Wilt

[pitbulllady]

Here's another of my far-fetched theories to throw out:

What if this now-adult kid Wilt is searching for is not HIS creator, but more or less the other way around-Wilt is HIS biological father? The kid's mother did not want her son to grow up knowing that his father wasn't human, so during his early years she convinced him that this tall red guy who's such a part of his life is actually his Imaginary Friend, and convinces Wilt to go along with the ruse. Then, something happens-either Wilt gets tired of living the lie and believes it's best to go ahead and tell the kid the truth, or the woman finds a new man in her life that she believes will be a better father(if for no other reason than he is a human)-whatever, and she and Wilt have a major falling out and she decides he has to go. Maybe she is somehow responsible for him being injured, like she had someone shoot him or something, to shut him up before he told the truth. She's thought that he was dead all this time, or she had a restraining order issued against him, to keep him away from both her and the kid, and it's just now expired. All this time, Wilt's known that he has a son/daughter(cannot rule out the kid being a girl still), but he's never been able to formally acknowledge it, possibly out of fear, until now. His decision to "set things right" could mean finally locating this now-adult individual and telling him/her the truth, to unburden himself of having let his kid grow up fatherless after all these years. The "terrible" something he tells Bloo that he's done might be fathering a child and then leaving him/her, for whatever reason, which could also account for Wilt's own hang-ups about abandonment-they come not so much from somebody having abandoned HIM, but from HIM having had to abandon someone else! That person on the phone in the trailer could be Wilt's Ex, rather than the Basketball-headed Dude, since they probably did not part on the best of terms, and if she's had reason to believe that Wilt's been dead all these years, that would explain why he says, "Bet you never expected to hear from ME, again, did you?" The Basketball-headed Dude could be an actual Imaginary Friend created by the kid, OR just someone else from Wilt's old 'hood, an old rival, or a member of a new gang that's taken over the territory since Wilt left long ago, who challenges Wilt for the right to even be there now. He might be totally unrelated to Wilt's quest other than another obstacle to be overcome.

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