Francesca "Franky" Fitzgerald is a fictional character from the third generation of the British teen drama Skins.
In one particularly nasty incident, Riga's gang had stripped her down to her underwear, thrown eggs and flour at her, snapped pictures of her in this condition, and posted them on the Internet, leaving her tied up in a bathroom.
In retaliation, her only friend, Dean, ambushed Riga outside her home and threatened to burn her alive unless she stayed away from Franky.
In series 6, she loses her androgynous and passive nature in favour of a more feminine, headstrong and blunt personality.
Nevertheless, a defining feature of her character is her troubled past, something that plagues her throughout the series and occasionally causes concern from her friends.
It soon emerges that this is not an easy task, as Franky arrives at Roundview College on a motorised scooter after being chased by a gang of youths.
Mini McGuinness (Freya Mavor), the queen bee of the school, immediately takes issue with Franky's androgynous dress sense, due to her obsession with fashion.
At lunch, she is approached by Alo Creevey (Will Merrick) and Rich Hardbeck (Alex Arnold), two fellow outcasts, who hope to make friends.
The two are chased off by Mini and her friends, Liv Malone (Laya Lewis) and Grace Blood (Jessica Sula), and is invited to hang out later.
They return home to meet Franky's two dads, Geoff and Jeff (Gareth Farr and John Sessions).
There, she is approached by Matty (Sebastian De Souza), Nick's older brother, who tells her she is beautiful.
Grace in turn persuades Alo and Rich to go after Franky, and the three abduct her and take her to a swimming pool.
Franky approaches Mini outside the rave she is at later on, and explains the real reason she is friends with Liv and Grace.
In "Liv", Franky, is the first of the gang to agree to be Mini's friend after she implores them to forgive her, and spends most of the episode smoking weed.
While Nick, because of his previous encounter with Franky, angrily stands up for her and confronts the stranger, Liv goes outside and consoles her.
This tension gets worse when Matty, seeing that an unattractive man Franky was flirting with is being too forward, approaches and scares him off, right in front of Liv.
The next day, Grace persuades Mini (who is standing in for Liv) and Franky to kiss as part of the play, shocking Alo and Rich.
In their ensuing confrontation, Liv asks Matty if he loves Franky, and he fails to give an answer.
To make matters worse, she then decides to go off with Liv and Matty when Alo's navigation skills prove wrong.
But at that moment, Franky has a panic attack, throws him off and tears off through the forest, with a horrified Matty in hot pursuit.
Franky is not happy when she arrives at Nick's house to find him with a one night stand named Carly.
Nick tells Franky that Matty wants to return to England and he needs to raise the cash to smuggle him in undetected.
Franky returns to Bristol and, after Liv confronts her over the state she is in and her melodramatic behaviour, Mini tells her that she will have to face Nick and Matty.
Lucy Doyle of TV Listings website On the Box compared her initial role in the series to that of Lindsay Lohan's character, Cady, in Mean Girls.