Elijah Daniel Eli Franklin is Leo’s other dad. He is happy that Charlie decided that Leo should have his name but doesn’t feel superior because of it. He knows it was only because Charlie bemoaned his surname’s pronouncation & didn’t want Leo to have to as well & figured that if they hyphened their names, most people would default to the one they could pronouce (Eli’s). He has decided, though, that being an adult, if Charlie keeps his surname, he will hyphen his.
Eli grew up with four brothers & a sister (who wanted to be their surrogate, but do to outside circumstances could not). He wants to give Leo at least another sibling but Charlie’s on the fence. He is a med student that’s almost done. Some of his hobby’s are watching Netflix, hiking, & singing. In other world, he could have been an professional musician because of how good his voice is but he chose to be a med student instead. He chose to go into the medical field because his grandfather (sadly passed) was a doctor. He speaks English, Spanish (grew up in a spanish speaking neighborhood), ASL (one of his brothers was born w/ tinnitis & eventually became fully deaf), Louisiana French (grew up near Lousiana, is not the same as French as he & Charlie learned the hard way), Hebrew (jewish), & hawaiian (he has family there). His hebrew name is Eliyahu.