The School

The School is a mysterious organization that uses powerful Psychics, and have also dabbled in experimentation with other areas of the Auric Spectrum. rt

Origins

Not much is known about when and how the School came into being, though Orloff believes it has existed for at least as long as DNA has been known about, if not longer. In truth, counting its previous incarnations, the School is at least more than 1,500 years old, with it existing in its modern incarnation since the late 18th Century.

Capabilities

The School doesn't consider itself a criminal organization, as opposed to Team Rocket or Galactic, and has members embedded deep in high-level goverment positions. Its main goal involves creating perfect Psychics, and as a result it has fully mastered genetic engineering, allowing them to create Psychics out of genetic templates obtained from Illusian Psychics and other groups considered worthy of note.

Given its long history, the School maintains an extensive archive of genetic material sourced from Aura-sensitive individuals going back centuries. They are known to be opposed to Team Iron, and have implanted Lucille Cain amongst their ranks as a sleeper agent.

School Batch Types

Testing-Line Schoolchildren

The most common batch of the School and the culmination of centuries of genetic research into Auric abilities, they are made from genetic templates, but are mostly meant to be tested to destruction, and can be lethally "liquidated" at any time if they prove inadequate, with genetic samples being harvested for further study. Schoolchildren are created with adolescent bodies in order to move to testing quickly, so despite having an apparent age between 6 to 14 on average upon "birth", they may be chronologically far younger. It should be noted that as they are created using a machine that uses the templates to form their bodies from the physical materials making up a human body, while Schoolchildren can be derived from particular people, they would not be considered true clones.

Due to a combination of diet shortcuts and alteration of their gut biota, they can have gastrointestinal issues that make gaining nutrition in general hard and stomaching Non-School meals such as the near-ubiquitous nutrient paste even harder, at least for the first few years of a given escapee's life. Some Schoolchildren are also purposely made with particular chemical imbalances in order to facilitate the development of a particular power, such as Schoolchildren with Electric-subtypes tending to have sodium deficiencies.

As they are not meant to survive to adulthood, if they manage to reach late puberty or adulthood anyway, unintended side effects are not uncommon, ranging from hormonal imbalances to early-onset cancer, compounded by the issues mentioned above. These maladies are referred to as "the Curse" by surviving Schoolkids. While Schoolchildren come from a variety of templates and therefore can look like just about any ethnicity or mixture of two or more, a very common shared trait tends to be dark hair and vivid purple eyes, the latter serving as a near-universal tell of their true nature.

In the early days, Schoolchildren were almost always solely addressed by their number, representing their order of production. Over time, the School's scientists started using alternate naming schemes alongside the number system, often derived from name sets that could be associated with numbers, such as those belonging to royalty and other world leaders. Around the 1950s, the School's scientists standardized their naming scheme to the Periodic Table of Elements, which has continued into the present day.

Schoolchildren further in the production line can have differing designations based on the year, as their designations follow the official element naming scheme used in the IUPAC. As a result, Schoolchildren produced during a specific year may not necessarily share designations from those of a later batch. For instance, in 2000, the 111th element in the table had yet to be given a true name; the 111th Schoolchild that year was designated as Unununium instead of Roentgenium. In 2021, the 118th schoolchild received the designation Oganesson, as the 118th element in the table had already been named.

Apart from an alias that they may use when dealing with non-School personnel, often derived from the element they're designated after, such as Nitrogen of the Phantom Class going by "Jen", Schoolchildren have no true name to start with.

Over the course of several centuries, the School has produced Schoolchildren in batches. There are normally approximately 118 children in a single School batch, otherwise known as a "Class", though in the past they've had fewer numbers which have necessitated different naming schemes. A few of these "classes" have been given names. While "classes" are normally comprised of Psychics with some classical Aurics, the Phantom Class was comprised of Obscurics, only to be liquidated once the School considered a Batch that served as a hard counter to their Psychics as a major liability.

The Freshman Class is the most recent batch created by the School.

Alumni, Schoolchildren who manage to survive to physical adulthood, get to have proper names, though they are still considered lesser by the Templars and the greater organization at large, and are not allowed a title.

Despite the nature of their creation, Schoolchildren are just as capable of experiencing the full spectrum of emotions as any other human.

Templars

Templars are similarly created from templates like their testing-line brethren, but are meant to be the School's main soldiers and enforcers, and so lack the rapid growth-related issues of their counterparts. They often tend to be derived from genetic samples taken from the more successful Alumni. Unlike testing-line Schoolchildren, they get to have names from the start, in tandem with some sort of title, serving to give them a greater sense of superiority while also dampening any chances of finding common cause with their fellow created Aurics. While considered a far greater asset than their testing-line brethren, Templars are still considered little more than tools by the School higher-ups, if higher quality ones. They share with other School creations a tendency for having dark hair combined with purple eyes.

According to Percy, Templars tend to be AB+ so that the commonly O- Schoolchildren can be used as blood donors in a pinch.

Yellow Eyes

A special batch of Schoolchildren somehow modified to have yellow eyes and have the ability to enter the Metaverse and use Personas, as well as summon Shadows and demons. They specialize in assassination via mental shutdowns.

Known Members

Leadership

• The Principal
• The Counselor

Scientists

• Orlando Rosa (Formerly)
• James Patrick Yew (Formerly)
• Keegan Lazarus
• Alexis "Azala" Forsythe
• Cassander Circhester
• Edmund Powell (Deceased)
• Victor Moreau

Other

• Kahlia (test subject; escaped)
• Lucille Cain (sleeper agent)
• Allerdyce Pratchett (henchperson; murdered)
• Project Hekatonchires (Amalgam of murdered Schoolchildren; destroyed)

Known Genetic Subjects

Individuals marked with a dagger (†) are deceased. Aliases stolen from another person are marked with double quotes ("").

Templars

Creation Year	Name	Epithet	Power Set	Confirmed Genetic Sources	Status
????	Adam†	The Archetype	(to be updated)	Unknown	Deceased
????	Adelinde	The Scythe	Psycho Cut, telekinesis, Mind of Crystal	Unknown	Active
????	Aegin†	The Aerator	(to be updated)	Unknown	Deceased (killed by Hiro)
????	Akira	Unknown	(to be updated)	Unknown	Active
????	Allegros	The Swift	(to be updated)	Unknown	Active
????	Alvin	The Aria	(to be updated)	Unknown	Active
????	Brad	The Freeshooter	(to be updated)	Unknown	Active
2002	Bren	The Scorcher	Pyrokinesis via exothermic reactions, minor electrokinesis	Unknown	Active executioner
????	Cassidy	The Perfect	(to be updated)	Unknown	Active
????	Ciara	Unknown	(to be updated)	Unknown	Defected
????	Damien	The Furnace	(to be updated)	Unknown	Active
????	Delphi	Thousand-Eyes	(to be updated)	Unknown	Active
????	Demetria†	Unknown	(to be updated)	Unknown	Deceased
????	Fenrir	The Ironheart	(to be updated)	Unknown	Active
????	Ferrum	The Engineer	Ferrokinesis	Unknown	Active
????	Francis†	The Weaver	(to be updated)	Unknown	Deceased
????	Gabriel	The Synaptic	(to be updated)	Unknown	Alive
????	Gerald†	The Caustic	(to be updated)	Unknown	Deceased
????	Hortensia†	The Spider	(to be updated)	Unknown	Deceased
????	Ivory†	Unknown	(to be updated)	Unknown	Deceased
????	Louise	The Sniper	(to be updated)	Unknown	Active, double agent for J-Team
????	Lydia	The Syllabary	(to be updated)	Unknown	Deceased
????	Magnus	The Legendary	(to be updated)	Unknown	Active
????	Marvin	The Martial	(to be updated)	Unknown	Active
????	Maurice	The Acceptable	(to be updated)	Unknown	Deceased
????	Melinoe†	The Eidolon	(to be updated)	Unknown	Deceased
????	Meredith	The Pelagos	(to be updated)	Unknown	Active
????	Pagliacci†	The Humorless	(to be updated)	Unknown	Possibly deceased
????	Robert†	The Builder	(to be updated)	Unknown	Deceased
????	Sienna	The Frostbitten, The Dramaturge	(to be updated)	Unknown	Defected
????	Trace†	The Shatterer	(to be updated)	Unknown	Deceased
????	Thanixys†	Unknown	(to be updated)	Unknown	Deceased
????	Whitt	Unknown	(to be updated)	Unknown	Captured by PEFE
????	Yè Xiàn	The Firebrand	(to be updated)	Unknown	Active
????	Zayna	The Fulminous	(to be updated)	Unknown	Active
????	???	The Puppeteer	(to be updated)	Unknown	Active

Batch Year	Number	Designation, Class Batch	Name/Alias	Power Set	Confirmed Genetic Sources	Status
????	???	Unknown	Felicia†	Yellow Eyes, capable of summoning Shadows and had use of a Persona, Phoebe	Unknown	Alumnus, deceased, killed by Ludmilla puppeteered by Hastur
????	???	Unknown	Parker	Yellow Eyes	Unknown	Alumnus
????	???	Unknown	Jones	Yellow Eyes	Unknown	Alumnus
????	???	Unknown	Ying	Yellow Eyes	Unknown	Alumnus
????	000	Aether, Classical Element Batch	Aether, Element Zero, Eezo, Altera, Atilla†	Culmination of fellow elements' capaibilites	Unknown	Deceased, communicates with Ludmilla via Collective Unconscious
????	001	Wood, Classical Element Batch	Wood†	"Adaptability"	Unknown	Deceased
????	002	Fire, Classical Element Batch	Fire†	"Potency"	Unknown	Deceased
????	003	Water, Classical Element Batch	Water†	"Capacity"	Unknown	Deceased
????	004	Air, Classical Element Batch	Air†	"Reflexes"	Unknown	Deceased
????	005	Metal, Classical Element Batch	Metal, Bledha†	"Durability"	Unknown	Deceased
????	000	Neutronium	Neutronium	Might not exist	Unknown	Appeared to Mason in insomnia-induced delirium
????	022	Titanium	Titanium	Psychic, pyromancer paired with Vanadium	Unknown	Deceased, murdered by Gabriel
????	023	Vanadium	Vanadium	Psychic, cryomancer paired with Titanium	Unknown	Deceased, murdered by Gabriel's clone soldier forces
????	042	Molybdenum, Ramona's Batch	Ramona, Alumnus Forty-Two	Psychic, false memory implantation, total mind control	Aiura	Alumnus
????	050	Tin, Ramona's Batch	Mallory	Psychic, can enter a cryptobiotic state upon suffering physical or mental damage that seals off memories proportional to their recovery period	Unknown	Believed deceased, Memory altered by Axiom to throw off Templars
1992	045	Rhodium	Rhoda	Psychic, telepathy	Unknown	Escapee, Deceased; murdered by Adelinde
1998	001	Hydrogen	"Allerdyce Pratchett," Protium	Psychic, electrokinesis, visual and auditory illusions, brainwave mimicry, auric blank	Professor Yew, others	Escaped
2000	001	Hydrogen, Millennium Class	"Demetria," Deuterium	Psychic, hydrokinesis, cryokinesis, water divining, brainwave mimicry	Professor Yew, others	Former Alumnus, escaped
2000	111	Unununium, Millennium Class	Unununium†	Unknown	Unknown	Deceased; circumstances unknown
2001	005	Boron	Layla†	Psychic, cryokinesis	Unknown	Alumni, Deceased; Killed in self-defense by Chiyo
2001	006	Carbon	Diamond	Psychic, clairvoyance, chronokinesis (slowing/accelerating the flow of time, rreeffrraaccttiioonn of time into close parallel timelines, Mind of Crystal	Volo	Escaped, Aura Guardian
2001	017	Chlorine	Chloe	Psychic, Flying-type sub-element	Unknown	Escaped, free agent
2001	031	Gallium	Unknown†	Presumably Psychic	Unknown	Deceased, Sacrificed self to allow Batchmates to escape School captivity
2001	039	Yttrium	Unknown	Presumably Psychic	Unknown	Status unknown, possibly deceased
2001	054	Xenon	Zee	Psychic, gravity manipulation and Grass-type sub-element	Unknown	Escaped, free agent
2001	076	Osmium	Abe	Psychic, enhanced telekinesis	Unknown	Escaped; Alive but disabled
2001	077	Iridium	Chiyo, Katy Boundree, Ida	Psychic, specialization in barrier constructs and barrier-related pyrokinesis, Mind of Crystal	Unknown	Escaped, associated with the Oasis
2001	096	Curium	Unknown†	Presumably Psychic	Unknown	Deceased, died of cancer as side effect of rapid growth
2003	007	Nitrogen	Unknown	Presumably Psychic	Unknown	Unknown
2003	039	Yttrium	Known	Presumably Psychic	Unknown	Unknown
2003	076	Osmium	Ynos, Osmium	Auric, ability to quickly heal from mortal injury	Unknown	Escaped, in the service of Morata Macraul
2005	004	Beryllium	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
2005	022	Titanium	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
2005	030	Zinc	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
2005	033	Arsenic	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
2005	???	Unknown	Tanya the Mad	Yellow Eyes	Unknown	Active
2005	075	Wolfram	Ludmilla	Psychic, gravitational control	Unknown	Escaped, adopted by Dune and Deziree
2006	002	Helium, Phantom Class	Helium	Unknown, presumably Obscuric	Unknown	Status unknown
2006	006	Carbon, Phantom Class	Mason	Dark Obscuric, illusions and barriers, Life Obscura, Twilight Haze, Soul of Silver	Bloodline of Annoski	Escaped, joined J-Team
2006	007	Nitrogen, Phantom Class	Jen, Nitrogen	Ghost Obscuric, Ominous Wind, Delta Stream, overall Flying-type sub element	Hoennese Draconids	Temporarily escaped, currently reclaimed by the School as a hunter
2006	015	Phosphorus, Phantom Class	Percy, Phosphorus	Ghost Obscuric, Electric Obscura, creates obscura-laced Electric Terrain that can reanimate bone constructs, capable of using powers to keep body mostly alive after being bisected	Unknown	Escaped, free agent
2006	028	Nickel, Phantom Class	Nickel†	Unknown, presumably Obscuric	Unknown	Deceased, murdered by Adelinde
2006	031	Gallium, Phantom Class	Gallium†	Unknown, presumably Obscuric	Unknown	Deceased, murdered by Adelinde
2006	033	Arsenic, Phantom Class	Phoenix, Vulture	Life Obscura to repair own injuries and create false Pokémon	Unknown	Escaped, status unknown
2006	037	Rubidium, Phantom Class	Rubidium†	Unknown, presumably Obscuric	Unknown	Deceased, murdered by Adelinde
2006	042	Molybdenum, Phantom Class	Molybdenum†	Unknown, presumably Obscuric	Unknown	Deceased, circumstances unknown
2006	043	Technetium, Phantom Class	Technetium	Unknown, presumably Obscuric	Unknown	Unknown
2006	048	Cadmium, Phantom Class	Cadmium	Unknown, presumably Obscuric	Unknown	Possibly deceased
2006	078	Platinum, Phantom Class	Alonya Polnoch	Ghost Obscuric, shadow travel and offensive constructs	Umbra	Escaped, joined Team Iron and later the J-Team
2006	080	Mercury, Phantom Class	Rory	Dark Obscuric, visual and auditory illusions that mimic pyrokinesis, tactile illusions	Unknown	Escaped
2006	092	Uranium, Phantom Class	Uranium†	Unknown, presumably Obscuric	Unknown	Deceased, murdered by Adelinde
2006	100	Fermium, Phantom Class	Ten-Zero†	Literal ghost	Unknown	Deceased, returned as ghost, paired with the Puppeteer
2010	026	Iron	Big Iron, Stewart Mertens	Psychic, ferrokinesis	Unknown	Escaped, associated with the Oasis
2011	052	Tellurium	Talia Athebyne, Telly	Psychic, Dragon-type sub-element	Unknown	Alumnus
201?	010	Neon	Neon	Unknown	Unknown	Escaped, joined J-Team
2021	001	Hydrogen, Freshman Class	Trina, Tritium	Psychic, nullification of other auric powers	Professor Yew, others	Escaped
2021	004	Beryllium, Freshman Class	Bela	Psychic, Aura Drain, memory extraction	Kahlia Mahelona	In custody
2021	007	Nitrogen, Freshman Class	Sophie, Skates	Psychic, superhuman speed, cryokinesis	Unknown	In custody
2021	008	Oxygen, Freshman Class	Oliver Rivers	Psychic, aerokinesis, hydrokinesis, weather manipulation	Unknown	Escaped
2021	014	Silicon, Freshman Class	Silicon	Psychic, paralysis, ability nullification	Unknown	In custody
2021	022	Titanium, Freshman Class	Titanium	Psychic, barrier projection, pseudo-invisibility, SEP Fields, psychic linking	Unknown	In custody
2021	023	Vanadium, Freshman Class	Vana†	Psychic, mind-reading, memory theft, enhanced skills acquisition	Unknown	On the run in life. Deceased.
2021	026	Iron, Freshman Class	Freshman #26, Little Iron, Rusty	Psychic, molecular level ferrokinesis	Unknown	Escaped, associated with the Oasis
2021	036	Krypton	Freshman #36. Jordan Elliot	Psychic, enhanced skill acquisition, enhanced physical abilities	Dr. Azala, others	In custody
2021	038	Strontium	Freshman #38, Strontium	Psychic, perception alteration ("illusions"), constructs	Ama, ???	In custody(?)
2021	041	Niobium	Freshman #41, Nio	Psychic, mind manipulation	Unknown	In custody
2021	042	Molybdenum, Freshman Class	Freshman #42	Psychic, precognitive abilities in tandem with bonded Blipbug	Unknown	In custody
2021	048	Cadmium, Freshman Class	Freshman #48	Psychic, telepathy, manipulation of toxic substances	Unknown	In custody
2021	050	Tin, Freshman Class	Freshman #50	Unknown, presumably psychic	Unknown	In custody
2021	051	Antimony, Freshman Class	Freshman #51	Psychic, pyrokinesis	Unknown	In custody
2021	057	Cesium, Freshman Class	Casey	Psychic, mutual clairvoyance with Bismuth, enhanced skills acquisition	Unknown	In custody
2021	059	Praseodymium, Freshman Class	Freshman #59†	Unknown, presumably psychic	Unknown	Deceased, exact circumstances unknown
2021	060	Neodymium, Freshman Class	Freshman #60	Psychic, feedback loops, dicognition	Unknown	In custody
2021	071	Lutetium, Freshman Class	Freshman #71	Psychic, teleportation specialist	Unknown	In custody
2021	078	Platinum, Freshman Class	Tina Giovanna-Hoshizora	Psychic, light manipulation, electrokinesis, sleep induction, vertigo induction	Unknown	In custody
2021	079	Gold, Freshman Class	Aurelia Vatona Giovanna-Hoshizora, Goldy	Psychic, light manipulation, electrokinesis, visual and tactile illusions	Unknown	Escaped, on the run
2021	080	Mercury, Freshman Class	Freshman #80	Psychic, Aura infusion, cryokinesis, heat conduction, mental manipulation, Negative Gates	Unknown	In custody
2021	081	Thallium, Freshman Class	Freshman #81	Psychic, Aura sensing, telepathy, SEP Field, hallucination inducement, emotional suppression	Unknown	In custody
2021	083	Bismuth, Freshman Class	Meredith	Psychic, mutual clairvoyance with Cesium, enhanced skills acquisition	Unknown	In custody
2021	085	Astatine, Freshman Class	Freshman #85	Psychic, out-of-body projection, technopathy, total mind control	Unknown	Previously hid in the School's computer networks; Escaped, presently in PEFE custody
2021	086	Radon, Freshman Class	Radon	Psychic, pyrokinesis, flight	Ian	In custody
2021	087	Kalosium, Freshman Class	Kal	Psychic, visual and auditory illusions	Unknown	Escaped, lives with Professor Yew's family
2021	088	Radium, Freshman Class	Unknown†	Unknown (in life), Standard Frillish powers	Unknown	Deceased, escaped, lives with Professor Yew's family
2021	090	Thorium, Freshman Class	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	In custody
2021	108	Hassium, Freshman Class	Freshman #108†	Unknown (in life), Standard Duskull powers	Unknown	Deceased, In custody
2021	118	Oganesson, Freshman Class	Oggy, Gyozo	Psychic, Immersive sensory illusions	Victor Helstrand and another Aura Vampire	In custody