FRANKIE ZABINI.
twenty. she/her. foraging division. hope you've got your things together; hope you are quite prepared to die. looks like we're in for nasty weather. one eye is taken for an eye. don't go around tonight! well, it's bound to take your life — there's a bad moon on the rise
FRANCESCA ZABINI really is the spitting image of CHINA ANNE MCCLAIN, right? For someone only 20 years old, FRANKIE has been forced to endure so much. Yeah, that PUREBLOOD has been scraping by at the sanctuary since OCTOBER, 2028, working as a SUPPLY/WEAPONS RUNNER in the DIVISION OF FORAGE. SHE is a CIS WOMAN and is known to be SNEAKY and DISHONEST but also INVENTIVE and STRATEGIC. Best of luck surviving through this.
CHARACTER PARALLELS: debbie ocean (ocean’s 8), lou (ocean’s 8), amethyst (steven universe), mundungus fletcher (harry potter), veronica rawlings (widows), anatole kuragin (natasha, pierre, and the great comet of 1812), edmund pevensie (the chronicles of narnia).
i. a comprehensive list of things that frankie zabini is NOT here for:
your shit
ii. francesca learned pretty early on that she wasn’t like her siblings — not brilliant like nadia, not dependable and “eldest boy” (which she swears is a personality trait) like elijah. amalia zabini, her grandmother, the woman she credits with raising her (because blaise wouldn’t? couldn’t? frankie stopped asking that question a long time ago) once took her by the chin, looked her in the eyes, and said, “despite everything, i think you’ll make a fine slytherin.”
iii. for the most part, she was! she didn’t do too badly in school, but she didn’t wow any professors either. instead, she realized a few things growing up: for one, she’s sneaky. or sly or cunning as the sorting hat terms it — frankie calls it sneaky. this is where being ordinary comes in handy; no one noticed her copying a classmate’s answers, lurking in corridors past curfew, slipping bracelets off of too-thin wrists. francesca knows she shouldn’t do any of those things, but she’s so good at it, and it would make her sad to waste her talents. she never tells her siblings, though.
iv. the second thing she realizes is this: she doesn’t mind non-slytherins. or muggleborns. she makes friends and enemies across the houses and blood types and quickly becomes frankie rather than francesca zabini -- and she likes that.
v. frankie quickly went from taking other people’s things to taking money, artifacts -- but she’s smart about it. she knows how to go unnoticed and when not to risk her cover; she’s fleecing first-and-second-years by selling stolen sweets and goods from hogsmede.
vi. the more she steals, the more her family takes notice, especially after she finishes at hogwarts and never seems to have a job. it strains her already difficult relationship with nadia and blaise especially, and she finds herself wanting to leave the uk more and more as time passes.
vii. after a particularly vicious blowout with blaise in january 2027, frankie turned to international cons and crime to satiate her fix for risky behavior and give her an excuse to not come home. she forges qualifications to work on luxury yachts in the mediterranean in the muggle world as a stewardess, slipping into their rooms, stealing their finery and leaving behind magical duplicates that disappear into nothingness after they’ve been home for a few days already; she makes friends with muggle cons and sells these goods through shady channels. all in all, things are going well.
viii. until they aren’t. part of the reason frankie doesn’t go home as soon as she learns of the outbreak is reluctance to face her family again, part of it is because being on the ocean off the coast of greece feels so far away from these inferi. there’s time spent in muggle jail after a ‘business partner’ sells her out, a snapped wand — now, frankie has arrived at hogwarts expecting a very angry family...or whatever is left of it. (DEATH TW, note: frankie doesn’t know her brother is dead yet! see nadia’s intro for more on that harrowing tale lmao).
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hello! i think in my original app i had frankie arriving at hogwarts in august, but that was back when the RP was set at that time! she has only been there for a few days and still getting the hang of looking out for others; no use in stealing when the economy collapses! frankie is still new to me and i’m working out some ideas, but i’m really excited to develop her! thanks to everyone for their patience in this trying time lmao! her stats are coming soon.
