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- “Another classic Gyro failure! Along with his weird tiny glasses and his dumb tiny hat and his complete inability to perform even the basic functions required to PASS FOR A HUMAN BEING!”
- — Della about Gyro, "Escape from the ImpossiBin!"
Delro is the het ship between Della Duck and Gyro Gearloose from the DuckTales fandom.
Canon[]
Della and Gyro met at an uncertain point prior to the start of the series. Whatever the circumstances, the pair developed a vehement mutual dislike of each other. This was first seen in “Whatever Happened to Della Duck?!”, in which Della discovers a diagram in the manual for her Spear of Selene spacecraft that was written by Gyro. It insults her intelligence directly and by name, and in a fury she tears the book to shreds.
While stranded on the moon, Della was forced to rely on Gyro’s Oxy-Chew for oxygen and sustenance. Though the substance functioned admirably, it was also black licorice flavored, something that Della found repulsive while Gyro’s packaging cited it as “The Best Flavor!” To Della’s further disgust, Gyro had managed to develop gum that grew more flavorful as it was chewed, rather than less. She also became frustrated upon learning that Gyro had built the Spear to run on gold, calling such technology “stupid.”
Gyro and Della encounter one another physically in “Timephoon!”, where he explains that the then ongoing temporal disturbances are being caused by his stolen Time Tub. Della joins her family in eying him suspiciously after his explanation, but he denies being responsible. However, she did display obvious dismay when Gyro was later sent hurtling into the past by the ever deteriorating situation. Gyro, for his part, was visibly perturbed by Della’s display of anger towards her son Louie after the crisis, which Louie had caused, was resolved.
The pair also have a number of encounters throughout “Moonvasion!”, but they never have any one-on-one interactions.
In “Escape the Impossibin!”, Della truly let her long-simmering aggravation with Gyro boil over. She, her Uncle Scrooge, and Louie were forced to contend with a security system designed by Gyro and run in part by his artificially intelligent bulb tech. Upon discovering that making the bulbs angry worked to their advantage, Della let loose a storm of insults at Gyro that provoked the inventor’s creations. When Louie commented on the the intensity of Della’s tirade, Della blamed it on being stuck on the moon for a decade with Gyro’s black licorice gum as her only lifeline.
“The Last Adventure!” also includes a number of scenes in which both Della and Gyro are present, but they never seen to interact with each other.
Fanon[]
Della and Gyro's relationship has attracted a certain amount of fan interest due to the obvious and vehement dislike between them. Some fans evidently believe that their hostility may conceal or accompany some degree of mutual affection. This would actually not be without precedent, as Della's family is famously temperamental and known for their somewhat tempestuous romances. Some have even gone so far as to speculate that Gyro may be the anonymous father of the Duck Triplets.
There are 9 works tagged for the pairing on AO3. There are also 72 works in which the relationship is tagged platonically, 3 of which are rated Mature or Explicit.
Fandom[]
- FAN FICTION
- Della Duck/Gyro Gearloose tag on AO3
- Della Duck & Gyro Gearloose tag on AO3
