Post by LP on Jan 10, 2019 11:45:11 GMT
If you do want to make Daniel into Donald's great-grandfather, making him also be Bluffer Duck is fair enough, since Bluffer remains off-screen. But Donald Duck Snr. looks nothing like Daniel (he's basically a Donald lookalike, with no hair, a long beak and beak-adjacent eyes). On the bright side, he's also not explicitly described as a direct ancestor of Donald, so you don't lose anything by leaving him as a great-uncle.
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Sorry, that don't work. Valduck (that's his official English name) is not, indeed cannot, be a direct paternal ancestor of Scrooge, since he's not a McDuck by name. And by all appearances he never married, so probably not a direct ancestor at all.
But if the visual disconnect between Daniel and Donald senior is a deal-breaker for you, how come you still consider Humperdink and the No Hunting-grandfather the same character? I mean, the two of them have nothing visual in common; not even the shape of their beaks.
About Valduck: Fair enough, he was really just a placeholder. Who else is a good candidate for Scrooge's great-grandfather? I personally think there should be one generation in between Potcrack and Titus. Gilles Maurice's tree has Silas Elias Ebenezer Arpagon McDuck, but I know nothing about this character.