#03 michelangelo

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Same as it Never Was

Thought I’d give drawing these sad old men a go. Rip

[bulbabutt]

the year is 2003, you live in the sewers with your brothers, your dad is a literal rat, so you don't have access to a specific kind of language to understand your feelings, but what you do have is star trek. so lets just figure it out from there?

03 mikey is just so..... gender, yknow?

turtle trek series (chrono)

[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

[transk0vsky]

Post canceled Daniil Dankosvky be ye

[xxbritishrosexx]

Day 28: favourite turtle intro/song

You guessed it, for me it's 2003 theme just because it has the nostalgia feel to it and it has a variety which I like. That's why you get two pics but different lyrics on them from that song from different seasons. You can see how I gave up on this and rushed the coloring part, as I should be in bed by now but wanted to finish this before day ends and there might be mistakes.

@tmaynt

[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.

[redkehlchen]

Rewatched The Big Brawl with a friend and did some doodles! :)

[burgersaucee]

The brothers ever

[thewindeesideblog]

THE BOYSS RAA

Been thinking about them lately,,, 03 you'll always be famous to me

Probably going to do Raph and Leo as well! Some day,,

[artsybun]

Day 16 of TMayNT: Favorite Episode

TMNT 2003 S3 EP21: Same As It Never Was

@tmaynt

If you know you know.

But no seriously, I had to go all out for this piece because I LOVE this episode. It literally changed my life when I was but a wee elementary schooler. It’s also the reason I have such a huge love for apocalypse/time travel stories and made the rottmnt movie so special to me. I wish we had gotten more time in this universe, but thankfully as the fandom does, we have made LOTS of content to fill any gaps.

[j7lkx]

TMNT 2k3

this is a redraw of a cover from the 2003 comics

[bulbabutt]

one thing they can both agree on is that they do enjoy a gun show

i told you guys i had more thoughts about turtles watching star trek, like the funniest way to come out to your brother

something so endearing about 03 turtles is the way they wordlessly understand each other

(no i dont mean this as him literally watching 9 different episodes of voyager at once, it was just a more fun way of representing his thoughts lmao, they have so many tvs for some reason might as well use them)

turtle trek series (chrono)

[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

[awzominator]

@traumas-tmntober-2024 day 12: Campfire

I’ve been craving s’mores and marshmallows!! Tag urself I’m Raphael Bc I can’t be trusted w fire

[xxbritishrosexx]

Day 26: favourite series

Surprise...? For me it's the 2003 series, I keep this series dear in my heart. (As you may have seen this whole May, this series has dominated this challenge a lot). I like all the series (what I have seen) but this one is the number one.

@tmaynt

[los-ninos-tortugas]

You’ve heard of “Rise!Leo loses the arm no matter what”- truthers but I think I’m starting to become a “03 Mikey loses the arm no matter what”- truther