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[toonqueen]

Duckvember Day 21: Community Duck

My original plan was to write info on the 2nd Generation Team I have for Mighty Ducks but then it flowed more better talking about the main teams and who we shipped them with and how their kids are like compared to them. I GUESS???

Whenever I say WE I mean @ flux java because she was there when all this was going down back in the day. I’m citing dark magic and she was there when it was written yadda yadda. 

Grin - We had him shipped with OC Nina by @fluxchix who was a duck from the planet Cheribu. That planet has brightly feathered ducks, with Nina being pink with bright yellow hair. The ducks there were actually related to Puckworld ducks A LONG STORY. 

They have three kids, Karma, Krystal and a third I cannot remember the name offf. Loool. Krystal and the one I can’t remember the name of were twin girls. Fractional and looked very different.  One was very muscular. Lol. Karma pretty much looked like his Dad but mom’s blonde hair. Nina had magical healing powers cuz her planet was renaissancey and magical. Grin’s kids end up noy being magical in a sense but more uh- Dragon Ball Z knock off Ki energy force stuff. I DUNNO I was 15ish when we were coming up with this stuff I’m not to blameeee.

Anyways Grin (and Nina) are great parents. Have pretty chill kids. I really didn’t write them much so I don’t have  much else to say. Lolol. 

Actually now I think about it I think Krystal had healy magic too.  Karma was pretty much like Grin, Krystal was like her mom Nina, and the one whose name I cannot remember was a combo of them both. Karma is pretty much the peace maker of the group. Since the three main protagonists of the 2nd Gen can be very fiery and he needs to get them to chill a lot. (That being Luke, Tayshia, and Mercedes which we will get to THEM soon.)

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Mallory - So we shipped her with Chrono. He’s an OC that was the leader of the Galaxy Team. A team that was sent out to find Canard’s team and the mask they disappeared off with. Chrono was part of the Puckworld Special Forces too, with a perfect record great at  everything. Also a big sweety. Weh. He had a mask as well that was assumed to be a prototype mask before the main one was made. It didn’t have all the abilities of  the main Drake Ducane mask, with less of the scanning and not really seeing invisible stuff. However it did give who wore it increased physical strength. 

ALWAYS. Chrono was a known war hero through word of mouth because he had been captured by Dragaunus back early in the war  on Puckworld. He was electric shock tortured to try to get info of where the resistance bases were. Chrono didn’t give out any info tho, and was rescued by other resistance. The torture though had given him a speech impediment of switching words around when speaking. It sometimes made what he said confusing. Later on he was chosen to be given the prototype mask to test it out, he found with it on he spoke like he used to. He used to wear the mask almost 24/7 but once he gets on Earth and has down time he went without it more and more, with people around him learning to understand him without it. 

Anyways we ship him with Mallory because she seemed like the type  that needs a nice military hero. That one ep where they went to a town where there was a human military hero that she was a fan of was just ASSUMED she would find someone that's a military hero to be cool okay. 

Sometime later Chrono and Mallory have twins. I can’t remember their real names but their nicknames were Caster and Blaster. They are actually the youngest out of the 2nd Gen team. Well youngest of the canon characters kids. Lol. Identical twins and redheads like mom. Blaster is more weapons inclined while Caster actually had a gift for magic. Once again we didn’t write these kids much. So not much to say other than Mallory and Chrono were good parents. One being a magic user I think Mallory would first find confusing to relate to. She (and Chrono) seem like a multi generational military family and magic is just weird man. But they’d still be supportive and get help with training Caster in their talents. (Which means getting Cheribu team to help wheee)

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Nosedive - He gets shipped with my main Mary Sue OC Duluna L’Orange. She’s Duke’s younger sister by MANY years. Very much the ray of sunshine with a cynical storm cloud ship. Of course Nosedive did have his cynical moments in the show too, maybe that's what they bond on lolol. Nosedive was very ‘love on first sight’ with Duluna while she took awhile to begrudgingly like him and then fall in love over time. They’re both opposites in a lot of ways but then end up getting together by some miracle from hell. Duluna does realize he can be brave and sweet and does like him dragging her to things like amusement parks and actually having some fun. 

They have a daughter named Mercedes after she’s practically born in Phil’s Mercedes on the way to the hospital. Ruined his car’s interior. A sign of things to come. She pretty much looks likea  carbon copy of her Dad but with mom’s black hair and green eyes. Mercedes gets spoiled by her Dad ALOT. Nosedive is clearly the YES parent while Duluna is the NO parent. Not that Duluna is no fun but also not wanting her daughter to get hurt be it physically or emotionally. Just a little bit protective. Weh.  

Mercedes turned out being like Nosedive but amped up 110%. And Duluna and Duke made the mistake of teaching her sword fighting lololol. She’s very much a combo of her parents will all of their pluses and their faults. SWEATS. 

When Mercedes is older, even though she has a good relationship with her parents, she didn’t go to them first to be like “Heyyyyy, so I’m kinda seeing this Saurian and also he’s Dragaunus’s son….” She still felt like she had to hide that from them for a while. SHE DOES TELL TANYA FIRST THO. lawd. 

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Duke - So he’s shipped with @fluxchix OC Gallery who came to Earth with Chrono’s Galaxy Team. Gallery is a NERD like Tanya. Her and Tanya actually went to college together. Of course Tanya in college was still a kid being an overachiever. When the Galaxy team came to Earth Tanya vouched for Gallery knowing she could be trusted. I remember the canon team and Galaxy team were so sus of each other at first. Main team didn’t want Galaxy team to be another “Lucretia” situation. I do not know why the Galaxy team were suspicious of the canon team. Maybe because Canard not being there was OFF. and this other dude is wearing the mask of Drake Ducaine now. And they’re telling a LIKELY story of Canard ‘jumping’ off the ship because they needed to lose weight when uh- couldn’t the muscular guy just rip out some chairs maybe???? Gallery hacked Drake One for info it was great. Fun was had by all. 

ANYWAYS - Duke and Gallery end up hitting it off I’m assuming not as a serious relationship at first tho kinda hard to have a one night stand with someone when they live down the hall in the underground complex you live in so have fun with that. Gallery is not my char so It’s not my job to remember how she fell for Duke lulz.

Their first kid is named Luke and is technically the oldest of the 2nd Gen kids BORN on Earth. He has a good 5-7 years ahead of the others that get born on Earth later. He’s smart and techy like his Mom. But as he gets older he doesn’t seem to apply himself. But more of the  ‘genus kid gets burned out�� kinda vibe. Can have dry sarcasm and sometimes have a temper. (usually justified.) While Duke and Gallery are good parents, as Luke gets older he doesn’t share his negative feelings with is parents so they don’t really know what's 100% going on with him emotionally when he’s having a tough time. He does sometimes talk it out with Karma and used to with Tayshia a lot and later Maestro too. (I’ll get to them  sooon.)

Duke and Gallery’s second kid Mollisa. She’s the quietest of all the 2nd Gen kids. I wouldn’t say shy, but probably the only one of the core 2nd Gen Team that is introverted. Also smart with tech like her Mom. Luke was always supportive of her. And not surprised that she got the main tech person of the team position over him. But he’s sometimes bitter over it but isn’t mad at his sister about it.

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Lucretia and Canard - They actually don’t stay together as a ship it was just a THING that oops made a kid lol. Mind you this is stuff I came up with in High School okay. But the idea was Canard was already imprisoned by some bad Saurians in Limbo. Lucretia ends up in the same cell as Canard and they’re supposed to be executed the next day. I headcanon that Canard had already had Tanya on his team when the Lucretia incident happened on Puckworld. So He knew who she was. ANYWAYS since they think it’s their last night alive they decide to screw it and screw. Lol. Then the next day I think the plot was that they actually escape because there are other Saurians that attack the Saurians that were holding them. They use the confusion of the civil fighting to get out of there. They end up traveling together for a bit and figuring out how this whole Limbo thing works. They find out there are different Saurian clans and some are seemingly good over others. There is one called Scale Way that are good and nice to wayward ducks in Limbo. There’s been more than just Canard and Lucretia in the past. 

They end up having a son and Canard asks to name him Wildwing after his best friend. Lucretia, instead of saying no to that, finds it ironic to name the kid after the person whos the reason she’s here and goes along with it. 

Long story short, Wing Jr. ends up not seeing his dad much because Canard spends his time traveling around looking for a way out of Limbo. Canard picks up his own little Saurian crew.  Lucretia stays with her son at a major hub town with her new Saurian boyfriend. Wing Jr ends up having some reality bending and illusion powers. Saurian boyfriend, Ricochet, ends up giving Wing Jr. the nickname Maestro which sticks because who names their child Wildwing. Terrible. Lucretia ends up being a good mom with some wine aunt vibes but really looking out for her kid. 

Maestro is deaf and his Saurian step dad teaches him saurian sign language, which he finds out later is much different from Puckworld sign language but that is a whole other story. Lucretia, since she is a good mom, is quick to learn the language too. He grew up to be a very sweet boy and very empathetic to everybody. 

Being exposed to like wild ether areas of Limbo is said to cause madness and Canard ends up getting a little weird. He learns from other shady Saurian sources that Maestro’s powers could make a gateway. Maestro is about 13ish at this time. Canard sets up some stuff for Maestro to make the portal out. The kid starts to do it for him but it starts to wear on him. Luc tells them to stop but Canard has one of his buddies hold her back. She ends up wiggling free and then pushing Maestro through his own portal and POOF - Maestro ends up in that storage room the Earth Mighty Ducks team keeps all the random things they get from villain battles. 

The Earth crew take instantly to Maestro but what throws him off is this. The people that knew Canard there think Canard was great and that Lucretia was a baddy. But Maestro grew up with Canard not being the quite right one and Lucretia being a great mom. So that's heavy. 

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Tanya and Wildwing - I’ll be real with you, the main reason I shipped these two since I was 15 is because I read into some random things that happened in some eps where it seemed like Tanya had a crush on Wildwing.  Tanya was my fav character (I wrote about her way more than I did my main OC and Nosedive) and if she liked Wildwing I was gonna get her Wildwing lol. 

They both has insomnia and are up brainstorming strategies to get Dragaunus. And in the process of being the two teammates together all the time they ended up dating and then together and then married okay AWWH TRUE LOVE. 

They have a daughter name Tayshia, named after Tanya’s mom even though she didn’t have the best relationship with her mom.  She has the positives of both her parents and does not seem to have the negatives of them. BUT  Sometimes good parents have jerk ass children.  

When Tayshia as an adult becomes leader of the 2nd Gen team, she ends up being a very harsh and cold decision maker on the battlefield. Now, she wasn’t made leader cuz her dad was leader. All the kids were taught all different skills by different adult team members of the team and saw what they got an interest in and let them build on what they were best at. They had trials and all that stuff to see who was best fit, and it ended up being Tayshia. 

The reason Tayshia starts out her leadership rather jerky is, since she was a kid she internalizes the stress she sees Tanya and Wildwing in. Wing and Tan never even purposely said anything around Tayshia but like most kids they know more than you think and pick up on things. She drove herself to perfection because she felt now it was her obligation to deal with the Saurians. Even though Tanya and Wildwing NEVER directly said this to her. She just stressed herself out on her own. 

With time though and kinda co-leading with Luke and Karma she does get better. Once she realizes she doesn’t have to hold the burden to herself.

Tanya and Wildwing end up pretty much taking in Maestro when he appears. Tayshia considers him to be her sibling and he feels the same. Canard was Wildwing’s best friend so he’s happy to take him in. Also, Wildwing can share with him good stories about Canard since Canard wasn’t quite himself in Limbo. Tanya also knew Canard a short time in the resistance, and also technically knew Lucretia a short time too. The whole TEAM does their best no to talk badly of Maestro’s mom, they know it's complicated. 

Tanya and Wildwing also take in Rex, Dragaunus’ son, at some point too. They don’t really RAISE him as much as they did Maestro. Rex was already in his late teens. He willingly left the Saurians because hey he didn’t like it there and also he and Mercedes were having a THING. His mom was a Saurian known as Tracey who had it out for Tanya. That's a whole other long story. Tracey could shapeshift like Chameleon but do it much better most of the time. Rex can also transform but his duck form is very red tinted. 

Unlike with Maestro, the whole larger earth team (including a lot of OCs at this point) aren’t as accepting with Rex. But Tanya and Wildwing had seen him in fights with the Saurians and know he seemed to let them escape and be more helpful than attacking. Also Wraith as Rex was growing up kinda realized this kid wasn’t gonna fit in around them and started telling him stories about a Saurian group called Scale Way that were defending the ducks during the great war. Wraith always seemed a bit grey area disgruntled worker and man if the Boss’ son wanted to defect well I’ll push him that way. There was actually a concept with Wraith being a triple agent but that's a WHOLE other story too. 

Whole other point to this is Tanya thought she would be a bad mom and then pretty much all of 2nd Gen calls her Aunt Tanya and tells her stuff they might in in trouble with before telling their own parents. Lol. Of course Tanya tells Wildwing everything when they’re on their own and they often have a good laugh about it. Ha.

[emilylorange]

Duckvember continues unabated Day 4 - Zealous Day 5 - Cagey Day 6 - Scandalous

[lancaster-rumormill-blog]

Masterlist & Talk about yourself

alright you horny college students, this is justa check to make sure you are all following all your fellow peers, whether you want to or not. not just that! I am gonna give you a game. here’s a test. each of you try and send at least one number from the list. whoever does it the fastest i won’t ruin your life . . . today. these questions are just talking about yourself, and i’m sure that you selfish beings would just love that. get it? got it? good. - destiny

1: Talk about the first time you watched your favorite movie. 2: Talk about your first kiss. 3: Talk about the person you’ve had the most intense romantic feelings for. 4: Talk about the thing you regret most so far. 5: Talk about the best birthday you’ve had. 6: Talk about the worst birthday you’ve had. 7: Talk about your biggest insecurity. 8: Talk about the thing you are most proud of. 9: Talk about little things on your body that you like the most. 10: Talk about the biggest fight you’ve ever had. 11: Talk about the best dream you’ve ever had. 12: Talk about the worst dream you’ve ever had. 13: Talk about the first time you had sex/how you imagine your first time. 14: Talk about a vacation. 15: Talk about the time you were most content in life. 16: Talk about the best party you’ve ever been to. 17: Talk about someone you want to be friends with. 18: Talk about something that happened in elementary school. 19: Talk about something that happened in middle school. 20: Talk about something that happened in high school. 21: Talk about a time you had to turn someone down. 22: Talk about your worst fear. 23: Talk about a time someone turned you down. 24: Talk about something someone told you that meant a lot. 25: Talk about an ex-best friend. 26: Talk about things you do when you’re sick. 27: Talk about your favorite part of someone else’s body. 28: Talk about your fetishes. 29: Talk about what turns you on. 30: Talk about what turns you off. 31: Talk about what you think death is like. 32: Talk about a place you remember from your childhood. 33: Talk about what you do when you are sad. 34: Talk about the worst physical pain you’ve endured. 35: Talk about things you wish you could stop doing. 36: Talk about your guilty pleasures. 37: Talk about someone you thought you were in love with. 38: Talk about songs that remind you of certain people. 39: Talk about things you wish you’d known earlier. 40: Talk about the end of something in your life.

Sutton:

Pres: Isabel Ducan - @izzy-doesitt

VP: Micha Abu Assad - @heymicha

EC: Nathaniel Russo - @russo-the-gooso

Treas: Sierra Hale - @allhalesierra

Orion Lafayette - @moveslike-rion

Clara Evangelista - @withlove-clara

Noah Yates - @grumpycathatesyou

Wesley Northwood - @westsidewesley

August Donahue - @auggie-meetsworld

Quinn Easton - @just-quinns-luck

Celia Luna - @callme-cujo

Amara Harrison - @mara-loves-maccas

Beau Shepherd - @whoa-make-believe-man

Matthew Holloway - @mrholloday

Fleur Bishop - @goodnight-fleur

Paris Kim - @dududu-paris

Aurora Hale - @whatthehale-rory

Carmen Hawthorne - @carmenkbye

Ramsey:

Pres: Yashiro Nobuharu - @yashiro-nobuharu 

VP: Gabriel Rosenberg - @irosenberg 

EC: Madeline Lafayette - @maddyfixes-you 

Treas: Maxwell Kavinsky - @maxwolf-kavinsky 

Lucielle Morgan - @notso-cutsielucy 

Katie Newman - @katiejudges 

Evan Branwright - @dearevanbranwright 

Tobias Mills - @escapemastermills 

Rosalyn Barns - @bring-on-the-barnes 

Darcy Kline - @darcysdiary 

Samantha Woo - @woowhoareyou 

Persephone Hall - @poison-perridise 

Fletcher Winslowe - @so-empathetic

Drake:

Pres: Zephyer Harrison - @z-for-zephyer

VP: Caspar Blake - @nowyousee-cas

EC: Veronica Jacobs - @dammitveronica

Treas: Jeremy Morgan - @jeremys-iron-treasure

Theresa McDonald - @manyof-tara

Jesse Prewitt - @prewittblewit

Lindy Dene - @lindydenes

Philippa Prewitt - @prewitt-knewit

Kaia Armstrong - @kaia-says

Katrina Rosales - @keepingupwithkitty

Connor Murphy - @yourcardinalsin

Finley Costello - @finncostello

Guiseppa Van Strat - @dark-lord-gia

Ian Van Strat - @cool-cat-vanstrat

Serena Cox - @primaonfire

Demetria Jaeger - @demjaegerbombs

Caldwell:

Pres: Jackson Osprey - @the-boulder-jack

VP: Lola Beckett - @hola-itslola

EC: Robert Kwon - @ya-boi-bobby

Landry Grace Carter - @likealandrybolt

Hugo Donahue - @everythingis-hugo

Fransisco Ramos - @frankiecan-attract

Nicol Karela - @lottiesbetterhalf

Carlotta Fierro - @naughtyhottielottie

Dylan Flaherty - @dylananddragons

Heidi Beckett - @heidis-buckett

Cassandra Beck - @aurantyougladtoseeme

Hannah Parker - @hannah-garden

[betopandiani-mar]

Tempo de Decisão

Como velejador e participante da travessia vejo que a maior decisão foi tomada um ano e meio antes, quando só existia a ideia de fazer a viagem. De fato, inicialmente a ideia era rechaçada por quase todas as pessoas para quem eu contava.

Não tive apoio de ninguém, salvo do Duncan Ross, meu companheiro de barco. O que nos motivou a empreender algo tão sensacional, e difícil foi a paixão pelo mar e a dedicação aos vários anos praticando a vela.

Nesta hora você toma o impulso de se lançar ao mar em busca de algo grandioso, que se fosse levar em conta só o lado racional eu nunca teria saído de São Paulo.

Nó não estávamos atrás de medalhas, tão pouco de reconhecimento. O desafio era interno, e vinha a pergunta. Será que somos capazes de realizar esta viagem. Será que seremos nós os primeiros velejadores do mundo a desafiar o Drake em um barco sem cabine, e chegar à Antártica.

A Passagem de Drake é conhecida por ser o pior mar do mundo, e conta com mais de 80 naufrágios. A água está a zero graus e 75% do tempo o mar é varrido por tempestades violentas que geram ondas gigantescas.

Como atravessar os 900 quilômetros que separam a América do Sul, partindo do Cabo Horn e chegando no continente gelado. Os impedimentos eram vários, mas eu não casava de repetir para mim; “Toda muralha tem uma fresta”.

Foi neste clima que desenvolvemos um projeto seguro e audacioso. O plano foi executado por pessoas que nos deram apoio no Chile, Brasil, EUA e França.

Beto Pandiani.

O texto abaixo foi escrito pelo Moysés Plucienik. 

Tive uma linda oportunidade na vida, conhecer o Moysés. Ficamos muito amigos, e ele fez parte dos tripulantes do barco de apoio que nos acompanhou durante a viagem. Um homem de uma humanidade ímpar, foi um Norte para muitos amigos. Ele partiu faz mais de um mês, e eu gostaria de homenageá-lo com este texto que ele escreveu durante a viagem. 

Além de tudo o Moysés foi um brilhante executivo e um dos principais responsáveis pelo desenvolvimento do mercado de TV por assinatura no Brasil em sua primeira década.

Relato do Moysés. 

A mesa de cabreúva com seu formato trapezoidal tem a elegância e a nobreza que se espera encontrar em salas de reunião das grandes corporações. O olhar grave e compenetrado dos presentes indica que decisões difíceis, cujas consequências se farão sentir para todos, estão sendo tomadas.

Sobre a mesa papéis e diagramas são manipulados atentamente. Relatórios são trazidos a cada poucos minutos de diversas fontes especializadas externas e revistos com intensa curiosidade e comparados um com o outro. Opiniões são ouvidas com respeito, mas a atenção maior é devotada a rever os fatos e interpretar suas implicações para o futuro traçado.

O clima é de tensão. Há momentos de profundo silêncio; são espaços para melhor pesar cada alternativa. Uma decisão será tomada nos próximos minutos pelo pequeno grupo de três experimentados profissionais que ainda contam com o apoio de um consultor especializado. Outras oito pessoas praticamente só assistem a reunião, injetando aqui e ali alguma observação.

A um observador externo pareceria mais um dia difícil na vida de executivos procurando decidir a melhor tática de lançar um novo produto ou a melhor estratégia de parcerias para dominar o mercado. Mas há algo estranho nesta cena, como a mesa que parece oscilar de vez em quando e as pessoas que estão trajando roupas informais e exibem barbas mal feitas.

O que de fato está ocorrendo é que Betão Pandiani e Duncan Ross estão reunidos com Oleg Bely, a bordo do Kotic II, procurando decidir se devem ou não partir amanhã para a Travessia do Drake. À mesma mesa está sentado Fábio Tozzi, médico com larga experiência em sobrevivência e resgate. Enquanto isto o resto da equipe e convidados assiste um dos mais belos momentos desta aventura – o momento da decisão.

Mesmo depois de meses de preparação, estudos, consultas e previsões ainda há que se decidir qual é o melhor período para realizar a travessia com o máximo de segurança e as maiores possibilidades de sucesso. Esta seria uma decisão difícil de tomar em qualquer circunstância, mas um fato recente acrescentou maior dramaticidade ao processo.

Quando ainda estávamos em Puerto Williams, durante nossa incursão para avistar a Ilha de Hornos do topo de um morro próximo, fizemos uma brincadeira pela qual pagamos um preço alto. Decidimos fazer uma aposta para ver quem conseguia escorregar mais longe ao se lançar sobre o gelo e a neve. Saltamos eu, Duncan, Julio e Igor enquanto Makoto servia de juiz. Eu bati minhas costas com força e fiquei em último. Duncan acabou chicoteando o pescoço para trás e ficou em penúltimo. Igor ganhou, mas a contusão de Duncan provou ser mais grave do que imaginamos a princípio.

Duncan passou os próximos seis dias tomando analgésicos e relaxantes musculares receitados por Fábio Tozzi. Sentia tanta dor que não pode sequer levar o catamarã até nosso próximo destino que era a Enseada Martial. Foi substituído pelo mesmo Fábio, que além de excelente médico é bom velejador.

A grande preocupação de todos era quanto tempo levaria Duncan para se recuperar e enfrentar os rigores de uma travessia de três ou quatro dias sob condições extremas. Betão já havia tomado a decisão de que só sairia com um Ducan na plenitude de sua forma física. Sabia que sua vida dependeria da capacidade do companheiro e vice-versa.

Naquela mesa de decisão Duncan ainda dava sinais de incômodo no lado direito de seu torso. A própria tensão da reunião fazia-o passar a mão, de tempos em tempos, sobre o local. Mas estava totalmente focado, com a cabeça funcionando a todo vapor. Foi sua a ideia de fazer um quadro resumo sobre o que poderia acontecer. Sua formação rigorosa de engenheiro mostrou-se útil mais uma vez para enquadrar o problema e as opções que teriam.

Ele criou um cronograma que cobria quatro dias a partir da manhã seguinte. Nele colocou as informações que haviam chegado de dois conceituados centros de climatologia: um americano e outro francês. Para cada dia então tentou estimar em conjunto com Betão e o experiente Oleg quantas milhas poderiam navegar no melhor e no pior caso.

O problema parecia centrar-se no terceiro e quartos dias, justamente aqueles mais longínquos e para os quais as previsões são, por consequência menos confiáveis. Os dois primeiros dias, ou quem sabe as primeiras 36 horas, seriam de ventos moderados vindos de uma direção favorável. Depois disso a previsão era de calmaria ou ventos muito fracos. No quarto dia o centro de baixa pressão que estava estacionário a leste da Península Antártica deveria se mover para noroeste causando fortes ventos e grandes ondas por onde passasse.

Será que o catamarã conseguiria descer o suficiente em direção à Península Antártica nos dois primeiros dias e quem sabe mais um pouco no terceiro para poder escapar da tormenta que viria no quarto dia? Esta era grande questão a ser considerada. Outras questões se colocavam. O que aconteceria se os dois velejadores não conseguissem descer o suficiente ou se o centro de baixa pressão não subisse muito? Duncan estava em condições para enfrentar o que poderia vir depois de três dias de muito esforço? Betão sentia-se confiante para lidar com estas incertezas?

Fábio Tozzi externou sua avaliação médica de que Duncan estava muito próximo de condições ideais. O incômodo deveria passar com o tempo e a própria adrenalina da travessia o faria esquecer as dores remanescentes. Não havia limitações de movimento. Estava liberado pelo departamento médico.

Um outro fato chamou a atenção de todos. Caso os dois não iniciassem a aventura amanhã ficaríamos “presos” na região do Horn, sob condições de tormenta, por provavelmente mais uma semana. Ninguém gostava deste cenário e a dupla muito menos. Queriam partir de uma vez e enfrentar o que tivesse que ser enfrentado, mas com prudência e evitando riscos tolos. Muita coisa estava em jogo.

Por fim, olhando o quadro elaborado por Duncan mais uma vez, ficou claro que no mínimo, ao final do terceiro dia, já teria percorrido pelo menos 300 das pouco mais de 450 milhas da travessia. Isto os colocaria abaixo do paralelo de 60 graus quando a tempestade causada pelo centro de baixa pressão atingisse o Drake.

O serviço do Commander’s Weather nos EUA, contatado ao telefone de bordo durante a reunião, estimou que o centro da tempestade estaria ao norte dos 59 graus causando pouca perturbação mais abaixo. Oleg mostrava-se ainda pouco confiante com esta previsão e sugeriu que Pierre do MeteoMer fosse consultado mais uma vez, especificamente sobre a questão do deslocamento da frente.

Tivemos de aguardar esta avaliação por mais cerca de uma hora. Enquanto Pierre trabalhava na França, a expectativa crescia no Kotic II. Alguns de nós palpitavam, certamente com menor conhecimento de causa, que agora era a hora ou até que “já passou da hora”. A tal “hora” teria sido o dia anterior, dia 2 de fevereiro e dia de Iemanjá, a rainha da águas e protetora dos marinheiros.

Eu, que prefiro os cientistas e os técnicos aos orixás, fiquei feliz ao receber a avaliação, absolutamente firme de Pierre comunicada ao Oleg, de que ao sul do 59o não teríamos surpresas desagradáveis nos próximos cinco dias.

A decisão foi tomada imediatamente e de maneira consensual entre os três principais indivíduos responsáveis pelo empreendimento. Todos sabiam das condições e dos riscos prováveis. Todos estavam comprometidos e dariam o melhor de si para alcançar o sucesso.

Poucas vezes em minha vida como executivo de empresas vi um processo de decisão com tanta qualidade e coragem. Aprendi muito sobre frentes e centros de pressão. Aprendi mais ainda sobre o melhor da natureza humana.

Moysés. 

[toonqueen]

Duckvember 2020

--Ponder--

Linking to an old playlist of mine BUT also including why I have these songs on there. Kinda fits the ponder theme okay. I’m trying I’m so behind here *SOB* 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-BLrUhg7cOKMsu8bGh4CBh5C3EVXCUpy

This is my generic duck feels playlist I use when writing but I often have so many other playlists I use it's insaneeee but this is a nice beginning base until I get a feel for a story to make its own playlist haaaa. 

**Joywave - Bad Dreams*** 

-Ominous feel that some shady end of the world stuff is happening song. One of the main things I put this song to is Magica having a premonition of something bad is going to happen. But she doesn’t have the best rep with powerful magic types and with hero types so she has to make a ragtag team willing to help her. Haaa. Mind you in my headcanon the De Spell family line started by a witch that had a really good future sight so Magica takes it seriously and I GUESS she has to like… stop the world from ending. 

**M83 ft. HAIM - Holes in the Sky***

-Another ominous oh crap bad stuff is happening song wheee. I had an idea that I ended up using in a Duckverse RP of some of the alien hats from Darkwing being a different set of alien hats that were actual powerful witches. The RP I ended up having was for a parody of Hocus Pocus. What I attach this song to is where the hat set grab Magica, Gladstone, and an OC thats a powerful De Spell sibling (that's a whole other story.) That leaves Poe to defeat them save the Earth the usual. My headcanon for Poe is he cannot cast magic but has a wide knowledge of artifacts and spells. Could arm himself with some good magical artifacts. He ALSO would make a ragtag team to try to stop the 3 most powerful magic based people controlled by alien hats. That team would include Fethry and Gyro lol. Notice this song is a lot more postive than Magica’s Bad Dreams song because Poe’s being more positive about getting it done. Magica’s more ‘well we’re going to die anyways might as well TRY” and Poe is ‘ WE’RE GONNA DO THIS AND WE’RE GONNA MAKE IT OMG. Once I get over this crippling depression that I’m useless. Whee.”

**Do You Realize - Ursine Vulpine***

-Vague sad song for sad things. Main reason I had this song is for my Mighty Ducks the Animated Series headcanons for Drake Ducaine. I pretty much kill off all this family and friends in the past. You know, the war, saving stuff. SACRIFICING THEMSELVES SO HE CAN LIVE. His young daughter makes it. Am I not merciful. 

**My Tears are Becoming the Sea - M83***

-Really acidy trippy sad song. Great for fighting elder gods. For my main RPing OC’s on Duckverse this goes with some scenes of their past. Other main thing I use it for is Mighty Ducks the Animated Series I have it for Wildwing’s death.. Haaaa. I kill him off in his 60’s when he has to help save the 2nd Gen team (All the kids of the first team.) Well you know. He’s like the only duck chars I kill off ‘youngish.’ I dunno why most of these story ideas came in high school FRICK. 

**In A Heartbeat - In the House***

-I have loved this song from the second it was in 28 Days Later. I do not have one defined story line plot or character this goes to. I would put it on every song list I had if I felt like I could get away from it. EXCELLENT ATMOSPHERE.

**The Darkest Evening of the Year***

-Another great ominous atmosphere song. I stick this one with Gladstone but don’t put it on my actual Gladstone playlist for being too dark?!? I put it with him finding out what I headcanon the origins of his luck. AND OH BOY. I really want to give the vibe of that scene like some suspense/horror energy let me tell you.

**No Time for Caution - Hans Zimmer***

-Great like, ‘team prepares to fight a boss fight’ type music. Let's do this. We can fight an elder god. LETS GO!!!! But still that bit of dark tone like - hmmm we may not be successful. Ahhhhh.I also think of Tanya from Mighty Ducks working late fixing something or lawd taking care of a teammate gotta find a cure for something. They just gave this woman all the jobs. AGH. 

**Happiness Does Not Wait - Olafur Arnalds***

-A sad yet happy tune. That mix of energy. This one I put with Grandma Duck. In my headcanon all her adult kids have since past but you know all her grandkids visit all the time. It's kinda weird that like, the whole gen in between was wiped out but uh, I have a reason plotted out for that. But you know, Grandma little sad all her kids are gone but sees them in her now adult grandkids ahhh. 

**Low Gravity - Hugo Kant***

-Actually ModMad suggested this one to me when I shared this playlist with them when they made the “Over the Rainbow’ comic. Shared it because it really fit this playlist so I could not  not share ahhh. Anyways. That's one of my top fav comics by Modmad, and actually in an unrelated way inspired some of the backstory for the two main OC’s I RP in Duckverse. Wheeee.

**Everything You Do is a Balloon - Boards of Canada***

-A good ominous ‘the hero has won but at what cost’ energy. This is a song I’ve had for ages and directly put to the abuse I put Drake Ducaine through. I’m so sorry. Weh. I literally have a separate playlist that is Drake Ducaine/Wildwing anxiety cuz I headcanon Wildwing the reincarnate of Drake Ducaine because of COURSE. 

**Goodbye to a World - Small Dust/Porter Robinson Cover***

-I just love music like this. First used this song for Mighty Ducks because the previous life of Drake Ducaine I had be a little duck boy that showed kindness to a Saurian Goddess and she ended up taking the Duck side in whatever fight went down and well the rest is history which will I ever write a story for I dunno. And in the next life as Drake Ducaine the Goddess also reincarnated in a mortal body so they get to work together again yay. This is also one of the main themes I use for my Duck OC’s Felicity and Faustina. In RP land uh they’re from an alternate universe that got all ate up by an elder god and they were the only two survivors cuz some weird luck and magic runs in their family. Their version is a more trippy version here:  https://youtu.be/HzuHAMg1Hng OH WAIT I’M WRONG THEIR MAIN THEME IS A DIFFERENT PORTER ROBINSON SONG HAAA still enjoy. 

**Soldier - Fleurie***

-I use this song several times for Gladstone. Mainly for one story I DO plan to write someday I have so many parts of it done. Anyways he screws up big time and has to fix a problem while he still have luck that works on him, he needs to actually do something to solve the problem and its grueling and takes  a long time and travel around the world and bad stuff just happening to those around him and AHHH. Anyways.  Also a good song for Djinn in new Ducktales theres stories I have reason for his for him let me tell you someday. Ha. 

**Battle Cry - Imagine Dragons***

-A great mello fight song for everything. Just. Some good shit. Heroes making sacrifices. Stuff going down. Hidden powers having to be used getting exposed but you GOTTA SAVE THE WORLD. 

**Elephant Survival - Emancipator***

-A good song for villains to think about their feelings. I loved this song when I came across it. I put it to my headcanon for Negaverse Gladstone. And a little Gladstone in there too. There is a darker mix here: https://youtu.be/59A3k8tpPMI

**Do You Realize - The Flaming Lips***

-This song again but with a slight positive energy?!? Dying and seeing loved ones that passed on kinda vibe. BUT ALSO I abuse reincarnation tropes so bad. This is a good reincarnation trope song. Lawd. 

**Saturn - Sleeping at Last***

-Roll Credits energy to a movie that ended not happy but not sad just the normal in between of life. There is a really good Poe De Spell short story I need to finish that makes me think of this song. I also put it to Drake Ducaine who supposedly dies of old age having saved and rebuilt Puckworld Society. That's a lot of pressure to put on a guy y’all. Also fits my abuse of reincarnate trope abuse. Also for some Djinn x Gene okay like they’re gonna adopt a lot of kids and all those kids are going to write stuff down to their kids like how Djinn writes stuff down and they’re gonna tell stories of their great great great great great grandparents Djinn and Gene forever OKAY.

Anyways, have some feels y'all.