Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends

The Conspiracy Theory

A/N: This is completely fictional. I claim no truths to be stated below. This was a theory I came up with while I was watching waaay to many cartoons one day. Here's to ruining your childhood innocence and making you question everything you know!

Mac suffers from multiple personality disorder, his second personality being the mischievous Bloo. This is why they often carry on conversations by themselves (and are often seen as being the only two people in a room). This personality emerges after years of child neglect from his parents and severe abuse from his older brother. Where Mac is often seen as an obedient pacifist, his alternate personality, Bloo, is often the subject of much trouble, causing great mischief, and making escape attempts from the asylum.

'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends' is in actuality 'Foster's Home for Disorderly Children': an asylum for children ranging from little kids to teenagers with mental disorders. Madame Foster is senile but obviously the person in charge of running the place. Mr. Harriman/Dr. Harriman is the second person in charge of Foster's as well as one of the doctors overlooking Mac/Bloo's case. Frankie, Foster's granddaughter, is Mac/Bloo's personal caretaker and love interest.

Mac/Bloo is a teenager but due to his previous abuse from Terrance, views himself at a younger age, when he still perceived himself as being innocent. Despite his child-like view, he can't help being attracted to Frankie, someone who is actually very close in age to him. Despite his obvious affection for her, it's a very love/hate feeling she develops for the two personalities.

A second defect of Mac/Bloo is that he projects others to be 'imaginary friends' instead of real people, creating a completely separate reality. The musical intro is actually a pseudo-reference to how Mac builds his world up around him. Most of the other imaginary friends he meets are either doctors or other patients who live in the asylum with him. His attraction to Frankie causes him to view her as another real person, and by relativity: Madame Foster.

Wilt is another one of Mac's doctors, often seen advising Mac/Bloo

Edwardo is a very young bipolar boy who shares rooms with Mac/Bloo.

Cheese/Louise is a girl in the asylum with a similar disorder to Mac/Bloo. A brief love interest before becoming a total annoyance.

Coco is a girl who has Tourette's syndrome.

Berry is a short lived third personality of Mac, liking only Bloo and trying to 'separate him from Mac' via violent attempts on his own life.

The imaginary friend that lives in a chest in the basement is a patient that is agoraphobic

The 'Scribbles' are medications. They keep one for Mac/Bloo because it pacifies the Bloo persona.

The Clumsy is a patient with severe lacking of a sense of equilibrium

Duchess is a nurse with illusions of grandeur

'Adoption' of imaginary friends is actually completion of rehabilitation for patients.

A/N: Ha ha, I have ruined you childhood! Feel free to a poke holes in my theory or add more to it. I'll post a second chapter if anyone can help me remember more imaginary friends.