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I dont know much about your sep!au but raph sounds like he needs a nap
PLEASSSEEEE 😭😭😭😭
hi yeah absolutely that is the best conclusion to come to about him. he's really not as silly as he is in canon because he's had to be more responsible for a lot longer, and despite having less siblings to handle it's a lot more work to shoulder (if i can find a way for him to ACTUALLY work a job that would make sense, i'll go for it. genuinely i wonder wtf donnie is doing in canon to get them money dawg). it really means that i've upped his dichotomy with leo a lot, the only connecting trait between them is that donnie and mikey think they're both fucking crazy LMAO
and that's because for both of them, they're actually a lot more trigger-happy than in canon, which says a lot for raph in particular. his sense of justice is fully intact, if not stronger, but there's this kind of solemn quality to it instead of determination, which means he's not afraid of making necessary sacrifices, or even killing. he's not actually there for the events of the first episode (its just mikey and april..... mikey just wanted to get coffee 😭) so the whole mutant crisis is a surprise to him, especially because mikey kept his involvement hidden, for the exact reasons you'd imagine.
he doesn't take to it with the same kind of childish determination. there's this underlying sense of obligation that trumps everything else, because he's spent his whole life working through the exhaustion in a really similar way. it's just another way for him to fall back onto the same coping mechanisms he always does.
old sad sheepdog. he very quickly turns to the "us vs them" mentality against draxum/leo/donnie without any space for changing his mind, he's not the same kind of open-minded as he was about draxum (for mikey's sake) in canon. he WARMS UP to donnie, but only barely, and only because donnie begins to get comfortable working against draxum and the foot and in their favor (there is a moment deep deep into the plot where donnie falls to the floor in tears and raph adopts him Immediately though... sometimes the guy is weak, but its also very justified considering the situation. spoilers). but with leo oouuuuuhhhhh oh my goddd you will not BELIEVE how fucked up that shit gets. that dude is his nemesis. he doesn't trust mikey anywhere NEAR him and around the final stretch of the plot he only begrudgingly puts up with him because donnie is there to mediate. donnie is the only one they all like for a while and it's very exhausting especially because he's trying so hard to be patient and mikey is so ANNOYED about raph and leo's bs LMAOOOO he's gonna snap
i havent rlly thought about how the kraang/events of the movie would go but if i ended up going there i'd probably make it mikey and leo centric instead of A team centric, because raph and leo do come to a very neat and tidy conclusion but im realizing leo and mikey dont have a Moment like that planned yet. they get along eventually but not well, and leo feels super threatened by mikey for most of the plot because he feels like he's being replaced, so idk something for me to chew on later (it also means brains and brawn b plot... the temptation)
#ask#where we went wrong#mikey and leo's dynamic gets the least amount of focus which is such a shame#early on mikey thinks he's INFURIATING which is the funniest thing ever because its MIKEY#leo does some bs and he's like OH MY GODDDDDDD#but afterwards i could see them being chaotic together. kinda similar to canon#maybe with more fire#theyre connected by growing up as the rebellious ones of their family#even if leo was still kind of protective from the start he's always been a little shit#he'll enjoy giving splinter more gray hair (somehow)#actually ouuhhh leo would lash out and be awful in an attempt to make splinter be terrible to him because he was used to it with draxum....#okay thing to explore later#actually itd be funny if mikey and leo in this version of the movie had to band together because raph and donnie BOTH got taken#nobody to mediate them now. they gotta do this shit on their own. get fucked#(also another chance to address the responsibility theyve been forced to shoulder via their absence... its my thang)#also casey jr is there :) i dont know how the bad timeline would go either so maybe he'd be different lmao#i think itd be funny if the three of them collectively shared one braincell#i'll consider
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