Some random headcanons, mostly because I’ve wanted to talk about some since the other day. These are going to be focused on Scrooge since most of these come out in RP. I’ll try and show source bits of canon where applicable.
-Scrooge and Goldie have kept up correspondence after their reconciliation, though it’s more of the “touching base” sort than every single update, since every OTHER time they’ve come together he’s always surprised to see her.
This mostly comes from the big treasure box of letters that was seen in U$ 251:
But also from Goldie mailing something directly to him in “Ducky Mountain High” in DuckTales. And you could argue that his address is public, but as it came to the mansion not the Money Bin, I’d wonder about that. I mean, I could be wrong but that’s what makes headcanons fun >.>
-SPEAKING OF THAT BOX. He also keeps his Letter From Home in there- c’mon, you know the one-
But he ALSO has another letter from Fergus, one given to him before he left home. We see a second letter in another comic (and another timeline?) but the timing of it is the headcanon bit, and that I just like the idea of him having two.
Actually come to think of it that’s roughly the date Scrooge left home, isn’t it? ...Huh.
-Duck People molt/moult. This is mostly seen among the duck-shaped ones like Scrooge rather than the people-shaped ones like Launchpad, but it’s just a natural state of being covered in feathers. Scrooge handles it the worst because it’s a pain in the ass, it’s itchy, and it leaves feathers EVERYWHERE. The nephews handle it the best, because Donald taught them some tricks to deal with it.
-On the note of discarded feathers, Scrooge will occasionally try to sell them in pillows. This has varying degrees of success.
-This is a joking one, but: from a question someone asked me once since I’m a fan of both, would Scrooge see Hamilton, if it existed? My answer was yes, considering the “immigrant rises to the top” story about the freaking creator of the national bank. Then I noticed that in Scrooge McDuck and Money, matching the portrait of George Washington on one side of his office door, he has a portrait of Alexander Hamilton on the other.
So, yes. If it were to exist in the Duckverse, I feel like Scrooge would see Hamilton.
(Incidentally, it’s totally Hammilton and the man in question is a pig person. Just saying.)
-You ever notice in cartoons how someone always happens to have a match or a lighter, even if they don’t smoke? Scrooge plays this completely straight because hey, you never know when you’re going to need to light a torch.
-He enjoys trolling people with his chili. This one is practically stated right out in canon but I just like pointing it out.
-He actually was named after Ebenezer Scrooge. It would’ve been a contemporary book at the time he was born(/hatched), and the McDucks have legendary stinginess as a family trait. As can happen so often with “famous name” children however, Scrooge has heard, been ridiculed about, and asked about A Christmas Carol SO MANY TIMES that he has a burning hatred for everything it represents.
-He’s been burned by robots far, FAR too many times that he’d just rather do the labor his own damn self.
-Relatedly, if given the option to do a big project himself or hire a crew, he’ll do it himself even if it takes three times as long. After all, HIS labor is free.
-Because he’s three feet tall and waddles when he walks, Scrooge’s gait is slower than most people’s (unless he’s on a mission in which case LOOK AT HIM GO). He doesn’t do anything about this and instead lets the people around them adapt their gaits to his, instead of the other way around.
Listed as headcanon because primary handwriting switches is a common error in animated products since it’s usually either the angle, pose, or the fault of different parts of an episode being done at different times. ...I have no explanation for the comic since those are only a couple panels apart, but there it is regardless.
-He has problems with his heart. This is usually played for laughs in media like this (”YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE, SIR”) but I mean, god. He had a fit in one episode of DuckTales at the sight of his empty Money Bin and landed in the hospital. What am I supposed to do with that?
(still played for laughs in the episode btw)
-He’s just straight up 150 years old. This is based mostly on a comment Carl Barks gave once, when asked about how Scrooge could be as old as he is and still be doing everything, and Barks cited the story That’s No Fable! that saw Scrooge drinking from the Fountain of Youth.
In fact everyone’s a little weird in the age department since the other ducks would later sip from the same spring (I’m including Donald even though we didn’t see it in the actual comic). Theirs is just only slightly pushed off-center however, as Scrooge being considerably older had more to “reduce” by the spring’s magic.
-His birthday is December 19th. This is part based on Disney’s tendency to make a character’s birthday the release date of their first material. Scrooge’s debut story, Christmas On Bear Mountain, was printed in December but had no date of release attached to it, so I picked one at random. It’d work out in my favor when I later thought of the Ebenezer headcanon above, as a “Christmas birthday” would exacerbate the problem.
-If he got caught outside in the rain, he’d rather get wet than buy an umbrella.
-This last one isn’t wholly serious, but Scrooge and Count Roy from “The Duck in the Iron Mask” were totally boyfriends, I don’t care. I crackship it.
Secret handshake that involved bumping the sides of their hips together, affectionate nickname (”Scroogie” is common but I’ve never heard it pronounced “Scroojhay”) and a friendship that saw Scrooge stay in the TINY kingdom of Montedumas long enough to become a fencing master? I mean come ON.
(okay like I said this one is not exactly serious please don’t hurt me)
Okay! I think that’s all I can think of off the top of my head right now, but I know I’ve got some others, so I might do another one later.
