124 Facts About Frank Zhang

1.

Frank Zhang has inherited special abilities from Poseidon which include the ability to control water, boats, and ships; to create small hurricanes; to breathe and see clearly underwater, and to talk to horse-like creatures and most aquatic animals.

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Frank Zhang is a gifted swordsman using his shape-shifting sword pen.

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Frank Zhang's mother was once married to Gabe Ugliano, an abusive, gambling-addicted alcoholic.

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Frank Zhang appears in The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian, The Son of Neptune, The Mark of Athena, The House of Hades, The Blood of Olympus, The Hidden Oracle, The Tower of Nero, The Son of Sobek, and The Crown of Ptolemy.

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Frank Zhang appears in The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian, The Son of Neptune, The House of Hades, The Blood of Olympus and The Burning Maze.

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Frank Zhang has curly reddish-brown hair and fur, acne, and a wispy goatee.

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Frank Zhang's horns grow larger as the series progresses, and he must take increasingly careful measures to hide them and his goat legs while posing as a human.

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8.

Frank Zhang has an extensive paternal family including Magnus Chase.

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Frank Zhang appears in The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian, The Lost Hero, The Demigod Diaries, The Mark of Athena, The House of Hades and The Blood of Olympus.

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Frank Zhang is described by her teacher Chiron as "territorial about her friends", which is manifested in some moments of jealousy and distrust.

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Frank Zhang's main weapon is a short celestial bronze knife given to her by Luke Castellan.

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12.

Frank Zhang appears in The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth and The Last Olympian.

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13.

Frank Zhang ran away from home at a young age and eventually arrived at camp with Annabeth Chase and Thalia Grace.

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Frank Zhang receives a sword named "Backbiter" from Kronos at the end of The Lightning Thief.

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Frank Zhang is seven years older than her brother Jason Grace and appears in The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Last Olympian, The Lost Hero, The Blood of Olympus, The Dark Prophecy and The Tyrant's Tomb.

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16.

Frank Zhang got her fear of heights when she was in Apollo's sun chariot specifically when he told her to drive.

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17.

Frank Zhang is described as looking around 14 years of age, although it is later revealed that she is well over 2000 years old.

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18.

Frank Zhang is later then revealed to be a former Hesperid, daughter of Atlas and Pleione.

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Frank Zhang appears in The Titan's Curse, along with being mentioned in The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Son of Neptune, The Blood of Olympus, The Dark Prophecy, and being seen in a flashback in The House of Hades.

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20.

Frank Zhang had brown eyes, slightly upturned nose and long dark hair braided with a silver circlet on the top.

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21.

Frank Zhang is said to have the same cold look in her eyes as her father, the Titan Atlas.

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22.

Frank Zhang is said to speak in an old, strange accent, more heavily when upset.

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23.

Frank Zhang appears in The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian, The Son of Neptune, The Mark of Athena, The Blood of Olympus and The Tyrant's Tomb.

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24.

Frank Zhang is mentally about 8 years old, but very intelligent and compassionate.

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25.

Frank Zhang appears in The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian, The Son of Neptune, The Mark of Athena, The House of Hades, The Blood of Olympus, The Hidden Oracle, and The Tower of Nero.

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26.

Frank Zhang enjoys playing Mythomagic, a mythology-themed card game similar to Magic: The Gathering.

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27.

Frank Zhang takes the death of Bianca very hard, becoming moody, secretive, and irritable.

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28.

Frank Zhang becomes angry at Percy, who swore to protect Bianca, but later forgives him.

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29.

Frank Zhang makes nearby people uncomfortable, partially due to his unnerving weapon of choice: a sword made of iron cooled in the Styx, capable of absorbing monsters' essences rather than banishing them to Tartarus.

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30.

Frank Zhang is privy to the fact that there are two camps, one Greek and one Roman, before The Lost Hero, making him an important liaison between the two groups in the latter series.

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31.

Frank Zhang brings his half-sister Hazel back from the dead and establishes her at Camp Jupiter.

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32.

Frank Zhang's father, Will Dare, is a rich businessman, a fact which she is rather adverse to.

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33.

Frank Zhang first meets Percy in The Titan's Curse at the Hoover Dam.

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34.

Frank Zhang's appearance makes things easier for both Olympians and Greek demigods.

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35.

Frank Zhang's first act as the Oracle is to deliver the next Great Prophecy, setting the plot of the Heroes of Olympus series.

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Frank Zhang is contacted in The House of Hades to ask for Reyna's assistance to bring the Athena Parthenos back to Camp Half-Blood.

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37.

Frank Zhang becomes upset upon learning of the existence of other Oracles, as Apollo hasn't told her before.

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38.

Frank Zhang has red hair and freckles, is skilled at painting and drawing, and occasionally shown as a non-ADHD foil for her demigod teammates.

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Frank Zhang can be stubborn and overconfident, much like her father.

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Frank Zhang is aggressive towards most demigods, including Percy, though she does respect and make friends with a few, including Percy, Annabeth, and Silena Beauregard.

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41.

Frank Zhang is a main character in the short story "Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot".

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42.

Frank Zhang appears in The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Battle of the Labyrinth, The Last Olympian, The Mark of Athena, The House of Hades and The Blood of Olympus.

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43.

Frank Zhang is stated to be the camp's best combat medic and runs the infirmary.

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Frank Zhang first appears in The Battle of the Labyrinth, where she nurses Percy back to health.

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45.

Frank Zhang falls in love with Percy and is heartbroken when he has to leave.

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46.

Frank Zhang accompanies Leo and Apollo in the latter's quest to find the Oracles and stop the Three Emperors from conquering North America.

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47.

Frank Zhang loses most of her control of them when she gives up her immortality; however, she is still capable of summoning them to a degree, though by consuming more power than usual.

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48.

Frank Zhang is Leo's girlfriend as of The Blood of Olympus, The Hidden Oracle, The Dark Prophecy, and The Burning Maze.

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49.

Frank Zhang subsequently appears as a main character and a supporting protagonist in The House of Hades.

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50.

Frank Zhang is a daughter of Bellona, a Roman goddess of war, and the younger sister of Queen Hylla of the Amazons.

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51.

Frank Zhang became the praetor of the Twelfth Legion just four years after she joined.

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52.

Frank Zhang would not trust anyone so easily, which was a good quality because she had a whole legion to lead.

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53.

Frank Zhang did everything she could for her friends and family, which was everyone in New Rome.

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54.

Frank Zhang is described as intimidating and a natural leader; she has glossy black hair and very dark brown eyes.

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55.

Frank Zhang is described as having curly brown hair, brown eyes, a cheerful face, a slim and scrawny build, dark skin, and a mischievous smile.

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56.

Frank Zhang is an excellent mechanic and at one point repairs a bronze dragon running wild in the camp's woods, which he names Festus.

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57.

Frank Zhang meets Piper McLean at the Wilderness School in Nevada.

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58.

Frank Zhang sometimes thinks of himself as a seventh wheel, as for the first three books of the Heroes of Olympus series he is the only person aboard the Argo II without a significant other, though he proves no less important or skilled than the others.

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59.

Frank Zhang is destroyed again in The Dark Prophecy, but is easily rebuilt by Leo who had redesigned Festus in case of such an eventuality.

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60.

Frank Zhang has tan skin, eyes that change color constantly, and choppy chocolate-colored hair which she cuts herself.

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61.

Frank Zhang is occasionally able to see visions in her magic dagger Katoptris, which once belonged to Helen of Troy.

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62.

Frank Zhang is friends with all of the seven quest members in The Heroes of Olympus, especially Annabeth, Leo and Percy.

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63.

Frank Zhang was raised by the wolf goddess Lupa and her pack after his mother was compelled to give him up when he was two, then later lived at Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Camp Half-Blood.

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64.

Frank Zhang has blond hair, electric blue eyes, and a scar above his upper lip, which is said to be from his attempt to eat a stapler at age two.

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65.

Frank Zhang becomes the Pontifex Maximus, a role which sees him travel between Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter to build shrines for every god and goddess in the pantheon.

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66.

Frank Zhang is killed during The Burning Maze by the Roman Emperor Caligula after sacrificing himself to save Piper, Apollo, and Meg.

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67.

Frank Zhang's death is avenged by Frank Zhang in The Tyrant's Tomb with Frank telling Caligula that it's for Jason.

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68.

Frank Zhang first appears in The Son of Neptune, at Camp Jupiter.

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69.

Frank Zhang grew up in the 1940s in New Orleans, where her mother had a gris-gris shop.

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70.

Frank Zhang eventually learns to manipulate her curse, manipulating precious stones and metals and sensing structures underground.

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71.

Frank Zhang is an accomplished horse-rider and skilled with a spatha.

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72.

Frank Zhang is unusually knowledgeable about the Underworld because of her time there.

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73.

Frank Zhang is able to summon precious metals and use and spend them without terrible consequences.

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74.

Frank Zhang, born Fai Zhang, is a 16-year-old demigod, son of Mars and Emily Zhang, a Chinese-Canadian "legacy" who died during military service in Afghanistan.

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75.

Frank Zhang is taken care of by his grandmother after his mother's death, and makes his way to Camp Jupiter upon her insistence.

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76.

Frank Zhang's family descends from Periclymenus, a grandson of Poseidon, who had the power to shapeshift.

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77.

Frank Zhang has a meek disposition and is uncomfortable upon learning his father's identity publicly in front of the whole of Camp Jupiter.

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Frank Zhang suspected himself a son of Apollo, given his skill with a bow and arrow.

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79.

Later, in The House of Hades, Jason surrenders his praetorship to Frank Zhang, who uses its authority and Diocletian's Sceptre to lead an army of Roman skeleton soldiers against the monsters in the Necromanteion.

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Frank Zhang was described as 'cuddly' and 'fuzzy' and with a chubby, babyish face in The Mark of Athena, but in The House of Hades, after summoning the blessing of Mars to defeat a hoard of enemies, he transforms.

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Frank Zhang is then described as being taller, more muscular, and without all of his childhood fat.

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82.

Apollo believes that by taking his fate into his own hands in such a noble way, Frank Zhang has created a new fate for himself free of his curse.

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83.

Frank Zhang serves as the adult chaperone for the Argo II and later accompanies the Athena Parthenos to camp.

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84.

Frank Zhang is narcissistic, prideful, and arrogant, but does his best to not be a burden on others.

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85.

Frank Zhang's father was murdered by "the Beast" and she was adopted by Nero, considering them two separate people.

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Frank Zhang is free-spirited and adventurous, inquisitive, and is confrontational.

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87.

Frank Zhang poses questions with no subtlety, something that Apollo is annoyed with but later comes to regard as a unique trait.

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88.

Frank Zhang is known for her liking of uNicorns in the fourth book The Tyrant's Tomb.

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89.

Frank Zhang then joined the Hunters of Artemis and fell in love with fellow hunter Josephine, so sometime in the 1980s, Josephine and Emmie gave up their immortality to grow old together.

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90.

Frank Zhang becomes the host of Horus in the first novel, and often collaborates with and receives advice from the god.

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91.

Frank Zhang develops a romantic relationship with the shabti of magician Zia Rashid, and subsequently spends much of his time trying to find the real Zia and demonstrate his feelings toward her.

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92.

Frank Zhang's specialty is combat magic; his preferred weapon a khopesh, but loses it in The Throne of Fire.

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93.

Frank Zhang is often given leadership responsibilities and struggles to accept his role, until he willingly becomes pharaoh of the House of Life during The Serpent's Shadow.

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94.

Frank Zhang is left in the care of her non-magical grandparents in London after the death of their mother Ruby Kane.

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95.

Frank Zhang becomes romantically involved with one of the Brooklyn House initiates Walt Stone and with the god Anubis, though her relationship with either is not formalized until after Walt becomes the "eye" of Anubis in The Serpent's Shadow.

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96.

Frank Zhang has caramel-colored hair, fair skin and blue eyes, some traits inherited from her mother Ruby.

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97.

Frank Zhang has dark skin and is from Seattle, where he lived with his mother.

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98.

Frank Zhang is found and raised by Iskandar, the Chief Lector, after the destruction of her hometown by Apophis.

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99.

Frank Zhang takes in Carter and Sadie after Julius hosts Osiris and is trapped by the god Set.

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100.

Frank Zhang's experience hosting Set has changed him and eventually leads to his decision to voluntarily host the god during the final battle with Apophis.

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101.

Frank Zhang came to believe this was the fault of the gods and ended the House's policy of calling upon them; Ruby Kane's vision of Apophis rising changes his mind, but it is too late for him to make any real change.

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102.

Frank Zhang saved Zia after her village's destruction and, sensing that she holds the power to host Ra, arranged for her confinement in an underwater prison under the watch of Nephthys while creating a shabti of her to protect Carter and Sadie, both of whom hold the potential to become hosts of gods.

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103.

Frank Zhang is succeeded by Michel Desjardins as the House's leader.

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104.

Frank Zhang is therefore at first opposed to cooperation with the gods and disagrees with the Kanes when they claim it is necessary to stop Apophis.

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105.

Frank Zhang is mentioned several times throughout The Serpent's Shadow, particularly in relation to how the Kanes plan to defeat Apophis is to perform their own execration upon the god.

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106.

Frank Zhang secretly possesses Amos Kane to get close to Julius' children Carter and Sadie, the hosts of Horus and Isis respectively, whom he sends various minions after, including two other gods.

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107.

Frank Zhang attends Horus' coronation as Pharaoh of the gods, supporting him, but with a smile that suggests that Set has something evil planned.

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108.

Frank Zhang is mentioned to have performed a number of evil deeds for which he has always managed to get away with.

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109.

Frank Zhang then finds out that his father is Frey, the god of peace, wealth and prosperity, who belongs to the Vanir tribe of Norse deities.

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110.

Frank Zhang's scrawny look is replaced by a more muscular persona after his death and acceptance to Valhalla.

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111.

Frank Zhang is quite street smart due to the two years he spent as a homeless child and as a result, is not quick to trust people.

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112.

Frank Zhang is known to have a budding relationship with another child of Loki named Alex Fierro.

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113.

Frank Zhang is the son of a Vanir, Freya, making him Magnus' cousin, and a dwarf, Bili, who was eaten by Fenris Wolf while checking Fenris's prison rope.

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Frank Zhang is sent alongside Hearth by Mimir to watch and protect Magnus.

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115.

Frank Zhang is skinny with pale skin and with short spiky blond hair, which, when combined with his black leather jacket, jeans, and a candy cane scarf, "makes him look like a character from a Japanese anime".

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116.

Frank Zhang becomes a companion and protector of Magnus from then on.

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117.

Frank Zhang can cast various runes, though doing such consumes his energy.

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118.

Frank Zhang is reminded that sooner or later, he will have to take the othala rune from Andiron's place of death, which he planted as a reminder of his past, to complete his magic arts.

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119.

Frank Zhang is an Arab American who normally wears her Valkyrie armor and a green hijab, which doubles as camouflage.

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120.

Frank Zhang leads a double life as both a Valkyrie and a normal high schooler.

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121.

Frank Zhang's family is from Baghdad, but has been raised by her grandparents in Dorchester since the death of her mother.

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122.

Frank Zhang is eventually reinstated as Valkyrie and gets another job as Odin's personal aide.

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123.

Frank Zhang has inherited her father's ability to shapeshift into animals, but doing so makes her uncomfortable, as it causes her to become more like her father.

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Frank Zhang reached Boston with one of Skirnir's descendants during the Viking expansion, where he was lost for centuries until he was recovered by Magnus.

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