Fondue Faker

**Fredward "Fondue" Faker** is one of the three protagonists along with the Demon Kush Diabetes and his best friend Banjo Kannoli. He is a resident of Skank City, YS and lives at 68 S. Dontdrinkand Drive along with his fellow protagonists. He is the owner of the house and all expenses are paid by his father, who is a rich lawyer who also made sure his son got a law degree without having to do anything. He is portrayed by Connor Laulo, one of the creators of Hey Kush.

## Biography

### Pre-Hey Kush

Not much is known about Fondue's life before the series started except that at some point he moved into 68 S. Dontdrinkand Drive with his best friend Banjo.

### Season 1

Fondue and Banjo were set upon by a demon who was sent to reap their souls. Banjo managed to incapacitate the demon by knocking him out with a wooden spoon and the duo consulted the Cryptid Codex and found out that his name is Kush Diabetes. After the pair mistakenly thought he was friendly, they planned a day of "best friend activities" for the three to partake in and sprung it on the demon once he had awoken. The following morning, the demon put forward a wager to them, their souls against his eternal friendship. The two gladly accepted the terms and Fondue wound up beating Kush at the game they placed the stakes on, forcing Kush to become their new "best friend forever".

## Personality

Fondue is both inconsiderate and insensitive and caring and supportive. He is very immature, selfish, lazy, brash, drastic, prideful, envious, and dim-witted. He can also be ignorant and oblivious to others' feelings, even when it comes to his best friend, Banjo. In spite of his flaws though, he does care very much about his friends and shows true remorse when he finds out that something he did may have hurt someone he cares about. He would do anything for his friends, even if he doesn't always show it. Fondue is also shown to have moments of intelligence, even if he is an idiot.

## Relationships

### Banjo Kannoli

Fondue is shown to be very good friends with Banjo as the two live together and seem to enjoy each other's company. Fondue can sometimes be rude to Banjo and is clearly the friend who is "in charge", but still loves his best friend and would do anything for him.

### Kush Diabetes

Kush seems to have a dislike of Fondue, becoming annoyed with him to the point of willing to work in Hell's Call Center rather than be around him, but Fondue is oblivious to this fact. He views Kush as a new friend and even planned out a day of "Best Friend Activities" for them along with Banjo, showing that he likes the Demon.

## Appearance

Fondue is a skinny man of average height with dark brown hair and eyes and an olive complexion. He is usually seen wearing band shirts with jeans and his red shoes.

## Concept and Creation

Fondue was created as a character for a let's play series featuring Connor Laulo and Zak Campbell playing characters for beginning segments and ending segments of the let's plays. The let's play idea was eventually scrapped and the concept of the two characters Fondue and Banjo stuck as well as a demon character who had been conceptualized later in the development of the let's play idea. In Fondue's second iteration, which appears going unnamed in the video "Prelude to Soystick", was very similar to the current version of the character, only this version was from the 90's and flung forward in time to the present day. Eventually, the 90's time travel concept was removed and Fondue became essentially the character as he is known now. The name Fondue Faker comes from Laulo's YouTube username, which was based on the quote from Sonic Adventure 2, "Found you, faker!" The name Fredward was chosen by Laulo for the characters first name because it was still alliterative with the last name, Faker, and was humorous in that it was essentially just the names Fred and Edward mashed together.