#b.o.y.d. drake

[best-ducktales-episode]

ROUND #1

[writebackatya]

[wacky-nameless-inventor-24]

SCREW CANON HE SPENT CHRISTMAS WITH HIS DAD GOSHDARNIT

[shychick-52]

As we know, DuckTales 2017 is FULL of clever, subtle parallels and callbacks to other episodes (not just to the 80s series, but within the reboot itself). Here's one I've never seen anyone talk about:

Compare this scene in season 2's 'Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake' where Doofus hacked poor Boyd and reprogrammed him to tie Louie up like a pinata and attack him-

-to this scene in the final episode of the series 'The Last Adventure':

The scene in 'The Last Adventure' was the second time Boyd attended a birthday party and the second time he was involved in a pinata game. But it was the first time doing so while completely free of anyone else's reprogramming/hacking (enslavement, essentially). He was actually enjoying his life as a free person, just having fun like the real kid he wanted to be, alongside his true dad who loves him and wants the world for him.

Ever since Gyro finally gave him the validation Boyd desperately needed to hear from his creator's own mouth in the episode 'Astro B.O.Y.D.' ("You are not evil! You are good! You're more than your programming! You are a definitely real boy!"), allowing him to snap out of Akita's evil programming, he became truly free for the first time in his life with the ability to make his own choices, his systems completely free of all the other reprogramming others forced on him for their own selfish, ignorant purposes. He truly embraced what it was to be a real person- his own person- choosing his own identity (the 'real boy' programming Gyro himself created him with long ago, but Boyd still chose it for himself at the end of 'Astro B.O.Y.D.').

And that's why the parallel between these two scenes is so powerful.

[owladaptive]

If you’re still taking questions about the Addams AU:

1. What’s Goldie up to? (I would assume this Scrooge is a bit more on-board with the whole “abandoning him in deadly situations” thing than in canon…)

2. You’ve mentioned Doofus a few times, as the kid who terrifies Louie with his niceness and one of the people who fully accepts the McDuck weirdness, so… yeah, what’s his deal?

3. And to round out the kids, how about Boyd? Better relationship with Gyro from the beginning? (since I can’t imagine this Gyro would let a little thing like a city-levelling rampage get in the way of parental love)

Thanks for keeping up the asks! I've been taking a break to chill and think over some things, so I appreciate the patience in waiting.

1: I've got a whole separate, longform ask for Goldie incoming, hold onto your tushie.

2: Doofus is interesting in the Addams AU because he's still a bit of a crazy kid, I mean he either is oblivious to or completely disregards the McDucks' spooktacular lifestyle despite how unignorable it is. It's just that rather than be creepy and domineering and mad with power HIMSELF he's the complete opposite.

I feel that the foremost reason Doofus exists in canon is to be Louie's worst nightmare, and so I wanted to maintain that. In the addams AU he's everything the McDucks don't want to be. He's cheerful, optimistic, likes bright colous and sweets and pop music and he'll shove all of that in their faces in a most unusual display of unintended torment.

The interesting thing is UNLIKE the McDucks - and very MUCH like his canonical counterpart - Doofus is still toxic. He doesn't genuinely support his family and friends like the McDucks do. His sweet disposition and positivity is overbearing. And he'll push and push and push for someone to stop feeling sad, angry or upset in any way simply because HE wants to be the one to vanquish the negativity - not because he actually cares about what someone is going through.

He might not take it to the same magnitude he does in the show, with the kidnapping and such, but he's hardly a good friend if you just want to live your life, problems and all.

And yeah, Louie is his personal project. He'll make that duck happy one day, he's sure of it.

3: You're right!!! Gyro wouldn't dream of abandoning BOYD after one messy, destructive malfunction. In fact he'd call that a resounding success! Wanton destruction is..... kinda what he was going for.

(Akita of course tried to reprogram 2BO to be his puppet of domination, as he did in canon. He just didn't know that he was about to make a fearsome enemy of the man who had already programmed the boybot to love and obey Gyro's masterminded will for unrelated, even more nefarious purposes (there aren't any nefarious purposes, Gyro just wanted a deathbot buddy.) Anyway Gyro was like EUREKA I've always wanted a diabolical nemesis with which to wage a battle of evil science!!!! *thunder and lightning, maniacal laughter, the sound of whirring chainsaws* and Akita was like "I think I'm gonna just go actually--")

Anyway BOYD has been with Gyro for many, many years by now. And really the only reason Gyro hasn't unleashed him upon the world to cause unholy annihilation is because Scrooge said not to.

BOYD is helpful, polite and completely at peace with his sole calling to eviscerate (or capture for experimentation) ANYone who tries to enter the Money Bin without very special permission from the boss himself. He is great security - scares off anyone who even comes CLOSE to the Bin. His laser vision has sunk many a curious boat that sailed too close. The schoolchildren whisper in the yard of the superheated glare that stares at you across the bridge from the Bin's dark, iron-gated entrance if you're brave enough to walk across halfway.

BOYD also cooks Gyro's meals, he forgets to eat a lot. Have some char-grilled gull Gyro, you haven't eaten since yesterday's seaweed soup.

[askdarkwingduck]

Since the justice ducks consisted of Darkwing Duck, Gizmoduck, stegmutt, neptunia and Morgana I’m gonna guess the new justice ducks might consist of Darkwing Duck, Boyd Gearloose Lena saberwing, Gizmoduck & storkuleas what do you think of that one?

Not a bad roundup!! Storkules is ideal for this team! B.O.Y.D and Lena Sabrewing are definitely young for the dangers of my duties, but I think there are more than capable enough!! And then there's...

Nope that's all the relevant members!! What a great team!!

[originalwinnercheesecake]

2017 Ducktales as pokemon trainers an their Teams

Here’s the next, are currently final, Disney cartoon on my list for makings characters into pokemon trainers. After this I will move over to doing other shows on Cartoon network. I did not get into this show when it was airing, and that was my bad. Once I did watch it it quickly became on of my favorites, and inspired me to look up older cartoons surrounding Donald, and his family as well. Its a good show an seems to be (rightly) held up as one of the best done reboots. Hopefully it still has some fans going back to its fan base, who will check this out.

I am going to do this list a bit differently than my other though. In previous lists I have either given all the characters full teams of 6, or given main characters teams of 6 and secondary characters teams of 3-4 pokemon. For 2017 Ducktales though, since it has such a large cast and they all always go on adventures in groups, I am not giving anyone 6 pokemon. Because then there would really be to many characters to fit in the plane, much less the show. Considering the group sizes I have decided to give the child characters 2 pokemon each, adult members of the duck family (by both blood and heart) get three each. This way the three triplets, or Webby, and her friends would all have six in total. Same with Duo’s like Donald and Della, or Scrooge and Beakley. I am also only giving villain or antagonist characters two, because that’s about the mass number villains ever had at one time in the show.

Kid characters are all on this list, adults will be my next list

Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck

Huey Duck

Pansear: Its the red one in a red, blue, and green trio. It’s to represent his bonds with his two younger brothers

Snover: I wanted to give him a woodland grass-type, since in the 2017 version he is the boy scout of the trio and loves camping/the wilderness. What makes Snover work even better for him is that it is also an ice-type pokemon. Huey having both a fire and an ice pokemon represents his need to keep balance in his life, both externally and internally.

Small note I know he’s the “Smarter than the Smarties” brother, but the smartest pokemon I know is Slowking, and its first two evolutions are dumb. So for Huey I went with his other traits.

Dewey Duck

Panpour: It’s the blue one in a red, blue, green trio. It’s to represent his bonds with his older and younger brother.

Rufflet: Dewey was the hardest to pick a second pokemon for. He is the “tougher than the toughies” brother, so he needed a tough, scrappy, pokemon for his second. He also wants to become a daring adventure pilot, like his mom and launchpad, so I had to pick a flying pokemon. Since he is only just starting out I decided to look for a smaller flying type pokemon, that would one day evolve into a more massive bird, so it could kinda grow with him. It would also need to be super cute because, you know he would post lots of pictures of him and his pokemon to garnish media attention. My search led me to Rufflet, who was all that and blue too. Perfection

Louie Duck

Pansage: It’s the green one in a red, blue, green trio. It’s to represent his bonds with his older brothers.

Meowth: Louie is the “Sharper than the Sharpies” brother, and Meowth has a pretty mean fury swipe. It also loves money and can be kinda lazy. Louie and a meowth is an easy match

Webby,Lena, and Violet

Webby Vandraquack

 Webby is the warrior of both her groups, so I decided that both her pokemon would be fighting types.

Medicham: Not gonna lie a lot of the reason I picked this pokemon was that it is pink, which is Webby’s trade mark color (and one of Lena’s nicknames for her). But it also works because its a very patient and studied fighter, like Webby. Its also the only pokemon I have given to a child character that has evolved. Let’s be real Webby would easily be the first of her group to evolve a pokemon, and its potential to mega evolve means she could still go farther with it

Machop: for Webby’s second pokemon I bounced a few around and kept going back to Machop. Its gray coloring fits her ascetic, much like Medicham. But it also fits her in that it is a tough, brawny fighter, that is trained in multiple types of martial arts, just like Webby. Machop never tires of training/working out. Webby never tires of adventure.

Lena (De Spell) Saberwing

Just as Webby had fighting types I decided that Lena, being the living shadow of a sorceress, should have dark types. More specifically Heroic dark types

Absol: Same reason I gave one to (TOH)’s Hunter. It has associations with bad things happening, and many believe it to be a bad pokemon. But once you get close you learn that Absol is not really bad underneath it all. It wants to help people and pokemon a like stay safe when disaster falls.

Also both it and Medicham can mega evolve. So power couple Weblena can go together to find their stones, and then show the younger generation how strong their Pokemons mega forms are.

Zorua: Another easy choice for Lena. A shadowy fox, with has illusion based magic powers, that it will use when it gets scared or defensive. Zoura discriptions honestly  make it sound like it is a pokemon version of Lena. I could see it, Absol, and Lena making a really strong and supportive team/family for each other.

Violet Saberwing

So unlike the other two girls, I am not going to link Violet to one particular type of pokemon. Looking at her character I think she would prefer to catch and train different types of pokemon.

Anorith: First things first violet absolutely has to have a fossil pokemon. When asked by Scrooge if she liked history the girl out right said “It is my life”, so there’s no way she would not have one. I picked Anorith for couple reasons. 1. Is that even if we never saw it in the show, I 100% believe that Violet is the type of child who is absolutely fascinated with bugs and insects. 2. She is not ready yet, but when she did eventually evolve it, it would be way cool to see this stone faced, brainiac, goth girl with a big, armored, dinosaur.

Vulpix: I also really wanted to give her a fire type pokemon, since two of her best scenes in the show (building herself a hang glider to get over a lava pit in the senior woodchuck race, and downing those ultra spices without breaking a sweat) involve being around extreme heat. Vulpix and its evolved form Ninetales have some really interesting lore and connections to Japaneses mythology. Once again I could see Violet being very fascinated with it.

Also giving her a Vilpix would mean that both her and Lena would have mystical fox pokemon, which could reference the sisterly bond they eventually develop.

Gosalyn Waddlemeyer

I wanted to give her two pokemon for the two parental figures in her life.

Klefki: This one is for her grandfather. Klefki is a magic set of keys that can help its trainer enter into new places for adventure. This represents Dr. Waddlemeyer and what he originally wanted with the Ramrod.

Rowlet: For her connection to Drake Mallard an the dark wing trio (Drake, Launchpad, and Gosalyn) I at first wanted to give all of them bat pokemon, but even after spending days going over each and every bat pokemon I could only really make one work for Launchpad. Then I read that Darkwing is supposed to be more of a general superhero based parody, rather than a batman specific parody. I also  thought about how Drake isn’t even the original Darkwing duck, but a fan emulating what the story meant to him. So I switched the connection between the three to being nocturnal pokemon, and it worked so much better.

After the switch Rowlet became a clear pick for Gosalyn’s second pokemon. It is scrappy, able to give powerful kicks. It is sharp and will one day evolve into a skilled archer, a weapon Gosalyn showed interest in learning to use. It also would be interesting to see it interact with Dewey’s Rufflet, given how Dewey and Gosalyn become good friends in her introduction episode, and how it would be easy for Dewey to come with Launchpad to visit Gosalyn and Drake.

B.O.Y.D

Because B.O.Y.D is a sentient, artificial boy, who was created in a lab; I decided to give him sentient, artificial, pokemon, that were also created in a lab.

Porygon: Because of course he would get a porygon. It’s the original artificial pokemon. Both an anomaly and a wonder. It is also decently powerful, can safely go into many environments, and even moving freely in cyberspace.

Castform: I picked this as B.O.Y.D’s second pokemon because it is adorable and can change its forum depending on its environment. Both Castform and B.O.Y.D have the opportunity to chose who they want to be.

Doofus Drake

I did not want to do him, but if I can give pokemon to Gideon Gleeful I should be able to give them to Doofus too. One qualification I am looking for is “must be powerful enough to beat his butt if he does not treat them well”

Abra: Okay so I do not really fully remember what reasons I had for choosing this one for him. Its powerful, kinda creepy, and can appear very suddenly, just like Doofus. It likes to hang out in tree tops, which Doofus does too. Also its a pretty calm, blank faced pokemon. In Doofus’s supposed “Birthday (I doubt it was his actual birthday) episode” he said blank stares are soothing to him. So it is feasable he may actually like Abra. If not again it could easily send him flying and teleport away,

Cubone: Its a lonely pokemon that misses its deceased mother badly. When I try to look at things from Doofus’s eyes his grandmother was to quote him “the only parent I have ever known”. There are some subtle hints that maybe his mom and dad weren’t really interested in being parents at first. The family lives off Gummeemama’s money, and presumably did when she was alive. Gummeemama likely could not cut them off without losing access to Doofus, and if she was the one raising him she could have feared his neglect if his parents took him with them. This would give some explanation as to why she willed all her money to her grandchild instead of his parents.

After her death Doofus forced his parents to take employment from him to be able to keep up their lifestyle, and threatened to fire them if they did not spend time with him the way his grandmother used to. But even they are not enough to fill the void her death left in him, and he really wants a close connection like that to someone again. Kid Gammeemama is gone, and nothing you can do will change that. You need grief support, and maybe Cubone could give that to you. Once again if he treats Cuey badly, at least it could take out its bone and defend itself.

May and June

So originally they, and their sister April, are supposed to be Daisy’s nieces and female versions of the three boys. In the 2017 series May and June are Webby (formerly April)’s clone sisters, and at the end of season 3 the pair are implied to be adopted by Donald, and eventually Daisy too. The show was canceled one season early, and as a result we never got to see much of the two girls or their personalities (Seems like May (the yellow one) is a bit more protective/confrontational, while June (the blue one) is more curios and silly) so I originally was not going to have them on this list. But they are part of the Duck family, and it seemed wrong not to give them at least one pokemon each.

At first I was just gonna have them each get the same pokemon, and I went through eevee (I feel like I may use its line to much as it is), dito (doesn’t have yellow form and in this case felt like a cop out), and Pichu (closer, but still not right). Finally I decided that they would probably have water pokemon since thy would have to catch them while sailing with Donald and Daisy (Since Bradford hates adventure so much, I headcannon he would probably also hate pokemon and would have not allowed the girls to have them at Fowl). So I went back and looked over water pokemon, particularly ones Misty had, for some that would be easy enough for a bargainers to train but still pretty powerful.

Then once again wanting to Match their pokemon to their trade mark colors (I did it for Webby and the boys) I decided May has a Staryu and June has an Azurill.

[ducktales-four-years]

Infodumping!

[a-little-ray-of-fantasy]

I’ve started seeing a lot of videos about autism representation in cartoons, and often they mention DuckTales, specifically Huey Duck.

Which is accurate, he definitely seems to be in the spectrum, and honestly he’s a very cool character to talk about in general.

But, alongside him, I think it’d be important to talk about B.O.Y.D. and Fethry as well, who are specifically stated, during the show, to be very similiar to Huey, and both display neurodivergent traits too.

My guess is that usually they talk just about Huey because he’s very prominent, especially compared to the other two (Fethry especially doesn’t appear often). 

And one could make the argument that B.O.Y.D. being a robot kinda makes it ambiguous whether or not he counts as autistic so he’s not talked as much, even tho’ the kid’s personal struggle is indeed feeling like a real boy regardless of his origins so I feel he’d still count.

Still, I love that, in the fanbase, pretty much everyone agrees that Huey, B.O.Y.D. and Fethry are autistic, and they’re all fan favorite for how kind and smart they all are in their own unique ways.

[artificialkids-2k23-official]

Edit provided by @astro-b-o-y-d and used with permission

[c0konk]

Boyd: I just told a story about my childhood that I thought was really funny but now everyone is quiet, and someone said, “I’m so sorry”. 

[backgroundshipper]

I know the title isn’t that great, but it’s the best I can think of for this story.

Whumpcember prompt:Accidental Injury

[askfentoncrackshellcabrera]

What are you and your M’Ma going to do for Thanksgiving?

Probably just staying here. We really have a small family... its just me, Gandra and M'ma... Not a whole lot of relatives that I can think of besides my dad... Maybe I should call some friends up... Drake and his familia, Gyro, Huey, B.O.Y.D...

Yeah! That's perfect!! I think this Thanksgiving will be so much ore fun!!

[wacky-nameless-inventor-24]

Everyone

IS

GAAAAAAYYY!

H O O R A Y !~

[shychick-52]

Gyro the family man

See this victory group shot at the end of the finale 'The Last Adventure'? I feel like THIS was the moment Gyro truly felt like- or finally realized- that he was also part of Scrooge's family all along, reaching a major milestone in his healing/character development since the end of the episode 'Astro B.O.Y.D.' After obtaining their greatest victory yet from the greatest threat they'd all ever faced together (Gyro is standing with the rest of Team Science on the left, including Gandra and Von Drake; click to enlarge):

Scrooge: *to Bradford* "You didn't lose to me! You lost to my family! All of them!"

I like to think that Boyd is the most important one in Gyro's life... and that after emotionally reconciling with him at the end of 'Astro B.O.Y.D.' (which I think was the first time he'd opened his heart since before the Tokyolk incident and began healing from the demons of his past), he'd found his own family- his son- and somebody of his own to live for. And I also like to think his relationship with Boyd was strengthened even further after the danger they all faced in the series finale. They came so close to losing each other, since Bradford planned to erase everyone from existence (and even though Gyro didn't really show any signs of worrying about or missing Boyd the whole time they were separated in 'The Last Adventure', I hc he absolutely was)!

I LOVE THIS SHOT FROM THE FINALE SO MUCH. This was just when Gyro finished reattaching Boyd's head when they were returning home on the plane. The genuine, loving smile they're sharing! The way Gyro's tenderly cradling Boyd's head as he lies in his lap! Gyro just seems so loving and protective of Boyd there, happy he's reunited with his son again and that he's safe.

AND THIS. This was during the end-credits (or the curtain call, as I refer to it). Boyd catches his free-falling dad, and just as they blast out-of-frame together, Gyro gives the biggest, happiest smile for the first time (it actually happens quite fast, and is a little easy to miss). Look how he's just BEAMING. I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. It's this part here that really gets me crying, because it's the last we'll ever see of both Gyro himself and the two of them together. And it's this shot that really tells me Gyro's going to be ok. Ever since 'Astro B.O.Y.D.', I wanted him to go forth into a future of healing, hope, and even happiness with his son by his side... and this shot PERFECTLY sums that up.

I like to think that's Gyro's truly learned he's part of three families- he's the father of Boyd (and Lil Bulb). He's the patriarch of Team Science. And he's part of Scrooge's family.