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Roleplay / Shin Hyakuji High School

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Hyakuji High School is a long running anime based RPG, based, believe it or not, on High School life. Unlike normal high schools in Japan, the students have various gifts. 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.

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 Scientists to Kamen Rider to Magicians of many types to be played.

As of January 1st, 2016, the forum has closed down, but its setting and universe still continue to tell its stories in Senki Academy.

Has an ever-growing character page.

This site provides examples of:

  • Aborted Arc: Wo Shing, the crime syndicate that didn't really do anything.
  • Academy of Adventure: The titular high school of the site.
  • Action Girl: Female students are usually some form of this if they don't rely heavily on their powers.
  • After the End: Season 2 basically takes place after 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.
  • All There in the Manual: The backstory of the site, as well as records of everything from the past, is contained within the History.
  • Alpha Bitch: 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.
  • Apocalypse How: Most of the major plots involve scenarios that have apocalyptic consequences if not stopped.
    • Season 1: If Creed had succeeded in crashing the floating island of Mu into the city below, the resulting destruction would most likely be a Class 0.
    • 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.
    • Season 4: In the prologue showing the Bad Future 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.
    • Season 5: The nameless thing that was unleashed in the season's climax looked to be out to cause at least a Class 6 apocalypse scenario before remaking the world according to the winner's wishes.
    • Elemancer Guild's current Gaia's Vengeance plot revolves around a potential Class 3a that Anti-Villain Alexander is fighting to prevent, but apparently even if Gaia's Vengeance 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.
  • Authority Equals Asskicking: Barring some exceptions, teachers are generally stronger than students.
    • 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 Off the Rails 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.
  • Badass Biker: While the Kamen Rider 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.
  • Badass Bookworm: Jennifer Chase, who is also known for her lack of superpowers.
  • Bad Future: 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.
  • Badass Normal: 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.
  • Battle Couple: Tends to happen to most couples at some point. Examples include Meglumar and Star and Nickle and Chizu.
  • Beach Episode: The WDA'S [V] threads were this. A number of players did try to use it for actual character development though.
  • BFS: Mayu's Axebreaker and Nickle's Kaneryuu, as well as the claymore wielded by Selene's summoned Valkyrie.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Often, whether with Humongous Mecha, 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 Big Damn Heroes not quite proving to be as useful as one would hope.
  • Big Good: 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 Arcadia. To a lesser extent, the principal also qualifies, being Hiro's boss, though this was analyzed somewhat during Season 4.
  • Break the Cutie: inVERsion, and its effects are shown clearly in its aftermath. Good lord...
  • Britain Is Only London: Averted as of the [JR] plot, though an Archive Binge 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.
  • Broken Ace:
    • Rin Kimiko, also known as the 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.
    • And in a sense, Star Ricci. Beautiful, intelligent, and good with people, but often suffers from self-worth issues due to her inability to control the more potent aspects of her powers, which sometimes lead to her being more of a burden than a help. But she hides all of these issues behind her smiles and cheerful, energetic demeanor.
  • Bullying a Dragon: Some characters are victims of this, although the late Rozanny Katar seemed to have had it especially hard for her. Those poor sods really don't know what's good for them...
  • Canon Discontinuity: Shinya High. The other Oddly Named Sequel to the original site. Showed up during the Crisis Crossover.
  • Cape Busters: Tarin Richards is being trained from childhood as one, courtesy of her father.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: A rather frequent occurrence on the site due to roleplayers going inactive for any number of reasons, from being busy in Real Life (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 Left Hanging and the character himself/herself simply disappears into a proverbial limbo. Some of them may get an official IC send-off with blessings from the character's creator, or the creator may 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 Out of Focus; but these lucky few tend to be the exception rather than the rule.
  • City of Adventure: The adventures don't simply limit themselves to the school. Hyakuji itself is also quite the adventure magnet.
    • 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 Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe.
  • Commuting on a Bus: 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.
  • Competitive Balance: 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 God-Mode Sue 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.
    • 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 make some sense in-character, though a justified whupping is fine, and often Played for Laughs. 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 PvP combat roleplays.
  • Conservation of Ninjutsu: 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.
  • The Corruption: The orange materia in the Elemancer mission. Grants great power, but at the cost of one's sanity and the strain it puts on the body eventually kills the (unwilling) user.
  • Cosmic Keystone: 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 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.
  • Crapsack World: The Bad Future of Season 4.
  • Crisis Crossover: Shin Season 2, The Kingdom Hearts season, used a number of other sites the admin and/or member-base had founded or played on as the other worlds.
  • Crossover Cosmology: Definitely, though how precisely the various pantheons work tends to vary, some being closer to their mythological selves, whilst others operate under, say, Shin Megami Tensei mechanics. You've got Babylonian, Celtic, Judeo-Christian, Shinto and a number of others running around. Even the works of H. P. Lovecraft shows up, let alone freaking Dai Zyu Jin of Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger.
  • Cute Monster Girl: Fujioka Misora, who is a half-zombie, half-human hybrid.
  • 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.
  • Darker and Edgier: Season 2 was often said to be such by many veterans of the site; it originally opened in the same lighthearted tone as the preceding season, although Cerebus Syndrome quickly set in after a couple of Event topics.
  • Degraded Boss: 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 Big Bads from past seasons were mysteriously resurrected and reappeared to wreak havoc around the city. But while they were world-threatening outside-context problems when they first appeared, their resurrected versions were considerably weaker, being reduced to a city-level threat instead of world threat. Justified in the end however, as it turns out they were just android copies of the original villains, whose powers are a pale imitation of the originals.
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Various extra dimensional entities have gotten this treatment, up to and including Cthulhu himself.
  • Duel of Seduction: One of the Senate of Witches's games is an almost word-for-word example.
  • Dysfunction Junction: Most characters come in with issues. Those that don't usually get them.
  • Elaborate University High: Goes without saying.
  • Elemental Powers: The Elemancers, of course.
    • Should be noted though that elemancy, and elemental magic, are regarded as two distinct and separate things.
  • Enemy Within: Kara Saito has one in the form of a malignant Split Personality that surfaces from time to time to control her actions that takes pleasure in inflicting mental and emotional torment on her friends.
  • Expy: Takamachi Miyuki shares a host of appearance and personality traits that are clearly inspired by several established characters, but most notably Archer, Bazett and Ein.
  • Extranormal Institute: Of the Superhero School variety.
  • Eyepatch of Power: Part of Jameson B. Willicott signature outfit, along with his Fedora.
  • Fantastic Racism: A few characters are victims of this in their backstories, but again, Rozanny seems to a poster girl for this trope.
  • "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: To put it in the words of Jameson B. Willicott - "If the power of darkness is a million times stronger than I am.. THEN I'LL INCREASE MY POWER BY INFINITY!"
  • Fanservice: Almost certainly present, given how heavily influenced by anime the site is. Just how much depends on the roleplayers and characters involved. Lampshades may as well be used as lingerie.
  • Fantasy Kitchen Sink: The very nature of the setting where Hyakuji High School takes place is an embodiment of this trope.
  • Flash Step: Kinclex and Chizu are notable users. That said, Teleport Spam is a power that raises red flags in the character approval process.
  • Freudian Trio: 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.
  • Good Angel, Bad Angel: Kabato and Shimei are essentially this to Yuki Kobato.
  • Great Detective: Who else but "Jameson B. Willicott! Hyakuji's Number One Detective!!!"?
  • Harbinger of Asskicking: Any plot thread that starts with the words "Season Finale".
  • Happy Ending Override: The premise behind Season 6.
  • Heroes "R" Us: Arcadia, which serves to not only recruit new members, but train, equip, and use them to fight supernatural menaces in Japan. The BPRD is their American counterpart. It helps that many of its members are either students or teachers at the High School.
    • There's also BOARD, which designs, tests, and utilises Kamen Rider suits that are used to help save the day by many a character.
    • 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.
  • Heroic RRoD: Some characters have a Finishing Move that plays out like this.
  • Heroic Self-Deprecation: 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.
  • Hiro Did It: The explanation of how everyone forgot about Arcadia between the Kingdom Hearts season and the current one.
  • Hotblooded: Several characters, to the point that amongst the awards given to members, there is one for the most testosterone prone poster.
    • Hyakuzor meanwhile just seems to make those piloting it suddenly get immensely hotblooded. Perhaps its a requirement to move it?
  • Hot Springs Episode: The local shrine has a set of hot springs. Kinda inevitable.
  • How Do I Shot Web?: New students tend to have this problem.
  • Humans Are Bastards: Subverted. The setting itself portrays humanity itself as neither intrinsically good nor evil, but many characters who are victims of Fantastic Racism at the hands of Muggles, or abandoned or abused by their (often) Muggle parents in their backstories certainly hold such a notion. Often, a key Character Development plot for such characters is coming to learn, via The Power of Friendship or The Power of Love, that Humans Are Flawed rather than being outright bastards.
  • Innocent Fanservice Girl: Wakamurasaki Fuu. One could never help but realize how little she cares about how much her skirt flies, when she even wears one. Also, her power happens to be Victoria's Secret Compartment.
  • Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!: The high school has an adjoining Photon Laboratory holding several mechas of both Super Robot and Real Robot varieties, just for kicks and the occasional mecha related battles.
  • Joshikousei: A good percentage of the female students.
  • Knight Templar: 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 aging, sickness 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 retrogressive, and an enemy of progress, and will take extreme measures to eliminate all dissidents, and are essentially racist towards all sentient organics.
  • Lack of Empathy: A prominent characteristic in many of the Seasonal plot main villains.
  • Lamarck Was Right: For some, it seems that being a badass runs in the family. Notable examples include the Azumas, the Ryukos and the Frostfires.
  • Late for School: 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.)
  • Lighter and Softer: 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.
  • Like Reality, Unless Noted: 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.
  • Mad Scientist: The science class is TAUGHT by one. Naturally.
  • Magical Girl: Quinn Bailey and Setsuna Higashi.
  • Mega Manning: Currently banned as an actual power, though only for new characters. Preexisting examples of this include 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.
    • 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 Humongous Mecha size.
  • Memetic Mutation:invoked A number of in-site ones:
    • Noone trusts Hiro around the female gender. Noone.
      • Similarly, never expect him to make a relationship work.
    • Breasts being referred to as bounce. Yes, more often than not in red. Often in capitals too.
    • Any mention of Jonny's plot whilst Hiro is within earshot will prompt JUSTICE RAEG.
    • If someone has the motivation to post, then what they really have is Winzy.
    • Rumors will fail. Its a law of the Hyakuverse.
    • BATISTA BOND IS A DEBT YOU CANNOT REPAY
    • 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.
  • Minored in Ass-Kicking: 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.
    • Though not always played straight; see Super Loser below.
  • Mood Whiplash: 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.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: 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 emotional breakdown after beating Chizu to within an inch of her life whilst under the Orange Materia's influence, only to experience a brief moment of lucidity that lasted just long enough for her to realize what she had done.
  • The Nameless: The final boss in Season 5's climax. There is no official name for the being, other than being referred to in-narrative by several names such as The World Eater, The Beast and The Apocalypse Creature.
  • Never Found the Body: Jameson invokes this trope during the Kingdom Hearts season. He gets better afterward.
    • A good number of inactive characters are assumed to be dead since The Heartless attacked. Their bodies were never found, making this a convenient Hand Wave if they ever decide to come back.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: 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.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: 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, eventually setting into motion the events of Season 3.
    • 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, 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.
    • 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.
  • No Such Thing as Space Jesus: Averted for the Arcadians at least, but this in part due to the Crossover Cosmology of the setting. They acknowledged that Cthulhu was a god. They simply didn't care when it came to kicking the thing's ass.
  • Oddly Named Sequel: To the original Hyakuji High
  • One-Man Army: Any sufficiently powerful character probably qualifies as one.
  • One Riot, One Ranger: 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 Marvel Universe or DBZ, where the average super has a high chance of being a One-Man Army or Person of Mass Destruction. Given the general Power Levels upon which the site operates, militaries from Real Life 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.
  • Outside-Context Problem: Considering that player characters on the site generally operate on Power Levels closer to "neighborhood crime-buster" or "super spy" instead of "defender of humanity", the season plots involving The End of the World as We Know It generally comes across as this trope.
  • Overly Long Name: Star's full name is Salvatrice Tatiana Annalisa Rosabella Ricci. And she introduces herself like this more often than not.
  • The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Selene Frostfire's bodyguards. Their job is to keep their charge safe and often show up in threads from time to time, but they're 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 Armani suits and Cool Shades.
  • Poor Communication Kills: Played for Laughs just as often as it's Played for Drama, and is often a major driving force behind much drama in plots.
  • Power Incontinence: This trope tends to happen to new students, particularly those who have just discovered their powers. Pyromancers are frequent targets.
  • The Power of Love: One of the Humongous Mecha stored at the school runs on it. Naturally, its based off designs from the Dannar base.
  • The Psycho Rangers: The Hellfire Club is this to Arcadia.
  • The Rival: A few characters have these, and a few players even have a friendly competitive dynamic between them.
  • Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Ian Vaner's attempt to defect over to the side of the Machine Emperor once he gains the time stones results in this.
  • Schedule Slip: 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.
  • Schizo Tech: Plenty; for the most part Earth in this setting is Like Reality, Unless Noted, but one also gets organizations such as private industries and clandestine organizations equipped with 20 Minutes into the Future stuff, to outright Super Science wielded by aliens or engineered by Transhuman-level intellects, and Magitek from Precursor races.
  • Shout-Out: As a play by post anime RPG, there are numerous.
  • Ship Tease: Invoked in the Senate of Witches's "Game of Love".
  • Shut Up, Hannibal!: Done by, of all people, Hayate Kokuroi after a particularly nasty session of Break the Cutie at the hands - ahem - words of Simon Morris. She received a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from the villain immediately afterward for her troubles.
  • Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Whilst the site as a whole currently sits towards the idealistic side of things (The Power of Love and Heroic Willpower 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.
  • Super Loser: See Dysfunction Junction 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.
  • Time Travel: The theme of season 4. More commonly employed by the Doctor, who uses it to aid in his teaching History.
  • There Are No Therapists: There was one once. She's not here anymore. [Nobody knows where she went.
  • The Spartan Way: Archimedes Myridden seems to have a fondness for teaching in this manner; as shown here.
  • The Unfettered: Practically every seasonal Big Bad ever.
  • The Worf Effect - 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 conveniently elsewhere.
    • 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 Kamen Rider Decade), with neither doing too well against the Machine King.
    • 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 the teachers.)
  • Tournament Arc: The fundraising tournament, Arcadia Grand Prix.
  • Transformation Sequence: Yes, some 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.
  • Transhuman: The Machine Empire in Season 4 seeks to convert all of humanity into this via Brain Uploading into robotic bodies, whether the humans wish to... or not. Combines Fantastic Racism with Social Darwinist as they view Mechanical Lifeforms as being inherently superior to organic life, and seek to create a utopia that is free from all organic life.
  • 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.
  • True Companions: Most long-running characters have some (equally long-running) form of this.
  • 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.
  • Tyrant Takes the Helm: T.J., to the WDA
  • Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: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 Zorc versus Granteed? Zack Fair versus The Heartless? Its happened folks!
  • Urban Fantasy: With elements of Mundane Fantastic thrown in for good measure.
  • Utopia Justifies the Means: The Machine Empire has this in the spades, also overlapping with their leader being a Dark Messiah.
    • The 4 Heavenly Kings plot also revolves around this trope.
  • Villains Act, Heroes React: Lampshaded by Lavender during the Hyakuji Festival as she muses on why the heroes are always the ones taken by surprise instead of the other way around.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: All of the Heavenly Kings in the 4HK plot are each a variation of this trope.
  • Wham Episode: 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.
    • And Jonny does it again for this trope with the impostor subplot.
  • Wiki Vandal: "Jean was here! I'm the most awesomest badass in all of Hyakuji! Uh....drink your milk!"
  • Whatever Mancy: In addition to pyromancers, cryomancers, etc, general mastery of elemental powers is referred to as 'elemancery' as an umbrella term.
    • 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. The function of abilities, of course, is heavily scrutinized during approval.
  • What Could Have Been: 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.
  • World of Badass: 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? 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.
    • Morbidly, one can look at it from a Social Darwinist 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.
  • Xanatos Speed Chess: Rasputin has clearly been taking lessons, if the recent string of Arcadia missions are any indication. Man's certainly determined to bring about The End of the World as We Know It.

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