#langdonisms

born: 1989, making him currently 36. I'm just using the actor's age and I think he might be meant to be a touch younger, but tbh it works well for my headcanons.

He grew up in a fairly relaxed household, but with that anticipation of, I have no issue with it as long as it's not my family. He began to drift apart from his parents and when he floated the idea of being transgender, they did not react well, so he kept it quiet.

He was very close to his grandfather on his father's side, Frank, who was actually the first person he told he thought he was a guy. He was very supportive, but also very sick, and made Frank promise to live authentically as himself when he was dying.

When he was about 17, he came out as a trans man and named himself Frank. His parents lost their shit and were not supportive in the slightest; they kicked him out and he was forced to figure shit out real fast. After couch surfing for a bit, he found himself staying with Abby, who was a year older than him, and had also been evicted by her family for being trans.

He started going to university with the intention to go into some kind of medical career, living off money his grandfather left him, working a job on the side, and pouring everything he had into it. Thankfully he managed to secure health insurance and got top surgery when he was about 20. Obviously he had to take some time off for that, but he was good and got high grades so managed it, owing a lot to Abby who he had started dating by this point.

He followed along the standard sort of timeline here, becoming a med student after finishing his university course. He was 26 when he got his undergraduate and moved into being a med student properly.

He had just finished his med school rotation and qualified to be a resident, and got a position for his residency at the pitt, which he was crazy excited about... just as the COVID pandemic hit big and everything was complete and utter chaos. Lockdowns declared, everything going crazy, Abby losing her mind with worry for him. He ended up moving into one of the on call rooms like a lot of other doctors and residents did...

And then realised that he was pregnant.

Him and Abby were always careful but getting to see each other at the start of that, when it was all scary, was maybe.. less. careful. and they talked about it and he realised that, yeah, he did want a family. They could keep putting it off but COVID scared the crap out of him and he didn't want to wait and this was perfect timing really. He held out a little longer than he should have but when he was showing he knew he had to move out of the COVID ward; spoke to the higher ups who gave him leave.

He took some time off, came back probably a little bit too soon and was heavily judged for 'abandoning' everyone because he was 'too scared' to be around for COVID, and had to keep his mouth shut about the whole situation. That was one of the scarier times, too; being away from his young kid, fighting tooth and nail to keep his status quiet. He was away whilst Adamson died and Robby got promoted, too, which meant a lot of things about his weird time off flew under the radar for everyone.

This was around the time, with the fear from COVID and the new baby, that his family reached out and he actually reached back. They were able to reestablish a pretty good relationship and are actually fairly close now. They've come around a lot, not perfect, but do their best.

This pushed his residency back a little, so he functionally had to start over as an R1 even though he was now 31. Then, two years later, ish, after talking about it a bunch, he and Abby agreed that yeah they wanted another kid so that Tanner wasn't lonely. This time he was able to give notice to HR, and they planned it a little better so he could have a shorter time off. Dana knew, by this point, because she'd found out entirely by accident, but she kept his secret and was actually massively helpful with the new baby stuff, bless her heart. This was doubly important bc penny was really, really hard on Frank. Essentially everything that could wrong did. He developed gestational diabetes and a bleeding disorder, as well as severe morning sickness. His body seemed to hate being pregnant with her, and when she was born a few weeks early, he was bleeding so heavily they had to do multiple transfusions. He passed out functionally the second she was out, and avoided being a c section purely by a. the speed and b. the risk of him bleeding to death. They discussed a hysto then but figured the risk of surgery was too high so that was postponed. However, obviously, he recovered.

Frank came back, settled back into his place as an R3, now 34, and then obviously in S1 he's 35 and a recent R4. One of the reasons his back got badly injured is because he was also pushing himself to help whilst it wasn't really that long after having penny, and the idiot definitely pushed himself too hard and twinged his back.