#Draxum raised

[its-wabby-stuff]

Introducing

Sp-Raphael

Just a normal dude who needs some help finding his dog. It’s a normal dog. And it’s definitely his. Will you help?

Spoiler:

[turtleblogatlast]

Mikey and Leo episode centered around Mikey wanting to push Leo and Draxum together since Leo’s the most reluctant to give Draxum any grace (for good reason!) But, thinking on the spot, Leo says he’s gotta go do something for Hueso and “just can’t hang out right now 😔” (yes, he says the emoji out loud.)

Mikey calls his bluff and now the three of them (Mikey having grabbed a weary Draxum along) go to Hueso’s to find that yes, he actually does have a job for him. Said job asks for Leo to go with Hueso to deliver multiple pizzas to this giant yokai quite a distance away, and Hueso figured it would probably go better with Leo’s help (emphasis on probably.)

Well, Mikey decides that this would be a great bonding opportunity for them and basically invites he and Draxum along. Unfortunately for Leo, Hueso doesn’t care enough to wave away more help, though he does side-eye the wanted criminal Baron Draxum coming with them. But who is he to judge? (This choice has consequences.)

The journey goes about as terribly as you’d expect, but at least the pizzas get delivered on time.

[beebopurr]

Re-did my little guys ref :]

Original under cut⤵️

[bambiraptorx]

As I mentioned in this post (technically in its tags), GMTT! Raph will try to eat anything that fits in his mouth. He's a giant toddler what did you expect Draxum

[thedawningofthehour]

Went to the plant nursery today for Mother's Day and all I could think about was Draxum taking his shitty kids to one and driving them all insane.

Donnie is the only one who follows him but all Draxum does is meander around and compare plants to the color scheme he has in his head and ask for opinions he doesn't listen to. Even Donnie's love for plants can't sustain him and he wanders off.

Meanwhile the other kids are checking out the weird garden ornaments and taking selfies in front of the funny ones.

[daedelweiss]

What’s Mikey’s relationship with Draxum like in your AU

the short version of it: it's very complicated

the long version of it: despite leo having the most loving and understanding parent out of the 4 of them, mikey probably had the happiest childhood. as emotionally distant as draxum was, he was fond of mikey. he made sure he grew up as a... relatively normal kid: made sure he was healthy, did not train him beyond his limits, and fostered an environment for mikey's powers to thrive and grow freely. draxum wanted super soldiers, yes, but he still saw mutants as one of the yokai and held them in equal regards and that extends to mikey.

i will emphasize though, draxum is still VERY EMOTIONALLY DISTANT. the idiot hasn't even given mikey A NAME. he calls mikey "soldier", "child", or "titan" if he's in a good mood (huginn and munnin were the ones who gave mikey his "Orange Titan" nickname because of his powers). he refuses mikey the chance to express himself and only want him to follow through his orders.

because of this, mikey loves draxum the same way a son loves his father but he is also very vocally angry and upset at him. he and draxum argue OFTEN and mikey only does so because he knows the worse drax will do to him is reprimand him and push back on his ideals, and he knows draxum's motivations come from a place of fear. drax's concern over the prophecy is passed onto mikey which is why he's mostly compliant on drax training him (mikey follows through to protect yokai-kind, not to kill humans). again, he's just upset that draxum's fear made him to the man he is. he also wrestles with drax's hatred for humanity because mikey knows he is part human. mikey's mostly scared that, one day, draxum will step on a path where mikey cannot follow.

that's pretty much a non-spoilery summary of their relationship. on instagram, i described their relationship to be very akin to kratos and atreus. they care about each other deeply but are both on polar opposite scales of the emotional spectrum: draxum is closed off and apathetic while mikey is open and empathetic.

will draxum be redeemable in LM? yes, very much yes. he just has a long, long, looooooooooooong road to go to attain his redemption, especially in mikey's eyes.

(these interactions are not canon and are based from scenes from god of war 2018. this is pretty much the vibe of their dynamic tho)

[other-fan-fiction]

BLOOD IS THICKER THAN OOZE

This is a great fanfic on a fairly mature topic. A beautiful portrayal of difficult family relationships, stress, expectations and abuse... SUMMARY: Raised by Draxum as the weapon to help restore the yōkai to the surface, Purple would do anything for the yōkai that saved him from Lou Jitsu’s flames.But twelve years after the incident that left him permanently scared, three turtle mutants threaten his way of life and his father’s goals of yōkai domination.Will he be able to stop them from ruining their plans in time? Or will he create unbreakable bonds with these turtles who’ve been brainwashed by the same man who abandoned Purple all those years ago? DONATELLO-centric fanfic <3 Cover made with the song: Simple Plan- Perfect https://www.tumblr.com/risebto @risebto

[forgetful-nerd]

Baby!Donnie: Da-

Splinter: what is that purple? We're you going to say “Dada?” Say “Dada!”

Baby!Donnie: DEATH!

Splinter: Hmmmm, “Dada.”

Baby!Donnie: DOMINATION!

Splinter: umm, “Dada?”

Baby!Donnie: Destruction. Domination.

Draxum: *clearly prideful* Nice.

[donutbroski]

Here’s some doodles from my 10,000th tmnt au that’ll I forget about in a week

[mudlarkspur]

there's a lot of similarities between DOTH Gale and Catch You Junior.

They would not get along.

@thedawningofthehour

[dragon-spaghetti]

Thinking about my separated au again,, have the O'Neil siblings ;v;

Plus bonus designs: battle nexus champion Leo & foot clan Raph

[pizzazz-party]

i don’t think all yokai in rottmnt live for centuries. there was that one cat lady in the stands who visibly aged at a pace similar to splinter’s after the last twenty years. she was young in his flashback, and wrinkled during the episode’s present day.

so maybe it’s the really powerful yokai lineages that live a long time.

[blanceyblance]

Ok, but the current Rise turtles family tree it's really funny because its so wacky they are

The descendants of the Hamato Clan, a clan with a mystic art passed through generations powerful enough to stop the Shredder from terrorizing Japan

The sons of Lou Jitsu/Hamato Yoshi an action movie star famous enough for people to have all kinds of merch, AND was also a powerful Battle Nexus Champion good enough for Draxum (who hated humans) to want to use his dna for his soldiers. So he was big with humans and yokai.

Draxum was like, well off? He had like a castle before they burned his lab. And was important enough to be able to talk with the Council of heads. Is he an actual Baron? What's his deal? Anyway, since the turtles are his kids, are they related to yokai nobility?

Now, they actually have two other siblings in Piebald and Sloppy Joseph. A goldfish mutant and a pile of sentient meat.

And the missing sisters, we have confirmation that one of them is Big Mama's assistant and the other one is trapped in another dimension. (I will never forgive being robbed of Frida Hamato honestly)

The Shredder is their grandpa and it just sounds so funny. But the way it works here is that they can summon the souls of past Hamatos. Can you imagine the boys inviting Gram gram Karai to thanksgiving or something and having her interact with Casey. Or they talking with Saki in a very awkward family dinner.

Let's not forget our favorite time traveler boy

And the little floating AI who is like a son to Donnie

And Todd, their funny uncle who somehow got accepted into the fam.

What I'm saying is that, this is Addams family level of wacky and we deserved to explore more of them and what does it mean for the turtles.

[bambiraptorx]

[I.D. Drawing of Lou Jitsu and Draxum from ROTTMNT. Lou Jitsu sits on the floor in a cage and Draxum leans over him, looking excited as he asks "Can I use your DNA for numerous illicit and probably dangerous genetic experiments?" Lou Jitsu responds "Eh, sure". End I.D.]

How it would have gone if Draxum hadn't mentioned the whole 'making super soldiers' thing probably

[thedawningofthehour]

I was thinking more about how Yokai life stages are so different from ours and what kind of effect that would have on everything else. Like, if we assume their life cycles is similar to that of a human, just on a much longer scale, then a Yokai could be in their 'child-bearing years' for literally centuries. (I mean, it all depends on the Yokai and the life cycle of their source DNA and how much they inherited from that, but assuming most of them are more human-like) And their kids do take slightly longer to mature, but not by that much.

I've already figured that there's much less of a push to get people having babies as soon as they can-they've got so much time, and especially since Yokai are generally healthier and less susceptible to disease they're expecting most of those kids to survive to adulthood. That would just be a lot of babies, and rapid population growth would really put a strain on resources. So even though Yokai are legal adults at 20 and probably reach sexual maturity around the same time as humans, having kids before you're a century old is considered super early. Like, Bella is 45, and she would practically be considered a teen mother if she had a kid now. "You're not even fifty yet, oh my god, you haven't lived! You need time on your own to figure out who you are!" (ironically, there are kids she went to school with who are grandparents now)

But anyway, considering the baby-having window is so wide and Yokai kids don't take that long to grow up, I feel like it would be the norm to have one, maybe two kids and then raise them to adulthood before having the next. That way you're not splitting your attention between a bunch of kids and can devote all your energy and resources into the one you're working on right now. Then once the kid is a young adult and doesn't really need to be actively parented anymore, then they can move onto the next one.

This also makes Draxum's decision to mutate and raise four mutant children at once even more unhinged.

[starry-kattz]

One day in the future, Mikey just shows up to a family gathering with four kids hanging off him and absolutely no one knows where they came from and Mikey won't say a damn word on the subject.

Raph: So uhm... What are their names?

Mikey: This is Uno, the one with the yellow stripes is Yi, over there is Moja, and this shy one is Odyn.

Leo, a polyglot: Did you really just name them all One?

Mikey: Yup.

Splinter is just happy for additional grandchildren.