Francisco Alonso

Books 6 - 9- regular recurring

Books 10 + - semi recurring

**“You know children make their own choices despite how they were brought up.” Francisco - Ursula VanPelt**

**Name:** The reason behind his name wasn’t given in the series. Francisco was conceived in San Francisco while his parents were there visiting family. Walter liked the name Francisco and suggested it. Alonso is Francisco’s father’s surname which was given to him at birth. He is also referred to as “Mr. Alonso” by his students out of respect.

**Magic information:** Francisco comes from a magical family but doesn’t possess any magical powers, therefore his magical status is: Powerless-Wizard. Though not confirmed, Francisco must have completed his guardian training otherwise he’d have no contact with the magical world anymore.

**Career:** Francisco enjoys math and became a math teacher at Iridium high sometime before 2004. Francisco kept this job until he decided to retire.It was thought that he might be the only math teacher at the high school as it was mentioned he taught math to each grade. Yet, it was never confirmed that he is the only math teacher at Iridium high. Francisco eventually retired and never had another career.

**Past**

In his early adult life, Francisco married a witch named Maria and cherished her so much. She was the love of his life. They had a daughter together named Emma and were planning on adopting their foster-daughter Andi. Unfortunately, their marriage was short and ended in tragedy. In early July of 2000, Maria was murdered by a witch named Erica during a home invasion while trying to protect her daughter. The entire family took Maria’s death very hard.

After the shock of Maria’s death began to fade away, reality settled in. Maria had been the bigger money earner and without her, Francisco struggled to pay the bills while also providing for two growing girls. After a lot of thinking, Francisco made a very hard decision. He sent Andi to live with her biological aunt, Jean Cruz, who could financially provide for her better. Francisco regretted this decision dailey and planned on taking Andi back once things had settled down. However, he started seeing how happy Andi was with her aunt and thought he had missed his chance to be her father. To this day, he and Andi still have a great relationship. "You didn't have to adopt me because I always saw myself as your daughter, adoption would have only made it official, and to me, that wasn't important." Andi - Francisco.

**Becoming a grandfather**

Francisco was informed by Lily Foster that Emma was pregnant at just fifteen. He was outraged. It was suggested that he took it so horribly because he hated change. On the day he found out, Francisco waited for Emma to return home from a friend's house and couldn't even look her in the eye. Francisco pointed out that he had been very understanding and trusting since Emma had started dating. He told her that he didn't trust her anymore and grounded her from the internet and from having boys over. Emma was shocked as he had never grounded her before and Francisco explained that was because she had never given him a reason to ground her before. Francisco also threatened to kick her out if she chose to keep her baby and gave her until the end of her pregnancy to decide. This was a threat he did carry out. Although it may not have happened so soon if it hadn't been for Emma insinuating that her deceased mother was angry with him and didn't pay him a visit because of it.

Francisco spent most of the book ignoring Emma. There were times he wanted to mend his relationship with her but didn't know how and was too stubborn to apologize. However, he was always there during the biggest events such as Christmas and Emma's gender reveal party even though he wanted nothing to do with the baby. In the end, Francisco did end up going to the hospital to meet his granddaughter Jessie. He even held her.

**FUN FACTS**

. Francisco means “Free man.” And is a Spanish name.

. Francisco’s daughter is a former chosen-one, and his granddaughter Jessie is the current and last chosen-one.

. During Emma’s pregnancy, Francisco hated how bad their relationship was but was too stubborn to forgive Emma and ask for her forgiveness.