YMMV / Morning Glories

• Complete Monster: In a story full of twists and revelations, the following duo are the worse that the Morning Glories Academy has seen:
  • Reginald Gribbs is Georgina Daramount's right hand and the muscle of the school. Loyal to the Morning Glories Academy, Gribbs works with Daramount to bring children to the school, being willing to use physical threats to force their families to comply. When a woman refused to separate from her children, Gribbs violently beat her before Daramount burned her house with the woman inside. In the present, Gribbs is introduced allowing a rebellious student to be gruesomely killed by a mysterious being, seeing this as a good signal. Later, when Daramount subjects the teenage protagonists to a potentially fatal Secret Test of Character, Gribbs opposes this, due to his desire to simply kill them. Realizing that Casey believes that the Academy wouldn't physically hurt her, Gribbs proves her wrong by calling his favorite student and personally strangling him in front of her. Keeping his former friend Abraham captive, Gribbs regularly beats him and tries to force his biological son Ike to kill him by strangling a girl that he believed was Ike's girlfriend in front of him. A man that enjoys using violence, Mr. Gribbs is an Evil Teacher even by the standards of the Morning Glories Academy.
  • Ian Simon, while initially introduced as merely an arrogant nerd with an inferiority complex, ultimately ends up being far worse. Furious at his lack of success and that his crush Ikiko loved their classmate Fortunato, Ian helps in acts that would endanger reality while intending to use a machine to rewrite reality, ultimately causing a situation that endangers at least hundreds of students. Jealous of an injured Fortunato, Ian sends one of his clones to brutally beat him to death, insulting his faith and promising to erase him from existence. When Ikiko is shocked for his actions, Ian tries to calm her before another of his clones strangles her. Apathetic at having killed his supposed love, Ian continues his experiment, uncaring of anything but his own wishes.
• Funny Moments: When the students are brought in, they all fall asleep on the transport (implied they were gassed) there. The words are repeated by the driver verbatim... until Zoe interrupts him to say "Oh! I never get tired after long flights", and the proceeds to just slow the car down enough for her to hit her head on the window, knocking her out.
• Ho Yay: Jun has some with Hunter. Lampshaded by Ike.
• The Woobie: Many, but especially Jade.
  • And Hunter.
  • And Fortunato.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Zoe. And the real Jun.
  • Iron Woobie: Jun and Casey.

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