Sorry this took so long, I've been super busy.
Fred Weasley II
1) Everybody he knew complained about their name, and he really didn't think any of them had any right to (except maybe Albus). But still- nobody had it like him. Because Grandmum Weasley never got tears in her eyes when she said anybody else's name. And there was never a problem saying somebody else's name. Whenever anyone said James' or Lily's names, they never thought of James Potter and Lily Evans- they thought of James and Lily, his cousins. But whenever anybody said his name, they thought of Fred Weasley, his father's dead twin.
2) Lots of people think he's only a prankster because of his name. The think he's just trying to live up to it. And maybe that's part of it. But he loves to prank. He and James, his partner in crime, love to trick people. But Fred always draws the line, because James won't.
He draws the line because the point of pranks is to make people laugh, to smile. And maybe, at the time of the prank, the victim won't be too happy about it, but later on, it has to be something they'll look back on and laugh at. Pranks are for laughing, for enjoying yourself. He doesn't want to become vindictive.
(Maybe that's the difference between him and his dad and twin- Fred would never have given anything to first years if it could have hurt them.)
3) He wasn't the smartest in the family, not by a long shot. He didn't completely flunk out of his classes or anything, but he didn't come home with all 'O's on his O.W.L.'s. He didn't think he had to be super smart, anyway- he was just going to run a WWW store. Everyone knew it.
Still, what bothered him the most was that nobody expected him to be really smart. Nobody came right out and said this, obviously, but he can tell. Everybody just expects him to work with his dad, and sometimes he wonders if maybe this is because that's what his dad's twin would have done.
All he wants is to be his own person, for people to think of him, and not his uncle.
4) His family is huge- it's normal to play favourites. And if Fred had to choose a favourite uncle, he would choose Ron, for a lot of reason. Ron's the youngest (he knows Ginny's technically the youngest, but she's The Girl, so it doesn't count), and he's always been known as Harry Potter's Best Friend. But he's funny, and he's smart (when he wants to be) and he's brave and even though he's living under the shadow of Uncle Harry, he still manages to be himself, something Fred envies.
5) His boggart is of his family. They won't look him in the eye, because he reminds them too much of Uncle Fred. They've turned their backs on him because they can't take seeing him. Because they'll never love him as much as they had loved the first Fred.
(He knows deep down that his fears are ridiculous, and Roxy has told him such, multiple times. He knows his family loves him, and he knows they don't expect him to replace Fred I. But sometimes it's easy to believe that.)
6) He loved Quidditch! It was the time when he felt like himself, truly himself. He was Keeper- something that had surprised them all. His dad had wanted him to be Beater- his mum had wanted him to be Chaser. But he was Keeper, and he loved it, and he was good at it, too. Him, James, and Hugo practically ran the Gryffindor Quidditch team, and they won the cup five times when Fred was at Hogwarts.
His mum and dad were happy about him making Keeper regardless of their original desires, but he was slightly confused when his dad told him that if he became as controlling as Oliver Wood, he would have to take his broom away. His mum laughed, but Fred didn't really understand.
7) His dad had always tried hard to make sure Fred and Roxy were close, but he could have saved himself the effort, because Fred and his sister couldn't be closer if you glued them together. James is his partner, and his favourite cousin, but (and he doesn't care how dorky this makes him) his sister is his best friend. He could tell Roxy everything, and he did, and she told him everything as well. James was great, but when he really needed help, or good advice, Roxy was there. He really doesn't think he could be blessed with a better sister.
8) Christmas is his favourite time of year, because that's the time when they're all together and all happy. Sure, on any given day there's guaranteed to be at least five Weasley's at the Burrow, but at Christmas, that's the day they're all there and they're all happy, ready to exchange gifts and laugh over memories and prank Uncle Percy. But it's more then that. Because Christmas was the time when all of his cousins (and Teddy) would sit down, away from the party, and just talk. They would talk about their lives and their hopes and what was happening and everything. That was his favourite time because even with all the crap going on in their lives, they always made time for their family. Because in the end, family was what mattered.
9) One time at school, a kid asked him why his mother had married his father, when she had dated Fred Weasley I first. He had said that the only reason Angelina had married George was because he looked like his twin and she could pretend.
Fred had hexed him and sent him to the Hospital Wing, but he couldn't stop thinking about what he had said. So one day, he finally asked his mum about it. She had looked at him for a long time and then told him the story of what had happened when she had gone to the Yule Ball with Uncle Fred. She had said that she had loved him very much, but only as a friend, and that she could never love anybody as much as she loved Fred's father.
He never questioned his parent's love again.
10) Despite everything, he still wishes he could meet the first Fred Weasley. He sounds like a great person, and if he was anything like his father, Fred knows he would like him.
But he can't stop thinking about the muggle saying, that if you kill a butterfly in the past, it could cause drastic effects in the future. So even though he wishes that Fred Weasley hadn't died- so his dad would have his best friend back, so his grandmum Weasley could say his name without crying- he wonders what would happen to him. Because if Fred Weasley I hadn't died, would Fred himself even be here?
And if Fred was still here, who would he be?
This boy has some serious identity problems.
