#DJC rambles

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Y'know what would be funny?

Every Leo of the turtle verse admiring 2003 Leo

That turtle is everything cool and suave while also being a silly dork who has at least once gone through a healthy way to deal with his trauma-a damn near pipedream for any other Leo-and has the sweetest relationship with his brothers while they also trust him wholeheartedly as their leader

Yeah. They love him.

They all want him to like them.

It's the ✨ admiration ✨

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Y'ALL HEAR ME OUT, HEAR ME OUT- (this is gonna have so many of my 2003 hcs in here and I do not apologize in advance/aff)

I GOT A 2003 LEOSAGI IDEA BUT IT'S A LITTLE LESS ROMANCE AND A LITTLE MORE-

LITTLE BROTHERS IN THEIR GREMLIN MODE

I feel like Leo was NOT subtle at all with his crush, and all of his brothers could tell. And so Usagi got invited over a lot more because EVERYONE wanted him over

(Leo did not sense the impending doom in this decision until it was too late)

So you see, there is the younger sibling way of law (imo), where the younger siblings are obligated to be gremlins to their oldest sibling, ESPECIALLY around the oldest sibling's crush.

And these motherfuckers DO NOT DISAPPOINT-

There was a time where Leo and Usagi were having pleasant conversation, y'know? They were chillin', it was all fine and dandy.

And then in the motherfucking distance you hear an approaching;

"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH-"

CUE MIKEY AND RAPH FUCKING BODY SLAMMING LEO INTO THE GROUND AND JUST START WRESTLING THIS MOTHERFUCKER, NO RHYME OR REASON BESIDES THE FACT THAT LEO'S BEEN TALKING TO USAGI AND THEY HAD TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT-

Usagi is just blinking rapidly off to the side, and Donnie just walks up beside him sippin' on some apple juice and just goes "Yeah, this is par for the course."

There was another time where Donnie and Mikey were hanging out with Usagi, showing him cartoons and shit.

And then all of a sudden Leo just bolts past the couch, running for his goddamn life with Raph hot on his trail with the most shit eating grin ever-

And when Mikey asks what's up, they turn around to witness Leo just parkour his fucking ass onto the wall-

and so now he's just climbing up as far as he can go while Raph is following him from the floor, calling after him and calling him all sorts of things while Leo's just yelling at him like "STOP!! SHUT UP!!! RAPH!!!!"

Now Mikey is losing his shit, Usagi is wondering how he got up there so easily, and Donnie?

Donnie's gettin' ideas dude. He's gettin' ideas.

So watch as this purple motherfucker grabs one of Mikey's stress balls, aims for it-

and just starts yeeting that ball at Leo.

Now Raph is losing his shit as Leo's trying to fend off this fucking ball that Donnie keeps pelting at him, and Usagi's like "Why are you throwing that at him??? What are you both doing??"

Donnie's response? "It's the younger brother in me. I gotta listen to it."

So now Mikey starts fuckin' with Leo and starts shouting "BURN THE TURTLE!!! BURN HIM AT THE STAKE!!! HIS NINJOSITY IS A SIN UPON THIS WORLD!!!"

Donnie turn to him like, "why the hell do you know about that???"

And then RAPH turns to him like, "Comparing Leo to a witch? That is an insult to the witches, Mikey, apologize."

So now they're ALL ganging up on Leo, who's yelling at them and clinging to dear life on one of the pipes on the CEILING howdidhegetthere-

And Usagi's in the back, muffling his chuckles because this is actually funny as fuck-

Poor Leo though.

Adding onto that scene, we have Raph be like, "Why are you up there anyways??? Aren't you scared of heights?"

Leonardo immediately defending himself in the wrong way by saying "I WAS A CHILD RAPH, I HAD A CHILD'S MIND IT WASN'T MY FAULT!!"

Usagi latches onto that SO quickly bro like- "You? A Ninja? You used to be afraid of heights?"

All three of the gremlins start laughing and Leo's sputtering to deflect like a motherfucker.

"Now-now here's the thing with younger brothers, Usagi, they lie all the time-"

"EXQUEESE ME???"

"NOW HOLD ON THERE, DUDE-"

"WHOMST THE FUCK IS LYING HERE?!?!?"

Raph rats out Leo so fast by recalling him being afraid of heights until like, he was five. And then Donnie IMMEDIATELY backs up his twin (yes I fw the hc of them being twins sue me-) by going "He was afraid until he was six. I counted."

Leo here though? Gotta defend his pride here bro-

"You know what, here's another thing about siblings-FUCK YOU BOTH-"

Y'ALL THEY AAAAALL STARTLED AT THAT BC LEO HERE DON'T CUSS MUCH UNTIL HE REALLY WANNA INSTILL THE FEAR OF GOD INTO YOU-

Mikey makin' that their cue to gtfo like "NOW WE GOTTA SKEDADDLE, NOW WE GOTTA GET THE DIDDLY DARN FUCK ON OUT OF HERE-"

The way they all ran for the hills the moment Leo dropped from the ceiling was GLORIOUS

(Leo will forever be proud of making Usagi laugh until he snorted.)

(Even though he had to kill some lil' bros to do it)

And so imagine when they get together, right?

Oh god, oh no, oh shit-

That ^^^ is exactly what goes through Leo's mind when he tells his brothers, because he KNOWS just what they're gonna exploit and fucking HOW-

Because here's the thing.

They're all turtles. They still got basic turtle instincts, no matter how much more human they act than turtle, it is IN THEIR NATURE TO BE TEETLEZ AND THAT WILL BACKFIRE SO HARD ON LEO THAT HE FAILS SUCCESSFULLY???? SORT OF???

Like, here, look-

Imagine the amount of shit they would spill to Usagi about Leo, not only regarding things like his love language and shit, but also about basic turtle love language.

One of those being the fact that turtles will tap/slap their mates on the face to show affection. Albeit for the turtle boys, the slaps would be pretty gentle and shit.

Usagi? Found this hilarious.

He did this the first time he came to visit as Leo's official boyfriend. They were all excited to see him (and excited to see if he'd go through with it, cuz c'mon, who doesn't want Leo blackmail?) and Leo's just happy to see his bby again cause Leonardo 'I LOVE YOU AND I MISS YOU AND YOU ARE GORGEOUS AND EVERYTHING I COULD EVER WANT AND NEED IN MY LIFE' Splinterson is what some may call a 'Raging Homosexual'

So they greet each other with a hug, all's well and they're happy to see each other.

And then Usagi taps him on both of his cheeks with a mischievous lil' smile.

THE WAY THIS MOTHERFUCKER SHUTS RIGHT THE FUCK DOWN-

OH THIS POOR POOR BOI, OH YOU POOR THING

FUCKING SUFFER

The way his hands were flapping like crazy almost the entire day afterwards was honestly the most adorable thing Usagi had ever seen.

And it felt nice when Leo shyly tapped him back. It was very cute-

There's also the thing where like, apart from not being fond of most touch, turtles and some tortoises definitely don't mind shell scratches or neck scratches.

You can easily tell how Usagi got his ass trapped under an eeping Leo on the couch. He didn't even have the heart to try and move the bitch, they both just fell asleep there.

Mikey got his well deserved $20 out of their bet.

NOW I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE SO RIP RIGHT THERE, BUT LIKE, Y'ALL SEE THE VISION RIGHT??? TRUST ME, THESE LITTLE SHITS WOULD DIAL UP THE LITTLE SHITERY TO A TWELVE

Leo wants to hate them, but like, they sorta helped him bag a bad bitch so he can't ENTIRELY complain

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Well

I'm officially another year older today

Hooray I guess? I might make a lil doodle for the fuck of it at some point today-

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He's a majestic fucking fairy y'all

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THIS IS SUCH A MOOD ISTG--

edit: this got way too many notes, let me try to find the original artist and Ill credit them, brb

edit 2: this is the only thing that comes up so I guess this is the artist? if anyone can confirm this please let me know https://twitter.com/DanilWasHere/status/1748756435347857502?t=Ij-lgsCUv32SpqO6Ld6lsQ&s=19

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Hhi you think MM! Leosagi would give each other quick kisses on their cheeks before either running off or stammering something out in embarrassment. I am consumed with thoughts about them my god.

Absolutely, those failures are so fucking pathetic for each other

The first time it happened I wanna say it was Leo who started it bc he kinda had a moment of panic right before the two were supposed to split up in battle.

He wanted to make sure Usagi stayed alive while he was gone and all so like, impulse take the wheel XD

Gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and then kinda stumble-ran away while shouting "D-DON'T DIE WHILE I'M GONE, USAGI!!!"

In that moment

Usagi felt like he could fight God and win

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THANK YOU WONDERFUL AND EVER SO ELDRITCH @chessman-protocol FOR LETTING ME DO THIS, IT'S BEEN SPIRALLING IN MY BRAINCRACKS SINCE THIS MORNINGS XD

Introducing the Covert Iteration of my Rottmnt oc: Jesse Burnham!

Jesse, in both the og and Covert Aus, is a scientist who works in the fields of bioengineering, zoology and robotics! In the og Au, her main goal as a scientist was to create robot animals so life like that you couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what was fake.

In the Cover Au, she achieves this goal earlier than expected, but instead uses them to work as spy-bots for the times where a mission has to be done discreetly, undercover. They're also mainly used for outside data collection as well!

The main bots that people will witness lurking around the organization are:

Eleanor the Ginger Cat: She's the one used the most for spying besides the incredibly amount of rat bots and Ant Queen bots, as there are very few people in the world that don't like a playful ginger cat. Out of her entire arsenal, she is the most indistinguishable bot from the real thing, so much so that even other cats will mistake her for being one of them, if only for a minute.

The only way you can really pick up that something is off about her is the lack of blinking, and the way other cats will avoid her like the plague.

Hunter the Jaguar: Hunter is less of a spy-bot and more of a combatant bot on the very, very (and that's two very's) few times that Jesse will be sent out onto the field.

He's the heavy hitter, agile and lithe. Not to mention the fact that he is entirely vantablack-the deepest black in the world- save for the soft gold glow between his plates, so it makes it frighteningly easy to lose him in the night or in dark, shadowy places.

Phoebe the Hawk: Phoebe is the most important one, being Jesse's most trusted companion and confidant, she is basically Jesse's right hand bird! She is the bot that does the most arial sweeps, mostly in order to locate any target who might be in broad daylight, but she also can be used to update any joint-tasked sectors on the status of the field from above.

Not to mention, Phoebe was Jesse's first successful project of life-like robot animals, so she holds incredible sentimental value to her.

Even though this isn't even half-not even a quarter-of all the robots she has manufactured, these three bots are by-far the most important ones to Jesse, tactically and emotionally.

One very important fact about Jesse, as well, is the fact that he's bigender!

His masculine days aren't as frequent as his feminine days, but either way he certainly uses it to his advantage! Switching between the two genders (whether or not he feels like one or the other at the time) has always been a reliable disguise for him if Jesse needs to get out and do some personal investigation himself that his animals are incapable of.

Jesse is a natural smooth-talker and liar, which helps with his job especially well!

Another important thing to mention, is that I'm not entirely sure if Jesse would be in any sector himself, or if he's a solo act within the organization. What I do know, is the fact that you are able to request the use of his spy bots no matter what sector you are in, but only at a certain price. (What the price is yet? Not sure, but it's not money, that's what I know XD).

It's very, very, VERY (that's three very's!) rare for sector 5 to ever need his spy bots, as most often than not their missions are combat based (I think??? Correct me if I'm wrong qwq), but I like to think on the very rare times they do need it and DON has to get it from him? All I gotta say is that Jesse shows no fear when it comes to the turtles.

There's a medical reason for that-

AAAAAANYWAYS I THINK THAT'S ALL I GOT'S TO SAY RIGHT NOW??? Other than the fact that I wanna make a few lil' comic pages of Jesse and Don interacting cause I wanna see how accurately I can display Don's personality. I just think they'd be neat :]

AAAAAND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING ME DO THIS MAN OF THE CHESS OF THE CHESS CHESSMAN, YOU WONDERFUL BEING OF MYSTERIES-

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this might be a bit of a weird first question, so i hope it makes sense! 6-6 is there an animal you associate with your OC(s)? if so, why? and, would it be the same animal that might represent their 'avatar' if they were an acolyte for the ninja tribunal (like, do you think the animal you associate with them would also mirror them spiritually?)? given that dragons can be avatars, it doesn't have to be an "existing" animal; it could be extinct, of folklore, or maybe something native to their planet, if your oc isn't from 3rd earth.

Oh! Oh! I have an OC for 2003--

Nemesis is a ferret mutant who was artificially created by the Shredder, so they're animal is of course, a ferret!

I associate her with a ferret due to how she'll progress in personality throughout her story. In the beginning, Shredder (more like Baxter) only chose a ferret because of their high energy and flexibility, and as a result had forced her to not show any of her more positive qualities.

As they get to know and experience the turtles, Donnie specifically, they start to feel comfortable with them and show off more of their animalistic traits. Behind all of the stoicism, she's a playful individual who can't stand being alone, and has boundless amounts of energy that she uses for many things. It's kinda hard to explain.

I do think if she were an acolyte, the ferret would spiritually represent them. It represents her kindness and energy, and her slowly growing optimism and sense of togetherness!

Although again, I don't really know too much of that translates well to the show. I'll definitely have to tweak some of this when I get to that arc, lols--

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Me? Make a bluesky account? Ha! That's just-that's ridiculous!

Imagine that-

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are any of your OCs multi-lingual (able to speak/understand a language outside of their first or household language)? if so, what languages can they understand and how fluent are they? if they know fantastical/non-earth languages, is there an earth language you could compare it to with similar sounds/rules? can the language be written, or is it only 'spoken', if spoken at all?

I CAN ANSWER THIS WITH MULTIPLE WOOOOO-

For 2003, Nemesis is fluent in English and Japanese because, y'know, it's Shredder and shit. She doesn't often speak it, but they always tend to listen into conversations when they pick up even a lick of Japanese. It's kinda in a 'the moment you hear this language pay attention, there's useful information to be gathered' way that she was taught, so now listening in to Japanese convos is kinda habit she can't really break. She also conveniently can speak 'ferret' to her fellow ferrets, which is always cute to witness.

For 2012, I have a nonbinary character named Ash who speaks both English and Italian, cause they e come from an Italian family who moved to NYC but still speak in their native language most of the time. They have a very heavy Italian accent because of that.

For 2018, I got a bigender OC named Jesse, who speaks English and a Caribbean dialect, Patois (pronounced pah-twaa). She tends to use it most with her brother and only her brother, because she has a habit of making herself seem as clean cut as possible, and the dialect is too 'impolite' for her to use just anywhere. She also knows like, intermediate Mandarin purely because she wanted to learn something new. She's a quick learner when it comes to languages!

Thanks for the questions, Red!

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Aight, y'all can have this

As a treat

It's Pure Soul too-

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THERE'S THE GOOBER AGAIN OH MY GOD, THERE HE IS

HERE COMES THE BOOOOOOY

HELLO BOOOOOOY

WELCOOOOOME

THERE HE ISSSSS

HE IS HEEEEEERE

Damnit, now I have to draw him AGAIN, fuck you fanart demons-

he watching....

First / prev / next (soon) masterpost / early access (patreon)

just a lil heads up: I'm probably not updating next week because I ran out of finished pages

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When I get back onto digital art it'll be over for yall trust

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Three notes on this bitch and I'll post a Halloween wip-

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ALIVE I BE AND I HAVE A QUESTION FOR ALL OF THEE-

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Primordials fun fact: Mikey has an interest in gymnastics rather than art or cooking. This directly affects how he fights, making her far more nimble, speedy and flexible than their siblings.