#mml headcanons

[thewheelhouse99]

Meet Meryl Brûlée

Since she debuted in ‘Family Vacation’ I had her have quite a colourful life.

She and her husband decided to have a new outlook on life. Breaking their summer routines and trying to do more exciting things in their life. Meryl lives by the ‘Adventure before dementia’ motto.

Her husband Peter did more simple things like taking up biking or rock climbing. Starting off small at least, while Meryl went straight to things like bungee jumping, buying a sports car to race across the highway and trying strange new recipes for each family meal.

Her more outlandish personality shift was much for Peter but it got to a point where, of all things to split over, Meryl called him out on leaving a meal at a restaurant unfinished. Things got heated and they divorced.

Since then though, Charlene and Sharron Brûlée found their mum a little annoying with how chaotic things can get but Meryl still retains her discipline at the best of times, helping her children with homework, sometimes through first hand experience with the clubs she joins (astronomy, derby biking etc).

Meryl’s also something of a retro gamer, pulling out consoles from her 80’s teen hood for her downtime.

Oh and she stans Ava-Max which helped her with her divorce (thanks Myles).

[spc-rambles]

Sara Murphy headcanon!

So Sara attends Danville High one grade lower than Vanessa and like Candace admired her from afar. Yes, that kind.

Anyway, when Vanessa first made her visits to Doofenshmirtz Good Inc. Sara sees her mum bring Vanessa through the living room as she’s watching Doctor Zone reruns, Brigette introduces Vanessa causing this bean to get a gay panic attack.

Somehow I like the idea of Vanessa being a good personal counsellor to her friends (partially because of her contribution to Candace’s arc in ‘Candace Against The Universe’) so when Vanessa sees Sara like this, she would put her at ease and the two would introduce each other properly, with Sara feeling an instant friendship forming.

And yeah, in between all the hyjinks Heinz puts these teens through, the two would get to hang out sometimes, Vanessa being more used to it just makes it less stressful for Sara from that point on.

[pistachions]

Hi mootie!

Do u have any mml headcanons that you’d like to share? :3€

Hii! And YES I have SOO many and ive waited so long for someone to ask lmao

Thisd be a RLLY long post if I typed out all of the ones I have lmao (and ive gotta leave some if i ever get asked again lmao) so here's 1 for pretty much every character :) some are rlly dumb and some are just straight projection but that's what makes them fun to me lol

Milo - BIG neopoliten ice cream fan. I have NO idea how to spell it properly but to me he loves the idea of having 3 flavours in 1 and nothing can change my mind

Melissa - she can surf. Like rlly good. I think this comes from that line abt wanting to swim with sharks in free fall tbh :)

Zack - this guy LOVED science practicals in his old school.. but now he always ends up paired with milo and is always slightly scared through the lessons lmao. Idk why I think this it's probably rooted in how I got banned from practicals at school cuz me and my friend always messed them up tbh

Cavendish - ok. I love cavendish sm cuz he's LITERALLY my best friend reincarnated to me like from appearance to personality if she was an old man and not .. like a 16 year old girl they'd be the same person.. but ANYWAY I am a truther of the fact that cavendish isn't as old as he looks BUT it's all intentional to make him look more. Wise? ..ig lol. BUT my best friend ALSO has grey hair and that's totally cuz she's dyed it blue a lot. SO I use my great skills of 2nd hand projection to say that his appearance is a total reverse on trying to adapt it to look "cooler" with a failed dye job. Ooc? Probably. But like I said he IS my best friend to me and I'll add little parts of her into my hcs if I can lmao

Dakota - rlly simple compared to my cavendish one lmao but to me he's just chubbier than he is in canon. I think this is like a pretty popular hc too but I'm a total victim of whenever I watch an episode with him in I'm always like "oh yeah he does look like that" lol

Sara - as much as she loved dr zone there are certain arcs/episodes that she HATES and if one comes up in general conversation she with go on a WHOLE rant abt it (projectionprojectionprojection lmao)

Amanda - after she managed to get used to murphys law she actually came to realise that any accidents related to it ARENT as bad as she always thought cuz they're either 1) easily solvable or 2) noones fault :))

Bradley - he likes games with dice in them. Idk why she just does to me and this is such a STRONG hc to me for literally NO reason

I'll stop at this or I'll go on for hours lmao hope they're adequate hcs for you lmao (im also totally up for hearing yours if you have any too fr)

[lord-ofthe-frogs]

HELLO MILO MURPHYS LAW FANDOM

I enjoy making little irrelevant head canons!

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HC Mr.Block knew about the extra Dakotas the entire time but just pretended not to because there was no real reason for him to stop it

(and last time he tried to call the pair out on their misuse of time travel, whatever came of it was so bad he had to do the same thing to prevent himself from stopping them [christmas episode])

[sirshio]

Some more (head)canons about Cavendish! Yep, only for him since I love him so much. My tiny little son.

- is actually autistic (I'm working on a looooong post about this, so stay tuned in case you're interested)

- has really low self-esteem and is sure there's nothing to love in him

- that's why he acts the way he does, to show Dakota he's actually not worthy and it's better to leave him alone (as he deserves) and find someone decent

- spent his childhood and adolescence trying to be good enough for his parents (he failed)

- couldn't be honest and sincere with them about his needs and feelings

- had a teddy bear named Dennis when he was little, but his father took Dennis away because he has to be more mature (Cavendish was ~7 y.o.)

- his parents were rich, so he lived in a big and luxurious house (he didn't like it though)

- his parents were also snobby and arrogant, so they would say that some of Cavendish "friends" (kids he merely just met) are out their league and didn't let him hang out with them

- tried to convince himself he likes girls (because of parents)

- and even tried to date a certain girl named Hildegard (a daughter of his father's business partner). She was nice and beautiful, so it was clearly Cavendish's fault he couldn't love her or even date properly

- didn't interact with his parents since he became a recruit in time agency

- all he can cook is an omelet. And of course tea

- has a kind of personal diary (really secure, because no one is allowed to read it, ESPECIALLY Dakota)

- secretly likes to make silly selfies

- isn't really old (I believe he is in his late 40s, ca. 47-49). Sometimes gray and receding hair has nothing to do with age, but does with hormones and individual specifics of a person's body

I didn't add four last lines to avoid making him miserable, okay?

[owca-agent-doe]

Headcannon

Warning: Milo Murphy's Law spoilers under the cut... and its a rather dumb headcannon too.

Since Dakota and Cavendish has broken up during A Christmas Peril, Cavendish had to band-aid his lifelong loneliness with someone else during that erased timeline. That person he settled down with none other than... Mr.Block!

Allow me to explain..

1: That accidental on screen hug during one attempt to prevent the breaking up with Dakota. It was perhaps one of those somewhat inevitable events aside from the break up itself. It's like one of those accidental highschool-style collision like they do in the movies to foreshadow the item characters. Even if that Cavendish was an alternate timeline one, it still happened to Cavendish and Mr.Block.

2: Mr.Block himself clearly showed that he too had broken the rules during the same Christmas party of the incident. Perhaps the future Block knew of the whole situation between Cavendish and Dakota and was on board to fixing their relationship.

Even if it meant he has to let go of his husband. The marriage itself had a lot of toxic moments far worst than what Cavendish would have had with Dakota. Nonetheless, Cavendish was his husband. Therefore, he needed to make that sacrifice for perhaps both of their sanity and Cavendish's happiness.

3: Mr.Block hates Cavendish and Dakota... or does he? He may have no record to recall that he and Cavendish tied the knot once on an alt timeline. But he still has this unlikely crush that he can't explain. Expressing these feelings while working for the BOTT however are unprofessional and against corporate policy... So he low key kept those feelings to himself.

Mr.Block is upset to the idea of Cavendish being happy with someone else. He is completely unaware of the consequences if otherwise.

The last straw was when Dakota confessed all the sacrifices he has done for Cavendish.

With an angry and broken heart, Mr.Block banished the duo so he would literally never have to look at them again.

[cipherinator]

Also

[captainwaffles]

So Anon Requested Milo Murphy Headcanons. They did not specify so I will do the character and then some quick ones too. I hope you find this anon

Milo Murphy Pride headcanons

Milo is Omni and Ace

He is also trans

His parents where very confused when he was born. It was a girl but Murphy’s law still seemed to happen. At first they past it off that is was the dad. But slowly as Milo got a little older they realized it was milo. So they raised him gender neutral till he could understand himself. This was around 4 ish right when he started reading. An accident occurred where a sign of his dead name fell and broke. The words somehow arranged themselves to look like milo and that was his name. The law named me he said. And so his parents just went with it

Sara is straight she her (big ally)

Zack is the definition of a bi disaster and I love that for him (he/him) does explore his gender a bit in college

Mellisa is Aro to me possibly ace as well. She doesn’t express romantic feelings really to anyone sooo

Cavendish is Gay, was in the closeted for a very long time

Dakota. He seems to be the guy that doesn’t like labels. They don’t mind any pronouns at all. He loves who he does and just goes with the flow

(I’m gonna do a second ine of them at pride cause this was fun)

[icarrymany]

what are Brick and Savannahs first names?????

[thelasthalloween]

“Candace has schizophrenia and nothing her brothers do actually happened” Please get new material

[wherevenusholdssomeofficespace]

Now I get why, they aren't main characters. But what about Buford's dad? Or Stacy and Ginger's dad? Or Jenny and Django's mom? Irving and Albert's dad?

Melissa's mom?

Fred's dad?

Why is it always "Phineas's bio dad" and never "Candace's bio dad"? It's the same guy?

For that matter why is it always about their bio dad and never Ferb's bio mom?

[pistachions]

Do you have any pistachions headcanons? ',:3

Ooo kinda .. like they aren't very.. Well thought out tho lmao

BUT to me the pistachions have a VERY rich culture. This is the bit I haven't rlly thought out well but yk considering they're.. nuts. They have a LOT of food based traditions. Idk what they are tho cuz maybe nut meals is weird for them lmao

They're also SO close it's sweet. <-Like this is pretty much canon. BUT I decide they have a massive scrapbook or smth of pictures of all of them (yk kinda like in the minions movie when Kevin shows scarlet pictures of all the minions) ALSO this one's kinda hard to explain without referencing irl.. but I work with kids and on each of their birthdays we do one activity outing and then we go to frankie and bennys. The pistachions totally do that. To me.

[teamcavota]

50 milo murphy's law facts

5 not so fun and 45 fun!

Not so fun to start!

The only Milo Murphy's Law official merchandise is a notebook released in Japan for the MML X PNF crossover.

Disney actually apologized to Dan (and I assume Swampy) for the treatment of Milo Murphy's Law. Dan has expressed frustration at the MMLs treatment before, citing the Hiatus between s1 and s2 and the fact it did not air on the main Disney Channel.

Doof appears in more episodes than Cavendish and Dakota in s2 (this is the real reason we needed a s3). Also, while PNF/Doof stuff was planned from the start, Disney did push for more PNF.

When season 2 was airing, new episodes would randomly be released in other countries.

Milo was cut from CATU due to a feeling from Disney that audiences would not recognize his cameo.

ok LAME ones out of the way

On the first drawing of Milo there are three names beside it: Milo, Mikey, and...Monty. As you probably know the Mikey one got pretty far and is the name used in the pitch bible (and was referenced with "I am Mikey!".) The reason Mikey was changed to Milo was not a creative choice, but because there was a popular YouTuber named "Mikey Murphy."

Speaking of, Milo was also just going to be another character apart of a different pitch, but Dan kept thinking he should go into his own show. He went to Swampy and asked him what he thought of Milo (at the time Mikey) and the idea of a show about Murphys Law. it took them about an hour to come up with the concept pitch.

You can find several of MML song dubbings on YouTube and other platforms. Most notably the Japanese version (マイロ・マーフィーの法則) highly worth checking out. Fun fact in a fun fact, Doof and Dakota also share the same voice actor in this dubbing.

In re-airings of some of the first MML episodes, second versions were made that included Cavendish and Dakota in the background.

Yes, Melissa was originally going to feel the lasting effects of the pistachion uprising by remaining looking like one instead of Bradley having his arm turned into a vine. This would have been a source of conflict for her in season 2, but in the end they felt it was too much of a change. As far as Bradley's plant arm it was originally only going to come out sometimes before it was changed to being a constant thing. He does have feeling in this arm.

The Island of Lost Dakota's was going to include a scene with merman Dakota's ("merkotas"). There was also going to be "mutation" Dakotas, such as ones with multiple heads.

There exists a live action version of the Milo Murphy's Law theme song. well, sorta, watch it

Before Milo came out Dwampy made the song "we're gonna do it again."

MML was originally set to debut in early 2017.

Weird Al did not originally come to mind for Milo. One of the idea voices they had was Noah Z Jones (Fish Hooks). They auditioned hundreds of people for Milo, but many had issues such as sounding too nervous in their lines. It wasn't until Alex Hirsch (Gravity Falls) posted a photo with Weird Al that Dwampy realized he'd be perfect for the role.

Sara is based on a friend of Dwampy.

In tune with the popular headcanon/fan theory, it's possible they did actually consider making Cavendish a descendant of Milo. When Cavendish was going to agree he also liked Milo, he was going to say he was his descendant. *this may have also just been a joke line

Milo and Cavendish are meant to mirror eachother in the fact Milo deals with Murphy's Law and Cavendish is the "author of his own misery" in regards to things going wrong.

Another thing they considered was the possibility of Dakota and Cavendish being in a romantic relationship, but they ultimately decided they wanted them to have them represent a strong male friendship.

The Milo Murphys Law crew did keep up a fanart and concept art wall. Here, here, and here are some photos.

There was a baby Cavenpus cut from final productions.

There are no official ages for Dakota and Cavendish. Dan has said he believes Cavendish to be older, while Joshua Pruett has said he believes Dakota to be the older one and by a bit of a margin.

Pistachios came to be a thing in the show because a son of some of Dan's neighbors had been allergic to specifically pistachios. They needed an idea for the larger plot and somehow those two came together. (Swampy also notes it's a funny word).

Several of the scripts for MML storyboarders included just the words, "and Murphy's Law happened."

Dan has made at least one Vinnie Dakota dedicated Tiktok similar to his Doof ones.

The Doof and Dakota lines were recorded together, back and forth.

Melissa was going to have a hamster nemesis named Ham. In the Pitch Bible the name wasn't included, but it's explained it was a pet class hamster that would always escape and end up on her things.

The secret handshake Milo and Zack do in scream-a-tourium was intended to be longer.

The studio executive for MML originally thought The Island of Lost Dakota's was a joke idea until he read the script.

There was a MML kids menu at Disneyland circa 2016.

Dakota and Cavendish were originally not in the shows ideas, nor was any B-plot, but being used to it in PNF the writers room felt they "needed something to cut away to"

Joshua Pruett pitched for the MML x PNF crossover for where when Milo opened his backpack to pull out the thing he needed to save the world it'd be...Phineas and Ferb.

Dakota is the reason parking tickets exist, as he can be a bit careless about leaving time vehicles all over the place. Dakota is proud of this.

Melissa's likeness and name is based on Dan's daughter Meli, as to sorta "balance out" Isabella also being based on his other daughter.

They considered a twist where Bob Block would be an alien wearing a face mask.

"Cavendish Farms" is an episode that never came to be pitched by Pruett where in order to track Cavendish Dakota would try to duplicate Cavendish, though none of them would quite be Cavendish. One of the Cavendishs would have a heart to heart with Dakota, while Doof would ultimately call out Dakota for what he's doing and tell Dakota "you already know what he would do." dwampy rejected this idea because this was a bad idea, to which pruett felt that is exactly why Dakota would have tried it. if renewed, pruett would have tried to convince them more on it.

Chop Away at My Heart was originally called "Jump Jump Jump" and was made for another project by one of Dan's friends. After Dan have asked to transform it into something else for Milo, Joshua Pruett suggested a "Lumberjack themed boyband" in the script.

unfortunate split for character block limit

Dakotas voice was inspired by Elvis Costello. It's also the harder voice for Dan in comparison to Doof.

Mark Hamill originally auditioned to play a teacher on the show, but Dwampy liked his audition so much they decided he'd better fit Mr. Block.

In the MML pitch bible it is stated, "Mikey has a destiny to fulfill, something vital to the future of the planet." The goal of Cavendish and Dakota would be to make sure he stays on the right path.

There IS a full version of We're Going to the Zoo, which was played by Dan in this interview at 3:00:30. Several MML songs have had full versions leaked, implying this is probably the case for some other songs too.

Like several other characters, Sara in the MML pitch bible was different from her show counterpart, being "a hipster like Thora Butch in Ghost World."

The song "A World Without Milo" is based on the song "Happy Together" by "The Turtles"

Almost every character, including creatures or minor one-offs had a name in the script. An example is "Pia," the name of the poodle Diogee falls in love with.

In regards to when Dakota talks about cutting through the Mesozoic in First Impressions and the fact it is illogical, Dan says this is likely just Dakota being Dakota (aka, it was a mistake), and not every such line should be taken serious.

In a deleted "Snow Way Out" line it was confirmed that the raccoon in Going the Extra Milo and Fungus Among Us is recurring raccoon.

Brick and Savannah were going to have a role in the crossover.

Story ideas from the MML pitch bible that never came to include a beach episode, a Friday the 13 episode, and an episode where Cavendish and Dakota try convincing Milo to take a self defense class leading to conflict with a hidden ninja gang.

For unspecified characters (probably multiple different sets) Pruett wrote in hugs that were cut by (mostly) Dan. In response, he says he "put 4 in so at least 1 stays."

S3 would have likely included: A third Block (yes, still voiced by Mark Hamill and a Block "family meeting"), Milo creating the universe, Dakota and Cavendish getting the promotion they wanted but being unsatisfied, Elliot cleverly being connected to the overarching plot, AU exploration (akin to pnf) including an episode where Dr Zone is real, and a conclusion to the Prof Time arc. The overarching plot would have been the "biggest yet."

credits to: danvillecheese for suggestions + encouragement, cheetochild989 for facts the fact about going to the zoo and a world without milo, the 2nd dimension on YouTube, my hamsterward friends, and of course all the talented people who worked on MML :3

[sirshio]

I surfed through MML tag and found out there are headcanons, pairings and AUs I don't like. Now I try to convince myself that it's absolutely okay as long as I ignore such content and don't mess with people who enjoy it.

Me: Why I don't live an active fandom life and don't look for content with characters and/or pairings I love?

Me: Ah. That's why. Thank you universe, I managed to forget this.

Context: for all my "fandom" life (it began when I was ~15, now I'm 27) I specifically looked for fandom content only three times. For Reborn (I was pretty active in fandom), for Yecho book series (I remember reading fanfiction all night long) and now for MML. Usually when I love some media, I chat about it with my bestie, look at fanarts and posts she finds and shows to me and create my own content (and am glad when someone likes it). That's my usual fandom life, and I'm totally okay with it. And when I love some media that my bestie doesn't like and doesn't want to like, I'm pretty consent with a company of myself. No content means no content I don't like, no fandom chats means no fandom chats I don't like.

So a note for all people who are like me: if you don't like my ideas about MML, please feel free to ignore me, it's completely okay!

[cosmofan47]

I’m sorry @adhdoofenshmirtz, but I have to somewhat agree with @not-buffalo-marshmallow on the time travel inventor here: Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz aka Professor Time may have invented the method of time travel commonly used by BOTT agents in the year 2175, but Phineas and Ferb repaired another time machine the summer before MML, one that came from the past.

However, I agree with @adhdoofenshmirtz that Dr. Doof is a waaaaaaaaaay cooler character than Elliot (self appointed safety czar) Decker.

To this day it BAFFLES me that Disney thought that Milo Murphy's Law needed Doofenshmirtz to hold up as a good show like for fucks sake this show has ELLIOT DECKER in it.

[vinniedakotaismyspiritanimal]

I can’t stop thinking about what happens after MML S2, so, have some headcanons. :)

Milo:

I have no idea what he‘d end up doing for work, but I feel like it would be something where Murphy’s Law would be beneficial, like his dad.

He would still live in Danville, as it would be a federal crime to let him on a plane, and I don’t think he‘d want to leave anyway.

Him and Amanda never actually get together, although he continues to crush on her all throughout Highschool, then, she moves away for college, and he’s convinced he missed his chance. They date other people for a while, but never really forget each other. (Milo, because he’s just sentimental like that, and Amanda because Milo’s just kinda hard to forget.) Like 6 years later, Amanda moves back, (she’s a professional chef now) and they meet up somehow. They start dating, and get married a few years later.

They end up having three kids, the oldest is a girl, the middle child is a boy, and the youngest is a girl. (I don’t have names for them, but feel free to come up with some.) They combine last names into Lopez-Murphy.

Melissa:

She does a LOT of things for work. She is a journalist at one point, goes through law school, and becomes a lawyer, founds some big company, and follows the music path, eventually becoming basically Sabrina Carpenter. (Yes this is because she voices her, and also, I just feel like she would take over vocals for „just getting started“ from Zack at some point and really enjoy singing.)

She would also move around a lot, and go all over the world, sending endless postcards back for Zack and Milo. She makes sure to visit at least once a month.

She and Zack flirt back and forth for a few years, but it never develops into something serious, so after Melissa starts traveling, they both kinda move on. Melissa dates here and there, (I headcanon her as pan, so she dates guys, girls, anyone she finds hot.) but never settles down/gets married. She also doesn’t have kids, but loves Milo‘s and functions as a cool aunt figure.

Zack:

I don’t really have much for him, but I think he’d either follow music, and do that full time, or have some kind of desk job, which he likes, but he would still do music on the side. (He and Melissa frequently get into arguments over which one of them sings better, and ask Milo to judge, but he’s too nice to pick between them, so it never gets resolved.)

He gets married at some point, but I’m not sure to whom. They‘d have one kid, and then get a divorce. Zack gets full custody. His and Milo‘s kids are practically siblings, as he also never moves away from Danville.