What is Francis Pope’s personality, dynamics, roles, and appearances in Big Nate, Francis has blonde hair that goes out in a swoop to whichever direction he faces and has a noticeable gap in his teeth. Francis always wears a green shirt with an 'F' (for Francis) in the center of it. He also wears jeans and circular glasses. His outfit changes in the summer, in which he wears a T-shirt version of his normal shirt and shorts, and the winter, where he wears a jacket or coat instead. In the Mold! story arc Francis wore a Jefferson shirt and carried around a flag, Francis has been shown to be very kind and friendly to other people. Although he is smart and caring, he is also geeky; his geekiness can become annoying toward his friends, like Nate and Teddy (like whenever Francis gets a new edition of Book of Facts). Francis is highly intelligent for affairs relating to the school. Francis can also sometimes be shown/called a nerd, mostly because he sometimes carries around a book of tons of facts. His brain, according to Nate Wright is "25 percent math, 25 percent social studies, 40 percent geekiness, 10 percent other." He wants to get into the Ivy League, Friends: Nate Wright Along with Teddy Ortiz, Nate Wright is Francis' best friend at home and school. The only thing Nate seems to hate about Francis, in general, is his aptitude for being neat and a goody-two-shoes, which Francis probably knows about. He is also very annoyed when Francis talks to him about trivia saying the information in it is "useless". Nate especially is dismayed when Francis brings a new edition of the Book of Trivia. According to Nate's Q-scores he made, Nate dropped Francis' score to an 89 from a 93 just to get on his nerves. Teddy Ortiz is the other of Francis' two best friends. They tend to tease and pick on each other but according to Nate, this is how their friendship operates. Like Francis, Teddy also finds Nate to be somewhat to a good bit annoying. Others: Gina Hemphill-Toms According to Nate, Francis thinks Gina Hemphill-Toms to be a "pain." Although Francis has been seen a numerous amount of times working cooperatively with Gina. At an unknown date, Francis and Gina were forced to work together as Co-Editors on the Chronicle, after Gina attempted to take full control of the position...  Trudy met Francis Pope after Nate introduced the two shortly after she and Nate became a couple. However, she is determined to spend time with her friends instead. Whether or not she was trying to avoid Teddy and Francis is unknown. Teachers Clara Godfrey Francis respects Mrs. Godfrey as a favored teacher in the comics starting in the mid-1990s. Francis is also one of Mrs. Godfrey's favorite students, and Mrs. Godfrey could be Francis's favorite teacher (with the possible exception of Mr. Rosa). Francis can also be seen brown-nosing Mrs. Godfrey in some comics. Girlfriends Sheila Stapleton Sheila Stapleton is Francis' girlfriend. Their relationship seemed to last throughout most of the school year, though it is possible they met in elementary school. Sheila is also willing to respect Francis' friends, namely Nate Wright, even though Nate thinks their relationship is annoying to him. According to him, Francis is not himself around Sheila (likely correct). Ellen Wright Ellen Ellen Wright At one point, in the very early years of Big Nate, Francis had a crush on Ellen Wright, Nate's older sister. However, his crush ended in 1992, when he had a sleepover at Nate's, and found out how ugly/scary she looks when she wakes up and doesn't tidy things up. Ellen most likely did not like Francis back.