#03 Casey Jones

[familyofpaladins]

@tmaynt Day 26: Favorite Series

(I'm behind and now doing these out of order slightly buy oh well lol)

I love Rise and I most likely have it to thank for the domino affect of getting me actually into the TMNT fandom, but it was 2003 that I watched when I was little and what made me interested in the turtles to begin with. I also just really love the story lines and the dynamics between the characters and the serious (but also occasionally silly) tones that it has. It's my beloved series <3

[glitter-alienz]

casey is taking a break from binding (theyre t4t trust!!, they told me so)

this was inspired by this drawing by @chocoarts01 and the pose is from ship redraw prompt thingy.

[transk0vsky]

2003 Casey jones

My favorite guy ever the guy ever

[bulbabutt]

casey jones post top surgery, raphael is so proud of him

[los-ninos-tortugas]

I wanna give this motherfucker the Peepaw treatment soooo badly and I don’t even know why

Maybe it’s cuz he doesn’t have the same self blaming, “it’s all my fault” hang ups that tends to get assigned to Rise F!Leo. No, all his bitterness is directed outwards. He felt like Donny abandoned them. He watched his father give his life to save him and his brothers only for that sacrifice to drive them all apart. He watched his brothers grow into (arguably) the worst possible versions of themselves.

And then that’s all gone, suddenly. How he gets back to the past or survives the fight with the Shredder, I have no idea. But everyone seems to have collectively Decided that Rise F!Leo can survive a laser blast that literally disintegrates him on screen and still end up back in the past anyway so I think anything goes really. The fact of the matter is he’s there, in a past that maybe doesn’t belong to him.

And it must be so strange because maybe he feels like he should be glad to have survived, to have been given this second chance but… I feel like he’d also feel so far removed from it all. He got so used to the way things were in his universe that he forgot how they used to be. Seeing Leo and Raph now, who still argue, yes, but who still have that brotherly bond, he must wonder if it will truly last. Donatello, maybe not his, but still as young as his last memory of him, who is the only other one who knows the world he came from, but Donatello only spent a short time there and was scarred by the experience. He can’t bring himself to let those thirty years weigh on his brother’s shoulders too. He was so angry when he first saw Donny again back in his world, but in the here and now all of that just bleeds out of him. This Donatello is still just a kid, like his brother when he disappeared, still just a kid. And his younger self, his younger self. Still so vibrant and optimistic, he doesn’t know how to be that anymore, he gave it up a long time ago because he had to. I almost wonder if they would be somewhat afraid to face each other. Young Mikey, afraid of the kind of person he could grow to be without his brothers, Michelangelo afraid to face what could have been, if maybe he’d just held onto hope a little longer.

Not even to mention seeing his father alive again, maybe wondering “is he proud of me? Is he proud of the ninja I became, even at such a terrible cost?” But he can never ask the question, he just can’t.

Seeing April and Casey again. Knowing that April will get to grow into her old age not as a hardened soldier but happy and free, as she always should have been, Casey by her side and he actually gets to grow old instead of dying young.

Everything is as it should have been, the life he wished he had gotten to be a part of, and now he’s here but… he’s different, because nothing went right for him. So how does he learn to live again? I wanna know.

[drawnaghht]

TMNT x USAGI mega-crossover pt 2 - another lineup sketch

Some more lineup sketches as I try to nail down the height and body differences between this cast so I can keep them consistent in arts (at least to soe degree)

You can tell this one is a lot different, I made this this past week while looking at the old ones from autumn.

Bonus: closeup of the tiny Yui!Usagi thinking about this crossover and how all these other descendant teens are a bit taller than him. Tho he’s not that insecure about his height, it does make him feel weird about being the only one who hasn’t grown taller yet (something like that). 

I feel like headcanoning that... life on the farm with just detroyed vegetables to eat wasn’t all too great a contributor to that...

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Bunch of Casey(plural)

+technically OCs but they are based on canon characters or something

I aged some people up for crossover reasons but yk

[spicy-apple-pie]

GUYS ARTBLOCK REALLY DO BE BLOCKING

Here’s a video I found on TikTok that I love

[redkehlchen]

„And that‘s your grammy April and gruncle Mike when they were young!“

[familyofpaladins]

@tmaynt Day 16: Favorite Episode

It was hard to pick just one episode to do. But TMNT (2003) Season 3 Episode 11: The Lesson is one I love because I love stories where we find out that the characters actually met each other as kids. And the fact that the turtles tried to teach Casey how to fight (someone who is older than them) while switching turns of who is doing the teaching without actually talking to each other about what they've taught so far is very funny to me.

I thought about also doing the Battle Nexus Arc from 2003 because I really like those episodes too, also 1987's "Pizza by the Shred" (Michelangelo accidentally ends up working for Shredder as a delivery boy who is trying to catch the turtles with pizza) and "Cowabunga Shredder" (Thanks to plans gone awry, Shredder ends up with Michelangelo's personality) because they're absolutely hilarious to me lol

[joyfuladorable]

More Shredder's Revenge redraws! This time with 03 April and Rise Casey and a couple bonus comics (for the yuri, you all understand)

[transk0vsky]

Decided to edit blue hair and pronouns Casey to have the hair color he does during the rest of the series for fun though on second thought I might have made a few of them a little too dark……in color

[sonicplushiee]

Haiiuuuuuiiuuuui ^_^

[purplescience]

If it wasn’t a kids show I sincerely believe Raph would have the worst mouth. Anyway have some turtles :)

[los-ninos-tortugas]

I think I wouldn’t mind Cody Jones so much if he wasn’t so…… polite. I know he’s a couple generations removed from April and Casey but you’re telling me that April “jungle girl” O’Neil and Casey “I scream my full government name at criminals” Jones wouldn’t produce the most unhinged line of offspring imaginable? I don’t mind the existence of Cody in theory but cmon put some grit and grease on that kid. He shouldn’t be saying “goongala” like he’s learning a word from a foreign language for the first time he should be screaming it from the bottoms of his lungs and making the ghost of his great grandpappy proud. Is Darius Dun conspiring to steal O’Neil tech from under Cody’s nose so he can make millions? Yes, but he’s also doing it because Cody is genuinely a financial liability to the company because he would dedicate the entire R&D department to making giant fighting mech robots if he could.

[artsybun]

Day 19 of TMayNT: Fav Casey Jones

@tmaynt

Had to rush through this one just a lil bit… Sunday’s are dnd days, and so I didn’t have a ton of time for this one. But! I knew what I wanted to draw which helped. I always rlly liked 03 Casey, I thought he was really funny and, despite his faults, a genuinely good guy. One of my fav episodes ever is when Angel is introduced and he’s trying to look out for her. Also the hair. God do I love a long haired Casey Jones.