Franny's Mom

Franny's Mom is the mother of Franny K. Stein, the main character of the Franny K. Stein book series.

Personality
Franny's mother cares about her daughter and does her best to show support for Franny's macabre and bizarre interests. In fact, it is because of Mrs. Stein that her daughter has Igor as a lab assistant, as she noticed how miserable her daughter was without a confidant for her experiments.

History
During the events of Lunch Walks Among Us, Franny's mother was described as being shocked by the sight of Franny transformed into a normal girl alongside her husband and her son. She obliged her daughter's request for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch.

In Attack Of The 50-Ft. Cupid, Mrs. Stein noticed that Franny was upset about not many people being interested in her experiments, so she gave her daughter Igor so Franny would have her own lab assistant.

Mrs. Stein was angry at Franny in The Fran That Time Forgot when her daughter refused to clean her room, which Franny didn't do until after resolving her time travel adventure.

In Frantastic Voyage, Franny was amazed to see her mother placate Freddy by parking him in front of the television, which gave Franny the idea to create a TV set for Igor to watch when she had experiments that were too delicate for Igor to mess up.

The Fran With Four Brains saw Franny being overwhelmed by her mother pushing her into doing extracurricular activities, so she created a trio of Franbots to handle her gourmet cooking classes, bagpipe lessons and soccer practice in her place. Franny later saw that she had to stop the Franbots when their tendency to rope her mother into their projects was depriving Mrs. Stein of sleep.

Early in The Frandidate, Franny's mom gets angry when Franny and Igor end up accidentally destroying her couch. After The Frandidate was beaten when Igor showed the creation the face of Franny's mom to get it to tell the truth about its empty campaign promises, Franny rebuilt the Frandidate into a couch to replace the one that was destroyed and learned that her mom was the one person who voted for the Frandidate after its confession, reasoning that anyone willing to tell the truth can't be all bad.

Franny's mother made what is presently her last appearance in Bad Hair Day, where she expressed confusion at Franny not being upset that her dog Igor wasn't conventionally beautiful. Franny gets inspired by her mother's viewpoint to experiment with cosmetics, and at the end of the book makes a coat for her mother using hair from her pigtails and Igor. Franny's mom by then also concedes that Igor is beautiful after all.