#della just has to learn how to be their parent too

[mighty-ant]

No hate to Della but I wish their was an angsty/fluffy/funny/family drama filled custody battle for the triplets between Donald and Della fic. Mainly because Della gets too arrogant and wants fully custody of the boys. And like all I want for this type of fic is angst for Donald and the boys, but ultimately all of Donald's friends standing up for him and saying he deserves to keep custody of the boys in court. All the people in Donalds life and the boys saying he's a good dad. Like emotionally and legally everyone shutting Della down because Donald is the very best for the boys and he's their dad. Like how dare she even attempts this. And the climax of the fic is Scrooge being 100% on Donald's side saying the boys deserve to be with Donald on the stand. Like at first he's on Della's side(gets her a very expensive lawyer and everything). But than he steps back and thinks about it. Like this could take place somewhere after Donald comes back from the island or season 3. Either way I really would love a fic like this. Especially that emphasize that Della choice to leave the boys on a rocket, and Donald made a commitment to rase the boys as his babies. For fun in this Uno/Odin can be his lawyer.

I wouldn't go so far as to want a custody battle, but I do wish the show more directly acknowledged how damaging Della's stealing the Spear of Selene was to the entire family

Della's suffered enough, so I get why nobody talked about it right away, but with Donald finally back (after getting stranded himself), it would be interesting to see Della taking a backseat to Donald who has been the boys' parent for their entire lives, and realizing that they lived without Scrooge and without adventure until very recently

This is all a bit heavy for a kids show that already deals with pretty heavy stuff, so I guess that's what fanworks are for!

[strawberryicemoon]

Does anyone else feel like the Della that was set up and the Della we actually got were two different characters.

Primarily I think Della's just dumber than we were initially lead to believe. And I think there's something in one of the first things we knew about her was that she had pretty handwriting, where I struggle to believe the Della is patient enough to have neat handwriting. The last Crash of the Sunchaser implied she designed the Spear of Selene. Scrooge said someone who "sees the angles". Like I get that don't speak ill of the dead was in play. And I also get wanting Della's legacy to not match perfectly with her true self, but some of the literally flashbacks we saw implied she was clever (she figured out Dewey was from the future, again, she was sketching the Spear). Having the characters stretch the truth is one thing, but flashbacks is another. I mean we literally saw her Scuba-Diving in a flashback, but in show she hates fish.

Not helped by the fact I assumed she named her children, and was using that as a gauge of her personality. And like. Turbo is very funny. I get why you'd make it a surprise reveal. Recontextualize her personality. But we already were introduced to her in the episode before. Also I just didn't like it tbh. (And kinda like my beef with the whole April May and June thing, I'm not a duck fan, I have no horse in this race, and things can be different, but considering to my understanding the few glimpses of previous iterations of Della, she definitely named her sons, and changing one of the few things that previously existed about the character felt weird to me, cheap even. On one hand I get wanting to show just how disconnected from her son she is and how much the incident cost her. But on the other hand it was just salt in the wound at that point, for a few jokes about the boys names… which have generally been changed to be even more embarrassing than they were previously for more jokes).

I really did like Whatever Happened to Della Duck. The only "Weird' things to me was how technically and artistically unsavvy she seemed to be, when we had scene her sketching the spear of Selene. Like that was a whole ass plot point. And also how oblivious she seemed to what was happening with the Moonlanders when she was presumably "sharp". But y'know. I can excuse one misunderstanding, and she was probably just a bit crazy from being alone on the moon for so long (and any prior mental health issues) and when she gets back other characters will probably be unnerved by her a bit because she's changed. But this was apparently normal Della (aside from not liking her reflection). If someone had spelled out in show the ways she had changed while on the moon I think it would have made all the difference. (Though Ducktales in general has an issue for completely neglecting to state important information until its necessary but long after it was relevant, so the fact no one says that doesn't mean it can't be true tbh).

I think the core of the character, and thus why she caught my attention remained. She's a traumatized woman who did something impulsive (that should have been fine), that had disproportionately huge consequences. And now has to get to know her children. She has to learn to parent on the fly. She has to establish herself as an adult when she's otherwise been stuck in place. She has to reestablish herself with her family, and a new sense of identity in a world that's changed without her.

And looking some of the Della description from the pitch bible we got recently, and the Della described there is closer to the one I thought we were getting prior to her debut. It makes me wonder when that changed. I know early on, in the Moorshire episode, they realized they made Launchpad too dumb after they finished it. To me it feels like they did that with Della (and to a certain extent Donald as well), but then never made the realization about what they did. We already had launchpad as the stupid adult. We didn't need more. Also, to be honest, I struggle to name any strengths over other characters besides the pragmatic "better at flying than Launchpad". Now, don't get me wrong, I still like canon Della. She had a lot of great moments. But to be honest I think all of her best moments, would have also worked with the Della I thought we were getting. Her fears about losing the kids, so lying to them about participating in the fight. Her song. Her punishing Louie for being stupid. The bit where she talked about being unable to look at her reflection and breaking her glass. Teaching Dewey to fly. Realizing how much her kids looked up to her and to what extents they might be idiots to prove themselves to her. I don't want her not to be reckless, just more thoughtful. That said, the way the other characters treated her didn't really help. It felt like at least for a while she was being ignored. Like she wasn't being treated seriously, but also no one was trying to help or understand her. (Which we got Donald blasted off into space after being ecstatic to see her, made me feel like Donald might actually see her... but then 5 episodes in to S3 Donald gets a girlfriend and the twins rarely appear together).

Liking those elements of the pitch bible might be a bit of the classic "the grass is greener" nonsense. And the fact it's just a barebones description not a full fletched character, and to be fair I don't care for every detail in it. But even before the pitch bible, I was bothered by the fact Daisy, not Della was the person who understood Donald best. (My aromantic self does not appreciate the prioritzation of romantic relationships). And here in the pitch bible. It says Della knows Donald best. We didn't get a single glimpse of "was scared to be a mom", even though I'd solidly developed the head canon that the Spear of Selene ride was a form of post-partum fear even before reading this, and I understand that might have been difficult to work into the show, the lack of support for Della in general, or any hints of empathy for why she did what she did doesn't help. Even of dealing with trauma from the instance. I can't say the "stuff just happens" angle is objectively bad. But this is still a story. A narrative. Not reality. It feels cheap as a character, for her biggest mistake to basically boil down to "oops", rather than a huge character flaw. Like yes, being reckless is a flaw. But considering what the family is USUALLY doing, it… isn't? It really isn't any worse than what they family does normally so for her to be punished so harshly for it is a bit unfair.

In the finale the fact it's revealed that Bradford told Della about the spear, also feels kinda cheap to me. I think its an interesting reveal… but considering this is information one of our main protagonists knows it feels bizarre that it is a reveal to the audience. (Or that no one asked Della before). Also it feels a bit like it's trying to absolve Della of blame, but it doesn't address the core problem of (sure the show never states there's a problem but Scrooge makes reference to Della's "one last big adventure" and it's hard not to see this as an attempt to break out of some sort of mental funk. And it again, needlessly victimizes Della. She got stuck in space for 10 years, couldn't even name her own children, loses her leg, gets betrayed, loses her plane kinda-sorta, and is kind of treated like an idiot by many of the other adults around her. Because some guy was trying to mess with Scrooge. Della's moon trip sucks, I don't think they needed to make it worse by making it not even her fault.

I wish we had gotten a scene of Donald telling the boys what Della was like from his perspective. He's her twin. And I really don't want to welcome the comparisons between DT17 and GF. But the lack of any character drawing the parallels between Donald & Della and Huey, Dewey and Louie is absurd. But they don't utilize it. Like at all. No one ever looks at Donald and goes, oh. He lost his twin. That really sucks. The triplets never go. What would it be like if I lost one of you. Like twins are sometimes just siblings. They don't need to have "super special relationship", but in a show about family it's sure awkward that they don't. I am so mad that Huey, Dewey and Louie didn't get to see another side of their Uncle Donald brought out by Della. Or alternatively a Della struggling to connect with her brother. Even better both.

I know the "is the character acting ooc or do you not actually know the character" is well, a thing. I am aware that the post-partum depression, actually clever and observant Della is mostly made up by me. But I also know where in canon it came from to me. Della never acts out of character from once she's introduced. But that character is still a bit off from the character we had come to expect in the first season and a half. She's not completely divorced from what we were told about her. But still. Do I love Della, or the idea of Della. Honestly, I don't know.

This is definitely very OPINION, and not really anything objective.

[justaboot]

fine okay HBO human DT would be like

(tw blood, gore, drugs, suicide mention)

Beakley's husband was killed by their daughter, who was a FOWL big bad. Beakley loved her more than anything but, in the end, they couldn't stop her, and she locked her in an uncrackable limbo pocket dimension, took newborn Webby, and told everyone she was dead. Every night, she doesn't think about how she's still in there, alive and rotting. (I hc this regardless)

Gladstone signed away his soul for glitz, luck, and luxury when he was young. He rains gifts and affection down on the kids, decked in the best money can buy and bored by all of it, surrounded by designer drugs and sex and fancy friends and desperately lonely when he's not with the fam.

Pre-series, the boys' father was a traitor who sold them out, nearly to Donald and Scrooge's death. Della goes alone to a standoff in an abandoned plane hangar, fucks him good one last time to get close before beating his head in with a socket wrench.

Goldie told her how.

The kids figure out Gyro's fallen into a brutally accelerating addiction to a stimulant chem of his own design, bc its producing incredible results. Scrooge has been looking the other way. Because results.

Actual Scary Girl Webby in a real way. She wants answers, and has no understanding of taboos. Stares at her first dead body way too long. Asks della too many questions about self-amputation, what it smelled like, if she could feel the difference between muscles and tendons when cutting. Did the ligaments snap back? did the bone splinter? did you see marrow? She just wants to know. The next day she asks bentina if they can get a whole pig to pit-roast and if she can be the one to carve it. Watched Scrooge and Goldie from the vent in his bedroom, looked too long at the line of Goldie's back as she moved and thought about it all night.

We see Beakley actually homeschool them. They have a library thats the school room, and Huey and Webby practice cello in Webby's room. They test themselves on new languages they're learning together by talking through music theory in them while playing.

Huey made Della a teak shower bench. Not HBOcore but its true and you should know it. It replaced the chrome one, and on bad nights, she hands out in there in the steam at 4 in the morning bc the room is bright and warm and the fan is loud and beakley'll be up in an hour which means the house wont be Still and Quiet.

Louie actually gets caught up in the underground crime scene. He slowly builds confidence gets too cocky, and gets in deeper and deeper shit until it goes south. Fast. His tricks dont work, because hes TEN, and Goldie has to pull him out of a human trafficking ring. He doesn't think to ask what she was doing there until much later, and she's already gone.

We see Donald's therapy sessions. He loves the boys more than anything or anyone in the world. He tells his therapist that he hates his sister for what she did to his future. His therapist asks if he hates the children, too, and Donald hesitates. He loves the boys.

Magica has Scrooge for weeks during the Shadow War. Plays out all his failures in shadow puppets on the wall for him. The spear, his parents, his sisters, goldie, everything. she was there in the dime for the whole ten years he was alone, and she plays out all the ugliest things he said and did. Shapeshifts through all the friends he's lost to taunt him, spitting words as young Donald. She shifts into Della, asking in her voice why he'd do that, telling him how painful it was, how it feels to freeze to death, what human lungs sound like when there's no oxygen to breathe. You'd think they'd be quieter, but there's a wet crackle that sounds like a sponge. She tells him how he was going to kill the boys, too, because he's too selfish, but it's not a problem now, because they've left again. They're safe now. But she says it all so kindly. He's exhausted and hes starving and hes half out of his mind, so when he asks what she wants from him and she puts a knife in his hands and tells him to end it, he does. Until the knife turns to smoke, he's unharmed, and it's not della but Magica who's laughing at him. Lena sees the whole thing, and later on, when the kids find out, Scrooge omits details, and the kids laugh at how Magica would ever think Scrooge would go through with it, just give up. He'd never give up. Lena doesn't say anything, and Scrooge doesn't look at her, and he has to cope with believing that'll be the last time he'll ever hear della's voice.

Lena Comes Back WrongTM

anyway you get it. everyone has a really rough duality. feel free to add.

(this post got too long, ask me later about the boys' birth and scrooge's secret s1 curse)

[shootingcookielover]

Introducing: Jay!! My ducktales oc!! (If it wasn't blatantly obvious lmao)

Do you want to know more about them? No? Too bad!

Jay, aka January was the first ever clone F.O.W.L. created. However, due to a lab accident, Jay ended up not only with scrooge's DNA, but also Bradford's. Deeming the clone a "failure", Heron drops the created baby off at an orphanage.

(Bradford becomes enraged when he later learns of this - a child with his and scrooge mcduck's dna?? Just out there??? Has Heron no concept how problematic that could shake out to be???)

Jay spends the first 9 years of their life kinda bouncing from foster home to foster home (kinda developing a bit of a thing abt people seeing them eat. Because of how their beak is a bit weirdly aligned, they can't eat quite the same as most others, and people stare.). But eventually they scrape together enough resources for like, one of those online-dna testing kits that spit out who you're related to.

Turns out their parents are Scrooge McDuck!!! (And some random vulture guy? Weird)

Thus, Jay sets out to become an adventurer like their dad, to meet him one day on their adventures!

Except, first adventure they immediately get trapped in a parallel, kind of very hellish dimension. They get out after three years, but they're pretty traumatized - and pretty much pu off of adventuring forever.

(Though they do find and keep a magic amulet in [hell dimension] that they use to cast spells. Mostly teleportation spells, really.)

Deciding they don't really want to meet a guy who's whole schtick is adventuring, they instead begin their search for dad#2, that vulture guy.

They find out he works for scrooge mcdad (of course he does) but don't judge him too harshly yet. From what they can find online (public libraries for the win!) the guy doesn't really... Do anything. Let alone go on adventures.

So Jay decides to find out where he lives and well, just kinda shows up at his door.

Much surprise is had, it's not quite the family reunion Jay was hoping for but they haven't been kicked out so they count it as a win.

Staying with their dad is pretty great, actually. He even hires a private tutor for homeschooling, since Jay missed 3 years of school and has a lot of catching up to do.

(they definitely hoard food in their room somewhere, just in case. They also have a bug-out bag ready at any given time. Just in case.)

Turns out, Dadford doesn't only also hate adventuring with a passion - he has a whole secret organization to take over the world and stop all adventuring! Forever!

(Jay found a secret stash of files on the computer they use for video games.)

Thus, at the ripe age of 13 they become the youngest FOWL agent ever!

And because they are kind of a big security risk now that they know, they get moved out to live in the outpost at the library of Alexandria instead, together with a bunch of the villains Dadford recruited.

(including Phantom Blot who Jay has an ongoing rivalry with just because they use magic sometimes lol)

(they and the villains play mario kart/party together on sundays)

Eventually, (three years later) season 1 happens and seeing the mcduck family successfully overcome the rift that della's absence left, dadford decides to put one of his better pawns into play.

Through some posturing, magic pyrotechnics and a fake mystical artefact, Jay gets planted into the mcduck family as scrooge's "magic child/clone".

(this happens during the episode "The Depths of Cousin Fethry", while huey and dewey are out meeting their cousin, scrooge, louie and webby go to find an invaluable treasure and return with Jay. Cue scrooge introducing Jay as his kid and Huey and Dewey going "wtf did we miss")

They go along on an adventure or two, mainly because saying "I hate adventuring and I don't want to do it because I was traumatized and hate it" doesn't make sense for someone who was just created from an ancient magic artefact. But after a couple adventures they can finally just put their foot down and stay home. It's chill.

They draw sometimes, do a few commissions.

Scrooge wants to bond with them so they teach him how to play video games and they watch some shows together.

Eventually, the last adventure rolls around.

At the point where Webby pretends to be June and kidnaps... Herself (yknow what part i mean. Probably) Jay comes with the clones, obviously shocking Webby.

But they make it to the library without any particular incident - except Huey getting discovered, obviously.

Jay stays behind to "escort June and Webby". They've very much realized the switcheroo that Webby pulled and use their (thus far mostly benign) magic to switcheroo back.

They nod to June, explaining that they didn't say anything earlier so that Director Dad doesn't get on her case too bad about "failing".

After that, Jay kinda just goes off to hang out a bit. Drink some pep. Chill.

On the way to Webby's cell, she wakes up and takes out June. (Because of course she does. She's Webby.)

Cue the rest of the finale.

Right up until Dadford is fighting McDuck and his fam. Because now, he calls Jay forward, who kinda immobilizes the fam with their magic for a bit.

Dadford throws his employees into the death pit, but oh shock! He picks up to throw Jay in as well.

And he does. He does throw them in.

Luckily, Jay is a master at magical teleportation and nobody realizes they weren't, in fact, erased from existence.

Bla bla bla, scrooge signs the papyrus, "family is the greatest adventure of all", boom the other vilalins show up to defeat dadford once and for all.

But what's this? It's Jay, with a magical barrier, protecting her dad from being turned into a non-sentient vulture!

They teleport themself and Dadford outta there.

At this point they're assuming they got thrown in the pit as a sort of surprise/back up, to make everyone think FOWL was already defeated when they were still there and alive. Yknow, a backup plan.

They live on the street for a bit, but Jay manages to get a job, securing the two of them an aprtment.

Dadford doesn't rlly come out of his room for a while.

Jay gets it; having ur thirty year-long plan derailed like that couldn't be, yknow, pleasant.

At some point, Louie finds them at their job and basically blackmails them into helping him out during adventures. (They kinda hide in his shadow, basically/louie summons them, so when something particularly dangerous happens they can subtly magic it away.)

Dadford eventually emerges from his room and drops the bombshell we all already knew: he very much did intend to kill Jay that day.

Jay is kinda shellshocked. They sort of robotically just return to their routine; go to work.

Louie summons them to deal with an adventure again, and wouldn't u know it? Its an adventure in that hell dimension that Jay got stuck in as a kid.

This, coupled with the revelation that one of their dads tried to kill them, kinda makes them very uncareful. They get revealed to the rest of the family but manage to get everyone out of there.

They reveal that Louie's been blackmailing them and the fact dadford tried to actually kill them sorta spills out in the same, emotionally charged rant and to their surprise scrooge offers to allow them back in the mansion, despite everything.

Jay hesitantly accepts, but mentions that they would like to keep working their current job. This is agreeable to everyone.

Jay returns to their apartment later, under the cover of "going to work" and find dadford packing his things.

They're like, what r u doing? Where would u even go?

And he's like, idk, i'll dip into my grandma's account or smth, its not like u want me here anymore, what with the attempted murder.

And Jay's like, I didn't say that.

Stunned silence.

So anyway, Jay sighs and tells dadford he's allowed to stay at the apartment and that Jay will stay at the manor again.

This is how far ive gotten. If u have any ideas/thoughts/complaints, drop 'em somewhere i can see 'em!

If anyone's even read this far lol.

If u have, have a virtual cookie, you've earned it🍪

[thefanboyhub]

My laundry is on the floor right now and I decided right now was a good time to do some digging into one of the most interesting characters in KOTLC.

It's time to dissect Fitzroy Avery Vacker!

So we all know Mr. Ritz Cracker,

Mr. "We're Cognate's!"

Mr. Golden boy

Mr. You-get-the-damn-point!

Fitz was the Elf who found Sophie in the Forbidden Cities. He was the one who introduced her to his— their— world. He was the first person to see Sophie cry, first person in the Lost Cities to support her.

From reading the books we learn a lot about how Fitz grew up, and you might be saying "uh... no?" BUT HA! YOU FOOL! You cannot just simply read the words, you must read behind the meaning and watch a characters behavior to learn how they grew to be who they are! (It's why I love characters so much, there's so many ways to learn about them)

From context clues and how he behaved in the books we know he was the golden child. First kid to manifest at the tender age of 13, and lose his leaping bracelet early too, not to mention he was a telepath and was basically flawless in school. He took pride in it, like most kids do. But you see here, that's the problem. He never had someone to take him down his pedestal that his parents practically built for him (fucking Alden). He grew up being told he'd do great things, that he was a strong Elf, that he was better then anyone else. So naturally he started to believe it and act like it. He wasn't necessarily vicious either, but he didn't need to be; he always got what he wanted anyways.

I think he felt alone. I mean he reacted so viciously towards his brother Alvar after finding out he was a traitor— UNDERSTANDABLY SO BY THE WAY! But my confusion with this was how angry he was. But I thought about it a lot through my rereading of the series and I realized that he was so angry because he had loved, trusted, looked up to, and felt inferior to his older brother. Despite— No— Because he was treated so much better by Alden(bitch) and Della(ILoveYouWifey) Alvar gained resentment for his siblings, mostly Fitz.

There was a part of Fitz sports thing in book 8.5 KOTLC Unlocked where he talked about playing with Alvar. He said it's no fun playing base quest (I think) with him because he'd stay invisible the entire time. What this tells me is Alvar agreed to play the game but would dip out of his own jealousy and pettiness. Which takes me to my previous statement—

Fitz felt alone. The one thing he never got was a brother who actually liked and loved him. The one thing he had been patiently waiting for and hoping for since he was younger and treated like the golden boy was his older brother. But he never got it, instead he got a traitorous older brother who hated him so deeply he'd hurt his friends without a second thought.

In my opinion, Fitz's rage over his brother is reasonable. It's honestly so real and raw that I can't even say he's being idiotic. Especially considering what I just said.

BUT

His fatal flaw his his anger— or more technical — His tantrums.

Like I said before, he always got what he wanted, he was spoiled and treated like a little prince. So every single time he didn't get what he wanted, his anger would rise. His emotional intelligence has been stumped because he never had someone say no to him or been rejected for something. So he's confused and angry; "Why not!? This never happens to ME!" Type of mentality.

This also comes along with jealousy and the need to compete with others. So when Keefe started to show his affections for Sophie a lot more openly back in book 4 KOTLC Neverseen, specifically when they ended up in Alluveterre for protection that was provided by the black swan, he started to act jealous. He realized how Keefe felt and noticed something about how Sophie acted and he automatically felt the need to compete which is why in book 9 KOTLC Stellerluna he has Sophie on a pedestal like a prise in his subconscious. He doesn't see her like a lover or a crush, he sees her as a prise to win over, subconsciously though. Consciously he thinks it's a crush. He went from thinking of her as a sister to someone he wanted to date; that doesn't happen for no reason.

Moving on from the relationship drama aspect of this, we can talk about his outbursts when something goes wrong. He needs someone to blame. Always. And it's never himself. He needs someone to push all this fear and anger out on because he's not emotionally or mentally equipped to deal with it. It's a self-destructive flaw he posseses. Same with his jealousy.

Which is why I love his character! He actually has some pretty bad flaws! But he also recognized it and is attempting to fix it; what he doesn't realize is that it will take time and whatever he broke will most likely never be fixed again. Simple as that. It's sad and will probably hurt him a lot but I will help him grow.

In conclusion: Kill Alden and get Fitz into therapy :D

[mrgladstonegander]

was thinking of wasian ducktales, and i tried thinking of how characters would refer to each other in vietnamese :^) i think the specific rules might be different per area/dialect, but there are some general ones. im also limited in my vietnamese bc i’ve only learned it with my family, so if any other viet-speaking/vietnamese ppl want to add anything, im fine with that!

this is hard mainly bc there aren’t canon ages for (most of) the characters. vietnamese pronouns rely pretty heavily on them 😅 to explain this lightly:

the pronoun is based on gender and (relative) age. “I” would be how the other person (should) refer to you, and the other person would use what you’d call them

Huey is older than Dewey and Louie, so he would call himself “anh” (older boy) and call them “em” (younger). Dewey and Louie would probably just call him by his name bc they dont care he’s older by a few seconds (also they dont seem like they wouldnt learn a second language lol) (or they’d just use “anh” w/o bis name)

Assuming Webby is older, she could call herself “chi” (older girl), and call the triplets “em”, but the fact theyre so close + bc they’re friends, they might just use names talking to each other. “bạn” means friend, and they might call her that at first but it feels kind of weird to me since they’re family

also i didnt note it but Webby and Donald using con(child)/chú is like saying that she’s Donald’s kid too; i felt like that’s be correct, though when first meeting “em” would be more correct.

Note 2: “anh Gladstone/Fethry” is closer to “Cousin Gladstone/Cousin Fethry”, but the fact that theres a 20+ year difference makes that feel weird to me 😅 even if Gladstone+Fethry aren’t literally their uncles. “chú” would be if one of them is younger than Della, “bác” is if they’re older. I think Fethry would would refer to the other duck cousins as “anh/chị” bc he’s nice like that lol. HDL would have to call themselves “con”, and Webby would probably use “em”

How Donald/Della refer to each other would depend on who’s older, and how they’d refer to Gladstone + Fethry would depend on how old their parents are relative to their dad (bc they’re related through Quackmore). For example, even if Gladstone is younger, if Daphne is older than Quackmore, Don+Della would have to call him “anh”

‼️I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING WRONG‼️Della would call HDL “con” (child). honestly she’d probably refer to Webby as that too. “cô” is like the female version of chú

this is getting long note 3: Fenton calling Gyro “anh” makes sense bc he respects Gyro (and i hc Gyro is being older tbh), but Gyro calling Fenton “nó” is like. pretty rude/dismissive, especially to that person’s face). (it’s like saying “that guy over there” abt a random person on the street or to an animal. Fenton probably has enough self-respect just to use “em” tho lol) post-Astro Boyd they’d probably use em/anh for each other

[cetaitlaverite]

I HAVE TOO MANY FEELINGS ON CHAPTER 25 SO HERE’S A LIST

Drunk Freddie is the cutest thing in the world. Every time we see her drunk she just gets cuter and cuter.

Not as drunk Rosie carrying her all the way home, can't believe he found a way to get more perfect.

Love Freddie’s obsession with Rosie hurting himself.

Someone needs to punch Della in the face.

Every new thing I learn about Daniel makes me like him less. If he didn't love half-Austrian, German-speaking Freddie then he didn't love Freddie.

SHE SAID SHE LOVES HIM AND SHE SAID IT LIKE 4 TIMES

I love how Freddie has learned to unashamedly embrace her identity.

While drinking warm milk like a small child.

THEY LOVE EACH OTHER AND THEY KEEP SAYING IT

OH DANG THEY’RE GONNA FUCK IN THE KITCHEN

Pretty sure these clowns don't have protection? Idk that's a problem for Chapter 26.

i love these breakdowns of your thoughts!!! drunk freddie is a joy to write and i love her very much, so im glad you enjoy her antics too!! della is a bit of a bitch this chapter but she’s a fascinating character to me. i can’t even imagine the pain she’s in but that also doesn’t make her actions justifiable.

and i fear im doing daniel a disservice!!! it would not have been uncommon at all for brits to resent anything associated with germany or austria after the first world war. austria-hungary was germany’s biggest ally so when daniel falls in love with an austrian girl who has just moved back to england from vienna it goes against a lot of what he’s been taught by his parents and in school. he loved her very, very much, he just found it difficult to embrace the german when it was so prominently despised in the culture he grew up in. he was a sweetheart really, i promise!!

that being said, the fact of rosie not minding freddie’s german even while at war with germany and having somewhat of an idea of what germany is doing to jews in europe speaks volumes about how he’s ultimately the better partner for her. he finds it so very easy to accept all of her, even the not-so-palatable parts, and the contrast between him and daniel is more one of a mature love vs a young, first love, rather than a contrast between good and bad. freddie really does embrace her dual nationality with him!!!

and worry not!!! they’re not going to have unprotected sex hahahahah just everything short of it. the last thing they need right now is a baby 🤣

thank you for these thoughts!!! i love love love to read them!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[thetrickstersdaughter]

One of my previous posts reminded me that I never share my story of how I learned that I was a demigod daughter of Hermes.

Starting off, my mama knew very well who my father was, but couldn’t tell me for the same reason any mortal parent of a demigod child can’t: it would put me in more danger if I was aware. One of the only times I can vaguely remember Dad coming to visit me at my childhood home was when I was three or four. After that visit, I bugged Mama constantly with questions about where he had gone. She always had a pretty hilarious story as a response: he’s a mailman who got hopelessly lost on his route or he’s doing the Forrest Gump thing and running cross country. Maybe it’s not alright to lie to a child, but I’ll give her a pass in these situations since she always made me laugh.

More under the cut.

Fast forward a few years (6-7 years old), my mama was deployed with the Army to the Middle East. She was a pilot and I love bragging about how badass she is to everyone I know. I went to live with my mama’s parents, Pawpaw Jack (who has since passed away) and my Granny Della. Granny was a big into the Pentecostal denomination, and, without going into too much detail, I experienced some trauma which caused me to run away from home. Hermes kids do have a tendency to be a bit nomadic, after all. I made it to the Kentucky/Tennessee border before encountering my first monster, a drakaina. Having no weapons or other skills to defend myself, I did what I do best and ran. Even with my demigod endurance, it still probably wouldn’t have ended well had the Man with the Van (aka Dad) not yanked me into the back of his mail truck after putting George and Martha into laser mode and cremating the monster.

I personally couldn’t tell you why Hermes chose to intervene as it is hard for me to psychoanalyze my immortal father. Maybe he felt especially bad for me, with what I had been through, and everything that happened with Luke made him feel slightly guilty about how he treated his other kids? I know he’s always loved my mother in his own way, at least he told me they had a lot of fun and he looks back on their moments together fondly. At any rate, I know he took a huge risk personally intervening and taking me to Camp Half Blood himself. Our short time together on our little road trip was one happy memory I couldn’t help but think back to every time I felt I was angry enough to seek revenge.

Since Dad delivered me along with his packages to camp and introduced me as his kid, I didn’t really need to be claimed in the traditional way. There was still a bit of pomp and circumstance though (caduceus floating over my head,” all hail Rebekah Reilly, Daughter of Hermes, Harold of the Gods”, so on and so forth). All of my siblings just accepted me with open arms into our chaotic family and to this day my siblings are some of my best friends and biggest supporters.

[darkmasterofcupcakes]

Donald Duck?

First impression: "Not going to lie, it's so weird to see Donald being depicted as this parental figure who is kind of a mess but clearly cares about the well being of his nephews? I'm so used to the shorts where he's basically just as immature as them."

Impression now: "He's the best dad, basically no contest. But I also like how he's come back to embracing being on adventures again, at least once in a while? But gotta give him so much credit for having boundaries for when he wants to go on big adventures and when he just wants to go on a trip for a while with his girl...and his new adopted kids, I guess."

Favorite moment: I always love the moment in "The Shadow War" where he decides that he and the boys need to go back to Scrooge because he's realized that their family has been too broken apart for too long, and the implication that he's come to really forgive Scrooge for what happened, because he understands how much regret his uncle has over what happened.

Idea for a story: I don't usually do crossover stuff, but after seeing jokes about how Donald apparently just adopts any kid he sees, I almost feel like I'd need to do something with Donald as a Mandalorian. That duck would have so many foundlings it wouldn't even be funny.

Unpopular opinion: While I understand him being angry at Scrooge for building the rocket and him not wanting to have the boys go on adventures, I don't think he was really in the right to both take the eggs and just leave, or to never tell the boys about their connection to Scrooge for so long.

Favorite relationship: I think it's a testament to the quality of the writing in this series that I love him and Daisy so much when they admittedly don't get a ton of interaction...and normally I'm painfully neutral to borderline disliking them in other continuities. But in the reboot, they just have such good chemistry and are so sweet together, I'm just so happy for them both.

Favorite headcanon: Ever since I learned that apparently him and Della hatched out of the same egg, I've developed the headcanon that Donald is trans. Not sure if this would apply to all version of the character, but it's my headcanon for the 2017 version.

(All of these are under the impression you meant the 2017 version)

[godfrey-the-chaos-duck]

uh hey! I’m new here and was wondering how to get involved in the writing stuff, especially involving ducks. I was wondering if you have any advice?

Honestly I just kinda... started writing. Then once I got brave, I started posting.

But I guess advice-wise I would say

Make sure to try and stay in-character (though I guess that goes for any fandom)

Della is NOT a bad parent she is LEARNING and she is TRYING HER BEST (sorry if I came on too strong, there has been SO MUCH DISCOURSE and there are so many fics that do her so dirty)

You don't have to write in Scrooge's accent a lot, but a well-placed "cannae" or "dinnae" in place of "can't" or "don't" can work wonders if it flows with the sentence.

The triplets are NOT all the same (if you write for the older version of DuckTales, or for the comics, disregard this statement)

Donald is the butt of the joke a lot of the time, and that's funny to write about, but remember to show him some love too, just like the show does

I can't really think of much else, and obviously stylistic choices and all that is entirely up to you

Sincerely,

~ Godfrey 💛

[harlowhanlon]

TWILIGHT. STARLIGHT. MOONLIGHT.

THE INTRODUCTION.

NAME: Harlow Marie Hanlon ALIAS/NICKNAME: Hara, Low, Harley (only by her parents) AGE: 30 RESIDENCE: Garden Gallery, Downtown, Kismet Harbor, OR OCCUPATION: Assistant manager at Della Moda FACECLAIM: Samara Weaving

tw: missing person mention

THE BASICS.

DATE OF BIRTH: MARCH 13th, 1994 HEIGHT: 5'5" HAIR COLOR: Blonde EYE COLOR: Blue PLACE OF BIRTH: East Haven, VT GENDER / PRONOUNS: Cis-Female (she/her) SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Demisexual ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Demiromantic RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single POSITIVE TRAITS: outgoing, intelligent, humorous, spontaneous NEGATIVE TRAITS: standoffish, superficial, lazy, unreliable SPOKEN LANGUAGES: English, French ALLERGIES: None ILLNESSES/IMPAIRMENTS: None

RELATIONSHIPS.

FATHER: Maxwell Hanlon MOTHER: Lucille Hanlon SIBLINGS: None COUSINS: Summer Cassidy, Prudence Cassidy PARTNER: None CHILDREN: None FRIENDS: Verity Wagner, Aurora Jackson, Joanna Wagner, Brendon Rulli ROOMMATE: Alliannah Vaughn ANNOYANCES: Archie Morgan PETS: None

BIOGRAPHY.

Harlow was the miracle Maxwell and Lucille Hanlon had always hoped for and more. In love since the tender age of 20, their educational ventures were their lives' sole focus for many years. They finished their studies, began to work as attorneys and earn a good living for themselves. It wasn't until Lucille and Maxwell neared their 30's, a time at which they'd been married for almost five years, that they began to wonder, if a child might not be just the blessing they needed to perfect their life as a family. Though luck wasn't on their side. Years of fruitless hoping and trying to conceive a child went by and weighed heavy on their minds. Especially Lucille's. The endless string of disappointments and visits to multiple doctors offices, wore her down. Just a few weeks after Maxwell had first proposed the idea of an adoption to his wife, their biggest wish was granted and nine months later, their first and only daughter, Harlow, was born.

All the memories of her childhood were doused in bright sunlight.

There was not a single thing the little girl had to miss. Raised in Emerald Mist, there was not a single care in the world for the Hanlons, especially their daughter. Showered in love and adoration by her parents and extended family, the girl got her every wish granted. Only the best was just about good enough for their daughter. Maxwell and Lucille were so lovestruck by their little girl, with eyes bright as a summer sky and hair like liquid gold, they barely realized just how much they pampered her. Harlow grew up to be exceptionally bright. She was a curious child, inquisitive and bold and unafraid. She had never learned the limitations of healthy boundaries or the importance of the word 'No'. How could she? After all, she was a girl who got everything her heart desired.

Harlow had always been a smart kid. Always on top of the class, without having to put too much effort into her studies. The pride her parents took in their daughters intelligence and grades, her name on the dean's list, justified the excessive shopping sprees their daughter engaged in, in her teenage years. Harlow lived her life for the moment, didn't have any long-term goals, like her parents, which lead the young girl, on the threshold of being a woman, to dismiss the opportunity of going to university, to build a life for herself. Instead, Harlow continued to live in her parents lavish house in Emerald Mist, continued to spend their money on clothes and makeup and parties.

At one such outing, an innocent game of Truth or Dare resulted in the disappearance of her classmate, who has not been found to this very day, the search ongoing for a decade.

Her outgoing and excessive lifestyle lead Harlow to know a lot of people, though you could hardly call them her friends. The idea of what made a friendship was foreign to the girl, as she's never known of the importance of loyalty and empathy. Harlow had never had to learn the important lessons in life, never had to tighten her grip around reality. What it means to work for your money. How important the loyalty of a real, profound friendship truly is.

It was a slow process. A slow build up, to Maxwell and Lucille realizing, that their daughter, now on her way of nearing her mid-twenties, did not seem to plan on getting her life together any time soon. Talks were held and it didn't take much more than a handful of fights with her parents, until the young woman found an aim in life, something to work towards. Moving to LA at age 25, Harlow began her studies in fashion design, excelling at each class and graduating soon enough at top of her class.

As a new opportunity presented itself, the chance to work at a new fashion store as an assistant manager, Harlow seized it, moving back to her hometown mere four years after her departure to California. Living in a downtown apartment, Harlow is still proven to be oblivious and negligent toward any and every inconvenience, lavishing in her lifestyle of glamor, although not quite as much as it once has been, still not used to receiving "No" for an answer. Though she now is more responsible than in her early teenage years, Harlow can't shake the importance of other peoples' approval, wants to be adored and mistakes every smile for kindness. On bad days, it means much more than things that truly matter.

TIMELINE

1994 - Harlow was born 1998 - Harlow's Hamster got kidnapped by the neighbor's kid ???? - Person xyz goes missing at a party 2012 - Harlow graduates High School 2019 - Harlow moves to LA to study fashion design 2024 - Harlow moves back to Kismet Harbor

[radioromantic-moved]

NYX'S LIBRARY OF GAY SHIT

every (completed) self ship fic i've ever written babey!!! there will be a link to this on my carrd in a little bit. don't worry it's not the full text of every single thing under the keep reading it's just links. i promise

EYE OF THE STORM (DELLA X NYX)

untitled reunion (i'll level with you guys this one is old and probably embarrassing. but in the interest of posterity it's here)

SOMEONE WILL REMEMBER US IN THE FUTURE (THETIS X XENO! THEY HAVE A NAME NOW!)

the sea and those who love it (i haaaate this dialogue i cannot write anything old-fashionedy without sounding like a cringy roleplayer!! also this is technically not complete it was supposed to be like a multichapter thing but it works like this so. it's fine)

YOUR ANNUAL ENTREPRENEUR (FRANK X NYX)

"ray of sunshine" (unfortunately i think maybe i think all of my old shit is a little cringe. this is fine i hope it's fine. aged only a little poorly.)

DOOR TO NOWHERE (HELEN X NYX)

ode to a modern meneleus (this one still fucks. written when i was real sad about her canon death.)

nothing worth loving isn't askew (the longest completed self ship fic i have Ever Written! light body horror in chapter 5, general creepy shit throughout but filtered through the perspective of a protagonist who deals with scary shit through humor. this thing is a Beast it's over 50 pages and i've never shown it in its entirety to anyone before. this feels a little like sending your firstborn child off to school.)

not a fic but! her ship playlist :)

FOLIE‏‏‎ ‎A‏‏‎ ‎DEUX (CYTREX. JESUS CHRIST.)

tw for alcoholism or at least the suggestion of it for everything here

an awful realization fic (how this wretched bullshit all got started)

another awful realization fic (the sequel...briefly suggestive but not on purpose and it's incredibly awkward and terrible for all involved)

whatever this is. (okay i was struggling with intrusive thoughts and having a really bad evening and i needed to comfort myself somehow and listen. listen. listen. did it make me feel better? yes. i don't have a defense on this one. your honor there are worse coping mechanisms...)

drabblecember 3 (not very explicitly romantic but perhaps that is a good thing.)

barstool operatic (has never seen the light of day before! this is a little like sending your secondborn child off to school but they still haven't learned it's not okay to bite people and you're worried you will have to attend a parent teacher meeting. conflicts a little with the canon of the first fic on the list though it doesn't necessarily conflict with the second. genuinely one of the best fanfics i've ever written i just wish it wasn't. well. for this.)

they have a playlist too

COBRA LILY (BERNTIGONE. SO WE DON'T HAVE TO END ON THAT)

drabblecember 1 (sadly the only completed fic i have of them as of right now but i like it the best out of the 3 drabblecembers so it's okay)

one more playlist for the road!

MOTH TO A FLAME (MOSS X NYX ALMOST FORGOT)

drabblecember 2 (still don't Love this one but i may have been too hard on it before. i still want to develop my‏‏‎ ‎monprom‏‏‎ ‎s/i‏‏‎ ‎more they're too generic right now)

[calina12]

Thank you for further elaboration on your point ^^

I'm coming from the angle of not being an active part of the fandom and only watching the new Ducktales on a casual level while still being very interested in it story and character wise

I should have specified that much more, rookie mistake on my part, sorry.

My comment was based on how I experienced it while watching the show as a more casual viewer. I took no offense from Scrooge throwing that in Webby's face because the scene makes it point blank clear that it was wrong, hurtful and Scrooge is the one who has to learn everything from it. While he didn't apologise, the set up was clear: Webby is family and not even Scrooge either has any business claiming otherwise. This worldview of his will be corrected by the end of the show and it was.

The Della incident, on the other hand, has always and stil does feel unbelievably misguided in its intention to a degree of "Buddy, what were they THINKING approaching it like that??". Like, I GET what they wanted to do but the execution resulted in too many very questionable factors of Della's initial disciplinary (can I say it like that in English?) of Louie to just be swept under the rug, resulting with them being unintentionally framed as "valid tough love" from a parent when you watch the episode in a non-fandom-analytical way.

It's the episode where I actively told a friend of mine while we binged it together: "just feel the vibes of what Della's parenting lesson was supposed to be here, it's the only episode where I don't think they handled it well. It's a big hiccup, but that's all. Della is a good mom, this just sucks"

This is where I'm coming from, hope that puts my initial comment into perspective ^^

The Misogyny of It All

So a lot of Della Duck Discourse is rehashed all the time, points are made again and again, but one thing that I almost never see people defend -and conversely, see people attack all the time- is The Line.

You know what I'm talking about. The Line from Glomtales.

"Your plans, your schemes, they only lead to bad things for your family. If you want to be a part of this family, you've gotta stop."

That one.

Now, what exactly Della was trying to get across with that line is a whole other can of worms that deserves its own post (basically she -and also the writers- horribly failed her Speech check).

What we're going over here is how that mimics a certain line from the last season, said by a parental figure to a child, that gets so much less flack. That, in fact, often gets paraded around as 'an interesting twist on a character.'

"You are not family!"

I have never seen people attack this line with the same amount of vitriol as they attack Della's, which is funny when they're the exact same line.

Actually, not even that- Scrooge's is worse.

It's more direct, it's literally yelled at Webby, it doesn't even attempt to address the issue Scrooge had (Webby blaming him for what happened to Della) and instead just straight-up attacks her as a person.

Now, to be fully honest- I like this line! I do genuinely think it's an interesting route for Scrooge to take, and is quite realistic to the grumpy old bastard. It's just funny that nobody ever comes to Webby's defense the same way they do for Louie.

Because the thing is- between Webby and Louie, one of these two has genuine, canonical issues with feeling like they're not a part of the family, like they're an outsider amongst those they love the most, like they don't belong.

And it's not Louie.

It is a consistent part of Webby's characterization that she feels like she doesn't belong. This gets touched on in all three seasons (and honestly, it could be argued that it gets worse after this moment).

Conversely, that just is not a part of Louie's canonical characterization. Even in the first episode of season 2, the one where Louie gets the closest to an 'I don't belong in this family' moment, it's less 'I don't belong here' and more 'fuck me I am terrible at adventuring'. And! It gets resolved in that episode!

(Of course, there is absolutely something to be said for how it's resolved- specifically by Scrooge encouraging him to be a scheming little bastard, which then thusly becomes the thing that threatens his family the most. Which would, logically, be a pretty big blow to his self-esteem. This isn't what I'm here to discuss right now but it is genuinely interesting.)

Louie never really shows an issue with feeling like he doesn't belong in his family. He shows a disconnect with his family at times, but in canon that never really evolves into a full-blown feeling of displacement. It does get close in Glomtales, but never quite reaches it.

So it's 'interesting' (read: not interesting) that Scrooge's fuckup here gets brushed away pretty easily. A lot of the time the line just straight-up isn't addressed, and when it is, often times it's about how "Oh he apologized to Webby offscreen, obviously."

Which.

Not he did not.

I mean, let me be clear: I don't mind it when that's the answer. It works for me to just brush it away if it's not meant to be the focus...

But Scrooge almost certainly didn't apologize for it.

As 'New Gods on the Block!' Showed us, Scrooge is downright awful at realizing when his actions have hurt people.

More likely than not, Scrooge would just assume that everything is fine and would avoid bringing it up at all costs because he'd feel awkward about it. Because he is, very importantly, not good at talking about things he doesn't want to talk about.

So why is it that Louie is always the one feeling like he doesn't belong? Why is it Della who is always a terrible parent for what she's said? Why are Webby's feelings of disconnect never really given the same gravity as Louie's? Why is Scrooge's blunder let off the hook super easily?

It just feels silly to me.

And, well.

Kinda like the fact that, since Scrooge is a guy and Webby's a girl, and Della is a woman and Louie's a boy, has something to do with it.

I'll happily give the benefit of the doubt and assume it's not deliberate, but quite frankly it is a double standard.

I think that people would be less upset with the Della Duck Discourse if Scrooge was held in a similarly critical position over what he's said and done. If it was acknowledged that Della isn't uniquely awful in what she says and does, and that a lot of the others have fucked up in extremely similar ways.

(I mean for fuck's sake, everybody goes on and on about how Della left her kids for ten years -which, for the record, wasn't what she wanted to do- but nobody ever criticizes Donald for taking the kids away from their family and never talking to them about Della- which is something he actively and deliberately chose to do)

TL;DR: The fact that Della gets intensely criticized for what she's said and done, but Donald and Scrooge are conversely celebrated as 'interesting' and 'complex' for what they've said and done, even when it brings harm to the kids, is a blatant double-standard. And if you don't think that this double-standard is bad or wrong for existing (or even that it Doesn't Actually Exist), instead of immediately claiming that it's a non-issue, maybe try to look inward and figure out why you really think that is.

[freshstartfromscratch]

The Great British Bake-Off AU!

Yes, this is happening. So a little while ago, I got inspired by this shitpost:

The OG question was sent to @kiatheinsomniac and then bounced to @asscrackcreed from whom I shamelessly have stolen this idea. So shoutout to them I guess.

It was the sign that I needed to write headcanons for the Great British Bake-Off AU. Ngl, I do have a soft spot for this show. It kept me sane when I had to spend a month bedridden during my illness.

Anyway, On your marks? Get, set, bake!:

Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad

Originally from Syria, he moved to the UK with his parents as a child. Altaïr learned to bake in the home economics class and took a liking to it. He lives in Leicester with his wife Maria and two sons, Darim and Sef. When he's not baking, he's a book illustrator and stay-at-home dad.

While baking, he likes to use earth-flavored spices like nutmeg, vanilla, cinnamon, cardamom, sumac, and mace. He enjoys using orange and lemon zest in his baking too.

Altaïr's strongest side is the technical challenge, and his weakest side is pastry construction. He can make beautiful patterns to decorate his bakes but can't do creative structures. It'll always end up as sth like a square. 

He is one of the calmest bakers on the show. Everything is perfectly planned and tried out multiple times before the challenge. Altaïr doesn't go into a panic mood while under pressure, or at least he doesn't show it.

His signature recipe is cinnamon walnut cake.

Ezio Auditore

Ezio learned how to bake from his mom, and cooking together was their bonding activity when he still lived in Italy. He's a banker living in Edinburgh. When he's not baking he participates in all free-to-air cooking game shows. 

Unsurprisingly Ezio is a master in the cream department (nothing sexual about this sentence.) He likes using cream, mascarpone, meringue, and egg whites. White, fluffy, and puffy!

Ezio likes deep and slightly bitter additions to his cakes, like coffee or chocolate. He always balances them out with the perfect amount of sugar. It's not too sweet, but you can still taste the deep flavors.

His signature bake is ricotta cheesecake with coffee. He does have more Italian classics in his repertoire, like Torta della Nonna and Torta Paradiso.

He's a very emotional contestant who would cry if something goes wrong (because it's NOT just a cake!) He's very harsh on himself and tends to exaggerate his mistakes. His baking has to be perfect. Otherwise, he'll be dissatisfied with it. He's loud and a show-off in front of the cameras, so the public loves him, and the producers love him.

Connor Kenway

Connor, though born in the USA, currently lives in London. He works as a home health nurse in Camden (I picked Camden because it's where the Kennway Mansion is ) for a man named Achilles. He bakes to relax after work, and his numerous friends are big fans of his goods.

Due to his job, Connor is good at all the physics and chemistry related to baking. He knows how to structure his bakes and what temperature of the chocolate is the best for the best glossy effect. Things like this.

He's the super competitive baker. He's in the show to win and won't accept anything less than the finale three. His determination is sometimes scary as if he wanted to murder someone who killed his family.

Connor's signature bake is something typically American with a twist. It is a recipe connected to his roots, but a look into the future too. I'd say it's pistachio, pecans, and pumpkin NY-Style cheesecake.

Connor likes to mix tradition with modern ideas but still keeps them quite conservative. There's a fine line between a modern twist and a  baking blasphemy to him, and he tries to balance it out. 

Edward Kenway

He is a single dad of two, living and working in Swansea as a shipwright. He's an ex-sailor who used to work in the British West Indies. Edward started to bake eight years ago as a pastime with his now teenage daughter Jeniffer after her mother died. When he's not baking he likes to sail with his children and friends. 

His specialty is in the West Indies bakes. Brown sugar and rum are his favorite ingredients, and his signature bake is a burnt sugar essence sponge cake. He likes to use juicy fruits like pineapple or mango in his cakes too.

Edward is the contestant who should add one tablespoon of rum according to the recipe but pours half of the bottle instead.

He's the chaotic baker. His section in the cooking tent always looks like something exploded there.

He's the "I don't want to be the first baker to leave the tent" kind of contestant. He didn't sign up because he believes he's the best, but:  "If I'm not the last, that's a victory to me" kind of guy.

Arno Dorian

Arno is from Paris but works and lives in London's most posh Royal Borough - Kensington and Chelsea. He's an actor and a ballet dancer. Arno is an artist and a perfectionist. He likes to express himself, and baking is yet another way to do it.

Arno is an expert on anything related to fruits. Jam, marmalade, or addition of fruits to cream or decoration. He likes to use flowers too.

His strong side is the visual aspect of his bakes. He can make the most creative, baked constructions, but they often lack stability. He can make a flying plane cake that looks real, but it'll fall apart way too soon.

Lavender and blueberry meringue cake is the staple recipe of this baker. However, his mother's recipe apfelstrudel is to die for, and it saved him from elimination.

He is a bit dramatic and a natural performer, but he's not as dramatic as Ezio. He still is dramatic.

Jacob Frye

He is the youngest baker in the tent. Jacob learned how to bake from his grandma in Crawley. Jacob lives in Whitechapel with his partner and a newborn son Emmett (Canon Jacob had to be a young parent if Lydia was born in 1893 when Jacob was 46. Emmett's name comes from the list of known British Assassins used by the Templar Isabelle Ardant and a fanbase theory that he's Jacob's son.) He works with at-risk youth in a Youth Centre as a Mentor/caretaker and is a football (soccer) coach of their team, "The Rooks."

He's the one who adds controversial ingredients like beetroots to his sponges to make them moister. He can come across as pretentious, but he's just an unconventional baker. 

Jacob is the kind of contestant who everyone thinks is going to be eliminated, but he manages to get by and wins the "star of the episode" title in the next episode. You never can tell how he's going to perform in the show.

His signature bake would be something random that nobody expects, like Medovnik cake.

He's the "started baking, had a breakdown, bon appétit!" kind of contestant.

[laladellakang]

more on della

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2021.10.17

(TW! mentions of anxiety, emotional abuse and self-harm. it’s at the end and i will indicate when)

DELLA KANG FACTS THAT MIGHT NOT BE MENTIONED

TRAINING PERIOD: YG entertainment (two years, three months) | be:lift labs (five months)

LANGUAGES: english (fluent), korean (fluent), japanese (basic & learning)

SEXUALITY: omnisexual, male preferred

HABITS: ‘glaring’ (RBF problems), daydreaming, running her hand through her hair, biting her lip, fiddling with her necklace, playing with the members' hair/hands, unlady-like sitting, talking in konglish, (according to the members) being too nice

—born and raised in seoul to a fairly wealthy family, though she's very frugal

—her sister was born seven years after her. she looks up to della so much (and her bias is niki)

—to open more opportunities in the future, her parents taught her english as her first language. they knew that learning korean was easier so they figured that if she learned the harder language at a young age, she wouldn't struggle as much later on

—because she was more fluent in english, her parents enrolled her in an english-language (international curriculum) school. her korean eventually got better and she became fluent with no trouble. yet english is still her preferred language

—if she wasn't an idol, she would either be a dancer in YGX or a badminton athlete (since she trained to become one when she was younger)

—she does most things within even numbers

—most times, she's not shy, not her, itzaaaaay

—her representative emoji is a bear (🐻) because she could either be cute and cuddly or fierce and deadly

—despite being the only girl, she's one of the most popular members

—she flirts a lot but that's just how she is. most of the time it's meaningless

—she gets startled so easily but she loves horror movies

—she is very flexible, she even has flexible fingers like jay

—she eats a lot. she could barely gain weight and if she does, it goes to her thighs and glutes

—she works out a lot so she would look more fit rather than scrawny. because of this (and her daily vitamin and supplement intake), she isn't easily tired

—handles hate the best, it doesn't affect her at all. she likes to call them out sometimes

—she's really chill and chaotic at the same time. she doesn't get mad easily

—she is a fan of a lot of artists but stans bts, txt, ikon, treasure and blackpink

! WARNING !

—on the outside, she puts up this confident, 'don't give a shit' façade, but she actually has really bad anxiety. sunghoon and sunoo were the first to know about it

—because of this anxiety, she likes to plan a lot of things beforehand and even has a bullet journal to keep track. she tends to not watch ongoing series and doesn't hate spoilers too

—she had an emotionally abusive ex. they dated for a year and he broke up with her a week after she became a trainee. she turned to vigorously practicing and working out to distract herself

—eight months into the relationship, she made one of the biggest mistakes of her life and tainted her thighs. she stopped only three months after the break up. her scars are still slightly visible within close inspection

—fortunately, she got back up stronger than ever before. her confidence mixed with all the practice led her to become YG's top female trainee

—her eyes used to water at the thought of him. but after opening up to the boys, they don't anymore

—no one knew about what he did to her in the relationship, and she only revealed it to another soul years later

these are just facts that might not be directly mentioned. there's still a lot that we don't know about della and we'll get to know as the story progresses.

[weblena-for-life]

I'll admit I haven't really put my thoughts about Della or most other characters coherently together but I completely agree with this. Long talk ahead.

Della's one of my favorite characters,along with Webby,Lena & pretty much most of the cast,& I was beyond excited when I learned that she was actually being featured,instead of just being a comic exclusive character. And after seeing everything,I will fully acknowledge that yes,she is very much flawed,which is great since it allows for so much nuance & discovery. She struggles with being a mom,& a mom who's missed a huge chunk of her kids lives,& is trying to make up for it in any way she can,while also learning how to actually be a mother. And like anyone in that position,she has several hurdles & setbacks,but what's important is that she doesn't give up or ignore what happened,but she acknowledges that she made a mistake & grows from it. Sure,she has the classic Mcduck stubbornness & refusal to quit,but she focuses it into being a good mom,like how Donald hones his extreme rage into protecting his family,which I love so much. And yes,she'll keep making mistakes but it'd be weirder if she didn't,or just ignored them completely. There's no such thing as a "perfect parent",everyone makes mistakes,it's a part of life. It's acknowledging & learning from them that people grow. And Timephoon is probably one of the best examples of Della not only learning from herself but her family as well. I've seen lots of people saying she was either too harsh or too lenient,& I was conflicted as well but I realize now that is was just what she needed. She saw that after Louie "confessed" & everyone was basically "Oh,that's fine,no worries. Everything's fixed,so it's fine." And she realized they were basically just feeding into his greed & making more & more dangerous schemes,so she put her foot down & ended it. Which seemed harsh at first but considering that Louie's next scheme was family-oriented & the goal was to help The Three Caballeros perform,it shows that it was effective & what Louie needed. Sure,he'll still probably do some dangerous self-serving at times but now he knows that he can count on his family & he can use his cunning & intellect to help them,since one of the main things he struggled with was finding his place on the team. Scrooge may have given him the pep talk of being Sharper than the Sharpies,but it only helped to fuel Louie's greed. Once he was out of options for self-serving schemes then Louie could reach his potential. And Della was a key part of that.

I’m gonna post my own take on Della Discourse soon but I’m too tired to organize my thoughts

But main points:

1. Della is unquestionably a flawed person and it’s okay to criticize her actions

2. The problem Della fans have isn’t they think she’s perfect, it’s that they believe she is criticized more harshly than other characters, and that criticism often comes in an unforgiving and harsh tone

3. Della fans who make claims such as “Della did nothing wrong ever” do not actually believe those statements. They do it to troll Della haters and show their support for Della

4. It really upsets me that there’s nobody who loves Della but still criticizes her. It feels like it’s always people who hate her with a fiery passion or people who love her and refuse to put serious blame on her.

5. Building off last point — The reason Della fans don’t criticize Della is because they are “over correcting” for the Della haters. Because they view Della haters are being overly harsh, they are overly nice on her, because they think adding any criticism will add to the negativity,

6. It upsets me that we, as a fandom, are unable to have a nuanced conversation about Della. We are either pounding her into the dirt unrelentlessly, or we are finding ways to explain and excuse everything she’s done wrong. I want there to be other people like me who love Della very very much but are comfortable with addressing that she can be a bad person. I feel like there’s no place for that opinion in this fandom.

Like I said, I’m very tired writing this so it will have mistakes and things I’ll wish to change later, but I wanted to get this out