"Avatar High. Where we give students omnipotence to nerf them."
—The Grand GM.
Imagine a setting where nothing but pure insanity reigned, save for a few patient individuals.
Avatar High is a roleplay located on SpaceBattles.com, and is just what is sounds like. A high school created by the site's local Omnipotent, ROB, as a location for various user's teenager-ized Avatars to go to school. However, a much larger overarching plot line has grown out of the madness.
Started in 2015, the roleplay can be found here
. The fourth thread is still ongoing as of 2019.
Avatar High provides examples of:
- Alternate History:
- More than a few of the students come from alternate versions of Earth; even more come from divergent versions of their fictional origin.
- Tank Man's Imperial Federation comes from an Earth that was conquered by the British Empire in the early 1800s.
- Ideaforl33tmen's Nova Rome is from a universe where none of the ancient empires fell.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Velk'rian is the AI of the Velk'rian-Class Dreadnought. She was given the ability to shift between 'human' and her ship form when she crossed over into Avatar High.
- Anthropomorphic Representation: So many. Some include Mathilda, Embodiment of Balance, and Adrianna, Embodiment of the Void.
- The Archmage: Katyusha's present situation was caused by one. During the Great Patriotic War, during the Battle of Berlin she was struck by a spell from one in SS employ, which was meant to cause the rapid and fatal growth of her psionic organ. Said organ wanted her to stay alive and instead took over function from the organs it was meant to displace, lashing out at the archmage as it did so, killing him and flattening half of Berlin.
- Badass Bookworm: Quintus has always had a great love of learning, reading books since a very young age. Commonly referencing them when explaining complicated concepts, and has used the knowledge gained to design many highly efficient and practical military systems. Such as the mecha that Avatar High uses.
- Bizarre Alien Biology:
- Some such examples include the basic Shoggoths of our friendly Eldritch Abomination, other beings such as Kenneth who has been stated to be "the child of the Flood, the Bydo, and the Thing together."
- Katyusha, a recently introduced character from Tank Man's Super Hero Universe, has, due to experiments preformed on her during WWII, had most of her body above her stomach replaced with a massive psionic organ which is coated in skin/hair and is wrapped around a bone frame.
- Both Sides Have a Point: Planetary and Avatar High both are trying desperately to protect the Multiverse and its people. It's just that their ways conflict.
- Cultured Warrior: Quintus is an experienced warrior and scholar in his native Rome and has proven it throughout his time at Avatar High.
- The Cynic: Due to his experiences, Quintus does not trust people and doubts their motives, an attitude he does not hide as anyone who knows him will readily confirm.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Azathoth- the greatest of the Elder Gods, lord of Madness and Insanity, and a kind old grandpa.
- Determinator: Mathilda/Matthew counts. Matthew was in love with another character, named Sarah. The person playing as Sarah gave him a love trial that was ridiculously hard, then topped it off by having Sarah go, "I'm lesbian. Sorry, all your work has now been invalidated." Matthew didn't give up, became Mathilda, and the rest is history. He still hasn't gotten the girl. It's doubtful he ever will.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Matthew's efforts to woo Sarah have pretty much gone in vain. He keeps trying though.
- Fantastic Racism: The Brotherhood of Mars was a hate group that was against the Sectians Freedmen (Mantis Man); and the Human supremacists who think that humanity is best species in existence.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: Bridget is a God/Gas thing in a flesh suit.
- Fourth Wall:
- The fourth wall not only exists as a story element, but is also obliterated routinely. There are even some characters who pop up in the OOC.
- The Main Villain has weaponized the fourth wall on more than one occasion
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- The High Queen: Out of her own pocket, Bridget has donated thousands to various 'good causes' in her native Stor; she also destroyed a paedophile ring (The 'Rainbow Factory') with not even a single thought otherwise.
- The Medic: One of Bridget's duties is tending to the emotionally unhealthy. It's what netted her a job in AH as the School Councillor.
- Lensman Arms Race:
- Basically the whole purpose of the school; to push mortal's infinite potential into generating a force capable of defeating the Big Bad.
- The trope-making Lensmen and Civilization are featured extensively within the RP, joining with other classical science fiction universes to create a force to be reckoned with.
- The IF, a personal faction created by user Tank Man. Its original iteration got so powerful that it had to be locked outside of the AH multiverse and those forces within retconned back to themselves at the very beginning.
- Love Hurts: Poor Mathilda, having to go through ridiculous trials to woo the one they love.
- Physical God: A somewhat humanoid creature, just like all of the other Alicorns of Stor, Bridget is the Goddess of Emotions, Virginity, Childbirth, Fertility and an aspect of Friendship.
- The Professor: Quintus has proven a very well educated man, having several PHD's across multiple disciplines. He has also performed his own advanced research and made several scientific breakthroughs in his home nation -often beyond those that might have been expected from the technology that he had access to.
- Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Although many of the players have a decent understanding of unit size, some tend not to. Or, in the case of Tank Man, send the other players into fits of depression from the sheer amount of units present.
- Sheltered Aristocrat: As a child of an aristocratic family, Quintus had been sheltered from the day to day realities of life as a child and during his teenage years. This sheltered life ended when he joined the armed forces of his nation.
- Unreliable Narrator: Played to the meta, with the Unreliable Narrator being an actual character alongside various other narrators, including the lemony narrator, the Noir Narrator, and the Box Narrator from RP's.
- Winged Humanoid: Bridget has a humanoid appearance but with a large set of prehensile wings.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Happened to Matthew/Mathilda when, after all their attempts at courting her, it turned out Sarah was a lesbian all along.
