"Every janky indie EarthBound clone has amazing music" is an illusion. Most of them have average music at best; they just get extra credit for bothering to have a discernible musical identity at all, as opposed to most contemporary big-budget console RPGs' aimless "atmospheric" drone.
okk here’s my ducktales self insert ! His names Katrina Felina, but he insists you call him Rina. He’s a cat, if you couldn’t tell !
Some various doodles + rina’s lore + my rina introduction episode concept under cut …. It’s a bit long as a forewarning …..
Rina’s role in the story is the Fenton/Launchpad/Goldie (non family member role model/friend) for Webby/Lena/Violet.
The episode takes place after Ganda/Lena returns, but before moonvasion.
It starts with Rina painting in the park. Webby and Lena are hiding in the bushes and watching him. Webby tells Lena, with increasing intensity, that this is her chance! The target is in sight and Lena just has to hone in on him! Lena then chuckles and protests that she doesn’t need any other friends- she has Webby and Violet after all- but Webby only waves her off. Lena then asks why this guy of all people, and Webby says that they have the same sense of style, both like art, and are even fans of the same band. He even has a pet bird with hair dye like Lena. It’s perfect!
(She later learns that their names rhyme and that makes it even more perfect in her eyes…)
Right as Lena’s hyped and worked up the courage and is about to approach Rina, Webby stops her. Wait, look… someone’s approached Rina first! Lena’s offended, but still asks Webby who it is. It’s… Fenton? Lena’s even more offended. That nerd thinks he can just steal her potential friend?
then it cuts to Fenton and Rina. Fenton complements Rina on his art, and Rina smiles and asks if Fenton thinks that Gizmoduck specifically turned out good.
Fenton looks hard at the painting. Gizmoduck? Rina takes a step back, and oh. Gizmoduck is there in the corner of the painting. Rina explains that Gizmoduck saved him the other day, and that he’s had no jobs or commissions lately, so he wanted to spend his free time doing something nice for Gizmoduck in return. Fenton is flattered, but can only say that he’s sure Gizmoduck will like it.
Then the episode cuts into the usual A/B plot.
A plot: Lena starts having beef with nerds. That is to say, Huey. Webby, Huey, and Lena do various activities together and when Huey beats her at every single one through his extensive strategizing, she gets worked up. Huey doesn’t see them as actual competitions though, thinking they’re just bonding activities.
B plot: Fenton and Rina become friends, and Fenton tries to organize Rina a meeting with “his friend” Gizmoduck. The meetings never go as planned though, and though they’re both put in danger several times, Fenton never has the opportunity to transform. Fenton himself saves Rina, though, and the plot ends with Rina saving Fenton in turn.
The plots come back together when one of Gyro’s robots glitches and goes rogue. It’s chasing people through the city, and Webby, Lena, and Huey decide they need to stop it. Huey insists that they need a plan, but Lena ignores him and leads the group right up to the robot. It then targets and starts chasing the trio. They find somewhere to hide, and Lena keeps trying to strategize a plan. Webby suggests working with Huey, but Lena shoots her down.
Meanwhile, Fenton and Rina are nearby. Fenton tells Rina to stay back and out of danger, then runs off to transform. Rina listens for a few minutes, but then immediately spots the robot’s circuits fritzing. He climbs up the robot, but is getting shaken around and is barely able to hang on.
Rina then spots the trio and tells at them. Hey! You three! Can you hold the robot in place for a bit? Huey and Lena are uncertain what to do and say nothing, but Webby speaks for the three of them and says yes. Lena finally acquiesces that Huey probably has a better idea of what to do. She says he should take over and stop the robot. Huey only shakes his head, saying that they’re a team and should work together. He finds something that works with each of their strengths, and they successfully hold the robot in place as Rina works on fixing the robot’s circuits.
At the last second, one of the robot’s legs breaks free from the kids’ trap. Just as it looks like Rina’s going to fall, Gizmoduck rushes in and holds the leg down. Rina fixes the robot’s circuitry and the robot immediately goes back to being good.
Scrooge runs up from where his limo had been shoved off to the side, laughs, and tells Rina that he’s hired. Rina confusedly accepts.
After everything’s calmed down, Rina returns to his spot in the park. Lena and Webby are watching, this time joined by Huey. They watch as Gizmoduck swoops down and as Rina excitedly gives him the finished painting. Gizmoduck then flies off again, only for Fenton to arrive.
The kids watch as the two flounder through a conversation. Huey notes the flushed faces and aversion to eye contact, but Lena only rolls her eyes. She grabs the other two and drags them over, where they’re finally able to introduce themselves to Rina.
and now…. For my lore….
One of the few loose ends of the show (to me at least) is Poe de spell. So my intent was to wrap up that whole plot.
Lena doesn’t recognize Poe at first, but eventually puts everything together later on.
When she eventually asks Magica to train her, she also asks about that raven.
Magica tells Lena, Webby, and Violet the story and explains how she doesn’t know how to transform Poe back. Webby then throws out a bunch of random suggestions, and Magica pretends to nod along and listen. She smiles and says that if they could get Poe to her sometime, she’d be able to test some of those strategies and would be very very grateful. The trio consider it but ultimately refuse and decide it would be Rina’s decision to make, as Poe is Rina’s companion.
Little do they know that Poe is sitting in the trees and watching over them. Webby, being Webby, throws out true loves kiss, and Poe remembers that. And this leads to shenanigans later on …
and thus begins the worlds weirdest polycule…..
on an unrelated note I have this fun design I did for Poe…. plus the og art for comparison!
anddd I did not doodle this but Rina adopts Boyd. Ok that’s everything….. thank you for reading …….. quack….
Guys I'm trying to compose themes/little soundtracks for Owen and Legundo's Vampires SMP Characters, but the indecision is insane.
So I put it to y'all, what instruments do you think represent each of the two best??
Y'all remember the GtN musical I was working on? Yeah, here's that first song I wrote for it like a year ago, but this time I'm actually singing it. You're welcome.
Whole thing probably needs to be transposed at least a whole-step down to keep Gideon's part in mezzo/alto belt-range. Don't know why I got so stuck on it having to be in D minor when I wrote the thing. It can be in another key, man. Just because it's based on Mozart's Requiem in D Minor doesn't mean you have to compose a whole-ass musical in the key of D Minor. That sounds like a Bad Idea actually.
