Vitriola is a 2012-introduced and prose-only character. He is a monster of some sort and the headmaster of Accademia de Mostro. When the ideals, staff, and students of Accademia de Mostro were inescapably threatened by ASOME's schemes, Vitriola closed the school as desperate final measure. Like the proverbial captain of a sinking ship, he remains at his post and continues to operate on behalf of the school.
Character[]
Background[]
Up to a year ago, Vitriola was the headmaster of Accademia de Mostro. Some time prior, the school had welcomed Sylphia Flapper as its new teacher and that was the beginning of the end. With her monster whisper, she took control of her colleagues and students and despite his best efforts, Vitriola couldn't stop her. This left him with only one solution: to close Accademia de Mostro so as to disband the community Flapper had a hold over.
For whatever motivations, Vitriola stayed at Accademia de Mostro, possibly living there. As such, after one miserable year, he was present to take a phone call from Monster High and learn that Flapper had found a new school to take over. [Source]
Personality[]
As the headmaster of one of the few all-monster schools in the world, Vitriola may be assumed to be a kind and idealistic man. Or was, at least, before the looming shadow of ASOME forced him to close Accademia de Mostro to stop the spread of their ideology. The ordeal has left him traumatized, and whether for a sense of lingering duty or out of mourning Vitriola has opted to remain in the closed school. When he is informed that ASOME is targeting another school, he freaks out and wants absolutely nothing to do with it anymore, but he overcomes his emotions enough to relay advice and support. [Source]
Fiction[]
Ghoulfriends[]
ASOME agents Sylphia Flapper and Wydowna Spider join Accademia de Mostro respectively as teacher and student. Slowly, they take control of the school, but they are stopped. Then ASOME tries again and this time they cannot be stopped but for one recourse: to close Accademia de Mostro and sever ASOME's political tendrils by dispersing the school's community. With heavy heart, Vitriola does just that. A year later, he's still present at the school when Cy Clops calls to ask about Flapper, who is now in the process of taking control of Monster High. Vitriola wants nothing to do with it all, but does tell Cy to locate Monster High's crybrary because it contains the same information Vitriola had to work with a year prior. The advice leads to Flapper's defeat, news of which reaches Vitriola. Aware that ASOME is capable of much more, he sends Cy a package warning him to keep his guard up. [Source]
Notes[]
- Vitriola is a village in the northern Italian province of Modena. It is associated with horror only through one fictional motion picture, The Vampire of Vitriola, the filming of which is part of the narrative of the novel Jeeves: A Gentleman's Personal Gentleman.