My Superhero Academy University - Characters
-Who We Are, Imagine Dragons
Squad One in My Superhero Academy
Squad One is...tricky. It is affectionately known as 'Team Anime' but also as team dark secrets, as about everyone on that squad has some dark secret which they confide in no one. (At least at first). For team dynamics, it loosely orbits around Zach as its main drivers are the Bash Brothers (Zach and Sam) and the Battle Couple (Zach and Yoko). Shane and Ellie are dormmates but both have stronger interactions outside the squad.
- Dark Secret: Every member of the squad save Sam has one bubbling under their skin. And Sam is excluded only because he had a year to spill his already.
- Sentai: Affectionately known as Team Anime
- An Ice Person
- Our Werebeasts Are Different
- Pretty Boy: Contrasting with Shane's more buffed out looks, Sam is more of a pretty boy, with a more lean look.
- An Ice Person: Has ice powers, and claims that is all he has.
- Beneath the Mask: On the surface, a Dumb Jock out to have sex, lift, and party hardy. On the inside, a cold-blooded, ruthless man associated with mercenaries. He uses the phrase "evil succeeds when good men do nothing" in a way that means "evil wins if good isn't willing to suspend all niceness and do what needs to be done."
- Combat Pragmatist: Uses his ice powers extremely pragmatically, including freezing people to the bone, trying to mess up their running, dropping icicles...
- Dark Secret: His real personality and the true extent of his powers.
- Dumb Jock: On the surface at least.
- Everyone Has Standards: As messed up and calculating as Shane is, even he has his limits. He found Mikael's growing egotism, conceit, and questionable attitudes to be readily detestable.
- Heroic Build: Shane is absolutely ripped, his looks copied from an outright male model.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: As part of his jock act, Shane is very much the typical sex hungry dudebro. He's very open about what he does and with who.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: Very different from other werewolves in the RP. Unlike them, he shifts between forms quickly and easily, and is differentiated by being called a Skinwalker instead of a Werewolf. In other words, a powerful, sorcerous werewolf associated with unsavory activities.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: His typical speed—he does bad things to bad people. He extorted and blackmailed his teachers in his old school...because they were taking advantage of at risk students in a number of ways, with one teacher implied to be using the at risk students in a distinctly despicable way.
- Pragmatic Hero: Under the mask. He's willing to countenance wounding, maiming and all sorts of dirty fighting if it means less people die vs. the alternative.
- Shirtless Scene: For most of the cast, being teleported out of their clothes was embarrassing. For Shane, it was a chance to show off his rippling musculature.
- Stepford Smiler: Happy, perverted and somewhat hilarious jock on the surface, cold blooded mercenary on the inside. Though its even more eerie when he shows both "sides" blend together naturally.
- Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Averted - Shane packs hand guns. Not that they played much of a role in the fight they were involved in. It was more the surprise he was willing to use those kinds of things.
A feral creature of unknown origin discovered in the forests near Super City. Later dubbed "Wren" due to her abundance of birdlike traits (that and her remarkable ability of vocal mimicry), her behaviours in the wild were studied up until she got into a rather nasty fight with a bear and was grievously injured—resulting in the Saint Foundation having to intervene to give her medical attention. In the time spent with her recovering, it was decided that her unidentified nature should be subject to study to avoid a similar situation in the future, and thus Wren was rendered somewhat of a curiosity to a group of researchers both nonhuman and human alike. With her powers eventually making her too much of a handful (her teleportation couldn't be halted by any known means of power nullification), Wren was transferred over to the brand new Saint University in hopes that being surrounded by equally strange individuals would help ease her into society (and thus make her easier to deal with). With more animalistic behaviours than human, Wren may be lacking in conventional intelligence, but her loyalty to those who manage to get through to her is undying.
Tropes
- Cute Monster Girl: Considered such by a few of the class in her first appearance. Her large eyes, infantile nature, and limited vocabulary probably contribute to this.
- Healing Factor: Downplayed variant. Wren can heal wounds up to and including entire lost limbs, but it can take hours for the process to even begin to kick in and weeks for it to fully complete.
- Hulk Speak: Commonly talks like this due to her feral nature.
- Humanoid Abomination: A creature described to be so alien that it doesn't even show up on life scanners and is immune to teleport blockers. Her DNA is unrecognizable under scrutiny, and her powers seem to be fundamentally tied into her very existence.
- I'm Taking Her Home with Me!: Invoked this reaction with Ellie.
- Literal-Minded: Naturally, since there's nothing else she's needed to be before. In a class full of Deadpan Snarkers, though, one hopes Wren at the very least gets an understanding that not everything people say is true.
- Overly-Long Tongue: Possesses one, as seen when she attempted to devour the disguised Chibuzo. Justified due to her unknown nature and its need to unfurl.
- Super-Senses: Possesses insanely enhanced touch (with all the negatives that entails), enhanced vision and the ability to perceive thermals, a magnetic sense of direction, enhanced hearing, enhanced smell, and presumably an enhanced sense of taste. This all ties into her unknown biology—with her greater sense of touch helping her to avoid accidentally Telefraging.
- Teleportation: Her primary ability. Wren notably avoids Teleport Spam due to the fact that overuse of this power has the potential to suffocate her. The reasons for this (along with a lot of things about her) are unknown.
- Voice Changeling: Has the ability to perfectly copy both voices and animal sounds she hears. She mimics Dante's voice and later on a rat's squeaking in order to lure (what she assumed to be at the time) a delicious rodent treat into her mouth.
- Wild Child: Wren was discovered roaming in a forest with no discernible origin. As a result, her development has been stunted—to the point where it's unlikely she'll ever reach an intelligence level comparable to humans.
One of the new students of Saint University and Squad 1, Mason Bridges comes from a family of scientists who study the various dimensions and a conventional way to travel between then, when Mason's mom passed he took the technology that they'd been working on, a kind of suit designed to withstand the Elemental Planes, and went to Saint Academy to find a way to make a name for himself, and a way to traverse the planes and keep his parents dream alive.
Tropes
- Expy:
Word of God states that Mason is inspired by and takes characteristics from several Kamen Rider protagonists, such as his his love of science, his desire to make friends, and preference for elemental powers. - I Just Want to Be Special: Something Mason wants in the beginning is to be remembered, but a trip into a Nightmare Dimension fixes that desire before it becomes...a problem.
