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I finished reading The Neon Void a while ago and it’s honestly became its own hyperfixation to me now!

And I’ve finally found the confidence too ask a question! >:D

How much does Senior Hueso know about what happened? Does he even know Leo is alive yet and what would be his reaction too finding out? :3

I can just imagine the turtles walking into the place with Leo, and Hueso turning around too great them only too get jumped scared be thier presumed dead brother!

Also how would Leo do in more populated areas similar to Senior Hueso’s place Run of the Mill? Would he be nervous or none the wiser about it?

(Sorry for the random questions! I offer very old fanart I really need too redraw, as a sacrifice to the void)

I LOVE HIM WHOA WHOA!!!! Thank you so much!!

And I have a lot of thoughts on Hueso!! I like to think that after the invasion attempt, and after Hueso learns what happened... He'll be dealing with his own grief too. After all, Leo was the guy who not only helped cleared his name and got him off the Hidden City's Most Wanted list, but he was also the guy who helped him reconnect with his estranged criminal brother AND helped him with local crime bosses who threatened the peace of his restaurant.

Whether intentional or not, and while it had been a lot of trouble at the time, Leo's actions had impacted Hueso's life drastically for the better. And when he hears what Leo did... Learns that he's gone... He'll be devastated. But more importantly, Leo's brothers were beyond hurt-- and they needed help more than ever before. Hueso knows how important Leo's brothers were to him, even if it had been a passing comment at the time of one of their adventures. After the invasion attempt, Hueso becomes one of the adult figures who turns his attention towards the children who saved the world... and needed the emotional support in the aftermath.

That being said, I purposefully made nods to Hueso at the ofrenda because I love to believe he helped the boys build it. Offering what little comfort he could in giving Mikey, Raph, Donnie, and everyone else, and a means of expressing grief. I sincerely believe that after the invasion attempt, the Hamatos were more than just customers to Hueso now. He'd always give them the care they deserved whenever they visited, though that was somewhat rare after the invasion. (I also like to think he'd catch Mikey at the ofrenda at times and send him home with special pizza pies.)

Though in Rise fashion it would be absolutely comical if Leo just. Showed up one day and scared the crap out of Hueso-- but I'd think that the boys would give Hueso a heads up prior to coming. (The emotional pain of Hueso being told but not believing until he sees Leo is far more delicious to me hehe)

As for how Leo would feel in a more populated place? well. hehe. ;3c

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Reciprocity Chapter 20: The Parade - Part V

Sorry this took 6 months...

Art by @othellovonrowan!

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WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AKSJHDAJKSDHAS WAAAAAAA WAAAAAA DUDE I LOVE IT???? SO COOL omg thank you so so much i absolutely adore how you drew Leo and WOWZERS THE FRAMES AND THE POPS OF COLOR AND LEO'S EXPRESSIONS AND WOW WOW WOW THANK YOU ;W;

CW Flashing lights & eye strain!!

There are discrepancies but pls ignore them :’) anyway short animatic fanart for the neon void! I think this is the first personal animatic I’ve ever completed, I’m so happy,,,

The Neon Void by @sugarpasteltmnt

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WAAAA thank you everyone who voted for TNV in the last au comp round!!

as a big thank you here's a little teaser of some (potential) chapter titles for Purgatory Paradise!! Hehehe can you guess what might happen in these chapters based on their names~?

(Note that these aren't in any particular order and have no posting schedule! It may take a while for me to get to them!)

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IT’S TIME!!!

CW for And It All Falls Apart: body horror, mutilation, blood/injury, medical supplies, major character death, murder

CW for Neon Void: implied/referenced self harm, fake character death, grief/mourning, panic attacks, feral behavior, PTSD, body horror

LINKS:

And It All Falls Apart

The Neon Void

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i am so behind on tmnt au comp stuff but i think i remember round two being about fairy tales and, ngl, my first thought was 10000% Sleeping Beauty because post-story Leo is the eepiest boy in Brooklyn fiercely protected by his fairy god mothers brothers

(but instead of a prince's kiss to wake him up he just needs some appy slices and the promise of a movie marathon lol)

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He would do this

Also, thank you for the hot soup I am destroyed internally

AJKSHDKSAJDHASD LOL HE WOULD!!!! teehee i'm so glad you liked Hot Soup!!! (i had a lot of fun writing it 🩵)

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hehehe that's my special little guy!!! thank you so much!!

I made art you guys. It's day 9 of @novastar-creations ROTTMNT art challange and I couldn't resiting the promt of 'fav AU'. Do we have here the neon void. ( written by @sugarpasteltmnt )

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OOOOOOO!!!! what a cool layout!! wa wa wa thank u so much!!! i'm so glad you like my little guy!!

A sketch book page for @sugarpasteltmnt 's rottmnt au 'The Neon Void' :D

I've submitted fanart before but I did it through asks so it doesn't appear on my blog (;-;) BUT that just means I'll have to make some more >:]

More under the cut!

By pulling the thunder bolt these images unfurl to :D (it's one of my favorite ways to add interactivity to my sketch book)

The letters and the cityscape is taken from various magazines

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MY LITTLE GUY!!! teehee thank you so much!!

First actual post here,Tumblr. Neon void. I love him, such a good fanfic made by @sugarpasteltmnt .Been a fan of him for a while so here's some old doodle I made.

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this 5 day work trip has aged me by ten years

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Purgatory Paradise: Hot Soup

Leo enjoys his first meal after finally coming home

[Read it here on AO3]

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gunna spill this bowl of Hot Soup on Monday!

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oh no this chapter is ending up way more angsty than planned

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"Instigating a chase was probably not the best way to spend time with Mikey, but Leo was too happy to care. Had it not been for the Krang in him driving him to run from danger, Leo would have happily stopped. Let Mikey beat the absolute shit out of him. Just to spend time with him." This is one of my fav chapters from TNV, and this line gave me a question that is: what if Leo hadn't resisted? Maybe it would be out of character for him in this AU, but it won't leave my mind! What would happen? Would Mickey stop hitting him? Would Leo say something? What kind of scenarios would that lead to???

I love ur work btw. pls be okay (っ◔◡◔)っ ❤

(Chapter 6: Marigolds spoilers ahoy!)

omg what a fun question!

hmmm that's tough. If Leo had caved and let himself be Mikey's punching bag, I can def see Mikey just wailing on him. Getting a few good hits in before he starts to realize that this creepy yokai wasn't putting up a fight. Though, since he was so fired up, he'd take Void's complacency as a challenge. That he was so 'weak' Void wasn't feeling his attacks.

I can see Mikey stopping long enough to hoist the limp yokai out of a crater Mikey pelted him into, shouting at his face. Asking what was the matter with him. Why wouldn't he fight back. Was Mikey not good enough for him to try? Was that what it was???

"Heh. Nah..." Leo would muse, "You just looked like you needed to blow off some steam." Some kind of comment that would make Mikey pause, taken aback by his honest tone. But given Leo's mental state, he would for sure keep poking the bear. Wanting to be near Mikey. Wanting to feel his Ninpo. Quite honestly i feel like his arm would get chopped off in any scenario from his dance with danger.

But at the end of the day, I think that the results would be the same. After all, even though Leo missed his brothers so much, he couldn't let himself be revealed. He'd ditch Mikey however he could, body aching from both sadness and pain.

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I may or may not be making a neon void cosplay..>:)

YO???????

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oh no this chapter is ending up way more angsty than planned

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wow first of all THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who voted for my silly little story in the AU comp!! seriously you all are so wonderful and sweet and i'm just so happy to be in the comp period 😭🩵

as a big thanks i wanted to tell ya'll i'm working on the next chapter of 'Purgatory Paradise' ( • ̀ω•́ )✧ i'll try my best to have it out within the next week!! (`･ω･´)ゞ here's a sneak peak:

in the meantime, please enjoy this list of some of the references and easter eggs i had put in 'The Neon Void' while writing it! (hehe how many did YOU spot while reading?)

[warning; spoilers ahoy! avoid reading if you haven't finish TNV yet!]

here's a rough list of some of the references I snuck in or jokes i was quite proud of when writing 'The Neon Void' haha!

Houdini 

● silly reference to ‘ooze’ hehe (not so much of an easter egg but more of a bad joke lol)  ● “…What in sweet Marie Curie’s name was that about?” – Marie Curie was a physicist who studied radioactivity, and her research ultimately was used in the creation of the atomic bomb, which uses nuclear fission (aka, atoms splitting apart) (lol get foreshadowed, nerds.) 

The Shrine 

● The Jupiter Jim issue number 84 is a reference to 1984, the year the TMNT comics first came out. 

Mosaic 

● Leo’s hideout is inspired by an episode in the 2003 TMNT, where the fam hides in a water tower when the lair is discovered by the Foot Clan. (And I believe a water tower comes into play in other TMNT iterations, but I wasn’t 1000% sure) 

Marigolds 

● The area where Mikey fights Leo and cuts off his arm is heavily inspired by some of the 2003 sewer layout scenes, with the giant atriums and criss-crossing skywalks over giant areas of water. I loved those designs and wanted to incorporate that. 

Ground Control 

● Another silly joke reference of ‘shellphones’ used in the 2012 series   ● “I doubt it was unimportant considering you made enough to feed the entire New York Dave’s team,” Donnie pressed. He picked up a butterfly, inspecting it, but Mikey knew that he was trying to get to the root of the cause, “What did he say?” – Homage to early concept art of Donnie, where he has a butterfly on his knuckle (look at this cutie)

(BTW i for the life of me CANNOT find the original tweet where this photo was so if you have it let me know!) 

Mad Dog: Haunted 

● Call-back to the Krang carcass you see for 0.2 seconds in the season finale inside of the Crying Titan, which I thought was a really neat detail. 

Strings

● The book excerpt Donnie reads is written by Professor Honeycutt, a referencing the 2003 Professor Honeycut who studied teleportation and invented the teleportal  ● ‘October 28, 20:20’ written on the sticky note Donnie looks at is a reference to the release date of ‘The Last Ronin’ (10/28/2020) ● ‘By Carl Sagan–! It worked! We’ve established contact–!’ – Carl Sagan lead the effort in the creation of the Golden Record aboard the Voyager spacecraft, whos purpose was to send a message to extraterrestrials who might find the spacecraft as it traveled through vast spans of space. Since Donnie was trying to reach Karai and the ancestors from what felt like an impossible distance, it felt fitting. 

Bed and Breakfast 

● ‘He groaned. His brain was pulsing painfully behind his eyes. His whole body was achy. Great Pythagoras, what happened?’ – Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher referred to as the ‘lover of wisdom’ and made numerous mathematical and scientific discoveries, and I felt like Donnie would just generally be a fanboy of him lol.  ● ‘Sweet Friedrich Sertürner was that blood–?!’ – while working on this chapter, i asked my best friend and beta reader for some inventors/scientist names to make into funny Donnie Swears. She suggested Friedrich Sertürner because he invented morphine which is used to treat pain… and she said 'would be funny...considering how much of it they were gonna need by the time things were said and done with the Key/Leo's infection.' (SHE WAS SO REAL FOR THAT LOL)   ● The ‘Void ducking in and out of doorways just to come out of a totally different door’ chase was 100000% a Scooby-doo reference, lol. It was one of my fav cartoons growing up and that gag felt very on-brand for Leo’s silly ‘Void’ persona and i’m a little proud of it hahaha 

The Deal 

“Neon Void was literally blasted into the air. All the while laughing merrily as he soared. He went crashing into a poor, unkept, unsuspecting billboard for the Super Slam Hockey Game that already happened over ten years ago.” – This is SO obscure but this is a reference to one of my favorite 2003 TMNT episodes, ‘The Golden Puck’. The episode is so peak 2000’s cartoon to me with its silly premise and I just loved it LOL. (Southern millionaire who hires sci-fi-technology cowboy bounty hunters to steal a sports trophy in the middle of New York city? Peak old cartoon synopsis.) 

Rap Battle 

● The first few lines of Leo’s freestyle rap are the 2012 TMNT opening theme lyrics 

Boop!

● Leo runs past a ‘Space Heroes' game cabinet– Space Heroes is a reference to the 2012 TMNT, which was the show that Leonardo was obsessed with 

Tag Part I: Sonic 

● Leo bounces off the back of the Sonic the Hedgehog balloon in the parade in reference to the fact that they share the same voice actor LOL Extra fun fact this entire fic was set in autumn/fall JUST to write this NICHE SCENE

I’m sure I missed a few I couldn't remember off the top of my head, but I had a lot of fun putting these little references and easter eggs in the story 🩵 TMNT itself always makes call-backs and references to it's other iterations, and i love love love that and wanted to try myself!