the characters are students at monster high and are all different monster species! here’s the ghoul squad (+ some other main characters), nicknamed the ninja by teachers, under the cut:
characters in brackets are who they’re replacing (some have two characters they’re replacing) + info about ships
zane julien: the new ghoul at school. a robot, he can remove his limbs at will (frankie stein/abbie bominable, pixane (pixal x zane))
jay walker: a 1600-year-old anxious, jumpy and somewhat impulsive vegan vampire (draculaura, plasmashipping (kai x jay))
cole brookstone: the overprotective and brave werewolf of the ghoul squad. fashion designer (clawdeen wolf, lost/geodeshipping (cole x geo))
lloyd garmadon: a normie-presenting (a normie is a human in the monster high universe) dragon-oni-human hybrid who initially bullies zane but gradually grows close to him (cleo de nile, aromantic-asexual lloyd, platonic garmagoths (lloyd, harumi and morro))
kai smith: a fire elemental-water monster hybrid (more fire elemental than water monster) and nya’s brother (clawd wolf/heath, plasmashipping)
nya smith: a fire elemental-water monster hybrid (more water monster than fire elemental), the school’s champion swimmer and kai’s sister (lagoona blue)
harumi jade: a boogeyman tomboy lesbian biker girl. a good friend of lloyd’s. that’s all i have to say for harumi (deuce gorgon, platonic garmagoths, her and lloyd aren’t dating in this AU)
geo goyle: a gargoyle from screamtaro (the AU equivalent of shintaro) who was shunned for being a hybrid of a geckle and a munce gargoyle (rochelle goyle/neighthan rot, lost/geodeshipping)
p.i.x.a.l. borg: a matchmaking bone elemental-robot hybrid who runs the school’s relationship advice radio show with her boyfriend (c.a. cupid/robecca steam, pixane)
morro: a ghost and the co-manager/co-writer of the school gossip page, the ghostly gossip. one of lloyd’s good friends along with harumi (spectra vondergeist, citrusshipping (morro x echo zane), platonic garmagoths)
echo zane julien: a frankenmonster and co-manager/co-writer of the ghostly gossip. zane’s brother (no monster high equivalent, citrusshipping)
vania: a plant monster-ghost hybrid and former princess of screamtaro before she moved to monster high after the whole skull sorcerer thing (venus mcflytrap)
chen the cheerleader: the overconfident and arrogant werecat leader of the fearleading (cheerleading) squad (toralei)
sora: a tortured teen werecat pop star from imperium who eventually joins the ninja with her best friend arin (catty noir)
arin: a boogeyman who, with sora, joins the people he idolised the most (twyla boogeyman)
sensei wu: the dragon(ish) headmaster of monster high (headmistress bloodgood)
misc ships in the AU: nightshade (chamille x tox) and dark thinking (neuro x shade)
if you have any questions on where other characters fit in this AU, please let me know!!
also thank you @lonleyzodiac for giving me almost all of the ideas for this THANMK YOU
this AU is mostly focused on g1 monster high but some elements from g3 will probably be sprinkled in too
been working on some monster high like redesigns/AU designs, my silhouttes are getting a little samey but that's kinda on brand for monster high (at least for g1)
the way these are cropped makes the heights look off gonna put a height list and proper lineup under this
Pete: A poltergeist. Peter Geist just wants to be invisible but he’s constantly getting into mischief with his friends that draws too much attention to himself!
Steph: Mummy cause she’s gotta keep family secrets UNDER WRAPS ;) and in MH the DeNiles are also a powerful family so having the Lauters be mummies is just so…
Richie: Freshwater monster!! He wishes he was a Ningen from the western Pacific but actually he’s just from Lake Michigan lol he loves swimming and sushi and you can tell when he’s dehydrated when the blue on his hair starts to turn brown!
Ruth: Frankenstein’s monster. Kinda a given with FrankenRuth. I imagine she’s constantly altering her body parts to try to be as attractive to others as possible. The bolts are on her temples and her headgear attaches to it
Grace: Vampire. It’s funny because she doesn’t get to touch a cross AND Angela is Italian so no garlic for Grace :(
Max: A Jekyll and Hyde type creature. I imagine his Jekyll side is the Max we see in the Waylon place, and The Jägerman persona is the Hyde, and the Hyde half is easily triggered when he’s overwhelmed or intimidated and is hard to control. Not necessarily kept at bay without music like Jackson and Holt, but hey what are you gonna do, amiright?
Brenda and Stacy are definitely werecats that roll in the same pack, Jason is a fellow vampire, and Kyle is a werewolf which is part of the reason Max wouldn’t let him date Brenda
This is from a little while ago but I’m working on some bigger projects right now so hopefully some older art isn’t the worst thing in the world lol!!!
In my MH AU not only are Casta and Catty Noir besties, being both popular musicians and magical, but Catty can transform from bipedal (Catty as we know her) to quadrupedal (cat form like in this piece)!
(For context: I tried making a Lukadrien monster high au where instead of going the easy route of Luka and Adrien being the monsters respective to their miraculouses—a snake and a cat—I tried to actually assign them monsters based on their personalities and themes that would fit them—a phantom of the opera and a swan maiden!)
Luka is the child of the phantom of the opera, but has daddy issues and resents that fact they inherited their father’s skill of hypnotizing and sedating others with their music
Adrien is the son of the swan maiden (Emilie) who ran away from Gabriel after finally retrieving her feather cloak that Gabriel stole in order to force her into a loveless marriage, so needless to say, he has a lot of issues
(Also for those that will point it out: it’s supposed to be ironic that Adrien’s monster is feather based, because senti-monster, he’s so unlucky that he’s allergic to his own powers, and Luka can now call him their Angel of music)
How about Slender discovering the world of Monster High and sending the Creeps that can go to school to school there?
I don't know too much about monster high so I'm sorry if I got anything wrong! Also it's monster university, since they're all over age :]
Monster School
Slender thought it was time that the creeps got a little bit more education.
Or even better, away from him to socialize with others outside of the manor. It was getting too chaotic to keep up with, and school seemed like a much safer option than a wild goose chase in the wilderness as a mission.
The humans couldn't go unfortunately, but the ones who could, seemed to either hate it or love it.
Lost Silver especially hated it. Pretty women scare him, and this college is full of them, and for whatever reason they all adore him.
Ben couldn't understand how Silver gets all the attention but he could only befriend the Yu-Gi-Yoh players, it makes him stupid envious.
And a lot of trouble makers come from the manor, such as Ben, Kagekao, Laughing Jack and....Toby?!
How the hell did Toby get accepted, you may ask?
Well, after receiving his non-acceptance letter, he marched up to the dean of the school and accidentally set her fire-proof curtains on fire.
She thought it was so incredibly menacing and impossible, that she allowed him to be accepted into the school.
He's one of the few humans that go there, and a lot of eyes are on him. He relives a little bit of bullying trauma, but the majority of everyone loves him and his personality.