It is not too long sorry but good idea indeed

There was a time when I was a boy, a wooden boy with strings...

Until the blue fairy, Evangeline came to fulfil my fathers wish and revived me. Of course not immediately, I wasn't yet a real boy...

I had much to learn, especially with my oddities .

I remember my nose grew big and long when I told a lie.

This was just first step to my lesson : immoral actions have almost immediate and obvious consequences.

I was taught from a young age that I must always do the right thing or else there will consequences.

And where did I get my ideas of right and wrong back then? My conscience?

Jiminy Cricket was a good friend, my first friend in fact...

but sadly he probably had a horrifically short lifespan so he could no longer aid and guide me.

No, I had to resort to other things, and so I began to learns things from a cult called religion but it made me realise how guilty I was to my family...

no not just them.

To those boys that I couldn't save on Pleasure Island, I could've asked the law for help sooner than I did but I just was so scared and acted cowardly which nearly let that coachmen get away permanently...

who knows maybe Lampwick...

or Donkey wouldn't have been left in his donkey like predicament for life...

That guilt mongering made me realise why Catholicism of the current age was famous for, which happened to also be the prevailing religion in Italy and it fascinated me.

I had an interest in following it, to make sure no one else will go the same path I did.

Continuing on that line of thinking, what do you think happened that sealed my place on that religion?...

It happened when I became of age...

That very first time some part of me started growing big, then I remembered the time my nose grew.

I realised that I must've done something immoral.

Any such thought that causes such reaction reminded itself to me, immediately set off alarm bells in my brain that I was acting bad and I was being punished.

And nobody could tell me otherwise, because Jiminy was one day gone and Dopey or as father was now known, Gepetto had a sickness called severe dementia (and shouldn't be raising a kid in the first place).

And so once again, I turned to Catholicism.

All I knew was that I should resist temptation.

So, he has all this indecent tension pushed to the back of my mind and I carried the guilt from that my whole life.

But there is more...

I was convinced into from the day I was brought to life that being a real boy is good and desirable, and having some semblance to being a human just isn't sufficient.

I was immediately given the task to reject my imperfect body to achieve human form.

Then afterwards, I had traumatic experiences with people of different species and races.

Some were good yes like Shrek... not necessarily evil but still were quite dirty in his own way. Or so I thoguht but later I realised and truly understood that his sins as man eating ogre won't ever be erased...much to my dismay

Not to mention Honest John Foulfellow and his cat sidekick Gideon deceived me twice, both with potentially disastrous outcomes, and Stromboli was a gypsy, a real stereotype of a greedy, child kidnapping, roaming gypsy and him getting away only made my guilt stronger...

I did make sure to find him one day to serve judgement.

The only exceptions to this rule would be my godmother the Blue Fairy and Jiminy.

Like I said before, Jiminy was gone and no where to be found, his influence wasn't strong enough to last long, and realizing that Blue Fairy was an angel only strengthened my religious conviction.

I had all the time i needed to invest into it throughoutly only to remember that Italy wasnt the only place for filth.

I have grown up with a strong Catholic background and moved over to France to make my move as a priest at the Notre Dame Cathedral.

Such prestigious status was deserving of a better name however and so I changed it to Claude Frollo, a fitting name for his drastically new era.

One in which he will be a fire that fights against the dark.

A fire and its nature suited me well .

When I saw a candle for first time, I simply found it pretty but as I go back I understand just how much I am indebted to it.

When I was in stomach of that cursed whale Monstro, my idea was to create a lot of smoke to make him sneeze us out.

Whale ate us? Then light it on fire!

Gypsies aren't talking? More fire!

Fire keeps growing until it gets it all done!

Some who will heed my words and aid me on my quest like Renee, Quasimodo and Phoebus, shall be spared...

However those who tried and WILL try to get in the way of my way, none shall last for long, it is no pleasure for me but some things have to be done.

"Once a long time ago, I simply wished to be a good boy... but this world... this corruption threatens to take it from me! And I shall cleanse it of evils completely and throughoutly! And I will have many opportunities to do so! In a few days for example, there will be an execution of a woman Joan of Arc that was captured during the attack. She is a heretic who dares to lie about having a holy guidance... And so as a virtuous man... I shall make sure good and evil are made plain! Judgement will be MINE!"

Notes to the story:

i) Having Pinocchio grow up awfully isn't something I like thinkin. I like believing Pinocchio grew to be admirable normal boy in disney canon.. then again Pinocchio shown signs of dark reality. And this option here is potential 'what if' of all those signs.

ii) Also linking to shrek world, don't you wonder why there not much ogres or fairy tale creatures in the future? Could Frollo've played in driving them to hiding? Then again, the time period of Shrek is not safe from future wars. Either way some may've survived.. but where are they? Heheh a secret for now.

iii) Finally Joan's execution happens later than expected in this timeline, somewhere in 1700s. I like historical accuracy but the idea of Frollo burning Joan was just interesting. In real life of course she died in 1430 - 31 (rbrutti/status/1134028513927974913?lang=ar)