The Songbirds Are Singing Like They Know the Score

More pokemon au stuff. Gyro smuggled Tobie the Togetic from Dr. Akita's lab where it and other Pokemon had been subjected to abusive experimentation and testing resulting in its wing being injured so badly, Gyro had to amputate it and replace it with a prosthetic. It did not trust Gyro at all at first, and spent weeks hiding in a vent in his apartment, where he tried to lure it out with food. Over time, it eventually realized Gyro wasn't going to hurt it, and began to trust him, and eventually, it became Gyro's dear companion, around the same time of the 2BO incident. Having been around for that, it initially exhibits fear of B.O.Y.D. when he is back in Gyro's life, but eventually they get along. It has a rivalry with Lil Bulb for Gyro's affection and title of Gyro's Official Assistant (while completely ignoring the poor Magnemite that he also owns that works just as hard as both of them)

- Grew up with his widowed single dad Fulton, who was an ex-shush agent turned conspiracy theorist hippie, who loves Gyro to bits but was TERRIFIED of FOWL after they uncovered his identity to the point he was overprotective of Gy, which caused Gyro to push away from him as a teenager and go low contact while in Tokyolk. Things are better now, and Fulton has mellowed out a lot more, especially with FOWL being gone, but Gyro's not that keen talking about growing up in the Duck equivalent of Central Valley California (mainly because it's a boring origin story for him).

- Fulton still calls him by a childhood nickname 'Gybo'. Gyro pretends it annoys him.

- He's gay & transmasc, came out when he was still a young kid. All of Fulton's shortcomings aside, he was 100% accepting and supportive minus the minor freakout when Gyro tried cutting his own hair for the first time.

- The only people who know this are his family and the DMV but his legal name is Daniel Gyroscope Gearloose. One time Fenton read it off his drivers license and was immediately fired (again). The first name was partially suggested by his father, who had to very gently tell his newly out trans son that Optimus Prime was not an ideal name.

- Huge horror movie enthusiast, its one of the few things he and Della can be friendly-ish nerds over.

- He and della are sworn frenemies, they will squabble like siblings but deep down they do care about each other. Gyro was Not Ok after the Spear of Selene incident, and he refuses to talk about it, even when Della is back home.

- A skilled banjo player, he has a banjo he has named Rosalind.

- He has like 7 cats, all named after the periodic elements, except for Kevin. Kevin once had kittens in Gyro's lab. that was not a fun week for gyro. They occasionally make appearances in the lab during crunch times so he doesn't have to leave them home alone too long.

- Lives in a small rented apartment on the seedier side of Duckburg. Despite his crappier social skills at work, he gets along decently with his neighbors, and occassionally gets groceries for the old lady next door or fixes her sink. Nobody knows, because he feels no need to bring attention to it.

-A vegetarian, allergic to strawberries, and an unabashed breakfast mooch. When Duckworth was alive, he would regularly make flimsy science based excuses to visit mcduck mansion on days he knew Duckworth was making waffles so he could steal a plate. Beakley's waffles leave something to be desired.

- He babysat Webby when she was itty bitty. He taught her swear words on accident.

- As much as he will use his inventions for every day purposes, there are some things he privately prefers to do the old fashioned way, like cooking or painting (doesnt stop him from inventing stuff that can do those things tho!)

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I see what u did there

Wait, does this mean Boyd wouldnt exist in this au? :'(

Not necessarily, no! I think Boyd's origins would still fit in here somewhere, probably alongside Tobie's.

2017 Gyro:

I've been dead for like 5 years on this account, I've been busy over at @ask-lock-shock-and-barrel, but I've been getting back into DT17 and Pokemon at the same time, and that means AU, and that means it's my blog and I choose the self projection aspects.

Gyro gets a Togetic lab assistant that acts as his mood proxy, because they put themselves in company of people with pure hearts, and he truly has one deep down. It's not the typical pokemon choice of someone who probably would otherwise specialize in science-coded Electric or Steel types, which makes it even more special. It's got a prosthetic wing as a result of previous injuries caused by brutal testing under Dr. Akita, who Gyro rescued it from years ago, and it has helped it master some Steel-type attacks in its moveset.

Also as a species, they feed on happiness to keep themselves afloat, so everyone seeing this little fella having the zoomies in the air over a scientist with RBF and poor emotional expression is a good way to know how Gy's actually feeling. If Tobie's happy, he's happy.

...yes, it's named Tobie.

cw/ the dialogue mentions smoking at the end bc its an old SNL parody ad for chantix