Claude Frollo

**Judge Claude Frollo**, or as he would become better known in history the **Mad Priest**, was the Minister of Justice for Paris in the year 1482. Aside from his political authority, Frollo was a religious zealot with intolerance for sinners. He believed Faunus and Mobians, (or "demons", as he refers to them) to be the most heinous of all malefactors, and therefore dedicated his life to eradicating them. Frollo's self-imposed mission drives him to perform inhumane acts of violence, all the while using his loyalty to God as justification which led the fall of the Paris by the horde of the Grimm.

## Appearance

Frollo is an aging man defined by his wrinkled, care-worn face and thinning white hair. As the Minister of Justice and a high-ranking public official, Frollo is most frequently dressed in a black and purple robe, a purple jumpsuit, a purple and black striped tricorn hat with a red tassel attached to the bottom, and black shoulder pads with red stripes. The inside of his shoulder pads are purple. He also wears rings on his fingers, two on the right and one on the left, with the jewels colored blue, red, and green.

## Personality

From the historic accounts that survived the fall of Paris, like the Journal of Captain Phoebus. Judge Claude Frollo is painted as a ruthless and deeply religious man. Who overtime became more and more unstable, till madness overtook his mind completely.

## Biography

In Paris 1482, Judge Claude Frollo, used his position to inflict great suffering upon the Faunus and Mobian populations, believing them to be Demons along with any demonstrating the use of Semblance, Aura, and Dust, as dark magic and witchcraft, and if he had his way any Huntsman or Huntress would have been burned at the stack for practicing dark magic. Eventually driven mad by his beliefs and his secret lust of a woman named Esmeralda, Frollo began plotting to burn all of Paris to the ground in order to purify it. Eventually his actions of course drew the Grimm in droves to Paris because of all the negative emotions.

It was on this dark day that Paris was ravaged by the Grimm Horde and it was only through the actions of a few that the survivors managed to make
 it to safety. Many claimed it was a hunchback named Quasimodo ('half-formed') who somehow faced down the Grimm with great powers and pushed them back alongside Captain Phoebus, the former captain of Frollo's guard and a woman named Esmeralda along with two mysterious Hunters with one dressed like a ladybug and the other like a black cat. It is said that the survivors were forced to either flee outside the burning city or even underground, taking refuge in a place known as the Court of Miracles.

As the city of Paris burned and the Grimm slaughtered the innocent the last string of Frollo's sanity snapped. He laughed gleefully exclaiming how the
monsters of hell had come to claim the wicked, and that this world shall be reborn in fire.

This was until former Captain Phoebus beheaded Frollo where he stood.

## Relationships

* **Quasimodo** - Frollo first encountered Quasimodo as a baby, after he killed his mother. For the murder, he had to take Quasimodo and raise him as his own. Frollo genuinely poses as an intimidating, yet oddly influential, father figure, for the next twenty years. However, when Quasimodo is twenty years old, Frollo allows him to be tortured after he attempts to sneak out of the bell tower for which he is forbidden to leave. He is also enraged when Quasimodo helps Esmeralda escape him and sneaks down to the Court of Miracles, where the she was hiding. Frollo applauds him for finally proving useful to him before forcing him back to the bell tower. At this point, Quasimodo has come to hate Frollo and will help anyone who helps him, such as Esmeralda. After Quasimodo goes against him in a battle, Frollo's hatred for him reaches its limits and Frollo attempts to kill him like he "should have done" twenty years ago. However, this ultimately leads to Frollo's own demise and uncertain if he was aware of Quasimodo being the Slime Elemental.
* **Esmeralda -** Frollo was Esmeralda's archenemy and was a serious threat to her life. Despite his power and authority, she was not afraid of him and rebelled against his rules. Of note, when Esmeralda and Frollo first meet, she playfully brings his face close to hers and kisses the tip of his nose before pulling his hat down, as well as performing a seductive dance. This, however, leads to Frollo becoming unhealthily obsessed with her, becoming the first link in the chain that leads to Paris' destruction and Frollo's ultimate demise. While hating Esmeralda for being a gypsy and humiliating and evading him, Frollo had a powerful feeling of lust for her, so powerful he was desperate to find her and have her to himself, even if that meant burning Paris to the ground.
* **Phoebus** -

## Background Information

Frollo is the main antagonist from Disney's animated movie *The Hunchback of Notre Dame*.