What if it's not just mad science, but all sorts of madness, in competition?
The school could be the result of a merger of several previously-competing institutions: magically empowered metas had a coven, mad science/gadgeteer types had an institute, and mutants and similar had a 'school for the gifted'. That worked fine for a while, but now that the population in Las Ballenas is so dense with supers, they needed to centralize to be competitive and to deal with the volume.
So you have this fun kind of patchwork campus; the history and english departments skew magical and use a lot of gothic arches, the engineering and applied sciences building is a gleaming geodesic dome, and the biology and physical education portion of the campus is red-brick buildings in a near-constant state of being demolished and rebuilt (because learning to control your mutant powers is hard).
Faculty meetings tend to be somewhat fraught and rivalry is still present, but these days usually non-fatal. Classes on the proper use and ethics of powers are central to the curriculum. Various members of the faculty are also quietly known to maintain 'outside ties' to various organizations- heroic, villainous, and governmental- and one of the school's unspoken purposes is to provide a large sample size for data regarding metahumans.
The dean is The Ubiquity Collective, consisting of 200 flickering dimensional variations of the same person: their dimension-hopping is a natural mutation activated by a magical device augmented by super-science, so they bridge most of the gaps.
The school could be the result of a merger of several previously-competing institutions: magically empowered metas had a coven, mad science/gadgeteer types had an institute, and mutants and similar had a 'school for the gifted'. That worked fine for a while, but now that the population in Las Ballenas is so dense with supers, they needed to centralize to be competitive and to deal with the volume.
So you have this fun kind of patchwork campus; the history and english departments skew magical and use a lot of gothic arches, the engineering and applied sciences building is a gleaming geodesic dome, and the biology and physical education portion of the campus is red-brick buildings in a near-constant state of being demolished and rebuilt (because learning to control your mutant powers is hard).
Faculty meetings tend to be somewhat fraught and rivalry is still present, but these days usually non-fatal. Classes on the proper use and ethics of powers are central to the curriculum. Various members of the faculty are also quietly known to maintain 'outside ties' to various organizations- heroic, villainous, and governmental- and one of the school's unspoken purposes is to provide a large sample size for data regarding metahumans.
The dean is The Ubiquity Collective, consisting of 200 flickering dimensional variations of the same person: their dimension-hopping is a natural mutation activated by a magical device augmented by super-science, so they bridge most of the gaps.
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