#How did he get de-aged I don't know probably a spell or something

[classicpurplefox]

John Constantine as a de-aged feral little shit.

Warning: Cussing

Something about John Constantine being de-aged to a ten year old or just a kid at all, just tickles my brain.

Because John '30-40 something year old con-artist, skilled manipulator, seen it all, done with everything and everyone, and is like drunk 97% of the time' Constantine gets de-aged to a kid.

Sure he'd be angry about it, cuss up a storm and cause a fuss. But think about it, it would be beneficial for him. Enemies would underestimate his strength because it wouldn't Cross their mind that this is John fucking Constantine? Literally no one because last they knew Constantine was a 30-40 year old sad trenchcoat man. Not some angry, hostile, cussing child. Only for said child to kick their ass.

It would also make getting information easier especially with ease dropping for information, because who suspects a child? (Ignoring the fact that some villains absolutely would) Morjoraity of them wouldn't think a child would be actively hunting em down.

And like sure John might have problems with being a child. People undermining him just because he's a kid, forgetting the fact that he's realistically an adult in a child's body. Only for John to shut them up with some of the most disturbing shit ever before walking away.

[salaapaoo]

I love de-aged Cale and I will NEVER shut up about it !!!

What if he gets deaged as a result of the group finding some beat up spell books and randomly trying them out one by one?

The smoke clears and they're faced with a tiny red headed boy with a piercing stare who doesn't respond to the name Cale.

Immediately, Choi Han comes to the realization and softly calls out a "Roksoo?" Which switches the boys attention to him instead.

"...how do you know my name?" His voice is barely above a whisper, and the group is holding their breaths in fear of drowning out their friend's voice.

Choi Han crouches down and tries to lie, spewing out some bs about how they know his parents ! But it all comes out so badly and they all have to refrain from smacking the back of his head or face palming. He thought it would make the kid feel better... But all he did was sound like some pervert trying to kidnap kids.

The look on the boys face gets colder, "don't lie to me. I'm not stupid. Now, who are you?"

Rosalyn bends down to his eye level and explains that he had been hit by a spell, and how it's probably hard to believe, but this was the "future" for him.

Roksoo pauses, deep in thought, before giving her a curt nod. There's literally a dragon flying around him... Time traveling or being wisked away to a parallel universe couldn't be too far off.

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They spend the day trying to fill him in on who everyone is and how they know him. His eyes sparkle at the fairytale-like adventures they tell him about. If this is fake... At least it's interesting.

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Eventually the kids all get bored of the formalities of getting him up to date, filling in the henituse family, calling the crown prince, and so on.

Hong jumps up with a sparkle in his eyes, "let's go show Hyung around our home!!" Now's the chance! They can play with him all they want because he has no responsibilities to do!!

They show him their rooms, pulling out heavy piggy banks and all their treasures and toys. Roksoo feels a pang of jealousy that he immediately brushes away, a whisper of "how nice" in the back of his head.

Raon drags him along to Rosalyn's lab, proudly displaying the mage's discoveries and current studies. There's vials of luminescent liquids surrounded by pages upon pages full of loopy writing. He can't read it for some reason. How weird. Plants he's never seen fill a corner of the room, their leaves billowing out towards a massive arching window. Everything he's seen so far is just so beautiful, so colourful. Life back home is just... Bleak. Nothing at home was ever this warm.

By the end of the tour they make it to the courtyard where everyone had been waiting. The three kids turn towards him with a glimmer in their eyes, before reaching out to take his hands.

"now we can play!!" They cheer, excited to show roksoo all their favourite games and toys.

"you want me to play?" He's never been allowed to play with the other kids before.

"do you wanna play dragon says?"

Roksoo scuffs his feet against the dirt, his eyes glued to the ground. He feels dumb.

"I don't know.." His voice soft and his eyes still turned downwards. He's scared to look back at them. Truthfully, he doesn't know how to play. He knows how to work, how to keep quiet, how to drink enough water so the hunger stops hurting for a bit... but he doesn't know how to play. The adults didn't like it when he played. Only good kids got to play.

The three share worried glances before asking if he's alright.

"I haven't been good though" he meets their eyes for a split second before ripping his gaze away, "only good kids get to play."

In seconds, they burst out in reassurances, demanding to know who said he wasn't good. Raon firmly and loudly tells him that he is the goodest human there ever can be. That no one else will ever beat him in goodness. Something crumbles inside him and roksoo finds his eyes feeling warm. He doesn't like crying. It's hard to be quiet when he's crying and holding his breath to muffle the sounds only makes him dizzy and feel worse.

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Tbc??? Idk

[yjwhatif]

Adding on to the last post, I found a way to make it more angsty. Just imagine this scenario in-between season three and four, when Bart's like 15.

I think if it was from 15 to 10 then the whole situation would be more angsty. Imagine, the outsiders come back to the premiere building, Bart’s been hit with some sorta spell by [insert magic villain here] and is lying on the couch. After a while, he’s ten again and everyone is freaking out and tries to call a magic user that is available. Now when Bart wakes up, he freaks out (“where am I, am I safe, who are you), and then he sees that he’s in a building. Something actually not destroyed and in ruins, his clothes don’t have holes in them, he looks through the window and sees a clear sky without ash and dust. Then his hands go to his neck and he realizes he doesn’t have a collar on. He thinks everything is some kind of illusion, some cruel joke the reach is playing on him.  Once one of the outsiders realizes, they all crowd around him to make sure he’s okay and then Bart sees Blue Beetle. He panics and runs, everyone’s confused about his behavior but Ed and Jaime know why. Then through the whole de-aged Bart thing, everyone starts finding out about what the reach did to him (Jay, Barry, Iris, Jaime, Ed, and dinah know). Cassie and Virgil want to just punch the reach for what they did to their friend, Gar and Traci feel horrible about what they did to him + Jaime, Tara and Vic are kinda confused cause they are very new to this, and they don't know Bart that well. Then throughout the whole time, Bart is uncharacteristically quiet, closed off, and just in survival mode. Anyway, this is my way to make it more angsty, sorry for such a long post. I love your blog + drawings!! Have a good day <33

Oh the angst! I love it Anon! With that previous response I made, I was definitely thinking of a Bart that’s aged down to like 5 or something - but I think it’s so interesting how different the scenario becomes if you go for an age that’s even just a few years older. It doesn't take long for someone to become hardened by circumstance, and since the apocalypse was all Bart ever knew, it really wouldn't take long for him to become that vigilant, closed off bart whose sole mission was survival. I really wish we knew more about his history - it would be so fascinating and probably heartbreaking but I still really want to know it!

Your bit about him initially thinking he’s in an illusion created by the reach makes me think of the thing from Barts original comics canon where he grew up in a virtual reality for reasons - not that I actually know anything about his comics origins but I do know that’s a thing and that’s about it… anyway, obviously that’s something that never happened with our Bart but there's an interesting idea there which could fit into yj canon… what if the Reach did have some sort of virtual reality simulator type thing that they’d put people into as either a form of punishment or a method of experimentation used to learn something they want to know using their typical barbaric ways. For whatever reason - punishment or testing - Bart has spent a lot of time in the VR simulator and experienced so many types of scenarios - but the absolute worst one is when he wakes up and all is right in the world… the reach are gone, humanity is free and his family is once again happy, healthy and by his side the way they should be… if you know the justice league unlimited series, then think the episode ‘for the man who has everything’ - it's absolute torture. So his waking up in the body and mindset of his younger self surrounded by bliss and comfort would really mess with his head if he's used to waking up in fabricated realities because of the reach - that would really take a lot of convincing for his friends to help him understand what is the truth… then you add in the blue beetle element and things really would get insane.

This is such a compelling concept that’s forming before my very eyes - i love it - thanks for adding onto it Anon! Also thank you for liking my blog and art - it means a lot… though it really wouldn’t be what it is without all the amazing messages people are kind enough to send to me - you lot help keep the YJ spirit thriving whilst we wait for more content! You’re all so great and I truly appreciate anyone who reads my nonsense…(there’s not many in my life that would do that, so… 🥰!!)

LB

[astaroth1357]

AYE requests briefly open you say? Then here ya go: MC (female or gn) turns into a child for a day courtsey of Solomon (maybe around 5) with the Brothers. I think it'd be adorable, what with finger painting on spell books and things, but there ya go!

The MC is Now Five Years Old, Thanks Solomon...

Oh boy…. A little kid in Hell sounds like a train wreck admittedly, but at least they'll have some pretty strong guardians right? I heard It'll Be Okay by SMLE & Helen Tess and decided that was JUST the feel this sort of request needed.

Intro:

Solomon really doesn't mess up spells often. He's been doing this for a while (at least as far as my headcanon is concerned) so he's gotten pretty damn good at magic over the years. It takes a looot to make him mess up. Like say, a natural disaster, an unexpected surprise… or a whole-ass MC getting knocked into what sigil he's using at just the wrong time. Yeah. That'll do it.

How in the world is he going to explain this to the brothers…?

Lucifer

His anger toward Solomon is quite severe… tempered only slightly by how utterly adorable kid!MC is. (Well all know he's got that soft spot for cute things 🤭) It reminds him so much of his brothers at that age…

The man basically reverts back to being Dad!Lucifer sooo fast.

He's the one tying their shoes, checking on them throughout the day, making sure they're not running with scissors… that sort of thing.

Weirdly enough he's not that bothered by it… In fact, his brothers find it a little unnerving just how at peace he seems when he's keeping track of kid!MC doing this or that… It's like he's just put on an old pair of gloves and found out they still fit.

Speaking of his brothers, Lucifer can't turn off "Parent Mode" so it starts spilling over to them too...

When he started telling Levi "It's bedtime" and used a napkin to wipe Beel's face for him in public, they decided to hold an informal intervention. They're grown demons now, damnit!! 😖

Mammon

The first thing kid!MC did when they saw Mammon was fling themselves at him while screaming "MAMMIE!!!" at the top of their lungs… Regardless of his confusion, the man could probably die happy now.

He only gripes a little bit about being saddled with babysitting duty… Because everybody knows he's not the babysitter now. He's the playmate.

"Mammie, I wanna play House!!" "I ain't playing House with ya, kid. How 'bout Tag?" "No way, you're too fast!"  "Hide'n Seek?" "Luci said we can't play that no more…" "Well don't hide in the oven again!" "You didn't find me!!" "That was the problem!!!"

Pretty much the Man-Child/Actual Child Duo. He's perfect for keeping up with them and they'll whine incessantly when they can't find him for too long...

Totally the brother to take them to the amusement park or really any of those super fun places kids love. He will be just as excited as they are to be there, too.

It's not uncommon to find Mammon passed out on a couch or something with an equally exhausted kid!MC sleeping on his back. The two can really wear each other out…

Leviathan

He's probably the least perturbed by this change. Sudden de-aging of characters is a pretty popular anime trope, after all...

He's not all that taken with kid!MC though to be honest… Largely because he's too worried about keeping his stuff out of their grubby mitts. 😖

"Levi, what's this?" "GAH! Don't touch that!! That's my limited edition Ultra☆Rainbow Witch figurine!!" "I wanna play with it, though!" "It's not a toy!!" "That's not fair! You have nothing but toys, Levi!! You need to share!!" "NO I DON'T!!!"

In those times where Lucifer forces him to share, Levi goes full neat-freak. He handles all the discs and games himself, everything gets practically sterilized, and kid!MC HAS to wash their hands before they touch ANYTHING (especially the game controllers). He ain't risking any random kid-gunk getting on his precious possessions… 😰

He does enjoy playing games with them well enough, at least. No one's going to pass up a game of Devil Kart after all!

Sometimes he'll let them win just to see how happy they get… Though, then they start getting a big head about it so he has to remind him who the actual gamer is with another string of losses... Sucks to suck, kid! 😌😏

Satan

… You know, five year-olds ask a lot of questions… A looot of questions…

"Satan, what's that?" "An umbrella. You use it so that rain doesn't get on you." "Where does rain come from?" "Evaporated water collects in the atmosphere and-" "Is rain like the sky peeing?" "...." "Satan? Does your face hurt?... Satan?"

Please Lord, they may not be on speaking terms, but someone has to have mercy on his patience...

In truth, Satan's kind of charmed by how curious kid!MC is, he just wished they'd listen more to his boring explanations…

"Satan? Why does everyone listen to Diavolo?" "Lord Diavolo is like a king to us demons." "Where's his crown?" "He doesn't wear a crown." "Oh… You don't wear a crown and people listen to you. Are you a king too?" "I mean, you're not wrong… 😏" "Satan, get back to work."

Eh, maybe having a little MC isn't all that bad. They don't lie, after all. 😌

Asmodeus

OMG he hasn't seen a child this cute since the twins were in diapers!!!!

If Mammon isn't around then Asmo takes over babysitting duties (like an actual babysitter) and he's more than happy to do it. It reminds of him of taking care of baby Belphie!

If kid!MC has any interest at all in makeup then he's happy to foster it. He won't give them the good stuff of course, but he'll show them how to do blush, eyes, lipstick, nail polish, whatever!

He also dabbles in a bit of facepaint so do they want to look like a kitty, panda, or dragon? He's got them covered.

Asmo just likes to let them be creative in all forms, really. He's going to be the one to break out the paint and markers and just the kid!MC go to town! (hopefully not on the walls…)

Takes pictures of whatever they draw, good or bad, and happily displays them to everyone. There's not a big enough fridge to hold all the art he's going to collect (and zealously protect).

Beelzebub

Playmate #2 right after Mammon, but he's the less excitable, more responsible one.

"Beel! Beel! Watch me jump off this slide!!" 😰 "Please don't… You could hurt yourself… You slide down slides. That's why they're called that." "*GASP*... That's right! You're a genius!!" *sits back down* "Not really, but thank you." 😊 *waits for them at the bottom*

If the MC is with Beel, they're doing one of two things. Either they're playing together or gorging themselves on junk food.

Beel actually likes "domestic" games like House and Tea Party because it's an excuse to raid the kitchen. He'll play "house-husband" all day as long as he gets to actually eat at every imaginary dinnertime.

He'll play active games too, of course. Especially action-oriented ones like "Cops and Robbers" or Superheros. No one's better at roughhousing than Beel! Though he'll go easy on them, cause they're small and all… 😅

Everyone can always tell when Beel's in charge of them because he carries them around on his shoulders. He's the tallest one of the family so it's like getting to be a giant!

Belphegor

Belphie was introduced to kid!MC when they started crying during one of his naps. They couldn't wake him and they thought he was dead… Followed directly by them declaring their tears were magic when they noticed his eyes opened.

He proceeded to close his eyes again and purposely play dead just to get them all worried again. It was the smile creeping up onto his face that eventually gave him away… 😏

He likes to play with kid!MC and Beel but he's not going to let it get in the way of his nap schedule or anything. When they play "Knights" he gets to take the role of the world's laziest dragon… Rawr.

Kid!MC will only settle down for naptime if Belphie joins too since he'll read them a book like he used to do with Lilith.

Satan's usually the go-to guy for storytime, but Belphie's a close second (largely because he just imitates what he remembers Lucifer doing for him, voices and all 🤭).

He deals with their myriad of questions by just making shit up and pretending he knows what he's talking about. It's around the time that he told them that little men live inside the freezer and shave ice cubes to keep things cold that Lucifer started getting on his case about it… Killjoy. 🙄

[fly-pow-bye]

DuckTales 2017 - “The 87 Cent Solution!”

Story by: Francisco Angones, Madison Bateman, Colleen Evanson, Christian Magalhaes, Bob Snow

Written by: Bob Snow

Storyboard by: Stephanie Gonzala, Vaughn Tada, Brandon Warren

Directed by: Matthew Humphreys

The last part of the big catch-up!

The episode begins with Huey's concern for Scrooge McDuck's stuffed nose. It took him until now to realize that all of this adventuring must be taking a hard toll on Scrooge's, ahem, advanced age. Of course, Scrooge shoves him away.

Manny the Headless Horse shows up in what seems like another appearance just to prove that, hee hee, it's Scrooge's head on a horse, but there will be a point to this. It's quite clear Scrooge has more important things to attend to than putting away science waste, like taking a dive in the money bin!

After closing the vault, he dives in, swims a little, and realizes that something is horribly wrong. He looks to the left, he looks to the right, and makes a startling announcement to himself: he got robbed!

Anyone can see the joke in this: it doesn't look like he lost a significant amount. Unless this is the first episode of DuckTales 2017 you ever watched, and noticed how shallow the money bin is compared the original. Trust me, it's a different reason, and you should start with a different episode than this one.

After the theme song, we see Zan Owlson trying to give a lecture to Glomgold on how to run his business while doing _n_o _e_laborate _s_chemes _t_oday. She even has a acronym ready for it, and Glomgold desperately tries to find a loophole, only to suggest times that also start with the letter T. While the last episode continued the Louie Inc. plot, though there is a very, very slight nod to that later in the episode, this episode focuses on the bet made in The Ballad of Duke Baloney. I was waiting for that to continue.

Scrooge barges in, accusing Glomgold of doing this wrongdoing. It's a pretty good guess, considering that aforementioned bet, so I can't say he accuses him out of nothing. Glomgold starts gloating that he bested the richest duck in the world, though doesn't understand what exactly he did. Owlson tells Scrooge that he's acting the opposite of sane, as if it was any better than outright saying the antonym, and that doesn't make anything better. This will only be the beginning for Scrooge.

Leading absolutely nowhere, Scrooge decides he needs to amp up the security, only allow authorized employees at the bin, and find out who or what could possibly be behind this. He's going to need his top men!

Sudden cut to three children coming out of an elevator. It is a bit heartwarming to see that he sees his next of kin as "top men". Sure, it may be alluding to child labor, but try not to think too hard about that. Thankfully, he probably meant something different than what that cut suggested.

He walks into Gyro's security room, where Gyro shows off all of the new security features he has installed in the bin, complete with some test footage. This includes Donald Duck running into a force field of Gyro's creation, becoming a duck-blur while Gyro is standing by him. Besides the different victim, another big difference is that this Gyro is just taking notes, with no real shocked expression on his face like the original cartoon's Gyro.

Not the least bit comforted about this, and ignoring Huey's offers of chicken soup, Scrooge wants more. He wants Gizmoduck.

We get Gizmoduck in this episode, in a rare episode where we only see him as Gizmoduck and not his not-so-secret identity. Gizmo is able to give the location of all the villains, at least the ones that would be interested in stealing money. The most interesting suspect brought up is Magica De Spell, whose location is unknown. Her appearance has been teased since the first time they changed the opening to include her, and while it will remain a tease, it is interesting to see her nonetheless.

With all of the security set up, he still can't get over how anyone could just waltz in and steal his money. Speaking of waltzing in, Louie appears just as worried as Scrooge. Louie instantly loses all of his worry when Scrooge tells him the total value that he knew was stolen: the titular 87 cents. Louie and Dewey utterly scoff at this.

But, Scrooge tells them it's not about the money, it's about how the bin was compromised by someone undetectable! If he can't outwit his thieves, he wouldn't be "smarter than the smarties"! He spends a lot of time on this one saying. Smart and the opposite of sane aren't mutually exclusive, but his actions will cross that line eventually.

Huey tries to reason with him with a bit of realism: Scrooge couldn't have possibly known that those coins were stolen from him! They'd have to count every coin in the bin, and that would be crazy!

Much to the annoyance of everyone involved, this leads to the kids having to count every coin in the bin. Dewey even takes the time to insult Huey for this. Thankfully, the kids don't have to do the insurmountable task, because the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook ends up giving them a big distraction. He decides to look into what could make Scrooge so out there with this really minor theft...

...and the page was turned right to this rather large-print section of the symptoms of a fatal disease called Gold Fever. They look at Scrooge, who is walking back and forth in confusion, itching himself, and knowing fully well he's going to outlandish extremes, and Huey makes the one conclusion: he has it.

After realizing this, Huey puts on a surgical mask. This will be used to separate the "gold fever" believers from the skeptics. It's a neat visual trait that gets more apparent throughout the episode, though nothing in this page says it's contagious.

If he does have Gold Fever, it's only going to get worse from here, as Scrooge decides to record a special message for the news, offering a bounty of way more than 87 cents for the 87 cents. I get it, he loves his money so much, he will spend a lot of money to protect it. It's a good reason for Louie to put on his surgical mask. They happened to know when to carry those on them.

Webby's still of the opinion that this isn't too out of character for Scrooge. Yes, she does use that kind of wording!

He gets more and more coo-coo for Cocoa Puffs throughout the episode, even down to commanding Gizmoduck to shoot missiles at the invisible demon that was stealing. Yes, that ends up being his hypothesis. It's not too out of the ordinary for this series. Gizmoduck tries to open his copter, only to find that he can't open it.

This leads to him accidentally shooting missiles at Launchpad's plane, which almost lands on Dewey. It's supposed to be dramatic, but you just kind of feel sorry for everyone.

Thanks to all of this craziness, McDuck Enterprises's stocks start going to low levels, causing his investors to switch sides to certain other companies. Even Roxanne can't believe that Glomgold's company is getting the most of it. You'd think Waddle would have been the better choice; Mark Beaks at least has the courtesy of not being outright evil. Yet. I'm sure something like that would be his slogan if Disney can get it past Google's lawyers.

Scrooge doesn't even think about this news, as he's still staring at all the monitors. Suddenly, GizmoDuck shows up to tell him there's been a breach!

However, this turns out to be an intervention from his increasingly masked "top men." His actions are even harming his reputation, as shown with Dewey also putting on the mask. Apparently, Dewey only cared that his uncle's actions almost led to him getting hurt. Eh, I guess?

Sadly, that didn't work, as Scrooge has gone full invisible demon theorist, complete with the "strings around photos on a board" trope, and he plans to dive right into the gold to truly protect it from him. Even Webby, the honorary sibling that's the closest to him, decides to put on the surgical mask. She doesn't disagree with the demon hypothesis, but she knows that Scrooge needs his sleep. He ain't having it, as we see that he gets the strength of 10 Scrooges when he's kept from his money.

I usually don't want to outright spoil episodes. I spoiled the vast majority of the last episode, but left out the plot twist that may be important to the rest of the series. Unfortunately, because it would kind of weird if I just jump to my final opinion of this episode without talking about my major sticking points with it, I have to talk about two of the biggest twists, one happening right after the other.

Let's start with the first real doozy of the episode: thanks to those stock market investments, Glomgold became the richest duck in the world, with him winning the bet! He can't wait to gloat at his arch-enemy's face about this! A major breaking news shows up, and those plans have to change.

This episode goes for the ultimate amount of shock value and attempted tear jerker, as it turns out that Scrooge has succumbed to gold fever. I'll admit that, while I certainly never believed they would actually go through with this. They don't pull any punches, they say he's dead. They do have one joke, though: Donald runs crying saying that he died so young! Get it, because of his advanced age!

No villain decided to show up to see that their nemesis is truly dead. Right when Gizmoduck takes out his appropriate bagpipes, we see there is one minor exception, though.

Suddenly, Glomgold crashes the funeral, dancing to "All I Do Is Win" by DJ Khaled. No, not a generic rap song that happens to sound like that song, they actually licensed the real DJ Khaled song to play over this scene. The only recent cartoon I can think of that did that is that one episode of Rugrats that managed to get "Vacation" by the Go-Gos to play during the beginning of the episode. Oh, and the Super Mario Bros Super Show. Kind of easy to forget since they removed them from the DVDs.

This is probably the closest this reboot has ever gotten to the infamous literally-can't-even into butt-shaking scene from the other reboot...

...maybe a little too close to that scene! But, I actually don't agree with that for two reasons.

This action fits Glomgold perfectly. He would be the kind of person who would wear shades and a backward cap, invade a high-school, and say, "how you doing, fellow dude-meisters?"

His main goal is to win, win, win, so why not have a song about winning?

Regardless of anyone's opinion of this, nobody in-universe liked this crashing of the funeral...

...especially not Zan Owlson, who shows up to apologize for Glomgold's actions. Eventually, he's pacified with a lollipop. Zan Owlson also explains that this does not mean he won the bet he made in Duke Baloney, because that bet was Glomgold beating Scrooge, not a disease beating him. Glad that was cleared up.

They go back to being a heartfelt tribute to the fallen hero...at least that's what it seems to be when Huey comes up to the podium. Instead of talking about all the great adventures they had, or how he was a great uncle, he talks about how whoever did this must be a mastermind! If this wasn't some big scheme, this would be very inappropriate! "Yeah, he may have been murdered, but wow, that murder method was so impressive!" However, it was not a mastermind who defeated him, but gold fever.

Glomgold finally snaps, and decides to take the credit that was rightfully his! He's even going to explain exactly how he did it, because it would be convenient for the audience, because there is no way anyone would guess what exactly he did.

It just so happened that, along with all of the science junk Manny was carrying, there was a kind of stopwatch that managed to drop to the ground. Glomgold just happened to be in the same room as Scrooge at that point, and he decided to pick it up. Hey, he may not be able to get into the room, but he's got to steal something!

Fiddling around with that stopwatch, he hits a button, and everything becomes blue, not like him, inside and outside. He tries to talk to Owlson, but for some reason, she won't respond back. He yells at her, but still, no response, she just keeps that one expression that looks like she's still talking.

It's like that Twilight Zone episode with the stopwatch, except, thankfully for him, he never breaks it. The big joke is that he's a maroon and didn't get what was actually happening until a year later, the vast majority of that year trying to beat a time-stopped baby at a staring contest.

Finally realizing that watch's power, he caused everything that went wrong in this episode. I think this isn't supposed to be all at the same time, so I shouldn't complain about how he was able to predict, say, GizmoDuck using his head copter. I can also appreciate that he can play the part of Scrooge's money stealing demon. In fact, Glomgold is one of this episode's saving graces.

Unfortunately for Glomgold, a certain someone gets up, and it's not exactly who anyone watching this thinks it is.

Turns out, it was Manny that was playing the role of Dead Scrooge. Got to say, if nothing else, this was a pretty good episode for Manny getting involved beyond a cheap joke. If you actually thought that they were going to kill off one of the most iconic Disney characters...

...you get indirectly called an idiot by Scrooge, who is very much alive and was just in disguise at his own funeral.

But, how did he survive? We do get a few more flashbacks showing that, just before he jumped into the gold, he decided at the last second to get some rest, and, after regaining his sanity, he saw that page slip off of the book. Either everything Scrooge did before that was genuine, or he played an act that involved endangering his kin, spending a ton of money, lowering his stock value, and making himself look like he wasn't "smarter than the smarties" despite wanting to keep that title earlier in the episode. I don't buy the latter, and I don't buy the former. I just don't buy anything.

Outside of Glomgold and Zan Owlson, it appears that everyone in the room was in on it, judging by their expressions. It does makes sense for certain characters; while I don't think he wouldn't be crying, I'm sure Louie wouldn't be able to hide being joyous about any kind of inheritance. Especially after saying a line like "what happened to my, er, your money?" But one question that was on my mind constantly is how this affected the citizens of Duckberg. None of my screenshots show it, but Roxanne Featherly, the newsreporter that announced his death, was there as well. It's possible Scrooge paid for her to make a fake news segment.

Then again, we do see proof that being there doesn't mean they're in on it, as Donald comes back in the room and is shocked that his uncle is still alive! The only other explanation is that Donald Duck is stupid, which would not be very fitting.

Unless that stock price drop was fake too, how was that reversed? Now that Scrooge is now alive, does that mean Glomgold is the richest duck now, or did that not count? Honestly, I kind of stopped thinking at this point, so I might as well get to the end. The rivalry continues, and the episode ends with Mrs. Beakley saying that they could have just asked her to deal with Scrooge's behavior. Oh, and Scrooge gets his 87 cents back. I'm sure that would have kept people up at night if that wasn't resolved.

How does it stack up?

I just couldn't get into this one. It just wasn't funny, and the serious parts were just convoluted. We do get some good Glomgold parts, but that's about it.

The streak of Happy Deweys had to end eventually. People might disagree with me on this one, and that's fine. Maybe this catch-up week has given me DuckTales Fever, symptoms including bad opinions, but the better solution is to just skip this one and just watch that "A Sea Monster Ate My Ice Cream" scene from the original on a loop.

And that's it for the catch-up week. I'm going back to one DuckTales 2017 review a week next week, and it's a big one. See you on Wednesday!

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[silverynight]

Ministry workers are visiting MACUSA when one day some hits Newt with a de-aging spell and people are just shocked, some are super protective(Percy&Theseus) and others are too scared to approach him. One of his creatures escape from the case&attack Newt(nothing serious more of a scratch or almost a bite) the whole building gets quite,Newt almost starts crying cause his creatures don't recognize him,whenNiff,Dougal,Pickett&his others creatures come a give them shiny things&whatnot, cocooning him

Newt doesn’t notice the difference until he looks down at himself, suddenly his clothes are slightly bigger than usual and his body is filled with a renewed and intense energy.

Because fifteen-yeard-old Newt was thinner and smaller than his actual self. He was also impossible to contain, his energy making him taking more risks than usual.

And that’s a problem because Newt has been hit by a de-aging spell cast by an idiot who apparently doesn’t know a thing about aiming in the right direction.

So Newt is now stuck in his fifteen-yeard-old self body for a few hours. He doesn’t mind, it’s not like the change is going to be permanent or something like that, besides he still can take care of his creatures.

Although Percival and Theseus don’t take the news as calmly as he does. In fact, the first thing they do is find the poor soul that made the mistake. Theseus shoves him against the nearest wall while Percival is pointing at him with his wand and growling how stupid he was and if he had hurt Newt he’d be experiencing real pain.

They only stop scaring the hell out of him when Picquery orders them to leave the man alone.

Still that doesn’t help them calm down. They both approach Newt and ask repeatedly if he’s okay. The boy rolls his eyes at them and huffs, irritated, because he just can’t deal with two overprotective wizards hovering over him.

“Are you hurt?”

“No, ‘Seus.”

“How do you feel? Dizzy? Tired? You can tell me.”

“I’m alright, Percival.”

“Are you sure? Because-”

“I told you I’m fine!”

“Very well then,” Theseus says, finally. And then he does something just to upset Newt, or at least that’s what he thinks when he watches his case flying towards him. He catches it easily.

“What are you doing?” He squeaks. “I have to take care of my creatures!”

“Someone else can do it,” his brother says. “But you must stay away from this case until the spell fades away.”

“What? That’s ridiculous!” He rants. “Give it back!”

Theseus shakes his head. Newt bites his lip in annoyance and turns around to face the other wizard.

“Percival, tell him to give it back,” he pleads.

“I’m sorry, Newt. Your brother is right, it could be dangerous.”

***

It doesn’t take long for everyone to know that their magizoologist has been hit by a de-aging spell. They also know that the two most powerful aurors are acting like his personal and deadly bodyguards. So that’s why they prefer to avoid the young boy as much as possible.

Tina would’ve preferred that as well, but Queenie tells her the two wizards need help and since Newt is her friend she decides to find them. Queenie is not very specific about what kind of help they need, but Tina believes she’d probably end up babysitting the young magizoologist.

When Tina walks in her boss office though it takes her all her strength not to chuckle. Because Newt’s definitely pouting and begging for his case. He looks so adorable Tina feels a little bit of pity for Theseus who’s looking at his brother with an alarmed expression on his face.

“Please, 'Seus. I’ll just want to see if they’re okay. It’ll be only a couple of minutes.” Newt pleads.

“I-I can’t, Newt. I’m sorry,” Theseus says and Tina can see how difficult is for him to deny something to his brother.

“Please,” the boy repeats, softly. His normally bright eyes looking sadder than ever.

The hand that’s gripping the case trembles and Tina knows the older Scamander is about to give in. He must’ve felt the same, because he throws it towards his friend.

“You take care of it, Percival,” he says and looks relieved when Newt’s attention turns to Graves.

“Coward,” her boss mouths at Theseus.

“I only want to see them,” Newt explains to him, his eyes meeting the auror’s.

“It could be dangerous,” Graves tries to reason with him.

“It won’t be! My creatures are not dangerous!” Newt looks almost offended. “Besides, I know how to take care of myself. Maybe you don’t trust me…”

Graves groans like he’s being tortured and Tina can’t help but think Newt is really good at what he’s doing, she can almost see the auror’s determination breaking. She wonders if he is aware of the effect he has on the two wizards.

“Of course I trust you.” Graves argues; he tightens the grip he has around the case, like he’s afraid of letting it go.

“Then please,” Newt begs, quirking his lips into an adorable pout. “Please… Percy.”

Tina holds a laugh because honestly the face his boss is making right now is priceless. He takes pity on both of them and waves his wand, the case is at her side in an instant.

“Fine. I’ll be the one guarding this thing then,” she huffs. Newt walks towards her quickly.

“Tina! I know you understand-”

“No, none of that, boy,” she scolds. “That doesn’t work on me.”

Newt looks at her, confused.

“What do you mean?”

Mercy Lewis, it seems fifteen-yeard-old Newt is still so adorable oblivious to everything.

“Nothing. Just behave, okay?”

And with that she leaves him with his overprotective guardians.

***

Without his case to distract him, Newt wanders through all MACUSA, looking for someone to talk about magical creatures. Even though everyone is willing to listen to him (because he’s so cute no one can say no to him) the conversations don’t last long because either Theseus or Percival appear and yank him away from whoever he’s speaking with. Then he tries to escape from them to reach the garden looking for gnomes which only ends up with Percival carrying him over his shoulder and taking him to his office… again.

The problem starts when a group of aurors of the Ministry arrive at MACUSA and Madam President calls almost all the aurors to a meeting.

So they decide to leave Newt with Abernathy. Theseus begs him to stay where he is, Newt assures he’s going to be fine and they all leave reluctantly.

***

Tina realises it was a really bad idea to leave the case in her office; she returns just to find Newt sobbing on the floor, looking at his case with sorrow.

Then she notices the wound on her friend’s arm; three scratches that could only have been made by claws.

Worried, she kneels by his side and tries to calm him down.

“Newt, what happened? Did you get inside the case?”

The boy nods, his eyes filled with tears.

“They don’t recognize me anymore, Tina! They don’t like me!” Newt cries.

“I don’t know what are you talking about, you need- wait, no. Actually you have to tell me first if the creature that did this to you is venomous. Is the wound infected?”

Newt shakes his head.

“I'm​ fine. But… Daisy… She didn’t want me there. Tina, I’m a disaster! How could I keep doing this if none of them like me anymore?”

“Listen-”

She doesn’t get to finish because two aurors storm in her office. She sighs before getting out of their way.

Her boss is the first to reach Newt and he immediately spots the scratches and asks​ the boy if he’s feeling well. Theseus kneels next to them and his eyes roam worriedly over his little brother’s body, looking for more wounds.

“Does it hurt?” Graves touches Newt’s forehead and relaxes when he realises he’s not burning in fever.

“What happened? Why are you crying?” Theseus asks.

“Daisy doesn’t like me anymore,” Newt mutters, heartbroken. “My creatures don’t recognize me!”

He buries his face in his hands and Graves takes him in his arms; Newt puts his hands around the auror’s neck and allows to be carried to the couch.

Percival and Theseus sit next to him. They seem to have realized Newt’s wound is nothing to worry about because they look more relaxed.

“Everything will be back to normal soon, little bird,” Theseus reassures.

“But what if they still don’t like me?” Newt bites back a sob.

“They will, they do.” Graves strokes the boy’s curls affectionately. “They’re just confused because you look younger.”

“But…”

“Percival’s right,” Theseus says, taking his brother’s hand. “They’re confused. Give them time.”

Then, as if it knows what the wizards are talking about, a creature with black fur moves quickly, sits on Newt’s lap an offers him a shiny golden object.

“For me?” Finally, it’s all it takes to make the boy smile again.

But Tina, Tina has to hold back a chuckle, because the object Newt is holding is a very familiar pocket watch with the letter PG on it.

“Hey you utter-” Graves scolds at the Niffler, but he stops when he sees the happy look on Newt’s face. “You know what… Fine, keep it.”

“I’m gonna give it back,” Newt whispers. “But not now, not in front of him. He needs to know I appreciate his gifts.”

“See? They like you,” Theseus points out.

Newt smile grows wide.

Tina sighs, relieved. There’s peace in her office, at the moment.

She knows it’s not going to last. But at least Newt is safe and unharmed.

And there’s two hours left for the spell to fade away. Yes, she’s more calmed, because surely nothing can happen in just two hours, right?

Right?