Franky Franklin

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**Franky Franklin** (フランキー・フランクリン, *Furankī Furankurin*?) is a recurring character of the *SPY x FAMILY* series. He is an informant who seemingly works at a tobacco store as a front. He gets information regarding Eden Academy's exam and Anya Forger's past records for Loid Forger.

## Appearance

Franky is a man with a square face, round eyes, and an upturned nose. He has big perm-like black hair, with a short goatee.

He usually wears a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up with black suspenders and a red tie. He sports glasses with a thick red frame and an earring on his left earlobe.

## Personality

Franky is a kind person willing to help Loid out whenever he is in a pinch, even though the danger is high. He frequently warns Loid not to get too close to other people in their line of work. Despite this advice, Franky frequently falls in love with other women, but his love life typically fails due to a lack of mutual interest or because they are already with someone else. In contrast, Franky is more successful with friends as he knows many people and is popular enough to be greeted by many people at a club.

He is a rather money-driven person as he is willing to perform favors for Loid as long as the spy promises to give him material goods, even if he was previously reluctant to do so or the situation was extremely dangerous.

Having participated in the war between Ostania and Westalis, Franky came to understand that the war was a result of a diplomatic failure and deemed it stupid and pointless for regular people to kill each other on their respective nation's orders, which led to him to defect the Ostanian army. While he lives in Ostania, Franky dislikes the government's oppressive nature and is willing to collaborate with Westalian agents by passing them intel, which he considers his way of fighting back.

## Abilities and Skills

As an informant, Franky's primary skills are information gathering and making contacts.

**Intelligence Gathering:** Franky is an extraordinarily impressive informant, being able to access a vast amount of highly secure information without getting caught or noticed by the SSS, from accessing and copying a large pile of personal documents regarding info on unmarried women in the city to getting the answers to an exam from Eden Academy. He also has access to a large network of contacts and fellow informants, allowing him to quickly gather information and borrow a large variety of skills as needed, as well as going around the city unnoticed.

**Inventing:** Being one of his passions, Franky is capable of building a variety of gadgets, though they are often niche or extremely limited in use. While he has made many inventions to show off to Loid, very few are practical enough to be used by him.

### Known Inventions

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* Other inventions include:
	+ A machine to talk to women on dates based on the flowchart Loid made for him.
	+ A machine to make him taller. (Failed)
	+ X-ray glasses. (Failed)
	+ A pistol disguised as a toothbrush.

## Trivia

* As revealed in Franky's Secret Files in Volume 1, Franky was originally intended to be the uncle of the Forger family.
* Franky's favorite things are inventing, browsing tools at the hardware store, rummaging through junk parts, and collecting.
* Franky's disliked things are handsome guys, rich people, and the Ostanian government.
* Franky sometimes does charity work to support victims of the war and certain causes like landmine removal.
* Franky's hair is naturally curly, and he can even hide small listening devices in it.
* Franky's character was modeled after the character of Mozzie who was the main character's sidekick in the American TV drama *White Collar*.
* Franky's chair, featured on the cover of the eighth volume, is a Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman by Charles and Ray Eames.
* When attempting to catch Kopi, one of the inventions Franky used is a net launcher disguised as a camera, which is labelled "Spyder" and fires a net reminiscing a spider's web. This could be a reference to the popular comic book superhero, Spider-Man, and his career in photography as his alter ego, Peter Parker.

## Quotes

* (To Fiona Frost): *"Oh, I'm not on anyone's side. I'm just not a fan of the way the East does things. This country's too rigid. Too oppressive. **So I like to shake things up with a little trouble sometimes. Guess I'm going through a rebellious phase**."*

## References

*SPY x FAMILY* Manga and Anime: Chapter 14, and Episode 9.
*SPY x FAMILY Official Fanbook: EYES ONLY* (p. 68).
*SPY x FAMILY* Manga and Anime: Chapter 43, and Episode 29.
*SPY x FAMILY* Manga and Anime: Short Mission 2, and Episode 16.
*SPY x FAMILY Official Fanbook: EYES ONLY* (p. 200).
*SPY x FAMILY* Manga: Chapter 60 (p. 20).