and the Frostfires.
105	* LateForSchool: Averted. Due to rules stating that people who miss the start of topics should act like their characters have been there all along, nobody is '''EVER''' late for school. (Granted, this may just be because detention is a very scary place.)
106	* LighterAndSofter: Season 1 in comparison to Season 2. And as of Season 3 till the present, the site seemed to have returned to the same lighthearted tone of Season 1.
107	* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: For the most part, barring minor details, the history, political and cultural status quo of Hyakuji High School setting's Earth mostly mirrors our own.
108	* MadScientist: The science class is TAUGHT by one. [[ExtranormalInstitute Naturally.]]
109	* MagicalGirl: [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Quinn Bailey]] and [[Anime/PrettyCure Setsuna Higashi]].
110	* MegaManning: Currently banned as an actual power, though only for new characters. Preexisting examples of this include [[CuteMonsterGirl Yuki Unsere]], a demon that is currently bound as Hiro's servant, who can learn ''any'' spell, so long as she watches it long enough.
111	** The trope is also how Hyakuzor tends to even the playing field against tougher opponents. Sure, the machine itself can't really take on people's powers (not unless that is part of the powers themselves), but that doesn't mean people can't up the scale of how they use them to HumongousMecha size.
112	* MemeticMutation:[[invoked]] A number of in-site ones:
113	** Noone trusts Hiro around the female gender. ''[[MemeticMolester Noone]]''.
114	*** Similarly, never expect him to make a relationship work.
115	** Breasts being referred to as [[color:red:bounce]]. Yes, more often than not in red. Often in capitals too.
116	** Any mention of Jonny's plot whilst Hiro is within earshot will prompt JUSTICE RAEG.
117	** If someone has the motivation to post, then what they ''really'' have is Winzy.
118	** Rumors ''will'' fail. Its a law of the Hyakuverse.
119	** [[LargeHam BATISTA BOND IS A DEBT YOU CANNOT REPAY]]
120	** Out-of-character, one of Hiro's miserable DM experiences with someone remembered only as "Mage Kid" resulted in "Mage Kid" becoming derogatory slang for obnoxious roleplayers who care more about looking badass than actually writing well. For the sake of decency, no active [=RPers=] are referred to as "Mage Kids", the term is applied "posthumously" after the offender has inevitably left.
121	* MinoredInAsskicking: You get all your high school education...And...let's just say that instead of issuing safety warnings saying not to walk home alone at night, the city has to send the gangs safety warnings saying you will be walking home alone at night.
122	** Though not always played straight; see SuperLoser below.
123	* MoodWhiplash: Due to the way IC time is being handled on the site and the rules allowing multiple RP topics by the same character that aren't running concurrently, it's very possible to experience this by having both comedic threads and dramatic ones to post in. At the same time. Can also simply happen often when a player in one mood has to write for a character in a completely different one.
124	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Happened ''twice'' to Erin during the prologue to inVERsion - first after realizing what she did to the squirrel, and a second, more severe one that was nothing short of a complete [[HeroicBSOD emotional breakdown]] after beating Chizu to within an inch of her life whilst under the [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Orange Materia's influence]], [[OhCrap only to experience a brief moment of lucidity]] [[BreakTheCutie that lasted just long enough for her to realize what she had done]].
125	* TheNameless: The [[EldritchAbomination final boss]] in Season 5's climax. There is no official name for the being, other than being referred to in-narrative by [[IHaveManyNames several names]] such as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The World Eater, The Beast and The Apocalypse Creature]].
126	* NeverFoundTheBody: Jameson invokes this trope during the Franchise/KingdomHearts season. He [[UnexplainedRecovery gets better]] afterward.
127	** A good number of inactive characters are assumed to be dead since TheHeartless attacked. Their bodies were never found, making this a convenient HandWave if they ever decide to come back.
128	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Invoked by Hiro in the [Catastrophic Outbreak] chapter of Season 6. According to him, the way the previous season was resolved wasn't the end but in fact the beginning of even more troubles, troubles that have ramifications on a cosmic scale.
129	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Played painfully straight many a time. Where shall we begin? Despite being at the forefront of many potentially apcalyptic scenarios and narrowly saving the world, the school was considered a danger to the city by Japanese authorities, who saw it fit to slash the government budget for Hyakuji High, [[FromBadToWorse eventually setting into motion the events of Season 3]].
130	** And in Season 4, finding a town that was besieged by pirates our heroes tried to do the right thing and stand up for the townspeople, [[ArrestedForHeroism only to be mistaken for pirates by the marines that arrived shortly after and hauled off to prison]] for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
131	** Averted in the [JR] personal plot though. Hyakuji is specifically given a chance to rein in a wayward student ''because'' of all the good they've done, instead of just having a more extreme force sent in to deal with it.
132	* NoSuchThingAsSpaceJesus: Averted for the Arcadians at least, but this in part due to the CrossoverCosmology of the setting. They acknowledged that [[Creator/HPLovecraft Cthulhu]] was a god. They simply didn't ''care'' when it came to kicking the thing's ass.
133	* OddlyNamedSequel: To the original Hyakuji High
134	* OneManArmy: Any sufficiently powerful character probably qualifies as one.
135	* OneRiotOneRanger: Whenever the world needs saving, it's often the superpowered teens of Hyakuji High who step up to the challenge instead of a crack team of the world's elite special forces. And bear in mind Hyakuji isn't a extremely high powers setting like the Franchise/MarvelUniverse or [[Anime/DragonBallZ DBZ]], where the average super has a high chance of being a OneManArmy or PersonOfMassDestruction. Given the general PowerLevels upon which the site operates, [[RedshirtArmy militaries from]] RealLife [[MugglesDoItBetter can easily pack more heat than the entire school]], so this trope is very much in play when the Hyakuji students are involved at the forefront of saving the world instead of say, the military.
136	* OutsideContextProblem: Considering that player characters on the site generally operate on PowerLevels closer to "neighborhood crime-buster" or "super spy" instead of "defender of humanity", the season plots involving TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt generally comes across as this trope.
137	* OverlyLongName: Star's full name is Salvatrice Tatiana Annalisa Rosabella Ricci. And she [[PlayedForLaughs introduces herself like this more often than not.]]
138	** And while we're at it, [[TeenGenius teen prodigy]] [[LargeHam deejay]] [[GenkiGirl Dominique's]] full name is Dominique Quintessa Reine Dieudonnee Rosenblade.
139	* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: Selene Frostfire's [[EliteMooks bodyguards]]. Their job is to keep their charge safe and often show up in threads from time to time, but they're [[PutOnABus never around]] when ''actually'' needed, such as in serious battle threads. So their job in a sense is pretty much just to stand around and look badass in their [[BadassInANiceSuit Armani suits]] and CoolShades.
140	* PoorCommunicationKills: PlayedForLaughs just as often as it's PlayedForDrama, and is often a major driving force behind much drama in plots.
141	* PowerIncontinence: This trope tends to happen to new students, particularly those who have just discovered their powers. [[PlayingWithFire Pyromancers]] are frequent targets.
142	* ThePowerOfLove: One of the HumongousMecha stored at the school runs on it. Naturally, its based off designs from the [[Anime/{{Godannar}} Dannar base]].
143	* ThePsychoRangers: The Hellfire Club is this to Arcadia.
144	* TheRival: A few characters have these, and a few players even have a friendly competitive dynamic between them.
145	* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[TokenEvilTeammate Ian Vaner's]] attempt to [[FaceHeelTurn defect over to the side of]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist the Machine Emperor]] once he gains the time stones results in this.
146	* ScheduleSlip: Threads and posts taking a while to get done tends to happen occasionally due to real life constraints, random computer problems, or lack of motivation. This is usually fine with members, who are understanding, but chronic cases can be frustrating.
147	* SchizoTech: Plenty; for the most part Earth in this setting is LikeRealityUnlessNoted, but one also gets organizations such as private industries and clandestine organizations equipped with TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture stuff, to outright Super Science wielded by aliens or engineered by {{Transhuman}}-level intellects, and MagiTek from {{Precursor}} races.
148	* ShoutOut: As a play by post anime RPG, there are numerous.
149	** Arcadia contains many references to supernatural anime, such as ''Manga/DGrayMan'', ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', and ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei''.
150	** The Elemancers have numerous references to ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''.
151	** Most seasons have a common theme. The most recent season was based off of ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''.
152	** Hiro's bookstore, Eldritch Influence, sells [[TabletopGame/YuGiOh Duel Monster cards]]. Cue many, many references to [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries children's card games.]]
153	** [[{{BFS}} Kaneryuu]] looks a lot like [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII the Buster Sword]]. Nickle looks and acts a lot like Zack. Cue Nickle [[TakeUpMySword passing Kaneryuu onto his shorter, angstier girlfriend for a plot.]]
154	** In [[http://hyakujihigh.net/topic/3479337/2/ this thread]] it was decided that if Jonny was ever voiced, both his English dub actor ''and'' Seiyuu would be the men who voice [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Simon the Digger]]. Subsequently, Jonny can be found quoting or adapting some of Simon's best lines.
155	** Hiro is stated at one point to have been a member of Manga/FairyTail. Which [[DestructiveSavior explains a lot]].
156	** Basically every thread is guaranteed to have one of these. In some cases, characters themselves will be fans of media (anime being common, obviously) and will deliberately give a ShoutOut to their favorites. This actually can cause a degree of trouble when one character/thread treats a given work of media as a story and another character/thread treats it as something that actually happened. The typical resolution to this is BasedOnATrueStory.
157	* ShipTease: Invoked in the Senate of Witches's [[DuelOfSeduction "Game of Love"]].
158	* ShutUpHannibal: Done by, of all people, [[TheCutie Hayate Kokuroi]] after a [[BreakThemByTalking particularly nasty session of]] BreakTheCutie at the hands - ahem - [[ManipulativeBastard words of]] [[HumanoidAbomination Simon Morris]]. She received a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from the villain immediately afterward for her troubles.
159	* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Whilst the site as a whole currently sits towards the idealistic side of things (ThePowerOfLove and HeroicWillpower are often more than capable of getting a job done), it has and still does swing towards cynicism. Indeed, struggling to decide where exactly one sits on the scale is often a plot for characters.
160	* SuperLoser: See DysfunctionJunction as above, which is a very common cause for this trope. But kinda expected given the nature of a school setting, since everyone knows that in a school setting, you will always see your fair share of cool kids and losers.
161	* TimeTravel: The theme of season 4. More commonly employed by [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]], who uses it to aid in his teaching History.
162	* ThereAreNoTherapists: There was one once. She's not here anymore. [[[NeverFoundTheBody Nobody knows where she went.]]
163	* TheSpartanWay: [[EccentricMentor Archimedes Myridden]] seems to have a fondness for teaching in this manner; as [[http://hyakujihigh.net/single/?p=500199&t=4753714 shown here]].
164	* TheUnfettered: Practically ''every'' seasonal BigBad ever.
165	* TheWorfEffect - Hiro Tsukasa is possibly the strongest character on the site. So when a threat shows up for the students to deal with, it's either this or he happens to be [[PutOnABus conveniently elsewhere]].
166	** Happens doubly so in the Hail to the King event, and quite literally at that - there's two Hiro's (one present, one future and wielding the power of Series/KamenRiderDecade), with neither doing too well against the Machine King.
167	** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Lavender during the Elemancer Mission "Plague Wind". It seems that Hyakuji is full of characters who devoted a significant chunk of their lifetimes training to develop their powers and subsequently gaining a reputation as being among the best of the best at what they do. But every now and then some young punk who looked like their powers only manifested weeks ago would show up out of nowhere and still outclass the seasoned veterans (in some cases rivaling if not plain ''surpassing'' [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking the teachers]].)
168	* TournamentArc: The fundraising tournament, Arcadia Grand Prix.
169	* TransformationSequence: Yes, some [[Franchise/KamenRider Kamen Riders]] or other such heroes ''do'' manage to have sequence that occurs every time they {{Henshin}}. For some, its simply the picture of their transformed state, whilst others actually have bits of soundtrack in the post, along with special sprites to simulate the show's own effects.
170	* {{Transhuman}}: The Machine Empire in Season 4 seeks to convert all of humanity into this via BrainUploading into robotic bodies, whether the humans wish to... [[UnwillingRoboticisation or not]]. Combines FantasticRacism with SocialDarwinist as they view MechanicalLifeforms as being inherently superior to organic life, and seek to [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans create a utopia]] that is free from all organic life.
171	* {{Troll}}: In-setting with pranksters, also out-of-character to some degree due to being a public internet forum. Certain players are known to deeply enjoy flustering others ultimately harmlessly.
172	** And then there was [[http://pastebin.com/6RayYPd0 the troll profile Pancake Mix submitted to the Join forum]] under a proxy-hidden new account, doubling as a ShoutOut to Fanfic/TheTaleOfSephirothGokuTheStampede, gleefully trying to make the worst MarySue ClicheStorm possible. Laughs were had, though the profile wasn't kept around due to the Join forum needing frequent cleanup. That link functions, incidentally, as an example of the site's character template as of writing, as well as a shining example of what not to do with it.
173	* TrueCompanions: Most long-running characters have some (equally long-running) form of this.
174	* [[SheCleansUpNicely They Clean Up Nicely]]: The prom held to celebrate the school's continued survival after a series of financial troubles and rival schools is this for many of the students, and even a few of the teachers.
175	* TyrantTakesTheHelm: T.J., to the WDA
176	* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny:[[invoked]] Given the site's 'anything-goes-rpg' status, and how a number of anime characters are used as the basis of profiles, there's a lot of room to work with. Would you like to see [[Anime/YuGiOh Zorc]] versus [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment Granteed]]? [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Zack Fair]] versus [[Franchise/KingdomHearts The Heartless]]? Its happened folks!
177	* UrbanFantasy: With elements of MundaneFantastic thrown in for good measure.
178	* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The Machine Empire has this in the spades, also overlapping with their leader being a DarkMessiah.
179	** The 4 Heavenly Kings plot also revolves around this trope.
180	* VillainsActHeroesReact: {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d by Lavender during the Hyakuji Festival as she [[BreakingTheFourthWall muses on why the heroes are always the ones taken by surprise]] instead of the other way around.
181	* WellIntentionedExtremist: All of the Heavenly Kings in the 4HK plot are each a variation of this trope.
182	* WhamEpisode: A few character plots are essentially considered as such. Such as inVERsion for Erin, as well as JR and its post-JR subplot Bitter Winter for Jonny, Seth, Yuki and Selene.
183	** And Jonny does it again for this trope with the impostor subplot.
184	* WikiVandal: "Jean was here! I'm the most awesomest badass in all of Hyakuji! Uh....drink your milk!"
185	* WhateverMancy: In addition to pyromancers, cryomancers, etc, general mastery of elemental powers is referred to as 'elemancery' as an umbrella term.
186	** The general criteria for elemancy is that the effect must be non-magical, non-scientific, create the element in question, and control it. It is stated formally by the Elemancers group as a whole that elemancy is an innate ability, not magic. That said, you do get characters with control over more esoteric "elements", which while listed on some profiles as -mancy/-mancery, are technically not. Additionally, there are also a handful of characters who can manipulate an element with it explicitly not being Elemancy. This is one of only a relatively few systems implemented into the site, it is worth noting, things like Magic and almost any other ability are essentially unregulated from a flavor perspective. [[GameBalance The function of abilities, of course, is heavily scrutinized during approval.]]
187	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Tonnes'', given that many plots are constrained by those playing being able and wanting to post, and that tends to decrease the longer things go on. As a result, a lot of stuff is often skipped for the simple sake of getting things finished at all.
188	* WorldOfBadass: Whilst by no means are most, or even the majority of the cast fighters, a good portion of the site's IC population are certainly good at kicking ass and taking names. And as for the exceptions? [[TookALevelInBadass They learn]], well at least most of them do. It's almost like if you aren't a badass when you enrolled, you will almost surely become one by the time you graduate.
189	** Morbidly, one can look at it from a SocialDarwinist perspective. If you can't protect yourself and/or what you care about, you aren't going to be doing so well in a setting with supervillains running amok.
190	* XanatosSpeedChess: [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Rasputin]] has clearly been taking lessons, if the recent string of Arcadia missions are any indication. Man's certainly determined to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

Context Roleplay / ShinHyakujiHighSchool