Power Academy

Started in August 2011, Power Academy is a Forumotion roleplay forum centering around the eponymous boarding school for teens with superpowers. A freeform tale of action, adventure, romance, comedy, drama, and tropes. Lots and lots of tropes. There's a character page here.

Found here.


 * Academy of Adventure
 * Academy of Evil: Played with; the Academy trains both heroes and villains, but is considered neutral ground.
 * Aerith and Bob: There are characters with names like James, Sebastian, Valerie, Simon and Alice, as well as characters with names like Swilium, Talan, Midnight, Lightning and Atiago.
 * Action Girl and Dark Action Girl: Inevitable given the setting.
 * Bigger on the Inside: The Rec Hall--any room can be generated instantly upon opening the door based on what the guest is imagining. Want an Olympic-sized swimming pool? Bam, you have one.
 * This applies to the forum in general; over time, rooms and areas are added as needed.
 * Boarding School
 * Cast of Snowflakes
 * Chekhov's Gun, Chekhov's Gunman: Many plot elements are foreshadowed beforehand; long before the school uniforms were made, Valerie was seen sketching designs for them, for instance.
 * City of Adventure: The town outside campus.
 * Extranormal Institute
 * Fan Service: Plentiful, with both the male and female varieties.
 * Fantasy Kitchen Sink
 * Five-Man Band: Dr. Archer gives a lecture on the trope in Team Relations 101.
 * Foot Focus: Particularly with El Terre and Dahlia.
 * Four-Girl Ensemble: Out of Zeitgeist's characters: Lightning (the cute one), Alice (the (relatively) mannish one), Dahlia (the sexy one), and Valerie (a hybrid of cute and sexy).
 * Four-Temperament Ensemble: Out of El Terre's characters: Fury (choleric), El Terre (sanguine), Aqua (phlegmatic), and Christine (melancholic/supine).
 * Genre Busting: As the description above would indicate. There are elements of adventure, comedy, romance, drama, science fiction, and slice of life throughout the roleplay.
 * Hard Light: Used in Timmy's holoroom and Alexei's simulator grounds.
 * "I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
 * Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Isaac comments on the fact that it's snowing on the second day: "Right now, it's at the end of summer, supposedly. Then again, for some strange reason, it does feel like we've already been here for months..."
 * Lightning Gun: Part of Talan's laser collection.
 * Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness: Anywhere from 1 to 3 Depending on the User.
 * Mood Whiplash: Things can become unexpectedly chaotic and dire at the drop of a hat.
 * Morality Kitchen Sink
 * The Multiverse: Alluded to multiple times.
 * NGO Superpower: The Dark Star, Alexei's terrorist organization.
 * Official Couple / Battle Couple: So far, Talan/Lightning, Valerie/Simon, El Terre/Alice, Alderon/Foremen, Wendy/Tala, Fury/Dahlia, Harken/Magi, Swilium/Aqua, and James/Lily.
 * Pop-Cultured Badass: EVERYONE.
 * Rule 63: An entire Alternate Universe thread devoted to it.
 * Super-Hero School
 * These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: The Great Old Ones, according to Simon.
 * Triang Relations: Type 5 (initially) between Aqua (a), Swilium (b) and Christine (c). Type 8 between Wendy, Tala and Isaac.
 * Two-Person Pool Party: Subverted in that sex does not occur.
 * Webcomic Time: Due to the play-by-post nature of the roleplay, time works very strangely in-universe.
 * World of Badass
 * Zettai Ryouiki: The miniskirt variation is part of the female uniform.
 * Zombie Apocalypse: One of the non-canon side stories.