#fhfif duchess

[flannygal]

Tada! It's Human Duchess.

She was definitely a doozy, but how fun she was to draw made up for that.

[blo0st4r]

What’s your opinion on Duchess?

One word, nasty.

[ask-wiltmichaels]

Wilt, how do you and the others even put up with Duchess? I feel like she’d be horrible to deal with

Oh she IS horrible to deal with! Honestly, if we all had the choice, none of us would want anything to do with Duchess. She bosses around anyone she talks to and makes them do things that she could easily do by herself. Like making me brush her teeth, or making me hang up a really ugly painting in her room, making Frankie carry her down the stairs, making Ed cry so she can use his tears to remove her makeup, I could go on.

I’m sorry, this isn’t the healthiest method to deal with Duchess, but it seems like it’s the only method to deal with Duchess. And that method is to make Duchess someone else’s problem. For as long as Duchess continues to lives at Foster’s, she will always make herself someone’s problem.

[flannygal]

Something that I have begun to notice is that I really, and I mean, REALLY like most of the antagonists of Foster's Home. But I especially adore Duchess, Terrence, and of course, Berry.

Starting off with Berry, I find it interesting how she puts on this fake polite facade.

When she first enters the foster's house, She kindly greets Frankie and insists that she could carry her luggage herself.

Then she lays her eyes on Bloo for the first time and is absolutely obsessed with him. She does anything she could do to win his heart. Even if that means murdering his best friend Mac.

And once she realizes Mac is here to stay and Bloo is out of her reach, the mask slips off. She throws a hissy fit on how it's not fair and that she's the "sweetest" And then rants about how she stayed "in this stupid house with these stupid people", revealing that she only cared about Bloo and was just putting on a fake friendly additude.

I find Berry revealing her true additude and intentions so fascinating. It really shows how two-faced she is.

Plus, Her design and voice super cute.

Alright, now we're gonna move on to Duchess.

Duchess was revealed when Frankie was getting a call on the phone of the Foster Home. In hindsight, she just seemed like a snobbish nagging woman, but it turns out everyone in the house agrees that she's an absolute nuisance to be around. Even Mr Herriman agrees.

Frankie and the imaginary friends can't stand her to the point where they pray that she gets adopted by somebody.

The time when she got rejected by the "snooty girl" in favor of Bloo, He became her biggest enemy.

This led her to make a plan to feed Bloo to an extremasaur with some help from Terrence.

Even Duchess herself is aware of how unpleasant she is. In the episode "Duchess of Wails", she insults multiple family's that try to adopt her, resulting in them rejecting her instead.

Until a certain family that is oblivious to her contempt with them happily accepts her with open arms where even SHE is surprised. Now she loudly complains and screams to the point where Mac's family can hear her.

What I mainly love about Duchess is how much of a condescending nag she is. And how much she complains.

Another thing I like is how she's based on an abstract painting. I feel like this symbolizes how she believes that she's a piece of art.

One thing I like about her as an antagonist is how she's willing to kill Bloo over a petty thing that he had no control over. Which was getting adopted.

Lastly, we will talk about Terrence. He is the brother of Mac and his bully. He is also the first antagonist to appear in the show.

He hates Mac and Bloo to a ridiculous extent. Especially Bloo, to the point where he was willing to join forces with Duchess to try and kill him.

Whenever his and Mac's mother finds out something went wrong in their house. Terrence tries to put the blame on Mac and Bloo in hopes that his mother lets him off scott free. And this often doesn't work, and his mother doesn't buy what he may be saying.

We don't really know why exactly he treats Mac so badly. Especially considering that he's his older brother.

We also don't know why he is filled to the brim with hatred for Bloo. Even creating an imaginary friend with the sole purpose of beating on Bloo.

As cruell and nasty as he could be to Mac and Bloo, He's way too funny for me to dislike.

One thing that I like about him is how he watches one of dramatic romance shows in secret.

He also has a charming design. Dude has that plaid coat ON.

And I absolutely love how he looks incredibly different compared to Mac even though he's actually his brother.

And that's my little talk on what I like about these three villains!

However, I think Berry is the one I'm infatuated with the most. This infatuation made my talk on her the easiest one to write down.

Berry vs Duchess and Terrence as antagonists

Bonus Crappost: All Hail Terrence.

[ask-wiltmichaels]

Hey wilt, it's great to see you in such a good mood. I noticed how in the photo album with annual photos you and duchess are featured in all of them. I know she my not be the most caring or friendly person to talk to, but since both of you stuck around fosters for 30 years, have you ever formed any sort of bond or a relationship of some kind?

If by “bond” you mean, staying as FAR away from each other as possible, then sure, absolutely. Sure we aren’t constantly at each other’s throats but darn, it’s so hard not to accidentally make her angry. Snore too loudly? Duchess is mad. Smell just slightly off? Duchess is mad. Stand too close to her? Duchess is mad. Now because we’ve lived at Foster’s for so long, I’ve been able to observe the times of day she gets the most irritated and have used those observations to try to avoid her at specific times. But even with those observations, sometimes that doesn’t even work and she still gets upset just by you existing. I’m sorry to go off like this on her but man, she’s such a pain and she knows it. So I guess I can’t help but admire her for being one of the most crankiest and terrifying imaginary friends in the Madame Foster household.

[justletmeon12]

Random headcanon that emerged fully-formed this morning, like the goddess Athena

So, you know how the point they kept making in Good Wilt Hunting was that imaginary friends served both obvious roles (the conscious things kids wanted when they made them) and less-obvious ones (the things that said kids needed)?

I've been thinking about Duchess, and I have a theory on her backstory:

So, there's this kid who has your classic inciting event for living in a large mansion - parents died or arrested and sent to live with rich aunt, got in one little fight and mom got scared, adopted, whatever. And they're trying to fit in with these ultra-rich old-money types, and because they're a small child, they want to please their new guardians, but the etiquette confuses them and the guests scare them and they can't tell who's actually trying to help them from who's just mocking them.

So, they make a friend to basically be an extra governess: her personality is what a small child sees when they look at high society types. She's obnoxious, she's a snob, she never has fun as they understand it, but damn if she doesn't know what fork to use for every occasion. Her official purpose is to help teach them what they need to blend in, and because they're desperate, they don't challenge her weird, stuck-up attitude and kind of want the dependability that her consistently awful personality represents.

But there's another side to it: after all, they're here now, aren't they? And anyone who created someone as magnificent as Duchess is clearly a genius, right? So, she encourages them to put value in what she's teaching them and to value themself accordingly. They're learning, they're smart and adaptable and creative, and as a newly-minted member of the upper crust, they should have the infuriatingly high self-worth to match.

Is she making them into a good person? No.

But right now, what they need is the self-confidence to take what they're given and mold it into a life they can enjoy. And she's giving them that.