#CBF sees mini ghost and goes is anyone gonna traumatize that and not wait for an answer i guess /JJJJ

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Ohh yeah forgot about the clone-robot-notactuallyToast thing. I could still see it being partially because of Billy since he frequently does magic without intending to and the TT is implied to be able to fuck with time as well as space. Could see him setting a certain expectation of what this Cardboard Friend he created is and unintentionally plucked something from a time where that expectation could be properly filled without it actually being Billy with a box on his head.

Bonus points on how Toast is already really close with Ghost, making it easier for him to grow attached to Gregory.

Theory 1:

Background Information 1 - Billy Acachalla has a tendency to make “friends” with usually inanimate objects (Maddie-friend is the exception) and starts calling them (object)-friend. When he does this, and only after he starts doing this, the objects tend to become sentient, obsessive, and murderous— gaining supernatural powers in the process (Maddie-friend is once again the exception). This happens with everything he calls (object)-friend, if i remember correct, and is likely another ability he has no control over— like the ‘back-from-the-dead’ thing.

Background Information 2 - Johnny Ghost’s uncle ‘Ernie’ is the Toilet Toucher. At some point in Ghost’s childhood, he was banished to a pocket dimension without Ghost’s knowledge. If I remember correct, it’s suggested or outright said that the original PIE team banished him because of his supernatural powers. TT is displaced in time and only really arrived in the current general time area (when PIE is just Ghost and Toast) recently with memories he’s been slowly regaining. With this in mind, he proves he has a past with Ghost and Toast’s PIE by being able to name a long-deceased member as his favorite Which is sad since Ghost is his nephew like oh my gosh that shade. The Toilet Toucher is also Billy Acachalla, meaning he had to be adopted in.

Background Information 3 - On the shakiest ground, but Johnny Ghost sr. and Tommy/Timothy Casket were, if I’m not mistaken, both in the original PIE with Casket being one of the last members remaining. This could be wrong because it’s been a long time, though. Whatever the case, OUR Johnny Ghost has cited J.Ghost sr (as well as someone named Peewee Ghost who I’ve decided is J.Ghost sr’s husband GAYRIGHTS—) as his father, implying J.Ghost sr adopted Ghost some time after T.Casket died, and also that J.Ghost sr outlived T.Casket.

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With all of that out of the way…

Cardboard Friend, am I right?

There is a chance, however slim, that Billy Acachalla CREATED Cardboard Friend. We can’t say this was purposeful or out of any malicious intent since he’s never intentionally created a ‘friend’ before and is genuinely distressed by them and has no control over their actions when he does. However, this does give an origin for CBF’s behavior and why the Toilet Toucher was hated enough to get HANDLED THE SAME WAY AS THE HOUSEKEEPER BY THE OG PIE TEAM. To be honest I always assumed they realized Billy had powers and yeeted him away, but if the power they realized was one that ended up likely getting a member killed and his son heavily traumatized… that def. Does more to explain the reaction. Like. All Billy really does is teleport through plumbing, fly, and bring people back from the dead. He’s overall once of the least dangerous Acachallas next to Sue, though the OG PIE team likely didn’t have to deal with the Acachallas since the only one would’ve been Papa at the time.

Have i said this theory before? Idk but I think I might be on to something.