Beyond The Ego
Hello everybody! Something a little bit different from me today. I've been wanting to do a one-shot on Danger Duck for a long time (as he is my probably my favourite Loonatic) but haven't really found the time or motivation, but now I have! Enjoy guys :)
His name is Danger Duck.
Anthropomorphic superhero
The charismatic and cocky Loonatic
Guardian of the universe
But peel away the Loonatic suit, who is Danger Duck?
What's beyond the ego?
A shadow…
A shadow that that followed and haunted him…
No escape
Beyond anyone's knowledge, even Zadavia's, was Duck's real past
Duck bore the mental scars of a troubled childhood… Deep scars… One's that he had hidden from everyone, except himself…
He could still recall it…
The angry screams of his so-called parents
The pain of being kicked, punched and thrown about like a rag doll
The painful bruises, the black eyes
The burns…
Duck still always glanced at the scar on his arm; the skin turned red and distorted beyond repair.
He recalled the time his team first noticed it:
"Yo Duck, how did ya get dat scar on yer arm?" quizzed Ace.
The others all glanced at Duck's arm and gasped slightly.
Duck –who was glued to a magazine- glanced up at his leader, who was poised ready for the mallard's response. He noticed the others all glaring at him too, waiting. "Car accident" he responded simply, and quickly looked back down at his magazine, pretending to read it.
His teammates were slightly taken back by his bluntness and exchanged confused looks. But they figured that Duck's short and blunt answer was because it was a sensitive subject, so they pressed the mallard no further…
A car accident? Was that really the reason?
No.
He hated lying to his team
But Duck was still severely traumatised by what really happened.
He remembered with sadness and anger as his father tossed his lighted cigarette at him, shouting at him all the while
Duck remembered the feeling of horror as he saw his arm burst into bright orange flames
He remembered his piercing scream, the burning, and the agony
But most of all, Duck remembered watching his father just stand there, lacking any moral feeling, watching, laughing, and doing nothing as his son burned alive
A tear still always used to escape his eye and trickle down his face, but was quickly wiped away as he tried to block out that horrible memory.
Eventually he had escaped
He had fled from the black hole that had so nearly sucked away his life
He had escaped
And he was never going back.
He had grown up
He had learned to live, to be free…
But those scars would always be there; Literal and figurative
Haunting him, tearing at his soul…
Yes, he had a life now
But it was empty
Mechanical almost
No purpose
But one day, in the year 2772, when he had just turned 20, everything changed.
The meteor strike had given Duck a new lease of life
With his powers came a new responsibility, a gift
A purpose
It was like he was reborn
A phoenix rising from the ashes
He still could recall like it was yesterday the day he had first become a loonatic
He had felt so proud
He had accomplished something in his life
And his team, who although he found annoying at times and DEFFINETLY vice versa
He loved them
They were his family
His family
From that moment in 2772, something was stirred inside of Duck that changed him
Not just a new strong, confident, cocky and brave Duck
But something else
The ego was born…
Danger Duck was born…
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