#Donald davenport

[lettingthoughtsflow]

in the first lab rats episode, Tasha is seriously disturbed when Adam, Bree, and Chase are first introduced. but it IS NOT because they're bionic. she's uncomfortable because there are three teenagers who have never left this lab in her basement. Her husband never mentioned them and probably wouldn't have if Leo hadn't found them. also, davenport doesn't acknowledge them as human, which is why it's so easy for him to dismiss the kids. Tasha is disturbed because these kids are trapped in this room, sleep in tubes, eat pellets, and only have one purpose and no freedom. within two or three days after meeting the kids, Tasha is ready to help Bree get ready for a party, reminded Davenport that they are teenagers, and told the kids to be safe and stay warm at Facility X. This woman saw these kids as growing teenagers in ~3 days, sooner than Davenport did in ~15 years

[fandoms-run-my-life]

Thinking about Lab Rats as I often do. What would sleeping standing upright in their capsules do to their bodies after... what 20 years?? That can't be good for their knees. Did they have to sleep standing as babies, or did they transition when they got old enough? How did Donald train 2?3?4? year olds to sleep standing up? Did he strap them in until they could do it on their own??

[leo-dooley-lab-rats]

Something I’ve always liked about Lab Rats, even back when it first aired, is how untraditional the family structure is. Not only is the family a mixed race, but is also blended family.

Once you add the idea of Donald being the biological uncle of Adam, Bree, and Chase it doesn’t take away from Donald being the father figure to the trio and they don’t start calling Douglas ‘Dad’. Donald raised them. Douglas even moves in and he’s more like uncle to Leo and the trio despite being the biological father. Going even further, Donald is father figure to Leo yet Leo never calls him dad. In fact, the trio doesn’t call him dad either. Still it’s very clear that Donald is the father figure.

What is even more interesting is how quickly Leo and the trio accept each other as siblings. It’s never step-siblings or adopted siblings, it’s always brothers and sister. This happens in like episode 2. The fact that Leo and trio are siblings are never questioned by anyone. It’s just accepted, even the villains.

Tasha from what we see from the show is quick to accept Adam, Bree, and Chase as members of the family. She even seems to pretty okay with Douglas. Granted, she never really interacts with Douglas, but we are never given any reason to think she has any issue with Douglas.

I think Daniel even adds another layer to this messy family. He’s sibling no one knew about, but calls Douglas ‘dad’. It always felt to me as someone trying really hard to fit in when calls Douglas ‘dad’. It’s implied that Daniel has an adopted family that he is very close with. Still, everyone just accepts Daniel as family right away. Daniel is interesting, unexplored, and underdeveloped part of the show.

The only person who has an Dooley-Davenport Family as unit is Rose Dooley aka Leo’s grandma/Tasha’s mom. She doesn’t like Donald all that much and seemed a little freaked out by Adam, Bree, and Chase. She never interacted with Douglas as far as I remember(correct me if I’m wrong). The narrative of the show frames this as wrong point of view. Rose is always has to learn the lesson that Donald and the trio are family and good for Tasha and Leo.

The Dooley-Davenport family is messy and confusing from an outsider’s point of view. There are tons of people in real life with confusing family structures like this. Some people are raised by grandparents or uncles or family friends. Sometimes, people can be close to cousins like they are siblings. Families are messy, but that’s okay as long as there is love. That’s really why I’ve always loved the Dooley-Davenport family it’s messy and non-traditional like so many people’s in real life.

[sinceisawviennaa]

this woman was out here committing literal war crimes and it was just? chill?

[spikes-got-anger-issues]

Donald pushing Leo behind him to protect him from Robo Perry only for Leo to move out from behind him and heroically pose next to his siblings and Donald just letting him do so is hilarious

[perthshirecottage]

In Chip Switch 1x12, Davenport says that the kids can’t switch chips because they were biological designed to handle their particular bionics. He refers to Adam being tall and strong, Bree as being lean, and Chase as nerdy like those natural traits are what determines the best bionics. But there is a lot more to it. Adam literally has enhanced arms that allow him to handle his strength and his eyes are built to withstand the high level of heat from his laser vision. Bree’s legs were modified to handle the insane speeds she can reach. Chase’s brain and head were rewired to handle basically becoming a computer. While the chips may tell their bodies what powers to use, I bet if they were to use the wrong bionics for too long then their bodies would eventually give out.

If Bree or Chase were to keep Adam’s strength and heat vision then eventually it might become too much for them and their arms would give out from the strain and their eyes could become damaged from the heat. If Adam or Chase kept Bree’s speed eventually their legs would collapse because they are unable to withstand the speed and high friction. If Adam or Bree kept Chase’s intelligence then their brains could eventually fry because they weren’t built to have a computer in their heads or to download apps.

They don’t just have natural inclinations towards certain abilities. Davenport was 100% accurate when he said that they were designed for those specific abilities. It wasn’t too big of a deal because they learned their lesson in just a few hours but extended use of bionic that they were not designed to handle could have led to disastrous consequences for each of the kids.

[metis-iphigenia]

my lab rats hyperfixation came back and i've been doing some thinking ever since

so from the start of the show there have been multiple references to comic book heroes especially dc references

(leo saying "my new dad is batman" in the first episode and douglas calling chase "boy wonder", referencing to robin)

well since mighty med ans lab rats take place in the same universe, mighty med characters are also comic book characters and dc is a comic book series, are they in the same universe?

no because imagine superman and tecton in the same room😭😭

or bruce with his "brucie" wayne personality being "friends" with donald davenport(they cant stand eachother)

donald davenport would 100% sell his inventions to lex luthor for a really pricy deal

or chase, bree, adam and leo going to same school with tim, bernard and darla lmao

i think adam would listen and add onto bernards theories(leo would call him delusional but also would be interested)

bernard made a theory about them being bionic but darla shut it down('i told you so' and 'aha i knew it!' were the first things he said when he found out about the truth)

darla would absolutely eat trent up i just know it

young justice and elite force team up with tim and bree/chase seeing eachother and going like the spiderman meme

damian and leo being friends(lethal duo warning!!)

also damian would've believed leo during the whole marcus fiasco

leo would push damian into reading comics and damian would push leo to read mangas(canon information)

talia and horace both know eachother from being in the same field(medical) they are the type of friends who say hi and talk like 4 hours when they run into eachother but then dont talk until the next time

bree would've loved exploring her girlhood with cass, steph, harper and babs(and darla) since she never got to

marcus, taylor, rose and jason would get along very well and love talking shit about their fathers🥰

i think daniel would love duke(they played video games together later on duke let daniel absorb his powers and tried to teach him how to control it exactly)

taylor, damian, leo is a trio i would die to see tbh i think they would get along well

cassandra and skylar teaming up with eachother would be absolutely amazing. i think they would work together so well

I HAVE MORE LATER I LOVE THIS CROSSOVER SM!!

[multxanna]

making two canonically related people unrelated in your fanfiction just so you can pair them together does not make you any less weird and sick btw

[rumoredtoexist]

does ANYONE HERE like LAB RATS??!?

[eatmarcus]

trans! the whole family!

bi! the whole family!

help! this whole trans family!

nevermind! HELP! this whole queer family!

[bananaactivity]

I did it…

“Do I Look like Him?” X Lab Rats “Avalanche��

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Yeah sorry buddy you guys are twins 💀💀💀

I guess this is canon to my AU but ignore how evil Dougy looks, he loves his children/ niece and nephews actually.

Before he started being all good and stuff Chase spent a long time staring at himself in the mirror. He looks a lot like his dad, he acts a lot like his dad, in another timeline would he have been a lot like dad? Maybe that timeline is this one. Then he gets over that cause I love when characters are happy, not a total perfect happiness, but they have an overall good outlook on the future ya know?? Unless it’s Descendants tho, gotta stay stressed over there.

Bonus: non lighted pictures of the twins

Feel free to ask me stuff! I miss asks….

[davenweenie]

People forget how cool Chase Davenport is. It’s always ‘he’s a nerd’ and yeah, he is and there’s nothing wrong with that. BUT that man is so cool (in my opinion)

He can play guitar (probably better than any musician, because he’s literally a human computer)

He can learn anything in seconds just by downloading an app in his brain.

He can MOVE STUFF WITH HIS MIND

He can float, man can levitate whenever he wants (which is something a lot of us forget because it’s barely mentioned in the show)

He’s literally the smartest person alive, he probably knows all the secrets of the world.

There’s so many more examples that I can’t think of from the top of my head but Chase Davenport is cooler than the rest of his siblings, I don’t make the rules. Well, his bionics are cooler (in my opinion)

[lying-on-floors]

Lab Rats where everything is the same, but Donald is actually a good dad, and let's the bionic kids have a life.

Bottom right: Chase isn't there because he already ran off. Where? Idk.

[davendorks]

have we ever thought about the fact that donald might not have WANTED kids?

i know i have “donald anti” in my intro post because i mean yeah i don’t like him because he’s annoying

but you have to think about the fact that HE didn’t even plan to adopt three random ass babies so young.

based off the math: Davenport claims to be 38 in Bionic Birthday Fail, and assuming the year is 2012 (and assuming Davenport is telling the truth), he was around 18 when he and Douglas started Davenport Industries.

Once they established the company, that’s when Douglas started making the kids. (Although there are many factors, i know davenport got them as babies but we don’t know for a fact how old they were or how long it took douglas to perfect genetic engineering after establishing the company it’s safe to assume the 18-38 gap is “right”.) Donald was just excited to have a company with his brother, but these kids (most likely when he’s freshly 20) were never in the picture to begin with.

We all remember the scene where he’s teaching them about how batteries are made, and yes i’ve said before that i didn’t like that because they are kids. but there’s also the fact that maybe he didn’t know what kids are like. he is a genius, tech is what he knows. he didn’t plan for these kids, he didn’t know what to do with them. he just knew they were his responsibility.

he’s even TOLD us this before.

“i’m more of a fun uncle than a school activity dad.”

yes, he’s shitty. he treated them like science projects because that’s what they were to him. they have tech IN them, they’re his responsibility.

when it came time for tasha and leo, based off what we do know of him, i’m not sure if this is a stretch but he might’ve wanted a fresh start with leo?

i only say this because there’s episodes like ‘Can I Borrow the Helicopter?’ where he’s EXCITED to do dad stuff with leo, he even gets too excited at points. then again, he still gets easily annoyed with leo and brushes him off when he’s doing something tech related.

it’s also kind of weird, even after leo got his bionics, he was still brushed off because he’s leo.

i’m sure i could do a lot better if i actually had time to write this out, it’s fourth of july 😭 i’ll write this out better if anybody really wants it sooo yes.

[sinceisawviennaa]

this whole scene is so silly to me. i know it was meant to be funny but the idea that kaz, who if i remember correctly has like 50 siblings, has no idea how to act around a baby is so odd. you’re telling me that this boy who would have done anything for his baby brother to think he was cool is actually an absolute goof with kids? you’re telling me that chase davenport, smartest man in the world, gave his all when doing one of those fake baby assignments, doesn’t know how to pick up a baby? also i love how william unger was a father in real life for pretty much the entirety of the show, he actually had to go out of his way to pretend like he knew nothing about kids.

[spikes-got-anger-issues]

Happy 12 years of Lab Rats ❤️🐀🎂

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