Gosalyn Mallard

**Gosalyn Mallard** (born ***Gosalyn Waddlemeyer***) is the adopted daughter of Drake "Darkwing Duck" Mallard. Much of the show is based on Drake and Gosalyn's father-daughter relationship. Gosalyn is shown to be an spirited, cute, spunky, athletic and tomboyish 9-year-old girl who often gets into trouble. She is very bright and often finds loopholes within her own promises allowing her to get her own way. Her wit is just as quick and acerbic as her adoptive father's, and she is often brave to the point of foolhardiness. She is also forthright and honest with her friends and idolizes her father.

She wears a purple T-shirt with rolled-up pink sleeves with No Pants, white socks, and magenta Converse sneakers. She was voiced by the late Christine Cavanaugh.

## Background

Gosalyn is the orphaned granddaughter of Professor Waddlemeyer, a brilliant scientist. She would later become a ward of the court and was placed in an orphanage. After coming into contact with Darkwing Duck, they grew close, and he chose to adopt her, returning to the civilian identity he had previously left behind. Gosalyn is a tomboyish girl, and very energetic and spunky. Darkwing has stated that caring for her is more difficult than fighting evil, and his greatest fear is Gosalyn getting hurt. She has a desire to become either Darkwing's sidekick or a hero in her own right. To this extent, she would develop two superhero identities, the Crimson Quackette, and later, Quiverwing Quack. Her best friend is Honker Muddlefoot, who is aware of the true identity of Gosalyn's father.

According to an interview with the show's creator, Tad Stones, Gosalyn was partly based on what he believed his then two-year-old daughter would be like when she grew older.

## Appearance

Gosalyn is a young preteen duck with cream-colored feathers, red hair that she wears in pigtails, green eyes, an orange bill and webbed feet. She wears a long lavender jersey with a pink collar and sleeve cuffs, and a big white number one on the front, magenta Converse sneakers, and white socks with pink toes and heels.

In the *DuckTales* reboot, her hair and feathers are slightly darkened and her hair is wavier, and she wears it in a ponytail. She wears a jade green bomber jacket with a hooded lavender T-shirt underneath, black jeans, and gray sneakers. She is confirmed to be of partial Hispanic descent in the reboot.

## Personality

Gosalyn starts out as spirited, caring, and brave. She has also shown to be pushy, spunky, and tomboyish. In the second cliffhanger, her personality has become sassy and sarcastic, and she gets very jealous of her father getting to go on adventures all the time. In the overall TV show, she is seen as being mischievous, quick-tempered, loud, inconsiderate, and rebellious, though she also displays a sweeter side to herself, which she shows when wishing her father to get her something, or when worrying about him.

According to behind the scenes info, contemporary teen activists served as inspiration for her personality in the 2017 Ducktales reboot, thus giving her a fierce/strong sense of justice/right and wrong in the reboot. Like Darkwing Duck in the reboot, she is facing her own fear of never being good enough; yet, this doesn't stop her from being the best hero she could be.

Gosalyn and her father both have fierce egos, which causes them to come to loggerheads often, especially on those occasions when they are both trying to be heroes, such as her outings as Quiverwing Quack. Each time, though, they reach a grudging admiration for the other.

Gosalyn can be impulsive, brash, and short-tempered. She is just as vain and egotistical as her father at times. She is also fiercely loyal to her friends and family, willingly putting herself in harms way to help them. She is strongly athletic, often pulling off trick shots with a baseball bat, bow and arrow, or hockey stick which should be otherwise impossible.

Gosalyn is very quick witted and smart mouthed; often justifying her actions through loopholes in her promises or her father's edicts and punishments. In fact, in the comic books published 2010-2011 by Boom Studios, Gosalyn had been moved by her father to a private school simply to provide her enough challenge, indicating that she is definitely in the "gifted" bracket at least so far as brains go. This would be backed up on-screen by her many home-made gadget arrows as Quiverwing Quack. She has also gone toe-to-toe with the likes of Steelbeak and Negaduck, and come out ahead. But sometimes she out-thinks herself, such as when "Crimson Quackette" repeatedly mistranslates Bigfoot speak and gets Darkwing into further troubles with their volcano god, or when she inadvertently sabotages a fight between Morgana Macawber and Darkwing using a love potion she manages to concoct.

## Powers and Abilities

Gosalyn gained the power of the Keyblade.

This actually leads to later dealings in magic, with mixed results. One time she successfully makes a potent love potion, but can't manage to use it on the right duck at the right time. Another time she is admitted to Morgana Macawber's magic alma mater, only to take the easy way out and almost cost her father his immortal soul.

## Role in Sora’s Adventures

In Sora’s Adventures in Saint Canard Gosalyn had performed Keyblade Inheritance Ceremony when touching Xion’s Keyblade and use it to fight the Heartless, Nobodies, and Unversed. She have to fight Splatter Phoenix with Morgana’s help of course when Splatter used the Heartless to captured Darkwing Duck.

## Jiminy's Journal App Entry

*Darkwing Duck (1991)*

Gosalyn Mallard

Place of Birth: Saint Canard

Currently Residing: Saint Canard

Powers and Abilities: Keyblade powers

Laterality: Right-handed

Favorite Food:

Favorite Drink: Coo-Coo Cola

Favorite Color: Purple

Favorite Holiday: Halloween

Bio and Journal Story:

## Trivia

* Gosalyn first met Morgana Macawber for the first time when Keyblade Warriors and Darkwing Duck fought the Unversed.