the most heartbreaking thing about the finale episode was not sir pentious dying- it's the fact that he died and went to heaven, which means the hotel worked. but no one knows it worked. it worked, but they all think hes gone forever.
ducktales fandom i have a confession to make. i have been telling people in my classes with utter and complete confidence that scrooge mcduck is canonically transgender. i am not remorseful i just think all of us should start doing this
this episode was great. this ending in particular reminded me of another ending. i love the grandparent unsuspectingly keeping photos of their grandkid in their wallet trope. i love how the contrast of this is that rick was looking at something he yearned for (diane) and chose to walk away and choose his family (morty) while goldie was looking at something she yearned for (having a place in scrooge's life and by extension, family) and chose to walk away and reject said family (louie in particular) (for now)
Seriously I cant explain how much I adored this scene. Its so sweet and it just fills my heart so much to the point where I feel like I'm going to cry.
So I started thinking of an AU where Della didn't take the Spear of Selene and the bois grew up with their entire family and now I'm thinking....
In this AU, F.O.W.L. wouldn't have seen the need to make April/Webby
Not hear me out
Cause Webby and the bois are the same age yeah? But we don't know exactly who was born first. We know the bois hatched in April 15 (HA! April!) but we don't know when Project #87 started. It's totally possible Project #87 got started after the bois were born
No okay listen to me
F.O.W.L. needed Scrooge's heir, right? But an "heir" doesn't necessarily have to be a direct child, it can be a niece or a nephew too, the show itself says so. Scrooge refers to them all as potential heirs.
So F.O.W.L. didn't need Scrooge to be a father really, they just needed Scrooge to have a child (or multiple children) in his family to potentially consider as his heir. This is why I believe Webby wasn't made until after Della left with the Spear of Selene.
Before Della got lost, Scrooge had 5 potential heirs right there. The twins and the unhatched Duck bois. F.O.W.L. didn't need to clone Scrooge, they just needed to wait until the eggs hatched and see if they could manipulate the triplets into getting them the papyrus.
But then Della got lost, one less potential heir. And Donald had a falling out with his uncle and left the mansion, one less potential heir. And the triplets were hatched and raised in the houseboat, without meeting Scrooge or even knowing they were related. Three less potential heirs.
No potential heirs
So now F.O.W.L. has a problem. And what do they do? That's when they make April/Webby.
So if Della didn't get lost and the family didn't break apart, then they wouldn't have made Webby.
More evidence to this is the fact that we see that Scrooge was living alone when Beakley moved in with him. Della and Donald were all already out of the picture before Beakley came to his door with a child.
Della knows Beakley as "Agent 22", she's surprised that she's the housekeeper now. So, we know that she didn't move in until after Della's disappearance.
So, in an AU where the Spear of Selene didn't happen, there's no Webby.