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.

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 artificially aged up in order to move to testing quickly, so despite having an apparent age between 6 to 14, they may be chronologically far younger. 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. 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.

Apart from an alias that they may use when dealing with non-School personnel, they have no true name to start with, instead being referred to by their number or whatever element their number corresponds to. Often enough, said name is in some way derived from their element. There are normally approximately 118 children in a single School batch. Schoolchildren further in the production line have differing names based on the year, as their designations often follow the official naming scheme used in the [IUPAC]. As a result, Schoolchildren produced during a specific year often did not 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.

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. Over the course of several centuries, the School produced Schoolchildren in batches. A few of these "classes" have been given names. While these are normally comprised of Psychics, 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.

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 enforcers, and so lack the growth issues of their counterparts. Often, they 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.

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

Templars

• Bren the Scorcher
• Delphi Thousand-Eyes
• Cassidy the Perfect
• Magnus the Legendary
•  ??? the Firebrand
• Ferrum the Engineer
• Demetria (Murdered)

Yellow Eyes

• Tanya the Mad
• Parker and Jones
• Ying
• Felicia

Other

• Kahlia (test subject; escaped)
• Lucille Cain (sleeper agent)
• Allerdyce Pratchett (henchperson; murdered)

Known Schoolchildren

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

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
????	042	Molybdenum	Ramona	Psychic, false memory implantation, total mind control	Unknown	Alumnus
1998	001	Hydrogen	"Allerdyce Pratchett," Protium	Psychic, electrokinesis, visual and auditory illusions, brainwave mimicry, auric blank	Professor Yew, others	Escaped
2000	001	Hydrogen	"Demetria," Deuterium	Psychic, hydrokinesis, cryokinesis, water divining, brainwave mimicry	Professor Yew, others	Former Alumnus, escaped
2000	111	Unununium	Unununium†	Unknown	Unknown	Deceased; circumstances unknown
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	006	Carbon, Phantom Class	Mason	Dark Obscuric, illusions and barriers, Life Obscura, potential for Twilight	Bloodline of Annoski	Escaped, joined J-Team
2006	033	Arsenic, Phantom Class	Phoenix, Vulture	Life Obscura to repair own injuries and create false Pokemon	Unknown	Escaped, status unknown
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	Auric, visual and auditory illusions that mimic pyrokinesis, tactile illusions	Unknown	Escaped
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	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	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	079	Gold, Freshman Class	Aurelia Vatona Giovanna-Hoshizora, Goldy	Psychic, light manipulation, electrokinesis, visual and tactile illusions	Unknown	Unknown, possibly escaped
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	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	118	Oganesson, Freshman Class	Oggy, Gyozo	Psychic, Immersive sensory illusions	Victor Helstrand and another Aura Vampire	In custody