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1* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
2** The Fanfic/UtterTripeReviews crew believes that Danisha is brainwashing Frollo, and any instance where he acts in-character is [[AndIMustScream him knowing what's happening to him and trying to break free.]]
3** Greenery Gripes of Blog/DasSporking starts to think that Danisha's friend Fern (who brought her to Medieval Paris in the first place) hates Danisha and brought her to the Medieval era with the intent of leaving her behind to die.
4* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The story doesn't have much of a plot to begin with, but most notably is a moment shortly after Danisha almost gets molested by Frollo; Danisha tosses a quarter at him and tells him to "call somebody who cares" for no readily explained reason.
5* DesignatedHero:
6** The author repeatedly goes out of her way to tell us that Frollo is kind and loving, despite everything he's done in the [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney the original source material]], which included [[KickTheDog kicking an unarmed woman to death]], [[WouldHurtAChild trying to drown a baby]], molesting a woman in a church, and setting fire to a house with a family locked inside.
7** Danisha herself is this as well. We're supposed to believe that she's loving, pure and good, but she shows the same amount of racism Frollo does, vilifies Esmeralda and punches her in the face because she refused Frollo's advances, and completely condones ColdBloodedTorture. There's also the rather infuriating fact that she only cares about people she actually ''knows:'' someone she knows personally is wounded? She's all concern and tears. Someone she ''doesn't'' know personally is bleeding to death slowly and painfully when they don't even deserve it? ''She laughs at them!''
8** Fern Grigsby, Danisha's friend, who brought Danisha and Frollo together via questionable means. She time-traveled to medieval Paris before Danisha did and became Frollo's spy, whereupon she agreed to bring Danisha to Frollo without Danisha's consent or knowledge. She also happily engages in the same CulturalPosturing behavior as Danisha and company.
9* DesignatedVillain: Malus, Clopin and Esmeralda. Malus supposedly physically abuses his younger siblings (though this is only brought up once) and Clopin does supposedly do something bad (it's not made clear until the follow-up stories that he [[spoiler:kidnapped Frollo at one point]]), yet they're both still portrayed as worse than Frollo. Esmeralda is only the villain because the author tells us she is.
10* FanNickname: At least one critic of the fic calls its version of Frollo "Clod Rollo" and another calls him [[SdrawkcabName "Edualc Ollorf"]].
11* FanWank: The author has her own convoluted theory about "what really happened" during the events of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''. [[spoiler:After the Festival of Fools, Frollo is kidnapped by Clopin and replaced with an evil Frollo look-a-like who proceeds to wreak havoc on the city for the sole purpose of making the real Frollo look bad. Eventually the real Frollo was rescued and the impostor fell to his death.]]
12* FridgeBrilliance: When you think about it, Danisha's personality actually does make her perfect for the Disney version of Frollo...in an UnholyMatrimony way rather than a cute way. They both hate the Romani, they both blame others for their own awful deeds, both treat Quasimodo like dirt, and they both want Esmeralda dead.
13* FridgeHorror: In her author's notes, Creator/FrolloFreak tells the readers that she based a trio of her [=OCs=] off of [[WriteWhoYouKnow former students]]. Two of these characters happen to [[KilledOffForReal die horribly]]…
14* HilariousInHindsight:
15** The story's portrayal of Frollo is actually fairly accurate to how he was in [[Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame the original novel]] - although it's still a lot more charitable.
16** This story, along with the other "Frollo and Me" stories, include Jehan, Frollo's brother from the original book, which predates the theater version that had him [[spoiler: as Quasimodo's father who dies shortly after entrusting Frollo with taking care of his son/Frollo's nephew]].
17** In one of the sequels, Frollo and Danisha have a daughter. Guess which Hunchback of Notre Dame character has a daughter in the {{Film/Descendants}} books?
18** In Oct 2022, ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'' introduced a Frollo-based character who's genuinely handsome, is much less evil than his original counterpart, and [[spoiler:has a younger brother.]]
19* HoYay:
20** In one of the follow-up stories "Did It Blow Your Mind, Claude Frollo?", it almost seemed like Iggy (another one of the author's characters) was going to develop a romance with Claude's brother, Jehan, given how much the narrative pointed out how similar the two of them were, only for Iggy to [[StrangledByTheRedString end up back with his ex-girlfriend via extreme contrivance]].
21** Danisha seems to be very close to her friend Fern and rarely has a bad thing to say about her. The two of them seem to naturally get along in a more healthy way than Danisha and Frollo do, so much so that one almost has to wonder why these two aren't in a relationship together instead. (Of course Danisha's only been with men and Fern's married, but there are ways around that.)
22* InformedWrongness:
23** The author wants her readers to believe that ''Esmeralda'' was the one who was in the wrong for not wanting to have sex with Frollo.
24** At one point, Claude is meant to be seen as wrong for telling Danisha she must work for him the rest of her vacation and confiscating her signed baseball after she accidentally breaks a church window. This actually comes of as a reasonable (hell, given who he is, even ''light'') punishment for destroying church property, yet she refuses to accept responsibility and ends up ''punching Frollo in the face.'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Also, why would she use a signed baseball (considering she could probably lose it) to teach kids how to play the sport?]]
25* MoralEventHorizon: Creator/FrolloFreak wants us to think the local group of Romani kidnapping Frollo and trying to mess up his good name is this. The real Moral Event Horizon is Danisha leading a group of people to burn down the Court of Miracles and gun down the Romani for it all, effectively attempting a genocide.
26* {{Squick}}: The general idea of ''Judge Claude Frollo'' being a MrFanservice ChickMagnet can cause readers to become disgusted.

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