Had a couple head canons come to mind... Mostly thoughts on Fred and his Bimbo-ness
Just to set things up I like the idea of them all being close childhood friends like in A Pup Named Scooby Doo.
Because Fred and Daphne seem more like the high school sweethearts people always asked them if they were dating.
Eventually they caved and tried dating eachother but realised they felt more like best friends then a couple plus Daphne realises she has a crush on Velma (#lesbian visability).
Anyway back to Freddy
My head-canon is that Freddy finds Shaggy really attractive,
He thinks in his mind that it's totally platonic like "no homo" but it's really not.
Like Velma and Daphne don't think Shaggy is ugly,
And they notice that he's weirdly popular, they just don't see the appeal (cuz they're gay for eachother but also Shaggy is like a brother to them). But they both think it's kinda suss how much Fred compliments his appearance.
(Like they both notice how gay Fred is for Shaggy but Fried just hasn't realized yet)
Some examples I thought of that Fried might throw into a conversation, un-prompted
Like Velma and Daphne are talking about their straight celebrity crushes or smth and fried just pipes in with..
-"Shaggy is pretty handsome, I bet chicks dig Shaggy"
-"I mean he's tall, fit, athletic, he's got nice hair, he's handsome, he's a great cook, his family's pretty loaded, he has good bone structure...ect isn't that what chicks always talk about wanting in a guy?"
- "I'm pretty jealous of Shaggy, like his facial hair, it's pretty rugged and sexy, isn't it?
"I wish I could grow a beard or something but it's so sparse and patchy when I try and takes me months!"
Velma and Daphne just *bombastic side eye* "this dude gay"...
I also imagine that Fred is so oblivious when people are dating or attracted to other people.
Like this man dosen't have a clue, flirting goes right over his head and he can't pick up of those vibes at all...
And because he got no vibe check he dosen't notice that Shaggy IS ACTUALLY pretty popular
So it's like
Fred (in his head) -"I wonder why Shaggy isn't popular or dating anybody when he's handsome and such a great guy"
Meanwhile...
Shaggy - **actively being hit on right in front of him**
Drink respect women juice in unusual quantities for the time they were brought into existence. (1960s)
Despite that aforementioned truth, newer media tends to characterize them as a fuckboy chauvinistic shoe horn for the sexist jock stereotype and it makes me Big Mad.
The Scooby gang are friends. The Scooby gang are BEST FRIENDS. THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS AND THEY LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH. THEY TRAVEL AROUND SOLVING MYSTERIES FOR AS LONG AS THEY CAN BECAUSE THEY HAVE A PASSION FOR IT AND BECAUSE IT MEANS THEY GET TO SPEND TIME TOGETHER WITH EACH OTHER. THEY ARE BEST FRIENDS.
They don’t hate each other. Maybe they get annoyed and cause they’re together all the time it might get a bit much sometimes but at the end of the day, they really deeply care about each other. They live out of a van most of the time and are on the road constantly out of CHOICE. TOGETHER. for crying out loud.
They are four teenagers and a Great Dane. They’re a family.
a scooby-doo origin story where Daphne, Fred, Velma, and Shaggy are all serving detention together and none of them (save for maybe Fred and Daphne) have ever really talked before, but they talk in detention. they have fun, they're bonding, it's a real Breakfast Club situation, and as detention ends they're walking home and they see a dog digging through the garbage of a local restaurant
he's big, but he seems sweet and he's obviously hungry, so the gang approaches him to see if he has a collar. Shaggy manages to get to him first, and the dog immediately takes to him, giving him a big dog kiss and cuddling up to him, but the dog seems to like all of them
upon finding he doesn't have a collar, Shaggy, scratching behind his ears, rhetorically asks, "What's your name, buddy?"
and the dog answers, "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!"
after a minute of freaking the FUCK out and asking each other "y'all heard that, right?" the kids decide to take the dog (who they immediately start calling Scooby-Doo, Scoob, or Scooby for short) home, and find that not only can the dog talk, he displays human-level intelligence and is easily frightened. when they ask where he came from, he doesn't seem to know, but when they walk past an old, abandoned shopping complex on the edge of town, he completely freaks out...and there are weird noises coming from that complex at night....and some suspicious sightings....
the first mystery they investigate together is the mystery of what in God's name is going on here
with everyone rightfully panning that new "adult" scooby-doo show, i thought about the gang actually being adults today. since the original show debuted in 1969, and with them being teens back then, in 2023 they'd be in their early 70s. so have some retiree scooby gang!
fred i just figured he'd be a kind unassuming older gentlemen who still has a penchant for tiny pranks. the kinda grandpa figure who always has a few pieces of candy in his pocket just in case it looks like someone needs one.
shaggy would absolutely be like willie nelson, full stop. chill old dude, knows the lyrics to everything 70s, and often volunteers at animal shelters mostly as a dog walker/socializer.
daphne i imagine would be a graceful ager but embraces her silvery hair like helen mirren or jamie lee curtis, and supports young up and coming fashion designers/models through a foundation she set up.
velma put out a few mystery novels in her 40s that took off and now, similar to daphne, mentors other authors through creative writing seminars. she has trifocals now.
the unfortunate reality is that dogs don't live near as long as people, even ones with a tenuous grasp of the human language. but, over the years, each of them has adopted different dogs and given them as much love as they did their beloved great dane detective.