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Duckvember Day 17: Eggheaded Duck

TOO TIRED TO COLOR. 

So I have this Mighty Duck’s OC that was Tanya’s older cousin. His name was Erik and his hacker name I BELIEVE was Egghead. He was smart like Tanya but felt cheated out of promotions in  previous tech jobs so he gave up being in that industry. Instead he got into stealing from the rich. Like you do. He ends up running a small thief group where he hacks security and lets others in to take the stuff.  Erik kept this double life secret from this family though. 

In my story line I had Duke (and my OC, that is his sister Duluna,) join the smaller thief group before later joining the whole Brotherhood of the Blade debacle. The reason Duke knew Erik is because he used to date their aunt. (very on and off, but stayed friends through it.) Duke and Duluna’s aunt (who I cannot remember the name of lol) may have been a wee bit into witchcraft, crystal and horoscope gal that believed the reincarnate of Drake Ducaine and his  friends that helped him were all around in this time all together now because something catastrophic was going to happen soon and they would be needed again. She wasn’t wrong. Unfortunately something happens to her and Duke and Duluna get left with Erik who feels responsible to keep a roof over their heads. 

A lot of the people in this little group Erik leads started out in their teens so he had to accidentally be a bit of a parent figure too. Oops. But he’s really a nice guy. Honorable thief Robin Hood thing going on. Wouldn’t put the group in trouble he couldn’t get them out of. 

 I always like the idea though that maybe Duluna and Tanya met once as little kids via Eric. Maybe Erik had to babysit Tanya once and met Duluna. Then many years later when they meet on Earth they probably wouldn’t even recognize each other. Though for Duluna’s origin store she does mention Erik to Duke, leading to Tanya being like “Oh I have a cousin named Erik.” And then finding out they knew the SAME ERIK. 

When Dragaunus attacked, only Erik and Duluna were nearby each other. The other members of the group were not found. They avoided capture but at the same time did not trust the military run resistance. Both of them instead worked with smaller groups of survivors, scavenge supplies for them, that kind of thing. Upon hearing rumors that the military was looking for the Mask of Drake Ducaine, Erik started to try to build his own from scratch. There was a limit of resources though. He did have a partly built one he would keep tinkering with though. 

One of the small non-military resistance groups that they start working with started being a thorn in Dragaunus’ side. Enough to be noticed. He unleashes a robotic creature to hunt the  resistance. Erik figures out it can only be blown up while inside it to permanently destroy it. He knew there was a chance he would have to sacrifice himself to blow it up, but he had hoped to get away. I always wanted to write a song fic to that  whole situation to this song. MAYBE SOMEDAY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iAYhQsQhSY&list=PLKQn9I9WSbNpj1pjYz-zxjkZbotY943T1

He then shows up later in this big story I wrote now lost on an old hard drive. Show up as a ghost though to Tanya. To inform her HEY guess what we are related to Drake Ducaine. Thats a whole other story.

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Duckvember Day 29th: Brother Duck

So for some reason young me decided that my main OC for Mighty Ducks had to be the little sister of Duke. Having a bit of that cool Han Solo energy and a sword fighter.  In the episode ‘Beak to the Future’ the fact he votes to go back to Puckworld had me headcanon he still had family there and that led to me having the little sister character that was still on Puckworld.

My headcanon backstory for him and my char Duluna starts with their parents dying in a car accent. They weren’t in the car for that. Duke is a teen at the time and Duluna still a kid. They’re left with their Aunt Lilly on their mom’s side. Now Lilly is a good person but didn’t expect to raise kids. She’s also busy with a billion jobs. Lilly was supposedly a magic user.  Though I never had her do any actual spells. She had knowledge of stuff but then didn’t do anything? Had the kids meditate to feel energies but they weren’t doing energy blasts or anything. I threw a ‘magical’ aunt in there since Duke seemed thrilled about magic in the ‘Dungeons and Ducks’ episode. That he had heard the concept of such and was raring to go.

Aunt often left them to be babysat by Erik Vanderflock, who was not actively her boyfriend anymore but they were still friends. Erik was Tanya’s older  cousin, but in the past that didn’t come into play at all. Just a small world coincidence. Erik worked as an appliance repair man that was undervalued for his intelligence. On the side though he was doing some hacking and minor theft with a thief team he had. Do ho ho. Duke gets involved with Erik’s thief group eventually. 

Now I had Duke be a very protective brother but I wouldn’t say over protective. Like he still let Duluna make her own decisions. When Duluna was old enough to join the thief group Duke did his best to talk her out of it, but when she made the final decision he did not stop her. Even though Duluna can give her brother an attitude she looks up to him a lot. I headcanon that Duke’s hockey number as a kid was 10 so she chooses to take that number later on. 

At some point Lilly dies in an unknown situation. Thats a whole other storyyyyy. Duluna and Duke end up being thicker than thieves (ha) seeing each other as their only family left. There's other extended fam somewhere I’m sure but EH. Erik acts as a big brother/family to them as well. 

Through thieving circles Duke comes across the Brotherhood of the Blade. Lo and Behold he finds out his father used to lead the Brotherhood. He joins without saying who he really is to see what he can find out. Duke begins to get suspicious that his parents car accident may have been a hit. He finds out his father was retiring from the group and had declared a new leader which others weren’t happy about the pick. Duke informs his sister about this and she wanted to help to but Duke didn’t want her to get messed up in it. Of course she does though. They really don’t find a clear answer to what exactly happened. Duluna gets to a point of, ‘we need to think forward and not about the past anymore, so let's blow this joint and go back to what we were doing. Working with Erik and doing their own thing. Duke those becomes more obsessed with finding out what happened to their parents and stays on with the Brotherhood.

Duke and Duluna have a bit of a falling out over this. She says with Erik and their small group. It was during this time that Dragaunus attacked. They tried to find each other after the attack but with no luck. Erik and Duluna actually spent time on Puckworld traveling around helping where they could. Duke of course joined the resistance. The siblings were pretty sure the other one was alive. Duluna never thought to look for Duke among the resistance though, since it was very left over military/police force and they were ACAB being thieves and all. LUCKILY at some point Duluna gets to Earth and that's a whole other story. Yay reunite and big brother Duke is happy woo. 

Comparing Wildwing and Nosedive’s brother relationship to Duke and Duluna is like a dog owner vs a cat owner. Wildwing being dog owner and Duke being cat owner lol. Duke does know his sister can handle herself but still has to state his case. Duluna is an indoor/outdoor cat. He trusts her to get back on her own. Lol. I do ship Duluna with Nosedive which Duke wasn’t thrilled with at first either. But when Duluna does share the same feelings back with Nosedive, Duke doesn’t get in the way with that. 

I also remember some vague plot thing in one story where the villain (maybe Falcone?) Leaving Duluna to decide to save Duke or Nosedive and she ends up not choosing and saving them both like a badass. Anyways. Brother just as important as the idiot you’re dating. THATS FINE.