Alfonso Falconeri, Jr.

With Rachel Rabbit:

* Roxanne Falconeri-Rabbit
* Rodolfo Falconeri-Rabbit
* Bartolo Falconeri-Rabbit
* Ansaldo Falconeri-Rabbit

* Part 2: An Unlikely Romance ( *If Likin' You Is Wrong and Other Storieschapter 2)*
* *Into the Fire*( *Blazin’ Trails Redux*season 1, episode 10)

**Alfonso Falconeri, Jr.**, nicknamed **"Al"** by those who know him, is Denise and Serena's older brother and the oldest child of the Falconeri family. As heir apparent of the family business, Al spends majority of his time being the “face” of the family so his father can enjoy his retirement. Between a few liaisons with women, and his family’s entanglements with both the Rabbit and Coyote families, his life is nothing short of a drama—in his own words. Though he has the makings and the personality of a ruthless businessman, interactions with his family members, namely the children he fathered with two different women, would melt his icy heart. In later years, he’d become an ally to Ricochet Rabbit, who almost became his brother-in-law and with whom he had adversarial relations.

Debuting in the original *Blazin’ Trails* series, Al Jr was placed in several minor roles, with his largest role being in the miniseries, *If Likin’ You Is Wrong and Other Stories.* He would receive a greater role and focus in the series remake, *Blazin’ Trails Redux*, as a supporting character.

## Personality

Considered the most professional of the Falconeri children, and believed to be the most suitable to handle their family's business, Al is noted to have the perfect personality suiting a businessman: charismatic, brilliant, shrewd and ruthless at the flip of a dime when needed, he’s known for having as many friends in the financial world as he does enemies. He’s noted to have what’s known as a sugar-and-ice personality—while cordial and polite to those he doesn’t know well in public, to those who know him, he’s more aloof, arrogant, blunt and is boastful, traits that have landed him in trouble in both his youth and adulthood. He’s not quite as sociable as his sisters and prefers to do things by himself, only dealing with interaction as part of his job, although in later years he would outgrow this thanks to Rachel and Roxanne. He’s also easily irritated by the smallest of things, and can be uptight, which led to Ricochet and his sisters calling him a stick in the mud. Similar to his mother, he had a habit of looking down on lower class people and often refuses to help them, harshly judging them for their circumstances. His father, who grew up in poverty, can't stand his attitude, which leads to many arguments about it. He would, however, come to see the hypocrisy of his mother’s ways when he falls in love with Rachel and eventually learns his sister’s story, which would lead to him breaking ties with his mother similar to how Ricochet would break ties with his father. His attitude has caused him to have several enemies, including Ricochet Rabbit, who nearly became his brother-in-law, and Lumière Edwards, Marigold's brother, who he insulted by claiming that Marigold got himself killed and promptly got beat up for. His daughter, Roxanne Falconeri-Rabbit, was initially put off by his attitude, and even his nephew James, whom he adopted, admits that he's hard to deal with.

Al is also uninterested in commitment to one woman or marriage, which has resulted in his parents pressuring his sisters into marrying to produce an heir, something that both Denise and Serena haven’t forgiven him for. Because of his broken fur pattern, and his charm, he’s quite a ladies man, although unlike most rich men of his caliber he doesn’t keep a “scorecard” of how many women he’s slept with, believing it to be crass. He very briefly considered changing his stance after his one night stand with Rachel, however, but did not go through with it, as at the time, he still held his mother’s opinion in high regard. This would be something he’d regret years later, for although a few other women came and went, he considered her to be the one who got away. After the debacle with Constanza Ramos, he would change his attitude towards marriage and relationships completely, and would work hard to build relationships with the children he fathered with both Rachel and Constanza.

Though many of those close to him seem to doubt it, Al Jr does have a heart—a warm one, thought covered by an icy shell, as he doesn’t want to be too personally affected by the hardships that he goes through. Over the years, however, that icy shell would melt due to interactions with others in his life, both close and adversarial, resulting in a warmer individual. He’s loyal to his family, and is protective of his mother and sisters. He blamed himself for not being there for Serena when she needed his support, and sees his adopting James as his second chance at redemption. As for Denise, he gives her advice whenever she needs it (or doesn’t, as she likes to point out) and is wary of suitors who get near her, not wanting anyone to take advantage of her. This was the one of the reasons he was wary of Droop-a-Long Coyote, and he even admitted that he thought of going after the coyote due to the trouble that she faced at the hands of the outlaw he had to capture. He’s one of the few rich rabbits who aren’t racist towards coyotes or other prey animals, believing it to be not only detrimental but evil; in his eyes, if he can find a good man in a coyote or a fox, then it shouldn’t matter, and believes in judging by character rather by appearance or stereotypes. It’s the main reason he would help his daughter to recognize her feelings for Salvador, stating that he would love her regardless of who she chose, so long as he wasn’t a murderer, as well as his readiness to marry Constanza regardless of the public’s view of him or their children before her betrayal was revealed. He can also engage in nuclear levels of pettiness, as demonstrated by his engagement party with Constanza.

For all his shortcomings, he does his best to be a caring father. When he learned that he had a daughter, he decided to be a part of her life without hesitation, though his attitude didn't exactly win her or the rest of the Rabbit family over at first. It would take Rachel slapping him to make him realize that what she needed the most in her life was a father, not a bank. Shortly after this incident, he decides to not only start reconciling and putting a major effort to connect with Roxanne, but also mends things with Rachel, whom he referred to as “the one who got away”. He’s just as protective of Roxanne as Ricochet is, to the point where she had to stop him from personally ruining the mayor who attempted to ruin her chances for running for sheriff, and threatened the owner of a jewelry store when he refused to serve Salvador, who wanted to propose to Roxanne. When Xavier Jones began to harass Roxanne for ignoring his advances, Al used his connections to ruin all of Xavier's deals at the time, which made them adversaries both in and out of business—upon learning that she had been raped by Xavier, was pregnant by him, he had to be stopped by Ricochet from going to his mansion and killing him then and there. One of the few things that actually hurts his heart is the plights of half-breeds and how they are abandoned by their families; against his mother’s wishes, and to his father’s delight, he would create a home for abandoned animal folk and half-breeds, and personally oversees it, having heard of how those homes treat half-breeds. He has a low tolerance for mothers who use their children for their own personal gain, as established during his breakage with his mother, and his engagement party with Constanza—upon learning that both Yolanda and Regina were responsible for him not knowing about Roxanne, he was infuriated, and yelled at his mother, claiming that he missed fifteen years of his life due to her schematics. In addition, upon learning that his children with Constanza were in destitute conditions, he didn’t hesitate to bring them into his home and even said he would legally adopt them when they got married. When he learned that not only did Constanza renege on the agreement, but has also abandoned them for years while she enjoyed the company of rich men, he was furious, and dumped her at the engagement party, claiming that he couldn’t marry a woman who would put money above her own family.

## Trivia

* Part of Al's personality is based off of the author herself, who remarks that she can be sometimes irritable around her own family and was somewhat uptight.
* He was the only member of his family that possessed a broken fur pattern until his niece, Serenity, was born.
* Al's more prominent and most positive role is in the miniseries *If Likin' You Is Wrong and Other Stories*, where there he acts as a moral guide to Denise. In the main series, he has more adversarial relations with much of the cast, though later he slowly starts to soften up.