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Description Gosh, I never thought I would do this scene one day. This is actually meant to illustrate the moment in which Kara realises that Darkwing and Drake are in fact one and the same person.  And sometimes... a comic doesn't need a single spoken word. But in case you're interested: This is supposed to be the introductory scene from the episode "Slime OK, You're Okay", in which Drake and Gosalyn play the St. Canard version of Monopoly and Drake delivers one of his melodramatic speeches in front of the brightly lit window, thus showing only his silhouette. And that's just when Kara returns the salt she borrowed and identifies Darkwing's voice. In case you're interested, here's Drake's speech from the episode: "This is the city. It could be any city. I could be your city. But it's not. It's my city! For I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the fingernail that scrapes the blackboard of your soul! And most importantly I am the owner of Mallard Gardens – with two hotels on it!"
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"Dr. Kara Downwright" is mine .

Photoshop / 2015
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Dynamoe [2018-11-30 00:48:36 +0000 UTC]

Does she have a Superman/Clark Kent thing going on with Darkwing? 

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SketchBelieves [2018-03-29 02:17:27 +0000 UTC]

WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DROP THE SALT!!!!
                   

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MsMartian0227 [2018-03-08 01:53:57 +0000 UTC]

Wait what's happening???

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edizabas [2018-03-02 10:39:03 +0000 UTC]

I  Forgot  a  Question:
Drake  Knows  or  doesn´t   know    that    Kara   has   realized    that   he  is  Darkwing?.

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edizabas [2018-02-28 20:57:53 +0000 UTC]

kara  downwright  knows   Drake   is  Darkwing,  But  in  the  other   side....Drake   doesn´t   know   that   Kara   is  the  Avian   Avenger?.

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to edizabas [2018-03-01 12:27:09 +0000 UTC]

Well, she knows from this moment on. But Drake always knew she's the Avian Avenger. It's not so much a secret identity than her alias (for working in the Negaverse) given to her by J. Gander Hooter that basically everyone at S.H.U.S.H. is informed about. And as Darkwing works at S.H.U.S.H., he knows as well. And Drake doesn't like this part of her job one bit.

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hellhoundess [2017-02-20 23:26:24 +0000 UTC]

You know you pres nt me with one heck of a dilemma. I love your are. I mean, I sincerely love it fanatically. It's so expressive, so beautiful I feel as if I know your character without ever reading anything about her or role playing with you and I adore her. She might be one of the only SHUSh Employees thatCassidy would accutually respect beyond Jake and Brogan not secretly want to mangle, lol, which is saying a lot for Cassidy. But the problem is after all these years I actually like Morgana,and now I don't know who to root for.l.okay, secretly, I'm pulling for Kara. Morgana has too much of a Miss Piggy temper...and I've always had a soft spot fir the shy girl next door sort who never gets noticed until something outlandish happens. My character Gigawatt also has a crush on DW but you know, lol, not in a super serious way and they'd never work out. She's a bubble brain

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to hellhoundess [2017-11-03 23:27:11 +0000 UTC]

Gee, I never saw that comment. It must have been sucked into the vortex of the Negaverse or something. Well, anyway, thank you so much for your kind words. Again, as I've written somewhere else already, I absolutely adore Morgana as a character, just not with DW. I feel like DW needs a woman who loves his daughter as much as he does and who accepts that he is a colour-confused, choleric stepfather with a strange sense of fashion. Not just a superhero in a fancy outfit. Morgana loves his dark side. Fact is, Drake is so much cooler than that. Kara loves Drake even before she is aware of it herself, as DW is virtually screaming "I'm utterly cool, come and adore me!", she is blinded by Drake's flashy alias. She thinks she fell for DW then, even though it was always Drake in the first place. Morgana is just... well... too much of a stereotypical, hot-tempered witch with too much sex appeal to me. She's a flirt and she knows she's attractive. Every single dad would probably fall for her, I cannot blame Drake. So, yes, I love this character, but in the same way I love Morticia Addams or Lily Munster.

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hellhoundess In reply to SplatterPhoenix [2017-11-28 03:53:12 +0000 UTC]

Totally get that and agree. My biggest problem with Morgana is her temper and her inconsistency. She starts off very confident and clever and rapidly seems to devolve over the show into an insecure mess that can't get her spells right and is constantly seeking DWs approval. Plus DWs egotistical and somewhat obvious way of thinking seems to irk her beyond reason. She knows he is self centered and obsessive when it comes to his work, yet Morgana gets irrationally angry whenever he isn't utterly focused on her, or if, lord forbid, he doesn't like something she does like her cooking. And the fact that she wasn't apparently at his funeral when Megavolt killed him to comfort Gosalyn has always upset me, so I totally get it

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hikariangelove In reply to hellhoundess [2020-12-04 10:37:23 +0000 UTC]

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to hellhoundess [2017-11-28 16:42:34 +0000 UTC]

Exactly my point. If they'd be a couple in my circle of friends, I would probably say that they wouldn't last another month. How can she be so upset with basically everything he does? And he obviously hates her lifestyle - the family, the restaurant, her familiars/pets, the decor of her house... really, is there anything he likes about her apart from her looks? And you're of course absolutely right and I never truly knew that it was bothering me: She definitely devolves in the course of the show. She starts off on the right food, a tough, dangerous lady with her own business, but that doesn't last long. Why does this happen? Well, maybe inconsistent screenwriting. Or that was the way she was planned out right from the beginning. Who knows.

Anyway, it's also a fact that she never came to his funeral. She doesn't even seem surprised to see him as a ghost. And no, I don't see that she's getting along with Gosalyn particularly well. So... yeah. You get the picture.

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Connan-Bell [2016-09-03 04:58:20 +0000 UTC]

Kara Downwright. That's just... I freaking love that name! I don't know why. 

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to Connan-Bell [2016-10-20 19:03:30 +0000 UTC]

Aww, thank you so much! I really thought a lot about that name and she's really precious to me.

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SkyPirateDash [2015-11-24 07:56:14 +0000 UTC]

Being able to express a vast amount of emotion through complete silence is such a difficult task, but you did it perfectly here.   And that line you had Drake say? Perfect. PER-FECT. 

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to SkyPirateDash [2015-11-24 17:28:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much. This means a lot to me.

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Snapeluver [2015-10-20 22:21:33 +0000 UTC]

Looks amazing! Is there a link more to this story? i would LOVE to read it!!

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to Snapeluver [2015-11-24 17:28:08 +0000 UTC]

No, that's unfortunately all of it so far. I'm not really a fanfiction writer. Thank you for your interest though.

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HeartlessNobody1992 [2015-08-14 08:14:03 +0000 UTC]

"This is actually pretty impressive to see such an amazing thing come to life. Have you ever considered into making this into a fanfiction type of story?"  

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to HeartlessNobody1992 [2015-08-26 15:41:18 +0000 UTC]

I'm not really into writing fanfiction... I prefer reading it.

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HeartlessNobody1992 In reply to SplatterPhoenix [2015-08-30 23:19:30 +0000 UTC]

"Well, maybe I can write a story about this kind of stuff if you don't mind...."

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to HeartlessNobody1992 [2015-08-31 15:29:17 +0000 UTC]

Oh yes, feel free to do so! I'd love to read another Kara-story!

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The-real-Vega777 [2015-07-16 04:21:40 +0000 UTC]

You are really good at conveying Karas expressions. I would love to see this continued!

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to The-real-Vega777 [2015-07-16 22:22:16 +0000 UTC]

Tehee.. thanks! In fact, I'd like to see that too...

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The-real-Vega777 In reply to SplatterPhoenix [2015-07-18 04:24:30 +0000 UTC]

After she ponders it awhile she might go "You know, in retrospect it was really quite obvious."
Drake is not the most subtle of people.  

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to The-real-Vega777 [2015-08-12 17:37:03 +0000 UTC]

Not at all.

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MightyMorphinPower4 [2015-07-12 13:21:36 +0000 UTC]

wow moving work here

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to MightyMorphinPower4 [2015-07-12 20:05:37 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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DisneyPsycho [2015-07-12 04:59:06 +0000 UTC]

Great job with her expressions.  You can instantly tell she discovered tough news, but your description below lands it home.  

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to DisneyPsycho [2015-07-12 20:06:14 +0000 UTC]

And tough news they are indeed... thank you, dear!

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Yesnoshroom [2015-07-11 10:09:16 +0000 UTC]

Very nicely done.  Love the fluidity of the images from panel to panel.  

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to Yesnoshroom [2015-07-12 20:05:50 +0000 UTC]

Thanks a lot!

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Yesnoshroom In reply to SplatterPhoenix [2015-07-15 16:19:16 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!  Just glad to see more artwork!

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rickcressen [2015-07-08 21:24:25 +0000 UTC]

If she's that shocked about finding out who Darkwing is, imagine how she'll react when she finds out about his short stint as Arachnoduck!

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to rickcressen [2015-07-10 10:16:38 +0000 UTC]

Oh dear...

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AnimatedTigerGirl [2015-07-08 03:50:48 +0000 UTC]

You'd think she'd go all fan girl.

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to AnimatedTigerGirl [2015-07-08 09:07:55 +0000 UTC]

Yes, actually I thought so at first... but she probably only sees all the difficulties this revelation brings.

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AnimatedTigerGirl In reply to SplatterPhoenix [2015-07-09 02:39:44 +0000 UTC]

Makes sense.

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crystal-of-ix [2015-07-08 01:42:54 +0000 UTC]

That is so amazing!

And darkwing may be crazy, but we love him

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to crystal-of-ix [2015-07-08 10:36:46 +0000 UTC]

I rewatched the episode mentioned above yesterday and I felt like I was 9 years old again and happily sitting in front of our TV set under a fluffy blanket. (Apart from the fact that I only have the episodes in English right now and - as a child - watched them in German, of course. But that's splitting hairs, isn't it? )

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crystal-of-ix In reply to SplatterPhoenix [2015-07-08 12:46:15 +0000 UTC]

Gotta love DW
I wish they'd released all the episodes though
I have to watch Birth of NegaDuck on VHS

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to crystal-of-ix [2015-07-12 20:07:58 +0000 UTC]

Yay for oldschool VHS!

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GreyOfPTA [2015-07-08 01:11:09 +0000 UTC]

Kara: "My love interest is a wacko!"
Nicely done. The colors just pop right off the page and flow your eyes across it.

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to GreyOfPTA [2015-07-08 10:34:27 +0000 UTC]

This might just be what she is thinking. But most likely she's disappointed that Drake never told her.

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Miss-Mal [2015-07-07 21:52:52 +0000 UTC]

D'aww poor Kara. I love how well you draw expressions! I'm happy to see her face again

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to Miss-Mal [2015-07-08 10:33:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. I'm currently having a couple of free days and just felt like drawing her again. By now, it was as if I met an old friend again.

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Starimo [2015-07-07 21:15:35 +0000 UTC]

She should throw some over her shoulder for good luck! o_o ...but this is very beautifully and poetically drawn~! *_*

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to Starimo [2015-07-08 09:25:54 +0000 UTC]

That would be a good idea indeed. Thank you for your kind words!

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TheHouseOfVin [2015-07-07 20:20:06 +0000 UTC]

I love that you're carrying on the legacy of Darkwing. This is a great scene. And thanks for the explanation.

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SplatterPhoenix In reply to TheHouseOfVin [2015-07-08 09:25:11 +0000 UTC]

Doing my very best, sir! I might drift to other projects from time to time, but my love for DW was what originally brought me to deviantART. I'll always remember him.

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Spacergirl003 [2015-07-07 18:30:52 +0000 UTC]

Amazing way to show emotion without even a bubble of dialogue!

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