#This was a good analysis Shychick

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It really did seem like the DuckTales (2017) writers decided that all they were going to do with Gyro after Astro Boyd was to keep having him call certain characters by what he sees them as, for Fenton (Dr. Intern) and for Huey (Red/Hat Nephew), as opposed to their actual names (who they really are) for the sake of a running gag or joke. Unfortunately I think the writers valued comedy over character development when it came to Gyro after Astro Boyd which really is a shame because I believe that there was a lot of potential for Gyro to grow as a character beyond what we were given in the show. I will say that I do appreciate the moments of character development we do get in Beaks in the Shell and The Last Adventure since it’s better than having nothing at all, I just wish that we could’ve had more is all.

It was SUCH a missed opportunity for Gyro to learn Huey's name/call him by his actual name after 'Astro B.O.Y.D.' as a subtle, but meaningful show of character development and proof of his gratitude to Huey for helping him see the truth about his and Boyd's past (a past which separated Gyro and Boyd, and essentially ruined their lives in different ways because Akita's treachery wasn't known)... by spotting Boyd's deepest core memory that Gyro missed, prompting him to look deeper.

What Huey did for Gyro (and Boyd) was HUGE, because it showed Gyro how wrong he always was about both Boyd and himself (and helped him truly realize he was wrong to treat Fenton as coldly and dismissively as Akita treated him as a young intern), presumably changed their lives for the better, and allowed them to emotionally reconcile and (presumably) heal.

And yet, Gyro still continued to call Huey "red nephew" or "hat nephew". 😭

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Cedric and Wormwood's childhood together

In the "Substitute Cedric", at the end of the episode, Cedric talks about teaching the royal prep students a spell that can turn rocks into ravens. The fandom also noticed this, because somehow it may be implying that Wormwood was a rock before. And I also believe that this is true, or else they wouldn't have put that in the episode because it would cause misinterpretation of their characters- there's a huge chance of this being true.

Cedric knows the spell, which means that he did it before. The only raven we have in the show is Wormwood, who happens to be his familiar. So like. Okay.

CEDRIC DID THE SPELL AND MADE WORMWOOD. It's not like my first headcanon: that they met when Cedric was young and still at Hexley Hall, and someone in the school staff (because it's an advenced spell, Cedric can't cast it) did a spell who would guarantee Wormy's life while Cedric is still alive (or else he would already be dead by now, he's a bird, there needs to have a spell somewhere) because he's his familiar now. I believe that everyone needed to find a creature to be their familiar at some point at Hexley Hall, in the first years (because having an animal assistant is necessary). But at first I was thinking like "no, okay, Cedric found Wormwood somewhere and brought him home, they did the spell and now he's his familiar" but some days later I watched that episode and found out about the "turning rocks into ravens spell"

You know what this means? Cedric literally made Wormwood. He gave him life after a rock. So his betrayal gets more painful and has a whole different meaning.

I guess we can compare this situation to a son turning against his father, somehow. I don't believe that Wormwood sees him as a father, actually very from that. He just thinks that he was a middle schooler who cast a spell on a rock and since then Wormwood is his familiar, that's all. They grew up together, more like brothers or "best (worst) friends" I would say. @shychick-52 has a good character analysis of him in her fic "The Master Wand", that explains that Wormwood's anger comes from the fact that he was just as miserable as Cedric, but Cedric got help. He got out of the dark, but he didn't held Wormwoods hand (wing) to pull him from there too. While he was getting better and being influenced by Sofia to be a good person, the same didn't happened to Wormwood, who was so deep in his hatred, insecurity (not getting other people's approval and believing that just being nice wasn't enough), revenge that he didn't change his mind. While Cedric had Sofia to help him, Wormwood had no one. It was assumed that just because Cedric got better, his raven would get better too, because of couse, a familiar obeys and thinks the same way as his master, right? He could have been saved by Cedric or Clover. But that didn't happened. And I still think he deserves a redemption arc btw, or at least an episode.

But yes, the thought about Wormwood being created after a rock by Cedric it's implied in stf and it makes the whole situation more tense. Imagine how Wormwood was feeling, imagine how Cedric was feeling. Wormwood's reasons are understandable but it's a little weird the fact that he choose to betray Cedric so fast with someone who he doesn't even know yet (Prisma). It was REALLY FAST. He didn't think twice. And it confuses me why he choose to be so many years by Cedric's side, when he could have just ran away like that at any moment. If he always thought that Cedric was an idiot then he should have ran to another master years ago, because as we can see, he doesn't even think twice before leaving him.

When Cedric says something like "what about all those years of friendship" it's not just about their friendship. (Headcanon part) It's about when the whole class needed to turn a rock into an animal to make that animal their familiar, for each animal there was a different spell and all his classmates got the best ones first: owls, cats. He got one of the last ones, a raven, the one no one wanted, just like him.

And he was the only one who repeatedly was making feathers, vegetables, while everyone was laughing, making fun of him and whispering about "him being him" again, looking at him with disgust, asking why he was still trying- and the situation was starting to get humiliating. Everyone had already finished. And after so many tries, everyone looking at him with a judgemental look like he was in the middle of the room (just like how happened at the incident, he remembers that really well), Cedric gave up.

Maybe he watched while his teacher did the "familiar will live until their master is alive" spell in each one of the students, making sure that they all were now officially connected. But Cedric didn't had one, so he was the only one who just watched in silence. His teacher went to him, and as always he told Cedric to keep trying later, which made him feel a little better, but not a lot.

He kept trying, trying and trying after school, maybe at night (Hexley Hall boarding school headcanon time). And when he finally did it, the rock turned into a baby bird, and Cedric started crying out of happiness. He was able to make a real crow- and the baby was just in the palm of his hand making little noises and looking at him with a confused look, with not even a thought going through his mind. The baby raven didn't knew a thing but Cedric loved him already, just like the feeling of getting your first dog but this time with the whole stituation of the spell, Cedric being pressured and judged, and now he finally did it.

He immediately knew that this bird would be his best friend. He was a little weird looking, just like a little fluff ball, but Cedric was a little weird too, that was one more thing that they had in common. And he was so proud and loved his new bird so much that he wouldn't mind even if he didn't had feathers. What happened was that in the next day everyone went to class with their new familiars and Cedric was there with his baby bird, all proud of himself. Everyone saw this and some even thought that he got the bird somewhere, that he was pretending the spell worked just so that he wouldn't make a fool out of himself in today's class. But somehow they proved it was true, or the teacher just simply believed in him, the thing was that he finally had his familiar and the spell was casted on him to make his familiar permanently. And since then he carried the bird everywhere.

He gave him the name Wormwood after the herb. Maybe there was a funny situation with a wormwood and the baby bird involved, and that's when Cedric decided his name. But the thing is: they were always together since their childhood. I'm not really giving a deep dive into their relationship right now, so there's no conclusion to this post, but I wanted to share my headcanon. I made a drawing yesterday and their childhood together is in my mind ever since.

That's what I made (visual representation of the scenes):

I think I'm gonna make more but idk. Hexley Hall Cedric is my roman empire

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My reaction to this story:

Peering up over the edge of the desk he’d been hiding behind, he could barely see a thing in the pitch-blackness around him. The space was occasionally illuminated by the sparking of a wire, but all it revealed was more destruction.

Fenton coughed again as he shifted onto his knees. When he spoke his voice was shaky, carrying his fear of speaking too loudly and reawakening the danger. “Gyro?”

It was a few moments before there came a response from somewhere deeper in the lab.

“Over here, Fenton. It’s safe.”

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Reblogging again as it's easier to talk this way, no limit on the number of characters.

@shychick-52, good points but as the anon pointed out, Donald is still dressed as a sailor. And piloting is, inherently, no more adventurous than sailing. And LP still looks like a pilot (admittedly, Donald cares for Della more than he does for LP).

However, Della is the one that probably looks the least like herself. I can see Webby wearing pink overalls, Louie wearing a varsity hoodie and even Beakley wearing a stereotypical old-lady dress if nothing else than to keep the cover.

Even if Della never flew again, even if she was "just" a suburban mum, she would probably be the one building a play fort in the backyard dressed in cargo shorts and an old flannel.

Or if she was flying but in a more mundane setting, she might be an airline pilot, possibly regional.

But no, Della looks like a completely different person...

Oh boy, now the fact that Della looks furthest from herself is making me come to some rather heartbreaking character analysis and I'm just sleep-deprived enough to start overthinking it.

His biggest heartbreak was losing Della...so maybe there is a part of him that wants to see her as divorced from anything that lead to that heartbreak as possible. Even as it means Della not looking like, AKA not being Della.

And still, her main thing in the sitcom is "back on the Moon" so there is another part of him that definitely knows that he can't separate that from Della no matter how much he tries to keep the appearances up.

I must note another thing about Donald's wish in Quack Pack does come in the outfits where while Della has a more normal outfit rather than her pilot attire, Donald still wears his sailor outfit indicating he likely has some soft spot for being a sailor even in a desire for normal.

Yeah, it was kind of strange to me that Della was the only one who didn't get a similar outfit to her usual one.

Heh, whatever the universe Donald is one with the sea.

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Yes, that’s exactly what I was hoping would happen as well, and since it didn’t happen in DuckTales (2017) I was at least hoping for that particular idea to be incorporated into the Darkwing Duck reboot (if the same people who worked on DT17 were making that show). It would’ve been nice to see Boyd going to help Gizmoduck while Gyro is a bit reluctant about all that because even though Boyd could easily be fixed and rebuilt, Gyro just got Boyd back in his life so it would absolutely devastate him if something were to happen to his precious son. I could definitely see Gyro being a very overprotective parent by making sure that Boyd has to give him a few calls while he’s out helping Gizmoduck or by personally making a superhero suit so that way he can look out for Boyd himself and protect him as much as he can from danger or harm.

I know at the end of 'Astro B.O.Y.D.', Boyd ultimately managed to reject all his former programming forced on him over the years- except for that of being just like a real boy, which Gyro gifted him with when he created him, and which Boyd always proudly knew as his main identity (no matter how many times his programming and memories were overwritten, proof that Gyro- the only one to ever love him and care about him like a real child- was always the most important one in his life)...

But I really like the thought of him also choosing to be a protector/hero, but on his own terms... not because that's what he was originally made to be (according to Gyro, he and Akita had created him to protect Tokyolk... until Akita secretly reprogrammed him to destroy it), but because he admired Gizmoduck and genuinely wanted to help people too. But his life would still be his own, instead of anyone else controlling it.

I honestly wish they had gone this direction with Boyd. Just like Astro Boy, who Boyd was based on, he could be both a kid and a protector (look at Fenton; he was proud to be both a scientist and a hero, and both things brought him joy). I remember hoping Fenton could train him, with Gyro's grudging blessing.

In fact, that's a perfect way Boyd could have actually made an appearance in 'Beaks In the Shell'... in the opening scene, trying to help Gizmoduck take down "Agent Dee" alongside Huey!

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