Duck Triplets

Duck Triplets is the family ship between Huey Duck, Dewey Duck and Louie Duck from the DuckTales fandom.

Classic Cartoons
Huey, Dewey, and Louie make their first appearance in "Donald's Nephews" from 1938, although they had existed in print media first. They are shown to be three mischievous young boys who enjoy tormenting their Uncle Donald. In these early shorts, the boys are indecipherable from one another. They are typically shown speaking at the same time, with a reverberation effect put on the voice actor, Clarence Nash.

House of Mouse
At the House of Mouse night club, Huey, Dewey and Louie are its recurring musical guests, with the three being a boy band that are quite popular at the cartoon club. Depending on the nature of their act, their group name has been altered a few times. These alternating names have been "The Quackstreet Boys", "The Splashing Pumpkins" and even "Kid Duck". The three take pride of being the nephews of the club's co-owner and greeter, as it allows them to have their own dressing rooms and that has their street cred egos be boosted.

During a photo shoot for a magazine, however, the photographer made the mistake of requesting the next photo to focus on the leader of the trio. The triplet brothers hadn't settled on which one of them is the group's leader, and they end up having a big fight over it. Causing them to break up the band. This had affected the club's Music Night, as Mickey had promised the guests a performance from the three teen ducks. When trying to get the triplets to reform the group didn't work, Mickey, Donald and Goofy were forced to imitate them to please the audience. The brothers seeing the three doing a terrible job and making a bad name for their group, Huey, Dewey and Louie forgot their fight so they can save the show. As well as their street cred name.

Kingdom Hearts
Huey, Dewey, and Louie run a variety of shops around different worlds. In Kingdom Hearts, they are seen running a business in Traverse Town, and in Kingdom Hearts II they can be found in Hollow Bastian. In Kingdom Hearts III, their shop is set up across the street from their Uncle Scrooge's restaurant. They can also be found in Disney Town in Birth By Sleep. Although they are not important elements of the story, the boys are consistently seen together. They speak about saving up munny for a big adventure one day. In Birth By Sleep you can play the Ice Cream Beat mini-game with the boys, which involves them dancing as they stack up ice cream. You can also race them in the Rumble Race minigame.

DuckTales (2017)
The boys are the triplet sons of Della Duck, who disappeared before they hatched. They end up being raised by their Uncle Donald who is rather overprotective of them. They grow up to be rather troublesome and rather bored with their lives, often wanting adventure. This is the first series that really allows the triplets to have different personalities from one another; Huey is the smart one, Louie is the brave one, and Louie is the lazy one who dreams of striking it rich like their Uncle Scrooge.

The boys share a close bound, although that is sometimes put to the test. In "Day of the Only Child!", the boys decide to split up and spend the day apart from each other as they are sick of being seen as a trio. However, they soon realize that they are better together, and overcome their differences.

Fanon
When it comes to siblings within the Disney universe, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck are its most beloved triplets. Like their Uncle Donald, they are known for tormenting. Fans of the three enjoy their troublesome antics that brings laughter in Donald cartoon shorts and Mickey Mouse related medias. With the introduction of the DuckTales reboot, which provides the triplets with distinct personality traits, love for this relationship only grew. Fans were glad to see the boys presented as authentic characters, rather than simply meddlesome comic relief.

On AO3, Duck Triplets is the most written ship for Huey, Dewey, and Louie. It is the fourth most written ship in the DuckTales (2017) tag, and the most written platonic ship. There are currently over 400 works on AO3 for this ship.

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Trivia

 * The three appear in the Kingdom Hearts series
 * Their shirt and hat colours were not standardized until the 1980s
 * Even then, prior to 1982 Huey was assigned pink, Dewey black, and Louie brown
 * Their official colours as of 1982 are Huey red, Dewey blue, and Louie green