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[frankenbolt]

Yo can I get some drop dead fred headcanons? Thanks in advance!

Golly, that’s unexpected- but I’m always down to talk about my boy Fred.

Alot of my headcanons hinge on the deleted scenes. There’s all this extra stuff that, rightfully, would have dragged the movie down but in hindsight really would have helped us understand the characters better- the subplot with Lizzie’s Dad, Mickey’s divorce and meeting Natalie earlier in the film, the whole aspect of Lizzie’s creativity and writing a book about Fred at the end, some of Lizzie’s more...erratic pre-Fred return behaviour and of course. The Imaginary Friend world. (The Alternate ending is a big old let down though, and the released ending is much more satisfying...also no-one wants Fred dead. That’s a massive downer).

With that in mind.

Fred and the other Imaginary Friends are interdimensonal beings.

This doesn’t even have to include the deleted scenes where we see where they all hang out, and all the doors where they come and go. But just the scene that remained in the movie with the other imaginary friends. The movie would have been so fucking bleak without that scene. 

But the idea that all IFs live in this pocket dimenson, where they can travel to kids all over the world and help them when they need it most? I like that idea a lot. It also explains why Fred is passed to Natalie at the end instead of her just creating a new friend of her own creation. Because there are a pre-determined amount of IFs who just get passed from child to child.

Lizzie’s Dad tried to remain in contact with his daugher but Lizzie’s Mom retained custody and never told Lizzie the truth.

If we say that the movie takes place in 1991, the year it was released, and Lizzie is 28 (how old Phoebe Cates was in the movie and her canonical age), then Lizzie was born in 1963. Lizzie was 5 when her Dad walked out (1968). If we take that and cultural norms of the time, I think it’s safe to say that courts would have ruled in Lizzie’s Mom’s favour and considering how manipulative and cruel the Mega Bitch is, I think it’s fair to say that she could have made up any number of stories to convince people that she was the victim- and made it impossible for Dad to come back for his daughter...no matter how much he clearly cared about her. There is a deleted scene where she faces her memory of her father and decides it’s best not to put him on a pedestal and move on...

Fred isn’t innocent.

This one is a little more... fanciful. If we go back to my first headcanon I think IFs have been around a very long time. And, more than that, they’ve probably seen a lot in the various households they’ve resided in. Fred spends a lot of time looking up ladies skirts, talking about the pidgeons and he was present during Lizzie and Charles’ reunion...thus. I think Fred knows about the birds and the bees. And I don’t think he’s as disgusted by it as he makes out...but also.

Come on.

It’s Rik Mayall. All his characters are massive perverts. (With the exception of MAYBE Neil from Dancing Queen).