#I have A Lot of feels abt Scrooge's relationships with his fam

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Unpopular opinion: Scrooge unintentionally pressures others to take after him.

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Scrooge nitpicks all the people in his life. He tries to change them, without really considering how that comes across on him, and when they don’t he gets PA about it. And it just-so-happens those changes make them more like- or more palatable- to him.

Just look at Fethry! Scrooge got bored of his infodumping and gave him a shitty job in the bottom of the sea with basically no outside contact. 

He hates magic so he just kinda. Wrote off Gladstone. Like sure he can be an ass but Scrooge was the one person in his life who could grab him by his feathers and be like WORK FOR SHIT and help him learn to use that for good. And he didn’t. Because he hates magic. We have no proof that Scrooge apologized for calling Webby “not family”, nor do we have any proof he’s aware she does magic. He knows about her Clearly Magic Friend Lena, but Lena has a healthy dose of PTSD and avoids magical shit. He may very well not know, and it’s own dumb ass that’s landed him in this situation.

Hell, he tried it with Della! He bitched and whined the whole way into that bunker about her being a reckless kid, and then when she was like “lol no, I actually did have a backup plan here” he never apologized or even admitted he was wrong. It didn’t matter. Lord knows he’s grumbled often enough about Donald, using him as a good example for the kids while also brushing him off and refusing to assist him.

He’s doing it with the triplets now! He loves how prepared Huey is, but mocks him for being less willing to take risks like on Mt. Neverrest. He adores Dewey’s love for adventure but never tries to teach him how to do it safely and rarely listens to his stories or interests. He praised Louie for being sharp but also mocks, well, basically all of His Thing. 

I love Scrooge but he’s definitely an entitled boomer

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                                                    elias beak

Biological father to the triplets. ( shout out to mr. walt disney’s middle name being the name of their dad bc my good friend bri is a genius and suggested that, and ofc we have beak for the bird pun bc i am a fucking loser )

He is a private pilot ( i made him work for fuckin glomgold bc i think i’m hilarious okay i will go more in detail w that later )

Elias was born and raised in Mexico, but he lives in Duckburg now

He has a nice sized family! His father is still alive and retired, and he has twin sisters, Maya and Briana. Both of them are married and have kids of their own. Maya has three and Briana has two. ( Fun fact I made Briana into an OC recently as well, because I would fucking die for her )

Elias and Della are TOTAL FUCKING OPPOSITES ( legit y’all, it is a gotdam miracle these two dated long enough to have kids together )

Here is a small list of things that make them opposites: della can’t cook, but can bake, elias can’t bake but can cook. della loves adventure, elias would rather not take the risks. He’s organized, she’s messy. She’s great at split second decisions, he’s not. The list goes on and on and on

He’s got a temper once he reaches his breaking point, but it takes A LOT to get him there. He’s very disciplined and doesn’t make rash decisions. ( most of the time ) He prefers to be able to evaluate a situation before making decisions. It’s when he doesn’t have the time to do that that he makes mistakes.

Communication is hard for him and he gets so focused he overanalyzes and can wind up with tunnel vision. He misses out on a lot due to lack of making decisions.

His dream is to just settle down with a big family of his own. He wants to be comfortable in life. Family is the world to him.

He’s got a good sense of humor and can be very charming when he wants to ( it’s why della fell for him to begin with tbh ). He’s also incredibly stubborn at times ( another reason why he and della managed to stay together for as long as they did; they’re both fucking stubborn asses who didn’t want to admit they weren’t right for each other )

He is GOOD at business. Really good. He’s got a degree in it. He did this to help out his father so that he could retire and not have to worry about their family store. Even if now, Maya is the owner, Elias ran it until she wanted to step in. The two of them have managed to make the store a staple in their community.

Elias is very close with his sisters. Their mother died when Elias was 15. His sisters were only 8 years old at the time. He helped his father with the twins as much as he possibly could.

SO LIKE, Elias working for Glomgold is fuckin hilarious because Elias is one of the most normal men you’d ever meet in your entire god damn life, and he works for a fuckin duckburg billionaire.

That is actually how Della and Elias met!!

Scrooge vs Glomgold on sOMETHING or other. They both fly the planes out, those two idiots go do their adventure race bullshit that everyone just rolls their eyes at. Della, being Della, decides she’s gotta just mess with this poor dude. They became friends ( Della was dating Selene when she met Elias ) and eventually started dating. ( and bOY OH BOY DID THEY MOVE FAST, they moved in together after just a few months of dating, like damn y’all calm down pls )

Elias knew that Della had been fresh off a break up with Selene, so he decided not to ask her on a date - he’s respectful like that. But Della surprised him by asking him to dinner one day. Of course he said yes, because he’d been developing feelings for her.

This relationship was a hot fucking mess. They’d get along well, enjoy their time together and then Della would pick adventuring over everything else. This started to grate on his nerves, but he overlooked it a lot.

They had SEVERAL fights about her lifestyle, but they were DETERMINED to make it work.

Finally though, he’d had enough. A year and a half - ish after they initially got together, he wanted to propose. But when she went on a last minute adventure and missed the date, he knew he wouldn’t be able to keep on like this. So he confronted her and gave her the ultimatum: adventure, or him.

She walked out without a word.

Della found out that she was pregnant about a week and a half later, but never said a word to Elias about it because she was still hurt from their breakup.

She’d planned on telling him about the boys, but then the Spear of Selene incident happened. ( and before u ask me ‘ash! why didn’t donald or scrooge let the triplets’ literal biological dad know abt them after della disappeared??’ because grief. and when has the duck fam ever been good at communication???? )

I have more on him finding out, but that’s sorta verse specific, so it’s open from there!!!

Anyway I think that’s a long enough info dump, and that isn’t even everything holy shit. I love Elias so much, he is a good man and he just loves his family pls let him be happy ( I say as I created him specifically for angst and angst alone )

HERE HAVE ONE (1) ENTIRE PIECE OF ART OF HIM, DRAWN BY THE LOVELY AND TALENTED toxikku

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SO RIP TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE HEARD ME RANT ABT MY VERSION OF THE TRIPLETS DAD BUT UHHHH, HERE’S A FUCKIN INFO DUMP FEATURING MY OWN COMMENTARY IN THE PARENTHESES:

His name is Elias Beak ( shout out to mr. walt disney’s middle name being the name of their dad bc my good friend bri is a genius and suggested that, and ofc we have beak for the bird pun bc i am a fucking loser )

He is a private pilot ( i made him work for fuckin glomgold bc i think i’m hilarious okay i will go more in detail w that later )

Elias was born and raised in Mexico, but he lives in Duckburg now 

He has a nice sized family! His father is still alive and retired, and he has twin sisters, Maya and Briana. Both of them are married and have kids of their own. Maya has three and Briana has two. ( Fun fact I made Briana into an OC recently as well, because I would fucking die for her ) 

Elias and Della are TOTAL FUCKING OPPOSITES ( legit y’all, it is a gotdam miracle these two dated long enough to have kids together ) 

Here is a small list of things that make them opposites: della can’t cook, but can bake, elias can’t bake but can cook. della loves adventure, elias would rather not take the risks. He’s organized, she’s messy. She’s great at split second decisions, he’s not. The list goes on and on and on 

He’s got a temper once he reaches his breaking point, but it takes A LOT to get him there. He’s very disciplined and doesn’t make rash decisions. ( most of the time ) He prefers to be able to evaluate a situation before making decisions. It’s when he doesn’t have the time to do that that he makes mistakes. 

Communication is hard for him and he gets so focused he overanalyzes and can wind up with tunnel vision. He misses out on a lot due to lack of making decisions. 

His dream is to just settle down with a big family of his own. He wants to be comfortable in life. Family is the world to him. 

He’s got a good sense of humor and can be very charming when he wants to ( it’s why della fell for him to begin with tbh ). He’s also incredibly stubborn at times ( another reason why he and della managed to stay together for as long as they did; they’re both fucking stubborn asses who didn’t want to admit they weren’t right for each other ) 

He is GOOD at business. Really good. He’s got a degree in it. He did this to help out his father so that he could retire and not have to worry about their family store. Even if now, Maya is the owner, Elias ran it until she wanted to step in. The two of them have managed to make the store a staple in their community. 

Elias is very close with his sisters. Their mother died when Elias was 15. His sisters were only 8 years old at the time. He helped his father with the twins as much as he possibly could. 

SO LIKE, Elias working for Glomgold is fuckin hilarious because Elias is one of the most normal men you’d ever meet in your entire god damn life, and he works for a fuckin duckburg billionaire. 

That is actually how Della and Elias met!! 

Scrooge vs Glomgold on sOMETHING or other. They both fly the planes out, those two idiots go do their adventure race bullshit that everyone just rolls their eyes at. Della, being Della, decides she’s gotta just mess with this poor dude. They became friends ( Della was dating Selene when she met Elias ) and eventually started dating. ( and bOY OH BOY DID THEY MOVE FAST, they moved in together after just a few months of dating, like damn y’all calm down pls ) 

Elias knew that Della had been fresh off a break up with Selene, so he decided not to ask her on a date - he’s respectful like that. But Della surprised him by asking him to dinner one day. Of course he said yes, because he’d been developing feelings for her. 

This relationship was a hot fucking mess. They’d get along well, enjoy their time together and then Della would pick adventuring over everything else. This started to grate on his nerves, but he overlooked it a lot. 

They had SEVERAL fights about her lifestyle, but they were DETERMINED to make it work. 

Finally though, he’d had enough. A year and a half - ish after they initially got together, he wanted to propose. But when she went on a last minute adventure and missed the date, he knew he wouldn’t be able to keep on like this. So he confronted her and gave her the ultimatum: adventure, or him. 

She walked out without a word. 

Della found out that she was pregnant about a week and a half later, but never said a word to Elias about it because she was still hurt from their breakup. 

She’d planned on telling him about the boys, but then the Spear of Selene incident happened. ( and before u ask me ‘ash! why didn’t donald or scrooge let the triplets’ literal biological dad know abt them after della disappeared??’ because grief. and when has the duck fam ever been good at communication???? )

I have more on him finding out, but that’s sorta verse specific, so it’s open from there!!! 

Anyway I think that’s a long enough info dump, and that isn’t even everything holy shit. I love Elias so much, he is a good man and he just loves his family pls let him be happy ( I say as I created him specifically for angst and angst alone )

E D I T: HERE HAVE ONE (1) ENTIRE PIECE OF ART OF HIM, DRAWN BY THE LOVELY AND TALENTED @toxikku​ 

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hdl separated at birth au hdl separated at birth au hdl separated at bir-

i can always count on you to ask abt the separated at birth au. ok this is long af so im gonna post most of it under a read more

basically: when della steals the rocket and disappears, the eggs disappear too. donald and scrooge still get into their huge fight and stop speaking to each other, but without the boys to ground him, donalds a wreck, assuming his sister and nephews are all dead. well, not quite

about 6 years after della disappears, donald gets mugged by some beagle boys who realize that hes scrooge mcducks nephew and decide to try and ransom him. they take him back to the junkyard where he meets a little duck kid. turns out the beagles found him as an egg and took him in (why? idk! because i need them to!) and hes lived with them ever since. donald can see that the kids in bad shape--all the beagles are older and bigger and even the ones that are nicer to him are still. pretty mean. the kid doesnt even have a name, they all just call him “duck”. donald feels bad for him and says if he helps him escape he’ll take him in, and the kid hesitates but agrees. the two escape, and if scrooge ever shows up to rescue donald, hes long gone by the time he arrives.

the boy needs a name, and he likes donalds suggestion, huey. to avoid any retaliation from the beagle boys, they decide to take the houseboat out of duckburg for a while, sailing it along the coast from town to town for about a year. huey is kinda nervous and tends to lash out, but he opens up to donald over time and once he does sorta latches on. when hes around seven, they settle in cape suzette for a while. donald formally adopts him, and theyre doing pretty well for themselves, even if huey is still anxious a bit and doesnt get along well with others. hes pretty grown-up for his age, as a result of being mistreated for so long and now being an only child with a pretty open adult (donald answers a lot of hueys question. he never goes into detail about what happened with scrooge and della but he does allude to it).

when huey is nearly 8, he and donald get into a scuffle with sky pirates (entirely by accident, but you know how it is). don karnage and his crew had just returned to cape suzette, and donald and huey are kinda dragged into an adventure dealing with them. as part of that, they meet the youngest member of the skypirate crew, dancin’ dewey, whos lived with the pirates as long as he can remember, and of course he and huey notice that they look exactly the same. dewey helps them avoid don karnage and crew as they plan to get to the houseboat and get out of cape suzette. along the way, they run into a few members of the crew, who encourage dewey to go with them--don karnage really doesnt like dewey, and definitely wont like him any more when he finds out dewey helped donald and huey escape. dewey loves a lot of members of the crew, who were like family to him, but he knows its best to leave, plus now hes got a mystery to solve, ie what the deal is with he and huey. so the three leave on the houseboat, and celebrate huey and deweys 8th birthday back in duckburg.

donald adopts dewey, too, and the three of them get along pretty well. dewey schemes more than huey ever did, and huey gets dragged in because theyre all “pretty dumb” and he wants to make them work. donald enrolls them both in the junior woodchucks to help them make friends, and while dewey quits bc its boring (donald doesnt mind, bc hes very social and makes a lotta friends at school anyway) huey loves it and comes out of his shell even more. he still prefers hanging out with adults (and dewey) to kids his age, but hes getting better at socializing.

2 years after meeting dewey, theyre 10, and the pilot happens. donald leaves them home alone during his job interview (theyre more self-sufficient in this au, and donalds better at listening to them when they say they can handle something), but when he gets hired he gets them a babysitter, since he’ll be gone for a few days. turns out, that doesnt matter, because they stowaway on glomgolds ship bc his job sounds cool. donald decides he has to hide them or risk getting fired, and he shoves them into a cabin only to find yet another, identical duck their age. surprise!

basically, this kid spent most of his life in the duckburg foster program, since he was found just on the street, but glomgold took him in as his nephew in hopes of recreating scrooges formula. “flinty jr”, as glomgold calls him, (or louie, which is what he went by until glomgold took him in a year ago) is... pretty salty, and doesnt really care that he looks the same as these two other kids. hes really jaded from growing up on his own and now living with glomgold, whos always dragging him places only to ignore him or yell at him when things go wrong. donald, being donald, tries to sell him on the whole adoption thing, but hes really not interested. in any case, most of the pilot plays out the same--instead of donald trying to protect scrooge and fam, hes trying to hide the kids and keep them out of trouble, but they all come together in the treasure room with scrooge, launchpad, and webby. glomgold reveals his nefarious scheme, they all make it out, great. the houseboats fine, donald and scrooge dont really make up (they actually fight a little bit more), and the boys (louie included, hes been won over) arent super interested in moving in with him, so they just. dont. the new family of four goes back to the houseboat and settles in.

thats the basics, really. donald and scrooge start to fix their relationship bc HDL stay in touch with webby and hang out all the time. this timeline pushes back the adventures/magicas schemes until the boys are 12, at which point they and donald actually have moved in with scrooge. i havent decided yet how they finally find out that theyre related to donald and scrooge, but i want it to happen around shadow war? idk. the other thing to note is that the triplets are all a bit different, personality-wise, as a result of growing up in different environments, and their relationship w donald is pretty different too, but beyond that it all sorta falls into place eventually??

if you want to hear any more, send me an ask! this is probably my most fleshed-out au so i have a lot of thoughts about it!