With over a thousand years of tradition and frequented by Andrew. A prestigious school. Famous for its dislike for female witches.
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—Description of Appleton Academy from Witchpedia.[1]
Appleton Academy (エイプルトン校,Eipuruton-kō?)[2][3] is a famous school for young men with over one thousand years of history on its name. It is known for its disdain for witches.
The Appleton Academy is a recognized and traditional school which mainly attends young people coming from renowned families or politicians. The campus is extremely huge, composed of many large and ostentatious buildings as well as several gardens. The structure of the place is quite old, including traditional structures such as a church, fireplaces and medieval statues and armors.
Everyone in school has a great contempt for witchcraft.[2] In addition of "Familiar Exterminators" who constantly assigned to rid of rats they consider familiars of witches who corrupt the school, Appleton Academy also has another group called "Anti-Witch" who deal witch themselves.[4][5] While latter group's leader can be identified by his golden round mask, his subordinates wears a Ku Klux Klan-styled pointy mask instead. They also keep several medieval torture devices that were used against witches.
From its foundation the school has had the tradition to resolve any conflict by a sword duel on the bridge under the knight statues.[2] One of such statues is infested by Croix's Pixels after revealing themselves from remains of Holy Grail Louis shattered out of spite, which then assembles around the young man to use him as a living battery while wreaking havoc.[4] Said pixels' hold over said statue is later broken after Amanda pierces its faceplate with her rapier that upgraded into an actual sword via. combining it with her wand, freeing Louis who humbled by his predicament. The other statue on the other hand, fall to the ground during the ensuing chaos and would've crush other Appleton Academy students below had it not for Akko's initiative in blasting them to safety.
Uniform[]
The uniform in the academy consists of a black suit over a white shirt and tie, gray pants and black shoes.
The front of one of Appleton Academy's major buildings
Panning shot of Appleton Academy
Amanda, Akko, and Andrew at the bench in Appleton's park before Amanda storms off for trouble
Mouse!Akko oversees a corner of Appleton Academy
Louis calls in Familiar Exterminators.
Trivia[]
Order of Malleus Maleficarum's mention in the bottom right of description of The Rat Wanted Poster spread by Familiar Exterminators
The description of wanted poster for rats spread by Appleton Academy's Familiar Exterminators has the mention of Order of Malleus Maleficarum. Malleus Maleficarum usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise on witchcraft written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer (under his Latinized name Henricus Institor) and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486. The Order's decision to name itself after such treatise fits perfectly owing to its contempt towards witchcraft which shared by its association Appleton Academy.
The titular object stored in the school's church serves as the plot device of "Amanda O'Neill and the Holy Grail".[4] Yet whether the Grail is a genuine artifact left dubious at this point.
The design of knight statues placed to oversee the bridge where Appleton Academy's traditional duel is curiously fantastical in comparison of knight armors decorating other parts of the academy, somewhat reminiscent to knight-like enemies featured in fantasy works such as Dark Souls series. In fact, Amanda's duel against Louis who became unwilling living battery of one of them which possessed by Pixels was not unlike fighting one of such enemies in aforementioned game (ex. Knight Artorias).
A closer look on the appearance of Appleton Academy's two knight statues indicated them to be a type of plate armor, specifically one based on Greenwich armor albeit customized to make them more distinct.
