DuckTales (2017) verse

(The avatar maker I was using is kinda limited, so no long naturally colored hair or kid Evie)

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Name: Evelyn “Evie” Lancaster

Age: 23

Birthday: March 23rd

Species: “Duck”

Relatives: Lancaster/Blackwell families

Occupation: Adventurer, Consultant, Polymath, full range of occupations unknown.

Allies: Lancaster Group, McDuck Enterprises, McDuck clan

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Personality

Calm, cunning, highly intelligent. Not much of a talker unless she’s got something she feels important to say.

Don’t let that pretty smile fool you, she’s more dangerous than she looks.

Physical appearance

White feathers, chin length platinum blonde hair with side swept bangs, slim, yet curvy figure.

Her natural hair color is more of a dark or crimson red, but… she changed it as well as cut it short in order to make herself more difficult to recognize. Otherwise, she’d have more of those elegant, femme fatale look that is very difficult to miss in a crowd.

Usually dresses in skirts, blouses, and flats for her consultant side-job. Wears a leather pilot jacket, jeans, and hiking boots for her adventuring job. Might wear glasses to sell the “intellectual look”, but actually has perfect eyesight.

Skills and Abilities

If we go by her resume, she’s a highly skilled polymath with a range of degrees in everything from archaeology to quantum physics. She’s also a part-time consultant and researcher for the local history museum.

If we’re going off the books, she’s pretty much the last person you’d want to catch in your cross-hairs or be in her cross-hairs for that matter… unless you like your life being turned into a living hell.

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Background

For a start, Evie’s family at large really can’t be trusted… they’re all greedy and manipulative scumbags really… so her parents convincing someone they know they could trust to be her guardian wouldn’t be too far off.

I don’t know how much interaction Evie would have had with Scrooge and family before her parents passed away and she ended up plopped on his doorstep without much warning. If they did, she would have been around Webby to Lena’s age… Or about ten to twelve or so.

I can see Evie’s mom having pretty much everything planned out… Including her education and not so much who would take care of her if they’re gone. Quite a bit of the discussion likely involved code words so their relations would have no idea what they were doing. Unless something changed, most of her teen years and early twenties would have been eaten up by her mother’s planning and not leaving time for much else.

I’d assume that her parent’s passing would be somewhere in late Winter to early Spring, but also before April 15th. With her luck, she had to spend her birthday at a her parent’s funeral trapped with a small flock of bickering relatives debating how to split the family assets including who gets her.

The carefully constructed terms of the will likely didn’t go over well… Which her parents would have likely anticipated. Evie and all the other assets would be long gone by the time of the reading.

This would also mean that there’s a very high possibility that Evie didn’t even get to be there at the funeral and was just shipped off to Duckburg without so much as a “Your things are packed and we’re leaving.” And hearing about it later on the news.

The idea of someone taking her away from all that must have felt like a godsend… although being greeted at the door with something like “Where’s the treasure?” would have been a tad awkward. Her being weirdly distant wouldn’t be too surprising.

I mean… things could have been fine at first… but she didn’t get to meet the rest of Scrooge’s family because of what happened, Della took off with the Spear of Selene, Donald moved out of the house with the boys, Scrooge is too busy trying to find Della and bring her home and his work, and Duckworth passes away not longer.

For a young girl of thirteen who probably didn’t get to see much of her own birth family… and even less of the family she almost had, that taste of something only to lose it in such a short time probably would have been pretty hard on her in general. Odds being that her being shipped off to some private school her mother chose once Spring break ended.

Odds are that she probably ended up pretty withdrawn at that point. Lots of reading and studying alone in some hard to find corner of the estate. Not sure what happens between here and there, but… her sort of drifting away and doing things on her own is pretty likely… also involving lots of traveling. I wonder what made her decide to come back? Reading an article on the old fellow and his recent exploits maybe?

In any case, it’s pretty likely she wanted to take things slow. Conjure up some identity for herself, find somewhere close by to use as a hide-out, get a job that’s sure to get her nearer to the action at some point, and sort of watch things for a bit.

Which kind of brings us to here.

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Notes:

She currently works part-time as a consultant at the local history museum. Mostly she ends up assisting with some of the more “feisty” artifacts and the rest is advising staff on how to improve the exhibits.

Her hobby of hunting for treasure is more for archaeological research and not the finder’s fee. Same goes for monster hunts.

It’s also not entirely clear how she’s able to carry so much stuff around in that bag of hers… or much of the other things she does.

She has a bit of a habit of copying people’s accents when around them for too long. There’s more to things than just that, but its pretty normal to notice if you hang around her long enough.

There is a good chance she might have met Scrooge when she was relatively young since her parents would take her along on business trips. I’m not entirely sure how much contact they would have actually had outside of this.

It’s also likely that her parents had opted for Scrooge being Evie’s legal guardian in the case of their passing. Due to shenanigans, he never got the memo… or plain misunderstood what “taking care of the family treasure” actually entailed.

If I were to summarize things… Her parents knew something was going to happen to them, so they convinced a third party into taking custody, but neglected to tell them any of the finer details of the agreement… Like the “family treasure” actually being their then preteen daughter. Something does happen, their plans go into effect, and well… Scrooge finds some kid he barely knows waiting for him on his doorstep with a pile of baggage.

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Other thoughts… Evie and “family game night” probably gets much worse when she’s home… as both her and Scrooge are stubborn and can be highly competitive when provoked.

Picture something like an arms race… those two constantly one-upping each other the entire evening. Evie’s mostly doing it because she likes the challenge… Scrooge just wanting to win… Everyone else is collateral damage.

Let’s just say that the first time Evie beat Scrooge at Scrooge-opoly probably didn’t go over well. She kind of moved onto finding ways to end sessions early to preventing them entirely after that and then it sort of devolved into the bored girl and the old man battling out over who gets to pick the games to play or not to play after awhile.

Unfortunately for the boys, that is a highly likely reason why Scrooge would keep spare boards in the game closet… and hide extra pieces in various places or why there’s a giant pile of little green plastic houses in a dark corner in the attic.

Understandably as well, her and Mrs. Beakley sort of mutually agreed to never bring up game night ever again.

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Ducktales 87 alterlog

Appearance doesn’t really change much. It’s just a art style change. Although she’d probably end up looking like a redheaded duck version of Gandra Dee or something.

Since Della running away with the Spear of Selene isn’t a plot point… things probably play out a bit differently when Evie was pretty much dropped off on his front porch when she was younger… and at the same time they don’t. Della is not there, the reason why the triplets are left at the mansion is different, Duckworth isn’t dead, and so on. Scrooge still ends up as her legal guardian, but she tends to keep more contact with her adoptive uncle.

Interactions with certain rivals of Scrooge are probably a bit different, but at the same time they don’t. The timing of events is also different as well. However, it doesn’t change the fact that the rivals that are aware of Evie tend to react differently to her than to Scrooge.

Like say… Evie probably knowing Magica from being one of the regulars for that weird shop she works at part-time. Probably knows her more as that “Annoying cashier” than well… the other thing. Not that the fact they are “technically” colleagues won’t come up at convenient moments.

Generally though… not much really seems to change other than additional interaction, altered events, and lowered tension.