Mirror Mirror or Mirror Mirror on The Wall is a DuckTales fanfiction by soulful-sin
which takes places on both shows, but mostly on the reboot.
When 1987 Webby walks through an antique mirror and suddenly finds herself at another McDuck Manor, with different versions of the triplets and herself.
Meanwhile, on the other side, the boys make things worse, and now they need Magica's help to fix the mirror and bring Webby back. And as Scrooge says, her help always comes with a price.There is a sequel, Fairest Of Them All, this time entirely on the Reboot Universe.
The story can be found on Fanfiction.net and on Archive Of Our Own.
This story contains examples of:
- Break the Cutie: Poor 1987 Webby can't take a break. First she's pushed aside by the boys, and winds up stuck in a parallel universe. There, she's kidnapped by Doofus, who'd been stalking the manor, and is kept as one of his objects. Later in the climax, she's confronted with voices of her loved ones claiming that they never loved her and didn't miss her, as part of a spell the Magicas cast against them as they try to break into the Vesuvius.
- Cool Big Sis: '87 Webby (called Webby 2) sees '17 Webby as this, after learning and seeing what she's capable of.
- Darker and Edgier: the story has some mature themes, and several violent moments that would be softened up or be Amusing Injuries are mostly serious and realistic.
- Even Evil Has Standards: When 2017 Magica de Spell comments she intents to kill Webby, 1987 Magica is horrified with the idea of her counterpart wanting to murder a child. She tries to stop her from doing so during the climax, but gives up on it when she sees a chance to get the Number One Dime.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: As it happens 1987 Webby and the 2017 triplets are shocked to hear they don't live in the same time period as their counterparts. They discover this when '87 Webby brought up she has no idea what cell phones or Instagram even are.
- Foil: '87 Webby and '17 Webby are one for one another. While they've both had a sheltered childhood thanks to being raised much differently, they have completely different personalities. '87 Webby is a Girly Girl who likes to play with dolls and lived a much more mundane childhood compared to her counterpart but she dearly wants the boys respect, friendship, and to join them on their adventures. '17 Webby, on the other hand, is a more of a Tomboy with a Girly Streak who's had hard hardcore training from her retired spy grandmother who's already earned the boys respect, friendship, and regularly joins them on their adventures with Uncle Scrooge.
- Killed Off for Real: It's revealed that 1987 Della Duck died after falling off a mountain.
- My God, What Have I Done?: The boys in the 1987 Universe are buried in guilt after finding out Webby disappeared through the mirror, after being dared to sneak into the mirror room and touch it by them, who didn't want her around.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: a literal example when Dewey in the 1987 Universe kicks the mirror, cracking it and making it impossible for Webby to return, and needed Magica's help to fix it.
- Then Scrooge does it twice, first by trusting Magica de Spell as she fixes the mirror, allowing her to go to the 2017 Universe and join forces with her counterpart, and then going after her with his Number One Dime, which could be used against him.
The sequel contains examples of:
- Adaptational Early Appearance:
- Steelbeak appears much earlier here and turns out to be the Big Bad and Webby's biological father.
- Darkwing Duck and Gosalyn appear much earlier too, and turn out to be a family much earlier than canon too.
- Adaptational Context Change: The circumstances behind Webby's origins are completely different than what's revealed in canon.
- Della's circumstances also change duo to the story being published before "Whatever Happened to Della Duck": rather than survive the crash thanks to Gyro's Oxi-Chew and spend ten years alone, she was helped by Selene, goddess of the moon, who also kept in touch with her throughout the years but for some reason never told her family about her whereabouts, even when they visited Ithaquack.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Steelbeak can't seem to understand why the ducks would refuse to hand Webby over to him when he finds that she's his biological daughter and decides to come after her.
- Outliving One's Offspring: It's revealed that Webby's mother was killed shortly after abandoning her daughter with Mrs. Beakley, who wasn't aware of that until the kids start investigating.
- Parental Abandonment: It's revealed that Webby's mother abandoned her daughter with her mother Beakley and was probably killed by Steelbeak's orders.
