| abstract | - Paladin Academy: A Playground-Inspired Story is a Web Serial Novel written by Silverraptor on the GiantITP Forums. Originally a story about some of Silverraptor's friends as newbies in a school of Paladins, it has expanded to include a grand cast of... well, perhaps a dozen. The first arc involved an invasion from the Legions of Hell and a traitorous Senior Paladin attempting to slay our heroes, Viola and Kurama. Unsurprisingly, they survived. He didn't. It can be read in this thread on the forums.
* Academy of Adventure: Well, duh.
* Action Girl: Female Paladins, notably Viola and Penny.
* Actual Pacifist: Blue Ghost.
* All There in the Manual: There is a list of posters and their "characters" including ones who have yet to appear.
* Assassin: Recaiden.
* Battle Couple: Viola and Kurama could evolve in this direction.
* Big Bad: Mangosta the Demon King. Also King Lock.
* Calling Your Attacks: The paladin's powers, although this seems to be optional since they pick the names themselves.
* Chekhov's Gunman: Grim, first seen in part 1 and returns in part 17 after his Face Heel Turn.
* Chekhov's Skill: Viola's unarmed combat trick.
* Cool Chair: Mordokai has one.
* Convenient Coma: Happens to paladins who get separated from their crystals.
* Conveniently an Orphan: Prerequisite for the Paladin's Call to Adventure
* Elemental Powers:
* An Ice Person: Kurama's power.
* Casting a Shadow: Grim's power.
* Light'Em Up: Nil's power.
* Make Me Wanna Shout: Viola's power.
* Playing with Fire: Lix's power.
* From Nobody to Nightmare: Grim: from ordinary kid to first Blackguard and nearly destroyer of paladin order, to be specific.
* Dark Is Evil: Grim. After going rogue, that is.
* Dark Is Not Evil: Grim. It is implied that while he was still Jerkass whilst a paladin, he was not evil.
* Evil Gloating: Mangosta mostly, but also Grim, Recaiden and Sarudrak.
* Extranormal Institute: The Paladin Academy.
* Gilligan Cut: Bis suggests Nil is messing about with Mordakai's chair when the later's been left in charge. Cut to Nil spinning around in the chair while speaking to Blue.
* Healing Factor: Grim's secondary power.
* Heart Is an Awesome Power: Nil's view of his power.
* Heroes Prefer Swords: Paladins.
* Heroic Sacrifice: Viola and Kurama both come close to it.
* Instant Expert: Rabbit, Viola too, albeit to a lesser extent
* Kid Hero: Most Paladins in Training, especially Penny.
* Lawful Good: Mordocai especially.
* Light Is Good: Mordocai.
* Love Makes You Evil: Mordocai hints at his fear of this, though he might be proven wrong.
* Loyal Phlebotinum: Paladin Crystals.
* Manipulative Bastard: Mangosta. Just...Mangosta. The number of characters that have NOT been manipulated by him during the course of the first arc can be counted with one hand.
* Mutual Kill: Grim and Viola seemingly do this, but one part later it is revealed that Viola survived after all.Grim bit it for real, though.
* Naive Newcomer: Viola.
* Nigh Invulnerability: Mangosta has this, as he just will not stay dead, no matter what. Even Grim does not know what it would take to kill him.
* Not Quite Dead: The heroes shatter Mangosta to pieces. He is very much not dead.
* Nothing Can Stop Us Now: Or so Grim thinks when night falls, amplifying his power to even greater heights. He is proven wrong
* Personality Powers: Averted. While every Character has unique powers, they are not openly related to their personality.
* Play-Along Prisoner: Exactly As Planned.
* Power Crystal: The Paladin's Power Source.
* Pride: Grim's Fatal Flaw.
* Reasonable Authority Figure: Mordokai.
* She Is Not My Girlfriend: Kurama and Viola.
* Signature Move: Unlocked Cystal's Powers
* Suicide Mission: A 14-year old girl invading hell alone? Yeah, that qualifies.
* Swivel Chair Antics: Nil, when Mordokai leaves him in charge.
* The Paladin: Most (main) characters.
* The Starscream: It is implied that Grim would have eventually turned against Mangosta, having his own plan to cut the demons loose after they had served their purpose.
* The Stinger: Recaiden speaking with The King.
* Thwarted Coup De Grace : Mangosta, several times in a row.
* Took a Level In Badass: Paladins do this when they unlock their crystals.
* Training From Hell: Viola receives a good-natured version of this from Rabbit.
* Tsundere: Viola shows signs of this behavior.
* Unresolved Sexual Tension: Kurama and Viola.
* Voluntary Shapeshifting: Jesse's Power is to partially become a dragon.
* Your Days Are Numbered: At least according to Recaiden they are if you end up on his hit list. Bonus points for explaining the manner of victim's death in detail beforehand, too.
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