#hortense had twins don and della

[oddballsducks]

Donald and Della were Hortense and Quackmore’s miracle babies.

According to Frank (before he deleted the post), in DT17, Donald and Della came from the same egg. In the real world, two ducklings forming in a single egg is incredibly rare, and usually only one survives hatching, if both don’t die.

In Don Rosa’s timeline, Quackmore and Hortense were 45 and 44 respectively when they had their twins, which is very late to have your first child, especially back in the 1920s, when pregnancy and neonatal care wasn’t as advanced as it is today.

Putting these two ideas together, here were Hortense and Quackmore, in their mid forties, knowing this new egg was their only chance to have a biological child.

But wait — suddenly they were told that there’s something wrong, there’s two babies in one egg, they’re squished together and there isn’t enough nutrients for both of them.

They’ll be lucky if one survives. Maybe neither will survive.

Hortense and Quackmore are devastated and wracked with anxiety through the incubation period.

But both babies seem to be doing alright.

And then, the twins hatch, and they’re both alive!

And they stay alive! They’re thriving!

And Hortense and Quackmore are the happiest, most grateful parents in the whole world, because when they thought they had lost their only chance at a baby, they got two babies instead!

And then they only get to spend a little over a decade with their miracle babies…

#hortense mcduck #quackmore duck #quackmore x hortense #quacktense #donald duck #della duck #duck twins #ducktales #duckverse #disney ducks #duck comics #disney duck comics #disney duckverse

[jknerd]

DISNEY STUDIO AU: Donald Duck

Full Name: Donald Fauntleroy Duck 

Other Names: Don, Donny, Uncle Donald, Lieutenant Donald F. Duck

Schools: Duckburg Private School (graduated), Walt Disney University of Performing Arts (graduated)

Occuaption(s): Sub-vocalist and rapper of The Three Caballeros, Naval officer (rank Lieutenant; retired), actor, entertainer

Residence: Los Angeles, California, USA

Family: Quagmore Duck (father), Hortense McDuck (mother), Della Duck (twin sister), Huey Dewey and Louie (nephews), Scrooge McDuck (uncle), Ludwig Von Drake (distant uncle), Gideon McDuck (uncle), Matilda McDuck (aunt), Daphne Duck (aunt), Gladstone Gander (cousin), Fethry Duck (cousin), Fergus McDuck (maternal grandfather), Downy McDuck (maternal grandmother), Bolivar (pet)

Relationships: Daisy (girlfriend->fiancee->wife), Panchito Pistoles (best friend; fellow member of the Three Caballeros), José Carioca (best friend; fellow member of the Three Caballeros), Mickey (best friend), Goofy (best friend), Minnie (friend), Clarabelle (friend), Horace (friend)

Likes: His music/acting career, boats, hiking, hockey, dancing, singing, spending time with family, dates with Daisy, holidays, camping

Dislikes: Bad luck, his voice damaged, losing his temper, Goofy’s clumsiness, upsetting Daisy, unruly animals, his nephews in danger, his nephew’s chaotic mischiefs, anyone offending Panchito/José, his nephews stressing over grades

Donald Fauntleroy Duck is one of the famous celebrity and entertainer alongside Mickey and Goofy. Originally debuted as “The Three Caballeros” with Panchito and José at the end of his university year, he was once the sub-vocalist and rapper. Afterward, he joined the Naval army and his rank raised up to lieutenant. Later, he become an uncle and single parent of his three nephews; Huey, Dewey, and Louie while working as actor and an entertainer. Eventually, he returned to his singing career “the Three Caballeros”.

Donald was born as twin brother of Della Duck, being a firstborn of Quagmore the pilot of McDuck Airline and Hortense the bank worker of “The Money Bin” Bank. Born in a privileged and wealthy background, Donald was expected to meet the family’s expectation as one of the heirs of McDuck enterprises. The two others were Gladstone Gander and Fethry Duck, but Donald was the one who have been above Scrooge’s expectations as next heir as the rest didn’t for reasons; Gladstone was uncannily lucky, but a very lazy individual who would eventually bring the enterprise to downfall and Fethry didn’t show passion nor interest in the enterprises and has eccentric visions on the world. Nonetheless, Donald had a happy and adventurous life with his twin sister and Uncle Scrooge while his parents were constantly busy. However, things went sour when Donald found love in music and singing as he chose to attend the university majoring performing arts. There, he encountered José by helping him carrying his heavy musical instruments, quickly befriending one another. Then, they met Panchito as they found their band “The Three Caballeros”, active in USA, Central America and South America. 

However, while preparing Europe Tour, he was attacked by stalker—who felt betrayed by him for dating Daisy—and got his neck injured forcing him to leave the group as he couldn’t sing. He was also one of very few to know of Goofy and Gloria having children as he attended Glory B’s funeral, growing furious when the journalists rudely interrupted the eulogy and disrespected Glory B, hence battering several as both self-defense and a warning. This caused him to take therapy sessions dealing with his anger management and decided to join the Navy. Through years, he have gained respect and admiration among the Navy soldiers/officers as they were devastated when he decided to retire to help his sister Della with her pregnancy. Meeting Mickey and Goofy again, he went to acting career and despite several ups and downs in works he starred, he earned much in order to raise his nephews while Della would travel the globe. Donald often receives phone calls from his family and relatives as Scrooge wanted him to move back to prime McDuck residence for him to take job within the family business, but Donald declined as he focused on raising his nephews. At some point, Donald married his fiancee Daisy.

One time, Huey, Dewey and Louie noticed Donald would silently tapping his limbs when listening to Panchito or José’s performances, learned of his past as one of “The Three Caballeros” and the incident that caused him to quit the band. Discovering his wish to perform as singer again, his nephews and Daisy contacted José and Panchito for help in order to collect enough money for his voice recovery surgery. At the end, after the surgery and several cares for his neck, Donald was able to sing again with his two Latin American friends. Due to his years of raspy voice, his vocal have been more husky, which shows a distinct individuality as a member of the Three Caballeros.

#Disney Studio AU #Donald Duck #The Three Caballeros #Ducktales #humanized

[polina-me]

I wish that there could be a Royal Au for The Three Caballeros

This is your time @zerotwo and @superwolfiestar !

Donald Duck: He lived half of his childhood on an ordinary christian farm, but then Scrooge took him along with Della

He spent the rest of his life in the palace studying royal life (manners, etiquette and so on)

At the age 26, Della was stollen. The kidnappers could not be traced (by the standards of the Middle Ages), but fortunately Della was pregnant and they had to stop for her to give birth

When Della gave birth, Scrooge's army surrounded Flintheart's army (yeah, he will be kidnapper, sor for the spoiler)

While everyone was busy fighting, Donald infiltrated the Della. He gave her his clothes to make her look like an ordinary commoner and helped her hide the eggs so they wouldn't get hurt. Don himself changed into Della's dress and pretended to be her so that she could escape to the palace

Bonus: As you understand — Hortense is a queen, and Quackmore is a commoner. Scrooge became king when they died. Matilda in the "heart of silence", she and Von Drake opened the "second capital" and it became the "capital of silence", "heart" is a second name that scientists prefer

Jose Carioca: The assassin is a robber, owns magic. Scrooge hired him to find Donald.

His family owned magic, but was killed by the townspeople.

Bonus: For those who want to see Zica and Zeca. They are trained in the secret temple by Ari.

Panchito Pistoles: Matador, part-time mariachi (maybe has a little magic)

He carries with him: his father's sword, grandfather's guitar, and his mother's sombrero (who sewed it herself)

He was hired by Della to save Donald

Now about the plot:

One day, princess Della Duck was kidnapped by the terrible Flintheart Glomgold, the king of thieves.

Her family was in despair, no one knew where she was, expect Flint himself

But he didn't know that Della was pregnant, so when she gave birth, they had stop

King uncle Scrooge took advantage of this and immediately attacked their hiding place. Only he didn't foresee one thing: how will Della be able to escape with the eggs?

But the answer found itself

During the battle, her twin brother Donald Duck climbed into Della's bedroom. He helped her escape

Donald dressed his sister in Christian clothes, hid the eggs and sent her to Grandma Duck's farm. They're safe now. Only Donald realized that if Flintholt saw Della missing, he would become angry and possibly kill someone from his family

So he put on Della's cute dress and prerended to be her

When Scrooge realised what Donald had done, he was already furious. But it was too late, Donald had taken too far

Then Scrooge decided to take desperate measures. And Della, too.

Scrooge called to court the most cunning of the most cunning, the most dexterous of the dexterous and the meanest of the mean — Jose Carioca

And Della called the brave of the brave, the loud of the loud, the sweet of the sweet and the kind of the kind — Panchito Gonzalez Morales

It will be an adventure of a thief and hero who will become more than allies. Friends? Amigos? Or more?

And will the princess boy open his heart or let the pain inside kill him further?

Chu ♡

#three caballeros #the three caballeros #three gay caballeros #donald duck #jose carioca #ze carioca #panchito #panchito pistoles #panchito romero miguel junipero francisco quintero gonzalez

[moonlight-inthesky]

You know, as I've been catching up on Ducktales, I started thinking about Scrooge and the dynamic he has with his sisters, specifically the changes in them.

Obviously, the biggest change that caught me off guard was Matilda becoming the youngest sibling, with Hortense persumably becoming the middle child. At first, I had no idea why they made this change, but then I soon started to think about it and I realized that the McDuck siblings might be parallels to the triplets.

More under the cut because this gets very long

Right off the bat, Scrooge and Matilda are both businesspeople, with Scrooge being a billionaire and Matilda just barely hanging on. From what little we know about Hortense, she apparently decided to settle down, marry, and have kids, with nothing suggesting she had a business as well.

Thinking about these aspects of the characters, as well as the changes in age order, made me think back to the duck triplets, with the changes made to their personalities in this iteration based on their age order, and of course I came to the logical conclusion that the McDuck siblings are supposed to be parallels to the duck triplets.

Think about it:

Scrooge and Huey, both the oldest, rely on their smarts to outsmart others and succeed. Also they wear red.

Matilda and Louie, both the youngest, are less than successful business owners and have to rely on schemes to succeed, and even then its not a guarantee. Matilda's shirt is also a yellowish-greenish color, and obviously Louie wears green.

And that leaves Dewey and Hortense, both the middle children. Again, we know next to nothing about Hortense. However, based on the patterns I found above, I may have an idea of what Hortense may be like as it will probably be revealed in future episodes.

Dewey, being the middle child, wants to stand out from his brothers, which explains why he so enthusiastic about adventure; he wants to make a name for himself and separate his identity from his brothers. Hortense, also probably being a middle child, might have had a similar problem, but taken to the opposite direction.

Okay, so we know Hortense started a family and apparently did not have a business, unlike her siblings (unless the theory that Ludwig's kids are also Matilda's is true), so those are the biggest differences. I'm thinking that Hortense wanted to separate her identity from her siblings by NOT standing out, a direct contrast from Dewey. She knew about her siblings' crazy business ventures and she didn't want to be associated with Clan McDuck if they were just going to be known as greedy, eccentric businesspeople. So, she decided she was going to settle down with Quackmore (and take his last name to further distance herself from her siblings) and have Donald and Della. No crazy adventures, no association with eccentric businesspeople, just a normal life with her family.

Of course we all know how that ended. However, if this is the case, this would make an interesting character study, a foil to most of the McDuck/Duck family, and a parallel to Donald, who had a similar goal after the SoS incident (like mother, like son, after all).

So bottom line: there's a lot more to the McDuck siblings that we just don't know yet, but we seem to have some clues that would suggest future revelations about them.

Also, I just remembered some pictures showed in "The Fight for Castle McDuck!" showed Scrooge and Matilda as around the same age, despite being oldest and youngest, respectively. So, this means that the two and Hortense were closer in age this time around...

...OR they were triplets as well. I actually really like that concept and it would only drive home the parallels between the McDuck siblings and Duck triplets even further.

#ducktales #ducktales 2017 #ducktales spoilers #ducktales speculation #scrooge mcduck #matilda mcduck #hortense mcduck #hortense duck #huey dewey and louie #huey duck #dewey duck #louie duck #donald and della #donald duck #della duck #the idea that the mcducks are triplets make a lot of sense #women who are fraternal twins/triplets/etc... #are more likely to have fraternal twins/triplets/etc... #hortense had twins don and della #della had the triplets #okay too many tags

[keriwi1]

How would you have improved the way they did Della on Ducktales if you had to try?

Ok, that's a little tricky. The problem with Della doesn't really come from how they portray her, but the fact they included her at all. Her character as a cartoon duck is fine, she is sweet, fun and adventures, with some flaws like being immature or hot tempered at times. She is a character you would imagine Donald’s Duck twin sister could be, after we saw her in flashback comics. But if you're gonna say she is still 100% alive you are stepping on thin ice. What's worse, they choose to make her go on a dangerous flight to space for fun while she was expecting, leaving us with the impression she did not want to be a mother at all. She give them stupid names, she probobly didn’t plan them as they don’t have a father in this version, and her brother did half (or more) of her job as expecting parent even when she was still around. She could have been kidnapped by moonlanders, from Earth (but why the heck would they do that?) but that would mean they had to rewrite the whole 2 seasons, or even season 1 and still leave the question, why is she back after 10 years. In her core, Della was designed as a prop, not character. “We need a cute cartoon where Donald has to take care of 3 kids - um, say it’s not his so we can ditch them anytime we want if the audience dislikes them.” For years she was like Pam from Full House, she was the reason why the plot happened, but she didn’t really exist as her own person. And there also was the one cue difference, she was dead. For everybody's standards, abandoning your children is a trait of a bad mother. No matter how fun or likeable you try to make her. This is Duckverse we talking about, half of the non main cast is not present and everybody accepts that on some level. Hortense and Quackmore Duck are banned from appearing in other forms than flashbacks and comics that take place in the past, why? Who knows, even Don Rosa wasn’t allowed to use them. In comics every character has nephews or nieces. Donald started it, but certainly wasn’t the last one.They run on logic that this is not important for the story, so we don’t need to explain it.

So, going back to Della, they could brush it off as they did leaving a bad taste in mature audiences mouth, but cater to young children or go full edgy with drama that she didn’t want to be a mother and got scared of single motherhood. Even if she regrets it and wants to be back in their life now, how could Donald be ok with it? I can imagine how “happy” parents would be with that subplot in their kids cartoons. And balancing it would be even harder. I don’t envy the person who had to make these choices about Della.

#della duck #donald duck #ducktales #ducktales 2017 #huey louie and dewey

[quietfounder]

Ever since watching The First Adventure, I always wanted to see more of the life and adventures of Donald, Della, and Scrooge before the events of the main series. 

I know we won’t get more of that when the show ends, but it would be pretty great if we got a prequel series just about them. More like a prequel miniseries. Kind of like Adventure Time: Distant Lands.

So now I’m gonna tell you all the ideas I had for this so you can suffer with me as well (they’re not all planned out)

I have no idea what the running time would be or have many episodes it would contain.

There will be a time skip each episode.

First episode would start out when Della and Donald were kids:

It would definitely be after Last Christmas because I assume that’s when they started living with Scrooge

Possibly be the first time they met Goldie, and teased Scrooge if she was his girlfriend and their future aunt

Fethry and Gladstone might join them on their travels (this could be its own episode probably)

Just more Duck cousins in general

I think the episode would close out with Scrooge questioning “Where did the time go?” as he looks over to the kids playing or something

Or, alternately, the first episode could start with Scrooge adventuring with Matilda and Hortense before it shifts to him, Donald, and Della on one

Next episode would deal with them having separate adventures from  each other: 

Donald attending college and forming his band (maybe be in the Navy) 

Della attending flight school and making friends (like Kit for example)

Scrooge will probably be sent on a mission from Beakley to recover an item before FOWL can get it (if she’s sill the Director at the time)

Or better yet, Della could be coming home as Scrooge gets assigned to the case and ends up joining with Scrooge on the mission and the location will be wherever Donald is at and when there is a need for a distraction The Three Caballeros are suddenly there to perform

This episode is set just before Della takes the Spear of Selene:  

Della likely showed Donald the rocket after first discovering it herself (I am not forgetting that picture we saw of him in What Ever Happened to Donald Duck)

I think Donald would have tried to compromised by begging her not to test the rocket until after the triplets hatched and Della promises by saying something like how “These Duck twins can conquer anything together!”

I really want Gyro to featured in this someway since he helped build the Spear of Selene

Anyway, I think some sort of comment either from herself or another pushes her towards taking the rocket as a way of proving something to herself

Episode either closes out as Della makes her way to the rocket and saying “I’m sorry Don” or it can end with Donald coming back to an empty room and finding a note that Della for him before rushing out of the room, trying in a vain attempt to reach her

Second to last episode would be about Donald and Scrooge both accepting Della’s absence and how they re-enter each other’s lives:

It’s definitely post shadow war 

I feel like Donald and Scrooge would be on an adventure and end up separated from the others but come upon a place that brings up memories with mixed feelings (good for Scrooge, bad for Donald) like with what happened with Scrooge and Goldie in the episode TGLoWAP

With whatever happened on that particular adventure, it would bring up what Donald thinks what Scrooge usually thinks of him, what’s expected (I kinda made it tie back to what Della told Scrooge in New Gods on the Block) before it turns to what happened to Della on that day

After that conversation (idk what was said), we get the proper reconciliation between these two that I really wanted in the show 

They still take the opportunity to make quips at each other with Scrooge calling Donald “a frivolous freeloader” and Donald responding back that he’s “a crazy old miser” but it’s all in good-nature

Last episode would deal with Della coming back:

It’s post moonvasion but not post-season 3

So it starts with Scrooge about to go on his own or the others opted out of not going on before Della volunteers herself and Donald to go with so it could be like old times

Everyone tries to get back into the groove of things but there’s some problems they’re either trying to rely on what they used to do before or trying to accommodate to any new skills the others have picked up

 After a less-than-stellar defeat of a monster, trap or something, the three of them sit down for a moment and actually talk things out

Della and Donald will probably do most of the talking since I imagined Scrooge already worked most of it out with them and express a few remarks here and there

The talk will certainly bring up how everyone dealt with Della being, how Della herself was doing, and how each of them managed to come in their own way which ends with there being lots of hugging and renewed faith about finishing out the adventure

I think the episode and entire show would close out with one of them (probably Scrooge again) questioning “Where did the time go?” in reference to the first episode as they look over to the new generation

So what do you all think?

#scrooge mcduck #donald duck #della duck #ducktales #ducktales 2017

[popculturebuffet]

Ducktales Review: The First Adventure! or Baby Donald Says Eat the Rich

Welcome back. I’d been looking forward to this one for some time in the hopes of getting one thing i’ve been waiting for.. sadly that thing didn’t come, we’ll get to that, but this was still a fun episode so let’s hop right in. Spoilers in a second but my tag is spoiler tagged soooo.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

We open in the 1960′s. Austin Powers just went into Cryo Freeze to prepare for Dr. Evil’s eventual return, The Marvel Universe was in full swing, a teenager in baltimore was battling racisim via a dance show, and Black Heron had just been caught by Agent 22, aka Beakly when she was young and just as gorgeous then as she is now. Heron once again engaged in her usual cartoonish supervillian, and now SHUSH has her.  Meanwhile in a nearbye room a young accountant by the name of Bradford Buzzard is outlining his plan for Director Von Drake: The way he sees it every time a villian costs chaos Shush “Wastes” billions causing MORE chaos to stop it without controlling things. He proposes taking over the world, weeding out the chaos and ruling from the shadows. Naturally, Ludvig isn’t on board with any of this and points out they aren’t super villains. It’s here this episode fully defines something about Bradford’s character. Back in “Let’s Get Dangerous!” when Huey called him a villain, he said he’s not one... at least from his point of view. It’s here, in his youth we get a clear understanding why he dosen’t think so: So far most people we’ve seen in the world of Ducktales take the chaos and insanity of the world in stride: Either just numb to it like most of the citizens, Rolling with it like Daisy and Violet, or diving straight into it like.. pretty much the majority of the cast, either for the love of adventure and treasure like the McDuck/Duck family, or for their own ludcrious ends like Glomgold, Mark Beaks or Magica. To them the world’s fine the way it is and there’s to explore, take or whatever.  To Bradford.. this is madness... he feels all these people are just a bunch of overgrown children, and in some cases actual children, are just making the world worse and worse until one day their going to break it. One day skill, intuition, wit, and knowledge just wont’ be enough. Someday Scrooge, SHUSH or whoever’s standing in the way of evil will fail and the world will fall. This simply can’t go on, and SOMEONE has to control this, someone has to take this world, shake the chaos out of it and MAKE it sane. Make it work the way it’s SUPPOSED to. And to Bradford that’s him. Someone has to, no one else will, so he will. To him SHUSH doing this is just the logical thing: They want peace right? Their fighting for good right? Then what’s better than making the world a utopia? Ending these conflicts and remaking it.  The thing is.. that’s not what Heroes do. As we’ve seen in various stories where the superheroes, the Good Guys take over they do improve things.. but at the cost of free will. At the cost of free thought. At the cost of their morals. They become what they were fighting all those years and have to bloody their hands and keep them bloody just to make THEIR world right. And that’s not Utopia, that’s a dictatorship. The example I always come to, even though there were ones before and after this including Marvel’s incredible Squadron Supreme maxi-series, is Justice League the animated series’ two parter, like most of their episodes really but that’s not the point, a Better World, about an alternate reality where Superman kills Lex Luthor after Luthor kills the flash and hte League take over the world. The thing is.. the world isn’t BETTER. It’s just crime free. You can sweep the chaos and the crime under the rug.. but your not making a better world, your just making YOUR version of it. No one person is a god even if they have a power of one and no one person can or SHOULD be able to decide what’s best for everyone. It’s up to each of us to MAKE the world better, to fight for a better world. That’s what Ludvig knows full well and what Bradford just can’t see. You can’t control the world, you just have to accept the things you can’t change like it being chaotic and change the things you can like injustice. 

Bradford however, who was hired as a favor to his grandmother, can’t though Von Drake lets him off with a warning.. and a laugh about an accountant being able to be a super villian. Bradford however realizes ther’es some truth to that.. he needs someone to teach him out to operate outside the law, and if SHUSH won’t take the world and remake it.. maybe it’s time someone else did.  So in the prison cells of SHUSH, which are conveniently empty outsdide of Heron, Bradford outlines his plan to her. To create a massive orgnization to steal the world and give it the order it needs. To combine their skills: Heron’s for grandeur and crime, and Bradfords for strategy and focus, to take the world. The Orginzation for World Larceny, or OWL, fitting bradford’s hatred for theatrics. Heron objects, adding an F for fiendish, and Bradford relucntantly agrees to get her on board, lets her loose and fakes like he just saw her escape. FOWL is born. And the world would never be the same. Cue credits and cue the rest of the review under the cut. 

After the opening we cut to 1994-5.. sometime around then as it’s hard to get an exact year, and that’s how the crew likes it. Point is it’s the 90′s, and Scrooge is.. busy running his company. We’ll get into the weeds of that in a bit, but this is a different Scrooge, one who while no less capable, has no thirst for adventure or drive. He’s not nearly as miserable as the Scrooge we saw back in Woo-Ooo but he’s still a much less complete man. Anyways alongside him for his planning is Duckworth, whose very much alive at this time, and who tells his boss his sister Hortense left something in his office for him.  To no one suprise, that thing is the twins, at the tender age of i’m guessing 10. Since your probably curious, Della is still voiced by Paget Brewster, just using a slightly different voice like the Triplets and Webby’s voice actors do. It’s just a bit more jarring here since unlike those characters, we’ve seen adult della and thus are used to this voice coming out of a grown woman. It’s not bad and I got used to it eventually but it was jarring at first especially since once again Donald has a completely diffrent voice ACTRESS doing his voice.  This time around it’s cristina valenzuela, of Miraculous Ladybug fame, who I know more for her song work and twitter than her actual work ,but am delighted to see her here and she does a terrific job. I genuneily did not realize it was her, and while not exactly like the late great russi taylor, it is just similar enough to work. 

So we get to see what the Twins were like when they were the Triplets age: Della is about the same, but with more of Dewey’s impulsiveness, and Donald, much like he’d be a few years and some dead parents later, is a bitter, grungey musician whose constantly on his guitar and railing against the man.. which is Scrooge in this case which is fair. Hortense left a note.. which bothered me as I genuinely expected her to show up and was majorly disappointed she did not. We are in year 4 of this series, season 3 and STILL no appearance of Hortense or mention how she died, as she and Quackmore are still alive by the end of this. Given she’s easily my faviorite part of Life and Times, this bothered me, and the only reason i’m not more upset.. is the clever way they wrote around actually using her. The letter she leaves for Scrooge explaining things is the same one Della herself used in the comic strip, and using a bit of the postcard she left in the cartoons, when leaving Huey, Dewey and Louie with Donald, down to the Twins having left a firecracker in their fathers seat, thus leaving him in the hosptial. As disappointed as I am my favorite Ginger is completely absent once again, this is a brilliant reference, and I have to give them credit for it, so it’s a fair enough trade off.  As for his “Angel Nephew and Niece”, Della wants to dive into adventure while Donald struggles to write a song, singing throughout the episode. It varies in tolerablity, though mostly due to the writing, Cristina is doing fine. Della however is disappointed to find her legendary uncle views his past exploits as merley a means to an end to get his fortune and now he has it he can just focus on building it in the boardroom. This is an intresting take.. and one I could easily have seen happening to the Don Rosa version seen in Life and Times. The Scrooge there himself saw building his wealth as the most important thing until his encounter with Teddy Rosevelt, who taught him experince was what mattered and the having isn’t as fun as the getting. It works for me: This is a scrooge who never got that lesson so once he got to be richest duck in the world, having achieved his life’s goal nothing was left. He’s not miserable like the Scrooge we saw at the start of the series, having lost his love for adventure after loosing his niece/daughter, and having lost his fight. This one has retired.. but because he likely just sees no point in going on. He’s the richest duck in the world, has a vast empire.. no amount of treasure is really going to add to that like it used to, and as he points out in a second Shush has tons of agents at this point to clean up what’s left of FOWL. He’s the man who has everything, so why keep going. It’s weird to see a scrooge without the hunger to keep going, but it makes sense when his belly is full. Without someone to get him to see there’s always another rainbow, he just stopped chasing them. Also a fun nod to the comics I almost forgot to mention is when hearing about the “Gift”, i.e. the twins, Scrooge dreads it’s another surprise party, a nod to life and times where Hortense threw Scrooge one that went.. badly and lead to their entire relationship collapsing. Though Donald did get back at Scrooge for screaming at his parents and Auntie Matilda

However his busy day is disrupted with a call from Beakly. They’ve found the last known cordinates of Captain Yellowbeak, but FOWL is on them and Scrooge is the only one Beakly trusts for this since they have a leak. Beakly is also director of SHUSH at this point, with Von Drake having retired or died or both at this point. Scrooge reluctantly accepts, while Della is excited at the prospect of a real adventure and Donald ends up sharing her enthusasim as it’d make a good song. Scrooge, naturally, has no intention of bringing them with him to their disapointment and leads Donald to sing another “Suck it the man song” which totally isn’t about Scrooge.... spoilers: It entirely is, he’s just a little dumbass grunge baby and I love him.  We then get a cute sequence of Della popping up in Scrooge’s Luggage and Trunk to try and convince him to let them tag along, before we cut to the Limo, driven by Duckworth at this point, which solves that mystery. Scrooge is firm in having his butler take them back and have them work with him and Duckworth’s fine with that.. but wants overtime, which is fair. Scrooge, being Scrooge, grumbles about not being made of money, proven wrong by gold spilling out of him. Though I do like the update of Scrooge’s classic cheapness when it comes to pay: INstead of barely paying his employees like a monster, he’s simply reluctant to pay extra if he dosen’t have to, and would rather drag two 10 year olds with him on a dangerous adventure than pay overtime, which tracks. It’s also clear if he had to he WOULD actually pay it, either due to legal reasons or his moral standards, he just isn’t happy about it. So he agrees, though he wants Donald to leave the guitar behind which.. given the most Donald’s been able to come up with is “Suck it THE MAN” and “This guy’s a greedy asshole”.. he’s extremely correct and when Donald tries to pull a “YOU CAN’T CENSOR ME MANNNN”, Scrooge just chucks it out of the car.  At the airfield while Della is excited like an rabid chipmunk, and genuinely thinks she can fly a plane because she’s played Outrunner 2.. which I have only vaguely heard of before now. And is apparently just a pc game where you run a lot so I genuinely do not get where Della gets piloting from that.. but she IS Dewey’s mother. So with that in mind the family take off and Scrooge explains what their after: The Papyrus of Binding. It’s a dangerously powerful magical artifact from Ancient Egypt that will make whatever’s written on it happen. The dangerous part is that it’s incredibly literal: As Bradford puts later in the episode, ask for unlimited power, it might zap you dead with a million volts, ask for infinite wealth, prepare to be crushed underneath it. It’s a nice twist on a Monkey’s Paw or Jackass Genie situation. Instead of either the source of the wish granting magic just being inherently evil, or some dickhead screwing with the hero.. it’s just an object that has no ability to interpret nuance, just like your phone with the goddamn autocorrect. It can’t judge intent or tone or meaning, it just gives exactly what it’s asked. It’s a thoroughly interesting concept. 

Something I really like about this episode is the fact it answers some little questions. While none were Hortense related, and I am still grumpy about that even with this coming out a good 17 hours after I watched it due to getting caught up with other stuff, it does have little touches that explain small parts of the lore: Who drove Scrooge? As just mentioned, Duckworth. Who flew scrooge? Paid pilots. Did he have a plane before the sunchaser? Yup. It fills in some small gaps in the world. Stuff we weren’t dying to know but’s stil lintresting. Said pilots in this case however are Heron and Bradford. This episode also fills in Heron’s character, as while we’ve already seen bits and pieces this season she LOVES being a classic, take over the world james bond type villian, like she stepped out of a duck version of kim possible.. and i’m just now realizing there probably IS a duck kim possible somewhere in this world as while far after disney afternoon, it fits too neatly to not be wedged in there with your tailspins and goof troops. I wouldn’t be suprised if there were brid versions of every human based disney afternoon and one saturday morning show. My.. my head’s swimming from this. I could be, and probably am wrong but the sheer idea of this... it’s amazing.  Back to Heron, she just LOVES being evil and destructive, letting the world know she exists and operating on a grand scale. Now we’ve seen more of her while she’s Beakly’s nemisis.. she’s really an evil scrooge.. yes another one. Like Scrooge, at least how he normally is,  she simply gets how the world of Ducktales operates and can take advantage of that to the best of her ablility. Just like adventuering, cartoonish supervilliany is about risk and reward.. sometimes you faceplamnt hard, that’s the risk, but the rewards and rush is worth it. She’s as addicted to grandoise villiany as Scrooge is to adventure by this point. And like Scrooge, and unlike her partner Bradford, she sees the world as it is: Chaotic and one big sandbox to play in. She contrasts Scrooge by the fact that while Scrooge is willing to bust down doors, he still has morals, as well as the wisdom to not go overboard Heron often lacks. It also makes her a good contrast ot the equally skilled Beakly: While Beakly is taciturn, controlled in all things especially her emotions, Heron is bombastic, gloating and borderline insane, and while deadly in a fight, dosen’t exercise any control in her plans, preferring it big and loud despite her partner usually being right about reiging it in.  So Heron evacuates dramatically, taking a grumpy Bradford with them, and sending the plane into a tailspin. 

I can’t wait for Next Year’s Tailspin episode. I swear to god. I’m hoping for Shere Kahn but this episode has taught me to be okay with disapointment, if a grumpus. Della however shows her natural talent and despite having no real experince with planes, lands it gracefully. While that’s going on, Bradford berates Heron for her plan, pointing out that they COULD have simply landed the plane, then captured the McDuck family and executed them quitely, versus leaving a chance they’ll survive which they do. They AREN’T supervillains.. or at least he thinks he isn’t. Heron does show off her competence though, pointing out that this way they can simply stay low, and FOLLOW the Ducks to the treasure. Bradford is impressed for a second.. till Heron’s evil shows as she plans to use the Papyrus. Bradford loudly objects to this, listing the possible risks shown before. If not used CAREFULLY, it could kill them, and she balks and wants him to just embrace being the Villian already. It’s what I love about their dynamic set up here: While they are equals, Bradford is a better strategist, able to think and plan way in advance, and prefers subterfuge, and if present day is any indicatoin probably used Heron’s flash to distract from the real mission or goal often or to do something on the down low while she kept SHUSH busy. His last two plans, while again requiring some pizzaz, relied on misdrection: having the ducks take care of an immidate threat like their used to.. while he gets exactly what he wants while their busy and whatever they get out of it is either nothing (Impossibin) or something he couldn’t use just yet and thus if he didn’t get it, no loss, but if he did it just moves up the timetable. Not only that but he’s outlasted all three other big bads, lying in the shadows till it was too risky to leave scrooge and play and even THEN, only coming out into the open when forced out. IT’s why he’s Scrooge’s most dangerous opponent: He knows how Scrooge’s other enmities operates as well as Scrooge himself. And since he knows everything he can maneuver Scrooge exactly where he needs him to do exactly what he wants. It’s unknown how the family will beat him, but he’s easily the biggest challenge they’ve had. 

But back to the show and the past, Scrooge bonds with his niece and nephew, retelling stories of his past as they get closer, with Donald ending up high at one point and thus seeing the ship stranded on a mountain. As he recounts a fight with El Capitan, the villian from the ducktales 87 pilot, he counts the story as as a loss: He didn’t get anything from it, no treasure no new contracts. But Della shows him the point he’s been missing; He got a story. Sure he lost.. but he got experince, a tale to tell and a legend grown.Just because you don’t get everything dosen’t mean it wasn’t worth the experince and you can’t hold it in your heart. And this episode shows why this scrooge needed his family: Without Teddy to mentor him, he simply never got that adventure wasn’t about gains or what you get.. it’s about the thrill of it, the enjoyment of discovery and the memories you make.. it’s about the Journey not the destination. 

As Scrooge starts to warm up to that, he finds a gap, with Della volunteering Donald to jump but Scrooge just having the kids hop on his back and pogo caneing across. The family find the Papyrus, and find out why the ship is all the way up here: Captain Yellowbeak, who’s a character from one of barks stories and the one who had the scroll last, wished to escape.. but that just stranded them. He asked for water.. and it drowned his crew.. and finally with the document hteir reading he asked for release... and thus is now a skelington. The kid are happy to have reached the goal.. while Scrooge is back on his Zack Morris phone trying to reschedule things and schedule a SHUSH evac, to the kids annoyance. However Scrooge raining on their parade gets interupted by Heron and Bradford, as Heron can’t resist popping out dramatically and Bradford is UTTERLY furious since she blew his cover, and Scrooge recognizes him from his christmas party, a nice callback. Scroog being scrooge figures out he’s the mole and Bradford runs , furious at Heron. Their conflict is an intresting one: Both have a point but both will not back down. Bradford is right this showboating nonsense has only hindered Heron’s plans.. and Heron is right that Bradford needs to accept he’s the bad guy. Even if he has well meaning motives, he’s the villian, he works with them, he leads them.. he is one.  He just can’t accept he’s wrong or dosen’t have the answers... huh.. I wonder who that reminds you of. And that’s 100% intentional as Frank has outright compared Huey and Bradford and like last season it’s neat to have the main vilian contrast our chosen Duck for the season. 

Heron outfoxes the kids and gets the papyrus and being just an enitrely black hearted bitch, plans to kill them just to spite scrooge.. writing that “his sidekicks will perish on this mission.”.... but Scrooge’s character development, and her choice of words, means nothing happens. As Scrooge outlines, “Their not my sidekicks their my FAMILY, and this isn’t a mission, it’s an ADVENTURE”. Scrooge has finally accepted his life for what it really is.. and the thrill of the chase over what lies at the end. There’s always anothe rainbow.. and he’s finally become the man who will chase every last one. 

OF course this is interupted, and Heron escapes with the papyrus, when a skeletal pirate attacks.. why is Yellow Beak alive, why’d the scroll do this?

But we get a neat fight as Scrooge fights the skeleton while he sends the kids after Heron. Scrooge gets a cool looking swordfight, while Bradford gets the papyrus, and Yellowbeak even terrifies me what with his bestial roll and fucking centepede crawling out of him.. jesus those things freak me out.  Meanwhile the kids battle Heron, who throws della overboard... and thus for the first time, Donald taps into his beserker rage, snikty snoink, and easily incapaciates the more experinced and fully grown adul, though Della since we’eve been following her kids for the past three seasons, is fine, if suprised by her brother being the goddamn wolverine. 

While heron is out for a second, Scrooge heads after Bradford, and vows to tell Beakly and chase him all across the world. However Bradford gets an utterly awesome moment.. he admits scrooge may be right and probably would.. but since he has the papayrus and is careful in everything he writes his request carefully and perfectly “As far as the ducks are concerned, I was never here.” Grante dit COULD have left scrooge out.. but since he didn’t sday duck family or specificy, and likely knew it’d do that, it instead just means the three bilogical ducks. Bradford dissappears, turning invisble and leaving the papyrus for scrooge, who foils heron by simply writing that this scroll will be lost until one day found by his heirs.

So Heron takes a fall and looses an arm, again.. or for the first time.. the family is triumphant and despite loosing his goal, Scrooge is convinced he and the kids will find it again. See above. Scrooge then pulls out his phone and tells Duckworth to rework his schedule.. but it’s so he can find someone to run his comapny so he can spend more time with the kids. As for why Hortense would allow this before her still mysterious passing.. i’m guessing A) she notices her brother is happier and more alive than he’s been for a while and B) they just blew up their dad’s ass with a firecracker, and she won’t be able to use it for a while, so she’s double mad, so if it means she gets a moment’s peace and is with someone she trusts.. why not?

So we end on Scrooge packing up, preparing for further adventures.. i’d love a spinoff of this one day. I mean Disney plus needs it, and since Frank is probably going over to Darkwing.. maybe matt could take a crack at this. Just saying. You have the cast ready, a giant world to explore, and 15 years worth adventures. Run that baby damn you! But yeah the inevitble happens and Bradford further proves his magificent bastardry.. by appling for the position of running the company as head of Scrooge’s board, and setting up said board. So now FOWL has unlimited resources, he has a direct eye on what he now realizes is his greatest threat, and the complete trust and faith of both Scrooge and Beakly. It also puts Beakly’s breakdown in context: We now see WHY she went as far as she did: While the revelation was bad for Scrooge, finding out one of his most trusted allies was a traitor the whole time and knew everything about him, for Beakly.. it had to be worse. Finding out one of your best employees, one of the FEW people you ever trusted, and someone you DIRECTLY RECOMMENDED TO SCROOGE, was not only the man who set up your greatest enemies, but had compromised your organization for most of your career. IT’s no wonder she broke down so hard.. while I already gave several reason adding “This level of betrayal and self doubt to the list” only makes it that much harder on her. But for now a partnership is started.. one that very well may end scrooge. 

Final Thoughts: A pretty good episode overall. It’s well paced, to the point I probably forgot a LOT, has some good jokes, and fills in a lot of the gaps in the lore, while giving us a nice insight into bradford and heron. Even without hortense this was a pretty good episode. 

Upcoming Reviews: LIfe and Times; Master of the Mississippi Ride of the Three Cabbleros: The Three Cablleros (House of Mouse) Tomtrospective: Lava Lake Beach

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[mmacabrera]

Didn't you have a vampire donald au? Can you do it with it? (HEADCANONS!!!! I LOVE THEM)

[send me an au and i’ll give you 5+ headcanons about it]

OH YEH I DO (yall like my fentonald aus apparently lmao)

+ There are two types of vampires depending on the origin. You could be a bitten vampire or a biological vampire. McDucks and Ducks are both from a really strong bloodline of vampires. The Ducks ‘mixed’ only when Elvira, who was only like one quarter-vampire lmao, got into the family. And the McDucks ‘mixed’ with Hortense and Quackmore. Nor Scrooge nor Matilda had any children, even if they got involved with their fair amount of non-vampires.

+ Donald and Della moved in with Scrooge when Hortense and Quackmore died at hands of a slayer. They’re actually pretty messy about the way they control their powers. The twins with the worst luck in the world, remember?

+ From outside these two families that live and protect Duckburg, everyone else is human. The power that these two families exude keep any other creatures far away from it.

+ Fenton met Donald by accident. Fenton and Gyro were trying to get Gyro’s cat out of a tree and Donald was practicing his flying skills nearby and everything ended in disaster. They got stuck in the tree, with Gyro’s cat and his terrible mood. At least, they got a friendship out of it.

+ “Wow, you were like flying, what were you doing?” “WHAT HAHAHA NAH WHAT THE? ITS NOT LIKE IM A VAMPIRE OR SOMETHING! I DEFINITELY CANT FLY.” “YOU'RE A VAMPIRE?!?!?!?!?” “NOoOoOoOoO!!!!”

+ Funny enough, Uno is the enchanted mirror of McDuck Manor, but the only one that knows it is Donald. Everyone else thinks it’s just a regular old mirror. In Uno’s words, Donald is the only nice resident, so he’s the only one that deserves to know.

+ Della: are u talking to the mirror about your crush??? wow lmao Donald: *seeing that uno is gone and that his vague reflection is staring at him* jerk Della: UNCLE SCROOGE DON HAS GONE VAMPIRE-CRAZY AND IT’S TALKING TO HIS SEMI-REFLECTION ABOUT HIS CRU- Donald: SHUT UP

#lmao i actually like this au a lot im gonna retake it someday #ducktales #ducktales 2017 #fentonald #donald duck #hs vamp au #toddy answers #Anonymous

[ideasfromanotherapocalypse]

The Duck Family Tree

A post by the amazing modmad on her opinions on the Duck Cousins ages got me thinking. Is it possible to pin down the age order of our favourite waterfowl family? So I decided to look at Don Rosa's Duck Family tree.

The tree in its most famous form has a few problems, like putting Scrooge between Matilda and Hortense when he's the eldest. But it's my belief that the Second Don Rosa’s tree (the version he gives out to fans at conventions) can give us the keys to working out who is older out of Donald and his cousins and can even tell us the age order of their parents too!

I’d argue this is pretty accurate, showing us both Don Rosa’s opinion and matching what we see in many other comics too! Scrooge, Matilda and Hortense are in LaTo$MD order for instance and Huey, Dewey and Louie are in the right order, at least according to the creators of the Ducktales reboot. We can go further than this though.

In an email sent around the Disney Comics Mailing List in 1994, Don Rosa gave his own opinion on the birth years of several ducks. (Link) With the exception of Pothole McDuck (who appears to have been moved so Downy had a spot), the age orders he gives matches his family tree exactly. His ordering of Quagmire and Dingus McDuck also checks out, as in Carl Barks' 1955 The Heirloom Watch it is Quagmire who inherited the titular watch. (Inducks: W US 10-03)

So where does this leave us with regards to the modern Duck Cousins and their parents? For starters I headcanon Quackmore as the oldest of Grandma Duck's children, followed by Daphne and then Eider as the family tree shows.

Donald and Della are twins, but the question of which is older is hard to answer. The Don Rosa tree has Donald as older but other comics imply the opposite. The Dutch Donald Eerste... series, one of the few comics to regularly use Della, has her call Donald 'broertje' (little brother) in at least one comic, while the Italian translation I've included uses 'fratellino'. (Inducks: H 2016-230)

Rosa himself was flexible about the Della and Donald's ages saying they “look like twins, and maybe they are... but I don't think anyone can trip me up on years if I don't nail it down needlessly.” (Link) I'm slightly more fond of Della being the older twin, but that’s just me.

Fethry and Whitewater are hard to place because the two have never interacted in canon, but since Fethry is on the left in both versions of the family tree I make him older. The idea of gentle, kind Fethry being bossed around by his tough as nails little brother is pretty funny to me as is Fethry being protected from bullies by a duckling half his size. The origin story of Fethry's nephew, Dugan, in the Brazilian comics also gives Fethry a sister but she doesn't appear on the family tree. Perhaps she is the youngest and so wasn't born yet at the hypothetical date the it was made.

So how do the cousins compare? Most comics make Gladstone roughly the same age as Donald and Della, while Fethry is shown to be younger than Donald in the Brazilian story Oh, Que Saudades Que Eu Tenho... (Inducks: B 810216 translation by fethrybestduck).

I normally make Gladstone ever so slightly older, on the grounds that, according to Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Della and Donald's parents were pushing 40 when they had their kids and so there was plenty of time for Daphne to have a child before them! I don't have enough knowledge of Gus to put him anywhere. Otherwise the order of the Duck Cousins from oldest to youngest is: Gladstone, Della, Donald, Fethry, Abner 'Whitewater', Fethry's unnamed sister.

(Yes, let them stare into your souls...)

As always, what do you think? Do you think there's something I missed, or do you have any headcanons about the Duck Family's ages? I'd love to hear them!

#donald duck #duck cousins #gladstone gander #fethry duck #quackmore duck #disney ducks #duckverse headcanon #headcanon

[donaldtheduckdad]

I know this may be a dumb question, and I haven't done proper research on the Golden Daughter AU, so maybe the answer is somewhere out there... But I just don't see why Scrooge would reject his daughter? Scrooge is a complex character, but he isn't a bad guy! I don't personally believe he would reject his and Goldie's offspring in any possible situation? Is there some explanation? I'd love to know. :)

Ah, nonny, that’s not a dumb question! I’ll happily explain it to you. :-)When developing this AU with @miilkydayz and @robinine-blog , we actually had mostly the Don Rosa comic and timeline in mind, since we don’t know much to nothing about Scrooge’s past in the Ducktales reboot… yet. This applies to Goldie’s and Scrooge’s relationship, too. I’ll explain the Rosa storyline as brief as I can, it’s important for understanding the AU, you’ll see.At some point in the Don Rosa comics, Scrooge, while expanding his fortune, begins to become more greedy and cold, ruthless even, burning down villages, only seeing the profit he could make. His sisters Hortense and Matilda, who travelled along with him, observe this with horror.This all escalates to the point where Scrooge, returning to Duckburgh, about to become the richest duck in the world, gets visited by his family, his sisters, Hortense’s husband Quackmore and their lil twins, Della and Donald. And what happens when he meets his family, after all this time? He rejects them. They see what has become to him, and leave. (Young Donald kicking him in the butt. Bless.)We actually learn in the comic A Letter from Home that Scrooge rejected his family and hadn’t contacted them since then because he was ashamed of himself, of what he has become, but he was to stubborn to admit it.As for our AU, we imagined something similar to happen. Goldie and Scrooge became a couple, travelled around the world, seeking for adventures and treasures, expanding Scrooge’s fortune; Opal is born during those travels. Scrooge starts to become more ruthless and greedy, but Goldie does, too. But she realizes it, and is horrified by her own actions and by Scrooge’s. She doesn’t see the man with his honest ideal in him anymore, the man she fell in love with. They fight, they break up, Goldie leaves with 10-year-old Opal.5 years later, Opal visits her father, maybe at the same time his sisters visited him in the Don Rosa comics, and like he did it with his sisters, he rejects his own daughter. You’re right, nonny, Scrooge isn’t a bad guy, he values family. But like in the comics, he’s blinded by greed, he’s stubborn, too ashamed of himself. He doesn’t want Opal to become like him. He thinks he doesn’t deserve the affection and love from his family, from his daughter. This got far too long, dear nonny, I hope you don’t mind! I wanted to explain it the best I could. :-) I hope this answers your question in a good way!

#I loved explaining this o-o ;-) #golden daughter au #treasured daughter au #lost daughter au #ddd answers #anonymous

[d-fauntleroy-duck]

Hey there, I've been trying to find a solid answer to these questions with no luck: Was Donald canonically raised by Grandma Duck? And, if so has anyone ever clarified what happened to Hortense and Quackmore? Also I know there are a few comics out there talking about Donald's childhood and I was wondering if you could recommend a few.

The problem with ‘canon’ can usually be summarized with the saying, “too many cooks in the kitchen spoil the broth”. You’ve got your Don Rosa, Carl Barks, Elisa Penna, Vic Lockman, Marco Rota and many, many others, all of whom have had a chance to write Duck family comics and input their own take on canon. Was Donald canonically raised by Grandma Duck? Yes, in a few cases we can trace back to instances that show little baby Donald Duck with Grandma Duck. This Is Your Life, Donald Duck, a book from 1960, shows Grandma Duck raising him.

I believe we also get from this book the reasoning behind why Donald wears a sailor hat; apparently he bonks his head on the ground like that because he hates the silly bonnet Grandma put on him. She takes him to see a naval ship one day, he keeps bonking his head on the deck but in doing so he alerts the sailors that the bulkhead is full of water through the unusual sound his head was making against the deck. As thanks, one sailor gives Donald his cap and poor Donald never has to wear that silly bonnet again. 

Now both This Is Your Life, Donald Duck and another comic called Happy Birthday, Donald or From Egg to Duck were both written by Marco Rota, who was stuck on the concept of Donald being ‘found’ by Grandma Duck and raised from an egg. Rota didn’t care for the concept of Della and never acknowledged her existence so to him Donald doesn’t have a twin sister. Of course that also means he didn’t believe there was a Hortense or Quackmore to conceive baby Donald. 

Unfortunately at this point in time there aren’t any comics that go into any sort of explanation behind the current location or circumstance Hortense and Quackmore are in. From The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck we know they were a real couple and they’re the parents of Donald and Della Duck but no one’s given us anything to go on where they are now or what happened to them.

Right now the Netherlands is releasing one page comics going over a lot of baby Donald’s first experiences (Donald’s Eerste ...), a lot of which include little Della, Gladstone and Fethry. They’re cute, so far there’s been one on finding his first Easter Egg, his first dance lesson, competing with Della is prominent in a few of them. Those are definitely worth finding if you can, though you might need to have them translated from their original Dutch. yourstrulychitchat here on tumblr has a few uploaded. 

#@katielynn526 #Donald Duck #Disney ducks #katielynn526