Claude Frollo

Unreleased

Claude Frollo is a character slated to appear in the upcoming Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance. He originates from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Development
In a Famitsu shot, Frollo was seen with Captain Phoebus while meeting with Sora. And in another, he was seen sneering at Esmeralda.

Appearance
An aged man, Frollo has a long, drawn face and grey hair. He dresses in a dark black robe with purple trim and red inside it. He wears a hat with purple and black stripes. He wears several rings of various gems on his hands. His black clothing signifies his desire to remain pure.

Origin
Frollo first made his appearance in The Hunchback of Notre Dame as the main antagonist, Quasimodo's guardian and the self-righteous justice minister who sees his horrific actions to be for the great good and thus tormented by his maddening self-righteousness and narrow views that Gypsies are a plight that must be destroyed. Once such case was unintentionally murdering a gypsy woman on the impression that she stole something. But finding the bundle to be the infant Quasimodo, Frollo is forced by his faith and need of redemption, having killed his mother on the grounds of Notre Dame, to raise the boy while filling his head with lies about his mother abandoning him and discouraging any intent to leave Notre Dame and see the outside world.

Twenty years later, as the story begins, Frollo appoints Phoebus as the new Captain of the Guard prior to attending the annual Festival of Fools where he finds Quasimodo acting against his wishes. It was also there that Frollo meets the Gypsy dancer named Esmeralda whom he develops an obsession for and believes that killing her would redeem himself of his impure thoughts. To that end, he commits various atrocities to capture her at the cost of many lives ruined. However, Quasimodo save Esmeralda and brings her to the cathedral. Furious, Frollo attempts to kill Quasimodo, resulting in a violent struggle in which ends with Frollo holding onto a stone gargoyle before it suddenly breaks off the cathedral and he falls to his death towards the pit of molten copper below.