(Fun fact, as I’m writing this I’m listening to Meant to be Yours from Heathers because I feel like it really captures the mood.) A genuine, balanced relationship with Frollo is impossible. It wouldn’t happen. It would always be tilted in his favour, the other person doing as he wants when he wants or else not being in that relationship at all. It’d be abusive and twisted and horrible, but when everything was going his way, he would be capable of “romantic” actions to some extent. He would buy flowers, use pet names that would honestly be more creepy than endearing, he’d organise extravagant dinners – but it would be more like a reward system for being his Perfect Lover TM than a genuine romantic gesture.
Friends are also not a thing with Frollo, for a number of reasons. For him, a lot of people just aren’t on the same level as he believes himself to be. He thinks he’s the pinnacle of virtuousness, and doesn’t want to associate with anyone who doesn’t measure up to that. He also makes it a point not to trust other people, whether it’s making sure not to leave guards unsupervised for too long because they won’t do their jobs, or not crediting the poor or the travelling Romani with anything other than evil intentions, which automatically isolates him, as well as his studies of alchemy. By nature, he’s a loner, and his actions and lifestyle exacerbate that, but even if it can be lonely, he prefers it – he’s at his best with nobody to hinder him.
♦ - quirks/hobbies headcanon
He would deny he was even doing it if anybody pointed this out, but he has a really annoying habit of tapping his fingers repeatedly against the nearest available surface when he’s impatient.
☯ - likes/dislikes headcanon
If asked to think about this, Frollo wouldn’t actually think of or name a single thing he genuinely likes or dislikes: he only knows what he’s supposed to like or not like, according to what he’s learned from the Church and the law, and acts and thinks accordingly. That’s not to say he doesn’t have genuine likes or dislikes, but they’re more subconscious reactions – one thing he absolutely hates is how disorderly people in the streets become when it’s crowded, but it’s not a conscious thought, and if he does think about it, it’s more in the “common unclean faithless masses, a disgrace” vein. Hence his entire reaction to Esmeralda – he can’t keep it subconscious nor can he consciously reassign it to a reaction he understands, because thinking it’s just a traveller girl twisting his words and making his thoughts unpure doesn’t work. He can’t think about or deal with it the way he thinks about or deals with everything else, yet thinking about it, let alone feeling it, is a sin.
Answered here, but I’m going to take this opportunity to add that Frollo became much more of a recluse after his parents’ death. It didn’t exactly push him further into his studies, but they certainly began taking more of his time. He had never been overly close with his family, but they were most of the human contact he had since he never ventured out very much, so with that socialisation gone and no desire to seek out other people, he just returned to books and learning and never fully came back.
∇ - old age/aging headcanon
Frollo really doesn’t like old age, just from a practical viewpoint. His “work” keeping control of the city is hard regardless, but as he gets older, trying to be everywhere at once is much harder, especially climbing up the stairs of the bell tower in the middle of winter like wtf is that about anyway.
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