What other family member would you like to become recurrent

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Aug 10, 2022 19:40:56 GMT sim said:

Aug 10, 2022 18:33:58 GMT Spectrus said:

That strip also claims Scrooge has a brother!      

Most likely Gideon. Rumpus should be ruled out because he didn't grow up as Scrooge's brother... it could also be Scrooge's twin brother from Paperino e l'uomo del west, but is that story canon for anyone?

Well, it's canon to me! Though I do prefer to think of this strip as referencing Gideon. (I don't believe in things being non-canonical. Or perhaps, more accurately, I have believed less and less in “canonicity” as a concept with every year I've been alive…)

Also, reading this strip again, I'm noticing for, I think, the first time, that nothing in it technically states that this Grandma is Scrooge's sister — she could know of his youth secondhand, from having made an active effort to become a repository of “the whole family history” as a point of personal pride! (Last names notwithstanding, this strip could also be construed as depicting Grandma as Donald's maternal grandmother i.e. Scrooge's mum. Wouldn't that be something.)

[bats]

Aug 10, 2022 19:46:22 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Aug 10, 2022 19:40:56 GMT sim said:

Most likely Gideon. Rumpus should be ruled out because he didn't grow up as Scrooge's brother... it could also be Scrooge's twin brother from Paperino e l'uomo del west, but is that story canon for anyone?

Well, it's canon to me! Though I do prefer to think of this strip as referencing Gideon. (I don't believe in things being non-canonical. Or perhaps, more accurately, I have believed less and less in “canonicity” as a concept with every year I've been alive…)

Also, reading this strip again, I'm noticing for, I think, the first time, that nothing in it technically states that this Grandma is Scrooge's sister — she could know of his youth secondhand, from having made an active effort to become a repository of “the whole family history” as a point of personal pride! (Last names notwithstanding, this strip could also be construed as depicting Grandma as Donald's maternal grandmother i.e. Scrooge's mum. Wouldn't that be something.)

The language in that strip ("your uncle Scrooge", "I know the whole family history") doesn't really feel like something you'd use about your brother or son. Sounds more like she was meant to be his aunt or something.

[TheMidgetMoose]

Aug 10, 2022 21:16:17 GMT bats said:

Aug 10, 2022 19:46:22 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Well, it's canon to me! Though I do prefer to think of this strip as referencing Gideon. (I don't believe in things being non-canonical. Or perhaps, more accurately, I have believed less and less in “canonicity” as a concept with every year I've been alive…)

Also, reading this strip again, I'm noticing for, I think, the first time, that nothing in it technically states that this Grandma is Scrooge's sister — she could know of his youth secondhand, from having made an active effort to become a repository of “the whole family history” as a point of personal pride! (Last names notwithstanding, this strip could also be construed as depicting Grandma as Donald's maternal grandmother i.e. Scrooge's mum. Wouldn't that be something.)

The language in that strip ("your uncle Scrooge", "I know the whole family history") doesn't really feel like something you'd use about your brother or son. Sounds more like she was meant to be his aunt or something.

I think my gut interpretation would be that she just simply grew up with Scrooge. Her family and Scrooge's knew one another and were from the same community but didn't necessarily have a genealogical connection. Other solutions work, too, but I think that, ignoring other stories and authors, is the simplest explanation.