Mr. Drake

*For this character's son, see Eli Drake.*

**Mr. Drake** is a character in *Magical Girl Policy*. He is a wealthy business owner in Kessia City, and father of Eli and Mallory Drake. He has not directly appeared in the series, with his actions only being mentioned by other characters.

## Appearance

Mr. Drake has green eyes and a very stern gaze. He shares these traits with his children.

## Personality

Mr. Drake is a serious man and can be rather stubborn. He is apparently prone to acting rashly, as he is said to preemptively apologize to his wife even when he is uncertain why he should do so. He greatly values hard work, and feels it important that his son Eli learns this through experience the same way he had. He notably gives preferential treatment to his daughter Mallory, being irrationally protective of her. This sexist attitude is said to be exclusively towards his children, born of a misguided belief that his son has to grow up a similar way he did in order to be a responsible man.

## Abilities

Mr. Drake is the owner of an unspecified business which is apparently quite successful, as he is a wealthy man that lives in comfort with his family.

## Biography

### Background

Mr. Drake's upbringing ingrained in him the value of hard work, getting a job as a teenager to pay for his car and other personal expenses. As an adult, he became a successful business owner, married, and had two children named Mallory and Elijah. He is very protective of his daughter, and would often have to be talked out of sheltering her by his wife. On the other hand, he is much stricter with his son, feeling it important that Eli learn responsibility through experience the same way Mr. Drake himself had. This difference in treatment is made apparent when each of his children go to attend Schuyler Adamson University: he pays all of Mallory's expenses and was initially opposed to her moving out of the house even though SAU is in their home town of Kessia City, while he had no such opposition with Eli and demanded the boy get a job for any spending money.

### Week 1

When Eli realizes he had lost his phone during the Polygal attack, Mallory predicts their father will be very angry at this, though Cory disagrees since he believes a monster attack would be a perfectly acceptable excuse for Mr. Drake. Eli has a phone again the next day, though whether it is a replacement from his parents or the original retrieved from Loose Change is not stated.

When Eli spies with Cory on Robert's meeting with the Spirit Guard, he finds out that Mallory is Spirit Guard Tenacity. The Drake siblings argue over this shortly after, but they end up agreeing to keep it a secret from their parents, as they expect their father to react poorly if he found out his daughter has been risking her life as a superhero over the past year.

### Weeks 2-4

The morning after the Day LaMode battle, Eli checks up on the recovering Mallory. She reveals that she plans to tell their parents she's a Spirit Guard after all, as the fight had her realize that if she had died like she very nearly did, the burden of explaining everything would've fallen to Eli. She plans to approach them in the near future, after she's had time to heal from her injuries and prepare herself.

At some point during the following weeks, Mallory tells her parents about her Spirit Guard business, leaving out her near death so as not to overly worry them, and both parents take the news surprisingly well. She also exaggerates the events of the Polygal battle by claiming Eli went out of his way to lead the children to safety, and as hoped this convinces Mr. Drake that Eli has fully learned discipline and no longer needs a job while at college.

## Relationships

### Mrs. Drake

Mr. Drake can be stubborn and irrational, but his wife is able to talk him down. Though Mr. Drake is apparently the family's main source of income, it is Mrs. Drake who handles their finances.

### Mallory Drake

Mr. Drake dotes on his daughter Mallory, providing her things like a car as soon as she could drive and ample spending money. He is also irrationally protective of her, however, such as protesting her learning taekwando or moving into a nearby apartment for college rather than live at home. Mallory isn't fond of her father giving her preferential treatment and attempting to shelter her. She initially hides that she's Spirit Guard Tenacity from her family due to fearing how her father would react. When she finally does reveal to them that she's a Spirit Guard, however, it goes over surprisingly well with Mr. Drake.

### Eli Drake

Unlike with Mallory, Mr. Drake is very strict with his son Eli, apparently out of a misguided belief that his own upbringing of hard work is the best way for a boy to grow up to be responsible. Mr. Drake imposes only on Eli similar restrictions to what he himself had as a teenager, like demanding he get a job to pay for personal expenses and buy his own car. After Mallory explains her Spirit Guard business to her parents, Mr. Drake lifts the job requirement as long as Eli is in college, convinced the boy has learned the necessary discipline a job can teach him. Mallory had exaggerated Eli's heroics during the Polygal battle, apparently as a ploy to get this reaction from their father since she knows Eli dislikes the disparity in how their father treats the siblings even more than she does.

### Cory Frost

Mr. Drake is very close to Cory, a lifelong friend to Eli and Mallory. Cory considers himself an honorary member of the Drake family and is certain Mr. Drake's will leaves some inheritance to him.