Ya’ll are sleeping on my boy Franks potential for angst.
- body dysmorphia (blessing of Ares, not being traditionally what people expected of a Roman, etc)
- lack of identity and self doubt (so much, so, so very much)
- parental trauma
- grandparent trauma
- emotional insecurity
- being asked to go on a life-altering highly dangerous quest he was almost prophesied to die on while being fully convinced he was gonna die less than a month or 2 after his mom died, only for his grandma to die(?) as well due to the quest
- alienated by all his peers and friends for being the only one who’s truly Roman
- etc
Like when you think about it he’s quite similar to Percy, but he gets overshadowed by everyone because uncle Rick didn’t flesh him out properly (imo)
I’m genuinely angry about that. Like everyone else gets good development and character growth (aside from Jason but he died and got development then) aside from Frank, really. He had so much potential with it too—