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[araminakilla]

First Merlock has a Grimoire that includes friendship magic and now Solego is a theorist with many written discoverings about alternative universes.

What's up with the Ducktales reboot and turning powerful evil sorcerers from the Disney Afternoon into researchers and forbiden writers?

Not that is a bad thing.

[araminakilla]

That was a great, heartwarming and hearbreaking first chapter! Poor Gene, and kudos for D'jinn for subverting the genie's expectations. I love his past with Merlock, it adds more lore to Gene's character. Yeah, the sorcerer and the phantom are like opposites, that is a really good observation.

Part & Parcel, Part One

Gene appears on the streets of Cairo with little fanfare, between one blink and the next.  

A single child notices him, walking hand in hand with their mother. They gape at him as he trades his usual, ostentatious outfit for his more roguish Knox Quackington persona, a fedora taking the place of a turban, a trenchcoat in place of silk. 

Gene winks, making a rainbow of sparks fly, and the child looks on in wonder before they and their mother are swallowed by the tide of the crowd. 

He continues in the opposite direction, the press of bodies lessening the further he drifts from the nearby shopping center. The streets are not the ones he knew thirty years ago, but the cacophony of traffic and sea of a hundred different faces are a comforting familiarity. 

Gene relishes in his freedom now as he hasn’t done since the ‘90s, when his previous centuries of confinement in the lamp came to an end. While he likes to ham it up, especially among Normals, he’s usually committed to the character he’s chosen from his mental rolodex of identities. Be it butcher, baker, or candlestick maker (or eccentric photographer), Gene gives 110% to every role he plays in service of the lamp’s wishmakers. 

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[sarroora]

Coincidental or intentional reference?

[wayfaringstranger82]

“DuckTales The Movie” wasn’t always titled “Treasure of the Lost Lamp.” For at least two issues of “DuckTales Magazine” (the Summer and Fall 1990 issues, to be precise, which also happened to be the publication’s last two issues), it was known as “Treasure of the Lost Land.” 

Land. Lamp. Just a matter of adding another “half-n” to the already-existing “n” and turning the “d” upside down. Simple enough. ;-)

I do wonder when the title was changed, though.

Incidentally, as a youngster, I conflated the statement in the above blurb, “...Merlock, a wizard so mean he makes Magica DeSpell (sic) look like Scrooge’s fairy godmother,” to mean that Magica was in the movie. I was quite disappointed when she wasn’t.

Point of Trivia and Point of Plug: Alan Burnett wrote “DuckTales The Movie.” He has since had a lengthy career as a writer and producer at Warner Bros. Animation and was a major behind-the-scenes player for “Batman: The Animated Series.” His name comes up quite a bit over at one of my other Tumblr blogs, BatPost of the Day. 

In this interview, Burnett said the Gizmoduck “DuckTales” episodes he wrote were among his favorite projects. My two favorite DT episodes of his are “The Unbreakable Bin” and “The Golden Goose: Parts 1 and 2″... 

[araminakilla]

Ducktales: Plot theory (Part I)

We are getting closer to Season 3 of Ducktales and since we are still on hiatus, I want to share not only a theory about a Dt villain but also what I think season 4 (if, you know...there is one) is going to be about.

So, Magica de Spell. We all know her, almost everyone loves how evil she is and the powers she had, but something that caught my attention was her amulet that now is part of Lena. According to Webby in The Beagle Birthday Massacre:

Webby: Is that a vintage Sumerian talisman?

Lena: Dunno. Found it at a thrift shop.

It seems that Magica's powers come from Sumerian Magic, even if she knows different types of magic, as she said in Shadow War, The Day of the Ducks:

Magica De Spell: [Magic fires blasts of magic at Louie]  I've never heard of it (a curse Louie made up), and I'm inversed with all magics! Gaelic, Demogorgon, Sumerian!

Louie: Sumerian? You were in that dime a long time. Well, good luck with the curse!

But these are not the only mentions of Sumerians, as in Treasure of the Found Lamp when the ducks are talking about the posible thief of Djinn's lamp:

Scrooge: Yes, the lamp was stolen by a powerful figure!

Webby: Ohh, profoundly powerful! Ooh, like a wicked sorcerer? Or a powerful god, like a Sumerian god, or maybe Greek?!

It's interesting that the Sumerian culture was mentioned many times in the show but hasn't been show. Another theme that was present in both seasons was the Santa Claus incident that makes Scrooge unable to hear his name, much less have a statue of him in his mansion. This problem with Santa Claus is going to be touch in one of the new Season's episodes. So, maybe the Sumerian theme is going to be touch in the future.

But returning to the Sumerian mention in the Lamp episode, Webby also said that the powerful figure could be a wicked sorcerer, which is what happened in the Ducktales movie, with a very powerful and siniester villain: Merlock the Wolf Sorcerer.

Now, this part of the post is going to be about another series, but don't worry because this is connected to the theory.

Some of you have seen a series called "American Gods". For those who don't, it's about the battle of the Old Gods vs the New Gods. The old gods were once powerful deities with many followers and believers but now they have been reduced to roam America with only a bit of the power they had in the past. They can pass as normal humans, only showing their power when necesary, like (spoilers) a character named Wednesday.

Why do I bring up this? Well, this concept, along with the Sumerian theme, it's the core of my theory about this Ducktales movie villain, and the theory is:

Merlock is a powerful Sumerian God fallen in disgrace.

What if this sorcerer wants power not because he is very greedy, but because he craves for the power he once had many years ago?

Imagine this: You are a very respected and adored deity in the pantheon. Your followers are a very advanced and great culture who made many inventions that were the base of modern things. Everything is great until your civilization falls, your people are killed or converted. Strangers from other cultures destroy your temples (in this case Ziggurats) and turn your followers against you. Soon you lose your power and you are reduced to a simple person who is holding on the very few believers you have to continue to exist. Then, something happens. You adquire a powerful talisman that allows you to change form. You feel a bit of the power that was taken from you and seach for more powerful artifacts. Then you find a magic lamp with a Genie in it, what to do next?

Before continuing, let's say this one ex powerful Sumerian God is Sin, the god of the Moon. Yes, the satelite (not a planet, LUNARIS) because as other post pointed out, disasters surrounding the Duck family and the World had to be with the moon (Magica's eclipse, the spear of Selene, the Moonvasion) and Sin was like the Zeus equivalent of Sumerian mythology (a very important god) so why not?

Obviously what Merlock/Sin really wanted was being important and have all of his former powers by making people believe in him again. But the Genie said that it was beyond his power. He could make everyone believe that Sin was a sultan or some king. But a god? That wasn't a wish, but a miracle.

Then Sin wished to very inmortal, so he wouldn't have to depend on people believing in him anymore. After that, he decided that if he couldn't obtain followers, then NO ONE should have them.

So he used the Genie to wipe out other civilizations. He was the real culprit for the sinking of Atlantis, he made the volcano in Pompeii explode and other atrocities that made other gods lose people and their sacred places. And of course the Genie was horrified and guilty for this.

Years pass by and the lamp is stolen by a clever thief know as Collie Baba. Again, Sin lose a portion of magic but this time he won't let the mortals get away with it. He begins with the seach for the lamp, also he makes a new reputation as a wicked sorcerer, even if the thought of pass as a mortal mades him sick and humilliated. People in Europe give him a new name. A combination of Merlin and Warlock: Merlock. Even if the wolf was at first annoyed that some Europeans decided his new name, he became fond of it and later embrace it. One day he dissapeared and everyone thought he died, but he decided to stop making trouble so people won't try to hide the lamp again.

He's just...walking the Earth, trying to find the lamp without being noticed. Hoping for an opportunity to rise and reach godhood again.

Maybe he wants to fight the Greek gods, as they are still prominent in myths. He resents all of them, especially Selene considering she's the godness of the Moon in her culture.

This opportunity will present itself thanks to the current villains of season 3, but that will be explained in another post.

[araminakilla]

So I'm not the only one who thinks D'jinn is Ardeth Bay as a canine, what a relief.

It would be interesting if we have a confirmed not straight Middle Eastern character in a cartoon, considering that it's not very heard of in the East.

Also I agree, if they don't end up together, he and Amunet could be best friends and confidents. I really want him to meet Penumbra, and they becoming friends, meeting Storkules, joining forces with Darkwing Duck and Gizmoduck and being the "Justice ducks" by accident and I think I rambled a lot sorry for that.

About him working for Merlock, I gotta admit. I want nothing more but that pure boy and his genie being as far away as possible from the sorcerer. BUT, where's the fun in that? We got Merlock's book, who is linked with Webby and Lena. Something has to happen. I often wonder how they are going to potray reboot Merlock.

About his family, I also headcanon that he has a sister, idk if older of younger, but she's a very sucessful woman. Also I think he has an older brother, who can be serious like D'jinn but doesn't have any of his dramatic presence. He loves his brother but doesn't understand him well, often saying "Why? Why Faris, why?" And he would be played by Mousa Kraish, because American Gods reunion!

@cataradical asked for an answer for Faris Djinn but tumbler put the images in the wrong order so let me try again.

Sexuality Headcanon: Gay~ and I'll be honest in media if there is an adventurer type guy coded straight or ambiguous I always headcanon bi or pan. I dunno why but like Djinn's first ep I was just, "this guy is gay." A brooding adventurer badass that's not bi. IT HAPPENS. WE GOTTA REPRESENT.

Gender Headcanon: Male

A ship I have with said character: OH HO HO him and Gene. I cannot explain how sweet they are OKAY. ;_; Trust me.

A BROTP I have with said character: Amunet. Be each other's wingman.

A NOTP I have with said character: oh god please don't have this version of Djinn work for Merlock PLEASE. Since he’s set up as good I think he wouldn’t purposely work for him but either be tricked or maybe Merlock has his family I dunno but NOTP IS Dijnn x Working for Merlock. AHH. 

A random headcanon: Okay random headcanon is kinda like a headcanon on what the person was deciding when doing this reboot Djinn from the Ducktales movie Djion. Whoever made that choice be it Frank or someone else cannot tell me they weren’t influenced by the original “The Mummy” movie because look man. LOOK. I’M JUST SAYING.

The Mummy annoying assistant working for the villian:

The Mummy hot guardian dude I would make out with behind a Dave and Busters and still find it romantic:

Other random headcanon he just has the energy of a dude that has one older sister and then a ton of younger siblings. Young nieces and nephews get spoiled with presents from his travels. 

General Opinion over said character: I’M SO GLAD THE 2017 VERSION IS SO UPGRADED AND GOOD. LOOK AT THESE SMILES: 

[araminakilla]

Ducktales theory: Modern Arabian Night(mare)s

Warning: Long theory, has a little of angst too.

So, you already know I love the Treasure of the Lost Lamp characters, and with Found Lamp! things got better. Today's theory is about D'jinn (I'm not sorry) and a concept that was introduced in this new Ducktales' season 2. What is that concept? Stay tuned.

This Christmas I was watching an original Netflix movie with the name of "Knight before Christmas" The plot is simple: An european knight from the XIV century meets a witch in the forest. Said witch brings him to the present in 2019, days before our Christmas. He has to complete a quest before the Holidays or he can't return home, that is, his time period.

While there is more to tell, I wanted to point this because the knight spoke in a manner that made me think in D'jinn. That's when I realized: That's how medieval knights spoke! (yeah, I think you knew this by this point, I'm slow in some things, it happens)

Not only that, but said knight tried to solve conflicts with his sword and is very loyal with people he just met but have good intentions. Also, he was talking about his quest during the movie, just like D'jinn in the Found Lamp! episode.

There was a post about the movie where the person said that the knight was handsome, among other things, but also very stupid. Then I found this comment:

Why am I telling you all of this? Well, here comes the theory part. I thought in two possibilities of why D'jinn acts like a medieval knight.

1) He's a fan of stories with ancient arabian medieval knights and is imitating them (a dramatic theater boy)

2) He IS an ancient arabian medieval knight stuck in the present.

But how? Well, I think it has to be with this lamp: (pictures belong to @scroogeislife)

The lamp of Eternity. It has to do with time, so that could mean something. At first I thought of Merlock given that he's inmortal, and maybe that could be Gene the Genie's new lamp design, but who knows?

Also a fun fact: Faris means "knight" in Arabic so if D'jinn is really a knight that would make him "Al-Faris Faris D'jinn" which would translate to "The knight Faris D'jinn" or is The knight Knight Genie?? Anyway...

The point is, Faris was doing what arabian knights did with the company of other knights from his hometown. I theorize that he was in a war against some new invaders that wanted to conquer his homeland and destroy his family for the lamp. I would say they were either the Knight Templars or the Ottomans, let's go with the Ottomans since it was established he hates them in the series. The time period would be the early/mid XIV century (I don't really know much about arabian history in those times, so lets continue)

Be a lamp, a wizard or some strange magic, our Faris ended up in the XXI century, 700 years in the future.

To make things better (for us) he ends up in a modern arabian City with many modern malls, very advanced technology and beautiful skyscrapers (because yes, there are still people who believe those things don't exist in the Middle East)

He naturaly freaks up and demands to know what happens and for "demands" that means raising his sword, pointing it at everyone who is making eye contact with him and screaming: What kind of sorcery is this!?

The people around him also freak out, culminating in D'jinn being taken to the police, who proceeds to take pictures of him, hence those pictures in Lunaris' secret war room and why there are two of them when everyone has only one.

They began to make questions like: Who are you? Where did you come from? What are your intentions?

And D'jinn is like: I am Faris D'jinn! Loyal knight of (Insert name of a sultan here) who along with other magnificent people has the sacred duty of stop the Ottomans so they can not expand and become a powerful Empire!

And the police is like: Do you know the Ottoman Empire ended almost a century ago right?

Which is why Faris asks: They became an Empire!? How!? When!? What year is this!?

The Officers explain that the Ottomans ruled the Middle East for centuries and by the time of World War One they started to fall and now their descendants are the Turks. Oh, and also that this is the XXI century.

And then Faris D'jinn.exe has stopped working.

The officers were worried about this guy's mental health and told him they were going to call a doctor to see if he can help him and that he has to wait in a room.

But D'jinn had other things in mind. What happened seven centuries ago after he disappeared? What happened to his people, his companions in war, his family? Where are they now? He wants to know all those answers. He wants to know everything NOW.

So, like the good warrior he is, he escapes and begins to seach for the D'jinn family.

Unfortunately, they seem to have disappeared. There's no sign of his family or descendants with his last name. He begins to fear for the worst. He sometimes thinks the Ottomans wiped them out of existence, but other times he believes they are fine and it's only matter of seaching more, hence why Faris told Huey that the Ottomans failed miserably at trying to destroy his family (and suddenly another funny moment becomes an angsty one)

Gif belongs to @drummergirl231-2

We believed Della had it rough? Well yes that's very true but what about being the only survivor of your family? That must hurt a lot, specialy for someone very family-oriented and who consider bloodline and legacy to be very important.

He actually goes through the 5 stages of grief, the Anger and Depression stages being the most prominent ones.

He refuses to have any contact or friendship with other people, as he can't understand them and he feels they will never understand him.

It's only when he gets to the Acceptance stage that he begins to talk to others and is interested in modern technology, music, etc.

D'jinn even records everything new he learns in different scrolls just in case he has the posibility of return to his time period.

The people (mostly millenials) around him find his way of thinking and speaking funny and they call him a loony when he tries to convince them he is an actual knight from the past.

That's where we return to the "Knight before Christmas" post. D'jinn is not dumb, he's from another time period. He's adapting, with hilarous consequences.

After hundreds of failed intents to revelal his true identity, Faris gives up and adopts a "sure, I'm a dramatic man who loves knights, whatever" attitude, which makes him feel more lonely than what already was before.

Years pass and he knows how to use a cellphone properly, how to ride a motorcycle, among other things. But he still has the hope to return to his true home and see his family again.

In the future (our present), his quest for the lamp of the first Genie continues as it still is one of the (if not the only) relics his family has.

Then he meets the Duck family and the rest is history...

After the lamp adventure, he meets the Living Mummies and bonds with them as they were in a similar situation, being from "other times" and adapting to the present.

If he gets to meet Gene and have the lamp in his hands, he would try to make a wish to return to his original time period. But there are problems:

1) He is starting to like his new present and will miss all of his new allies (the Ducks and the Mummies)

2) He knows to much. OF COURSE he's going to tell everyone about what happens in the future which could end in him becoming the arab equivalent of Nostradamus at best, or everyone thinking he is crazy at worst.

3) He and his family have a code that if someone found a thing with a Genie in it and if the genie is good, they would free it with their first wish. This code is as strong as the Mandalorian's code of not removing his helmet (This is the way) so Faris will be torn about betraying the family code only to return to them or staying in the future and never see his family and friends again.

The only solution would be asking the Ducks to make a wish so he can return but knowing Scrooge, Della and Donald, they would consider that very dangerous because again, he knows to much, he could change dramatically the events of history.

Gif belongs to @nerdalmighty

And things could get worse if Merlock/F.O.W.L. get to know about the time traveler knight.

But that is another story.

[araminakilla]

So, first of all, thanks to @theatypicalfangirl @darkwingfan1 and @mintysweetqueen for being interested in this wild theory surrounding Merlock and his new purpose and being so patient. I'm also tagging @toonqueen if you're interested. So, here it is. Are you ready?

Ducktales crazy theory: D'jinn is one of Merlock's many wishes when he had Gene and will be forced to serve him in the future

It's possible that in this version of Ducktales, Merlock needed somebody to fight in his name while he was occupied with other things (studing magic and writing his grimoire for example)

When he had the Genie, he wished for the perfect knight, capable of doing more things than your average man and obeying everything he says, thus Faris was born as an adult warrior with the sole purpose of serving the wolf sorcerer.

Unfortunately for Merlock, "the perfect knight" isn't just someone who fights in wars, but someone honorable, kind, family oriented, among other good aspects.

Gif belongs to @rootsoforigin

That's why after many orders from Merlock about destroying villages and everyone living there, the warrior discovered that what he was doing was wrong, and teamed up with a common thief (Collie Baba) to stop his master. In the end, Collie Baba escaped with the lamp and Merlock swore revenge and ran away using his green talisman. The thief felt pity for Faris, as he didn't have a purpose after Merlock was gone. For him, his reasons to live were over. So the collie wished for the warrior to find a family and start again. This wish sent Faris to the present time, where he was accepted by the D'jinn family as one of their own, thus becoming Faris D'jinn.

Little did he know that Merlock wished for inmortality before his creation. When the time comes and Gene is found thanks to the Duck family, Merlock is going to appear in D'jinn's life again and use the power he has on him to force the warrior to steal the lamp, and no matter how much Faris doesn't want to do that and tries to fight him... he can't, as he is one of Merlock's wishes. Merlock doesn't even consider D'jinn a person, just a wish that went wrong. Thanks to a very reluctant Faris, the wolf knows who is Scrooge Mcduck and how he can be stopped (that could be, kidnapping his nephews and nieces)

It's even possible that if D'jinn takes Gene's lamp first and wishes for their freedom, nothing will happen, maybe because a genie's creation doesn't have the right to make wishes, thus they have to get the Duck family if they want to be free from Merlock.

Anyway, this crazy idea was conceived after my sister and I...

1. Watched Aladdin and wondered where did all the people serving "Prince Ali" come from. Did Genie create them? Did they dissapeared after Jafar took over? Have their own thoughts? Could live a normal life away from the magic shenanigans?

2. That if he turns out to be created by a villain for nefarious purposes, get away from him and start a new life being a good guy, he could be a parallel to Lena and maybe help her with her background issues. Also, did you notice that Lena's t-shirt has almost the same colors than D'jinn clothes? Coincidence? In a show where colors are very important, I highly doubt so.

3. And talking about D'jinn's clothes, we came to the conclusion that one of the reasons we didn't trust him at first is the "Good colors, evil colors" trope that the Aladdin movie had, with Jafar being dressed in dark clothes and the rest in light clothes. Maybe that's the look that Merlock anticipated while creating his "perfect warrior", someone who could intimidate people. Too bad (for the sorcerer) that he's actually a sentimental cinnamon roll.

What do you think?

@toonqueen I hope that some day you could do a one shot about this crazy theory because I really love your headcanons about D'jinn and Gene and also because I don't have time for doing it myself.

[araminakilla]

I have one question for you Ducktales fans:

My sister just came with a REALLY CRAZY theory about Merlock's role in the Ducktales reboot.

She has been explaining her theory to me for five minutes and I had to stop her so I can catch a break for all this crazyness.

It's soooo weird, just like the Adrien is a Sentimonster theory (Miraculous Ladybug fans will understand this) or the Rose is Pink Diamond theory (which now is Canon)

I could post it here, but I don't know if it can be too much for some to handle (like, it made me go almost crazy, and I'm the theorist's sister!)

What do you think? Do you want to know it?