#2012 capril

[ohnoshespostingthis]

these guys (thats the caption)

[iscdisc]

Thank you for hosting @vylantrophi !! ✨

I tried to do some Rise! Capril for Capril week (Only because I saw a lot of posts about it lately, I did not know it was Capril week- 😭👍) ! || Did a MM / TOTTMNT Donnie for a Donnie chain ! || Something compelled me to draw Eddsworld, I don't know- Lmao || The last one is touching on this concept where, even though Donnie means well and Casey perceives these actions positively, Donnie's ways of showing affection are very suffocating for Casey-! I wanted to do another doodle about this concept featuring quotes from the song, "Breezeblocks" (by alt-J), specifically, "Please don't go, I'll eat you whole" ! But I was too tired to do that one- 💀👍 Lmao

[forgetful-nerd]

2012! Casey when he’s trying to flirt with a mutant:

(I’ll let y'all decide who he's trying to woo)

[gas1le]

"So my boyfriend and girlfriend proposed to me. But my brother doesn't seem to like it."

("Итак, мои парень и девушка сделали мне предложение. Но моему брату, похоже, это не понравилось".)

[ivoryrisuet]

Every love triangle has to end up as a polycule. It's just life you can't argue with that

[britt-kageryuu]

There is at least 1 Casey Jones that has a shirt that reads 'If lost return to April O' Neil', and depending on the version it also reads 'of Channel 6 News New York'.

And the April has a matching shirt with her name on it.

Though give or take the version it might be 'April Jones' instead. Unless they kept their own last names, or he took hers.

[fabuloustrash05]

TMNT really said lesbian rights 🩷🩷

[tae-rhymeswithslay]

Tae’s tmnt takes: not as hot edition

not really a hot take this time, just tmnt shit i wanna scream about into the void

anyone who recognizes my user knows that i LOVE jonatell. like i live breathe eat jonatello. i will inhale basically any dynamic between the two whether its bitter rivals to lovers or an au where its love at first sight- i just GRAGH words cant describe how much i adore them

BUT the real ones know im also a pretty big capritello shipper too. i love the capritello ship- not exactly as much as just casey and donnie, but like, it’s almost up there. BUT, its specifically like, the super niche non-canon compliant dynamic where april and casey are strangers who meet the turtles separately and don’t know about each other until theyre both good friends and allies of the turtles and both april and casey are crushing HARD on tall, pretty, nerdy little donnie who is completely oblivious and when they finally do meet its like the 2012 love triangle except Donnie is target, theres no stalking, no one is uncomfortable, and the love rivals get together at the end too.

SOMEONE PLEAAAAASE WRITE THIS GRAAAGHHHHH PLEASE PLEASEEEEE

[ohnoshespostingthis]

hi people

[iscdisc]

Platonic 2012 Capril rambling-

Because I can't do art today (I'm not at my drawing tablet today- 😔), I'm just going to ramble a bit- Lmao

I know the writers for this series dropped the ball with a lot of relationships / development of main relationships (i.e. Some of the brother dynamics like Donnie with Raph or even Leo to an extent, April with all of the brothers basically, Splinter with his kids, etc.), so I don't know how generous I can reasonably be with this specific topic here, but something I personally think is really neat (Especially if intentional-) is April and Casey's dynamic during the Farmhouse Arc !

In the first episode of Season 3 (EP 1, "Within the Woods"-), we see this turbulence between Casey and April over the situation that their in upon Casey asking April if something was wrong considering her distance towards him as of late (Mind you, they're three months into their stay at April's family Farmhouse in upstate New York-). She blows up on him a bit, believing he's being unreasonable with this question and asking too much of her (At least, that's my interpretation of her words-). I know I'm very 2012 Casey biased, so it's completely fine if you disagree with me here, but I personally don't believe Casey meant anything malicious or manipulative by this question-?

It seemed very genuine and implies the two have a close enough relationship for Casey to notice her (mentally / emotionally) pulling away- I can understand his asking personally, since I would probably do the same in his position. It also could've been his way of reaching out, and since he often gets misunderstood despite his good intentions, April took it the wrong way (Not trying to say she was "in the wrong", but it did feel a bit of an overreaction in my eyes. I personally feel like she was just stressed out and shaken up in that moment, as we see in the screenshot above April getting spooked by a tree branch in this same scene scenario, which led her to take it out on him-).

As shitty as this scene is (For Casey specifically, especially considering he was very understanding and didn't make her feel bad for it or even bring it up again at all-), I mention it because of what we see with the two episodes later. In S3 EP 3, "Buried Secrets"-

Out of everyone April could've gone to about her Mother / the ultimatum she was being presented with by said Mother, she went to Casey about it. Besides S2 EP 9, "The Kraang Conspiracy", April doesn't talk about her Mother much with the Turtles (The Brothers were only exposed to her Mother via Kurtzman as well, not April herself volunteering that information-). The only ones we've seen April open up to about her Mother (On her own accord-) are Karai in Season 1 (EP 21, "Karai's Vendetta"-) and now Casey in Season 3. This felt like such a significant moment given the interaction we see them have in, "Within the Woods". It seems like Casey was proven to be genuine in his concern for April as her friend and April truly acknowledges that better now. Why else would April choose to be so vulnerable with him after having such a shitty moment together episodes prior (Where she felt he was being very insensitive / inconsiderate of her feelings-)?

I also have a personal theory that these two were testing the waters of a relationship during Season 2 (Which I've mentioned before-), and if my theory is correct, that could also contribute to their closeness and April's willingness to share such personal things with him specifically. Also given this theory, I'm not saying it wouldn't have been surprising if April thought Casey was attempting to "weasel his way back in romantically" when he asked her about whether or not they were okay during, "Within the Woods" (Which feels substantiated by Donnie making such a emphasized point about them being "two teens who like each other going into the woods alone" a scene prior-), but like I said before I really don't think that's what Casey was trying to do at all. I think he was being genuine.

I just really like this moment that they share here, and it really seems like their dynamic is moving towards a more platonic direction- We can even backtrack a bit to the beginning of this episode when they're having the cleaning montage- Even this had a different energy to it for me personally. I feel like from this episode ("Buried Secrets"-) moving forward, a lot of the "advances" Casey makes towards April come off kind of jokey and very clearly not taken seriously by April whatsoever.

Maybe I could be wrong, but it really felt like two exes (Or rather two people who were exploring a relationship but then that fell through-)?? Casey's going to poke fun because that's just in his nature, and they both know where they stand with each other now so April's not going to really comment on it and just find these jokes "annoying" (But in a way that you find your friend annoying, you know?).

It's also the way that April seems to be a lot livelier as a person with Casey, which I think also speaks to their better grounded friendship (And possible implication of romantic closeness, since that past vulnerability could have made it easier for April to really be herself around / with Casey ! Definitely not in the way she can "be herself" around Donnie, since in my personal opinion, it always feels like she's putting on some kind of face for him-). I didn't get a screenshot of it, but the moment between them at the end of this specific episode (S3 EP 8, "Vision Quest"-) speaks to that too in my opinion. The little banter that they're having over April breaking the wood and the finger snaps thing that she afterwards- I'm just saying that we don't get this kind of energy from April outside of her interactions with Casey (In my opinion-). Lmao

Again, I don't know how much I can attribute this to the writing since I'm not entirely sure that this was an intentional thing, but I think regardless it's cool to see their dynamic throughout the Farmhouse Arc !

I also really like this particular platonic closeness between Casey and April (Especially under the context that they were a relationship that didn't work out but are still super close / have moved on from it-), because I feel like this would be a better way to explain Casey's continued "protectiveness" over April + annoyance with Donnie in relation to her. Not that I'm trying to shit talk 2012 Donnie here, but he is a massive weirdo towards her for a significant amount of time in the series and I'm sure if April and Casey are as close as I'm assuming they are during this time, April has expressed that to Casey before. So it's kind of nice to view Casey continuing to be this way towards Donnie as a means of defending April from uncomfortable interactions with Donnie rather than him still seeing himself as a viable candidate for her "love" or something- You know what I mean?

Although, I know this particular instance (From "Buried Secrets"-) doesn't exactly hold up as well as I would like it to here, given the episode prior (EP 2, "A Foot Too Big"-), April literally kissed Donnie- Like legitimately kissed Donnie. So I can't exactly say Donnie's persistence here "doesn't make sense", cause April really was giving off some weird signals / messages. Again, as always, we can thank the piss poor writing. Lmao

There's also this moment that I wanted to talk about outside of The Farmhouse Arc when they return to New York City (Specifically from S3 EP 10, "Serpent Hunt"-). Objectively speaking, this felt like kind of a weird moment from April that I didn't really understand? From a canonical writing perspective, this came off as the writers trying to still continue this, "Will they, won't they?" aspect of April and Casey's relationship-?? But maybe this thing can be viewed as April possibly reminiscing fondly about the past (If my theory about them having a failed relationship throughout Season 2 is accurate-) and appreciating Casey still being by her side? I honestly feel like I'm grasping at straws with this interpretation- LMAO

Anyway that's my ramble about those two- They just felt like a lot of lost / wasted potential as far as like having a boy and girl friendship that wasn't weird? Lmao ✨

[raccwho]

girl talk

[sweeneydino]

IM OBSESSED WITH UR CROSSOVER IDEA, BUT I GOTTA ASK QUESTIONS

1: When Donnie grows to be 14-16, does that mean his bros are gonna be 30? Or does time work diffrently? (Ex: Time works 4x faster in RISE universe)

2: When did Danny adopt Don? In guessing somewhere from year 2012 since that prob when he died

3: you mentioned that RISE!Donnie and Don become friends, just what is the age difference exactly?

4: How would the brother reunite? (If they do) do they accidentoy get thrown into the dimension and be like “ah nit this again and find Don? Or will they meet their other versions and itll go like this:

“Oh that Don, the mafias son-“

“DONNIE?”

(sorry if this a lot pf questions and you don't wanna spoil/ don’t have this planned out, im just rlly excited. No pressure to answer)

GVAJSUSYBS IM GLAD YOU LIKE IT!

Honestly, the AU was for anyone who wanted to pick it up cause I'm not known for staying on top of things, but I'm happy to answer any questions anyway susnwkjs!

1) They will srill be the same age. Fortunately, time isn't all that different, well sorta. Donnie, despite dying around 2012 or so(the timeline is a mess, fuck time travel) would've been reincarnated to around 2002-2004 in the Rise Universe. So when they eventually go to get Donnie, it would've been only a few months since his death, but in the rise universe, he's been there his whole life.

So I suppose a better answer would be, fuck it we ball. Or really, they went to the future (~ ._.)~

2) Danny adopted Don in 2002-2003. Why? Cause I've made enough angst aus for my liking 😔

3) Don is older by 2 years. So Donatello looks up to him.

4)They do reunite! :D I'm not sure what specifically since I have many ideas on how, most include April if not, then Donatello doing something silly to show how amazing he is. Either way, when they get there, it won't be easy, obviously, since Don was raised there and is not gonna believe these random weirdos that look like him and come and tell him he doesn't belong there. The kid probably has enough imposter syndrome.

Although...

I do think this is funny.

Feel free to add to this AU! It would be greatly appreciated ehjekwuw

[incorrect-tmnt2012-quotes]

Mikey: Oh, I talked to April today, and apparently, she and Casey might break up.

Donnie: Oh, how awful!

Leo: Donnie, you're smiling.

Donnie: Am I? Hmm.

[chaos-potat]

I remembered I don't only have to draw comic panels lol

[pocoslip]

Just wanna post this Meme if the TMNT Fandom is still like this

(only one person told me i shouldn't ship april o'neil and casey jones 1987 and i block them because they like apriltello 1987 even though donatello is way too young for the news reporter for frick sake)

[britt-kageryuu]

I had wanted to put this up on Valentine's Day, but I forgot to put it together!

This was going to be for 1 day originally, but I think this should go on longer.

Also I tried to look up the Popular Ships but it's a long list that includes many that I don't recognize or want to list~~ yayyyy~

Opinions, debates, and arguments are welcome! Have Fun!

Share if you'd like!

Yes, I just made Leosagi/Leoichi the same vote, because they get treated like the same most times anyway!

Part of the debate includes people yelling at me for not knowing ships. I welcome it.