His last name *isn't* Scrooge because he's the child of Scrooge's sister so he would've inherited his father's last name It's implied that Fan died in childbirth with him, and that's part of why Scrooge quietly resents him and doesn't want anything to do with him
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But we don't know anything about his dad -- Did his dad run off? Did his dad also die young? Did his dad live to a ripe old age and die very recently and Scrooge didn't bother showing up at the funeral? -- and nobody ever mentions his surname at all
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It's a random thought but I guess it's, like, part of how cut off Scrooge is from everyone and everything that he only thinks "Fred" and never his full name Fred is married and Scrooge never thinks about his wife's name in narration at all (in the play adaptation it's Clara)
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My headcanon is that Scrooge really really hated Fred's dad for "taking his sister away from him", given how close his bond was with Fan (because *their* dad was a neglectful piece of work) Then Fan dying in childbirth sealed it and he cut that whole branch of the family off
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Headcanon is that Fred only even started trying to reconnect with Ebenezer as an adult Like he literally never knew him for his entire childhood, he only knew stories of how broken up his mom was that they became estranged, so he made it his personal mission to reach out
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Like it explains just *how* icy the relationship is between the two of them and also just how sad it is But also why Fred doesn't actually like outright resent Scrooge Scrooge never actually personally abused him as a child, he just wasn't there
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It makes since from the perspective that Fran's death in childbirth was one of the traumatic events in Ebenezer's life. Acknowledging Fred itself is hard for him, acknowledging the man that in his mind took his sister from him is impossible.
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Or Dickens just never got around to it.
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maybe he only has one name, like Madonna
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