Oooh, they have a lot to say… @imsparky2002 @booksrbetterthanpeople @nerdy-chocomallow @thefcguy
Marinette: I’M GONNA KILL HIM! HE TRIED TO DROP A SEWING MACHINE ON MY HEAD! AND IT WAS MINE! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH THOSE COST?! YOU ARE SO LUCKY YOUR DAD PAID UP TO REPLACE IT!
Alya: He’s the reason I have a door and window alarm in my room now. You can try that shit again, Afton, but I keep a switchblade on my nightstand now! Don’t think I won’t use it, punk!
Adrien: Does he think triggering people’s allergies is funny?! That shit could kill someone! He and my crazier fans are the reason I carry mace on me now! I’ll spray him right in the face if he gets too close!
Nino: His wack ass nearly got me hit by a boat! I’ll bust his wrist if he gets near me, and if he tries breaking into my girl’s or any of my peep’s houses again? I’ll take his eyes out with a pen!
Chloé: (With the darkest expression anyone’s ever seen her have on her face) I will see his ass rotting in a cell by the time we leave high school, I swear on my own soul. That. Little. C*nt. Will. Pay.
Sabrina: Who the hell glues someone’s glasses to their damn face, what the hell is wrong with you?! And you nearly got me hit by a car, Afton, I hope you know you’re on my dad’s watchlist now! He’s just waiting for someone to make the call!
Mylène: WHAT THE FUCKING HELL IS WRONG WITH THAT BOY?! WE ALL LEGITIMATELY THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD! WHO THE HELL DOES THAT?! Thank GOD for him, Mme. Winters banned him from the theater and Damocles is scared enough of her to enforce it, or I’d take that little punk out for upsetting Jesse like that! It reminded him of his dad’s…business meetings.
Ivan: (With an expression even darker than Chloe’s, that would make his own sperm donor burst into tears) Hear what I say, Afton, and remember my words. If you ever, and I mean EVER, get within ten feet of my baby sister again, I will put you in the fucking ground after I beat the everloving shit out of you. Your own parents won’t even recognize your face after I’m done.
Juleka: Rob does know my mother owns several swords right? She’s got a special one picked out just in case he ever shows his face around the Liberty again, and he better not think I’m gonna stop her. I could have fucking drowned. Dad’s already prepping the lawsuit.
Rose: He stole my medications! My fucking medication right out of my hand! Does he not realize that my…condition could become LIFE-THREATENING if it’s not managed properly?! The next time he pulls something like that, I’ll stab him in the eyes with a fork! HE ALMOST KILLED JULEKA WITH THAT STUPID PRANK! I WILL WASTE HIS ASS!
Alix: That little fuckass punk is SO lucky he didn’t get my real watch! On everything holy in this world, I would have grabbed the nearest sharp object and cut him open to get Flu-IT back! Don’t fucking test me, punk, you think I’m joking?!
Kim: I swear to god, I am DONE with his shit! The next time that little asshole comes near me, or Max, I don’t care how many witnesses there are, I’m kicking the goddamned shit out of him, I don’t give a fuck! He put me in the hospital twice!
Max: Understand this, Afton. You will not know when, and you will not know how. But I will get you, and I will make you suffer for what you did, do you understand me? The pain you caused Markov…will be NOTHING next to what I do to you. You crossed the line, and I hope you’re prepared for the consequences.
Nathaniel: That fucking lunatic gave me a permanent scar on my arm! Does he not know how toxic that crap is?! The next time he tries to pull a stunt like that, I’ll take a bottle and throw it right in his fucking eyes! Give him a taste of his own medicine!
Rob, his family, story, and color palette are inspired by FNAF, so, as you expect, his father, Vincent Afton, is involved in... a lot of questionable things.
Rob usually likes to play with other people's phobias and deep fears for laughs, so... expect the characters' traumas to be triggered.]
He wasn't always this way, but he changed after Mallory disappeared (although it's not confirmed if it is just because of Mallory's disappearance or something else).
Again, the Haunted Class involves a lot of sensitive topics: kidnapping, drugging people, bullying, brainwashing, cyberbullying, and a lot of bad things.
Without further ado, let's start!
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Marinette Dupain-Cheng:
Do you know the trick of "Putting a bucket of water on top of a door so a person gets wet when they open it"? Imagine that, but... with a heavy sewing machine.
Marinette broke her leg in the process. Rob found it hilarious.
Alya Cesáire:
When Rob found out Alya's father worked in a zoo, he had the "perfect" idea for a prank.
Alya woke up in the middle of the night... with a snake wrapping itself around her neck. Her father helped her in time, but Alya was terrified of the event.
Next day, when Rob started making a lot of snake puns towards her, she knew what happened.
Adrien Agreste:
Rob heard Adrien commenting about his pigeon allergy, and immediately came up with something.
He locked Adrien in the school's locker room with a bunch of pigeons.
When he was found by the other students, he was immediately sent to the hospital due to a severe allergic reaction.
Rob gave him a "get well soon" card that was pigeon themed... and had pigeon feathers attached to it.
Nino Lahiffe:
Rob discovered that Nino was attached to his cap because it belonged to his missing brother.
What did Rob do with this information? He threw the cap in a river so Nino would jump to retrieve it.
He was almost hit by a boat as Rob laughed.
Chloe Bourgeois:
He thought Chloe, being stuck up, needed to learn a lesson. ]
So, he, anonymously, sent her a delicious chocolate pie. A pie that she ate, but noticed the taste was bad.
The next day, she received a recording of how the pie was made...
... it was not chocolate. It was poop.
She vomited for three days.
Sabrina Raincomprix:
Glue Sabrina's glasses to her face with superglue and throw grease in her glasses so she wouldn't be able to see where she was going.
She was almost hit by a car as Rob's maniacal laugh followed her.
Mylene Harprele:
When the Theater Club expelled Rob (cause he was making everyone there uncomfortable).
Rob decided a "little" revenge prank was necessary.
The next day, when the theater club members arrived, they were shocked to find the place destroyed, blood everywhere, and Rob's "corpse" on the stage.
To sum up what happened, Mylene freaked out, Jesse passed out, Jean vomited, and Zoé ran out of the club, shouting for help.
Then Rob got up and started laughing at everyone.
(Mme. Winters gave him a long lecture about how that wasn't funny, and it was one of the few times he was suspended.)
Ivan Bruel:
Rob knew scaring Ivan wouldn't be easy. So, he targeted Sasha.
Ivan received a video on his phone of Sasha tied to a chair at Rob's family's Pizzeria.
When Ivan arrived, he saw that Sasha seemed calm and asked what had happened.
She replied that one of his friends said he had a surprise for Ivan and needed her help... even if she didn't understand what the surprise was.
Then, Rob left the shadows laughing like a maniac, and Ivan punched him in the face.
Juleka Couffaine:
Rob found out about how Juleka lived in a houseboat, and knew he had to do something about it.
So, while Juleka was practicing alone at night, he sneaked up on her, in a creepy pirate costume, and pushed her into the water.
Luke helped her out (cause she was a bit paralyzed from fear), and Anarka shooed him away.
Rose Lavillant:
Rose had just started taking a new medicine for her headaches.
Lunch time had arrived, and when she was about to take her daily dose, Rob appeared out of nowhere and snatched it from her.
Rose had to run after him around school, which worsened her headache.
Alix used her skates to hit him in the head, and handle the medicine back to Rose.
Alix Kubdel:
Alix knew Rob would try something with her the next day.
She was proved right, because Rob stole her pocket watch and, when Alix was about to catch him, he SWALLOWED it.
Then, Alix revealed that he had swallowed a fake watch (while also being terrified at how Rob managed to do it), and Rob ended up in the hospital.
Kim Le Chiên:
... the fact he helped Aria and Lovelle with their schemes that time.
Kim doesn't like him... at ALL!
Max Kanté:
He tied Max to a chair in the Science Lab and forced him to watch Markov be cruelly tortured and destroyed by Rob with hammers and many other tools.
Markov was fixed, but Max remember his screams of pain.
Nathaniel Kurtzberg:
Since Nathaniel was an artist, Rob wanted to test a theory.
So, while Nathaniel was drawing, Rob spilled a whole bottle of thinner on his arm.
Nathaniel screamed so loud that everyone ran to check on him.
The wound recovery was slow and painful.
Lila Rossi:
When Lila first told her lie about tinnitus, Rob wanted to see how true it was.
So, he anonymously invited Lila to an empty classroom and shouted at her with two megaphones (one in front of the other).
She didn't develop actual tinnitus, but had to stay in the hospital for a while.
How does Akuma class Parents feels about, Rob and his "innocent pranks"?
As a general rule, the vast majority of them are furious and want the boy arrested. Tom and Sabine started a parental group chat about suing his family after the sewing machine incident with Marinette, and everyone was pretty much immediately on board. The boy has endangered their children for too long and they don’t give a shit what his father says. Some of the most vocal of the group against him have been Iosif and Galina (given that their daughter was basically abducted), Anarka and Jagged (their daughter nearly drowned), and Marlena and Otis (a fucking VENOMOUS SNAKE). They’re talking about enlisting parents from other classes too, giving his dad less ability to fight back.
Rob is from a humanoid alien species (who is similar to a zombie) that feeds from vital energy that they acquire through extreme emotions from others (it's usually fear, pain, and laughter).
(It's not similar to Blackhole or Jason's case, however. Rob species NEED this energy to survive. It's like food to them. And, even when they are full, they can't shoot energy beams.)
Most of his species found healthy and harmless ways to get this energy... however, Rob and his family had a different approach.
For years, the Afton family gained their life energy by attracting people to their circus, capturing them, and torturing them to death to satisfy their hunger.
Vincent Afton (Rob's father) took one step further and created a machine that would induce these extreme emotions in people until they died.
Oh yeah, and the Aftons were the ones who burned Marinette's bakery down.
Miguel first met them when his family went to the Afton Circus (not knowing anything about their past).
The battle was very complex, and Miguel's whole family was captured.
To save them, he transformed into Spectral Eye and frightened the Aftons.
The plumbers eventually managed to close that cursed circus and managed to send most of the members to jail. The only exceptions were Vicent, who died, and Rob, who roamed around on his own for a while.
Eventually, he was trapped and sent to DC Academy. But it doesn't seem like the redemption program is having any effect on him.
Eri, do you and your apprentices (Aglae & Diane) have any special curses or Hexes planned for Aria, Lovette, Azure & Rob?
Eri: Now where would be the fun in telling you directly? (Smiles wickedly) Oh, but isn’t it a shame how Lovelle’s precious club room got destroyed again? It’s almost as if a storm blew through…
Aglae: And what a pity how Aria’s dear piano suddenly caught on fire, and for some reason, no one could seem to put it out. The only things that survived were a few keys that had strange red stains on them. They’re being analyzed now. Thank goodness it didn’t seem interested in burning anything else…and at least the music department can finally replace it with one that’s free for everyone to use. Isn’t that great, Aria?
Diane: And it’s just so odd how all of Azure’s equipment seems to be breaking the second she touches it…I wonder why she’s having such terrible luck all of a sudden. So bizarre!
Eri: Rob’s been having some bad luck of his own, as I’ve heard. Somehow, every single prank he’s tried to pull the past couple of weeks has backfired right around on him. How unfortunate.
Diane: And no offense to Danton, but it seems his game has been a little off. He can’t seem to make a single goal, basket or otherwise. And he’s twisted his ankle three times trying to make dunks, and he may have sprained it when he fell on the futbol field today. I hear the coaches are considering benching him for part of the season. And honestly, with how he can’t seem to stop getting himself hurt…it might be for his own good!
Aglae: Now that you mention it, Beau seems a bit off too. He’s dropping props, tearing his costume in dress rehearsals, forgetting all his lines the second he steps on stage, and I heard this new makeup brand he tried made him break out in acne something awful.
Eri: It’s just so sad…
(The three young totally-not-witches share a soft laugh as their eyes seem to glow faintly…before disappearing.)
I saw that Rob is Echo in Miraculous Olympus, and I'm assuming that here, Marinette had a good reason for putting that curse on him?
Ooooh, yes. Let me explain.
Rob was a dryad, a wood nymph (they can be male, female, or otherwise in this universe, like in Mythical Creatures) Just like in canon, he had a tendency to play cruel and dangerous pranks that often get people hurt. And one day, he decided to pull one of his “jokes” on a group of naiads (freshwater nymphs) that guarded and tended a lakeside temple dedicated to the Queen of the Gods, and were good friends of hers. The joke left one of the nymphs critically injured, and they prayed to the goddess for help. Marinette cares for all of her nymphs like daughters, and was quick to fetch Missy, the goddess of healing and medicine, to check out the situation. But Rob didn’t want anyone “interfering” with his fun, so he kept making diversions and confusing the two goddesses on where they supposed to go. When they finally reached the nymphs, it was almost too late to save the injured one. (Thankfully, Missy is really good at her job.) The nymphs then told Marinette what happened, and when she recognized the nymph boy they described as the one she and Missy kept seeing and suspected of trying to divert them…she was furious. She ordered Rob present himself immediately, and even he’s not stupid enough to disobey the Queen of Olympus. For his actions that day and his many other cruel, dangerous ‘pranks’, Marinette placed a curse on him that stripped him of his physical form, leaving him little more than a spirit with no voice but to repeat the last words spoken by someone else, ensuring his actions and words could never harm anyone again.
Aggie: WHO TH’ BLOODY HELL PEPPERSPRAYS SO’ONE WHO PAHSSES YE IN TH’ HALLWAY?! Ah could’a broken me neck if I had fallen all’a way daewn the stairs, ya bloody git! Come near me again and Ah’ll knock yer block off!
Roxie: That goes double for me! Who the fuck tries to choke someone out as a prank?! If you think your bruised ribs were bad, next time I’ll break as many bones as possible!
Petra: HE TIED ME TO THE CEILING! What if I had fallen?! I could have DIED! If that boy comes near me again, I’ll stab him with one of my crafting knives!
Ayesha: (Tears in her eyes) I…I really thought I was about to DIE! Why would someone do something like that?! He chased me for almost a half hour before the after hours janitor finally found us!
Dot: Putting a poisonous insect in someone’s food?! What the hell is wrong with this boy?! Mason and I have been assembling a file on him, the same as we’ve been doing with Ari-Ass and Lov-Unatic. We are going to bring them DOWN.
Mona: WHO THE FUCKING HELL STEALS SOMEONE ELSE’S MOBILITY AID AND GOES ON A JOYRIDE WITH IT?! He’s the reason I carry pepper spray with me now, and I HEAVILY disinfected my chair! I don’t wanna catch his crazy!
Staci: Who the fuck sprinkles cheer gear with a mix of toxic household cleaners as a PRANK?! The whole squad could have died! He belongs in jail!
Candace: His dad would just use the same ‘he’s not mentally well’ excuse that he always does! It’s bullshit that Rob gets away with crap like this! We were all in the hospital for two days!
Margo: Someone needs to do something about him! This isn’t the first time his ‘pranks’ have nearly killed people! If the school board doesn’t handle it, I’ll be tempted to take matters into my own hands!
Soo-Yeon: HE SET A FUCKING FIRE IN THE GYM, WITH PEOPLE IN THERE. And all just to scare me?! What in the absolute hell is wrong with you?! I will knock him out if he tries to come into the gym again, I swear! Especially if he comes near my girlfriend again!
Anais: HE TRIED TO FRAME ME FOR THE FIRE! What the hell did I ever do to him?! Thank god I had an ironclad alibi, or I could have been arrested because of him! Fuck you, Afton!
Parker: If he thinks I feel bad that Sarge* bit him when he broke into my room, he can think again. He was an intruder with clear harmful intent, and my boys did what they were trained to do. And I had those painful ass ant bites for days after, he can fall off a cliff!
Evie: HE BROKE INTO MY HOME, GRABBED MY LITTLE SISTER AND HELD HER AT KNIFEPOINT. Sure, the knife was fake, but we didn’t know that! My parents are already filing a lawsuit and a restraining order, if he ever comes near our house again, he’ll be going away for a LONG time. Rosa is FIVE YEARS OLD, that’s going to scar her for the rest of her life!
Brecken: I’ll put ‘im in the ground if he ever bothers you or yer folks again, darlin’, I swear! As if that damned slaughterhouse video weren’t bad enough, he didn’ stop there! He put a DEAD RABBIT in mah locker! (Tears up) Where did he get it from**?! What the hell is wrong with that psycho?!
Eloise: He’s lucky that I’m friends with so many computer geniuses who helped me recover everything! If I had lost my formula research, I swear to god…
Jesse: Who in the hell sets up a ‘prank’ like that?! Who sets up a FAKE MURDER just to scare the crap out of people?! I’m so glad Mme. Winters banned him from the theater… (under his breath) Wait until she tells Aria she’s out of the theater club for all of her bullying when we come back on Monday… (Normal volume) And that psycho needs to leave my boyfriend alone, who does stuff like that?!
Anthony: My parents are taking care of it, love. Mum is already getting the restraining order set up. He broke into my room on several occasions, has unlawfully taken videos and photos of me, and refuses to respect my personal space. I’m done with his crap.
Missy: I regret NOTHING. He KIDNAPPED me. I would have bit him HARDER if he was closer. Who the fuck tries to recreate a traumatic incident from over forty years ago? He better keep his ass away from me!
Eri: The only thing that that miserable wretch is smart about is that he fears me. And I plan to show him exactly why he’s right to do so. Just you wait and see.
*One of her three giant dogs, the bull mastiff
**He found it on the road and thought it would be funny to spook Brecken