Hydrogen

Symbol: H
Student number: 001
Group: hydrogen
Category: gaseous non-metal

The oldest of all the students at Academy 118, although she doesn’t look like it. She’s usually friendly, upbeat, and optimistic, but she can be quite explosive at times, especially if you make fun of her height. She enjoys swimming, spending time in the sun, and hanging out with her best friends, Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen.

Helium

Symbol: He
Student number: 002
Group: noble gases
Category: gaseous non-metal

The small, timid and easily bullied type. He’s constantly being terrorized by the heavy metals, who make fun of his squeaky voice, and he often wishes he could just float away.

Lithium

Symbol: Li
Student number: 003
Group: alkali metals
Category: solid metal

A technology expert and child at heart. He loves building drones, remote-controlled cars, and toy guns, and his phone never seems to run out of battery.

Beryllium

Symbol: Be
Student number: 004
Group: alkaline earth metals
Category: solid metal

Beryllium might seem small and sweet, but she’s actually quite toxic. She likes wearing emeralds and aquamarine and is surprisingly strong for her size.

Boron

Symbol: B
Student number: 005
Group: boron group
Category: solid metalloid

A straight-laced, hardworking student who can be quite abrasive at times. He’s a bit obsessive about keeping things clean, and he’s heard way too many jokes about how his name sounds like "boring."

Carbon

Symbol: C
Student number: 006
Group: carbon group
Category: solid non-metal

An multitalented, straight-A student who’s joined almost all the clubs at school. She suffers from dissociative identity disorder: usually in her Graphite form, she switches to her Diamond persona in bouts often triggered by stress. She has a number of rarer personalities as well.

An animal lover to the core, Carbon shares her dorm room not only with her best friend, Hydrogen, but also with her pets, including her cats Methane and Octane, her dog Acetylene, her rattlesnake Benzene, her hawk Acetone, and many, many more. When she’s not busy studying for the Universal Biology Olympiad, she enjoys gardening, writing, nature walks, and fizzy drinks.

Nitrogen

Symbol: N
Student number: 007
Group: nitrogen group
Category: gaseous non-metal

A calm, cool introvert who collects model cars and rockets. He’s lost count of how many times he’s had to keep his best friend and roommate, Oxygen, out of trouble. His favourite season is winter and he loves snowboarding, skiing, and skating.

Oxygen

Symbol: O
Student number: 008
Group: oxygen group
Category: gaseous non-metal

An energetic, outgoing athlete who especially loves long-distance running and swimming. As the president of the Student Council, he’s super-popular and makes friends easily. He can be hotheaded and a bit of a troublemaker sometimes, but you just can't live without him. He has a strange liking for setting fires and once accidentally burned down the entire left wing of the school.

Fluorine

Symbol: F
Student number: 009
Group: halogens
Category: gaseous non-metal

A mean, corrosive student with a brilliant but venomous smile. She and her band of friends, including Chlorine, Beryllium, and Antimony, stalk the school grounds whispering and making catty remarks about the meeker girls. She’s the school’s biggest fan of the Electrons card game, always on the hunt for the rare 2P6 Electron so she can complete her second set.

Neon

Symbol: Ne
Student number: 010
Group: noble gases
Category: gaseous non-metal

Though Neon may dress in bright, flashy colours, she’s actually one of the shyest students at Academy 118. She loves her red highlights and glowing jewelry, but wishes they didn’t call so much attention to herself.

Sodium

Symbol: Na
Student number: 011
Group: alkali metals
Category: solid metal

Like the rest of the alkalis, Sodium is often found hanging out with Chlorine and the other halogens, but isn’t quite as mean-spirited as them. He has good reflexes and enjoys ocean sports such as surfing. He loves eating chips, pretzels, beef jerky, and anything with salt on it. He gets angered quite easily.

Magnesium

Symbol: Mg
Student number: 012
Group: alkaline earth metals
Category: solid metal

A strong athlete and fast runner with a passion for auto racing. In his spare time, he likes going go-karting, playing racing video games, and relaxing with an Epsom salt bath.

Aluminum

Symbol: Al
Student number: 013
Group: boron group
Category: solid metal

An average-looking student who doesn’t call much attention to himself. His favourite subject is engineering and he loves building things, especially model airplanes. Although his speed and agility make him a great badminton player, he’s skinny and a bit weak and longs to be stronger. As a child, he was even richer than Gold, but he’s lost all his wealth since and hardly remembers that time. He prefers to be called “Aluminium” (with an ‘i’), but only a few people use that name.

Silicon

Symbol: Si
Student number: 014
Group: carbon group
Category: solid metalloid

A gifted student with extremely high mathematical ability, Silicon is an expert problem solver who has brought home neckfuls of medals from international computing and math olympiads. She rarely needs pencil and paper and can do immense calculations in her head. She absolutely loves computer science, being the president of Academy 118’s CS and math clubs, and she once wrote a Piet interpreter in assembly just for fun. She can recite an arbitrary number of digits of pi because she hasn’t actually memorized any of the digits. She just calculates them on the spot. The only class she doesn’t get good grades in is biology—she’s never understood it.

Phosphorus

Symbol: P
Student number: 015
Group: nitrogen group
Category: solid non-metal

A showy partygoer. Much like Oxygen, she’s very athletic and loves endurance sports. She enjoys lighting fireworks.

Sulfur

Symbol: S
Student number: 016
Group: oxygen group
Category: solid non-metal

The class clown whose sense of humour never matured past that of a ten-year-old. His idea of a good prank is sticking a whoopee cushion on someone’s chair, and he thinks fart jokes are hilarious. He’s really bad at cooking.

Chlorine

Symbol: Cl
Student number: 017
Group: halogens
Category: gaseous non-metal

A snarky student with bleach-blonde hair and a corrosive attitude. Like the rest of the halogens, she loves the Electrons card game. She’s the school’s star swimmer and spends most of her time near the pool. Her favourite colour is green.

Argon

Symbol: Ar
Student number: 018
Group: noble gases
Category: gaseous non-metal

An extremely introverted loner who doesn’t give two electrons about what others think of her. She almost never shows emotion. Unlike Helium and Neon, she’s actually been dragged to parties a few times, usually by Hydrogen (who tries to get her to be more outgoing) and Fluorine (who tries to steal Electron cards from her), which just intensifies her dislike for people. As she’s always reading history books in class and never seems to be doing her schoolwork, she might seem lazy, but in reality she just gets all her work done well in advance.

Potassium

Symbol: K
Student number: 019
Group: alkali metals
Category: solid metal

An energetic, reactive student much like the rest of the alkalis. He’s really into war history and collects miniature guns and cannons. His favourite food is the banana.

Calcium

Symbol: Ca
Student number: 020
Group: alkaline earth metals
Category: solid metal

A tall student who loves to drink milk and wears lots of seashell jewelry. She enjoys sculpting and wants to become an architect.

Scandium

Symbol: Sc
Student number: 021
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

The first student at Academy 118 that you probably haven’t heard of before. He plays on the school tennis and badminton teams, and although he’s just as good as Aluminum and rivals even the school’s star athlete Titanium, nobody ever seems to remember his name. He’s been described as “a metal that’s not very interesting,” which really annoys him.

Titanium

Symbol: Ti
Student number: 022
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

Though she may not look like it, Titanium is actually the strongest student at Academy 118. Apart from her incredible strength, she also possesses enormous speed, agility, and endurance, making her the school’s best athlete. She loves all kinds of sports, but especially enjoys tennis, lacrosse, and cycling. She’s accidentally broken off quite a few doorknobs while trying to open doors that were locked. Anybody who dares to call her cute will quickly find themselves being picked up and thrown across the room, and all the bullies, even Uranium and Plutonium, fear her.

Vanadium

Symbol: V
Student number: 023
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

An athletic student. She loves working with cars and aspires to be a mechanic.

Chromium

Symbol: Cr
Student number: 024
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

A flashy student who wears lots of rubies and can be quite mean at times. She loves cars and is always showing off her new motorcycle.

Manganese

Symbol: Mn
Student number: 025
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

An athletic student.

Iron

Symbol: Fe
Student number: 026
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

An tough, determined drill-sergeant type athlete who enjoys weightlifting and is the president of the Fitness Club. He has incredible strength and endurance, although he isn’t quite as agile as the other star athletes Titanium and Magnesium. He plays all kinds of sports and practices constantly as he doesn’t want to get rusty. His favourite colour is red.

Cobalt

Symbol: Co
Student number: 027
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

An artistic student who especially enjoys painting. She loves the colour blue and uses it in all of her works. Though she’s usually kind to others, she absolutely despises Platinum.

Nickel

Symbol: Ni
Student number: 028
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

A noble metal wannabe. Despite being in the same group as super-wealthy Platinum, she’s very poor and has to get most of her jewelry and clothing at the thrift store. She longs for the luxurious life of a noble metal and will do anything for the opportunity to get rich, even buying into Arsenic’s scams. She always tries to hang around Sliver, Gold, and Platinum, who find her annoying and mainly use her to carry their bags and fetch things for them.

Copper

Symbol: Cu
Student number: 029
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

The first element to join the Academy. Copper loves engineering and robotics and could probably build a four-function calculator using only a pack of toothpicks. She has heavily modified her dorm room, with motion-detecting lights, a bed that retracts into the wall, and secret compartments in the closet. Although she’s in the same group as Silver and Gold and could pass for a noble metal just by her looks, she isn't stuck up like them. In her free time, she plays trumpet in the school band and enjoys eating crab. Her eyes are Statue of Liberty green.

Zinc

Symbol: Zn
Student number: 030
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

A music lover who plays trumpet along with Copper in the school band.

Gallium

Symbol: Ga
Student number: 031
Group: boron group
Category: solid metal

Along with Arsenic, Gallium is the only student who can nearly match Silicon in coding skill. She has designed her own dress, embedding it with shimmering LEDs, which she can program to display any pattern. Her native language is French. She can’t stand hot weather, which often causes her to have meltdowns.

Germanium

Symbol: Ge
Student number: 032
Group: carbon group
Category: solid metalloid

A computer science lover who used to be an even better programmer than Silicon, but has slipped quite a bit since.

Arsenic

Symbol: As
Student number: 033
Group: nitrogen group
Category: solid metalloid

A charming and highly intelligent con artist. His programming skills are on par with those of Silicon, which angers her immensely. His hacking career began in the first grade, when he deleted all of Academy 118’s student records through an SQL injection attack. The other heavy metals Lead and Mercury (which he calls “the two imbeciles”) look up to him and are always trying to help him with his schemes, but they usually just end up getting in the way. He occasionally works with Antimony, although the two will backstab each other given the chance. His favourite food is rice.

Selenium

Symbol: Se
Student number: 034
Group: oxygen group
Category: solid non-metal

A member of the Computer Science Club. She’s good at cutting down bullies and many of the heavy metals are scared of her, especially Mercury.

Bromine

Symbol: Br
Student number: 035
Group: halogens
Category: liquid non-metal

Krypton

Symbol: Kr
Student number: 036
Group: noble gases
Category: gaseous non-metal

Rubidium

Symbol: Rb
Student number: 037
Group: alkali metals
Category: solid metal

Strontium

Symbol: Sr
Student number: 038
Group: alkaline earth metals
Category: solid metal

Yttrium

Symbol: Y
Student number: 039
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

Zirconium

Symbol: Zr
Student number: 040
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

Niobium

Symbol: Nb
Student number: 041
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

Molybdenum

Symbol: Mo
Student number: 042
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

An athletic student who also enjoys engineering.

Technetium

Symbol: Tc
Student number: 043
Group: transition metals
Category: solid radioactive metal

Ruthenium

Symbol: Ru
Student number: 044
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

A noble metal.

Rhodium

Symbol: Rh
Student number: 045
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

A noble metal.

Palladium

Symbol: Pd
Student number: 046
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

A noble metal who’s much wiser and less conceited than the rest.

Silver

Symbol: Ag
Student number: 047
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

Once on almost equal grounds with Gold, Silver is now being overshadowed by him and Platinum; though she is still far more wealthy than the average student, the two regard her as being second to them. On a quest to regain her lost status, she’s become quite the expert in business and economics. Her complexion isn’t as naturally flawless as that of Platinum, who makes fun of her for it. She’s a good speaker and enjoys acting in her spare time. She also loves photography, filmmaking, playing the flute, and going to the movies.

Cadmium

Symbol: Cd
Student number: 048
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

A heavy metal whose preferred form of troublemaking is graffiti. His favourite colours are red and yellow.

Indium

Symbol: In
Student number: 049
Group: boron group
Category: solid metal

A member of the Technology Club who’s especially interested in solar energy and touch screens.

Tin

Symbol: Sn
Student number: 050
Group: carbon group
Category: solid metal

A hardworking student who enjoys tinkering with electronics and building things. He’s especially handy with a soldering iron. He hates the cold.

Antimony

Symbol: Sb
Student number: 051
Group: nitrogen group
Category: solid metalloid

Arsenic’s beguiling partner in crime. She’s an excellent hacker and can sweet-talk you into doing anything for her. She wears way too much mascara and sports Ancient Egyptian-inspired outfits that aren’t really up to the school dress code. She’s also a talented singer.

Tellurium

Symbol: Te
Student number: 052
Group: oxygen group
Category: solid metalloid

A member of the Technology Club.

Iodine

Symbol: I
Student number: 053
Group: halogens
Category: solid non-metal

The school nurse’s assistant and an aspiring physician, Iodine always has her nose buried in some medical textbook. She’s a straight-A student and can’t stand to get anything less than 100% on a test. She’s kinder than the rest of the halogens, although she can be a bit irritable. Her favourite colour is violet and her favourite food is seaweed. Only she can decipher her own handwriting.

Xenon

Symbol: Xe
Student number: 054
Group: noble gases
Category: gaseous non-metal

A noble gas who claims to be able to see Dark Matter and is considered a bit strange.

Cesium

Symbol: Cs
Student number: 055
Group: alkali metals
Category: solid metal

A reactive student who collects watches.

Barium

Symbol: Ba
Student number: 056
Group: alkaline earth metals
Category: solid metal

Lanthanum

Symbol: La
Student number: 057
Group: lanthanides
Category: solid metal

Cerium

Symbol: Ce
Student number: 058
Group: lanthanides
Category: solid metal

The president of the Cooking Club.

Praseodymium

Symbol: Pr
Student number: 059
Group: lanthanides
Category: solid metal

Neodymium

Symbol: Nd
Student number: 060
Group: lanthanides
Category: solid metal

A music lover who wears headphones all the time and is always the DJ for school dances. He especially enjoys listening to and creating electronic music. For a long time, most students were unaware that he has a twin brother, Praseodymium, as they look so much alike.

Promethium

Symbol: Pm
Student number: 061
Group: lanthanides
Category: solid radioactive metal

Samarium

Symbol: Sm
Student number: 062
Group: lanthanides
Category: solid metal

Europium

Symbol: Eu
Student number: 063
Group: lanthanides
Category: solid metal

A student with an interest in forensics, especially relating to counterfeiting.

Gadolinium

Symbol: Gd
Student number: 064
Group: lanthanides
Category: solid metal

Terbium

Symbol: Tb
Student number: 065
Group: lanthanides
Category: solid metal

Dysprosium

Symbol: Dy
Student number: 066
Group: lanthanides
Category: solid metal

Holmium

Symbol: Ho
Student number: 067
Group: lanthanides
Category: solid metal

Erbium

Symbol: Er
Student number: 068
Group: lanthanides
Category: solid metal

An Internet addict who’s always on her phone in class, scrolling through her social media feeds. Don’t tell her any secrets or they will be all over the Internet within the next few seconds.

Thulium

Symbol: Tm
Student number: 069
Group: lanthanides
Category: solid metal

Ytterbium

Symbol: Yb
Student number: 070
Group: lanthanides
Category: solid metal

Lutetium

Symbol: Lu
Student number: 071
Group: lanthanides
Category: solid metal

Hafnium

Symbol: Hf
Student number: 072
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

Tantalum

Symbol: Ta
Student number: 073
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

An intelligent student who’s especially interested in ethical issues in technology.

Tungsten

Symbol: W
Student number: 074
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

An athlete with incredible strength. She prefers warmer temperatures and cranks the thermostat way up in her dorm, much to the consternation of her roommate, Gallium.

Rhenium

Symbol: Re
Student number: 075
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

Osmium

Symbol: Os
Student number: 076
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

A noble metal who collects fancy pens and is a bit dense.

Iridium

Symbol: Ir
Student number: 077
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

A noble metal and a member of the Art Club who loves all things colourful. She has an interest in space science.

Platinum

Symbol: Pt
Student number: 078
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

The richest and bossiest of all the noble metals and their self-proclaimed leader. She's lost count of how many credit cards she owns, and her jewelry and clothing collections spill over into her roommate Silver’s side of the dorm, much to Silver’s annoyance. She looks down on all the other students, often calling them “cheap metals,” even those who are neither cheap nor metals. As a child, she was incredibly poor and was even called “Little Silver” as she was following Silver and Gold all the time, but she seems to have forgotten this now. In her spare time, she enjoys shopping in the highest-end stores and eating out at expensive restaurants. She finds her groupie Nickel extremely annoying.

Gold

Symbol: Au
Student number: 079
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

A noble metal who usually hangs out with Silver and Platinum. Though he truly is kind at heart, he’s quite the show-off and often makes generous contributions to charities just to display his wealth. He isn’t very athletic and prefers to spend his free time doing laps around the neighbourhood in his new sports car and dining at the finest restaurants. He spends way too much time on his hair.

Mercury

Symbol: Hg
Student number: 080
Group: transition metals
Category: liquid metal

A troublemaking heavy metal who ends up in detention with Lead every day and is a bit crazy. The star of the school track team, he is such a fast runner that he’s been nicknamed Quicksilver. He never pays attention in class and is a terrible student. His favourite food is tuna.

Thallium

Symbol: Tl
Student number: 081
Group: boron group
Category: solid metal

A heavy metal.

Lead

Symbol: Pb
Student number: 082
Group: carbon group
Category: solid metal

A heavy metal who might look big and tough but is actually very physically weak. He’s slow to learn and has failing grades at school. He and his friend Mercury are always causing trouble, and the two of them look up to Arsenic, who finds them really annoying. He often inadvertently foils the radioactives’ schemes by getting in their way. He likes playing shooter games, listening to heavy metal music, and eating sweets.

Bismuth

Symbol: Bi
Student number: 083
Group: nitrogen group
Category: solid metal

An artistic student and aspiring makeup artist who loves adding shimmer to her works. She enjoys eating spicy foods and never seems to get stomachaches.

Polonium

Symbol: Po
Student number: 084
Group: oxygen group
Category: solid radioactive metal

A cunning radioactive who hangs out at the back of the school with the rest of the delinquents.

Astatine

Symbol: At
Student number: 085
Group: halogens
Category: solid radioactive non-metal

A radioactive delinquent.

Radon

Symbol: Rn
Student number: 086
Group: noble gases
Category: gaseous radioactive non-metal

The only radioactive member of the noble gases, making him a double loner. The rest of the radioactives don’t fully accept him as he’s a bit quiet, so he usually spends his time wandering the school basement looking for things to break.

Francium

Symbol: Fr
Student number: 087
Group: alkali metals
Category: solid radioactive metal

A radioactive who absolutely hates the Electrons card game.

Radium

Symbol: Ra
Student number: 088
Group: alkaline earth metals
Category: solid radioactive metal

A radioactive delinquent who used to have many friends but has since retreated into the back alley with the rest of the troublemakers.

Actinium

Symbol: Ac
Student number: 089
Group: actinides
Category: solid radioactive metal

Thorium

Symbol: Th
Student number: 090
Group: actinides
Category: solid radioactive metal

A radioactive who’s interested in clean energy sources.

Protactinium

Symbol: Pa
Student number: 091
Group: actinides
Category: solid radioactive metal

Uranium

Symbol: U
Student number: 092
Group: actinides
Category: solid radioactive metal

A radioactive delinquent who’s incredibly strong and carries out all the dirty work for his friend Plutonium. The two were once suspended for trying to build a bomb for their science fair project.

Neptunium

Symbol: Np
Student number: 093
Group: actinides
Category: solid radioactive metal

Plutonium

Symbol: Pu
Student number: 094
Group: actinides
Category: solid radioactive metal

The leader of the radioactive delinquents. Though he isn’t as strong as his partner Uranium, he can be much more dangerous.

Americium

Symbol: Am
Student number: 095
Group: actinides
Category: solid radioactive metal

A radioactive who’s especially sensitive to smoke and can always tell when something has gone wrong in the chemistry lab.

Curium

Symbol: Cm
Student number: 096
Group: actinides
Category: solid radioactive metal

Berkelium

Symbol: Bk
Student number: 097
Group: actinides
Category: solid radioactive metal

Californium

Symbol: Cf
Student number: 098
Group: actinides
Category: solid radioactive metal

Einsteinium

Symbol: Es
Student number: 099
Group: actinides
Category: solid radioactive metal

Fermium

Symbol: Fm
Student number: 100
Group: actinides
Category: solid radioactive metal

Mendelevium

Symbol: Md
Student number: 101
Group: actinides
Category: solid radioactive metal

Nobelium

Symbol: No
Student number: 102
Group: actinides
Category: solid radioactive metal

Lawrencium

Symbol: Lr
Student number: 103
Group: actinides
Category: solid radioactive metal

Rutherfordium

Symbol: Rf
Student number: 104
Group: transition metals
Category: solid radioactive metal

Dubnium

Symbol: Db
Student number: 105
Group: transition metals
Category: solid radioactive metal

Seaborgium

Symbol: Sg
Student number: 106
Group: transition metals
Category: solid metal

Bohrium

Symbol: Bh
Student number: 107
Group: transition metals
Category: solid radioactive metal

Hassium

Symbol: Hs
Student number: 108
Group: transition metals
Category: solid radioactive metal

Meitnerium

Symbol: Mt
Student number: 109
Group: transition metals
Category: solid radioactive metal

Darmstadtium

Symbol: Ds
Student number: 110
Group: transition metals
Category: solid radioactive metal

Roentgenium

Symbol: Rg
Student number: 111
Group: transition metals
Category: solid radioactive metal

Copernicium

Symbol: Cn
Student number: 112
Group: transition metals
Category: gaseous radioactive metal

Nihonium

Symbol: Nh
Student number: 113
Group: boron group
Category: solid radioactive metal

Flerovium

Symbol: Fl
Student number: 114
Group: carbon group
Category: gaseous radioactive metal

Moscovium

Symbol: Mc
Student number: 115
Group: nitrogen group
Category: solid radioactive metal

Livermorium

Symbol: Lv
Student number: 116
Group: oxygen group
Category: solid radioactive metal

Tennessine

Symbol: Ts
Student number: 117
Group: halogens
Category: solid radioactive metal

The newest student at Academy 118, Tennessine is still getting used to the school’s quirks and oddities.

Oganesson

Symbol: Og
Student number: 118
Group: noble gases
Category: solid radioactive non-metal