WHAT ABOUT DONGLOM?
I guess I'm going to add here what I forgot to mention in my previous ask. Which is regarding if Flintheart Glomgold can ever be soft. I suppose in his own way he can be. But it's important to note that this is Mister I-Will-Point-A-Gun-At-A-Child, will eradicate your whole bloodline if he must, and if you know the kind of practices there are in diamond mines in Africa then you know it's BAD.
I am not erasing any of that. That's part of what makes Flintheart Glomgold so intense and it's why I'm convinced that we will never see a full comics Flintheart on television. He's a lot.
So why am I saying this? How does this relate to DonGlom? The thing is, I can see a plot where you can see occasional glimpses of softness from this person with Donald because of how he is able to reflect to Glomgold memories of the goodness of his own mother.
And this is important as we can see in The Money Champ by Carl Barks, Glomgold puts so much value in his mother.
And it's explored more on The Glomgold Heritage.
Donald being so much like his own mother and experiencing the love he got from Grandma Duck in his own way portrays qualities that would've reminded Glomgold of that goodness that he's missing his whole life. This is why in the comic I made, you see him cracking at the image of Donald walking away with those eggs. It's a positive trigger for him.
But, of course, we can only expect so much from a man like Glomgold. He's no longer young, he's old man core and positively unhinged. So the way he shows this will be very subtle. Remember, we're talking about a guy that has no problem taking life.
From my Family is Family comic Scrooge points this out.
The line here was actually going to be more visceral but I decided to soften it up a bit.
And then there's that bit with him writing a check.
He never blatantly says they're his but by doing so it is implied that he's accepted them. Most of Glomgold's softness will be portrayed in this manner as this is a man who refuses to appear vulnerable. And love makes you vulnerable.
Not only that but gestures like these are part of how he copes. He does know he's doing bad. We're not dealing with a character who has a twisted sense of good and bad, Glomgold is aware that he's doing wrong. And chooses to do wrong. He can't cope with this by saying:
"I can always change."
"One day I will become a better person."
He has to act.
Glomgold if he wants to truly choose love or family must open himself up to changing. But will it happen?
If he can't even do it for his mother. He won't be able to do it for Donald.