Player Name: Nick E-mail: n/a Preferred Contact: Plurk @ glitchbirds Timezone: CST Current Characters in Victory Road: Peter Venkman [The Real Ghostbusters]
The fandom wiki is kind of messy and doesn't really specify some things so for the sake of clarity + to inform some aspects of personality, at Fred's canonpoint he has: -Proposed to Daphne -found out his dad, Fred Jones Sr., is not his biological father, and instead kidnapped him as a baby from his biological parents, two members of the original Mystery Incorporated -Broken off his engagement with Daphne + broken up Mystery Inc, and gone off the radar for an undetermined amount of time between seasons, desperately trying to find a lead to his birth parents alone and not taking care of himself in the process -rejoined Mystery Inc
He has not yet: -gotten back together with Daphne -met his biological parents -been betrayed by his biological parents -found out that Scooby is technically an alien God -seen nearly everyone he's ever known die horribly to an otherworldly, nigh-unstoppable tentacled being
Personality: Scooby Doo, as a series, is just a few days older than 50 years now. Most people, even if they haven't seen the film, have at least a general grasp of who the characters are- Shaggy is the cowardly glutton and probably a stoner, Scooby Doo is his faithful and hungry cowardly dog, Velma is the smart and snarky one, Daphne is the sweet, sometimes shallow, and oft-kidnapped "pretty one", and Fred is... The leader, mostly. For decades, Fred didn't get to have much of a personality to set him apart, beyond being the "leader", setting traps, and telling everyone to split up. Modern Scooby Doo adaptations have really come through for Fred (and Daphne and Velma, who also have gotten heavily fleshed out in recent years), and Mystery Inc is one of the best examples.
Mystery Inc's Fred is a genuinely sweet-natured, excitable kid who's painfully oblivious to other people's feelings, is often naive, hyperfocuses on the things he's interested in and tunes everything else out, is starved for approval, frequently insensitive without realizing it, and overall a big, stupid puppy in human form. He also fucking loves making traps.
In all incarnations of Scooby Doo, Fred is good at making traps for the monsters of the week. They don't always work, particularly in the first shows, but he's no doubt good at building them. Mystery Inc turns this into an outright obsession. Fred's room is decked out with everything from nets to bear traps to materials for any kind of Rube Goldberg-style design you could ask for. He booby-trapped his own home in hundreds of ways, and the houses of all his friends (for their protection!). He inexplicably has access to hard-to-acquire materials like shark tanks with live sharks for use in traps. He can set up highly sophisticated traps in a matter of minutes, and can recognize the exact make and model of materials such as rope, chains, ladders, etc on sight. He keeps a scrapbook of his favorite traps he's built, he reads trapping magazines, he is absolutely god damn crazy for these things. And no one else shares his enthusiasm.
He's a very genuinely kind person- when other people are cruel to him, he oftentimes brushes it off without a second thought. Many episodes have him emphasize how much he loves the rest of the gang. The Gatorsburg episode, for example, has Fred talk about how they're all going to live together in one big house one day and solve mysteries together for the rest of their lives. He wholeheartedly believes that they'll all be together forever. One episode has Fred state he loves all his friends equally- "You're all the same in my eyes!"
Unfortunately, he tells this to Daphne, who at the time has a crush on Fred that she believes is unrequited. Many episodes have Fred do things like this- make comments or do things that unintentionally hurt people's feelings, Daphne in particular, or make her feel that Fred doesn't care about her. This isn't true, of course- Fred truly does love Daphne, but he's terrible at expressing it, and he doesn't pick up on social cues like a "normal" person.
The season 1 Hex Girls episode is a good example of that- and of Fred's issues with emotional vulnerability in general. Throughout the show, Fred makes comments that men aren't supposed to feel or show emotions, or care about people- even their romantic partners. It's heavily implied that this is a mindset he's learned from his father, Mayor Fred Jones Sr. In the Hex Girls episode, Fred outright says he's "not a guy anymore. I have feelings! I care!", meaning that Fred believes that men are incapable of being emotional and that he, therefore, cannot be a man. He figures things out by the end of the episode, but it's still a line that raises eyebrows.
As does nearly everything about his relationship to his father. Mayor Jones is a neglectful single father who barely pays his son the time of day until the moment it can benefit him. The various "monsters" that prowl Crystal Cove are good for tourism, and every time Mystery Inc unmasks the person responsible for a haunting or monster attack, the town loses tourists. As a result, Mayor Jones (and nearly every adult in town) despises the gang, though the mayor is the only person whose opinion actually bothers Fred. Fred tries hard to act as though his father's rejection doesn't hurt. It does. On the rare occasion Mayor Jones asks for his son's help with dealing with a monster or ghoul, Fred leaps at the opportunity ("Are we... Bonding? Look- my hands, they're shaking!" "Don't get all girly on me.") and does everything in his power to earn his father's approval, even putting himself and his friends in danger in the process. It never works, of course. And so, Fred is left desperate for love and attention that he never gets. At the end of one episode where his father again sidelines him, Fred immediately proceeds to propose to Daphne (... with an onion ring, but it's 100% serious), saying that she's the only person who he knows will always be there with him. It's a very sincere, sweet moment.
And then a few episodes later, Fred finds out that Mayor Jones is not his biological father and is instead the man who threatened and blackmailed his biological parents and stole him as a baby, basically everything Fred has ever known about his family is a complete lie, and his father is hauled off to prison. Fred, heartbroken and confused and unable to cope, breaks off the engagement with Daphne and cuts off all contact with the gang, putting all his efforts into finding his biological parents, stating that "Mystery Incorporated is dead".
This fails miserably, and Fred turns into a complete shambling wreck, unable and unwilling to take care of himself, living alone in an empty house with only taxidermy animals (which he canonically talks to and name and treat as confidants) and a stuffed teddy bear from his childhood that Mayor Jones gave him(which he ALSO canonically talks to, though in this case he treats it as if it's alive, because he's starting to lose his grip following the above betrayal), as company. This is how season 2 starts. At his canonpoint, it's also revealed that Fred is in therapy, though his therapist is very uncaring about his patient's problems and Fred himself is extremely reluctant to let anyone know he's in therapy in the first place ("What? No! I don't see a THERAPIST! Why would you say that? I-I- are you saying I should see a therapist?! 'Cause I don't have any problems! I am completely problem-free!"). This connects back to Fred's earlier problems with being emotional.
... Early season 2 also shows off some of the worst aspects of Fred's personality- his occasionally controlling side, which, when combined with his lack of self awareness of when he's being insensitive or rude, is a recipe for disaster. After Fred broke up with her, Daphne did her best to move on, dating another guy and vehemently refusing to go back to Mystery Inc. Fred started trying to win her back, and it's not... pretty. It's a lot of him trying to do romantic gestures and showing up uninvited to her house because he genuinely doesn't GET that he's being creepy and invasive. His occasional jealous streak is also on full force in these episodes, and it gets a little uncomfortable to watch, even with how naive Fred is of the implications of his actions. Given the fact that this happens while Fred is still barely coping with his father's arrest and the whole "kidnapped as a baby" thing, and the fact that previous episodes establish that his need for control and stability stems from his parental abandonment/neglect, he can be afforded a little leeway, but man. It's not cool, Mystery Inc.
Tangentially related, it's worth noting that despite his issues with common sense, reading social cues, not being an insensitive jerk without meaning to be, etc, Fred isn't a complete idiot. Not only is he able to construct elaborate traps and maintain the Mystery Machine by himself, he has at least some basic knowledge of chemistry, is very capable of disarming and escaping traps set by others, and good at picking up on clues. He practically solved the mystery of the Freak of Crystal Cove single-handedly! Unfortunately, the Freak of Crystal Cove was his own father... Really, though, if it's related to mysteries, the Mystery Machine, or traps, Fred can actually be pretty smart. But this kid also proposed with an onion ring. The duality of man...
Overall, Fred is a a sincerely good kid with some problems that he's having a hard time dealing with. And he really, really loves making traps.
Pokémon Information Affiliation: Trainer Starter: Carnivine Password: Atomic Fireball
Fred Jones Jr. isn't exactly a stranger to weird situations, let alone waking up in unfamiliar places. Heck, he's been kidnapped and tied to a chair in a pool filling up with water and told to break out using conveniently inconveniently-placed tools at his disposal. Waking up in a warm bed is nothing compared to that.
The woman calling herself his "mom" is a new one. And- well, ok, he knows she's probably some weirdo using- maybe that weird pheromone stuff Aphrodite was using, the one that amplified all sorts of love, romantic and familiar and friendship- or maybe she was just real persuasive.
The point is, Fred's never really had a mom, and yes, her first act as mom was to try to kick him out, but his dad's tried to kick him out of the house a ton of times (usually when the Mayor nearly sets off one of the bear traps on the stairs, or Fred won't stop talking about nylon rope strength), so that's not so bad. He hangs around for a while, and eventually she lets him back inside when he proves he's not going away any time soon. And they talk.
It's not a very useful talk- she mostly sticks to some stock phrases, and tries to encourage Fred to go out into the world. "All boys leave home someday. It says so on TV," she says, for the fourth time in a row, a little more forcefully this time, and Fred nods along and takes another bite of the fresh cookies she made.
Fred doesn't really pay attention. He's too swayed by the novelty of apparently having a mother that loves him. He talks a lot about- well, anything he can think of, really- after all, his mother hasn't been in his life for years, so she needs to learn about everything she's missed!
She shows him how to open the Pokeball she gave him earlier, which Fred is grateful for- and he quickly becomes enamoured with the Carnivine before him. The next five minutes of Mom's life are spent listening to Fred ramble on about bear traps as he checks out the bite strength on the very patient grass type, handing her various objects to crunch in half. When he's thoroughly distracted by the Carnivine's ability to summon and manipulate vines, she finally convinces him to leave, and tells him she loves him. In response, Fred thanks her for everything and hugs her. It's probably not often that Mom gets hugs. Most of her "children" in this dimension are too unnerved by her existence.
He waves goodbye, and promises to write home soon. It's only when he starts down the route that he remembers that he still has no idea why he's here or how he got here in the first place.
Fred Jones Jr. | Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated | Not Reserved
Name: Nick
E-mail: n/a
Preferred Contact: Plurk @ glitchbirds
Timezone: CST
Current Characters in Victory Road: Peter Venkman [The Real Ghostbusters]
Character
Name: Fred Jones Jr.
Series: Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated
Timeline: early season 2 (Post-"The Night the Clown Cried II - Tears of Doom!")
Canon Resource Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Jones_(Scooby-Doo)
https://scoobydoo.fandom.com/wiki/Fred_Jones
https://scoobydoo.fandom.com/wiki/Fred_Jones,_Jr.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo!_Mystery_Incorporated
The fandom wiki is kind of messy and doesn't really specify some things so for the sake of clarity + to inform some aspects of personality, at Fred's canonpoint he has:
-Proposed to Daphne
-found out his dad, Fred Jones Sr., is not his biological father, and instead kidnapped him as a baby from his biological parents, two members of the original Mystery Incorporated
-Broken off his engagement with Daphne + broken up Mystery Inc, and gone off the radar for an undetermined amount of time between seasons, desperately trying to find a lead to his birth parents alone and not taking care of himself in the process
-rejoined Mystery Inc
He has not yet:
-gotten back together with Daphne
-met his biological parents
-been betrayed by his biological parents
-found out that Scooby is technically an alien God
-seen nearly everyone he's ever known die horribly to an otherworldly, nigh-unstoppable tentacled being
Personality: Scooby Doo, as a series, is just a few days older than 50 years now. Most people, even if they haven't seen the film, have at least a general grasp of who the characters are- Shaggy is the cowardly glutton and probably a stoner, Scooby Doo is his faithful and hungry cowardly dog, Velma is the smart and snarky one, Daphne is the sweet, sometimes shallow, and oft-kidnapped "pretty one", and Fred is... The leader, mostly. For decades, Fred didn't get to have much of a personality to set him apart, beyond being the "leader", setting traps, and telling everyone to split up. Modern Scooby Doo adaptations have really come through for Fred (and Daphne and Velma, who also have gotten heavily fleshed out in recent years), and Mystery Inc is one of the best examples.
Mystery Inc's Fred is a genuinely sweet-natured, excitable kid who's painfully oblivious to other people's feelings, is often naive, hyperfocuses on the things he's interested in and tunes everything else out, is starved for approval, frequently insensitive without realizing it, and overall a big, stupid puppy in human form. He also fucking loves making traps.
In all incarnations of Scooby Doo, Fred is good at making traps for the monsters of the week. They don't always work, particularly in the first shows, but he's no doubt good at building them. Mystery Inc turns this into an outright obsession. Fred's room is decked out with everything from nets to bear traps to materials for any kind of Rube Goldberg-style design you could ask for. He booby-trapped his own home in hundreds of ways, and the houses of all his friends (for their protection!). He inexplicably has access to hard-to-acquire materials like shark tanks with live sharks for use in traps. He can set up highly sophisticated traps in a matter of minutes, and can recognize the exact make and model of materials such as rope, chains, ladders, etc on sight. He keeps a scrapbook of his favorite traps he's built, he reads trapping magazines, he is absolutely god damn crazy for these things. And no one else shares his enthusiasm.
He's a very genuinely kind person- when other people are cruel to him, he oftentimes brushes it off without a second thought. Many episodes have him emphasize how much he loves the rest of the gang. The Gatorsburg episode, for example, has Fred talk about how they're all going to live together in one big house one day and solve mysteries together for the rest of their lives. He wholeheartedly believes that they'll all be together forever. One episode has Fred state he loves all his friends equally- "You're all the same in my eyes!"
Unfortunately, he tells this to Daphne, who at the time has a crush on Fred that she believes is unrequited. Many episodes have Fred do things like this- make comments or do things that unintentionally hurt people's feelings, Daphne in particular, or make her feel that Fred doesn't care about her. This isn't true, of course- Fred truly does love Daphne, but he's terrible at expressing it, and he doesn't pick up on social cues like a "normal" person.
The season 1 Hex Girls episode is a good example of that- and of Fred's issues with emotional vulnerability in general. Throughout the show, Fred makes comments that men aren't supposed to feel or show emotions, or care about people- even their romantic partners. It's heavily implied that this is a mindset he's learned from his father, Mayor Fred Jones Sr. In the Hex Girls episode, Fred outright says he's "not a guy anymore. I have feelings! I care!", meaning that Fred believes that men are incapable of being emotional and that he, therefore, cannot be a man. He figures things out by the end of the episode, but it's still a line that raises eyebrows.
As does nearly everything about his relationship to his father. Mayor Jones is a neglectful single father who barely pays his son the time of day until the moment it can benefit him. The various "monsters" that prowl Crystal Cove are good for tourism, and every time Mystery Inc unmasks the person responsible for a haunting or monster attack, the town loses tourists. As a result, Mayor Jones (and nearly every adult in town) despises the gang, though the mayor is the only person whose opinion actually bothers Fred. Fred tries hard to act as though his father's rejection doesn't hurt. It does. On the rare occasion Mayor Jones asks for his son's help with dealing with a monster or ghoul, Fred leaps at the opportunity ("Are we... Bonding? Look- my hands, they're shaking!" "Don't get all girly on me.") and does everything in his power to earn his father's approval, even putting himself and his friends in danger in the process. It never works, of course. And so, Fred is left desperate for love and attention that he never gets. At the end of one episode where his father again sidelines him, Fred immediately proceeds to propose to Daphne (... with an onion ring, but it's 100% serious), saying that she's the only person who he knows will always be there with him. It's a very sincere, sweet moment.
And then a few episodes later, Fred finds out that Mayor Jones is not his biological father and is instead the man who threatened and blackmailed his biological parents and stole him as a baby, basically everything Fred has ever known about his family is a complete lie, and his father is hauled off to prison. Fred, heartbroken and confused and unable to cope, breaks off the engagement with Daphne and cuts off all contact with the gang, putting all his efforts into finding his biological parents, stating that "Mystery Incorporated is dead".
This fails miserably, and Fred turns into a complete shambling wreck, unable and unwilling to take care of himself, living alone in an empty house with only taxidermy animals (which he canonically talks to and name and treat as confidants) and a stuffed teddy bear from his childhood that Mayor Jones gave him(which he ALSO canonically talks to, though in this case he treats it as if it's alive, because he's starting to lose his grip following the above betrayal), as company. This is how season 2 starts. At his canonpoint, it's also revealed that Fred is in therapy, though his therapist is very uncaring about his patient's problems and Fred himself is extremely reluctant to let anyone know he's in therapy in the first place ("What? No! I don't see a THERAPIST! Why would you say that? I-I- are you saying I should see a therapist?! 'Cause I don't have any problems! I am completely problem-free!"). This connects back to Fred's earlier problems with being emotional.
... Early season 2 also shows off some of the worst aspects of Fred's personality- his occasionally controlling side, which, when combined with his lack of self awareness of when he's being insensitive or rude, is a recipe for disaster. After Fred broke up with her, Daphne did her best to move on, dating another guy and vehemently refusing to go back to Mystery Inc. Fred started trying to win her back, and it's not... pretty. It's a lot of him trying to do romantic gestures and showing up uninvited to her house because he genuinely doesn't GET that he's being creepy and invasive. His occasional jealous streak is also on full force in these episodes, and it gets a little uncomfortable to watch, even with how naive Fred is of the implications of his actions. Given the fact that this happens while Fred is still barely coping with his father's arrest and the whole "kidnapped as a baby" thing, and the fact that previous episodes establish that his need for control and stability stems from his parental abandonment/neglect, he can be afforded a little leeway, but man. It's not cool, Mystery Inc.
Tangentially related, it's worth noting that despite his issues with common sense, reading social cues, not being an insensitive jerk without meaning to be, etc, Fred isn't a complete idiot. Not only is he able to construct elaborate traps and maintain the Mystery Machine by himself, he has at least some basic knowledge of chemistry, is very capable of disarming and escaping traps set by others, and good at picking up on clues. He practically solved the mystery of the Freak of Crystal Cove single-handedly! Unfortunately, the Freak of Crystal Cove was his own father... Really, though, if it's related to mysteries, the Mystery Machine, or traps, Fred can actually be pretty smart. But this kid also proposed with an onion ring. The duality of man...
Overall, Fred is a a sincerely good kid with some problems that he's having a hard time dealing with. And he really, really loves making traps.
Pokémon Information
Affiliation: Trainer
Starter: Carnivine
Password: Atomic Fireball
Samples
RP Sample: https://ohmyarceus.dreamwidth.org/13648.html?thread=2612816#cmt2612816
Victory Road Sample:
Fred Jones Jr. isn't exactly a stranger to weird situations, let alone waking up in unfamiliar places. Heck, he's been kidnapped and tied to a chair in a pool filling up with water and told to break out using conveniently inconveniently-placed tools at his disposal. Waking up in a warm bed is nothing compared to that.
The woman calling herself his "mom" is a new one. And- well, ok, he knows she's probably some weirdo using- maybe that weird pheromone stuff Aphrodite was using, the one that amplified all sorts of love, romantic and familiar and friendship- or maybe she was just real persuasive.
The point is, Fred's never really had a mom, and yes, her first act as mom was to try to kick him out, but his dad's tried to kick him out of the house a ton of times (usually when the Mayor nearly sets off one of the bear traps on the stairs, or Fred won't stop talking about nylon rope strength), so that's not so bad. He hangs around for a while, and eventually she lets him back inside when he proves he's not going away any time soon. And they talk.
It's not a very useful talk- she mostly sticks to some stock phrases, and tries to encourage Fred to go out into the world. "All boys leave home someday. It says so on TV," she says, for the fourth time in a row, a little more forcefully this time, and Fred nods along and takes another bite of the fresh cookies she made.
Fred doesn't really pay attention. He's too swayed by the novelty of apparently having a mother that loves him. He talks a lot about- well, anything he can think of, really- after all, his mother hasn't been in his life for years, so she needs to learn about everything she's missed!
She shows him how to open the Pokeball she gave him earlier, which Fred is grateful for- and he quickly becomes enamoured with the Carnivine before him. The next five minutes of Mom's life are spent listening to Fred ramble on about bear traps as he checks out the bite strength on the very patient grass type, handing her various objects to crunch in half. When he's thoroughly distracted by the Carnivine's ability to summon and manipulate vines, she finally convinces him to leave, and tells him she loves him. In response, Fred thanks her for everything and hugs her. It's probably not often that Mom gets hugs. Most of her "children" in this dimension are too unnerved by her existence.
He waves goodbye, and promises to write home soon. It's only when he starts down the route that he remembers that he still has no idea why he's here or how he got here in the first place.