JimPad is fucking dead

Chapters: 1/1

Fandoms: DuckTales (Cartoon 2017)

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Darkwing Duck | Drake Mallard/Launchpad McQuack

Characters: Darkwing Duck | Drake Mallard, Jim Starling (Disney), Launchpad McQuack, Bard Beagle, Ballad Beagle, Busker Beagle

Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship, Flirting, Band, Light Drinking, Jim Starling the actor, Fenton mentioned, Not mentioned or relevant but every single character mentioned by name is trans, Song fic

Summary: Jim Starling walks into a bar and hears the live band play a song about his most popular role. Darkwing Duck.

Word Count: 1436

Darkwing Duck by Hot Dad except it’s being performed live in a semi-crowded bar on a Friday night.

in the original cartoon they’d have episodes where either drake was aware he was a cartoon or he was actively trying to get a comic book deal or trying to stop his tv show cancellation. so it wouldn’t be a big stretch of the imagination for him to have an actual tv show in the ducktales 2017 universe while still being a real vigilante superhero

and these forays into meta often don’t include gosalyn or launchpad. but they did include the villains (megavolt and bushroot being the ones that i remember most) so it stands to be reasonable that the in universe tv show wouldn’t include them. it’s also possible that the show takes place during the 15 ish years he was a hero without having a sidekick (boyfriend) or daughter since both were absent in whats been shown of the show so far

also like it’d totally make sense if the villains were playing themselves in the tv show, or at least liquidator since he is literally made out of water and idk how you would even do that with practical effects and both dewey and launchpad confirm that they aren’t using cgi. but if you know how to do that with practical effects please tell me because i love that stuff