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Email: titaniaindigo at gmail dot com
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Are you at least 15?: Y
Current Characters: Misumi Nagisa, Midorikawa Retasu, Kirishima Kano, Jade Harley
Character: Frankie Stein
Fandom: Monster High
Character Notes:
History: There... isn't really much to say here, for the simple reason that Frankie really hasn't been alive (or undead, or whatever she is) for very long. In fact, when the series begins, she's only been alive for fifteen days. She was sewn together out of bodies by her father, a scientist well-known in the monster community as Dr. Frankenstein, though he goes by just Stein normally. (Circumstances are kind of vague as to why, although they have mentioned being afraid of angry human villagers -- human-monster relations are fairly strained -- and that they've had to move a lot. At the very least, the local monster community knows who he is.) Frankie's mind is well-developed for somebody who just started existing, yet she's incredibly naive, a fact that carries through to everything else that happens in her life after this.
She starts school at Monster High, the (uncreatively-named) first school to integrate all monster races, as opposed to the various all-vampire, all-werewolf, etc. schools in the area. She makes friends quickly with an assortment of people from school, who, over time, start to form a group. Season one is a gag-a-day series with very little in the way of important events, so there isn't much to say about it. I'll be taking her right from the start of season two, where the actual plot starts up and they pay attention to continuity.
The main arc of the second season is the reformation and struggles of the Fear Squad. (Cheerleading squad. The MH universe is stuffed with bad horror puns.) After Cleo, the captain of the Fear Squad, works everyone too hard to satisfy her perfectionist tendencies, the entire Fear Squad quits but Frankie, and while Cleo BSODs, Frankie goes to recruit a bunch of her friends to reform the squad. Though they have trouble dealing with Cleo's ego, they actually start to perform well, and they eventually get a shot to go to fear camp at Gloom Beach to be able to move on to Monster Mashionals. However, they also have to deal with Toralei Stripe, a weretiger who quit the squad and is now jealous of their success. After Cleo turns down her request to rejoin, citing that the squad doesn't need fairweather members, Toralei seeks revenge and tries to sabotage the ghouls -- I mean, girls -- in any way possible.
In a few of these schemes, she takes advantage of Frankie's naivete and willingness to forgive, and thus Frankie ends up learning to be a little more wary of people's intentions, at least if they're obviously evil. This is balanced out when she meets and is immediately suspicious of Spectra (for spreading sensationalist gossip -- she didn't actually mean harm, that's just what she does), Abbey (for being outwardly cold and for throwing snow -- she was framed by Toralei for the snow and her culture back home doesn't put a lot of stock in showing emotion), and Operetta (for apparently stealing Deuce from Cleo and/or stealing Clawd from Draculaura -- Cleo jumps to conclusions and Spectra spreads too many rumours). Once Frankie learns the truth, all three become her friends.
Frankie also has a subplot running through the season, where she meets a transfer student named Jackson, the first human student in the school. He gets picked on a lot, but Frankie doesn't see the problem with being human -- or anything, really. The only problem is one that Draculaura mentioned when she had a thing for Jackson; he always seems to back out on plans. Meanwhile, Frankie meets another guy who gets on her nerves at first -- Holt Hyde, who always seems to be there when Jackson isn't. However, as it turns out, Jackson and Holt are the same person, a result of an experiment their grandfather performed on himself before their mother was born. Since she loves both of them and they can't stand each other even from reputation, Frankie takes it upon herself to mediate between the two of them, recording them on her iCoffin and triggering the transformation so they can actually talk to each other. They eventually come to an understanding with her help, though they still drive each other crazy wondering what the other did last night.
In the end of season two, Frankie and the Fear Squad are forced to deal with Cleo's older sister, Nefera, coming back to be their new faculty advisor. Nefera is an absolute terror to deal with and eventually takes the excuse to cut the entire team and name Toralei and her sidekicks the new Fear Squad. After Frankie picks Cleo up out of her slump, the girls reform as the B-squad, and when Nefera posts guards anywhere that they could possibly go to prevent them from practicing, Operetta -- as an apology to Cleo -- leads them into the labyrinth in the catacombs under the school and lets them practice while she plays the organ. They enter Mashionals with some pull from their old coach at Gloom Beach and the competition gets down to the Monster High A-squad versus the B-squad. Nefera, furious, takes out a collection of cursed items from her family's tomb and uses them on the B-squad during their performance, but all of their friends in the audience use their own powers to neutralize them. When it gets down to the last one, Toralei and her hangers-on block it, stating that they never agreed to cheating and that they wanted to win cleanly this time -- a contrast from Gloom Beach, when cheating was all they'd do. The B-squad wins the trophy and becomes the school's official fearleading squad again, while Nefera ragequits and goes back to trying to salvage her modelling career.
Then comes Fright On!, one of the TV specials. In an attempt to further integrate the monster community, the population of a vampire school and a werewolf school are both added to Monster High's, and a human researcher named van Helscream becomes the school's administrator, painting himself as a peacemaker who wants to bring all monsters and humans together. Frankie gets her friends together to help make the feuding vampires and werewolves get along, but when it works, van Helscream panics. He turns the headmistress into a statue and passes his assistant, Ms. Crabgrass, off as the real headmistress, dissolves Frankie's welcoming committee, and plants seeds of xenophobia in the curriculum.
Frankie and Abbey figure out his plan and cure the real headmistress, but van Helscream is a step ahead of them and throws them all in a death trap, as well as Frankie's good friend Draculaura, framing the werewolves for her disappearance, and their other friend Clawdeen's younger sister Howleen, similarly framing the vampires. However, the death trap is hopelessly ancient and Abbey's ice powers and super strength break them out, and they escape with Operetta showing up to guide them out of the labyrinth. Frankie exposes the truth and everybody is able to join together; van Helscream says that, if monsters keep hating each other, humans won't be in danger, but Frankie and her friends assert that nobody has to hate anybody for what they are. Administrator van Helscream and Ms. Crabgrass are turned into statues by Deuce and put into the courtyard.
Season three goes back to joke-a-day, with the increased number of TV specials advancing the plot. Frankie continues to meet a number of new friends, but despite being the main character, her biggest role in this portion of canon is offering advice to others, like Jackson, Venus, and Abbey. She doesn't do much in the special Why do Ghouls Fall in Love, save for coming up with a few ideas to get her friends back to normal after Cupid's daughter misses when she tries to get Clawd and Draculaura back together.
In Escape from Skull Shores, another special, she and her friends all go overseas to meet Lagoona's family in Australia, but the ship is attacked by a kraken and they wash up on an uncharted island. They're taken in by a dishonest carnie, Farnum, who uses Frankie as bait to capture a supposed horrible beast feared by the island natives; the monster in question is a nice guy and Frankie just happens to look like a scientist who once visited the island and befriended him, hence her resemblance to all the statues around the island. Everyone turns on Farnum and they're about to escape, but Farnum turns a magnet on Frankie and blackmails Andy/the Beast to come with him. They're eventually saved and they run back home, integrating Andy into the school, but Farnum follows them and tries to get him back by infiltrating the school as a guest speaker. He almost gets Andy back to use in his freak show, despite Frankie's best efforts. In the end, though, Farnum's assistant turns on him, revealing himself to be a deformed human, and Farnum is thrown into a tar pit, emerging only to be covered in feathers and captured by the human monster hunters he called himself to catch Andy.
The canon is still ongoing, but this is all that's happened so far!
Personality: Frankie is characterized as being sweet, clueless, and incredibly naive. She tends to make assumptions about the world that may or may not be true, and she thinks every little thing is either incredibly exciting (ice cream = food of the gods) or the end of the world (crying = are my eyes broken?). This makes a lot of sense, all things considered; she starts canon only a few days old, and she quickly realizes that being "the new girl" is more trouble than it's worth. At the current point in canon, she's now just under a year old, and people are starting to be less forgiving of her not knowing everything she probably should. This pushes her to wish she were new again, rather than "the not-so-new-anymore girl".
Frankie is very curious about the world, but she generally takes people's explanations at face value. She once worked a charity fundraising table at school without even knowing what it was for ("uh... a good cause...?"), just because she was told that getting involved in extracurriculars was a good thing. This can very easily get her stuck when other people look deeper into things she just took for granted, and it can and does get her into trouble when people take advantage of her naivete. She even expects the best out of known enemies who have done nothing but ruin things for her and her friends and have absolutely no reason to be nice to her.
This, though, can be a good thing as much as it is a bad thing. Frankie believing the best about people does cause problems, but sometimes she does have a point -- and sometimes her clueless optimism sees things that nobody else does. Although Frankie is childish and very concerned with fitting in, enough that she's made things up on the spot to try and convince people that she's "cool" or "normal" (though it never, ever ends well), her acting like herself has actually started to change how everybody else thinks.
Frankie is good-natured and enthusiastic, though her cluelessness and clumsiness can do more harm than good. The school has had to hire a second janitor just to clean up her messes and she's officially banned from swimming ever since the electricity running through her fried the pool. She fangirls boy bands and pop stars, and she could be called boy-crazy, but then, she is nearly sixteen (physically and mentally, in any case). Frankie often reads teen magazines for life advice, even though it's all pretty terrible and tends to lead to her embarrassing herself. She really loves her family, even if they don't make a lot of sense to her, and she's dedicated to the Fear Squad even though she's not the best cheerleader in the world (comes with having your limbs stitched on).
Other: A while ago, we used to have a Lala, the version of Draculaura from the book canon. I'm playing Frankie from a separate continuity; she's from the web show, which has a wholly different plot and focus. So yeah.
Additional Links: Wiki article!
First Person (entry type):
So I... kind of have a liiiiiiiittle bit of a problem, guys and ghouls. What do you do when you... oh, it's complicated. Say you like... say you like two boys. But they're totally different and they don't like each other very much. One's always loud and quiet people burn him up, and one hides in the background and doesn't like people who make a lot of noise. And I can't even get them to talk to one another! I mean, not just "can't because they don't want to", more like "can't because they don't want to and because one actually transforms into the other when he hears loud music, and if they're the same person then I obviously can't get them into a room together".
I'm thinking of just recording them on my iCoffin, but then the problem is getting them to listen. Maybe I should just corner him at the maim entrance at school tomorrow... Or he's always at the maul, maybe he'll be there when everyone meets at the Coffin Bean! ...ugh, I suck at this. Help?
Third Person:
As Frankie looked around the dance hall, the metal bolts on either side of her neck started to spark and crackle. She turned her eyes up, lightly bopping herself on the head so they'd both look in the same direction. The community had really gone all out. There were decorations everywhere! Well, sort of weird-looking decorations. The lights along the wall were shaped like ducks -- she'd have expected skulls -- and the streamers didn't even look tattered. There was even a big fondue fountain that had -- something. That wasn't slime. Was it chocolate? She cautiously took a strawberry and dipped it into the strange substance, then popped it into her mouth. It was chocolate! It definitely tasted good. She hadn't had anything like this before. Well, not that she'd had as much experience with life as anyone else.
"Scarylicious," she commented, giving a wide smile to everyone else around the fondue fountain. "I've never been to a community party before! Are they all this fun? Because this is pretty voltage on its own. The food is--" She paused and scratched her head. "Hey, how come none of the food is moving? Is there a reason none of it has eyes?"
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