Franphtekh

Franphtekh is the het ship between Francis and Nhozemphtekh from the Felidae fandom.

Canon
It is said that Nhozemphtekh appears in The first chapter of the first book although this is not in the movie.

Claudandas sends Nhozemphtekh to Francis to show him the true strength and beauty of the Felidae breed. Francis is resting in his home, trying to figure out his mystery when he hears a female cat’s voice calling out his name. He follows the sound of the calls, curious, and finds her laying in his yard. She teases and seduces him and they mate. Afterwards he asks her about her name, breed and history. She refuses to tell him much, saying that her breed was “both old and new”, that her name is of no importance to him. When he asks how she knew his name, she only replies with, “A little birdy in a tree told me”. She then tells him to continue and they mate again. In the books it is said that she is in heat and will get pregnant with his kits.

In the confrontation between Francis and Claudandas, he reveals that Nhozemphtekh was apart of his breeding project to create the ultimate breed, the Felidae. He reveals to Francis that he sent Nhozemphtekh to convince him of the abilities of the breed, in hopes of convincing him to carry on The breeding project after Claudandas’s death. After Francis kills Claudandas and ends the Felidae project, he mentions his intention to seek out Nhozemphtekh and keep a polite relationship.

In the next book, Francis mentions having met up with Nhozemphtekh multiple times and sired her kittens. He doesn’t have any relationship with these kittens, nor with any kits he’s sired with the eventual exception of Junior.

Francis continues to have sexual relationships with mollys, much like real Tom cats, until the fifth book where he takes a permanent mate, Sancta.

Fanon
The Felidae fandom is extremely small, and this ship is even less popular. The relationship between Francis and Nhozemphtekh is only of passion and not love, which gives little reason to ship them. The ship between Francis and Felicity/felicitas, Francity(although this ship name is not widely used and hard to find since the fandom is so small. This goes for Francis x Nhozemphtekh as well), has been compared to this ship as they have a much more friendly and non-sexual relationship. However Francis doesn’t feel love for either molly.

Much of the small Felidae fandom are also fans of the much larger teen/young adult series Warriors, and because of that many fans may be below 18. Because of this many feel uncomfortable with Francis’s and Nhozemphtekh‘s relationship, as it is only sexual and they mate onscreen. Also a lot of people just don’t love to watch cats bang for about two minutes. Aside from being violent series about cats that originate from a book series, the two franchises really have nothing alike, although they are often compared.

Fandom
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Trivia

 * Francis has had multiple lovers, having a romantic interest in only one. Nhozemphtekh was not his first lover in the events of his life but it was the first sexual relationship he had for a molly shown in the book/movie.
 * The relationship between Nhozemphtekh and Claudandas is unclear, although the Felidae part of the breeding project don’t seem to care much about it and usually just mate with whoever they want like normal cats. It’s likely Nhozemphtekh didn’t care about what Claudandas wanted and mated with Francis mainly because she felt like it. However it’s unclear how much she even knew about the project.