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The Moon Chapter 2-9: Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!

Fandom: DuckTales (Cartoon 2017)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Della Duck (Disney) & Original Character(s), Dewey Duck & Donald Duck & Huey Duck & Louie Duck (Disney) & Original Character(s), Lena (Disney: DuckTales) & Webby Vanderquack & Original Character(s), Violet Sabrewing (Disney) & Original Character(s), Scrooge McDuck & Original Character(s)

Characters: Della Duck (Disney), Dewey Duck (Disney), Donald Duck (Disney), Huey Duck (Disney), Louie Duck (Disney), Scrooge McDuck, Webby Vanderquack, Lena (Disney: DuckTales), Violet Sabrewing (Disney), Penumbra (Disney: DuckTales), Lunaris (Disney: DuckTales), Gibbous (Disney: DuckTales), Zenith (Disney: DuckTales), Original Trans Character(s)

Additional Tags: Original Character-centric, No Romance, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Older Sibling Huey Duck (Disney), Older Sibling Dewey Duck, Sensitive Louie Duck (Disney), Dewey Duck Has ADHD (Disney), Aromantic Asexual Dewey Duck (Disney), Protective Huey Duck (Disney), Autistic Huey Duck (Disney), Anxious Huey Duck (Disney), Good Sibling Huey Duck (Disney), Good Parent Della Duck (Disney), Della Duck Tries (Disney), Della Duck Needs a Hug (Disney), Della Duck has ADHD (Disney), Protective Della Duck (Disney), Della Duck Has PTSD (Disney), Minor Della Duck/Penumbra (Disney: DuckTales), POV Original Character

Summary:

My name is Clover Duck. My mom accidentally took my egg with her on the rocket, and we got stuck on the moon. I've only ever seen the vast nothing of the moon, but the colors on Earth look like they would be beautiful. Mom and I chew a gum called Oxy-Chew that allows us to breathe, and it gives us the nutrients we need to survive. My mom tells me that I have three brothers on Earth, and I can't wait to meet them!

A/N: After A Nightmare on Kilmotor Hill, Clover uses the name Lucky and uses he/him. Please respect that in the comments after that chapter.

**AO3 & Wattpad links in masterpost pinned to the top of the blog**

I wake up to hear someone talking in a hushed voice across the hall and decide to investigate. I sneak across the hall silently and peek inside my brothers’ room to find Louie talking to someone on the phone.

The second he hangs up the call, I ask, “Who were you talking to?”

Louie jumps, saying in a nervous voice, “Uh, nobody you know!”

I raise an eyebrow in suspicion and curiosity, and Louie sighs, admitting, “Ok, fine. I was calling someone so she can teach me to be a better businessman.”

I keep my eyebrow raised for a moment, then smile, saying, “Alright, cool. Can I join you? She must be smart if she’s gone into business for herself.”

Louie rolls his eyes, saying, “Fine. Just this one time.”

I shrug, following him to Uncle Scrooge’s office where he said the lady, Goldie, would meet him. She eventually arrives, and she sits down in Uncle Scrooge’s office chair and turns it around before telling us to hide. She said Scrooge’ll be back soon and she wants to surprise him. I guess they know each other somehow.

After a few minutes of waiting, we hear Uncle Scrooge’s voice in the hall, “I’ve checked the whole blasted mansion. What can it be?”

Goldie tosses one of Uncle Scrooge’s coins in the air when he enters the room, then turns the chair around, calmly greeting him, “Morning, Scroogey.”

Uncle Scrooge exclaims, “Goldie?! What’re you doing here?!”

Louie and I come out from behind the window curtains, and Louie says, “She’s with me.”

I add, “And I’m just here to hang out with Louie.”

We walk into the hallway, and Uncle Scrooge angrily exclaims, “Why?! How?! Why?!”

Louie responds, “Your whole ‘work really hard, make money square’ thing doesn’t really work for me. Goldie’s ‘make money easy with no downsides’ works much better with the Louie Incorporated brand.”

I mutter, “What the heck’s Louie Incorporated?”

Goldie reaches for something on a shelf, and Uncle Scrooge shoves her hand away, saying, “Hands off, you common thief.”

She instead sneaks a hand into Uncle Scrooge’s pocket and nabs a few coins, holding them in her open palm.

Uncle Scrooge snatches the coins back, adding, “Don’t let her get too close, kids.”

Louie leads Goldie and I back toward his room, stating, “Oh, please. I’m a professional! I can handle this.”

The second we get to Louie’s room, Goldie jumps us, locking Louie in an empty treasure chest and tying me to a chair. Mom taught me how to escape capture when I was much younger, so I could easily get out of this, but I’m honestly curious what Goldie’s up to as I watch her grab little trinkets from Louie’s desk.

Louie exclaims from inside the chest, “How did this go so wrong so quickly?!”

I say, “I don’t know, you’re the one who invited her. I’m just kinda here for the chaos now.”

Goldie grabs a large golden idol from Louie’s desk and puts it in her purse, saying, “Rule number one, kids; if you want to pick a pocket, you’ve gotta get close.” She steps on a creaky floorboard and kicks the rug off of it, opening the floorboard to investigate as she adds, “Better luck next time, rookies.”

Louie takes offense to that, exclaiming, “Rookie?! I’ll have you know I am the evil quadruplet, okay?”

Goldie mocks as she roots through his wastebin, “Sure, you’re the scariest bunny in the pet shop. Let me guess, you see all the angles? You’re sharper than the sharpies? Didn’t see this angle, Sharpie.”

I add, “I kinda gotta agree with her on this one, Louie. Sorry.”

I then hear Louie start crying inside the treasure chest, saying, “Louie Incorporated is my dream, but no one believes that I can do it. I- I know I’ll never be able to work harder than Scrooge, but I- I thought maybe I could learn to be clever like you, my- my hero.”

What is this baloney? That is so fake.

Goldie sits on top of the chest, saying, “Not bad. Was that a Crocodile Waterworks?”

Louie drops the fake sadness, responding, “The Hero’s Guilttrip mixed with a Lone Wolf Gambit.”

I look on in confusion as Goldie says, “You know your cons, but your sister sure doesn’t seem to.”

I ask while Goldie reads a golden slip of paper she found in Louie’s wastebin, “What the heck are these names? Some kind of codeword?”

Goldie responds, “Kinda. Not like a straight-arrow like yourself would know, Rook.”

I ask, “What does that even mean?”

She then smirks and opens the treasure chest Louie’s in.

He pops out, asking, “So you’ll teach me?”

Goldie responds, holding up the golden slip of paper to him, “Only if you can get me in here.”

Louie looks fearful, and shuts himself back inside the treasure chest, exclaiming, “No! No way! Not Doofus Drake’s birthday!”

I quickly untie myself, and snatch the card out of Goldie’s hand to read it. The card reads, ‘Doofus Drake’s septleventh birth anniversary. Join the obscenely rich and the richly obscene. This invitation is to Llewellyn Duck, his parent or guardian, and any siblings that wish to join him’.

Goldie looks surprised at how fast I freed myself and asks, “How did you do that?”

I shrug, responding, “Mom taught me how to do that. She said we’d probably run into some Beagle Boys or somebody that’d want to capture us, so she taught me how to get out of ropes.”

Goldie asks, “Well, then, why didn't you do that before?”

I respond, “Like I said, I’m kinda just here for the chaos right now and to hang out with my brother.”

Goldie says, “Y’know, I’ve been meaning to ask about that. When I met your brothers last year, I didn’t see you there at all and nobody mentioned you.”

I respond, “Oh, I was still on the moon with my mom last year. We didn’t get back to Earth until a couple months ago.” Goldie raises an eyebrow like she didn’t believe me, and I add, “I actually grew up there. Mom took a rocket Uncle Scrooge built on a test drive over a decade ago not knowing my egg was on board and we crash-landed, stranded there until we finally met some kind Moonlanders who helped us fix up our ship and get home.”

Goldie shrugs, saying, “I don’t buy that for a second, but I guess anything’s possible with the McDuck family.” She knocks on the treasure chest and says, “Come on, Llewellyn. If you want to learn from me, you’ll have to get me into that party.”

Louie reluctantly comes out of the treasure chest, and agrees to go. We all get dressed up in nice clothes, and Louie lets me borrow one of his suits since I don’t really have any formalwear. Goldie and I follow behind Louie to get to Doofus’s house and we go up an elevator to where the party’s being held.

The elevator doors open and there are a lot of Beagle Boys among the guests in odd outfits. There’s also a blonde-haired bird man dressed in a purple suit and holding a cane like Uncle Scrooge, Mark Beaks is taking a selfie with a small parrot boy on his back, a duck woman carrying a tray of drinks, Glomgold talking to a hand-puppet that looks like a teenage version of him, and Johnny from Louie’s favorite show is dressed like a child and licking a lollipop next to the guy dressed in purple.

Louie tries to hide in the elevator, but Goldie shoves him forward. A Beagle Boy pulls a plank of wood out of his mouth, a sign behind him by a large tub of water reading ‘bobbing for splinters’.

Louie gestures at a cake and reads what’s written on top in icing, “‘Not full of hair’? The fact he has to say it…” He then gasps at the sight of the party favor table, exclaiming, “There’s got to be-”

Goldie says in unison with him, “457 million dollars and seventeen cents-”

Louie finishes on his own,”Worth of stuff here!”

I ask, “How do you know that just from a cursory glance at it?”

Louie shrugs, saying, “Hey, you know nerd stuff like Huey, and I know how much things are worth.”

Louie attempts to take a party favor bag, but his hand is smacked away by the duck woman.

She says, “Gift bags for guests as they depart, full of priceless heirlooms from Doofus’s beloved Guhmeemama Frances.”

She and a duck man chant creepily, “Guhmeemama.”

A gong rings, and the duck man says, “The hour is at hand.”

I mutter sarcastically, “Ugh, that’s not creepy at all.”

Louie says to me, “Yeah, and those are Doofus’s parents. Great party, can’t wait to tell my therapist about it when I’m older!”

He grabs two bags and shoves them at me before grabbing two more and grabbing my wrist, tugging me with him to the elevator.

He adds, “Bye!”

Goldie stops us and brings the bags back to the table, saying, “Nope.”

I ask, “Why not? I’m already creeped out, so I’m all for just leaving now.”

Louie adds, “Pretend to be family, bolt with the gift bags. That’s the con!”

He reaches for the bags again, but Goldie smacks his hand away, saying, “No, that’s just being a bad party guest. Besides, we’re not common thieves, we’re con artists, not including your sister. And we’re getting all the bags.”

Louie asks, “And how are we supposed to do that?”

Goldie responds, “If I told you the whole plan upfront, you’d never learn anything. Also, I don’t know yet.”

I ask, “What, so you’re just gonna make it up on the spot?”

Goldie shrugs, saying, “Yeah, pretty much. It’s how plenty of great cons go, Rook.”

Doofus’s dad announces, a giant seashell rising in the pool while Doofus’s mom plays a harp, “Ladies and gentlemen, I give you perfection. I give you grace. I give you the universe’s perfect widdle angel, Doofus Drake.”

The seashell opens, but is empty, and a creepy voice behind us says, “Hello, Llewelyn.”

Louie turns around and screams in fear, then covers in a fake congratulatory voice, “I mean, happy birthday!”

So this creepy kid must be Doofus. Great. I don’t really want to spend who knows how long interacting with him, but if that’s what it takes to finally hang out with Louie, then I’ll do it.

Doofus says, “It warms my heart to see all my wonderful friends and your loving parents.” He nearly knocks Louie and I into the pool, but Goldie grabs our hands and helps us from falling in as Doofus continues, “It reminds me of my dear departed Guhmeemama…”

His parents chant, “Guhmeemama.”

Doofus adds, “The only parent I’ve ever known.”

Doofus’s dad asks, “Why does he hurt me?”

Doofus’s mom responds in a hurtful tone, “You know why.”

What the heck is wrong with this weird family? I mean, obviously a lot.

Doofus exclaims angrily, “Unfortunately, there are filthy liars in our midst only after my gift bags!”

Louie tries to hide behind Goldie and I try to leave, but Goldie moves aside so Louie isn’t able to hide and grabs my wrist to prevent me from leaving.

Doofus walks up to the guy in a purple suit, exclaiming, “Percival P. Peppington!”

He starts sniffing the man all over, and I ask, “What… in the world… is he doing?”

Louie whisper-shouts in response, “He can smell lies!”

I mutter, “Oh, boy. Well, we’re done for.”

Goldie says, “Not quite yet. Just do as I say and we’ll be fine.”

Doofus says, “Percival, you disappoint me. If you’re going to hire an actor to pretend to be your son, at least hire a child actor!”

Johnny exclaims, “Hey, I’ve got range!”

Percival nervously says, “This is some mix-up. I must have left my real son in the car. I’ll go get him!”

He jumps back in shock as Doofus somehow appears in front of him, asking, “Would you like to see my honey bin?”

Percival asks, “Don’t you mean money bin?”

Doofus responds, “No.”

He pressed a button and a trapdoor beneath Percivall opens, making him drop down, and Johnny is blasted into the air by a spring underneath him.

Doofus yells, “So many liars!”

He ejects all of the Beagle Boys through trap doors below them, and Louie exclaims, “Oh, man! Everyone was pulling the same con as us!”

Goldie says, “And we’re the last ones standing.”

I say, “Not exactly…”

I gesture over to the few other remaining guests, Glomgold and his puppet, and Mark Beaks with his kid. I didn’t even know he had a kid.

Glomgold says to his puppet, “Sharkbomb, my boy, meet Doofus!” He then says in falsetto, “Get off my back, Dad!”

Doofus stares ‘Sharkbomb’ down suspiciously before saying, “Your blank stare is soothing.”

He hugs ‘Sharkbomb’ and Glomgold struggles to get his hand away from Doofus. Understandable. I wouldn’t want to be that close to him either.

Goldie says, “That’s an awful lot of competition. Maybe you should keep your distance, Sharpie, Rook.”

I say, “Nuh uh. The closer we appear to be, the easier it’ll be to trick him, right?”

Louie nods, exclaiming, “This is perfect! We expose the others as phonies to gain Doofus’s trust, then get out of here with their leftover bags before we’re exposed!”

Goldie thinks for a moment, then says, “Ambitious, dangerously overconfident… Let’s do it!”

We make our way over to Beaks, but I hide just behind Louie, not wanting to interact with the man that tried to kill me last month.

Louie says, “Mark Beaks! Meet my little sister Clover-”

I mutter angrily, “We’ve already met.”

Louie says, “And my grandma- Ow!” Goldie smacks the back of Louie’s head, and he corrects, “Super young Aunt Goldie, and, uh… Wait, since when do you have a kid?”

Beaks responds, “Since I realized how many likes family pics get online. Selfie burst!”

He takes multiple selfies with his kid with us in the background, blinding us from the flash as he makes scatting noises.

Beaks’s kid gets right up in Louie’s face, exclaiming, “Hi! I’m Boyd!”

Louie mutters, “Sure you are.”

Beaks says casually, “Yeah, I love this… what was it? Son! Anyways, look at all the cool stuff we did yesterday!”

He shows us pictures of himself and Boyd at a punk-rock concert, hanging out at Lester Possum Park, at the Duckburg Aquarium in silly hats, and near mountains with Boyd flying a kite. Boyd seems to be in the exact same pose in all of the pictures. That’s kinda odd, isn’t it?

Doofus says, “Aw, family memories.”

He goes over and starts kissing and caressing an image of his grandma riding on a centaur in the forest, which is tattooed on his dad’s stomach. Glomgold covers Sharkbomb’s eyes and Doofus’s dad cringes. I don’t blame him. His kid must’ve made him tattoo that… thing on his stomach.

After he covers up the tattoo again, Glomgold says, “Aye, what loving parent wouldn’t keep a picture of his kin handy?”

He pulls out a wallet that shows pictures of himself and Sharkbomb in different costumes.

Beaks approaches Goldie, saying with air quotes, “Goldie, was it? You must have pics of your ‘nephew’ and ‘niece’.”

Louie and I sneak off to the photobooth and take a few pictures while Goldie stalls, “Uh, of course I do! They’re right here in my purse… The question is which one, because I love them so much.”

Louie and I exit the photo booth and Louie hugs her to distract the others while I slip the photos into Goldie’s purse.

She says, “How can I choose just one, so… I have four! Look at that roguish twinkle in his eye and the sweet smile on her face.”

She shows them one of the photos, where we both have strained smiles on our faces, our arms over each other’s shoulders. I think that’s the first time Louie’s willingly touched me other than the hug he gave Mom and I when we first met.

Doofus smiles, saying, “That’s nice.”

He claps his hands twice and his parents pull off his suit to reveal a bathing suit underneath.

Doofus exclaims, “Pool time!”

His parents lift him up and walk him into the pool, his legs dragging on the floor underneath him.

Goldie says, “Not bad, kids. Now we go on the offense. Tell me, who’s our first mark?”

Glomgold says to his puppet, “Sharkbomb, get in the pool, ya wee whippersnapper!” He then responds to himself in falsetto, “Don’t tell me what to do, old man!” He then angrily says to his puppet, “Old man?! Can an old man do this?!”

He tries to do a kickflip on a scooter and fails miserably.

Louie says, “Him.”

Goldie adds, “Definitely him.”

I add, “Who else?”

We get changed into swimsuits that Doofus provided us, and I just sit by the pool, my legs pulled up over my chest, my arms wrapped around my legs, and my chin resting on my knees. I’ve never been in a swimsuit before, but it just feels so revealing. Is it normal to feel like this? To feel like an outsider in your own body?

I decided not to go swimming since I’ve never swam before and don’t want to drown, but I imagine it might be a bit like being on the moon. Earth’s gravity is actually quite comforting to me in a way, and helps me feel more grounded, but I still just feel so uncomfortable right now. I try to distract myself from these uncomfortable feelings by watching Goldie and Louie try to trick Glomgold.

Louie sits in an inflatable chair and floats over to Glomgold saying, “Hey Flintheart, can I talk to Sharkbomb in private for a second?”

Glomgold nervously responds, “Oh, uh… certainly…”

He takes a large breath and dives under the water, and Louie asks, “Sharkbomb, can I tell you a secret?” I chuckle as Sharkbomb makes gurgling noises since Glomgold is underwater, and Louie exclaims, “Great! I think my aunt has the hots for your dad.”

Glomgold resurfaces quickly and splashes me by accident, exclaiming excitedly, “She does?!” Goldie takes off her glasses and looks at Glomgold, and he adds, “I mean…” He then flips into falsetto, exclaiming, “As if! Ew! Barfaroma!” Glomgold angrily says to the puppet, “You’re making me look like a fool!” He then says to himself in falsetto, “You don’t need my help, geezer!”

Glomgold smacks himself with Sharkbomb, both of them diving under the water. They wrestle before jumping onto the deck where Glomgold tears Sharkbomb’s head off. He freezes as everyone stares, and he licks Sharkbomb’s head and puts it on backwards. He grins nervously, giving an awkward thumbs-up. Doofus gives him a thumbs-down and Glomgold falls through a trapdoor, holding on only by Sharkbomb.

Glomgold exclaims, “Don’t let go, Sharkbomb!” He then flips into falsetto, yelling at himself as he lets go, “Don’t tell me what to do!”

I ask, “What in the world just happened?”

Goldie responds to me, “He took himself out!” She then exclaims to Louie, “Oh, pretty sharp, Sharpie!” She gently bumps his chin with her fist, adding, “You’re a natural!”

I say, “Well, we’re one step closer to getting out of here, right?”

Louie nods, adding, “Those gift bags are as good as-”

Boyd and Beaks push Louie and Goldie out of the pool and splash me again. I stand up and storm off back to one of the changing rooms to dry off with a towel and get changed back into my suit. I feel much more comfortable now that I’ve got actual clothes on. I exit the changing room and everyone else soon changes as well other than Boyd, who never got changed out of his tan dress shirt, slightly darker tan shorts, and red bowtie.

We all gather around him playing a pinball machine titled ‘Doofus’s Destruction’, and he says, “It’s like the machine speaks to me. Is that strange?”

I shrug, and Goldie pulls Louie and I aside, asking my brother, “What dirt have you dug up on Boyd?”

Louie responds, “I got nothing! He’s friendly, he’s freakishly strong, and he gets along weirdly well with Doofus.”

I look over and see Doofus petting Boyd’s head like he’s a pet and I grimace. At least that’s not me, and Boyd seems weirdly okay with it.

Goldie says, “There’s gotta be some weak spot… something in their history?”

Louie pulls out his phone and starts scrolling through Beaks’s pictures, and he says, “All I’ve found are hundreds of photos of them being perfect together!”

I add, “And Boyd is in the exact same position and pose in all of them. That’s weird, isn’t it?”

Louie’s eyebrows furrow, saying, “Yeah… Wait, where are the baby pictures? Beaks would never pass up that sweet clickbait!”

Goldie asks, “Click-what now?”

I shrug, and something pops up on Louie’s screen.

He clicks on it, asking, “What’s this weird Wifi network? ‘Beaks Optimistic Youth Droid’?”

Goldie’s eyes widen, and she says, “Oh! B.O.Y.D. Boyd!”

The three of us say in unison, “He’s a robot!”

Goldie asks, “How are we supposed to trip up a boy-bot who’s programmed to be perfect?”

Louie explains, “Get close, don’t get caught. Do you know how many evil robots I’ve faced?!” He laughs, then has a serious expression on his face as he adds, “Too many.”

I say, “I’ve only fought one so far, but I thought it was pretty fun!”

Louie walks over to Boyd, saying, “Wow, Boyd! You said you’ve only been playing since yesterday?”

Boyd responds, “Yes! Daddy took me to Funzo’s and we played all the games, and then had ice cream and flew kites!”

Louie laughs, saying, “Big day!”

I ask, “What did you do before yesterday?”

Boyd laughs awkwardly, responding, “I can’t seem to remember…” He twitches and sparks, exclaiming, “Why can’t I remember?!”

Beaks responds, “I dunno, sport. Uh, maybe it was all that ice cream, huh?”

Boyd sparks again, and Doofus asks, “What’s wrong with my friend? Is it something my butler did?”

He glares at his dad, who fearfully drops the presents he was carrying and jumps over the side of the tree-house platform.

Louie says, “I think he’s a little over-stimulated.” He then turns to Boyd, adding, “We’ll have to remember that for your birthday.”

I smirk at Louie, asking Boyd, “Hey, speaking of which, when’s your birthday, again?”

Boyd responds, “Yesterday! Wait-” He sparks and his eyes go technicolor as he adds, “That’s not right!”

Beaks exclaims, “No, no, no! Do not peer behind the curtain of reality, bud!”

Boyd tosses the pinball machine over the side, and lasers start firing from his eyes.

He exclaims, “Does not compute! Compute?! No! I am not a computer!”

The lasers nearly hit Doofus’s dad, who has just come back up via the elevator, and he hits the button to go back down, his eye twitching. Boyd tosses the ‘Not Full of Hair’ cake onto Doofus’s mom and reveals that it was stuffed full of hair.

Boyd shouts, “I am definitely a real boy!”

He comes to a stop in front of the pool and I watch in horror as his eyes melt. His eyes go dead and he falls into the water.

Louie shares my look of horror at what we just witnessed, but Beaks simply sighs, saying, “Oh, man. Gonna need, like, a real big bag of rice.”

Doofus yells, “My party!” He makes Beaks fall through a trapdoor and takes his phone, yelling, “No! No, no, no, no!”

Louie still looks horrified, but Goldie picks us up and swings the both of us around, exclaiming, “Sharpie! Rook! You conned that boy-bot right out of sentience! Maybe the three of us should team up on a more permanent basis.”

Louie asks, “Really? Y- You mean it?”

Goldie says, “This looks like the beginning of a fruitful partnership.”

She sets us down and shakes mine and Louie’s hands.

Doofus exclaims, “I swore after last year, no one’s eyes would melt out of their heads!”

I mutter, “This has happened more than once?”

Doofus yells angrily, “Who is responsible for this?!”

Louie says, “Uh oh, we ran out of chumps to-”

Goldie points to Louie and I, saying, “They did it.”

Louie and I exclaim in unison, “What?!”

Goldie says in a fake scolding tone, “Llewelyn and Clover Duck, I am so disappointed. Ruining poor Doofus’s party. Trying to take the extra bags for yourselves. Who raised you?”

Louie exclaims, “Not you, lady!”

I add, “You’re not even our aunt! You’re a frau-”

Goldie clamps our beaks shut, saying calmly, “Children can be so cruel.”

Doofus’s mom says quietly, gesturing to herself and her husband who has finally returned for good this time, “Doofus makes us share a fork.”

Goldie lets go of our beaks, demanding, “You two, march home right this instant! And to teach you both a lesson, I’m going to take your gift bags and donate them to charity.”

She leans down and whispers, “It’s me. The charity is me.”

I groan, “Oh, come on!”

Louie asks, “What happened to working together?”

Goldie quietly says with a smirk, “Sorry Sharpie, Rook. I only work for myself.” She then loudly says, “I want you gone, kids.”

Doofus says creepily, “That can be arranged.”

Doofus uses Beaks’s phone to reactivate Boyd, who emerges from the pool.

He says in an angry voice, “Hi, I’m Boyd, a definitely real boy, and I’m going to destroy you!”

He chases us around, and Louie yells, “Ah, help! You’re a real boy! You’re a sweet, kind, real boy, I swear!”

I add, “This isn’t you, Boyd! Snap out of it!”

Goldie exclaims as Doofus makes Boyd tie up Louie and I and hang us like a pinata, “What are you doing?!”

Doofus responds, creepily calm, “It’s pinata time. I’m the world champion. But I’ve never hunted the most dangerous pinata; man.”

Boyd grabs a wooden bat and starts spinning around much faster than a non-robot could, and I faint, hanging limply in the rope next to Louie. I wake up a few minutes later upon impact with the ground outside the treehouse, surrounded by the gift bags and Louie cheering.

He cheers, “I did it! I’m a millionaire! Wahoo! Who’s the sharpie now, Goldie? I’m out here, rich, and you’re in there… suffering who knows what unspeakable horrors… after you turned on me! Saved my life… which is probably part of her big con somehow!”

He gathers up the gift bags into a large sack, and I ask groggily, “Ugh, what happened?”

Louie frowns, responding, “She broke her own rules. She got too close, and she got caught. She’s on her own.”

I ask, “But how did we get out?”

Louie responds, “She… she begged him to stop and he took her as his new ‘Goldiemama’. Look, we’ve gotta go back home and leave this horror house.”

I say, “But if she saved us, we’ve gotta save her, right?”

Louie’s face softens, saying, “You know what? You’re right. Let’s go save Goldie.”

We run back to Doofus’s house, finally finding the right room as we burst the door open, finding Goldie locked inside a glass cage and sitting on a recliner with a frustrated look on her face.

Louie drops the sack of money on the ground, growling, “Party’s over, Doofus.”

I add, “Give us our aunt back.”

Doofus yells, “She’s mine, you hear?!”

I exclaim, “You can’t just keep her trapped in there like a collectible figurine!”

Doofus orders, “Minions!”

His parents correct, “Parents.”

Doofus ignores them, adding, “Attack!”

Suddenly, Boyd falls through the ceiling, using his laser eyes to cut a hole in the glass case imprisoning Goldie.

Doofus asks, “But how?”

Louie holds up Beaks’s phone, saying, “Guess what you dropped in the gift bags? See, I don’t think you need a Guhmeemama-”

Doofus’s parents chant, “Guhmeemama…”

I hiss, “Quit it! That’s really creepy!”

Louie continues, “I think you need someone your own age to get close to. Happy birthday, Doofus. I got you a new baby brother. He’s only a day old.”

He types something on Beaks’s phone, and I notice a shift in Boyd.

He walks up to Doofus’s parents, innocently asking, “Mommy? Daddy?”

Doofus’s parent kneel, his mom, saying, “Come here, son.”

They hug, and Doofus whines, “No! No, you obey me! I’ll cut off your money!”

Boyd says, “Don’t worry. I’ll transfer half of Guhmeemama’s money out of Doofus’s account and into mine! After all, she was my Guhmeemama, too.”

Doofus exclaims, “What? No, she was my Guhmeemama!” He whispers, “My Guhmeemama, mine.” He growls, “You sentimental toaster!”

Doofus’s mom scolds, “Don’t you speak to your brother that way. You’re grounded, indefinitely.”

Doofus exclaims, “He’s not even my brother!”

I say, “He is now. Better get used to it.”

Doofus’s dad says softly, “I’m free.”

Doofus yells, “I’ll get you for this, Llewellyn and Clover Duck!”

Louie says, putting his arm over my shoulder, “Oh, give it time. If you get close enough to someone, they start to feel like family, right Goldie?” We look around, and finally notice she’s gone, along with- “The gift bags!”

We head back to the mansion penniless, but Louie holds my hand on the way home, even though he’s still mad at Goldie. I’m glad I got to hang out with him today. I feel like it’s really brought us closer already.

When we get home, he plops himself down at the bottom of the steps, exclaiming, “I got in too deep! We had the money! I was in the clear! Why did I let you convince me to go back?!”

Uncle Scrooge walks down the stairs to us, asking, “Crocodile’s Waterworks?”

I shake my head, sighing, “Goldie.”

Uncle Scrooge says, “I’d say you get used to it, but that would be a lie.”

Louie says, “I thought I’d found someone who really got me. We had a connection!”

Uncle Scrooge says gently, “When you spend all your time looking for an angle, it’s hard to see what’s in front of your face, and that doesn’t make her too sharp, eh kids?”

I ask, “But why did she save us?”

Uncle Scrooge responds, “Maybe she let you two get close, too.”

I slightly smile, looking at my brother as I say, “I’m glad you let me get close today.”

Louie smiles back, saying, “Me, too.”

#ducktales #my fanfiction #my oc #clover duck #louie duck #goldie o'gilt #scrooge mcduck #doofus drake #flintheart glomgold #beagle boys #mark beaks #ducktales boyd

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the-writer-nerd-ro · 2 years ago

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Goldie and Penumbra?

Ohhhh this is a fun one bestie. As far as I know they don't know each other in canon so there was a lot of room to play with that dynamic.

Send me asks pairing two of the Ducktales good guys and I will write a short fic with them interacting. Not for Ships. Based on this post.

Fic Below:

Family dinner. They'd been inviting her for months since the end of the "last" adventure, but this was the first time Goldie had actually caved. It would be nice to see Sharpie again. And Scrooge…

She wasn't counting on seeing someone she just completely didn't recognize. Someone lurking in the shadows, staring at Della, ready to pounce.

Well, two could play that game.

Goldie slipped into the shadows, planning on sneaking up on the invader.

She had really thought she was stealthy, but the second she was right behind the stranger the other woman spun around and pinned Goldie to the wall.

"Who are you?" They snapped in unison.

"A friend of the family," Goldie said through gritted teeth, noticing for the first time just how strange this stranger was.

"So am I," the alien shot back.

"Funny, they never mentioned being friends with space invaders."

"Or with petty thieves," the other countered.

"I am not a petty thief," Goldie said, genuinely offended. "I'm a professional con artist. And I'm here by invitation of Scrooge McDuck."

"And I'm here by invitation of Della Duck."

"Prove it."

"You first."

"Why were you planning on sneaking up on Della if she invited you?"

"I was planning on surprising her. Why were you lurking in the shadows behind me?"

"To stop you from hurting my family."

"Oh, yeah, I'm the one who's going to hurt the family. You're a self-proclaimed con artist."

Even though she was still pinned to the wall, Goldie was pretty sure she could take this lady in a fight. She was just about to test her theory when another voice broke through the tension.

"Goldie, Penumbra, are you done? Dinner started ages ago." Louie was the only one who'd noticed the two bickering women.

Goldie and Penumbra exchanged a look and relented, accepting for the time being that maybe they were both extended parts of the same insane family. But they kept an eye on each other for the rest of the night.

#ducktales fanfiction #dt17 #goldie o'gilt #ducktales penumbra #louie duck #ask game #still accepting asks for the ask game

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goldiejake11 · 2 years ago

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Goldie ‘could’ use a door but crawling in through the window and then leaving it wide open to annoy the crap out of Beakley is WAY more fun.

Once she is in the house one of Goldie’s favourite games is sneaking into Beakley’s bedroom, knowing that it is sacrosanct, and moves one and ONLY one object to another part of the room. Moving it is definitely more fun than stealing it. She knows Beakley will notice immediately and since it isn’t actually missing, when she complains to Scrooge about it he will say ‘och, if it isnae gone then nae real crime has been committed’ and brush it off which will piss Beakley off even more.

Goldie also refers to Bentina as ‘Bennie’. Beakley hates it.

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Occasionally Scrooge forgets to close the portal in his closet. Every now and again the family has to race around the house to corral some kind of magical or mystical beast to send it back before it destroys the mansion.

Obviously Scrooge uses the same tea bag several times before it gets thrown out. What annoys Beakley the most is that he will always just leave it in the cup when he is done and it seems to her that she is the one expected to fish it out and put it away until next time.

Scrooge still has absolutely NO idea where anything is located in his own kitchen.

He will also talk all the way through a show the kids want to watch to correct what he sees as ‘inaccuracies’ or thinks is ‘just plain rubbish’.

Aight guys rb with the fam’s toxic roommate traits like what gets them household cancelled

We know Louie hides the good snacks, but Dewey walks through the house playing music and videos on his phone. Webbys a door/vent listener who can’t keep a secret, and spreads things that absolutely should have been secret or private because she can’t keep it in. Dellas a leftover poacher.

Keep going what else let’s cancel all of them

#ducktales #ducktales2017 #scrooge mcduck #goldie o'gilt #bentina beakley #this game is a blast

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lettheladylead · 3 years ago

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I wonder if Goldie could succeed at sneaking into Scrooge's money bin

She absolutely could and has and shall continue to do so

#carro answers #anon asks #shes not stealing from it she just likes to leave notes and let scrooge know she made it in

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duckfamilyficexchange · 3 years ago

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The Gift of Fic

Hello, everyone! Back in March, DuckTales ended. I know, it already seems so long ago. I’m not sure how active the fandom is anymore, but @theofficialkai517 and I thought it would be fun to do something nice for DuckTales at the end of the year. So… we’re doing a fic exchange!

Here’s the deal: From November 1st to November 30th, signups will be open to join the fic exchange. You will be asked to provide a Tumblr username, your pen name on fanfiction sites you use, and at least two prompt ideas for whoever draws your name to choose from. You can also offer a third prompt idea, to give your fic exchange writer an extra idea to consider.

The prompt ideas can be vague (fluff with Huey and Violet), or a bit more specific (Goldie sneaks Scrooge’s wallet into her purse during a visit).

There will also be a section asking what you are okay with writing (certain characters, relationships, and/or genres), and what you are not okay with writing (certain characters, relationships, and/or triggers).

Signups will close immediately after the 30th, at which point Kai and I will send out fic exchange assignments. You will then have until December 31st to write a fic with one of the three prompts given to you. If you will somehow be late with the fic, you will have until January 10th to post.

In terms of length, we ask that your fic have a minimum of 1,000 words.

So, ready to have your own adventure with the Duck Family and give someone the greatest treasure of all? Sign up today!

#ducktales #ducktales 2017 #duck family fic exchange #duck family fic exchange 2021

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kaderp · 4 years ago

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ALRIGHT FUCKERS THIS IS GONNA BE A HELLA LONG MEGAPOST AS I WAS GIVEN THE OK

BASICALLY this is gonna be a collection of bullshit me and @blackfliesinbluesugar have come up with and drawn

It starts with Goldie still living in Ireland at 17-19 and Scrooge from ages 18-20 staying in Scotland. And long story short they're dumbasses as teens. Cliche forbidden romance type stuff. Goldie's dad has shot people in the foot for trying to mess around with Goldie or just even talk to her for too long. So the only logical explanation they have is make Scrooge hide in the barn when he visits.

Basically Scrooge chills in the barn for a while cause Goldie's the only one that ever really goes in there because she's in charge of all the chores there. Which is where the context of this post is from

After the first time they fooled around Goldie was like 'oh crap what if I got pregnant D:' and told her mom she's going through a phase of flowey/big dresses when in reality she's trying to hide a potential baby bump. Now her mom doesn't care because she's too caught up in the fact that Goldie is finally 'acting like a lady.'

So eventually because they never put together that 'hey, if we keeping doing this we're gonna end up with a baby', Goldie does end up pregnant. And because her dad is a dick and a 'I catch you with my daughter then you die' type of shotgun dad, Goldie is freaking tf out.

About a month after she finds out she's pregnant, the O'Gilt's (well mostly just Goldie and her mom lol) get invited to a fancy dinner and Scrooge is really wanting to see Goldie again. So what better way to see her than to travel to Ireland, steal a uniform, and sneak into said dinner party as a busboy. Problem is he can't risk Goldie's dad seeing him again so he tries to slick back his whiskers

But while Scrooge is running around, he eventually spots Goldie across the room. Now he's never seen her in anything fancy, usually just the flannel and green work skirt. And he just about dies 😭

By now she has a bit of a baby bump she's had to hide so she normally goes for high waisted dresses that immediately flow out.

Anyways, as Scrooge is putting on the uniform he realizes he has absolutely no idea how to actually be a busboy. He doesn't know the first thing about dining and stuff so he's just like AAAAAAA

As they both see each other, Scrooge gives a dorky grin and Goldie smiles before realizing he snuck in. Right when Scrooge goes to see her he gets dumped with a bunch of dishes he has to set. Goldie sees him struggling to figure out how to set a table and he just gives her a nervous grin while she's like 'oh you beautiful dumbass -_-'

She's turning red cause she's trying so hard not to burst out in laughter as Scrooge slips and a bunch of silverware falls on him

He's getting yelled at by the director but he's just giving Goldie a goofy grin from across the room.

Her parents: remember to be calm and not make a scene no matter wh-

Goldie watching Scrooge trip on the tablecloth: BWAHAHA

But as the dinner progresses, Goldie remembers Scrooge doesn't even know she's pregnant. So she keeps trying to tell him but they both constantly get pulled away to do other things.

Towards the end of dinner Scrooge gets a free moment and realizes then that 'holy shit I actually like really love her!' So he darts to wherever she is and is struggling to get it out cause he doesn't know how much time he has left. He eventually spits it out and tells Goldie he loves her and is immediately called away. Scrooge takes her hands and quickly kisses her cheek before running to wherever the director is calling him from.

Goldie is shocked and stays still for a moment but by the time the shock wears off she realizes Scrooge is already long gone and they don't see each other again. And now Goldie's like 'crap crap crap, he said he loves me and I didn't even tell him I'm pregnant.'

They aren't able to communicate for a while cause Goldie's so focused on trying to keep her family pleased while still hiding her baby bump, and Scrooge keeps getting sidetracked and forgetting to write. (You can't tell me that isn't something he'd do because he kept getting distracted in the life and times when coming back home). He has her address, and he has started a letter, and even his family knows about her. 3ish months pass of no communications until one night Goldie starts contractions.

She darts to the barn after the first contraction and realizes she has to do this alone. A letter takes a day to get to Scrooge and going to Scotland herself would take closer to 7 hours. At that point it would be safer to not move.

It's like 3am by the time she lays and the egg ends up being pretty small. The entire time Goldie was just getting sicker and sicker. She ends up too weak to even hide the egg and has a high fever. She seriously thinks she's not gonna make it for the first night she can barely stay conscious.

The next morning she has just enough strength to lazily hide the egg in the hay and sluggishly make her way back to the main house. Her parents are already up and she explains she started feeling iffy while doing chores and collapses.

Because her parents aren't completely heartless and she still is their daughter, her parents' main focus shifts to trying to nurse her back to health. They assume she fell with a bad flu and don't know she had spent all night laying an egg.

During this time she writes to Scrooge telling him to get over here asap, it's an emergency.

Goldie's parents take over her chores in the barn and the moment they said that Goldie went into panic mode again. During a lunch break she climbs through her window and runs to the barn to hide the egg better. She does, and she successfully makes it back to her room but collapses again and sleeps until the next day.

Scrooge arrives 3 days after she lays and now she's really panicking. She's still weak and sick, and her parents are coming closer and closer to finding the egg. Scrooge when he sees her is genuinely freaking out. Not only for the future and that he now has an egg, but because Goldie did it by herself in a dirty barn. She's still a little loopy even though it's been a few days and Scrooge just feels heart broken that he wasn't there to help. He starts going on a tangent about how she could have died but Goldie just kisses him to get him to stop blabbering.

Scrooge helps her clean up a bit cause even with her parents looking after her, she's still a mess. But as he's washing her and the egg up, they hear fighting from the main house. Her parents realized she wasn't in her bed. She starts crying and tells Scrooge he needs to run home asap because if her dad finds out he'll most definitely kill him and/or the baby.

(This was the first doodle for the au before deciding on an exact age/place/look so don't mind the sloppiness)

Scrooge escapes right as her dad comes in. She pulls the excuse of she thought she felt well enough to do chores.

Scrooge rn is running like a madman back to Scotland. He went from chilling with his family to being a father who's child needs to be kept secret within a day.

By the time Scrooge gets back home it's the middle of the night and is ngl feeling pretty overwhelmed. He tells Downy that he messed up and she's just like ??? So Scrooge holds up the egg and Downy just purses her lips like 'ah'

The next morning Scrooge explains to his family what happened and doesn't leave out any detail. Fergus and Downy obviously have mixed feelings. Scrooge is barely 19 yet he already has a kid??? But in the end they realize they can't change what's happened and focus on helping Scrooge protect this child.

Once the baby hatched, all mixed feelings from Downy erased and she just went into 'this is my grandbaby and no one will touch her' mood.

Scrooge and Goldie kept in contact from the moment Goldie gave away the egg. Because of the little incident of Goldie 'trying to do chores while sick,' she was put under close monitoring for the next few months and couldn't visit each other. After constant writing back and forth, they find a date to meet up half way between Scotland and Ireland so Goldie can meet her baby. They try to decide on baby names through the letter but they can't agree on anything. Goldie finds out that Scrooge moved out of his small Glasgow home and into McDuck Castle. He gives her the new location on the map as well.

The first time Scrooge tries to sneak out with the baby Fergus is just standing right outside with his brow arched and Scrooge starts freaking out.

Before Scrooge can apologize for trying to sneak out, Fergus just asks if Scrooge would like him to go with.

Scrooge is a little shocked but can't talk with the frog in his throat and just nods. Along the way Scrooge explains how he and Goldie have been trying to find the right time to sneak out for weeks because it was so hard for Goldie to get free time. She was sent to go across country to get supplies and uses that opportunity to go meet up with Scrooge and the baby again.

Fergus just nods and continues.

When they do see Goldie, she almost breaks down at the sight that the baby survived and is being raised in a good house hold and can't stop holding her. The baby is about 3 months old by now. They finally agreed on a name and she ended up being named Maryanne. (Yes Jelly and I chose that because it means Star of the Sea)

She has to give the baby back to Scrooge cause stupid teenage and still getting over pregnancy hormones are getting the better of her and she starts full on sobbing as she sits on the ground. Scrooge freezes cause he's like aaaaaa what do I dooooo while still holding the baby.

But Fergus crouches down to her and asks if she wants a hug. All Goldie can say is 'uh huh' and he just wraps himself around her. She hugs back and Fergus rocks back and forth until Goldie's calmed down.

'I'm sorry I pulled your son into the mess. I-I was just so scared that my papa w-would kill one of us that I didn't know what else to do.'

Fergus pulls her away so he can actually look at her. And part of him feels that tinge of fear and sadness that the two teens had experienced. He grabs onto her shoulders which causes Goldie to look up at him.

'While I dinnae agree what you two did was right. Ah'm proud of you. Because what you did, finding the will to give up a child for their own safety, took a lotta strength there, lass.' And before she can react, Fergus pulls her in again and let's it sink in.

Scrooge is still holding the baby but now he's sitting down and bouncing the cooing baby on his knee while watching the scene unfold.

Over the course of the next few months, Goldie visits as much as possible and she grows closer to the family and Scrooge every time. On the times she can't visit, Fergus accompanies Scrooge in order to protect them from Goldie's dad. She's had a few close calls with her dad, but nothing too serious

After those events, Goldie practically moves in with the McDucks and they work on raising Maryanne. However like in the Rosa series, they're still experiencing tax trouble and Scrooge says he's gonna have to go to South Africa. The baby is about 2 by now and Scrooge is almost 21, while Goldie is about 19 and a half.

(This next section was an accident but basically it started as jotting down ideas but turned into a fic after I said it would take 20 seconds to write but turned into 2 hours fjdbfndn)

Scrooge is torn between whether or not to go until Goldie says she'll go with him. And because she's stubborn, no one objects. So the three travel across the world together. Maryanne practically grows up on the sea and all of those adventures where Goldie is present in the DT17 Rewriting History book happen.

On adventures they trade off tying the baby to their backs until she's old enough to not need to anymore. Although for the more dangerous ones, one of them stays behind.

But because they weren't married and had a kid in their teens, they were generally looked down upon. It got to the point where they just started saying they were married in order to avoid conflict with others. And after a while they actually forgot they weren't in fact married

'Huh, I forgot we're not actually married.' 'WAIT WE'RE NOT???'

'We're married' 'Oh ok, can i see your marriage records?' '... oh right'

But some old lady or old guy either way starts criticizing Goldie for being a young mother and they just deck the shit outta them and run. Or Goldie fighting someone with baby tied to her back.

Maryanne grows up to be an ocean cartographer and leads sailing expeditions and that's all we have for her. Also she has super blue eyes lol

That's basically almost all of the things we have for this au lol

#ducktales #ducktales 2017 #disney #duck tales #don rosa #scrooge mcduck #goldie o'gilt #au #glittering goldie #scroldie #teen scroldie au #long post #really long post #megapost

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astrodances · 3 years ago

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Is it possible to get an excerpt of Thief Scrooge pickpocketing wallets? Or even Goldie pickpocketing wallets?

Oh, I don't have any excerpts of them pickpocketing for the AU (although oddly enough the non-AU WIP that I've been not working on since pretty much the finale features pickpocketing, in a very small, special way, but anyway...). What I wrote in my last answer was all on the fly, so I could do that here, too, for a quick scene (and hopefully to get my writing going again). No guarantee though that this will ever show up in a future fic - consider it a standalone unless proven otherwise. ;P Also, this probably isn't exactly what you're asking for in terms of them pickpocketing, but of all the ideas from my last answer, this was the one that excited me the most.

Anywho, hope you enjoy!

*** I guess I should say this is rated teen and up for kissing and some suggestive physical affection? Yeah. ***

Also I'm putting in a "read more" for the aforementioned rating and because this actually got away from me a little bit with the length.

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Scrooge couldn't stop grinning.

Sure, the feeling of exhilaration wasn't as strong as the first time he'd done it and his conscience was still waving a tattered red flag in the back of his mind ("Both will subside with experience," Goldie had assured him), but he was proud of how far he'd come.

"Did ye see me?" he asked his partner as they navigated the cacti and brush of the desert back to their current hideout camp, the sun providing just enough light for them to get back in time to make a fire. They were far enough away from town now to not have to keep an eye over their shoulders for any potential accusers.

"Oh, I saw. Way to go, tiger," Goldie answered, a small grin of her own forming, her hands tucked into her vest pockets.

She really was impressed.

They'd been leaving the local saloon after a quick bite and a listen for any chatter of potential targets, and as a pair of cowboys strolled in, Scrooge had given them a tip of the hat. But only Goldie saw the way his other hand kept low and gently "brushed" the pockets of the nearest cowboy's duster, without so much as disturbing the dust.

It'd been his smoothest pickpocketing to date, as if all their lessons had finally clicked into place for him.

They'd make a thief of him yet, but not quite yet.

If only Scrooge knew that his prize, a roll of dollar bills secured by a black string, which he'd been so eager to flash at her as soon as they'd reach the edge of town, now laid tucked into the secret inner pocket of Goldie's vest, courtesy of the master's nimble hands themselves.

And if only Goldie knew that Scrooge knew what she'd done.

He knew he still had a lot to learn about thievery, especially to catch up to her level, but sometimes he wished that she would just let him enjoy his victory with no need to prove himself further by stealing his prize from her again, for once.

But if that's the way she wanted it? Fine. He never could resist a challenge, especially from her.

The maze of cacti continued, and Scrooge used that as an excuse to walk closer to Goldie, to avoid one of the prickly plants and to reach his hand out to the left pocket of her pants for his first guess, making sure to keep a half-step behind her.

Just as he was about to make his move though, Goldie took an extra quick step forward, causing him to stumble behind her. He caught his footing, and shot a glance her way. She kept walking as if nothing happened, save for the telltale smirk playing on her beak.

Oh, she knew that he knew, and she was enjoying every second of it.

In the silence of the desert, the sound of their footsteps was impossible to miss. The second that she heard Scrooge begin to follow after her again, her pace quickened, but she otherwise remained unchanged in her stance or her path.

He caught up to her easily, and Goldie nearly shrieked with laughter when she felt his hand brush against her back. But at the last second, she stepped to the left and kept going, and Scrooge came face-to-face with a cactus arm that would've blinded him had he not had the reflexes he did. He spun out and away from it, letting out a very startled swear in Gaelic, and took a moment to reassure himself of his wellbeing.

"You're gonna have to do more than that to find it this time!" Goldie called out to him, her voice laced with playful innuendo, the challenge now well-defined.

She had nearly ten yards on him now, but the moment he took off running, a growl rumbling in the back of his throat, so did she.

The chase carried on almost all the way to their camp.

Goldie was nearly in the clear, too, but in the waning remnants of daylight, coupled with her growing desire to declare herself the victor and finally get some rest around the fire, she erred. Her boot slipped on a rock that she thought was stable enough to use as a stepping stone over a wild hedge of desert flora, and instead of leaping over it all and thus finding a shortcut, Goldie found herself falling face-first towards a very spiny barrel cactus.

She shut her eyes in anticipation, adrenaline rushing through her heart as she entered free-fall, hoping that her hands might at least break her fall a bit. She'd rather deal with a couple of wrist injuries rather than a face-full of cactus needles.

At this point, she'd rather have just let Scrooge keep his stupid money.

Inches away from agony, Goldie felt a yank jolt through her system, causing her to yelp and open her eyes to see just how close she really was to the cactus (way, way too close). A second later, and she felt her shaking form being pulled back by the scruff of her vest into strong, enveloping arms on stable ground.

"Oh, how the mighty have fallen," Scrooge teased, and despite herself, Goldie snorted at the joke. "You okay?" he whispered, and after a hesitant, but affirming nod, he added, "Good."

Still, neither made a move to leave the embrace, and after a moment, Goldie's eyelids fluttered closed when she felt Scrooge peppering kisses down the side of her neck. She could get used to this...

So distracted as she was that she failed to notice Scrooge's roaming hands sneaking past the buttons of her vest and into her not-so-secret pocket until his arm suddenly wasn't there to hold her anymore and she realized, belatedly, that he'd known.

Even as she turned around in his remaining arm and tried desperately to grab the other that was now out of reach (whether she wanted it back for the stolen money or the warmth more, she wasn't sure), Goldie couldn't stop the quip on her beak. "You think you're so clever, don't you?"

Scrooge managed a shrug, holding her that much tighter while maintaining that frustratingly cute grin of his. "What can I say? I have a great teacher."

In the span of another kiss, the money disappeared from view, and Goldie found two arms holding her close once again.

All in all, he was learning his lessons very well.

#Astro answers #DuckTales #Scrooge McDuck #Goldie O'Gilt #scroldie #Diamond Thieves AU #it's been months since I've written anything like this but this felt good

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blackfliesinbluesugar · 4 years ago

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P sure i haven't posted before, but i had a canon divergence/fic concept a month back of Scrooge dying (in particular killing himself, if you want to make this as depressing as possible, but any way works) during The Shadow War in the s1 finale, and Louie sneaking out at night after the funeral to join Goldie in trying to find a way to bring him back, and s2 and s3 would end up being their duo adventures in that pursuit

Here's some arts i did on the concept

And yes I'm sure they do find a way to bring him back eventually and Scroldie get to kiss, no worries xD

#ducktales 2017 #ducktales #louie duck #scrooge mcduck #goldie o'gilt #huey duck #dewey duck #angst #bad end shadow war au

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aaandbackstabbed · 1 year ago

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Scrooge: how long have you been standing there

Goldie: way longer than you’d like

#she’s a little creepy #I mean if you can’t sneak up on not-boyfriend-ex-husband-love-of-your-life anymore than what has the world come to #sometimes she just likes to observe #put all those sneaky stealing skills to use #they are multifunction #and she is going to make the best of it #Scrooge wouldn’t know how to feel abt it #goldie o'gilt #scrooge mcduck #incorrect quotes #ducktales #scroldie

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popculturebuffet · 4 years ago

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Carl Barks: Back to the Klondike Review: Blinkus of the Thinkus

Welcome one and all! If your a longtime reader of this blog, you know I love a good birthday celebration, having started with my first year reviewing animation last year with Donald’s and deciding to do Mickey and Scrooge’s later that year. But since I misseda LOT of disney birthdays, and found several Non-disney birthdays and anniversaries I just gotta celebrate, this year i’m making it up and style and have a whole calender set up to tack these big milestones to the wall. So over the year expect tributes to the greats of disney, looney tunes, and mgm both behind and in front of the scenes, as well as to various shows I like. It’s gonna be a good time.

So to start us off, it’s only fitting my first duck birthday since Scrooge, is for the love of his life and the stealer of his wallet, Glittering Goldie O Gilt! And I felt the best way to celebrate this storied day was to go back to her very FIRST apperance, one of earliest Scrooge headlined comics and a forever fan faviorite, Back to the Klondike!

But before we get into that, a little history on our gal in gold. Goldie was created for this story by comics god, the late great Carl Barks. Barks ended up just using her once, which is a shame but understandable as he probably only thought of her for that one adventure. While some characters like Gyro ended up being used again and again he probably just didn’t have any more stories in mind for her and figured Scrooge would return to her one day or he wouldn’t, but it wasn’t up to him. Fans however loved the character, her feisty dynamic with scrooge, and the fact she brought out his good side, so naturally other writers would bring her back. In paticular Barks Superfan Don Rosa cemented her as the love of his life and wrote several more stories with her, fleshing out their backstory and saying that at least in his personal canon, Scrooge retired to spend his final years with her. And while his fanboy was clearly showing, and that can end nasitly just ask Dan “Hates Wally West because he’s not barry allen” DiDio, glad he’s gone.. Rosa’s work with goldie is an example of what happens when it’s done right. Less DiDio or Bendis and more Al Ewing. Using the continuity and what’s there to build on a character who deserved better.. to me that’s one of the BEST things you can do in comics and Rosa’s work is proof of that, ironing out the.. questionable elements we’ll get to and leaving the gold in. So Rosa’s work combined with Ducktales not only adapting this story but bringing Goldie back a few times after that has elevated the character to a storied and permenat part of the duck canon, with her excellent heavily revamped Reboot counterpart currently carrying the torch with the help of the wonderful Allison Janey, perfect casting there. So with a legacy of gold behind her, let’s take a look at where it’s started and see if it still glitters after all these years under the cut.

We begin our story at the Money Bin. Scrooge has been counting his money.. but has already forgotten, and forgot where he put the slip he wrote the number on and even forgets who Donald is when he shows up until Donald, while having some fun with him as Scrooge is trying to phone him while he’s right there. As for how he got into the most secure place in the bin.. the story actually answers that both worringly and hilariously: Scrooge left the door unlocked. Naturally he’s not happy about this and Donald states the simple solution: Go see a doctor something’s CLEARLY very wrong, and the fact this could possibly be something like Demntia is VERY bad for someone who runs a zillion dollar company. Scrooge of course scoffs at “wasting his precious money” But Donald not only points out the obvious, that two bucks now saves him from having someone rob EVERYTHING, but Scrooge’s attempt to tie a string around his finger.. instead triggers a trap. And this entire sequence is decent with some good gags.. it’s just hampered a bit by making light of something that’s kinda bad. Not old people forgetting things.. but an old person with a disease as we find out forgetting things. Not helping is I laughed at first at the gags.. till I remembered a kind, old, friend of the family who had it and forgot me entirely by the end. So yeah, not the worst gags and the boxing glove and donald bits aren’t terrible, but it hurts now my brain’s made that connection.

Our heroes head to the doctor’s office where Scrooge is diagnosed with...

That.. might be the best name for a fictional illness i’ve ever heard in my life.. just inching out “Brain Cloud” and “Whale Cancer”. Still not the most SENSITIVE gag.. but it was the 50′s and mental issues weren’t given a lot of respect. IT’s why the above sequence and this whole part of the plot dosen’t scuttle things: It’s not the most repsectful.. but it wasn’t a time where these things were givne proper respect, treatment or knowledge, so barks wasn’t being an insentive douche on purpose, he just didn’t know. It dosen’t make it 100% okay btu it dosen’t wreck the story like say his blatant racist caractures in Voodoo Hoodoo. Seriously that’s.. not okay, and given he’s the kind of guy who researched locations he used, unlike with mental illness i expect BETTER of him than most men at the time. Still respect the guy, but it dosen’t mean i’ll overlook the fact he made some pretty bad mistakes. Same way while I love and miss Stan Lee I won’t ignore his blatant sexisim or racisim towards Chinese and Vitamise people. You CAN like a creator even if their work has some questionable and unjustifable elements, times do change and people do mamke mistakes when their young. It just depends on exactly WHAT they did or wrote that makes that distinctoin. So on that bombshell, Scrooge is given medication after a needle gag. He needs to take his pills every 12 hours. It’s then he starts to remember something, mubling abotu skagway, goldie and dawson and telling Donald to get the boys, their going to Alaska! Once they get on the boat Scrooge explains: he remembered thanks to the medcince he left a stash of gold nuggets there from his prospecting days.. and part of why this story ended up being one of the single most important to Scrooge’s character. While it establishes some character traits, something I dind’t realize till wikipedia pointed it out, it also establishes Scrooge’s days as a prospector. While other things made him what he was and got him to that point as Don Rosa would later flesh out, it was his days in the yukon that, for better or worse defined who he is now and shaped him into the man he is today: Tough, fair, badass as all hell, mean as the devil and richer than god. This time would be used a lot to set up stories, which made sense as it was the cleast and most agreed upon part of his past by all writers, and him at his abosltuely peak physically and mentally and the gold rush motif of the time perfectly fits someone defined by being rich. It’s also honestly nice that the Yukon is used, as Canada sometimes gets lost in the shuffle wise and hell until reading life and times I gneuinely had no idea what the Yukon was or where Calvin was headed when he and hobbes ran away from home.

Scrooge also first mentions Goldie and while clearly remembering her fondly.. goes into a rant about her howing him a thousand dollars which has compounded to a billion the second the boys catch on he was sweet on her with Donald assuming he’s just not a good person. But this is really just setting up another vital part of his character and the other thing: his heart. Before he’d been show as a pretty heartless, greedy asshole. While the previous story, Only a Poor Old Man, had softened him up a bit, this is the first to show that beneath the pile of greed and mean lurks a decent human being. Just don’t tell anyone or he’ll throw his money at you.. then tell you to bring it back to him. It’s what makes the character who he is: he’s cruel, onrey and selfish.. but he CAN care when the chips are down and can do the right thing.. as we’ll see later.

God I love the little poems Bill Watterson would put in the books. I didn’t as much as a kid, but god I do now. Anyways before our heroes can get going Yukon Ho, they stop in Skagway for suplies before heading out, Scrooge softing at taking a plane as “Soft” and him and the nephews hiking a week.. before running into the same flying service again, and finding out Scrooge OWNS it and forgot, because being scrooge he forgot to take his meds. Something I can relate to and i’m not proud of as staying on them is important to my well being. Seriously always take your meds. Unless their not working for you then talk with your doctor to get new ones.

So we arrive in Dawson, as our heroes will have to walk rest of the day Scrooge takes the boys to the Black Jack Ballroom, which used to be a hot spot and was where he met Goldie for the first time. After another covering for his reminscing with greedy bollocks, he tells the boys the story.. one that was cut from the original printing despite introducing goldie and something the editors dind’t bother to tell carl till they berated him over trying to sneak a blackjack saloon and a kidnapping in there... and to them, or their long dead skeletons probably, I say.

Yeah not wanting that in a kids story, while bollocks, tha’ts their perogative.. not having him send in replacement pages to keep story flow.. is dickish and underestimates kids intellegence as Don Rosa, while loving the story felt something was off till he saw the missing pages years later thanks to a fellow fan. So yeah kids, and adults, into the work noticed. Nice job. Again I can’t BLAME them for not wanting Scrooge to be a kidnapper as we’ll see and Don Rosa had to massage the hell out of that, but I can blame them for not caring enough to fix the obvious hole int he story. Though it’s now complete and unabriged and has been since the 80′s so there's that.

So in a nutshell Scrooge came to town for a coffee, and while the bartender ignored him he didn’t once he plunked down his goose egg nugget, what made his fortune and one of Scrooge’s most treasured possessions. It’s here we meet Goldie.

Yup.. just in case you thought her being a thief and greedy as hell was a new thing, and I kinda forgot how much, she dirves for the nugget, has Coffee with scrooge.. and drugs it, but makes the mistake of NOT clearing town, so Scrooge fights his way through the ballroom to her, gets the nugget back, forces her to sign the money for the iou he spent.. and then uh.. kindaps her to force her to work on his claim for 50 cents to try and teach her how to work honestly.

Yeahhhh as I said Don Rosa tried his best to fix this , and did so in his final story, which we’ll get to some day, revealing Goldie had a shot gun on her the whole time and was going along entirely to find out where Scrooge’s claim was. That.. actually makes more sense with the character and is far less horrifying and Scrooge finds this out fairly quick, so them forming an attraction out of this becomes 100% more plausable. So yeah good on Don Rosa for fixing the implications here. I may give out on him from time to time.. but he is a genuinely talented writer and did what a good comic book writer in an established continuity should do: update elements so they aren’t so... eugguuhhh after they become horrifingly outdated. And look YES she did do horrible shit to him.. but you still can’t kidnap someone over that. just put her in jail. What was any of that.

Anyways Scrooge HAS been taking his medicine, and proves it by showing the boys his pills and the next day they head to Scrooge’s old claim.. only someone’s living there and using it, and his old cabin.. and a shot gun. Yeah so they aren’t getting through in the day what about the night.. well they get attacked by Blackjack, who turns out to be owned by the claim jumper.. and is also you know a bear> And Donald left his back in new quackmore so their outmatched.

So outgunned and outplanned, if not outnumbered or outmanned, our heroes make a camp fire and whiel Donald again suggests the obvious, call the police.. Scrooge can’t. He didn’t pay taxes on the claim so he’s technically jumping his own claim and techincally she has a right to it. So techncially.. Scrooge is the bad guy here as he left the money here, didn’t pay his taxes and didn’t ever come back for it. Still beats trying to terrify your nephews or deny orphans a train because your an asshole buffet.

So the next morning Scrooge dosen’t want to rush her because “We Daren’t Get Rough with an old woman”. Two things.. 1... think before you put images in my head scrooge.. brrrrrrrrr. I mean Goldie. is not in the best shape in thie story as you’ll see and neither are you. In the reboot sure you two kept up a lot better but here.

And it’s not even an old people thing. Ann Margret was still fine so fine by the time of Grumpy Old Men, not to get creepy jut to prove i’m not being ageist. For a still alive example Keith David is also still a smokeshow at the tender age of 64. So yeah, not an age thing just not these paticular old people.

But they need a plan so the boy suggest luring the bear into a trap with honey. Donald and Scrooge build the cage while the boys.. find the jar of honey.

Regardless since the boys won’t do it for what Scrooge pays and neither will donald Scrooge goes to lure the bear with the honey. Once that’s done, and Scrooge is being covered with honey and licked by a bear...

So while he washes that off, the boys come up with another plan: they run around back while Donald makes noise to draw Goldie’s fire, with that being Dewey’s plan to meet her since he’s figured this out already. But Goldie has a backup plan and when she figures out they disabled Blackjack unleashes mosquitos... ugh. Having been stung like hornets about 50 times in animal crossing I feel you boys. So while Scrooge and Donald run off naked... troy if you will.

Thank you Troy, the boys confront Goldie who reveals her identity... and that she’s broke, her dance hall having failed with the rush and this claim being all she has.. and her suspecting scrooge woudl gladly take it. The boys vow not to tell scrooge.. but he’s on his way so they kinda have to and he primps to go visit and Donald starts to see through his BS about collecting the debt. Sure enough despite being taken aback by her putting on her old dress , he takes her for all she has and is.. genuinely suprised as she thought she’d have more and she’d actually changed since the old days, donating her profits to orphans from mining disasters. Scrooge.. is clearly rattled by this. Whiel it turns out to my shock he was clealry after the money, though givne who we’re dealing with I shoudln’t of been really, he still cares and still realizes he’s being kind of a dick. So he challengers her to a gold digging race, and if she wins the claim is hers and any gold she finds.. and naturally, while he seemingly puts her soemwhere where there isn’t she finds the claim and Scrooge bemoans not taking his pill.. but while the boys boo him for it, Goldie who fondly waves them off and Donald know better: Donald points out he counted the pills this morning.. and recently. SCrooge DID take one today... he’s just has his cane shoved firmly up his ass with pride so he coudln’t ADMIT he was wrong and instead simply staged that whole thing with the full knowledge Goldie would win. It, again, sets up one of his defniing traits; how he keeps people at arms length. How he’s just so proud and full of himself he can’t bear to admit anything resembling weakness.. but WILl find a way to do the right thing without that or forgoe it as a last resort. He may project being a stingy cretionus old man.. because he is.. but he’s got a heart as big as that nugget.. it’s just locked tight in it’s own bin... his body is complicated and weird that way Final Thoughts:

This story is a classic with a decent setup, great backstory for scrooge, and a great guest character and unquestionable impact on the character. However.. it does have it’s problem; As Don Rosa, who as i’ll remind you is both a huge barks fanboy and huge scoldie shipper, himself pointed out he wrote his final story, and had planned to for years ENTIRELY because this one never quite explains how Scrooge and Goldie went from old enmies to lovers.It did lead to one of his best stories and one of the first I read post life and times so, props to that. And of course as I pointed out some things have just.. not aged well, especially the kidnapping so their relationship kinda comes off like stockholm syndrom as a result of both of these.

That being said.. warts and all.. it’s still a really damn good story and a good one to try if your intrested in barks work or where Goldie came from: it has adventure, some really good jokes and if you can get past the dated bits the plot is solid. And while it goes without saying i’ll say it anyway Barks art is goregous as always ESPECIALLY in the flashback sequence. Overall not the best AGED Scrooge story, though not the worst either see Voodoo Hoodoo, good god, but defintely a classic for a reason. If you liked this review, follow me for more, and for more duck content as I still have more of the three cablleros to work through, another chapter of life and times coming up this week befor ewe break again for feburary, and some other fun stuff. Until the next rainbow, it’s been a pleasure.

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