Not to mention that since she and her eldery father are apparently the only ducks in her tribe, she may well have never seen another man of her species before Donald that wasn't her decrepit father; that wouldn't give her many points of comparison.
This wouldn't work for those of us who believe in the filter theory, since there are no "species". And along those lines, why didn't she fall for Gyro, who's roughly the same age? I guess we can surmise that Donald is at least better-looking than Gyro (again, assuming inter-species relationships are possible).
Well, again, 'far as I'm concerned, that's easily explained by Gyro not being a duck either. It's not that interspecies relationships don't happen (they do, quite often), but it wouldn't be surprising for Oona to more naturally gravitate to a handsome duck than to a handsome cockatoo/chicken/sparrow/whatevertheheck.
But I don't get the impression Gyro is particularly handsome by any means, even species aside. He's thin bordering on gangly, his hair is all over the place, he wears glasses, oddball clothing, and he has rather a large beak. Certainly not ugly, but hardly a looker.
Post by TheMidgetMoose on Feb 12, 2019 17:34:34 GMT
Personally, I imagine that Donald is considered moderately handsome. In The Golden Christmas Tree, as already pointed out, he wishes to be handsome, indicating that he's not handsome, or at least not in a top tier of handsomeness, in his natural form. If I remember correctly, he isn't changed that much when his wish is fulfilled. I believe he becomes taller, gets some more hair, and I think his beak size may change a little bit. One of the biggest things that changes is the clothes he's wearing. Since this is one of the larger changes made, I take that to mean that Donald could look even more attractive then he is if he would dress differently. I don't know if that makes a lot of sense, but that's kind of how I take it. I also take the fact that he doesn't change a lot when wishing to be handsome to mean that he is, as I said at the beginning, moderately handsome by their society's standards. He's probably not considered as good-looking as Gladstone, but he'd probably be considered more attractive than the average duck.
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Post by Baar Baar Jinx on Feb 12, 2019 18:08:49 GMT
So, since Ducks clearly have hair, are we to assume that those Ducks that don't have distinct hairlines (like Donald, Daisy, HD&L, AM&J), are very light blonds? Scrooge apparently had brown hair in his youth (based on the colorists' decision that Rosa didn't agree with in the American printing of Life of Scrooge, but I'm happy to accept it), Ludwig's hair is currently gray, and of an unknown color in his youth.
Post by TheMidgetMoose on Feb 12, 2019 18:14:14 GMT
This may be slightly off-topic, but there is evidence to suggest that Daisy has had many, many boyfriends over the years, which could lend credence to the idea that the she is considered very attractive. We already know that Donald and Gladstone continually pine for her affection. In Donald's Diary, we see that Daisy has etched her names on a tree with many boys, including ones named Sib, Al, Dan, X, Nick, Ed, Hugh, Harry, Fred, Bruce, someone whose name starts with Sh, and a someone else whose name is indiscernible, though it looks kind of like Gus. Of course, I take everything in Donald's Diary with a grain of salt, seeing as how odd it is. I imagine many of you do too or just see it as non-canonical on the whole, but if one was to take it into account, we have a total of 14 guys whom she has dated.
In inducks.org/story.php?c=YD+40-11-09 by Karp and Taliaferro, Donald comes up behind Daisy, closes her eyes, and asks her to guess who he is. The strip never shows her naming Donald. Instead, she guesses that he is Tom, Floyd, Ted, Bob, Al, Bill, Hank, Johnny, Fred, Eddie, Jimmy, Stan, Joe, Steve, Hube, Dick, or George. I suppose one could argue that Daisy knew it was Donald and was just teasing him by guessing 17 guys before him. You could also argue that she never dated any of the guys she named and that they were only friends. Still, I think the fact that the names Al and Fred appear in both this strip and Donald's Diary confirms that she once dated an Al, and she once dated a Fred. Ed from Donald's Diary and Eddie from the strip could also be the same. Thus, I think we can say that she's definitely dated at least five different guys: Donald, Gladstone, Fred, Al, and Ed/Eddie. Based on these two sources, the possible total of guys she dated is 30! I think there was also a Dexter Duck in one comic that was attracted to her, which means that a total of 31 guys may have found her attractive.
Of course, there could be other factors for why so many fellows would date her. Maybe she comes from a well-off family, or maybe she just has a great personality. Still, I think that the fact that we can say she's dated at least 5 guys and possibly as many as 31 strongly suggests that she is seen as attractive.
Wait, "Whitehorse -- Brigitta"? I didn't realize Brigitta had met Scrooge in the Yukon. If I read that, I've forgotten it--which is perfectly possible. But I thought she met Scrooge in Duckburg. In which story does Scarpa tell how she first met Scrooge and fell in love with him in the Yukon? The Scrooge McDuck Wikia page on Brigitta says she's been in love with Scrooge since "she first laid eyes on him in 1898 in the Klondike." Was that date established in a Scarpa story?
It's way back from The Last Balaboo: Scrooge's promise of getting her a balaboo fur cap dates back to 1898.
Ah, indeed I read that one, and had forgotten that element. Is there any depiction of them in their Klondike past, or is it just referred to in dialogue? I'd be more surprised if I have forgotten a picture of the two of them in the Klondike. But then, I don't generally have a clear memory of stories that don't make it into my headcanon.
It's way back from The Last Balaboo: Scrooge's promise of getting her a balaboo fur cap dates back to 1898.
Ah, indeed I read that one, and had forgotten that element. Is there any depiction of them in their Klondike past, or is it just referred to in dialogue? I'd be more surprised if I have forgotten a picture of the two of them in the Klondike. But then, I don't generally have a clear memory of stories that don't make it into my headcanon.
No picture (though as mentioned upthread, later stories did feature flashbacks to Klondike-Brigitta).
Wait, "Whitehorse -- Brigitta"? I didn't realize Brigitta had met Scrooge in the Yukon. If I read that, I've forgotten it--which is perfectly possible. But I thought she met Scrooge in Duckburg. In which story does Scarpa tell how she first met Scrooge and fell in love with him in the Yukon? The Scrooge McDuck Wikia page on Brigitta says she's been in love with Scrooge since "she first laid eyes on him in 1898 in the Klondike." Was that date established in a Scarpa story?
My sense is that Molly is supposed to have met Scrooge when he was a young man in Duckburg, is that right? Not sure whether this could possibly fit with the Rosa timeline for when Scrooge comes to Duckburg...of course it can't possibly fit with Rosa's understanding of Scrooge's romantic history.
As a loyalist to Rosa's L&T, I'm willing to let Belle into my headcanon but not Brigitta or Molly. I see no reason why Scrooge couldn't have dated someone in his Mississippi River days, before he met Goldie. Belle wasn't the Love of His Life, but that needn't keep him from having fond feelings towards his first real girlfriend when she resurfaces decades later.
Brigitta since the first story is said that knows Scrooge from the time of Klondike with a lot of date, in addition to Scarpa two other stories tell the past of Brigitta and Scrooge:
- Zio Paperone e le origini di Brigitta (I PM 132-1) that unfortunately I never managed to recover to read it, I only know that it speaks of the past in Klondike;
- Zio Paperone e la guerra di cuori (I TL 1049-CP) that tells the first period in which they met when she was a student and he followed the lessons of finance, I find this point very important because it places the story in the period in which Scrooge left Dawson and opened a bank and several commercial enterprises in Whitehorse, not having been able to have a proper education when he was small must have learned to use accounting books when he was an adult.
Molly has a difficult timing, we know he met Scrooge when neither was rich, but also that the meeting took place in Duckburg both information make it impossible to include it in the timeline of Rosa.
Thanks for the references and the description of the guerra di cuori story--very interesting to know why you specified "Whitehorse" for Brigitta (as opposed to saying "Klondike" or "Yukon"). I hadn't realized there was a story that detailed their backstory in such a way. (It's by Marconi, 1976, for those of you who didn't follow the link.) That story has barely been reprinted outside of Italy.
Yeah, that's what I thought re: Molly. In Rosa's history, Scrooge was never young and poor in Duckburg.
So, since Ducks clearly have hair, are we to assume that those Ducks that don't have distinct hairlines (like Donald, Daisy, HD&L, AM&J), are very light blonds?
It's what artists who draw "humanized fanart" of Donald & Co. usually do, yes.
Of course, for my non-filter-theory-approving money, some ducks just don't have hair, but just regular feathers on their head, and Scrooge, Daisy, HDL&L and so on are all examples of this.
FWIW, I lean towards MacDuck's theory on Oona: that's she's naturally immediately attracted to Donald because he looks like her family, unlike anyone else she has known.
So, since Ducks clearly have hair, are we to assume that those Ducks that don't have distinct hairlines (like Donald, Daisy, HD&L, AM&J), are very light blonds? Scrooge apparently had brown hair in his youth (based on the colorists' decision that Rosa didn't agree with in the American printing of Life of Scrooge, but I'm happy to accept it), Ludwig's hair is currently gray, and of an unknown color in his youth.
I believe some Dutch stories clearly show April, May, and June with light blond hair. I think it's in the same series that gives them more modern hairdos.
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In Van Horn’s Duos and Don’ts Donald’s pursued by the attractive Gloria de Lovely (”the only other lady” he knows). It is however unclear whether she’s actually attracted to him or if it’s to spite Daisy (who calls her a ”scheming vamp”).
Well, Gladstone is clearly ment to be good looking, even at the end "Super Snooper Strikes agian" HD&L of all people say Donald isn't as "good looking" as Gladstone.
[Shame you can't post pictures any more, It's sometimes harder to make a point without viusal support]
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To better evaluate the beauty of the ducks we can try to compare them to those who inspired them. Magica is physically inspired by Sophia Loren in "Houseboat" (1958) and Gina Lollobrigida in "Solomon and Sheba" (1959). Goldie by the character of Cherry Malotte from "The Spoilers" played by Betty Compson in the 1930, Marlene Dietrich in the 1942, Anne Baxter in the 1955. John Quackett is physically inspired by Diabolik played in the 1968 by John Phillip Law.