#michael mouse

DonMick art! I would love to give an explanation of why I ship these two, but in summary,

"The world kept treating me badly, but you always tried your best to improve things."

I leaned on the idea from Frank Angones that Mickey and Donald are old college roommates. (Oh my god, they were roommates)

I like to think that Mickey is one of the good non-family people Donald ever met. With the combination of Donald's cynicism and having the universe hating on him, having someone to be optimistic like Mickey would help Donald to not get drowned in 'world is horrible' pessimism and allow Donald to try to believe in good things too.

And I feel like Mickey is very aware of how people gossiped that his optimism is fake. Him being a 'saint' hid malicious intent. I think Mickey likes Donald because Donald is unapologetically honest and actually talked back to him. It keeps Mickey from having his head in the clouds with Donald pulled him out.

(After all, in Ducktales 2017, Donald made a watermelon effigy of Mickey on the stranded island, and the isolation is becoming unbearable. He had chosen to have Mickey as his Wilson to say, 'Don't worry Donald! Your family will be here soon!' to war against Donald's cynicism. It allowed him to survive for another day.)