Mr. Rzykruski

"Your country does not MAKE enough scientist, ALWAYS needs more. You should be a scientist, Victor."
-Mr. Rzykruski, when he was still alive to an 10 year old Victor Frankenstein in 2017.
Bogdan Rzykruski, better known as Mr. Rzykruski or "Mr. Menace" by parents of New Holland, Pennsylvania, is/was a minor character that was originally going to appear/debut in Battle Of the Bones. He is dead to begin with during the storyline, and comes back as a ghost to warn his daughter, Victoria of Elsa Van Helsing's fate in the Battle Of the Bones competition. He was Victor and Elsa's former Elementary School's substitute science teacher in Frankenweenie.
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We do not see the so-called Rzykruski at first in the story, which is odd, since the minor characters are all from Tim Burton's "Frankenweenie" (Victor Frankenstein, Elsa Van Helsing, etc). But in a flashback told by Victoria at her therapist's visit, after the events of Frankenweenie took place, Elsa's Uncle Bob (Mayor Burgermeister to some) died suddenly of a heart attack during Elsa's junior year of high school, leaving Edward Frankenstein, Victor's father, to be the new mayor of New Holland. Now in charge of the law, Mayor Frankenstein feels awful for what the previous mayor had done to Mr. Rzykruski (firing him for being different), and offers him a reposition to teach at the New Holland Elementary School again in October of 2023, 6 years after Mr. Rzykruski was fired. The ecstatic science teacher agrees, and immediately packs his belongings in his car. After a long and ecstatic day of teaching, Mr. Rzykruski decides to walk home for an odd reason, and accidentally crossed into paths with a drunk driver. The driver hit Rzykruski with his car, leaving him to die on the road. That was the last day of Mr. Rzykruski's teaching career- and the last day he will ever teach again....
Upon hearing the news of her father's death; Victoria is sent into hysterics, crying and lashing out at any adult who tried to communicate with her. Concerned for her child's behavior, Rzykruski's widow; Veronika calls up a therapist to work with her. The meetings don't go well, as Victoria has a hatred for the therapist, and lashes out at her too. Only when she talked about her father's death was she ever calm.
Devastated by the news of Mr. Rzykruski's accidental death, Mayor Frankenstein holds a public memorial/funeral service for the late science teacher, his widow and his daughter being among the people who attend. For some odd reason, Victoria stays silent the whole time, and after the speech made by the mayor, she walks off singing "Invisible" (formerly heard in ParaMollNan)