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He’s so judgy🙄

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I imagine future Leonardo (or just an adult version of Leo) being a father similar to Goofy from “A Goofy movie”

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Ah yes, the favorite pastime of business owners

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my take on kraang raph and what he went through with the Kraang in the movie.

To start, this is gonna be a little messed up, so warnings for torture and mental manipulation.

The Kraang are obviously one of the biggest parts of the ROTTMNT movie, and Raph’s relationship with them is something I find incredibly interesting. A lot of possibilities await with how they infected Raph, because on the outside, Raph is resilient. Raph would rather die than have anything hurt his family. Raph can take hits and take them well, and he would never have willingly given information to the Kraang or willingly been part of them. But that’s how Raph is seen on the outside, and his character is more complex than just being the shield. It would obviously take a lot for Raph to break completely, but seeing as the Kraang is ready to go far enough to go into raph’s brain and pull out memories, I don’t think there’s any line they wouldn’t cross. In one of the deleted scenes from the movie, Raph’s mind is taken ahold of by the Kraang  and he is made to think that he broke out of the ship and went back to the lair, and that’s how he led the Kraang to the lair and the Key. Even though this was cut, it gives us an idea of what might’ve happened in the space between where they rescued raph and his memories were invaded by the Kraang. Memory manipulation is actually a very interesting route to take, as putting raph in situations in his mind where he is tormented by his brothers or the people he loves as kraangified versions of themselves could easily be something they use as torture. I picture that they not only modified his body, but his mind. They made it utterly and completely different from what it was before, they trained it like a dog, kind of. Using pain and imagery of his loved ones dying at his hands, they eventually got him into a state where they could mold him like clay, where he was completely absorbed into them. He was tortured until it barely resembled his own mind, actions, or world view anymore, but he was still himself, conscious. This is where it really comes into play. As much as I love the idea of Kraang raph being someone completely different, it gives him an easy scapegoat of “that wasn’t me.” In this, Raph is lucid. Raph knows what he’s doing. Raph is conscious of his actions and did them because it felt good to obey Kraang. Him afterward knowing it was him, and that he made every decision. He had no scapegoat and no one to blame except him (well, in his mind. We all know that the Kraang manipulated him into being unconditional and devoted, with them puppeting him around and all.) Also, when Raph was Kraangified, he definitely saw them as something to be devoted to. He saw them as omniscient, as perfect, and God, basically. He was treated like a pet and afterward, some form of him retained that. Basically Stockholm Syndrome. Also, circling back to Raph’s Torture Time™, it was obviously painful. They probably put him through rounds of excruciating pain and talked to him like they were the good guys in all this, and though that alone would mess anyone up, I also like to think that he would scream for his brothers, his dad, his friends, anyone to come save him. And though it would be irrational to him later, he would probably feel like some form of trust was broken because his family didn’t catch him when he fell like they promised they would. His family didn’t come when he was begging for the pain to stop. His family didn’t come when he pleaded with God and the world and anyone that could hear him that he wanted to be let go and he didn’t want anything else to happen and he wanted to die already. No one came even though he needed them to, and because they didn’t come soon enough he felt abandoned. He felt lonely, and that left him all the more susceptible to the Kraang’s torture until he fell victim to their hivemind and became their favorite pet, their most loyal follower. I would think that the relationship between raph and the Kraang would almost mirror an emotionally abusive one, with the Kraang twisting his thoughts and gaslighting and love bombing. Not a ship, obviously, but their relationship would be pretty similar.

Anyway that’s the end of my rant. I might add on if I see fit because a lot of this is just the words in my head translated directly onto the screen, sorry if any of this is incoherent </3 ask me questions in the comments to clarify!!

( inspired by somethin_strange’s quarantine series on ao3.)

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Mind you the actual Kraang literally brainwashed Raphael and attached themselves to his body.

As much as I love the ideas with Donnie, he connected to a spaceship. Not the actual Kraang itself

don’t maul me for this, but donnie is living proof that if Raph was a more popular character, people would pay more attention to his time with the Kraang.

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I’m so glad you brought this up because the way fandom writes Leo is so ooc more often than not. If they aren’t writing him as suicidal and anxiety ridden, they’re writing him as helpless and submissive ?

Leo as much as he has paranoia, through the show he’s not debilitated by it, in fact he’s more reckless than anxious. That’s the point of his character arc - to take the role of leader and become dependable (while also keeping his silly nature).

He’s also not going to be stepped on and bow down to other people. He’s self sufficient and he does know his worth. He’s not submitting to fit into other people’s idea of him. I also think fans see his semi reckless behavior and automatically assume he “needs to be saved” when he’s a great and skilled fighter, i more often see that when it’s ship related but I’ve seen it happen when writing him in a general fic too.

Overall it’s just really irritating that his character is always mischaracterized on both sides of the spectrum. He is a multifaceted character who is very boisterous and caring.

Fanon Leo gives off a certain Vibe and I don’t like it.

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Silly question, could Leo and Leon's relationship be considered that of a father and son? It was hinted at in the episode where they go to eat pizza, and their interactions are quite similar to those of a father and son. Mikey also mentions that Leon has more of a paternal air than a brotherly one.

Also how Leon sees Leo as a sad child who needs a responsible adult, Leo's point of view is more complicated but still, what do you say?

Ty for your question! This one's really interesting (I love your art btw). Personally, I don't view Leon's connection with Leo as paternal. Without even going into the weirdness of viewing your younger self as your child, Leon was already really struggling to grapple with the concept of taking on that role with Casey. I think the intention with what Mikey was thinking there was that, Leon has the age and weariness of a guy with a long track record of leading people through shit circumstances, so his leadership style inevitable reads more like a tired old master compared to Leo's brotherly shenanigans.

Imo Leon has no clue how to classify his relationship with Leo. Oc there's a low relationship bar of 'fond and friendly' that he tries his best to meet but at times there's still elements of... well, on both sides of the relationship, I think we all have things about ourselves that piss us off or make us sad and sometimes it's difficult to have a mirror held up to you like that- there is of course the other side of the coin where Leon and Leo can understand eachother like no one else can + there's so many good traits to them that are admirable that they can see in one another. With some time and healing, I could see Leon take on the part of a mentor (a backseat leader that provides guidance or throws out nuggets of wisdom when the team really needs it) or a weird uncle figure, but I don't think his relationship with Casey, the younger turtles, and especially Leo can be simplified to the parent-child dynamic.

In terms of Leo's perspective... Again, it's himself. I don't think his view of Leon could ever line up in a similar way to how he sees Splinter. He obviously respects Leon, looks up to him in a lot of ways- definitely wants to prove himself to him, but I think he would struggle to grapple with those uh.. daddy issues? Daddy issues isn't the word but I don't think a term exists for whatever the hell Leon and Leo have going on.

I do think there's some comedy to Leon and Leo being mistaken for father and son by third party, outside observers that have zero context for any of this. And honestly despite how much Leo and Leon might not like it, it's probably easier for the family to just go along with that excuse rather than explain the whole terrifying "alternative timeline where we all could have been wiped out by aliens but it's okay dw about it we fixed it"

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Who's gonna be the Casey to my raphael

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What it's like dating💙 Rise!Leonardo 💙 - SFW Headcanons/ficlet

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You were down bad the moment you saw that little smirk. The way he'd flash his teeth added that extra spark to his oh-so-smug eyes, and the airy little purr of confidence in his voice that had your ears ringing, both put together made for a deadly combo.

The first time he winked at you, you were a goner.

Leonardo's courtship was full of him showing off for you and taking every opportunity to do so. Whether it was his agile prowess as a ninja or his bladework, Leonardo would make sure you were looking whenever he reached the peak of his stunts. Admittedly, what was more charming was his intent on impressing you than the acts he did to achieve that, adding to his appeal.

For the first few weeks of knowing him, you viewed Leonardo in that light: confident, if not slightly arrogant, but not in a way that would do any harm. He'd pose with his katanas resting on his shoulder, flash that smirk over at you, and you'd go weak in the knees. How could you ever resist such a charismatic, fearless, handsome, capable warrior?

Very soon, you saw his goofy side.

Oh, his brothers told you he was even worse back when they were all teens. They told you many times you arrived at a point in Leonardo's life when he wasn't, well... chaos incarnate?

You struggled to envision just how much further his antics went when he was younger because as soon as Leonardo grew closer to you and trusted you more, his jokes became more frequent, you saw more expressions on his face other than that flirty grin, and he let you see how he truly got along with his siblings.

It was a shock at first, but you knew it only meant he was serious about you. And ultimately, when Leonardo showed you that side of him and saw that you stayed, he knew you were serious about him too.

He always compliments you on how hot you look.

Leonardo knows what a great partner he has in you, and he definitely shows you off whenever he can.

This goes from proudly gesturing at you for everyone else to behold to him yelling "Yeah, that's my girlfriend right there!" and "That's right, she's dating moi!" or things like that when you do something nice, or simply for no dang reason at all.

Leonardo also loves to keep an arm draped around you, whether you're in company of others or not. He loves feeling close to you.

He loves it when you scratch/stroke under his chin and the base of his neck.

Sometimes, when you're working out, he'll walk up to you and cheer you on, compliment you, or simply watch you with a little grin in hopes that you'll invite him into the workout or simply let him coach you.

He will also randomly pull you in for a dance, spinning you around and dipping you even if there's no music around. Leonardo will take the lead each time and he'll always make sure you're having a great time with it. He loves the feeling of your hands firmly on his shoulders when you dance.

Speaking of, Leonardo absolutely flexes and invites you to feel his bicep just 'cause.

Leonardo is also the type of boyfriend who'll goof off and purposely become all mushy and romantic for the mere reason of bugging his brothers and making them gag. He loves that you go along with these efforts.

When you're alone with him, Leonardo doesn't necessarily do a 180 on his personality, but he's much calmer and softer. He'll still joke and goof around with you, but Leonardo loves to simply lie on the bed or sit on the couch with you and cuddle while you two talk about virtually anything.

At times like those, Leonardo usually takes the upper hand and cuddles you, but he's also very fond of you being the big spoon or hugging him while he rests his head on your chest.

Leonardo loves when you gently stroke the top and back of his head. It's a great way to get him to fall asleep or tone down the silliness - not that you'd ever want that because you love his sparkling personality.

As part of that sparkling personality, Leonardo's shows of affection are rather playful too. Sometimes, he'll take your hand and kiss it with excessive chivalry, bowing down to you and looking up at you with that smug, signture smirk of his. If you're in private, he'll sporadically kiss you on the arms and shoulders, and he's also not a stranger to the occasional affectionate bite.

Just imagine Leonardo biting your shoulder, firm yet soft, with his flirty grin as he looks up at you. You look down and meet his gaze, making him stop biting only to move up to peck you on the lips. He smirks, knowing it gets you every time.

Leonardo is also fiercely protective of you, and you (and everyone else) quickly find out that your safety is not something he's willing to joke about.

The few times you've been close to being in trouble or in danger while dating Leonardo have been the times you've seen him actually angry, and you really think him capable of avenging your honor if anyone so much as tries to scare you.

Seriously, Leonardo's wonderfully sweet and chaotic and chivalrous around you, but a formidable, menacing Leonardo is truly something to behold.

Meanwhile, you've never felt safer knowing your katana-wielding boyfriend is keeping watch over you.

Plus, something about an angry, no-more-bullshit Leonardo makes him more attractive. It reminds you that despite his charm and wit, Leonardo's absolutely capable of being a fearless leader, and you hope to be with him long enough to see him evolve into one.

It was quiet at the lair, what with almost everyone else having gone out on the important mission of getting enough pizzas for the night. You were making your way quietly across the dojo when you saw Leonardo in the middle of a hand-stand with his teeth forming a little grimace of concentration as he shifted his weight onto his left hand, attempting to lift his right one off the floor to balance. You couldn't help but stop and look at him and his perfect, elegant form, making the difficult nearly seem effortless if it weren't for the brief quivers his body gave while he tried to balance.

While you watched him silently, you heard him let out a soft laugh.

"I know you're there," he acknowledged your presence even though his back was turned on you.

"Please don't stop on my account," you replied.

Leonardo laughed again, the sound draped with the confidence that came to him whenever he wanted to flirt with you. "You wouldn't like that, would you? You just love watching me do this."

You rolled your eyes playfully at him. "Sure, Leon. Sure."

"Don't I know it," he snickered as he placed his right hand down again and began shuffling in that position. "Hey, hey, hey, watch this. Watch this."

He used his hands to walk over to you, his movements graceful - you knew a hand-walk like that required a lot of strength in the body - but you felt like teasing him. You pretended to be distracted with the details of the dojo, looking everywhere except at him as he approached you.

"You aren't looking, baby," Leonardo called to you, fully aware of what you were doing.

"Oh, sorry, are you doing something?" You questioned with your gaze on the roof.

"Oh, that's what it's gonna be like, huh?" Leonardo accepted your challenge and shifted himself back to standing normally. His abilities as a ninja allowed him to, in one swift movement, be up close to you as he swept you in his arms, wrapping them just below your bottom to lift you up and spin you around, relishing in the sound of your surprise-infused giggles. "Guess I'll just have to get up real close to you, that'll make you keep your eyes on me, won't it, beautiful?"

"Leon!" You squealed between giggles as he kept spinning you flashing that flirty smirk at you. He knew what he was doing with that glint of mischief, and you loved that he did. He was truly irresistible when he looked at you like that, and you couldn't help but lean down and kiss him.

The feeling of your lips on his made Leonardo slow his movements until you weren't spinning anymore, and without breaking the kiss, he gently lowered you to stand on the ground again, straightening his body so that his arms were now wrapped around your lower back. You held his shoulders, and then you slowly slid your hands up his neck to cup his face, feeling as he gently shivered under your grip and his skin grew warm and dewy, prompting you to pause the kiss and pull apart.

"Are you sweating?" You asked him.

"Well, yeah," Leonardo said in a low purr. "Didn't you see how hard I was training?"

"I did."

"Yeah? What did you think?" He grinned.

"Very impressive," you humored him.

"I figured," Leonardo briefly wiggled in pride.

"You're so strong," you chose to humor him further.

"Yeah?" He prompted with that same purr in his voice, letting go of you to raise his arms to his sides and flexing them to highlight his muscles.

"Yeah," you replied.

"Yeah?" He asked again, inching his face slowly closer to yours while still flexing.

"Yeah," your voice lowered too, and you let your hands travel down to his shoulders again.

"Kiss me," Leonardo finally beckoned, lowering his arms to hold your waist.

You gladly obliged and perked up on your toes. You wrapped your arms around his neck and pressed yourself closer to him, kissing him with a gentle passion and sinking in completely to him. You let his broad frame secure you, with a firm grip around your waist, as he pressed himself slightly harder onto you to deepen the kiss. You let your instincts guide your fingertips to gently brush over the markings on Leonardo's shoulder, and you delighted in the soft, airy moan that escaped him as he wrapped his arms even tighter around you.

Leonardo moaned into the kiss again a bit louder, but shorter too as his attention was drawn to another matter at hand. "We do have the place to ourselves."

You opened your eyes and looked at him enticingly. "Who are we pranking this time?"

"I already switched out the water in Donnie's bottle for vinegar," Leonardo grinned.

You gasped. "You started without me?"

"Now now, there's plenty more we could do," Leonardo wiggled.

"You're right," you nodded. "Donnie's gonna wanna was the taste of vinegar off with something else. What would be his first choice?"

"Tap water," Leonardo replied.

"Let's seal the water flow to the taps and hide a frog in the cupboard where he'll have to reopen it," you said. "He'll be so agitated that he'll open it fast and trigger a fight response. You wanna see Donnie with a frog on his head, right?"

Leonardo chuckled and lifted you off the ground again. "You evil little mastermind."

"Just how you like me," you cooed.

"Very much," Leonardo purred before kissing you softly one more time, then pulling away and grinning with mischief. "Alright, I'll catch the frog."

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Blud spoke too soon

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oldest sibling plight

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#those shippers are so telling because if you look at canon material, the rabbit is built skinny and twinkish canonically while Leonardo clearly has muscle as a teenager and then is literally built like a ten ton truck as an adult but guess who shippers draw skinny and feminine and who they draw masculine and big

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Got a whiff of fresh air and it reminded me of Kakagai. I can see the horizon of spring and every good thing about this season - the blooming of flowers, the wildlife coming out of their winter escapes, the warmth of the sun with the cooling breeze - just everything that spring stands for is what I think Kakashi and Gai embody individually and together

The growth of everything and the world returning to the flourished state it fought winter to become again. It’s just their season

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No issue with CaseyNardo of most iterations but in ROTTMNT Casey Jr and future leo have an established mentor student relationship that bleeds into his dynamic with past Leo, so maybe let’s not ship rise Leo and Casey jr

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One portal home later:

Leo is way too tired to take this seriously. You know when you’re too mentally out of it to handle problems and can only laugh when something goes wrong? Yea

Continuation of this post >:)

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Indifference

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Okay but in the Mystic Library episode, when Donnie is doing his little rap, Leo is beatboxing back up. And of course he doesnt stop when getting taken away because its funny, but also he is getting positive attention! Leo is dancing with him! He just keeps getting more and more excited! So of course his voice gets louder. The thing Donnie loves even more than libraries is being in on the game with Leo!

I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO ANSWER THIS BUT YES!!!! yarsss ,,, i would love to see more disaster twins where donnie kind of looking up to/craving validation from leo (quietly because thats how they roll, until he actually gets it and then he's loud and proud about it) is explored or built upon ,,, this was in reference to that villain au concept so maybe i WILL make it ngl