Something I should have made as a solo post much earlier.
Every time I see someone wanting to speculate about HDL’s father, more often then not, they’re yelled at for not seeing Donald in this light and I think that’s wrong. The finale probably ramped this up even further...
There’s nothing wrong with being curious about both sides of HDL’s heritage and anyone who’s feeling upset over this being unaddressed, is totally valid.
That section of The Duck Family is often disregarded and it really seemed like the showrunners were interested in going further in this direction...especially since they bothered to elaborate on Della....There were multiple opportunities for us to be clearly and plainly told that they weren’t interested in telling that story.
So why didn’t they? I don’t know. Maybe they were going to finally get into that in S4, but the cancellation left it at a dead end. I would love to ask for clarity, but I feel like I’ll just be ignored.
The future of this blog is now uncertain as its creation was driven by the possibility that there was a secret, untold part for Della’s reasoning for taking The Spear of Selene and that maybe the father had something to do with it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I thought an additional reason for the “Donald is the father” response we’ve been getting was to ward off suspicion while also subtly hinting that some of Donald’s experiences were meant to parallels Dad’s. (Like accidentally ending up in Space.)
It wasn’t literally the only thing I cared about, but it was what kept me going after having to cut back dramatically on my fandom browsing two years ago. There were some updated things I never got around to publish with my theory but...with the conclusion of the show and for it to end without a proper answer to settle the big question, I don’t feel motivated to use this space anymore.
I was given such a hard time defending this point over the years and it never came into fruition...
