Fixed points as a full subcategory of prefixed points?

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I'm working through these notes, which cover some fixed point theory for categories.

Here, we encounter the following definitions (I've rephrased them):

Let $C$ be a category and $F$ an endofunctor on $C$.

  • A prefixed point of $F$ is pair $(A, \alpha)$ where $A$ is an object of $C$ and $\alpha$ a morphism from $F(A)$ to $A$;

  • a fixed point of $F$ is a prefixed point $(A, \alpha)$ where $\alpha$ is an isomorphism.

Then. the category PFP of prefixed points of $F$ is defined in the following way:

  • its objects are the prefixed points of $F$;

  • for each $(A,\alpha)$, $(B,\beta)$ in PFP, the morphism set from $A$ to $B$ contains exactly the arrows $f \in \hom(A,B)$ such that the diagram $$ \begin{aligned} &F(A) &\xrightarrow{\alpha} &A \\ F(f) &\downarrow & &\downarrow f\\ &F(B) &\xrightarrow{\beta} &B \end{aligned} $$ commutes.

Can I then define the category FP of fixed points of $F$ as the full subcategory of PFP whose objects are the fixed points of $F$?