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Welcome, Welcome. students, to the Castle of Grave Academy, just your regular All-Ghouls School in Transylvania, but with a few twists; Grave Academy is a Brazilian, Forum-Based RPG, that started on September 2011, in this verse, Monsters walk among us humans, but they do so when they're not, you know, Hunting, being punished by their law if they don't do so.

But that's where Grave Academy comes in, to teach young monsters how to fit in this Human-dominated world, and there they can learn various subjects, like: Venoms and Antidotes, Camouflage, Defense, Wield of Weapons, and even Magic; The school is directed By the Headmaster, Jack Jerripher, a Eccentric Dullahan, and his Right-Hand Woman, Sophie Merryweather, a bossy Harpy.

A Canonic Fanfic was released on the forum itself in October 31th, specially because of Halloween, and it covers the stories of the recently-dead-turned-ghost Luke Truesdale, as he is welcomed to the World of Monsters by Jack Jerripher, and is invited to the school, where he befriends and interacts with various other classmates, like the snarky Witch, Blair Liddel, the vegetarian Kelpie, Gary Crawford, the competitive Werewolf, Brenda Thompson, and the Keet Wendigo, Kain Winchester, as they encounter various hardships through their school life, and their clashes with the Monster's sworn enemies, the renegade Hunters, along with other foes. Oh, who are we kidding there? Deconstruction, Gut Punch, Tear Jerker

Now has a characters page.

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Tropes used in Grave Academy include:

• Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The upcoming Grave Sewer Area, is this on steroids, since it contains raised walkways, tunnels and even a Shop.
• Action Girl: Sophie, though most female characters are implied to be this, but the series hasn't shown a fight with them yet.
  • Brenda, Blair, Carmela and Juliet confirmed as of chapter 8.
  • Let's just say that women are not the fragile sex in here...
• Affably Evil: Most monsters qualify.
• Alpha Bitch: Juliet.
• All-Ghouls School: No, Duh
• Exclusively Evil: Feral Monsters, and most Hunters.
  • Not most, just most until now, but we are told that they are mostly good.
  • Actually NONE of the Hunters seen until now were evil! Except Mooks
• Badass: Lots of Characters, but more prominently, Jack, Sophie, Margareth and Samantha.
• Battle Aura: Powerful Monsters when they get serious.
• Ballroom Blitz: Played With, it looks like Jack and the crew are gonna do this, but they are gonna join the fireworks party instead.
• Berserk Button: Bad-parenting to Kain, and parental abandonment to Ran Mao.
  • Harming a student in front of Jack.
  • Call Margareth a little girl. I.DARE.YOU.
  • Remind Jack and Sophie of how They couldn't protect Teresa
• Big Damn Heroes: The J-Trinity and Carmela saving Luke e Co. from Beast!Brenda
• Big Good: Jeliel for the Monsters, and Igor for the Hunters.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: the Fanfic is gonna do this.
  • It does, A LOT
• Building of Adventure: The Castle.
• Bunny Ears Lawyer: Most of the Council of Swords count.
• Calling Your Attacks: They don't actually call them, but their names appear in a stylized way.
• The Capital of Brazil Is Buenos Aires: Averted Hard, since it's a Brazilian Forum.
• The Chessmaster: The leader of the Renegade Hunters is played up like this.
• Circus of Fear: the Pierrot Machité area.
  • Also, a big part of the sequel
• Cliff Hanger: Chapter 8 of the first one and Chapter 19 of the sequel
• Cloudcuckoolander: Werewolves with their moon nearby, and Jack Jerripher, BIG time.
• Cool Old Guy: Yuji, the Jellyfish Youkai.
• Creepy Child: Margareth Rabbit, the torture teacher, takes the form of a nine year old girl.
  • Also Helena Minovich of the Council.
• Crowning Moment of Funny
  • 'He then felt the acidic smell of a room full of teenage boys by the morning' funny because it's true.
  • 'He Thinks he has a Chance with her!'
  • Luke and Blair's exchange about the latter's hair at the Fireworks party.
• Cute Witch: Blair.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Most of the cast, living in a world where your species is dominated by others isn't pleasant.
• Dem Bones: Skeletons of course.
• Dissonant Serenity: The Torture Teacher is a... Wererabbit?
• Eccentric Mentor: Most Teachers, and the Headmaster, in spades.
• Elemental Powers:
  • Playing with Fire
  • Blow You Away
  • Making a Splash
  • Dishing Out Dirt
  • An Ice Person
  • Shock and Awe
  • Holy Hand Grenade
  • Casting a Shadow
  • Green Thumb
  • Poisonous Person
  • Extra Ore Dinary: The Crystal Alignment, kind of.
• Evil Plan: The Six Renegade Hunters (current villains in the Fanfic) are setting up a nice evil plan...
• Mr. Fanservice: Gary,and Jack too.
• Faux Action Girl: Margareth hasn't participated in any action, but she certainly has the attitude.
  • later subverted.
• Five-Man Band
  • The Hero: Luke/Ghost
  • The Lancer: Gary/Kelpie
  • The Smart Guy: Brenda/Werewolf
  • The Big Guy: Kain/Wendigo
  • The Chick: Blair/Witch
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: Monsters assume a Human form so that they don't get exposed to humans.
• Genius Loci: The Castle seems to have a mind of it's own.
• Giant Spider: The Arachne Species.
• Guile Hero: Jack, sometimes.
• Gratuitous English: Since this is a Brazilian Portuguese forums, most magic, although Sophie's are Gratuitous Greek.
• Hammerspace: Jack's magic spell, Chariot.
  • Most of his spells have something to do with that.
• Handsome Lech: Kain.
• Headless Horseman: The Dullahan Species, most prominently, the Headmaster.
• Healing Factor: All Monsters have this.
• Hellish Pupils: Show up every now and then.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Kain in the end of chapter 8.
• Horny Devils: The Succubi and Incubi.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Many monsters have this as backstory because they're not always evil.
• Immortality: Type 2, but they do have an accelerated Healing.
• Kappa
• Kitsune
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: Daphne, in human form, although she IS a cat (Nekomata) in her real form.
• Kraken and Leviathan.
• Lady of War: Sophie, elegant, quick, and powerful.
• Lawful Stupid: Mooks of the Council of Swords seem to be this.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Juliet.
• Lunacy: What's like for werewolves when the full moon is near
• Mad Bomber: Blair's Pumpkin Bomb and Pumpkin Grenade.
• Meaningful Name: To name a few, Jack Jerripher (Jack the Ripper and the Reaper), Samantha Kindersley and Sophie Merryweather (guess one of her powers).
  • Margareth Rabbit takes the prize.
• Mismatched Eyes: Vampires sometimes have them.
• Mistaken for Gay: Luke and Gary at the Fireworks Party.
• Mood Whiplash: DEAR LORD CHAPTER 8! Starts with a lot of humour regarding Brenda, Luke, Margareth, Samantha and Kain, and ends with a rampaging Brenda cornering the group, whose members are already in a bloody mess themselves, and them she ALMOST KILLS KAIN! luckily, the J's and Carmela arrived, but the chapter ends with the cliffhanger... and will only come back on 12/02!
• Nature Spirit: Nymphs, like Samantha, and Ents.
• Noodle Incident: Whatever it was that made Grigori hate Jack.
  • What happened to the Movie Room and the fourth floor's Bathroom.
• OOC Is Serious Business: When Jack stops having fun, it's Over.
• Our Angels Are Different
• Our Elves Are Better
• Our Genies Are Different: The Djinn Species.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Normally have Mismatched Eyes, but they turn into a blood-red color when hungry.
• Power Gives You Wings: Winged Species in general.
• Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner: Juliet: You Called? on the end of chapter 8.
• Psychic Powers
• Reality Warper: Jack is hinted to be this.
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Most of the monsters, really.
• Red Baron: Members of the Council of Swords to a mythical sword.^[context?]
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: One of the Vampire's traits in this series is that their eyes turn Red when they get hungry.
• Red Herring: Current arc is setting up Carmela to be one of the hunters, but it doesn't seem that likely.
• Rule of Cool: Basis of the Series.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful: Juliet.
• Shout-Out: Blair's name to The Blair Witch Project, and her last name, Liddel, to Alice in Wonderland.
  • Maybe Kain Winchester to Supernatural.
  • The Council Of Swords, having 10 members, with sword-motifs, are kinda like the Espada in Bleach, only good.
  • Carmela Sherridan‍'‍s name and last name, and being a Vampire, to Sherridan LeFanu, the writer of Carmilla.
• Summon Magic: Experienced Monsters and Wizards can do this via Pentagrams, summoning Feral Monsters.
• Super-Powered Evil Side: Brenda's Beast Mode.
• Telepathy: Most Experienced Monsters are able to do this.
• Town with a Dark Secret: The True Cross Village.
• Trickster Mentor: ALL teachers, to varying degrees.
• Tsundere: Sophie, Big Time.
  • Carmela and Juliet too.
• Überwald: Where the series takes place.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Jack and Sophie.
• Wide Open Sandbox: With over 70 species of monsters to choose!
• Wizards and Witches
• Wreathed in Flames: Salamanders and Dragons more prominently, but some Fire-Alignment Techniques do this.
• Wolf Man: One of the Species.
• The Worf Effect: Kain's battle with Beast!Brenda.
• Youkai: Various.
• Zombie Apocalypse: One was seemingly attempted in the Canonic Story, but was apparently cut short when the zombie-virus vaccine became too expensive, and the Council had to wipe out the human's memories of this, they apparently call that the world war II now...