Author Note: Thank you for the review PoisonCupcake101. I will now answer your questions. I chose the Lahiffe family because on the Wiki page, there are three members of the family, while the Cesaire have 6 members. I also picked this family because Nino is far more likely to listen to rules then Alya does. Alya is the one who is always investigating, always asking questions, putting herself in dangerous places in the name of her blog. I always saw that Season 1 could urge with Nino with Alya but gradually I observed that Alya became the dominant one in the relationship. In season 3, she managed to push Nino to lie to his friend to get Adrien and Marinette together in Puppeteer 2.
As for the hypnosis, it was a form of hypnosis where the person falls completely under just by hearing a word, the sign hypnosis prepped them to accept anything that happens or is said.
The hypnosis was based on the movie 'Now you see me 2'.
Now onto the next big question. He told them he was indeed the planet's ruler but he was undercover to see how the lower class of humanity are. Think a slightly different version of the show 'undercover boss', he told them he wanted to understand humanity on a deeper level because so many people live under the poverty line.
I hope that clears everything up.
I do not own Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir.
Enjoy!
Fabu woke up and stretched, he got out some cheese from his bag and fed his mouse.
Then he went to the shared bathroom, showered and brushed, he put on some bargain-bin clothes before he heading out to get some food from the kitchen.
However, he was taken back, by the gloomy air as he strolled in.
It was coming from the oldest boy.
"Speak. What's wrong?" He said.
The boy was surprised and so was the rest of the family who quickly looked at him in awe.
What?
The boy then explained the shit that had gone down while he somehow slept through it.
He was horrified.
He had somehow slept through mass Akumasion and golden controlling bees.
Well, shit. He thought.
However, he did not show his shock by how lucky he had been, while he was impressed that Caraspace had a new space like costume and Nino had managed to say no to Miracle Queen when she ordered him to come and reveal himself.
So his identity as the new Carapace was safe now, however, now both magical sides knew something was going with the new Carapace.
His girlfriend was probably wondering about his new costume and how he could say no to Miracle queen.
To make matters worse, it was also the day, Alya had told him, she knew everything about him and he was a terrible secret keeper.
It was a sheer miracle that he managed to get out of her house fast enough before his babbling mouth opened wide in front of her whole family.
However, the trouble will come tomorrow, he couldn't avoid Alya, they were in the same class and god help him at lunchtime.
Summer was only in a few weeks and yet it felt so far away.
The issue for him wasn't telling her that he thought he was an alien, the issue for him was the possibility of her writing it down on some notebook or on her laptop and people like Chloe getting a hold of it.
What if she was controlled to reveal her secrets and she blurted his out?
Fabu said. "Just tell her that this is a secret you need to keep until your told it's okay to tell. Promise her that you would tell her one day. If she loves you, then she will wait. If she keeps pressing and makes you spill, this family will be off world by tomorrow night. Do I make myself clear?"
What?
All three of them were shocked but then they thought about the alternative and agreed going back home was better than being hunted down and dissected.
He gave the boy some breathing exercises and he watched Nino calm down while he took some yoghurt from the fridge.
Then he walked out of the house and headed to the book store to purchase some fashion magazines, grooming books, construction books, chemical books and a science kit.
Then he came back to the house and went to the guest room and began reading.
He needed to leave.
Sure, he had a permanent residence now but he felt like this was wrong, you shouldn't be forced to financially support somebody, no matter how small the help was.
Also what kind of ruler lives in a civilian house and never actually leaves?
In their minds, he was supposed to have houses, servants, richness beyond comprehension.
He looked at the system that still won't give him quests but more importantly that sweet, sweet Quest money.
Shit.
It had been 10 days since he came here and he was freeloading with only 9 euros in his pocket.
If he could meet the person who assigned him this crappy system...
He pushed the thoughts out of his mind and continued to read.
The next day, he fed the mouse.
By the end of the day, he had accomplished making toothpaste.
Yes, he was well aware that even a child can make toothpaste even with picture instructions but he intended to build on this.
If he was creating another race, he needed something to distinguish the two.
If his race had incredible dental work then that was something.
And he didn't just make one toothpaste, he made several toothpastes and tried them all on the mouse.
When he was satisfied, the mouse had the most sparkling pair of teeth that ever graced the world.
The mouse was pleased with its teeth, judging by how it walked around when he put a small mirror in the cage.
It was really too bad that he couldn't try any of it because nothing warrants a suspicious glance more than a homeless-looking guy who has whiter teeth than you.
He wrote down the recipe for the toothpaste and a design.
The next day, when the family had gone for the day, he sat on that corner with his sign up.
His workday began again and this time, he didn't feel the strain on his voice at all, he guessed that with the levelling up, his vocal cords we're much more elastic than a normal person.
Too bad, the demand for voice work, in a city like Paris was too low for him to even think about applying.
So before the shops closed, he brought himself a lego set, brought more cheese and brought as many design toys as he could.
Then he came back and asked Nino if he told his girlfriend what he told him and he did, then he had the boy tell him the truth while freaking out because he didn't have the resources to actually take the family off-world.
If he had, he wouldn't be on Earth right now.
Maybe he would make them think they were on a different planet?
However, luckily, the girl didn't press because she saw how serious he was with this.
But it didn't stop her from trying to figure out though.
Fabu went to his room with a snack, feed the mouse and then began building things with the Legos.
Even though regular legos were fricken expensive, the pay was worth it because it was the closest thing to really building a house, you're going to get.
And of course, his first creation was trash, without looking up a tutorial on the internet, how could he not be trash?
But he kept at it.
Work, build, design, sleep.
For three straight days until he was not only an amazing Lego building but he was also a great designer as well.
He progressed onto real workshop stuff for amateurs and say how the skills he learned from Lego came over to the real thing.
He kept at it until he had the most envious looking mansion on a small scale that had ever existed on a table.
"Ooh," he said, he saw that even the mouse liked the miniature structure.
He continued to build stuff like a mall, school planes, a working sprinkler system, security system etc.
When he saw he had a miniature version of a high-class town, he knew he was ready to move out.
He had also had the skills 'Steady Hand', 'Mild Heat residence', 'Critical Eye' 'Artistic skill' and 'Un-Parallel focus' added to him.
He looked at the french map and saw that there was a forest just an hour away from Paris, a forest was a great place for privacy because people would be too creeped out to go there.
He walked out of the house and found an agency, who, with the power of hypnosis, he managed convinced to draw up a building contract for the land for free.
Within days, he received an estimate of how much it would cost him to build his model house.
The moment he saw the figure, he almost fainted.
He couldn't believe his eyes.
If he even had half this money, he would have enough to hire a maid and staff.
There was no way, he could afford this.
"How much would it cost me just for the material and equipment?" He said, making the person on the other side blink.
The person got back to him the next day and he saw that the price was so much more reasonable.
Yes, it was still expensive, but it was nothing compared to the bill before.
So he agreed to save up for the stuff.
He waited and saved up every dollar given to him, he finished his amazing grooming kits and then he moved out on the first day of summer.
He took two buses to get to that forest and saw that his paid trucks of materials and equipment had already arrived, he then hypnotised them so that they didn't think one guy building a mansion in the woods was strange at all.
With cold food in hand and in a workers uniform, he began to build in the summer heat.
Never would have thought he would be doing this, but he didn't exist here so he couldn't even get an apartment even if he had the money.
At the end of the first day, he made sure that security, a place for him to sleep and a wall around the compound was up because he didn't want animal or adventurers strolling in.
He noticed by the second day, how much healthier he appeared to be.
Sure, he still needed to take a break every half an hour but he wasn't calling an ambulance to take him to the hospital.
So what would have taken a whole team of builders three years to do, for him, he accomplished it within 3 weeks thanks to the power of the system and natural muscle memory.
Words could not describe how accomplished he felt when he saw the shinning building before him and knew that he built that.
He heard trumpets but saw no reward which kind of slapped him in that moment.
However this house wasn't completely finished, he still had to get an expert to do the wiring and other things or this building would be considered illegal.
There was no point building this thing if it's going to be knocked down eventually.
So he found a payphone and called somebody up.
When that person got there, he hypnotised them so that they didn't think him meeting them was strange and didn't see how luxurious the place was, even with no furniture yet.
They billed him of course for the visit and he paid for it and then paid them to come back and do the stuff to make it legal.
He almost fainted every time the workers chipped away the wall to get the wiring through, the gas people came and destroyed what they could and then the broadband people cared not for the gravel floor.
When they had taken almost the rest of his money, he was forced to find furniture at the junkyard or left out on Paris carb and repurpose them.
Thank goodness for his design skills, then he brought a crappy small tv.
But this was now his house.
The papers were drawn up and he put down that the Lahiffe family and anybody he approved as long as they called ahead, can use this house in case they had to.
He snapped several photos and sent it to the mother of the family.
And of course, she freaked out, seeing the house they were allowed to stay in apparently.
He made sure the pictures were taken from the most flattering angles.
However, running this house was going to take almost all the money he earned as a voice copier per month.
So he needed some way to get more money easier but that was for another day.
Now, it was time for him to pay the family back.
So using a hypnotised Taxi man, he made his way to the house in the evening and then he made all three of them believe that he wasn't there and if he did something, it did not make any sound.
He went to their bathroom and cabinets and began restocking the shelves with the products he made, like the super toothpaste and stuff.
He replaced all their clothes with the outfits he made.
The brand on all of them was random code he made up but looked alien enough.
Then he went back to the house, knowing he had a long walk to that street corner in the morning because he had a mere 12 euros left in his pocket.
He went to bed in his repurposed bed and felt like a king even though he was dirt poor right now.
Even his well-groomed mouse seemed to like this place and its new cage.
Nobody can close this place down, he owned it, all they can do is shut down the essentials if the bills weren't paid or it had become a health hazard.
Summer was almost over, finally, he could enjoy at least some of it.
The remaining summer, he spent walking, doing his job, eating, saving up, taking any gig that was offered to him, reading about diplomacy, using the training room to make sure the strength he had built up over the summer, didn't crush his arms one day.
He still looked homeless, nobody had any idea that he lived in such a nice home.
He let the Lahiffe family tour the place, they believed he was an entirely different person showing him the house, the entire time.
He then made it mandatory for them to come to the mansion just to work out in the training room and learn some skills.
Meanwhile, the Lahiffe family were clearly trying the products, while everybody else went to war over back to school things.
Then came the first day of school.
Nino Lahiffe, now 15 was going into his final year of middle school, he felt so grown up even though he was still in middle school.
He had grown so much over the few weeks.
He put on the hair growth and sheen products, the face cream and washed his face, he brushed his teeth with the special toothpaste and put on the special healing glasses on his face.
He then put on the new clothes but kept his headphones and colourful armbands, he grabbed some food and then headed outside.
With music in his ears and the fact that he had never gotten a reaction when people looked at him before so he didn't pay attention to the people tripping over themselves and doing a double-take
"Oh, my god. Did you see that guy?"
"So hot! How is his skin and hair so good!?"
He saw the school and went to the steps, he waited to give his bro a welcome back from summer hug.
He became aware of a small crowd forming near him, then he saw Alya and Marinette and said. "Hey, Alya. Happy first day!"
The two girls reaction was to stop and stare at the guy who had the best skin, teeth, hair and clothes they had ever seen.
"Alya?" He said.
Suddenly she said. "Holy...Nino is that you!?"
"Yeah...?" He said, looking confused.
Suddenly Alya hugged him and didn't let go as she said. "Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, God!"
He was amused and confused at the same time.
"Oh, my God, Nino", said Marinette. "You look fantastic! What happened in 6 weeks!?"
The rest of his classmates came and expressed their shock at his appearance too, even though his nose didn't magically get smaller and the only true change he had, was his hair and the fact that he had shed a lot of baby fat over the summer.
Even Chloe Bourgeois was shocked when she found out who he was.
This was truly a case of an ugly duckling turned into a swan.
In fact, all three Lahiffe members shocked those around them this morning.
Then they saw Adrien car pull up and then the guy came out.
Adrien Agreste, one of the happiest people to ever see a school on the planet.
Nino greeted his friend with a bro hug and Adrien's face had a WTF look, as he froze and then he realised he was hearing Nino voice.
"N-Nino?" Said Adrien.
"Sup, my dude," he said, given the teen a blinding white smile.
Adrien continued to look shocked.
"W-What happened!?" Said Adrien.
"Do I really look that different? I guess, Summer did wonders for me, huh?" he said, as he wrapped his arm around his bro's neck and said to the guy's shocked, bodyguard and manager. "Don't worry, I'll return this dude after school"
He then began to lead Adrien up the steps.
His jeans were nicely coloured and a perfect fit.
A lot of girls including Alya noticed.
Alya was determined to get to the core of what happened through summer because she still saw him through summer.
Meanwhile, Fabu who was entertaining at a party felt a sneezing fit coming on.
Was the unholy amount of time he spent outside finally getting to him?