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The Ley Theory

or, “50 shades of Ley”: Real canon facts on what is actually going on with "Ronan N. Lynch"

brought to you by The Crying Club™️

A/N: Maggie if you're seeing this no you aren’t <3

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It all started - as many things do - with a catholicism joke in the crying club discord server.

At that point, Mister Impossible (or as we affectionately call it, Miss Imp) had only been out a couple weeks, and we were all pretty bowled over, and wildly speculating about backstories. One of these speculations included wondering, if the sky book was the first dream Ronan remembers, what was Ronan’s very first dream?

A wise Parrishwife, at the time still blissfully unburdened with what has become known as The Ley Theory, once said: "what if his first dream is….. himself?” aka Ronan dreaming himself into life via Aurora, à la immaculate conception. Maggiekin out, Jesuskin in.

This innocent joke about Ronan being Jesus-adjacent, however, planted the seed of what would become a full blown theory.

Before we get into that though, let's revisit The Dream Thieves. Remember when Cabeswater said that there are many thieves, but only one Greywaren? Yeah.

This led us to wondering: “Why is Ronan not a thief? Is he just taking back from part of himself? Is he some kind of ley line entity?”

What the damn hell is a Greywaren even??? Does anyone have an idea what Greywaren actually is? Of course Ronan needed his I'm not like other girls dreamers moment, but why do we still not know what exactly a Greywaren is and how it relates to the ley lines, its forests and beings?

Could it be that Cabeswater is so enamoured with the Greywaren because the Greywaren is what sustains it?

Oh. Right. That's literally canon.

Thus, without further ado, the thesis statement:

RONAN IS A WHOLE ASS LEY LINE

…. and the hypotheses:

Greywaren (aka "Ronan") is actually a ley line and/or an ancient magical forest.

Greywaren dreamt (manifested) itself in the shape of Ronan Lynch.

Let's backtrack a bit and review the evidence, shall we?

(A/N: we DID make a powerpoint and present it on a zoom panel. It was 55 slides long and was called - you guessed it - “50 Slides of Ley”, because we are DELIGHTFUL <3)

PART 1: YOU ARE MADE OF DREAMS AND THIS WORLD IS NOT FOR YOU

Ronan being Greywaren aka a ley energy being might seem like a stretch at first, but actually, it makes a whole lot of pieces click into place.

So we all remember how Hennessy did a reverse Adam and put the ley line to sleep in MI, causing dreams all over the state to fall asleep (Bryde has a sweetmetal, so he awakens despite the ley line being completely zapped out; Jordan presumably created her own sweetmetal and she's awake by the end of the book; Matthew doesn't have a sweetmetal and he falls asleep, as do some of the Moderators). Ronan is (allegedly) not a dream, and he was asleep dreaming himself, but once Hennessy zaps the line, he doesn’t wake up. Why?

One option could be that Ronan is a dream himself, but if that were the case, the one person who could have dreamt him was Niall, and Niall’s been dead a long time. This doesn’t track. However, there’s another option here: Hennessy didn't stop Ronan's energy source. She stopped him. In other words: Ronan is the Virginia ley line, and he just got de-powered/put to sleep by Hennessy.

This, incidentally, would give a whole new meaning to Bryde’s insistence that “there are not two of you”. At first, we all interpreted it as Bryde being woefully wrong - yes there are two of Ronan, he can be both human and magical, shut up Bryce! And, well… that could still be true (more on that later). But what if, on a very base level, Bryde was right? What if Ronan has never been fully human in the first place? What if he was a ley line all along?

Remember, as well, that Bryde is A) Lindenmere made human (“dangerous things can protect themselves”) in the shape of the mentor figure Ronan needs, and B) Ronan himself, or at least a manifestation of his subconscious. But what exactly is Ronan's subconscious?

Bryde also says to Hennessy that he is “older than Ronan imagines”. Now, this could (and likely does) mean that he’s as old as Lindenmere. But there’s another layer here, because later, Hennessy thinks of that same phrasing - older than he imagines - about Ronan himself:

So… what if the implication here is that Ronan himself is much older than Ronan imagines? What if he’s not actually 19 at all, but an ancient sentient magical entity?

Yet more evidence from Mister Impossible: Bryde keeps trying to get Ronan to feel the presence of the ley line, but Ronan can’t until the very end, while we know that other dreamers (Hennessy) and psychics (Adam, Maura, Persephone) can feel it easily. Why is that? Simple: because Ronan is the ley line. How do you feel something is always in you and around you? How do you feel something that is simply a part of yourself? That would be like a human being acutely feeling the presence of their limbs - it’s not something we do, we’d have to actively make a conscious effort.

At the end of the book, however, Ronan can finally feel the ley line, and Bryde is ecstatic. This is because he views this as Ronan getting in touch with a lost part of himself, finally gaining awareness of his power and who/what he is. This is a direct parallel with the continuous efforts to remove energy blockages from the ley lines so they can flow freely and regain full power again.

If we follow this theory, then Bryde’s continuous “us vs them” rhetoric is more than simply shitty cult tactics to isolate him from his support network (though it is that too). His insistence on Ronan being a different species than anyone else (e.g. wolves vs humans) is quite literal: he wants Ronan to realise that he is in fact completely other, and he made himself human as a conscious decision:

Ronan wants his world to be smaller because he made himself human shaped. And in fact, Maggie told us this at the very start of the book:

Something that lay / in the shape of a man. The same way Ronan thinks of Cabeswater/Lindenmere as wearing a “forest shaped suit”, he himself is simply wearing a human shaped suit.

But the evidence for this theory doesn’t stop at Mister Impossible. In fact, looking back, we found several clues pointing to this as far back as The Raven Cycle:

Ronan is the only dreamer who can speak the language of dreams (and of Cabeswater/Opal/etc); neither Kavinsky nor Niall nor Hennessy are able to. That’s because it is in fact his native language - the ley line language.

However, he can’t speak the dream language when he’s awake, because in waking life, burdened with his human consciousness, he does not realise he’s a ley line - similar to how he cannot feel the ley line in Mister Impossible. There aren’t two of Ronan, but Ronan has somehow made himself two (again, very Jesus-adjacent in that “God making himself human” way… I know I know more Catholicism jokes but LISTEN THE EVIDENCE SUPPORTS IT)

More evidence in the shape of off-handed, throwaway foreshadowing: in The Raven King, we find out Blue is literally half tree. And if Ronan himself is a forest… well. That would certainly make them “the same impossible stuff” (it also means Adam’s type is literally trees but that’s a different story).

Okay, let’s talk about the Nightwash. Ronan gets worse Nightwash, it seems, than any other dreamer, when he’s away from the ley line. He gets it more quickly, more often, and more severely. Why? Well, at a first glance, it may seem like he just has Protagonist Problems. But think back: when was the first time we saw anything similar to the thick black ooze of the Nightwash? Yep, that’s right: The Raven King, while the demon is unmaking Ronan.

● Think about that word, “unmaking”. Ronan being away from the ley line results in, essentially, Ronan himself being unmade. That’s because he’s part of the ley line, and being away from it is something akin to dismemberment. To unmaking. In other words: “You are made of dreams, and this world is not for you.”)

PART 2: KING AND SHEPHERD BOTH

So, if Ronan is an ancient ley line forest, or indeed a whole-ass ley line, how did he come to to be connected with Niall Lynch? They key to all that is in the part of Miss Imp where we meet Ilidorin. For some reason, during our first frantic reading, we all kind of assumed Ilidorin was the name of the forest that got cut down.

But that’s not accurate: Ilidorin is the name of just that one tree.

In fact, when Ronan asks Bryde for the name of the forest, Bryde - who is visibly pleased with the question - replies “This tree’s name is Ilidorin”. Now, why would Bryde avoid answering the question… unless the answer is a Big McHuge Spoiler?

Here’s what we do know about the forest:

Ilidorin’s forest was like Lindenmere, but belonged to a different dreamer.

Its dreamer died “not long ago”

After the dreamer died, there was no one to protect the forest

However, the ley line of that forest is “pure, quiet, strong”, and “if that dam didn’t exist, it would be perfect”

Additionally: Ronan thinks that Ilidorin is a name that sounds like “it belongs with Greywaren”.

Can you tell where this is going?

THESIS: Greywaren was the ley line forest Ilidorin belonged to… and it was dreamt by Niall.

According to this thesis, then Greywaren was Niall’s forest in the same way that Cabeswater, and later Lindenmere, are Ronan’s. When Niall died, there was no one to protect his dream forest (nor, arguably, his children). What is a forest without its dreamer? Cabeswater was being unmade at the same time Ronan was; and so, perhaps, the true essence of Greywaren fell dormant when Niall died, and the forest was destroyed except for Ilidorin.

However, there is an extra step here. Something that makes (the) Greywaren more special than either Cabeswater or Lindenmere. It’s entirely possible that Ronan is not “just” the ley line forest of Greywaren, but the very core of the ley line that gives it life. In the excerpt above, Bryde refers to Ilidorin as being “old and hard of hearing”. Which leads us to this:

The dreams - the forests - are supposed to hear Ronan. Without Ronan, there are no dream forests. Why does Bryde, in his rallying of dreamers, constantly emphasise that Ronan is the most important? Well, because Ronan is the Greywaren: king and shepherd. Whatever dream energy is made of, Ronan is the lynchpin (ha ha).

To add to the mindfuckery, Bryde is a manifestation of Ronan, so his mission is both Lindenmere’s and Ronan’s mission: almost as if Ronan himself subconsciously knew his mission is to protect magic and the ley line forests.

Of course, Ronan’s mission at the start was simply to protect himself from NIghtwash and the moderators… but turns out those two goals might just be the same:

The first step to saving the ley lines, is to save Ilidorin’s ley line. Which means, to save Greywaren’s ley line; to save the Greywaren; to save Ronan.

Ronan, the Greywaren, is the shepherd of ley lines, and as a ley line himself, he is pure and strong… or he would be, if it weren’t for that pesky dam. Which, yes, means the literal dam blocking the ley line of course, but also… Ronan’s humanity. According to Bryde, the human shape that Ronan chose to inhabit - his human family, his human lover - is what is blocking him from remembering himself and be pure and strong. That’s why Bryde tries his best to isolate Ronan from Declan and Adam, his two truest connections to humanity (Matthew being a dream, and Ronan’s two other friends being out of the picture).

In the excerpt above, Bryde says that Ilidorin might help Ronan remember what he wants. Or, at least, what Bryde thinks Ronan wants; as Bryde says in MI, Lindenmere - aka Bryde himself - is “guessing what you want. Auto-filling, and we all know how that goes. That’s when shit starts to go wrong.” But regardless, he thinks Ilidorin will remind Ronan of what his purpose is. And with that in mind, it’s no coincidence that Ronan thinks back to being curled up inside Ilidorin while he’s severing his tie to Adam - his last link to humanity.

PART 3: THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY FOREST

So Ronan is a ley line - more than that, he’s THEE ley line made human. But how did it happen, and what was Niall’s part in it? What role did Aurora play? There are a few options to explore.

Option one: Aurora was instrumental in birthing Ronan. This could either mean that Niall dreamt Aurora and then impregnated her (shudder) which… somehow, through mixing human and dream genetics created Ronan, “son of a dream and son of a dreamer”. This is the explanation that seemed most plausible prior to The Ley Theory™.

Option two: similar to the above, except Niall dreamt Aurora up already pregnant with Ronan, aka the essence of the Greywaren ley line, limiting Niall’s involvement in Ronan’s genetics. This is debatable due to the fact Ronan looks exactly like Niall, but there could be an explanation for that - more on it later.

Option three: Aurora had nothing to do with Ronan’s birth, and she was simply dreamt up after the fact as a copy of Mor o Corra, Declan’s birth mother, to be essentially the perfect caretaker/wife/mother to Niall’s (alleged) children.

(NB: All three of this options assume that Aurora came out of Niall’s Greywaren dreamspace-forest, making her… somehow Ronan’s sibling? Also if she was instrumental in creating the Greywaren but she was created out of Greywaren… is Ronan his own mom? Some conundrums are best left unpondered.)

We don’t know enough yet to provide an answer to the question of how Ronan came into being. We did, however, have other questions, such as: did Niall create Greywaren on purpose, for his own reasons? Niall Lynch being the selfish narcissist he was, manifesting a super-powerful ley line in his own image sounds like the ultimate ego trip.

Or rather... did the ley line/forest/Greywaren ask Niall to be manifested? This option seems to fit the theme of the books better - the idea of choosing to exist, and choosing in what shape to do so. It’s also possible that if the Greywaren is the “prime” ley line, the shepherd of the other dormant ley lines, it realised that it would need a human shape to awaken them, and thus asked Niall to help it become human.

Whichever way the events unfolded, this potentially explains the mystery of why Ronan looks exactly like Niall. It is not simply dream genetics and Aurora not having a DNA (though dream genetics are a mystery regardless - see the dubious existence of Matthew’s internal organs; however, Matthew and Bryde don’t look exactly like Ronan, so there is more to this).

Rather, it is reminiscent of when Cabeswater sacrificed itself to rebuild Gansey at the end of The Raven King: the book states Cabeswater needs to “remember what humans are like” (you could also say, make itself human-shaped). To do that, it “borrows” heavily from the other members of the Gangsey: it takes Blue’s sadness, Ronan’s wonder, Adam’s humanity.

So… is it possible that Greywaren did the same thing, when it made itself “Ronan Lynch shaped”? Did it borrow Niall’s likeness, and basically xerox its human dreamer, while keeping dreamstuff and magic on the inside? In the shape of a man - but not quite a man?

And while we’re at it: is this tied into why Ronan so desperately idolizes Niall - because he literally modeled himself on him? Did Greywaren love its dreamer in the same way Cabeswater loved Ronan?

It’s a lot to think about, we know.

So allow us to end on a somewhat lighter - yet tragic - epiphany: if Ronan and the fabled Greywaren are one and the same… and if Greywaren was Niall’s forest… then that means that Niall was not lying when he said he had a magical artifact called the Greywaren. Niall Lynch is a liar, so we all assumed that he used the Greywaren story to hide the fact that he was a dreamer. But as it turns out, that’s not quite the case.

Niall Lynch was getting all his stuff “from Greywaren”, the same way Ronan got his dream objects from Cabeswater - and he probably delighted in telling everyone (despite it putting Ronan directly in danger - because nobody would have a clue what he meant, ain’t that so clever :) Asshole and absolute madlad.

CONCLUSIONS: “THERE ARE NOT TWO OF YOU”

We have a few ideas about what could happen in the final book. Not anything specific, but more ideas related to the driving themes and concepts of the series.

One thing that could happen is that Ronan will stay asleep for as long as the ley lines are asleep (which is obviously not gonna be forever, because that would take all magic out of the world and sounds very overwhelming). 

The good news: you know who’s really good at waking up ley lines? That’s right: one Adam Parrish (THIS IS HOW THE ADAM KING CAN STILL WIN). The bad news: ...of course the first time Adam woke up a ley line he had to do it through sacrificing his hands and his eyes, and waking up all ley lines would be a much larger undertaking, so uhhh. We are in danger dot jpg.

Another thing likely to happen is that Ronan will figure out the truth about himself - a dilemma he’s been struggling with since The Dream Thieves (“What am I, please God what am I?”) - and be tempted to live as a ley line being/god on earth. After all, Bryde has been complaining all along that “giving the world to humans” was a mistake (“We gave the world to them back before we knew any better”), which implies a master plan of reclaiming the world back for magic/nature/forests/ley lines.

However, as tempting as that may sound considering how rotten humans can be to the world, I doubt that the final message of the book will be “humans are the virus and we need to eradicate them”. Of course humanity has a place in the world: remember that this series, by Maggie’s own statement, is a metaphor for illness, creativity, and the way the two interact in artists. And Maggie has also said more than once that she considers herself a storyteller, not a writer: the difference is purely in the interaction with an audience.

What is a story without an audience to hear it? What is art, without people to look at it in wonder and be moved by it (think: Declan as the embodiment of this)? What is magic without humans to witness it and give it shape? By this token, magic is inherently human, and humanity is inherently magic.

This leads us to an important narrative parallel: part of the reason it makes so much sense for Ronan to not be human is that, quite simply… Adam is, and the two are sides of the same coin, desperately in love with each other. All through TRC and the Trilogy Adam is described as “real” and “human”; he is Ronan’s last link to the human world; he is even apparently “studying humanity” in school, whatever that means! He is literally named after the first man, and his surname references a gathering of people (though interestingly it used to be “Trinity”. No we won’t stop catholicshaming Maggie and ourselves).

In that light, Ronan’s desperate “please” to God upon seeing Adam for the first time in CDTH takes on a whole new layer of meaning: please let me be with him, or please let me be like him? That really is the crux of this whole story. Maggie said that at their core, the books of the Trilogy are about community. Ronan needs to find a community, badly - whether this means with other dreamers, with magic and ley lines, or with humans. So does everyone else in the book.

But the two poles - the two sides of the coin - that are in direct contrast are Ronan and Adam: the magical forest being who desperately wants to be human, and the human who’s desperately in love with magic. For Adam, finding community will mean having to accept that he can, and should, make “normal” human friends he can be honest with, while also not hiding the magical parts of himself anymore. After all, there are not two of him. 

And for Ronan, well… it probably will have to mean embracing what he is while once again choosing to be “simply human, human, human”. Because, in the end, there are not two of him - what he is supposed to be and what he wants to be. Magic is human; humanity is magic. And Ronan can simply be whoever he chooses to be.

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A/N: This post could not have happened without the amazing, supportive environment of the Crying Club server who went ham for like 8 hours on discord and sat through an actual symposium on this. @cryingclubs @parrishwife @faeparrish @adamparrishcryingclub @1989dean @sonboyadam @ellipsea @sulkybbarnes @fallingwaterr @orbmaster...y’all are the yees to my haw <3

Tagging a few more people who might be interested in this (please do ask to be removed if you’d like, or let me know if i forgot anyone!): @theamagician @balladofawellknowngun @emmerrr @parrishthieves @adamparrishes @countryboycas @thesongofakillme @papiliomachaon @vlindervin7​ @bisexual-magician​

[astudyinchocolate]

The Dropped Holiday Episode Baton

Salt Warning Ahead, if that’s not your thing.

(apologies if someone else already did this- I’m catching up a week late)

I’m disappointed, but not surprised, that How Santa Stole Christmas dropped the baton that Last Christmas handed off to it. We knew going in that the episode was standalone, which is fine. I just hoped we’d get one (1) callback to this heartbreaking scene that destroyed me 2 years ago:

Just this! Show Donald wearing the Christmas sweater he’s worn every year for his sister and them standing happily together celebrating the holiday. The setup was simple and perfect. It’d be a quick callback for fans who knew the other episode. Hell, they already had an existing model of Donald wearing this outfit, so they wouldn’t have to do any additional work!

But just like most of the Spear/family angst this season... the episode pretended it wasn’t there. Meaning there’s no follow through to the setup of Donald honoring his sister every year and making the holiday as happy as possible for the family despite his own sadness. We don’t get to see Donald overjoyed to have his sister back for the holiday he promised her they’d always spend together.

Nor do we have Della enjoying being with her family on Christmas for the first time in 10 years! Two years ago, Della wistfully looked at her family and said, “Merry Christmas, guys. See you soon.” She teared up. There was haunting piano music as she pulled her goggles on and continued to work. It was only the second time we’d seen her on the moon, and you just felt that ache of loss. I mean, I fully expected that part of Della’s first Christmas home would be joining Scrooge in his anti-Santa campaign... but I’m disappointed that it’s all we got from her.

Again, not to wear out the sports metaphors, but this was literally the perfect, easy home run, and there had to be a few seconds to cut from Bear Santa etc that would have given the characters this resolution.

The closest we got to a callback or parallel was the episode starting with a look at the moon, only to come back through the window to see the family gathered in the boys’ room. It’s not Dewey sitting alone on Christmas, missing his mom. Now she’s right here, along with his brothers and Donald.

(not shown: donald, who tripped over lights and served no purpose but comic relief in this episode. nor was he allowed even one happy scene with the whole fam)

But truthfully? Starting with a look at a moon and the camera cutting back through a window is just a Thing that happens in TV and movies. I’m pretty sure this was intentional here, but who knows? Maybe someone threw it in just because it looked nice and it was not intended to have any further emotional resonance. 

Anyway... This episode demonstrates what I’ve been feeling with a lot of this season so far. Season 2 passed on a lot of great things for S3 to pick up, and it just... hasn’t. Donald, Della, and Scrooge haven’t acknowledged the massive rift in the family, nor have Donald and Della been shown co-parenting or anything else. More like Donald’s competent and good when Della’s out of the picture or he’s used for comic relief while she parents in the background. DuckTales did such a good job with family character arcs and paying attention to small details in the first two seasons. For the most part, it just hasn’t in S3.

And I get that the writers clearly chose to let everyone do one-off episodes on their favorite side characters instead of focusing on the core cast this season. I don’t agree with the decision, but it explains how they’re treating Scrooge, Donald, and Della in most episodes. Here, though, where you literally set up a whole plot in your only other holiday episode? And you fail to hit that home run? Really disappointing.

[writesailingdreams]

Lots of stuff to talk about in the newest Ducktales ep, but two moments that really got seared into my brain:

Spoilers below

When Webby stopped her “attack” when she saw Huey flinch away from her after trying to see if he was all right. I don’t know, like, it just... Huey had been stressing all episode about what & who he could trust, how he could prepare if he had no warning, things that are legitimately, to me, stress-inducing. But then the attack happens and it doesn’t alleviate the stress (the way it did for Dewey; the weight of waiting & wondering was gone; it was over). For Huey the fear is still there. He thought, just before the attack, that the lesson was about trust! But then, nope! It wasn’t! And he got hurt! He wasn’t ready and he can’t trust and he’s afraid. And Webby sees that - that this excerise isn’t working. It’s creating rifts. It’s making her family afraid, not making anyone stronger. And so she says no and I just...I was so proud of her.

When Donald told Beakley the excerise had gone too far. I was wondering where he was and was hoping he would intervene. Might have liked if he had been more forceful about it, but he did have to hold on to Dewey and Huey before all three could get onto the roof, and by then things had been resolved.

Oh. And all the cameos at the end! Poor Gene!

[dad-donald-duck]

hey guys. hey.

can we talk about this moment.

when donald sees an image of della for the first time in ten years.

he thought she was dead and learned to live with that. then he saw the rocket and had hope she was alive. the moonlanders talked about della, so then he knew she’d really survived.

but he hasn’t seen her.

not until this moment, when lunaris puts up an image of della just to threaten her and explain how he's going to kill the whole family.

note that this is a CURRENT photo of della, too! she has the slightly longer hair and different jacket design from the second half of “nothing can stop della duck.” it’s creepy af that lunaris is able to keep tabs that closely on her. but that’s her! ten years later!

della has seen recent photos of donald. and now donald has seen a recent photo of della. but they haven’t seen each other in person yet.

della is just one more reason for donald to fight. and their reunion is going to absolutely destroy me.

[winged-wolves]

Are there any metas specifically discussing how Daenerys deals with her trauma, such as coping mechanisms? I’ve read ones about Arya and her list, and Sansa’s relationship with lies but I haven’t found one about Daenerys...

[aintnopartylikeaprideparty]

Ducktales "The Duck Knight Returns" spoilers below

I like the way Jim Starling/Negaduck is written and I think it's very clever of the writers

Because the show didn't show him being mean/rude/evil only after finding out Drake Mallard is going to be the new Darkwing, but even before that.

At the start of the episode when he was doing the signing. He was downright rude to his fans (besides Dewey even though he wasn't a fan). Snatching the poster rather harshly out of the first guy's hands. And interrupting Drake TWICE while he was trying to tell Jim how much he's changed his life. Not even trying to listen to what he has to say. The most Jim told him during that moment was that the signing will cost $15 bucks. Completely ruining a big moment for Drake in his life

And then when seeing Launchpad remarked "Oh great. The fainters back." instead of either 1. Being glad he has such a dedicated fan to the point that he has been to multiple of his signings 2. Showing concern and asking if he's ok.

And not only that, but signed his beak instead of just signing the actual poster itself (while Dewey was telling him Lp wanted him to sign his poster) which is pretty pointless considering the ink would probably fade quickly, and then later on using Launchpad's trust in him into manipulating him into thinking they were doing the right thing trying to ruin Drake's movie.

Finding out Drake is taking his place as Darkwing in the new movie wasn't what made him evil, it was just the tip of the iceberg that pushed him into finally revealing who he really is. Which is rotten.

Jim Starling complains about not having many fans/not being popular yet shows no care for the fans he actually has.

All he cares about is himself. He only tries to act nice when there's a bunch of people around as to not ruin his reputation (ex: before the signing & fake smiling in the photo with Launchpad)

Gee Jim, I wonder why you don't have many fans.

[lifelikesleep]

Donald and Della

It's interesting to see the differences between the Duck twins expanded upon, however slightly. Donald is by far the most logical, having berated her in the first place for going to space with the triplets on the way.

And again, while on the moon, Della tries things her way...

...and fails. So she resorts back to the logical approach.

I just found this small scene really telling.

[heyduckoroonios]

The Duck’s Favorite Holidays

Donald: Christmas, he loves going to grandma’s farm and seeing his family he’s not able to see often. November 1st the Christmas decorations are up and he’s belting Christmas songs

Della: Halloween. The moment the clock strikes 12 on October 1st she’s decorating the house and the yard and she’s planned her costume since june

Scrooge: Recently, New Years. He likes getting gifts on Christmas and free food on thanksgiving but after his 10 years without contact with his family, he’s lost his appreciation for those holidays and New Years marks the end of the holiday season.

Huey: Thanksgiving. He likes helping make the food with his Uncle Donald and the more subdued atmosphere at Grandma Duck’s farm compared to Christmas.

Dewey: Halloween, like mother like son. The atmosphere? The costumes? Free candy? He loves it all and he gets really into it, watches a horror movie every night of October

Louie: Christmas. While he doesn’t share the same love of the songs and decor with Donald, he does love getting and giving presents and seeing the family all together (though he’d never admit it)

Webby: Easter. She and Beakley do an insanely complicated easter egg hunt every year, with clues and traps and peril (of course not too much peril, Beakley doesn’t want Webby hurt and they don’t want to destroy the house)

If anyone’s got anything to add, I’d love to see! I can’t for the life of me think of what holiday Gladstone would like the best