#the problem with Bradford buzzard

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I did not like how Bradford Buzzard was handled as the final antagonist.

The reason behind his whole villain backstory was because of the trauma he received adventuring with his own grandmother, Isabella Finch. His own grandmother, who didn't seem to care about her grandson’s wellbeing and instead focused on building her own legacy.

Bradford ended up going down a dark path because of Finch’s not so great parenting. Resulting in a form of unhealed generational trauma.

Well since adventuring became too much for him, that wasn’t ok. You could’ve just taken breaks after your latest expeditions to give him time to physically and emotionally recover. Or let him stay with family relatives you’re close with while you’re adventuring. It is not that hard!

Well instead the narrative has the protagonists, the Duck family invalidate his trauma and his ideals that challenges the series’ status quo. Resulting in the plot emphasizes to the audience over and over it’s the reason why“he’s evil” and “he’s a villain” in the finale. It didn’t help that Angones and Youngberg had conflicting ideas on handling his character together. His unresolved trauma just served to make him a megalomaniac murderer who gets defeated with a piece of mystical papyrus, and ends up getting literally dehumanized. UUuuuugggghh. I really hated that he got turned into a literal vulture, look I haven’t seen the finale (the final episodes of season 3 made me softly rage quit watching the series) I already read spoilers on the wiki, but that fate to me made it seem like the easy way out for him and it seemed like rushed writing at the last minute. The ducktales reboot wasn’t the best at giving their end season antagonists the right consequences, Magica ended up running away from the Money Bin and Lunaris orbits the freaking earth!

What’s worse is that the perception of Isabella Finch hasn't changed. Heck Scrooge’s admiration of her should’ve devolved into something Parasocial and he could’ve gotten a character arc where he reevaluates his ideals. Y’know if they had a next season!

I did understand that Bradford’s experience is what drove him to cross lines, I just didn’t like how the writers handled him in the end. I really hated that Finch didn’t acknowledge the consequences of how her constant adventures affected her grandson's wellbeing, and she ended up doing nothing to help him before she seemingly passed.

Also re: status quo being king and the supposed inherent virtues of Adventure™, I think Bradford’s fate really exemplifies Ducktales’ weaknesses in those regards.  When you have an antagonist challenging the validity of your protagonists’ values, even if those values are something as postcard-shallow as “family is the greatest adventure of all!��, then you kinda need to address that challenge in a meaningful and even-handed way.  Even if the writers wanted Bradford to be totally wrong about the status quo — if they wanted to say that yes, the Duck’s wacky adventures and the chaos they spread are an absolute net positive in the world — there was a pretty obvious way to show that without giving him a gratuitous kill count and a weirdly horrifying fate.  Just let him become the cartoon villain he keeps denying he is and then integrate him into the status quo.  Don’t make him a “lame” villain that even other villains make fun of and then trap him indefinitely as a mindless animal, that’s just mean!  And lazy!  And doesn’t address his surface-level concerns or his deeper motivations at all!!

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[inamindfarfaraway]

I rewatched “The Richest Duck in the World!” and noticed something new. It’s only a theory, but it could easily be true, and… oh my God.

Bradford Buzzard has been working with Scrooge for about two decades or more by this episode, right? He's the CEO of McDuck Enterprises. He can overule Scrooge on business decisions and has access to and knowledge of everything, including Falcon Island, the portion of money afforded to it and that it's used for magical defence. Scrooge took the time to remove that island from all maps because he was so desperate for nobody to ever be able to meddle there. This is as top-secret as it gets. But Bradford knows. Scrooge trusts him implicitly with ALL his money. That's a lot of trust!

So Bradford almost certainly knows about the Bombie. It's hard to imagine a conversation where Scrooge told him about Falcon Island and what resources it needed without telling him why it needed them; and never before this episode has the Bombie been released due to financial strain. Not even in Scrooge and his finances' lowest point, when he was blowing through savings to search for Della, resorting to draining the Money Bin, his personal store of sentimentally valuable coins. Not even with Bradford wanting more of McDuck Enterprises' money available so he can siphon it off for FOWL. There was always, always something less important than Falcon Island.

But then Louie - an inexperienced, physically weak and unskilled eleven-year-old - becomes the richest person on Earth. On his very first morning in this position, he has to compensate for his wasteful spending by taking money from the company and Bradford immediately suggests cutting funding to the Bombie's containment measures. That is the first thing he comes up with. And he agrees to it unhesitatingly without a word of warning. This is why the entire plot of the episode happens!

Even more dammingly, he has a button specifically to deactivate the magical security system on hand at that moment. Without it, the Bombie escapes in an instant. But how did such a button come to exist in the first place? Scrooge would never have asked for it. Nobody else knew anything about Falcon Island. Bradford must have made it and connected it to that magic himself. He saw that Louie was vulnerable and wasted no time engineering his fall, unleashing a lethal threat upon him that was, as far as anyone knew, absolutely unstoppable, yet in a manner indirect enough to deflect suspicion from him.

Bradford tried to murder Louie.

[korkorali]

Oooooohhhh are we talking about Bradford telling Della about the Spear of Selene? I think we're talking about Bradford telling Della about the Spear of Selene!

Okay okay this is something I have Ideas™️about- specifically why he told her, and why she believed him.

The answer (as I have so humbly decided is obviously the abject truth) is the same for both: Because he'd been manipulating her for years.

He was trying to be the Emperor Palpatine to her Anakin Skywalker.

Why? Simple: The Papyrus of Truth.

Think about it- it doesn't make sense to immediately go 'oh, only Scrooge McDuck's heir can find the Papyrus? Welp, time to steal some of his DNA and make a kid!' That's supervillain territory, and Bradford isn't a supervillain! (He's just a bit of a scumbag, but that's not a supervillain so it's obviously fine.)

So picture this: he finds out about the wish Scrooge made on the Papyrus, that only his heir could find it, and his thought patterns line up with Scrooge's:

He thinks "Alright, then it has to be one of those rugrats."

The question is, which one? Della, or Donald?

And honestly, when they're both kids- it's not really that much of a question, is it?

Is it Donald, the angry coward who loves to hole up in his room and write songs about eating the rich and basically doing everything that Scrooge hates?

Or is it Della, the adventurous and energetic ball of high-octane excitement and adrenaline, unable to sit still for a single moment, who acts like Scrooge McDuck, who likes all the same things as Scrooge McDuck, who is pretty much every single thing that Bradford Buzzard hates about Scrooge McDuck, all rolled up into a bratty child?

(Nevermind the fact that she isn't actually like that, not entirely. Nevermind the fact that she's doing all that because she feels she has to be useful, to be likeable, and that means mirroring Scrooge McDuck because if he likes himself so much then he must like seeing himself in her.)

Obviously it's Della. It has to be.

Which means, in order for him to get the Papyrus, he needed to get his claws into Della.

Which shouldn't have been hard- you can't tell me that Scrooge wouldn't do the same thing with Donald and Della that he did with Louie. He'd take them to the Money Bin (after all, it's like a second home for him), then head into his office and tell them not to disturb him.

And that'd leave Della in the perfect position for Bradford to begin to wheedle his ways past her defenses.

(Of course, multiple problems arise, not the least of which is she's a child and Bradford undoubtedly hates children. But moreso it's that she's genre-savvy, and also (and we love her for it, but) kind of dumb. It's a very frustrating mix that leads to her very nearly calling him out on what he's doing a lot.

But also, despite all that- she's still a kid.

And despite how much she thinks she knows, he's still better.)

It'd take a while, and I don't think he ever really manages it, but he still gets her to trust him.

Eventually, of course, he learns that Della isn't the 'heir of Scrooge McDuck.'

(Not sure how this happens, but it obviously does- I'm sure that lots of the Adventure Trio's adventures in the earlier days were spent searching for that missing Papyrus, but for some reason they stopped. The whole thing threatened to tear Donald and Della apart, or something.)

And that makes all the work he spent on her useless. All the time spent manipulating her, and trying (and -mostly- failing) to get her to be something he wanted, to push her to break up her family, all for naught.

Or- maybe not.

Because Scrooge keeps a secret. He makes her a spaceship. An untested, unreliable, terrible spaceship that literally runs on money.

It's horrible.

It's a waste.

It's perfect.

All the work doesn't have to be for naught. All Bradford has to do is let Della come to him one day, when she's at the Money Bin (probably because she and Donald and Scrooge were going shopping for baby toys, and she kept trying to get these really dangerous and deadly-looking ones, and ultimately got sent to the Money Bin as a bit of a 'time out'), let her rant and burn herself out to him about how frustrating Donald and Scrooge are being, how unfair they are (how scared she is, how much she just wishes they'd let her actually handle some stuff, how bad they make her feel for still wanting to adventure at a time like this, how much it feels like all either of them care about anymore are the kids and not her), how much it blows to be stuck like this.

And all Bradford has to do is offer up some half-hearted consolement, assure her that (while Donald is definitely being too overprotective) that of course Scrooge still cares about her, is still thinking about her, is still thinking about her, after all he's making her the-

And then cut himself off, like he said too much. That's aaaaallll that's needed to peak Della's interest, after all. And as soon as that's peaked- it's over.

All he has to do is hem and haw back and forth, say 'oh but he made me promise never to say anything' and 'I could get in trouble' and so on and so forth. Make it seem like he didn't want to say anything. Make Della feel like she earned the information, that he didn't plan this from the start.

And when she finally gets the information about the Spear out of him, and her eyes light up like stars and she darts off to go see if he was telling the truth, he can be confident that she'll never remember that he was the one who told her about it. All she'd be able to think about is 'I figured it out.' Because she had, after all. She'd figured it out, all her, he definitely hadn't pointed her in that direction at all.

He got to get rid of a liability and break the family, all in one fell swoop.

[velvet-vox]

Hey.

How are you?

Just wanted to tell you, dear @rad10active-ketchup , that I agree with you. This is in reference to an argument that we had a couple of months ago about this post you've made:

I kept thinking about Doll's death and just how sudden it was.

At the time, I was trying to cope with the best coping mechanism possible: accepting her death through the lenses of competent writing. The problem was, you brought up some valid points that challenged said coping mechanism with the possibility of a lack of care by the writers for what they were doing, so I responded with this analysis:

That's a lie

Now, I assume you don't really care about the whole thing anymore and are probably just thinking that I'm a total creep for writing this, and if that's the case, then I'll delete or rewrite this post immediately for providing you with uneasiness.

The thing that I'm trying to say though is... you were right.

I have an indecisive shifting view of Doll's death and how it was executed. At times, I was totally in agreement with this aspect of the story, and other times I was cursing Liam Vickers to all hell and back.

But now that the dust of episode 7 has settled, I can't help but think that Doll was just wasted potential in the end. This is going to age horribly if she were to come back in any way, shape or form, but as of right now her existence in the story feels like a cool plot device for action scenes and character development.

I admittedly wouldn't have thought much of Murder Drones if she didn't exist in the show, her personal conflict with the team just felt way more interesting and grounded than the eldritch, universal, still not as developed threat of Cyn and The Absolute Solver. I like N and can't imagine the show working without him, but his sister was still a very late part of his character development that needed to be addressed after the proper development and pacing, not being broadcast from minute one as "the big thing".

Problem is, I grew too attached to Doll throughout this time, and I feel like I finally learned why: She shares with me so many traits that I haven't seen represented anywhere else in fiction and it led me to identify myself with her to the point that when she died, it felt like part of me died too and she was merely the premonition of my future failure to overcome my flaws.

I was always on board with Doll dying; I just watched the first two seasons of Wakfu and learned how to write a tragic antagonist properly, believe it or not, I actually thought that V was going to be the one to kill her in the end since it looked like the most fitting end to her arc; but I digress now.

It just feels like Bradford Buzzard 2.0 for me: I spent so much time getting invested in a character that the writers never really cared about beyond the action spectacle.

That's a bloody shame, but I guess I shouldn't have been surprised.

[kathren-is-here]

Lil oc intro

Whoa- howdy there it’s been a hot minute whoops, completely forgot to post here

but might as well show of my second favorite oc I made yet 🕺🏻

Meet Brass (Ford) Buzzard! My lil guy!

he was shortly made after I kept on thinking about ideas for Brass Mirror (which I have yet to explain whoops) and I love him!!💖💖💖

Here’s some info on him!

So the story so far is Bradford goes behind Cassidy's back to make a clone hybrid child when he got the chance to, not sure what he was thinking, but it ended up resulting in an angry Cassidy, and he technically got what he wanted? A baby duck/vulture/thing! Cassidy eventually warms up to them both again but not after some heavy angst with Bradford :)

this is after the show events btw! Unless I made an Au that states otherwise!

He's super like his parents, loves to observe people and stuff, generally a quiet kid early on but love to talk about what he's currently into and loves asking questions,

As a little kid, he loves that stringy rubber fidget toy, he finds it fun to play with and it's for his sensory issues:)

He gets into reading at an early age, and his parents keep on getting new material for him to read to keep up his reading level that's always expanding (Cassidy wants to get one of those really long books but Bradford wants to save that for when he's older haha). When they couldn't get more reading material, Cassidy suggests teaching writing to him so they do just that, and so starts his fixation on writing.

He often tends to go out in the world as Cassidy tries to show him how the world works, funny, since Cassidy isn't from this world in the first place, but it works out.

He also likes going to his local library! And spends hours reading there. That's his go to safe space.

Cassidy tries to inadvertently teach him how to sneak and fight, by playing some games disguised as lessons with him!

He gets a music box he likes to listen to! It's entirely made out of un-melting ice! I wonder who gave him that who has full control over ice/water magic🤔 (definitely not Cassidy who I fail to explain him and his story so far whoops)

He loves going to the beach, playing in the sand and water, having enough space to do all sorts of stuff, wonderful!

As he grows up, he gets into Spells! Because Cassidy was partly known for making and using spells! But Brass is mostly interested on what words mean and what meaning they hold when it involves a spell, he just likes words!

Bradford is cautious of him learning spells (can you blame him), but trusts Cassidy enough for him to teach Brass about it and the history of spells. (Totally gonna reference Merlin haha)

He later learns the ins and outs of dulling and fighting with magic, Merlin style😎

Brass, does meet the McDucks eventually! I’m assuming this is after Cassidy finds out about them, so both of his parents try and keep him away from them, without telling him exactly.

he does pass by them once or twice while he’s reading in the local library, he tries to be nice and polite, but will quickly get impatient if they’re causing too much of a ruckus around him.

he actually meets Webby first! And just bc I can, I decided to do a little parallel with him, Bradford, Webby, and Scrooge!

after the kids invite brass over for some sort of gathering one day, they accidentally take him on and adventure! Which his is not too exited about at all. He finds them all overwhelming and a lot, after he leaves as a new rival/in their eyes an enemy, he meets three girls.

Turns out these girls already have beef with the kids over there, and were spying on them, Brass meets up with them and teams up with them!( I personally call them the fake clones haha) since they have a common rival to deal with.

after he teams up with them, he quickly finds out he likes being a leader! Actively working on solving problems and organizing against someone! Definitely a trait passed down by both parents.

I’m still figuring out future stuff but here’s what I got planned so far!

He’s really proficient with magic spells and casting and all that!

His hair gets nicer! Not as clean and tame when he was a baby, but definitely better than when he was a kid that's for sure

His hair gets nicer and longer!

And his feathers get darker! idk if I’m gonna keep the fade from his younger feathers though 🤔

Here’s a few alt designs for him I did! Since I’m running out of things to say!

I have a few more art pieces with him but that’s all for now! Just glad to get all his info into one post so far!

[writebackatya]

Wip Preview!

Once again I’ve caught the writing bug. And once again I’m just too excited about what I’m writing so I thought I’d share a little bit

So come on! Come get your pre-canon Spear of Selene angst! All though this part ain’t too angsty. And this hasn’t been beta read and still a work in process so it ain’t final

Also in case you couldn’t tell, I love writing for Duckworth:

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“LOOK OUT BELOW!”

After hearing the inane shouting of Della, Bradford let out a quiet exasperated sigh; which was then followed by a rather loud startled gasp as the buzzard spotted the duck sliding down the stairs, using a shield as her personal board.

“Ah! Bradford?!” Della then swung her body into the direction away from the buzzard, causing the duck to wipe out off her board but away from Bradford.

“Umph!” Della grunted as her face made contact to the ground. She then quickly looked up to greet her guest.

“Bradford.”

DONK

The shield that Della was using as a stairboard landed on top of the duck’s head.

After the shield fell off her head, Della got up onto her feet, “I mean, Mr. Buzzard. Sorry, I thought you were Donald! He’s coming back home today and well you how siblings can get, right?”

“…No. I do not.” Bradford answered, “and yes, your uncle did tell me that your brother would be arriving sometime today.”

“Yeah! He’s going to meet the kids for the first time!”

“Yes, he also did mention your unexpected pregnancy.”

“Heh, yeah.” Della rubbed her head as she awkwardly picked up the shield from the ground. “Well I’m past that part, now all I gotta do is sit on them till their ready. So far, I think I’m handling things well. But let me tell yeah, pushing those three out was a whole another story. You ever push out-, never mind…”

“I see…and do you at least know who the father is?”

“Some asshole I hope I never see again.” Della chuckled which became rather awkward when she noticed the unamused look on the buzzard’s face. “I uh, suppose you’re here to see Uncle Scrooge?”

“Uh, yes.” Bradford cleared his throat and then look passed Della. “Does he know that I’m here?”

“Oh keep your shirt on, Bradford I’m right here.” Scrooge said as he made his way down the stairs.

“Augh, Della,” Scrooge sighed. “Did you just go surfing down the stairs while we have company?”

“Uncle Scrooge, I did not know, I thought he was Donald.”

“That’s not the point lass, I don’t want ya treating my house like it’s a skate park.”

“Oh come on, I was just having some harmless fun” Della explained as she once again rubbed the bump on her head, “our guest is fine and King Arthur’s shield is perfectly intact.”

“Della, please put it back where you found it.”

“I was gonna,” Della assured her uncle as she awkwardly backed away from the two older birds, “Anyway, I’ll leave you two alone so you can talk about business. Woo! Business. Heh, yeah…”

“Yes, thank you Della.”

“No problem, Uncle Scrooge. I’ll just, uh, be in my room till Donnie gets here.”

As Della made her way up the stairs she hissed to her uncle’s passing butler. “Thanks for the heads up, Duckworth.”

“I’ll be sure to speak faster next time, Della.” Duckworth remarked before joining Scrooge by his side.

“Now Bradford,” Scrooge began when Della had left the area, “I thought we agreed that you’d come over after noon, my nephew should be here soon.”

“Oh, right.” Bradford cleared his throat. “Sorry, I must’ve mixed the times up I can come back if you’d like.”

“Perhaps you can get yourself a personal planner,” Duckworth suggested getting a glare from the buzzard, “I find those to be quite useful when I organize my day.”

“Nonsense, Bradford. There’s no point in you leaving when you came all this way, I’ll have plenty of time for Donald later. Duckworth that’ll be all for now.”

“I’ll be taking care of young Della’s nasty bump if you need me, Scrooge. Mr. Buzzard.” And with that said, Duckworth left the two businessmen alone.

[mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune]

Who Is The Number 1# Worse B*tch Mom In Cartoon/Live Action/Video Game Universes And Who Hurt The Ones Who Loved Her...

I wanted to write a video game theory after the other post I made but I'm kind of sleepy right now...so after this, I'm gonna go to sleep...

I'm going to just put this in "Mature" in the Community Labels instead of "Everyone", even if the poll isn't really 100% Mature and doesn't have anything truly dirty...but because of the whole B*tch being censored in the title in the poll, I'm just gonna play it safe...

also I'm not sure I can wait a week for this, so I'm gonna make the Poll Duration 1 Day and see how it goes.

and yeah as weird as I am, I'm adding the Devil from the Cuphead series, well more like a AU version from any Fanon Timeline...

Eve and Lilith from the Lucifer Tv series were the only two live action Moms that I can think of to put into this...

Lilith wasn't the best Mom to Maze, and Eve had possibly played favorites when it came to Abel.

wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happen with the Gran-Gran Eve & Gran-Gran Lilith in real life...

Cain wouldn't of went past the very dangerous breaking point, if both Eve and Adam did a better job parenting him and giving him more emotional support and healing...

both Cain and Abel were victims and they both were in the wrong.

also I think what happen to Bradford from Ducktales 2017 series, was messed up...I mean how is it okay that no one tried to understand how much he was hurting because of that witch of a grandmother of his who was the cause of his trauma, it doesn't help that Scrooge couldn't try to understand why he became that way, because of that stupid selfish insensitive woman that he looked up to...

Moon Butterfly doing that messed up stuff by misusing the magic, did play a part of Star starting to blame the magic for her problems...

but the magic was NEVER the problem, it was those who misused it that were the problem because they misuse it and cause harm to those around them with that magic, even those who didn't deserve to be harmed by that misused magic...the last episodes was still good, but I just don't agree with the scapegoating of the magic when it was Moon and some of the Butterfly Family that had misused it in the first place...

I'm going to go to sleep now, I will check this poll later either around later today or tomorrow to see who won...

[shychick-52]

Hmm, seems I was in the minority. Oh, well!

I prefer the idea of Gandra officially joining Team Science as an employee. I respect her anticapitalist, independent values, but:

She and Fenton would be able to be together all the time, work and do science together all day and every day.

Scrooge always allows Team Science an enormous deal of creative freedom (and especially with the buzzards gone, that would only increase), which I think Gandra would really appreciate in her passion for super-science and pushing the boundaries of science. Plus, I can see Scrooge having come a long way from the uptight businessman he still showed signs of in early season 1 when he told Gyro his machines were too dangerous, threatened to cut his funding if another invention went wrong, etc. I can see him really trusting his team now, especially after it really became cemented at the end of 'The Last Adventure' (after the final battle, where they all worked together to defeat Bradford) that everyone- friends and allies alike- is his family.

I can see her learning to respect Scrooge a lot more after the battle with F.O.W.L. in 'The Last Adventure.'

We know Gandra works very well with Gyro and the rest of Team Science from when she teamed up with them to defeat Beaks in 'Beaks In the Shell' and to disable the Solego Void in 'The Last Adventure' (and key points of those times are when Gyro hugely praised the GizmoCloud that Fenton and Gandra worked so hard on, Gyro figured out and fixed the problem with the glitches in the GizmoCloud, and Gandra risked her life to save Gyro and Ludwig Von Drake from Bradford's attack- while taking the majority of the hit- without a second thought)

Gandra's been essentially alone for so long, faced rejection, and always convinced herself she didn't need anyone as a means of masking her pain. But now that she's in a loving, supportive relationship with Fenton- the only one who ever cared about her and saw so much more in her than a dangerous crackpot and a crook- she's learned what it means to not only be cared about, but to care about others in return. And after the welcome reception/approval and trust she received from first Huey, then Gyro for her part on the GizmoCloud, and Fenton's mom as his girlfriend (after being so scared to go public with both their relationship and the GizmoCloud, for fear of continuing to be judged and misunderstood), she started to really know what it was finally like to have friends and to belong for the first time. And at the end of 'The Last Adventure', during the group victory when Scrooge told Bradford "I didn't defeat you- my family did! All of them!" I like to think that's when she really felt not only free, but officially part of a family.

@justaboot @writebackatya About Gandra actively working for Scrooge's competitors... you don't mean Beaks or Glomgold tho, do you? I mean, obviously, there's no way she would work for Beaks again, and I honestly can't see her taking a job for Glomgold because of what a pos he is (plus, I can't see her working for anyone who would want her to harm the Ducks or do any bad stuff after F.O.W.L.; I can't see such a step backwards in her character development). Plus, after she and Fenton launch the GizmoCloud, surely her options would no longer be limited to only villains who don't care how much destruction her inventions cause, because she would finally gain the recognition she deserved from the scientific community, so I can see her actually getting a ton of job offers from actual legit people. (Also, when you said actively taking a job with Scrooge's competitors, did you mean full-time or freelance? If full-time, I'm curious how come, since I thought the majority favored her as a freelance scientist?

@writebackatya It honestly bothered me too that Fenton continued to have a bathroom stall as his workspace after Gyro sincerely promoted him (and pretty much told him he would start treating him with the respect and support his own mentor never gave him) at the end of 'Astro B.O.Y.D.', and that he called him "Dr. Intern" (like, he called him "Dr. Crackshell-Cabrera" when he promoted him, so wtf??)... but I honestly don't think that Gyro continued to treat Fenton like shit. I think he honestly did treat him much better, and also that he did offer Fenton his own workspace in the lab, but that Fenton humbly declined because he's used to it in there... because it's the only logical explanation after Gyro's sincerity when he promoted him (and both Fenton and Gyro would explain this to Gandra). What are your thoughts?

[duckapus]

One might think that Owlson is exactly the type of person FOWL would want to recruit, considering her and Bradford’s mutual hatred of the dangerous chaos brought about by insane billionaire adventure-capitalists, but then we must remember that she was right there in the room when the buzzards tricked a child into unleashing an unstoppable killing machine upon himself, and having to deal with said monster is what really put her over the edge and made her decide to leave Duckburg. She ain’t about that life.

[sidecharactersdomatter]

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Why Halo is terrible Muslim Representation

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[drummergirl231-2]

I’m really curious about what would be next for May and June.

Since the show is over, this ^ is technically all we’re going to get, but ya know... fanfiction brain.

I couldn’t help but notice while re-watching the finale that almost all the lines about wanting answers as to why they exist were given to May.

And almost all the lines about wanting family were given to June. 

In this way, they each embodied a different desire of Webby’s: to have answers about her origins, and to belong to a family. 

Further examples from May’s lines:

“If we learn everything about you, maybe we can figure out why F.O.W.L. made us!” “Webby, we’ll never get answers about who we are from those people, and neither will you.” “This is the only way to get answers. Director Buzzard left us behind and said if we brought him the Missing Mysteries, he’d tell us everything... the truth about us! Don’t you wanna to know?  “Your name is whatever he says it is because he created us all and we are THIS close to learning why!” “Focus! It’s almost over. We gotta keep these guys on lockdown so that we can win, and learn all our secrets, and then Heron and Buzzard will be so, so proud of us!” “That’s why we were made? So Bradford could find some dumb piece of paper and get rid of us?!”

Meanwhile, June’s lines revealed she’s far more family-oriented. 

“May says we’re not related to any of these people.”  “Come with us, sister! Please?” “WE WANTED YOU TO BE OUR SISTER! WHY’D YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT SO DIFFICULT?!?” “They’re so sweet! Family together, just like us!” “HI MOMMY!” “MOM! NOOO!”

Even in this moment when they shared one sentence, June’s half was focused on Heron - the only “mother,” she ever knew - being gone, and May’s half was about not knowing her purpose.

All that being said, it’d be fascinating to speculate how the two would adjust to being part of Clan McDuck. I think this moment could be a big hint.

June was so touched by Webby’s speech about family, and immediately smiled when Webby included her and May in her list of family members. Meanwhile, May still looked devastated.

At the end of the day, June will be getting what she craved most - a family that loves her. But May’s heart’s desire was to discover why she was created. The trouble is... she didn’t like what she found out. Who would? Her dream came true and it turned out to be a nightmare. 

This could make her cynical about June’s dream, as well. She may struggle with trust, and have a much harder time adjusting to life with a family... not that it’ll be easy for June, either. 

Despite appearing to be the same age as Webby, they were only created a few weeks or months prior and then artificially aged.

Their young chronological age, coupled with not being loved and nurtured at all, has left them immature for their physical age. 

For example, June deciding it was okay and even helpful to start wrecking Webby’s board, something she treasures and that she’s worked so hard on, without even asking, is something I would expect from a child 5-7 years old (based on my childhood experiences involving younger friends or playdates with no malicious intent thinking that cutting or ripping up my stuff was okay or helpful). 

In May and June, the brain development that occurs in children through nurture hasn’t happened. They haven’t been shown affection by those they consider their parents. They haven’t been taught right from wrong, or appropriate from inappropriate. They haven’t been disciplined in a healthy way when they do something bad. 

To sum up... they are both developmentally advanced, and developmentally delayed. Chronologically, they’re only a few weeks or months out from their conception. Physically, they’re 11 or 12. Emotionally, they’re about half that. 

I can definitely imagine them having some behavioral problems going forward, especially given the trauma they’ve both recently experienced, and the verbal and emotional abuse they received before that. 

These two are so lucky to be in Donald’s care, and I’m sure Daisy will love them, too. There’s just so much they’re going to have to get used to, and then once Donald and Daisy inevitably get married, they’ll have to adjust to that new situation, too. There are bound to be conflicts with the other children, and the adults might not always know the best thing to say or do to guide them or help them heal.

But gosh darn it, you know this fam is going to make it work and show these girls the love and devotion they need. And I’m sad we won’t get to see it, but we can imagine, at least.

[cursegirlrabbit]

Do you sympathize or understand Bradford Buzzard’s motivations for stopping adventures forever?

In a way yes. Not the way hes doing and dealing with it but I can see how the adventures and chaos are a big problem.

Mostly for the people are the adventures, duckburg has been damaged by scrooges adventures before with that beanstalk thing and then the shadow war, then the moorlanders and then in other location like the avalanch at Mt neverrest they literally covered the town there in snow.

Honestly bradford is more angry and dealing with issues of his grandma forcing him on adventures, which honestly I think she shouldn't have forced him to go on if it was obvious he didn't like them.

I do not agree with what bradford does but I can see why he and others like maybe the eggheads and their personal reasons for agreeing to work with fowl could be due to damages and such from said adventures

[yandere-toons]

Are you at all interested in writing about Yanderes who change enough to no longer be Yanderes (losing traits that make them such, character development, forming a stronger and purer attachment to the S/O than they thought possible, etc.), or is that too soft, boring, and ruining of their potential for you to write about? Make no mistake, I like your dark content as it is!

For characters who are quick to kill and/or kidnap, the obsession alters their life in ways that cannot be reversed. Others find the misguided euphoria it invokes much too addictive to overcome, and a select few enjoy the chaos it urges them to perform.

EXAMPLES:

Discord (My Little Pony)

King Sombra

Queen Chrysalis

Mark Beaks

Dr Nefarious

Emperor Nefarious

Gyro Gearloose (2017)

Dr Akita

Jim Starling

Doofus Drake (2017)

Scar (The Lion King)

Tasmanian Devil

Daffy Duck (in every universe)

Duck Dodgers

Drake Darkstar

Flintheart Glomgold

Black Heron

Steelbeak

John D. Rockerduck

Mephiles the Dark

Infinite the Jackel

Scourge the Hedgehog

Toffee (Star vs. the Forces of Evil)

Phineas T. Ratchet

Randall Boggs

Magica De Spell

Bill Cipher

Queen Tyr'ahnee

Invader Zim

Almighty Tallest Red

Almighty Tallest Purple

Gaz Membrane

Pitch Black

Gregory (Gregory Horror Show)

Negaduck

Lord Dominator

Lord Hater

Professor Pericles

Rico (The Penguins of Madagascar)

Dr Blowhole

Paddywhack

Bushroot

As counterintuitive as it appears, indulging them for a while is the fastest way to persuade certain characters into shedding most of their obsessive tendencies. The source of the problem is likely insecurity or trust issues, and patience will be rewarded with a much more stable relationship.

EXAMPLES:

Donatello (2012 + Rise of the TMNT)

Wile E. Coyote

Marvin the Martian

Miles "Tails" Prower

Nerdlucks

Alberto Scorfano

Scrooge McDuck

Huey Duck

Louie Duck

Danny Phantom

Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera

Gandra Dee (2017)

Bradford Buzzard

Daisy Duck (2017)

Knuckles the Echidna

Shadow the Hedgehog

Twilight Sparkle

Fluttershy

Dipper Pines

Gladstone Gander

Heinz Doofenshmirtz

Panda (We Bare Bears)

Dib Membrane

Tom Lucitor

Jack Frost

Luca Paguro

Skipper (The Penguins of Madagascar)

Dr Octavius Brine | Dave the Octopus

Either they are too delusional to appreciate the severity of their behaviour (and therefore see the need for improvement), or they aren't especially aggressive in the first place. These characters may conform to some requests from their obsession but won't undergo any major changes.

EXAMPLES:

Freakazoid

Lola Bunny

Bugs Bunny

Dewey Duck

Della Duck

Fethry Duck

Star Butterfly

Ludwig Von Drake

Sonic the Hedgehog

Michelangelo (Rise of the TMNT)

Leonardo (Rise of the TMNT)

Webby Vanderquack

Don Karnage

Grizz (We Bare Bears)

Darkwarrior Duck

Launchpad McQuack

Rarity (My Little Pony)

Rainbow Dash

Pinkie Pie

GIR

Count Duckula

Mabel Pines

Kildare Coot

Catherine (Gregory Horror Show)

Danger Mouse

Wander (Wander Over Yonder)

Fred Jones

Private (The Penguins of Madagascar)

Roger Rabbit

Quackerjack

This is neither exhaustive nor does it mean that certain characters are incapable of lessening their more unpleasant tendencies. Many are simply unwilling, but I'm open to writing about the reader trying (and perhaps failing in some cases) to improve their behaviour.

[big-chicken-man]

Continued from here. @sympathyforthedamned

It was odd, really. Presented to Steelbeak was a golden opportunity on a silver platter: returning everything the old buzzard had said and done to him two-fold. One didn’t need the rooster’s aptitude for reading others to know what he was contemplating — in vivid detail no less. It would just be so easy, and the physical impact would be immeasurably satisfying. But, no amount of convincing could sway Steelbeak into truly believing that drawing the curtains on Bradford would provide more than a shallow, fleeting high.

“Ya know,” Steelbeak restored their eye contact. “You remind me of someone I knew. He had this real power thing goin’ on. Figured that as long as he was the big fish in his little pond, everything would go well. Turns out it did, he was the most powerful guy around, oh yeah…” He trailed off, gesturing to the air with a lazy hand twirl. “No one messed with him, no one called him names, everybody feared him, because he had the brain to match the brawn. If he didn’t use his fists, he had other ways of breakin’ people anyway.”

The pause that followed gave Bradford a chance to take in what Steelbeak was saying, and maybe connect a few dots.

“He got reeeeeal cozy with that position, I’ll tell ya. Believed that was the way he had to run things, live life, the whole works.” Slowly, Steelbeak’s brows furrowed and his frown deepened. He then turned away. “But one day, when he wasn’t watchin’ his back, wasn’t lookin’ at all the right pieces, he slipped, and you know what happened? Everyone under his thumb got their revenge, and let me tell you, it ain’t a sight to fall asleep to. When he came out, he was messed up so bad that he looked like a circus freak. Look up ‘pulverized’ in a dictionary, you’ll find a picture of him. But even then, that ain’t the worst of it.”

Steelbeak faced Bradford with a frown that he’d never given anyone else before. He then raised both his index and middle fingers.

“He dealt with two real problems that day. For starters, he learned that no matter how high up he was, he wasn’t invincible. But what really rocked this guy? His world was jacked. Everything he knew in his life, gone, ka-put, crashin’ down on hard enough to turn his bones to dust.” With that last word, the rooster slammed his fist on the table with force that left a print. The air was permeated with a deafening silence. This was the most verbose and eloquent Steelbeak has ever been.

“So… this chump had to really think about why everyone he had turned on him, why they were a buncha filthy traitors and cowards. Where did he go wrong? Did he cross a line at one point? Mess with the wrong person?” Though he sounded like he was asking for Bradford’s input, he continued.

“It wasn’t everyone else. It was him, Bradford. He messed up from the start. The idea that hey, by scarin’ people into submission, he’d finally get what he wanted: security and respect.” The buzzard was faced with a glare piercing right into his very soul. Steelbeak had been many things, but he had never shown himself to be this firm.

“What a great lie that was. Even with people under him, waiting for his orders, he had no one. All he had in life was their fear, and his fists. At the end of the day, he was running away from the truth. Inside all that muscle, he was just scared and alone, scared of getting hurt again, scared of being weak and losing what he wanted so badly. The guy from then on was just a loser, alone with nothin’ but his thoughts and scars to remind him of his bad choices.”

Steelbeak huffed out a quiet sigh, glare softening into an expression of both pity and concern.

“…Even when you were my boss, even when youse had control over McDuck’s fortune, you were alone too. You didn’t want to get hurt. I saw that from the very beginning, and even then, I couldn’t help but look up to you a bit. You’re real smart, real calculated, you know where to place the pieces. Heh, I might’ve taken some notes. But still, I knew what was goin’ on in there. I mean, I had every right to take out my anger on you countless times after what you’ve said and done to me...” The rooster’s eyelids lowered."

“But I couldn’t, not when what I saw in you was so familiar. We ain’t good people, Bradford, we’ll never be heroes like the McDuck clan. You found out you wrong in the end, and you made some messes you can’t take back. But...that doesn’t mean you gotta be alone — not anymore.”

His words were progressively growing warmer in delivery, exposing yet another side of the rooster not seen by anyone in FOWL, or their enemies.

“We don’t got a big family or big circle of friends, so...look, I’m making a big gamble here, but ‘ey, if you wanna give it a shot?” Steelbeak raised his shoulders in a slow shrug.

“I’ll make the gamble for ya.”

[white-truesdale]

I'm gonna adress a little pet peeve with the ducktales 2017 finale.

The whole thing was amazing, it really ties everything together nicely. And i think that donald adopting june and may was great, and that webby being scrooge daughter doesn't change much to what was already establish about family.

The real problem for me was bradford buzzard, i honestly believe he should have been sympathetic villain, with redemption and such.

He is suppose to be one of the delusional control freak type of villain, the old crooked capiralist who want the world to go the way they want and doesn't handle disoder well.

But when it's revealed that isabella flinch was his granny and took him to adventures, i suddenly realized that he was basically rusty venture from the venture bros.

A kid who thrown into danger by an irresponsible parent, traumatised and became sour and cynical in the process, a victim of a child-dreamlike lifestyle.

That on top of the sitcom episode, i think the writers try to pin the adventure as totally awesome and if you're not into it you're buzzkill. While glancing over poor donald and the fact that he was tired of this too.

And the lack of grey area about the whole concept of adventure is what doesn't sit well with abour ducktales.

But besides all that, i'll definitely watch a show with donald, daisy, june and may going on adventures.

[seas-storyarchive]

My take on blind!Scrooge

Credit to @ai-higurashi for blessing us with the Blind Miser and Werewolf Housekeeper AU.

It happened during The Last Adventure, with everyone fighting against FOWL on the top of the base. Gladstone, being Gladstone, is able to maneuver to and fro with no problem to avoid attacks, leaving his foes confused and letting others take them down for him. Some find it helpful, Della for once does, so it isn't an issue.

Even when Gladstone is cornered, he still has backup. Until Bradford decides it's time to put an end to the Lucky Gander because he's annoyed with him. As Gladstone is being dramatic, the sword being swung at him, knowing he won't be hit-

"Gladstone!"

Wait! Was that-

"Uncle Scrooge!" [[MORE]]

In a flash, Gladstone is knocked onto his butt in shock, his uncle laying on his legs and cradling his face as tears and small outlets of blood leak between his fingers.

"Uncle Scrooge?" Gladstone checks on Scrooge as eight blurs of white attack Bradford when he isn't looking.

The duck removes his hands, smeared with bloody tears, to reveal burns that are around his eyes that are bleeding. His eyes..

"Ar' ya alrigh', lad?"

Gladstone is staring into those off focus orbs who are no longer black as coal, whose color he can't even begin to describe, finding himself crying and feeling sick and-

A scream is heard, making them both look up. Gladstone sees the vulture, no longer covered in the armor from the sword, falling into some swirling vortex. His eyes look for the sword, panic in them, seeing that the little pink girl has it. But everyone is looking at them, seeing Gladstone looking at them and his most likely blind -if not completely than very close to it- uncle looking in the vague direction of the screaming.

Everything else is a whirlwind, the little pink girl has a yellow sister and a blue sister. Triples or clones or what have you. Oh? Clones of Scrooge? Huh.. well, there are other ways to get kids, he supposed. Everyone is freaking out. Donald is pushing him, Della is yelling at him, the kids all look either disgusted with him or angry. Fethry is trying to keep the peace, but even Gladstone can tell he isn't all too truthful in his not blaming him.

At the hospital, Scrooge is given the diagnosis of incredibly low vision. So very close to being blind. And Gladstone feels sick, not going to see Scrooge when they are let in. Not until a miffed Green Bean comes up to him.

"Uncle Scrooge is asking for you."

Gladstone sees the kid doesn't even have his phone, either he lost it or it's in his sweater pocket, but he nods to him. On the way there, Gladstone tries to put a hand on his shoulder, but the kid shoves it off and walks to everyone else who is crowded around the door to let the Gander in.

By the bed sits the housekeeper, both her and Scrooge are speaking to each other in hushed tones-

"This was nae yer fault, Bentina. Things like this happen love."

"I know, but I should have protected you. That's my job."

"You also 'ave a responsibility ta take care of- goodness, 'ow many gran'daughte's do we 'ave now?"

"I know! I just.." she looked up, her eyes wide, to see Gladstone. "I'll leave you and Gladstone to talk."

His face looked worried, almost afraid. "You'll come back, righ'?" His hand, with surprising accuracy, found her cheek and cupped it.

She turned to kiss his palm, smiling at him. "Of course love, I'm just going to check on everyone else." As she leaves, Gladstone can see her shoulders shake. Can see the girls hug her, everyone does actually.

"Gladstone." Hearing the soft voice, almost drowned out by Scottish noises making him sound similar to Donald (was that where Donald's voice came from?), spoken with confusion and compassion..

It was sick. It was wrong, Gladstone told himself as he walked over to the duck.

"I'm here, Uncle Scrooge." He swallowed his tears, his cries, his guilt, swallowing it all down like bile, sitting beside the miser.

The head, still facing towards the door, slowly turned to him. "This, wha' happened to mah eyes, it was nae your fault."

"Oh spare me the lecture!" Gladstone didn't need this. He didn't need sympathy, he wasn't the one who was blind. "This is my fault! If I hadn't let that stupid buzzard corner me-"

"Lad." A shaky hand was moving towards him, which Gladstone grabbed in what would later be described as desperation, with a kind smile that churned his stomach. "Now, list'n ta me an' list'n good. Ah protected you from tha hit b'cause Ah did no want you ta ge' hurt." The other hand gestured vaguely to his face, or Gladstone supposed. "This? I' was b'cause Ah was protectin' a nephew tha' could nae protect 'imself."

Gladstone threw himself onto Scrooge, sobbing and crying, making incoherent screeches as he felt arms wrap around him. "I'm sorry! This is all my fault!" He gripped Scrooge's coat, the soft fabric tightening under his fingers, trying to ignore the smell of neutral magic from the contract that cling to him, as arms wrapped around Gladstone.

"Is alrigh', lad. Uncle Scrooge is 'ere. Aye go' ya.." Bradford, if he hadn't been tossed into The Pit, would have gotten what he wanted, Scrooge thought to himself.

He could never adventure again.