The School

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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

Scientists

Templars

Yellow Eyes

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's Batch Ramona, Alumnus Forty-Two Psychic, false memory implantation, total mind control Aiura Alumnus
???? 050 Tin, Ramona's Batch Mallory Presumably Psychic, exact powerset unknown Unknown Believed deceased, Memory either suppressed or wiped
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 077 Iridium Chiko, Katy Boundree Psychic, abilities unknown Unknown Escaped, associated with the Oasis
2001 096 Curium Unknown Presumably Psychic Unknown Deceased, died of cancer as side effect of rapid growth
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 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 033 Arsenic, Phantom Class Phoenix, Vulture Life Obscura to repair own injuries and create false Pokémon 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 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 In custody
2021 042 Molybdenum, Freshman Class Freshman #42 Unknown, presumably psychic Unknown In custody
2021 050 Tin, Freshman Class Freshman #50 Unknown, presumably psychic 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
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