#April 2k3

[vdragon-creations]

TMayNT Day 2: Favorite April

Day 2 of @tmaynt Prompt: Favorite April And today on "VDragon sucks ass at drawing people but still tries drawing them" we have my attempt at drawing my two favorite Aprils!

2003 April is just such a good character! And for a show in the early 2000's that was mostly dudes, she was a very well written female character for the time, and defiantly a better role model for little 9 Year Old me!

And then we have one of my few celeb crushes, Judith Hoag's April! She be cute AF, it's just a shame the actress herself was among the people who thought the movie was "Too Violent".

[hamsterandturtlesoup]

Based on X

Ever since I saw it I knew I had to do this >:3

[frogs-in3-hills]

hi does anyone else think about april throwing herself over leo to shield him in the shredder strikes back despite having no weapons no way to defend herself and probably assuming she was going to die. does anyone think about that all the time. every day. uncontrollably

[ID: Digital fanart of Ninja Turtles 2003 depicting a scene from The Shredder Strikes Back part 2. April kneels over an injured Leo, cradling his head and looking back over her shoulder to snarl viciously at the camera, though there is obvious fear in her eyes. Her hair has partially fallen out of her bun, the loose strands sticking to her face with sweat. She has a cut on her cheek. Only a portion of Leo’s face can be seen from behind her shoulder. He looks up at her with a sad, pained expression. He has a swollen, bloody shiner on his cheek in addition to other cuts and bruises on the rest of his body. They are on the wooden floor of a dark attic. End ID.]

[tmntkiseki]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) and The Four Loves

[bangs-coffee-fandoms-unite]

I love the idea that the 2003 iteration of Leonardo is so intent on being a mother hen that he tries to take care of literally everyone around him—even grown-ass adults. I especially love the idea of fifteen-year-old Leonardo mother henning Casey and April, who are in their mid-twenties.

Leonardo: [hands an apple and a protein bar to Casey] Here. You might get hungry during patrol, and it’s important to keep your energy up. I also have dark chocolate or peanut butter if you finish those.

Casey: [staring at the snacks, confused] Uh… thanks, Leo?

Raphael: [snickering]

Casey: [frowning] Does he always do this?

Donatello: [with a straight face] You have no idea…

Michelangelo: [letting Leonardo peel an apple for him with his katana] Oh yeah, all the time. It’s kinda nice—he cuts the apple into perfect little pieces.

[ilovebeingaturtle]

Back at it again

[shantechni]

She's their sister fr, they're legit ganging up on Casey like he has ulterior motives lol

And then they got upset at the thought of her not needing to spend time with them anymore once she gets her shop back, help-

[erin-epica]

Since my first TMNT meme post in forever did really well, here's a lil' something for the Aprils!

[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

[yki-dolls]

loser simp man

OH BABY I AM SO BACK

Commissions open

[katanashipping]

Seriously though, the general canon of TMNT 2k3 must be such a wild ride for Robin O'Neill.

Like. Here is your big sister, brainiac maniac science superstar, the smart one, the one who has it all figured out and who probably has three PhDs by the time she's 23 and the story begins. April just landed her Dream Job with an actual Celebrity Scientist and she is going to create Big Science that will Help Lots of People and--

--and she's quit her job one month in and announces she is going to reopen your late parents' antiquities shop now. Take some time to Find Herself, whatever that means. OK, right, we can work with that, what bout--

--her shop burns to the ground, and April prompty goes completely AWOL for three months. Great! Amazing! You're not panicking at all! This is April you're talking about, after all - the smart one, the good one, who has it all together, and she is dating Casey Jones, neighborhood vigilante now.

HOW DID THEY EVEN MEET.

So you're like. OK. I should probably go to New York and look into that. Meanwhile April rebuilds the antique shop brick by brick and moves back in, things get serious with Casey Jones, she keeps offhandedly mentioning a bunch of Italian men that like, fix her boiler and stuff, she's fine. She's fine. You don't think she's fine.

Before you can do anything about it, she goes AWOL for a few months again.

You eventually find out she has been hanging out with her boyfriend's country mum at a derelict farm. Cleaning. Cooking, sort of thing. Maybe you're a bit concerned now. Just a bit. You decide you will definitely visit her soon. She excitedly mentions that she has started practising kendo using a real sword, and her teacher is this old guy who gives her lessons one on one. You move your visit forward.

So you go to New York. You enter her apartment, which is the one you grew up in, rebuilt eerily similarly to how you remember it. Your sister is happy to see you. She's just going to nip out for a minute to grab some milk. That's fine. You go through the list of things to talk to her about in your head one more time: how are you? how are you Really? let's do some girly things, without the boyfriend and the teacher and the Italian men. Just us girls. Won't that be nice?

April comes back upstairs. You'll never guess who she ran into on her way to the shops!

Behind her stands your beloved uncle Augie, who went missing fifteen years ago without a trace.

Like. Holy. Shit.

That same evening, as you're trying to work out the new sleeping arrangements now there's three of you in the flat for the night, you pull uncle Augie aside for a moment. You're worried about April, you say. Something has been going on with her, and it's weird.

Uncle Augie looks at you for a long moment. His clothing is ripped, his beard is a growth on his face. There are deep lines on his face that you don't remember, marked not by smiles and laughter, but by sadness and fear. His arms are tree trunks. He smells like he hasn't showered in a month.

Nah, he says. I think April's doing just fine.

[transk0vsky]

Happy pride month everyone

[frogs-in3-hills]

(stumbles out of a dark room covered in blood) guess who just drew this four page comic in one! day! because i forgot @tmnt-splinterweek started today. this one is for the prompt "tea"!

[tmntkiseki]

From Michael Dooney's website (click "Illustration," then "Digital," followed by the icon with Leo.)

[shellsweet]

TURTLES COUNT IT OFF!

Happy 20th Anniversary to the show that started my life-long TMNT fixation!

2/8/2003 - 2/8/2023

🐢💙🐢🧡🐢💜🐢❤

[kobbers]

TMayNT day 2: Favorite April

I... actually don't think I've ever drawn an April before? Somehow?? I usually focus on the Turtles themselves, which meant I needed to do this one, even though I was too busy on the day of.

Anyway, 2k3 April in her series-opening lab coat. Most recent Aprils have been peers to the Turtles, but I really love her here as a fully adult ally - more of a big sister or aunt role. It allows her a bit more solid, independent position in the human world, which lets her be a firmer anchor when the guys need to reach out for help. And yet she still takes an active role whenever it's needed - getaway driver, hacker, surveillance, even a taste of fisticuffs by the end... a valuable part of the team.