Why would a kid need an imaginary friend?

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Originally Posted by DoubleLatte

That was all very fun to read, specially at 2 am. :p No, I agree with you.

On you last paragraph though, I think it's Bloo that compensates for Mac's own shortcomings, or what he wished he had more of personality-wise. Mac can be social, friendly, and a leader, but he still possesses a rather introverted personality, and that's where Bloo comes in. I don't always believe IFs are created because children feel frightened, unprotected, or lonely. Some of these IFs are probably culminations of what a kid lacked and wished he/she expressed more of in his/her personality. Bloo is loud, abrasive, manipulative, and boastful; hardly our definition of "shy". At the other end of the scale, we have Mac, who is self-less, a bit of a pushover, and simple. He's everything that Bloo is not.

That is PRECISELY why I would not be so sure that Wilt's creator was someone who was really into basketball. He/she could have been someone like me, with no athletic ability whatsoever, but a secret desire to be an athlete or to "shine" at SOMETHING. Wilt could have very well been the living manifestation of that secret wish. I've theorized that he was created to be a surrogate father, and many guys ARE into sports, so perhaps the kid figured that if he/she was gonna make up an Imaginary dad, he might as well be into some sort of sport, too, in order to be more like other kids' real fathers. Maybe Wilt was intended to replace a real dad who was a big basketball fan, or actually had played basketball, though the kid did not actually have much interest in it.

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