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Anonymous asked: Do you ever wonder if Gladstone feels out of place in his family for being part goose? For being a Gander instead of a Duck?

I have headcanons for days about the Gander side of his family, which also feed into why he ended up being sent to his McDuck relative in Scotland rather than ending up with any of them after his parents passed. I won’t get into that too much (in case of future doodle comics) so let’s just say rather than making him feel excluded from the Duck family I imagine it makes him even more strongly defensive of his connection to them. Yes, he feels a bit out of place sometimes, (just as he does with any group- with his luck he’s always a fish out of water) but that insecurity means he needs and wants to be a part of the Duck clan even more badly! 

I don’t think he’d feel bad or out of place about being part goose, especially with Gus being the same, I mostly mean the Gander connection is one he’s a little conflicted on. Despite that his surname is one of his remaining connections to his father, so I can’t imagine he’d change it. Basically being the stubborn and petty dude he is Gladstone never denies being a Gander, but identifies with and loves his Duck relatives much more than that part of his heritage, which is why he remains so loyal to them even if they have a lot of differences.