#Super Ducktales Ultimate AU

[iamapoopmuffin]

What are you working on now? Or at least rotating around in your head now? (Because that counts as writing! 😂)

Ooh okay, I have a bad habit of flitting between projects when I get my inspiration, but I'm working on a few things right now (one of which I think I've been working on all year but in my defence it is intended to be a very long piece-)

Who Wants To Be A Best Man? (Ducktales) - That thing I posted a preview of where Dewey, Della and Webby are putting Donald's potential best men for his wedding through trials and Storkules crashes the trials determined to be the best of the best men for his bestest friend ever, Donald. I've written everything up to the first trial but by thunder I still can't come up with a trial lol.

The Sharkbomb AU (Ducktales) - As it says on the tin. I'm bringing the Sharkbomb AU to life by stealing a life giving McGuffin from Legend of the Three Caballeros and putting it in the puppet and writing the chaotic adventures of Flinty and Son as they adapt to this new part of their lives and then Sharkbomb finds out he was a ventriloquist puppet and has an existential crisis.

Bring Your Daughters To Work Day (Ducktales) - So, precursor, I love that Donald is the 'More kids to adopt don't mind if I do' dad, and I love that he did not hesitate to take May and June, but also half of me also wants Scrooge to raise all his daughters once someone actually tells him they're biologically his daughters and also for Webby to have the sisters she's wanted since Season 1. This led to me writing a thing that's Scrooge realising these are his kids and then the four of them going alone on a father/daughter bonding adventure. I also want to write a bonding piece for Webby and Mrs Beakley.

The Final Solution (Original) - Point note, all superhero stories are posted on a separate blog focusing on the superhero series (it is not updated often as all the co-creators, me included, are usually very busy with other life stuff). Anyway, this is the final part in a whole overarching arc, essentially the end of the main Censor and Ballad arc, which summed up is 'Ballad is a disgraced former hero trying to step back into the limelight but committing criminal acts to do so and is determined to use his biological son's powers to enact the ultimate staged disaster for him to fix as a mighty hero'. This staging involves killing off other heroes so that A, people think there's a serial killer, and B, he's the only hero who can stop the crazed killer known only as The Censor. This is the long long one. It has fights, murder, sexism and transphobia.

The Fear (Original) - Another superhero story, this one focuses on students at Janusz' school for super humans, specifically Ajax. I'll probably make this a little series that introduces every student, giving a little background and leading to them joining the student population. In Ajax's case, he's being hunted by both a cult he stole an eldritch horror from and the government that knows he has fear and insanity inducement powers and is linked to said cult-

Mirror Mirror On The Wall (One Piece) - The Straw Hats arrive on a strange island that traps them with mirror versions of themselves. Mirror Chopper steals organs and Mirror Brook hunts whales. There's a whole host of evil Straw Hats stuff I've discussed with @rosetheshapeshifter to build up on but I can't say too much about specifics here without either spoiling things or making this answer way too long

Alcohol And Idiots Do Not Mix (Kuroko's Basketball) - I'm finishing the second and third chapters of this old shit if it kills me.

Away In A Manger (Teen Titans) - Oh dear god, this. So, fun fact, I discovered while reading comics that Beast Boy can willingly change gender when changing animal which, alongside my at the time interest in Norse mythology and specifically the origins of Sleipnir, led to me joking with some friends and the wife about a cursed M-preg idea, which in turn led to the creation of fankid Fifi Logan, which in turn led to me actually writing this. It all comes down to me dicking about with cursed cursed ideas. And nothing will ever stop me.

Assorted other small side original series stories. Most of them gay.

[stormvanari]

So I’ve been working on a Nega-Vasion rewrite, while multi-tasking on requests. Got the idea of a Super Ducktales Ultimate AU story mode thingy. Now inspired by the Ducktales Season 3 poster, and my heart thumping for the 2019 DT Comic-Con trailer. Especially the upcoming Season 2 Finale.

[yourfandomfriend]

Context is Everything

One of the things that lit a fire under me to start this blog was my crippling inability to unpause youtube videos in my watch later when I had a meta on the brain, this one about how much context changes old characters but why Donald Duck is somehow still the star of The Three Caballeros.

Random right? Get used to it.

**SPOILERS** For The Three Caballeros and Legend of the Three Caballeros **SPOILERS**

So let's go back to the 1940s. By the time America finally got dragged into WWII, the Axis Powers had been taking it over like an evil Beyonce. Understandably terrified that our southern border would go the way of Kelly and Michelle, the United States government decided to start trying to actually, you know, make friends with Mexico, Central, and South America.

Those were the days, right? And all it took was one little Hitler.

So Walt Disney grabbed a planeload of his best artists and went to South America, coming back with all the inspiration they needed and then some to make a movie to help friend our cousins down south. But instead of it being a forced, pandering, culturally insulting attempt to kiss Brazillian ass, it was one of Disney's greatest successes, in no small part due to its popular new character, José Carioca, a Brazilian green parrot whose popularity in other countries outlived our short American attention spans.

But of course, Donald Duck was ultimately the star.

And while Disney had a policy of no sequels, ("You can't top pigs with pigs.") Amigos was so popular that Walt tried again with The Three Caballeros, this time going to Mexico and introducing another amazing, popular character, Panchito Pistoles, a Mexican rooster who made the duo a trio. Somehow, this movie was everything Amigos was and more.

And still, as fun, interesting, and likable as José and Panchito were, Donald was still the obvious star.

Now let's skip ahead to a darker time for Disney: since the early 1980s, Michael Eisner had been saving the company from financial ruin with his business acumen, but unfortunately, the future chairman of the Walt Disney company didn't have a creative bone in his body. 

And I can't help myself. I have a theory, that Eisner deeply resented artists, especially Uncle Walt. He completely restructured the hierarchy in the company to put businessmen at the top while creative became expendable. He kicked the animators out of their own building so he could have fancy offices for himself and his corporate cronies --

-- and eventually shut down feature animation altogether. He drove off Jeffrey Katzenberg, which is why we have this --

-- And did you know Eisner tried to get rid of Mickey Mouse? Yeah, not hyperbole, he tried to replace him as the company's mascot with Winnie the Pooh on the logic that Mickey was too old-fashioned, which is why Disney in the late 90s and early oughts had so much Pooh just flung around like we all demanded “More Pooh!” and they were just obliging.

As a result of Eisner's influence, hand-drawn animated offerings (when available at all) had become script-driven rather than creator-driven, which is why I was so stunned all these years later when Gravity Falls came out. 

Not only was it a beautifully animated show, but it was creator-driven and coincidentally, turned out to be a giant success for Disney. But I'm guessing the part where Alex Hirsch (the show's creator) got to decide big things (like when and how the show would end) bothered them, and meant Disney was looking to make lightning strike with some properties they already owned outright.

And so the rebooted Ducktales last year, and it was (and is) a huge success due to the talent, hard work, and imagination of the team reviving it. But could Disney pull off the hattrick?

One of their latest attempts (one they don't *seem* to feel confident enough with to release in the US yet) is a fun, nostalgic little series called Legend of The Three Caballeros, a very different AU adventure comedy with a mystery element, where Donald, José, and Panchito are the no-account, flat-busted descendants of the original Caballeros, who were hero adventurers.

This time around, they modified the characters a bit for a modern audience and a series format, but they basically stayed the same. 

Meanwhile, Disney's sensibilities, sense of humor, and priorities have completely changed around them.

So why is Donald still the star? It's not because he's the more famous character, though he is that. And it's not because he's so popular, though he's that, too. So what's up? What have I been driving at for paragraphs and paragraphs?

Well, let's look at the original. The number one priority of Disney and his artists during the studio’s golden age -- more than patriotism or technical advancement -- was artistic achievement, and basically, Donald was the funniest guy they had, and the most fun to animate. He was the butt of every joke, the one with the shortest fuse, the one who acted on every impulse, no matter how extreme.

Meanwhile, José and Panchito, fun as they might've been, were created to represent their native countries and to a certain extent, they were way more chill than Donald, who was prone to going off the rails on a whim.

But the values of the company would go corporate. The belief Eisner fostered was that earnest, happy, carefree characters were no longer relatable in a post-Seinfeld world. So it's no surprise Donald is the main protagonist now -- his sulky, surly, cynical, anxious, perpetually unlucky character suits current tastes far more than his super-friendly, endlessly optimistic pals.

So while José and Panchito began as the far more grounded and realistic characters in the 1940s, in the new millennium, sullen Donald is the straight man and his happy, lighthearted friends are taken as empty-headed goofs for not having the good sense to be as miserable as the rest of us.

Context is everything, even when it ends up coming full-circle. It's weird how that one worked out.

[stormvanari]

Ducktales=Super Ducktales Ultimate

(This comparison is pressuring me to create an SSB AU idea!)

My dream has come true!

[stormvanari]

So long FOWL, welcome NEGA.

Rewrite coming soon....

[stormvanari]

Completely Ducking Random

-Imagine a (first-person) horror game in which Negaduck manages to kidnap both Gosalyn and Launchpad, and with papa wolf instincts and fear mixed together, Darkwing Duck sets out to find his family and escape Negaduck for good. There might be an alternate ending in which you have to defeat Negaduck face-to-face.

-So that Super Ducktales Ultimate AU thing I mentioned? Nega-Vasion, the fic I’m currently re-writing, is actually its Story Mode. For a Brawltales mode, minor/guest villains would be unlockable through the “New Challenger Approaching!”-like battle. First, you would start with the ‘87 cast(with the exception of Magica, and I will get to there on why this is), and unlocking more Ducktales characters as you battle more.

About why Magica can’t be unlocked through the “New Challenger Approaching!”-like battle, major antagonists and/or Arc-tagonists(a single villain who are crucial to an entire season) can be unlocked in Nega-Vasion, otherwise the game’s story mode. Especially Negaduck, the main antagonist of the story mode itself. Defeat him, and you can unlock the devious mallard to play as him.

The battle system is similar to Street Fighter’s, fyi.

DLC? Perhaps Zondag would be one of the post-release fighters, some of the Talespin cast, and the Ducktales(Wii U)-exclusive, Dracula Duck.

[stormvanari]

eya! hows it going? wonder what your doodleing, anyways, keep up the great work :D

Busy with fic work.

I doodle ducks, develop an upcoming fic Disney Heroes(Battle Mode)-Cyber Attack, and make a Super Ducktales Ultimate AU fic soon. I will be glad to talk about SDU if anyone wants to try(besides, I’m highly busy with that one, since SDCC 2019 got me all pumped up until September comes).

[stormvanari]

the song "control" fits possessed! bushroot, cuz uh magica is possessing him

I can see “Control” blasting into the game’s stereos.

[stormvanari]

sunddy i rember that dwd world of light thing, maybe magica's spirit poseses bushroot? idk

I think with the idea of Magica being an abusive “aunt” to Lena, and Bushroot’s struggle to find new companions, these tearjerking comparisons of these unfortunate scenarios does support the idea of Magica’s spirit possessing Bushroot.