â 27 years old
â Cis male, he/him
â Pureblood
â Member of The Order
â Code 4
His father left 3 days after his second birthday, for reasons his mother has never told him. Frank doesnât have any memory of his father or what he looked like as he never came back to visit Frank or made any effort to contact his son. The only thing Frank really knew about his Father was that he was an Auror. Itâs the only thing his mother ever told him, he was an auror and his work always came first. When Frank was 12 he found a photo of a man holding him as a baby, on the back it said Robert With Frank 1957. He took the photo to his mother, who confirmed it to be his dad.
As a child Frank felt this constant need to please his mother, he assumes it was something to do with the fact he was scared if he displeased her, she would leave too. As it turned out, Frank actually really enjoyed learning and tended to pick things up quickly, so his mother enrolled him in pureblood etiquette classes a couple years earlier than most children his age and hired a governess to tutor Frank. His governess was terrifying but she pushed him to learn, between Rosemerta and his mother there was almost no male or fatherly influence in his early life. When he was 10 his mother started grooming him for a job at the ministry, taking him to dinners and getting him writing letters to people in the ministry.
When Frank started school, everything changed. Â Suddenly he was thrust from his bubble and actually had the chance to have experiences that were out-with education, or pleasing his mother all the time. Of course his education still took a forefront and he was always working to pass. Knowing that failure would surely be followed by a howler from his mother about letting her down. Frank also wanted to do well, although he was unsure as to where his life was headed, he knew that getting good grades would be able to give him a wider base of opportunity. He became a lot more carefree he stopped caring about what everyone thought of him, that everyone wanted him to be a certain way and decided that instead of caring heâs just being himself, that was surely the best way to live and if anyone cared about it they didnât matter.
The summer before his seventh year, he met his father for the first time. He was in the Leaky Cauldron with friends and he came in. Frank didnât recognize the man at first, but then someone called out âLongbottom where you been!â and Franks head shot up, he saw the man who had come in laugh and go over to the person whoâd shouted and it all clicked into place, he kept the photo in his wallet, so he brought it out. The man was his father. His friends, encouraged him to go over and talk to him, and beside his better judgement he did. Only for the man to stare at him like he could see right through him. Franksâs father had no idea who he was, and it broke his heart. Frank just left without saying anything and tried to never waste his time thinking about his absent father again. Until 4 weeks later, when Robert Longbottom was killed on an auror mission. Frank attended the funeral. Â Yes, heâd been an absent father, but he was still his dad. His death didnât really affect Frank at all, it was the fact that Robert Longbottom, left his entire estate to Frank. Along with a letter, filled with apologies about being absent and how much he should have been there, but felt heâd left it too late. This was what affected Frank, he didnât understand how a man could be absent for 18 years and then leave everything to a child he never knew. In the letter it explained how Augusta had kept him up to date with Franks progress over the years, he said how proud of Frank he was, how proud of the man heâd become. It made Frank angry, that he thought it was okay to do any of this. When Frank told Augusta, she was equally as angry, angry that heâd gotten all her letters that heâd known about Frank, where he was, what he was doing and just hadnât done anything. Not having a father, has not affected Frank in any way. He would never say it has worsened his life in any way, heâs never wanted for anything and his mother was all the parent he ever needed, he wouldnât trade his life for the world.Frank is a little bit of a gentle giant, fighting isnât exactly his style. During school, he always received exemplary grades but Frank had no idea what he wanted to do with his life. He floated around doing various bits and pieces for a while before fate stepped in, war broke and suddenly Frank knew where his place was and what he had to do. So he decided that he wanted to sign up for Auror training, Frank had spent his whole life trying to be nothing like his father, or his motherâs interpretation of his father, and suddenly he was going to have to live up to the reputation of a man he never knew. Frank goes out of way to try and show everyone that heâs not his father, but has accepted the fact that in the Auror department, heâs always going to be Robert Longbottomâs son, even if it had never felt like it. Frank worked himself into the ground to be the best auror he could be. Staying up late at night to practice or to go out on non-sanctioned missions to try and gain the favour and respect of his peers. Working his way through the ranks as he tried his hardest to rid himself of the man heâs never knowns shadow. Â
When the ministry fell; it felt like a whole new low point. Â At least for Frank; everything theyâd been working towards crumbled in a matter of hours. Even as a pureblood; working under Yaxleys rule was difficult to say the least. Frank; being more vocal about it all, was one of the first people to lose his job; he was lucky to be left with his life and his freedom. To make ends meet, Frank works as a bar-keep in the Leaky Cauldron. Working with the order behind the scenes to continue his work from before this twisted turn of events. Â
âł Played by: Eilidh
âł Faceclaim: Daniel Sharman
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