#I would say Raph as oldest worked better than Leo as oldest

[pasteilian]

there ain’t nothin worse than a rise!Raph hater

They make my ass itch —probably because they’re the equivalent of a pinworm that’s right I’m being a hater tonight

If you hate rise!Raph fuck you! I hope your OTP doesn’t become canon  and your dog doesn’t love you 

[tmntxthings]

Ok so, hi! I hope you're doing well! I really really like your blog and was wondering if you're still taking requests? If your not thats completely fine.

but If you are could you please please do a the rise boys with a reader who's like their little sister? i cannot for the lofe of me find very many of these, and I adore them.

Your writting is AMAZING btw! Make sure to eat food, drink water, and get some sleep! <3

Big Brothers

author’s notes: :D am i doing requests still? …yes?! it may not seem like it but I look over them all… just lacking in the motivation department rn, esp with this semester, but booyakasha we ball xD thanks for requesting <3 author's note 2.0: I wrote Raph's part in JANUARY and i finally finally finally had the will power to finish Mikey's tonight, the semester is over yayyyyyyy!! Hopefully my motivation will rejuvenate and I'll be writing way more consistently... hopefully lollll hope you enjoy~~

warnings: none to note, unedited, mayhaps a curse word ?

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Raph

Where do I begin? He’s always the type to protect those around him. It doesn’t matter whether you’re just a regular citizen or someone he knows and loves, this turtle will protect all! He’s got a big heart.

Much like April you stumbled into the boys life at an early age. Yet unlike her, you were younger than the entire group. As a tot, Raph made sure you were never left behind, hiking you up on his shoulders along with Mikey.

Both of you giggling about the height and saying “look look I’m flyingggg!!” making superhero poses, just the works. Standard oldest brother material. He was still a kid too so there were some accidents, of course you fell off once or twice.

But he was quick to distract you from any boo-boo’s, swooping you back into his arms and snuggling his head close profusely apologizing for getting a little too rowdy. “Don’t cry!! Look Raph’s gotcha! All safe and sound!”

“Does it hurt bad? Let’s go get patched up by Lee hmmm? Raph bet’s he has the prettiest bandaids for you!”

If the group is playing a competitive game, like tag or hide & seek, Raph’s making sure you’re having a fun time. Not feeling left out or being picked on too much. In tag he may run a little slower so you are able to catch him, he would happily be ‘it’ a thousand times if it meant you beamed that mischievous smile. “Tag Raphie!!! Hehehe”

In hide & seek he’ll hide with you or better yet find you the best spots to hide. “Okay Raph’s going hide now too, goodluck and don’t make any noise!!”

As the group grows from tots to teens and the world isn’t as sparkly, and dangers lurk every corner Raph becomes more concerned with your safety. Though there’s not much he can do while your at school, any time you hang out with the bros other than the lab he’s always got a watchful eye.

“Ohhhhh guys look at this!!” Window shopping being one of your favorite past times as they walk the streets of NYC. Raph can’t help but call out for you to “Wait!” or “Watch out!” Something about those sidewalks cracks that always trip you up. And don’t even get Raph started on how many times you’ve bounded ahead of the group only to get lost.

“C’mere you!” Raph’s pulling you close and giving you a noogie. Definitely not caring as you screech about your hair. “What’d I tell ya about running off??” He continues messing with you until you either slip out of his grip or call out mercy. “You had me worried!” He breathed out with a stern look. “Awww Raphie I’m not little anymore!” You teased, but to him you’d always be his little sister. Just like Mikey would never escape being the little brother.

Leo

Oh my lord the trouble you two get into. Pranks? Yeah. Lots of them. The two of you are menaces together, and unlike Leo, you get off the hook with batting your sweet innocent eyelashes. “Whaaaaa Leo told me to!!” And he’d scoff, yelling out traitor as you stuck your tongue when Raph’s back was turned.

Despite always slipping away from punishment, Leo didn’t mind you throwing him under the bus. In fact he was quite impressed with your tactics. One of these days he’d catch you on video being a brat behind Raph’s back! So count your days because they were numbered.

While Leo is down for throwing caution and safety in the wind, if things get serious.. let’s say someone threatening you? Whoever’s spouting such nonsense better run for the hills. He doesn’t deal kindly with those who hurt his family. Especially his little prankster of a sister. “Run that by me again? You said what about my sister??” Fun, silly, charismatic Leo is gone! He’d have a glint in his eyes that scream ‘you’ll pay for that.’

What else?! Though he claims he’s nothing like Raph in regards to being wrapped around your pinky finger, he totally is. “Hey Lee can you portal me to school?? I don’t feel like walking!” He’d complain saying how you’re using his rad powers for such a lazy reason (even though he’s guilty of such a thing) but after he gives you an earful of complaints he’s opening up a portal.

Don’t think he won’t waltz in right after you. Much like those older siblings who love to embarrass their little siblings. Calling after you to “Have a greaaaaaaat day!! Big brother wuvs youuuuuuu!!” And it’s similar if he’s picking you up from school. He’ll portal in with a speaker and blare music, mostly Nicki Minaj.

Donnie

Those little puppy dog eyes you can pull off with Raph have no influence when it comes to Donnie, he has footage of your two-faced nature, having big crocodile tears at one moment and an evil grin at the next, unlike Leo who has never been able to successfully capture you in the act, Donnie has and he lords it over you as blackmail for most things, like a big brother usually does

He only brings it out when absolutely necessary, mainly whenever the two of you are in a back and forth banter that has gone too far, "Oh yeah? I seem to recall a certain purple turtle reading some very interesting fanfiction with Atomic Lass last night!" You puff up satisfied when Donnie gasps at such a true accusation, the utter betrayal! "C'mon guys don't start fighting" Raph will speak up as Donnie whips out his phone going for his passcoded camera roll.

"Oh Raphala I have something to show you!" Donnie will sing as he turns the phone over to reveal the beginning of a video of you and its one that has you immediately screeching. Jumping up from your spot to run and try and tackle Donnie to the floor, but he expects this as his battleshell takes off into the air, putting himself and his phone out of reach. "Turn it off!!! Stop it Dee!!! I never said what exactly you were reading!!" You plead as he swoops and dodges the pillows and really anything you can get your hands on to throw.

So yes, he has the dirt that you would hate Leo to get his hands on so Donnie and you have a bit of an understanding of one another. Other than that though you can find solace in his lab anytime. He doesn't mind your entry because unlike his brothers you don't start touching or breaking things. You treat his inventions carefully and he has fun explaining to you their potentials.

As tots Donnie was definitely quizzing and spitting out random facts to your malleable brain, a lot of it ended up sticking so you understood him to some degree on an academic level, but most of all he had prepared you for school to which you were forever grateful

Now you may not say so in words but with each passing grade you would go down to the lair and find Donnie specifically to show off your assignments, beaming proudly as he would smile and singing his praises about how well he had taught you. He realized that maybe he had taught you too well since you were a master manipulator when it came to tear ducts but he couldn't help but smile at that, proud to have another evil genius in their midst

Mikey

He knew what it was like to be treated like a baby despite being only a few years younger, so it came as no surprise that he would agree with you whenever you wanted to do something adventurous, something on your own, "Guys, she's old enough to go out to the movies with her friends!" Even if he sort of knew your crush would be going as well, Mikey was not going to be the brother to hold you back from falling in love!

Now heaven forbid that little heart of yours gets stomped on. The person who did so will obviously be on some sort of shit-list by all the turtles, but I think Mikey would be the one who has to be watched out for the most, he destroys people who hurts what he loves, that pizza place episode with the rock band is a prime example! He'll turn savage, lunging for violence, striking to enact karma on those who deserve it the most

Of course he will be the best brother to go to if you want to have some deep emotional talks, Dr. Feelings to the rescue, and though it hurts him to know you've been stabbed in the heart, he will be there through the whole break-up process! Cry session with tubs of ice cream or whatever sweets you desire, Mikey's a great cook so baking isn't that hard for him. He will listen to all the rants and raging that you need to get off your chest, adding in quips when necessary. Then when its time to detox fully, delete pictures, unfollow on all social medias, block their number, get rid of the gifts and physical reminders, he's there with a box, repeating how strong you are and that you don't need them nor these things!

Unlike Leo, if you and Mikey wanted something, a pair of puppy-dog eyes was better than one, even Donnie could not hold out for long if the begging was done by both of you at once, "Donnie c'mon pleaseeee set up the switch! We wanna play Mario Party!" "I thought we were gonna be playing Minecraft-" "You guys its easy you don't need me to set it up." "PLEASEEEEE"

And no doubt Mikey is whipping up your favorites in the kitchen. He loves to hear your heartfelt "thank yous!!!" and "Angieeee it's so tasty! 10 out of 10!!" You know exactly how to curry his favor when you go topside and grab him new ingredients to use. That and shooting compliment after compliment his way. Sometimes he will trust you to stir or cut up veggies when he has too many things going on at once in the kitchen. The vibes are immaculate when you get the aux cord to the speaker in the kitchen, the both of you singing out all kinds of music and going into little dance breaks when a song is just too good to not groove to!

[oleander-nin]

Yandere rottmnt Donnie & Yandere rottmnt Leo.

Action prompt: 21- Donnie and Leo are chasing m/c after they make an escape attempt.

Verbal prompt: 21- said by either Donnie or Leo. Donnie or Leo say the line after recapturing m/c.

Mood: Not too dark or angsty, but not comforting either.

A/N, not important: I'm exhausted and a bit mentally drained, so I'm sorry if this isn't very good. I tried to even it out, but I'm not sure it worked. Any criticism is welcome, constructive or not. This is supposed to be a gender neutral reader, so if I screwed up somewhere, please tell me.

-Ollie

Tw: kidnap mentioned, arguing, breaking leg, needles, chasing, yandere, dark themes, bad writing

Words: 3389

Prompt(s) requested: 21a(Chase) & 21v("You can't run from my love.")

Summary: Donnie and Leo argue a lot, maybe you could use it to your advantage.

I lean against the wall I was tied to in annoyance, frustration bubbling in my chest as I watch the two argue. They had been going like this for hours, and it was starting to get more irritating than frightening. I roll my shoulders, trying to fix the discomfort I felt. I watch as Donnie clenches his fists at his side, his eyes narrowed while he stares down the slider in pajamas. “It’s MY night Leo! We agreed to the schedule, so we have to stick with it!”

Leo groans, leaning back against the wall dramatically. He pouts, trying to make his eyes

go big and doe looking to appeal to the empathetic side of his unimpressed brother. "But you got them all day yesterday!” Leo whines as he sinks down the wall. Donnie glares at his older brother, his face twitching. “It’s only fair I get them tonight!”

“It’s not my fault you broke dad’s favorite mug yesterday. I just kept them company while you were out finding a new one. It is fair.” Donnie’s face holds no sympathy for the slider, simply staring down his brother. Leo avoids Donnie’s gaze, staring at me instead. I shrink a bit, the metal rattling while I wilt under his watchful eyes. Leo frowns, his cheek sucking in as he chews on it in thought. I watch them both, staying quiet. I wasn’t sure what to do. I just wanted to leave. I had been here in the lair for months, and it was always the same. I was tired of being chained as they argue. I was tired of being hurt. I wanted to see my family. I wanted to go home. 

Donnie’s words make Leo huff again and they both continue their arguing, Donnie stomping his feet with each word that comes out of Leo’s mouth. Despite Leo’s nonchalant nature, it was clear he was getting frustrated as well. Their words got louder and the arguing got more physical, Donnie looking as if he was about to strangle his older brother. I turn my head to the door, the heads of the oldest and youngest brothers looking through the door. Mikey smiles gently at me, waving. I scowl, looking away from him. He acted like he cared but I knew he would turn me over in a heartbeat if he caught me trying to leave. No one here cared about Leo and Donnie’s problem, their behavior written off as nothing more than teenagers doing dumb stuff. My life being written off as nothing more than an afterthought, my person being written off as nothing more than a toy for the slider and softshell to break.

Raph wasn’t much better than Mikey, but at least he didn’t pretend to care about me. I refused to trust either, their loyalty was to their brothers despite the heroes they claimed to be. Neither Donnie nor Leo notice Raph walking in, annoyance on his face. I watch in slight amusement as Raph picks up the arguing brothers and shakes them slightly, making them both shut up.

“Why are you yelling!? It’s one am in the morning!” Raph’s voice was a harsh whisper, his face painted in tired anger. It was clear he was trying his best to stay quiet, not wanting to wake up their sleeping father. I watch Mikey leave, slipping away from the door where he was standing. I don’t blame him. I would have loved to leave too. I finger the chains around my ankles, watching Raph yell at his younger siblings. The arguments were common, but always terrifying. It was rare Raph stepping in soon enough to stop the two from getting violent. Hopefully now was one of those times.

“Donnie won’t let me have (Y/n) tonight!” Leo complains, crossing his arms as he glares at the softshell. Raph rolls his eyes, not finding Leo’s reason good enough for the loud argument they were having.

“Tonight’s my night! We agreed on a schedule!” Donnie’s retort makes Raph shake them both again, the younger turtles quieting.

“How about this,” Raph starts, tired frustration seeping into his voice. “You both sleep with them tonight. In the living room. Then you both get them and it’s not a problem.” Raph sets them down after he says his part, clearly expecting them to listen and agree.

“Scoff, why do you get to decide?” Donnie says, frowning while he crosses his arms over his chest. His forehead wrinkles in the place of his eyebrows, the scaly skin knitting together. I watch silently, trying my best to not draw any attention to my person in case they try to make me choose. That happened once before, and the anger of the one I didn’t pick was enough to make me know to never choose favorites again. Donnie pokes Raph, his eyes narrowing. “You’re not the leader anymore. Leo is.”

Donnie seems to immediately regret his words as Leo grins brightly. They turn their backs to me, a sigh of relief leaving my chest. Leo swings an arm over Donnie’s shoulder, a smug grin on his face. “You’re right, mi hermano! I am the leader. And as leader, I get (Y/n) tonight.”

Raph scowls at them both, separating the arguing brothers by grabbing the back of their shells and lifting them into the air. Leo bonks Donnie on the head and sticks his tongue out while Donnie tries to bite at his hand, Raph glaring at them both. “Both of you get (Y/n) tonight or neither of you get them. And leadership only matters during missions, not petty arguments. I’m the oldest, my word is final.” The threat is evident in Raph’s voice, his usually soft tone a dangerous growl. His anger was starting to boil over at his two middle brother’s nonsense, tired of their night time squabbling. 

Both turtles quiet down at his threat, grumbling quietly. Donnie crosses his arms, rolling his eyes as he looks back over at me. “Fine, we’ll sleep in the living room.”

Raph eyes the younger turtles suspiciously before nodding, putting them back down. He watches closely as Leo moves over to me, carefully unchaining my binds while Donnie looks stunned, grumbling at his blue-coded brother. “What are you doing?”

Leo glances at the genius, holding up the chains and waving it at him. "Untying them? What does it look like?"

Donnie’s frown deepens, moving to try and push Leo off. Raph takes a step forward in warning, both younger turtles stilling for a moment. I immediately try to stand when the chains fall, but Leo grabs me, throwing me over his shoulder so I bend at the waist. I groan in discomfort, the lip of his shell digging painfully into my stomach. Raph steps out of the way, tilting his head towards the door to signal their leave.

Leo sticks his tongue out at Donnie in triumph, much happier with the arrangement than his genius of a brother was. Donnie grumbles as he follows, looking at me as Leo carries me into the living room. A flash of emotion crosses Donnie’s eyes, one I can’t quite place. His scaly hand cups my face, thumb rubbing my cheek as he seems to inspect me. I try to shrink back slightly, but his grip on my face tightens as Leo and Donnie walk. Donnie mumbles something under his breath before pulling his hand back, watching unimpressed while Leo shoves blankets onto the floor.

Leo sets me down on the nest of blankets, throwing another over me before I hear his feet pad away to his room. I pull the blanket off my head, flinching back slightly when I see Donnie’s face right in front of mine. I hesitate for a moment, his blank face close to my own. I lean back a tab, trying to put space in between us both. Donnie frowns, kneeling in front of me and grabbing my hands. I freeze, glancing in between his hands and his face in worry. The softshell notices the way I tense, his hands flipping mine over and gently massaging my palms. I look at him, not sure how to react. 

Donnie looks into my eyes, his hands yanking me towards him by my wrists. I fall against him, trying to push myself off, grimacing as I feel the softshell’s arms wrap around me and hold me tight. I wince when I feel his face near mine, his cheek pressed into my own. “You were supposed to be mine.”

Donnie’s words send a chill down my spine, my hands continue to press on his shoulders while I try to escape. Donnie huffs, frowning at my struggle. He squeezes me in warning, a small kiss pressed to my temple. I stop moving, sighing in defeat. My head perks up when I hear Leo’s feet padding through the room, his arms full of blankets and pillows. I see the scowl on his face when he notices how close Donnie held me, how tight his arms were around me. Leo drops the blankets next to the nest, reaching down and hooking a finger in the collar of Donnie’s pajamas. Donnie glares at the slider, using an arm to try and bat Leo away. 

With the opening he created, Leo hooks an arm around me and yanks me out of Donnie’s grip. The blue-coded mutant lays down while hugging me close to his chest, resting his chin on the top of my head. Donnie grumbles, but lays down on the spread of blankets as well, looking sourly at his older brother.

The two turtles continue to fight as they hold on to me, their whispered threats growing louder by the second. I grimace, Leo’s arms tightening around my midsection as he harshly tugs me closer to him. Donnie retaliates by pushing Leo’s face into his shell, tugging me closer to himself by my arm. Their voices grow louder as I close my eyes, grimacing. Donnie’s whispered shout makes me wince, his voice closer to my ear than I would ever want. “Let go! You’re hogging them!”

Donnie’s words make me frown. I hated being treated as nothing more than a stuffed toy and I was worried one of them might hurt me during their tug of war. They never seemed to care much for my well being, both claiming to ‘love’ me, but neither interested in me unless they can rub it in the other's face. Leo sticks a tongue out at his brother, his grip tightening more around my midsection. “You’re just mad they want to be closer to me.”

I did not, in fact, want to be closer to either of them. I try and wiggle out of their tight hold, both of them going still at my movement. Donnie shoots me a glare while Leo rests his chin on my shoulder, grinning down at me. “Where you trying to go, wiggle worm?”

Donnie and Leo both grip me closer while waiting for my answer, neither moving their staring eyes from my own. I open my mouth to stay something, my hair raising on end from the adrenaline that started to pump through my veins, my mouth dry. I sigh in relief when Raph's loud voice booms through the lair instead, Leo and Donnie recoiling slightly. "I can still hear you!"

Leo sighs dramatically, hooking one leg over mine as he settles down some. Donnie huffs rolling his eyes, but also settles down. Neither seemed interested in fighting anymore, fatigue and exhaustion shining through their faces. Leo presses his face into my neck, a shiver going down my spine while I gag slightly. His skin was rough, his plastron pressing harshly into my back from his grip.

Donnie wasn't much better, but he wasn't as attached to me. His hand gripped mine, his three fingers laced with my five as laid on his side, silently staring at me. I look at him, not sure what to make of his relentless stare. He says nothing, choosing to just squeeze my hand gently before closing his eyes. 

I hear Leo's light snores behind me, his chest rumbling slightly as he sleeps. My breath hitches slightly as I feel Leo’s grip loosen in his sleep, excitement and hope growing in my chest. Would I be able to get away while they slept? My eyes move to Donnie’s figure, waiting for his breathing to slow, for him to indicate that he was asleep. If they were both asleep, could I get away? The only thing keeping me down was their holds on me, and Leo was a deep enough sleeper for me to slip out. Hopefully. It was Donnie I had to worry about. After being here for so long, I had learned their sleeping patterns, learned their habits. When Leo went to sleep, he slept long and deep. He wasn’t the hardest to wake, but he was slow to do so. He never stirred at soft movements, his brain too at ease to wake him immediately. 

Donnie however was usually drunk on caffeine, coffee running through his veins instead of blood. The caffeine made him jittery, easily startled. He claimed it didn’t do much, but the effect was obvious. Especially when it was paired with multiple all-nighters. Donnie had already drank enough coffee to supply a village and hadn’t slept yesterday. He would wake easy, his body on edge as it tries to recuperate while he sleeps. I was glad he wasn’t as clingy, wasn’t as touchy. If he was wrapped around me the way Leo was, I would never be able to even consider leaving. But he wasn’t, being too overwhelmed to do any more than hold my hand. I smile softly, closing my eyes in case he checks on me as his mind tries to calm. I could wait.

***

It takes a few hours, my mind running slow as sleep fights my will to leave. My brain tries to coax me into a slumber, my adrenaline fighting with my fatigue. Donnie’s breathing had finally slowed, his grip had finally slipped. I carefully slip my hand out of his own, chewing on my cheek from the anxiety. I pause when his face twitches, his eyelid spasming slightly. I wait a moment, watching closely before continuing. He stills once more, a quiet breath coming from his chest.

I take my now free hand and carefully roll my shoulders, loosening the blue sleeping turtles grip even more. His arm falls at his side, a loud snore escaping him. He shifts in his sleep at my movement, falling to the side and now laying on his back. I almost cry in relief, completely free from his grasp. I carefully push myself up, sitting on my knees as I pop my back. I look down at them both, completely unbelieving of my luck. I stand up, making as little noise as possible as I back up. I watch them both, all exhaustion leaving my body, quickly being replaced by pure euphoria. I was free. I could run. And so I did.

Moving quickly, I start to make my way out of the lair. I dodge the furniture and strewn about objects, trying to stay as quiet as possible. My feet thud quietly and I wince, my walk turning into a run as I continue. The subway the Hamato’s claimed as their lair was large, my hands shaking slightly as I look for the exit. I never used it. I wondered if I could even find it.

My blood runs cold as I hear Leo shout, his voice panicked. I run into the garage, relief flooding me when my eyes land on the large opening that leads to stairs. Stairs that lead to a tunnel. A tunnel that leads to light. Light that means freedom.

My legs pump as I dash up the stairs, crashing and yells sounding behind me. Neither had entered the garage, neither knew where I was yet. I had the advantage. I push myself to go faster, my heart hammering in my chest. My brain muted the world, my vision tunneled on the stretch of concrete in front of me. I ran and ran, dodging the hand that sticks out of the bright blue portal. My heart nearly stops when I see more portals dot the tunnel, Leo and Donnie appearing out of one. I dodge Leo’s outstretched arms, run from Donnie’s spider-esque claws. Warning bells thundered through my head as my face went ashen, Donnie and Leo yelling words I couldn’t understand.

I avoid their uncoordinated attacks, running as fast as I can. I don’t notice them stopping, don’t notice the way Leo grabs Donnie's shoulder, the way they start to plan. I skid to a stop when the tunnel shines bright blue, a large portal covering the entire length of the tunnel. My blood rushes to my head at my sudden stop, my heart loud in my ears.

Two hands land on my shoulders, the cool metal of Donnie’s claws sting my wrist. I take a step back, thrashing in their grip. Leo’s arms wrap around me, lifting me slightly in the air. His hold is tight, his plastron pressed firmly to my back once more. Donnie enters my vision, his face a hard stare. Leo’s chin rests on my shoulder as I shake, still thrashing around in his grip. Donnie grunts in pain when my foot makes contact with his chest, trying to push the turtle back. Donnie grips the limb in hand, his grip harsh around my ankle. I try to yank my foot back, yelling incoherently at the two. Donnie looks behind me, Leo’s chin pressing further into my shoulder in a quick nod.

I struggle for a moment more before a sharp pain erupts from my ankle, a scream ripped from my chest. Donnie drops my broken ankle, moving closer to cup my chin. Leo's chest rumbles against my back as he laughs, tears starting to well in my eyes from the agony Donnie caused. His hand grabs my chin, holding my face in place. He glares into my eyes, his face set in a cold anger. “You were supposed to be asleep.”

Donnie’s statement brings a snort from me, the pain and anger mixing together into a defiant. Leo grips me tighter, nuzzling his face into the nape of my neck. “Plans change.” I grit out, my ankle still throbbing. I do everything I can not to cry out in pain when Donnie reaches down and squeezes the damaged ankle.

“You can’t run from our love,” Leo states, anger bleeding into his otherwise cheerful voice. He was holding back his anger, trying to not lash out. He squeezes tightly once more in warning before loosening his grip a small amount. “You can’t run from us.”

Donnie rolls his shoulders before a long metal arm appears from his battle shell, a small needle on its end. I start thrashing again, screams and shouts escaping me. Donnie forcefully tilts my head to expose more of my neck, Leo whispering small nothings into my ear as he holds me still. I try to kick Donnie again, panicked shouts and cries reverberating around the concrete walls. The needle seamlessly enters my skin, injecting whatever Donnie had into my veins. I let out a strangled cry as the needle pulls back out, Donnie nodding in satisfaction.

My limbs grow heavy as my eyes start to close, trying my best to fight the injection. Donnie and Leo start talking, my brain too heavy in my head to understand. My head hangs low, Leo shifting me in his grip until he holds me between both arms, one arm at the back of my knees and the other across the back of my shoulders.

My head falls limply on his shoulder despite my desperate attempts to pick it back up, to fight the sleep rapidly taking over my person. A flash of blue shines through my barely opened eyes, the turtles taking me back to the lair once more. I feel a small peck on my forehead before my body gives out, the serum winning over my will. A last flood of anxiety fills my veins when my eyes close, my heart never quitting its endless hammer. My captors smile as I finally sleep.

[misteria247]

Some random bullshit about Leo from the 12 series having a dog(s) cuz again it's on my mind and the guy really deserves something nice for once:

It was April's idea to get Leo a canine companion. After seeing how much her friend and brother was really struggling with things and seeing how Raph, Donnie and Mikey had little companions to help them out she'd decided to do some research on possible animals that could help Leo out. She of course told the boys about her plans and they were completely on board wanting Leo to have something to help him as well.

It'd taken a bit of time, there were many different shelters and local breeders in NYC and with the help of Casey, April and him would go and visit the places to see if they were what they were looking for. While they did this, Raph, Donnie and Mikey sneakily made the lair a bit more pet proof, using the excuse of Chompy starting to get a bit bigger to avert Leo's suspensions. They also did some research on getting the dog to be trained for therapy as to help their older brother with his emotional, mental and physical state. Donnie ended up starting a small anonymous business to fix broken down things for money and Raph started to sell a bit of his artwork online to help out in the financial department for the future therapy training sessions that the dog would need to go through.

It took a lot of work and a lot of time but the group finally managed to get things in place and find good sources for the things they needed. April and Casey enrolled in the training sessions due to the turtles being unable to go out in society and Donnie took down notes and tips to help out in the therapy training. They ended up finding two possible breeds of puppies that they could go with, one being a larger breed while the other was a smaller breed. A lot of debates were thrown around as to which one would be better for Leo. Ranging from the larger breed which would get their older brother to exercise his knee and arm to the smaller breed being a good cuddling support and give their older brother something to dot on with his parental affection. In the end they ended up getting two puppies from both sides.

The day that Leo had met his new companions was close to their mutation day. The lair was filled with their family such as Mona Lisa, Karai and Shinigami, who had already been alerted about the gang's plan. Leo was sitting on one of the sofas, talking to Karai while Raph and Casey went to get the pups. Soon gifts were passed out to one another and it was then that April taking the lead explained one gift was from her and Casey while the other was from Raph, Donnie and Mikey. It was with that que that the two boys came out holding the two adorable puppies and earning cheers of Surprise Leo from the others.

To say Leo was shocked would be an understatement.

At first Leo was worried and a bit apprehensive about the whole thing. After all one dog was a lot of work but two? He had no idea how he was going to do this, especially with the financial aspect (which he later found out that his two brothers had already had that covered and planned out ahead of time). But one look at the two sweet pups and getting a few wagging tails and kisses, the eldest gave in and caved pretty quickly into getting on board with it.

Afterwards Leo basically became wrapped around these canines paws. He spoiled them both with love and affection, putting his all into taking care of them as they grew. He did everything that he was told by April, Casey and Donnie about the training (to which he got a bit teary eyed when he realized that they all really put a lot of thought into this whole thing) and the results of having them around really began to show on the oldest Hamato.

Leo became a bit more energetic than he had been, the once somewhat weighed down vibe he usually carried with him became a bit more lightened as he bonded with his dogs. He began to smile a little more and relaxed a bit more than he used to. While it obviously didn't fix everything it was quite clear that April's idea had a positive effect on the blue clad leader and it made his brothers more than relieved to see it. Seeing their big brother and clan leader look more like his older self than the tired, exhausted person he'd become over the years really lifted Raph, Donnie and Mikey's spirits.

Mikey ends up hoisting playdates for the pups to get used to the other animals in the lair. Ice Cream Kitty at first is a bit on edge however she got used to them fairly quickly and tolerated their presence. Chompy on the other hand adored them. Growing a bit more than he original size, the alien turtle found amazing playmates in the pups, especially the smaller one. Mikey's taken several pictures of these playdates and has shared the pics with Leo, Raph, Donnie, April and Casey who all had their hearts melt at them.

As time goes on and the dogs begin to grow and get better at their therapy training it becomes quite clear that they've grown protective over their owner and his family. The larger dog will let out loud warning barks if it hears something in the sewers coming closer to the lair and the smaller dog will place itself on Leo's lap whenever there's company over or strangers, ready to nip if they posed a possible threat to him.

And when Leo has one of those days, the kind where he can't sleep due to his nightmares or when his knee becomes unbearable in the pain spectrum or his vocal chords make it hard for him to talk, his dogs will stick close to him, sensing his distress. They'll lay their heads on his lap, or snuggle close to him and just lay there next to him. Offering emotional support as they were trained to do. Leo will often times begin to mindlessly pet their heads, scratching behind their ears and just focusing on them instead of the things that are currently making it harder for him to function. It's a welcomed change to him and he begins to understand why his brothers went to their respective companies for emotional support.

All in all Leo's life gets a bit easier with the two dogs helping him out and his family are thrilled that their planning had managed to give him a positive boost and a good outlet for their favorite dork of a leader.

[reyna--applesinjune]

TMNT x Arcane

So I've been rewatching season one of Arcane and haven't finished that yet. Season two is out and I randomly got this idea of What if TMNT was Arcane? Crossover time!

So I imagine the Arcane to be the mystic powers shown in 2003 and 2018 tmnt versions. So I will be calling them Mystics instead of the Arcane/Magic.

Main Characters:

Raphael (Violet) as the oldest of the group and leader. Raph is an alligator snapping turtle as in ROTTMNT. As a teenager he is big, but won't get too much taller due to the chemicals from Zaun. He will get stronger nevertheless. Raph's personality is more similar to 2012 TMNT. His weapons are tonfas when younger, but change to the gauntlets with three spikes on the end, resembling the points of the Sai.

Michelangelo (Powder/Jinx) as the youngest of the group. I was first going to go with Leo as Jinx, but decided to match more the "hearing dead brothers" from the Last Ronin and artistic mindset of Mikey. This would lead Claggor and Mylo to be Donnie and Leo. The same weapons as Jinx, but with more chains attached. How will that look in a fight? Idk, maybe better hand to hand.

Hamato Yoshi (Vander) is the previous leader of the underground. He is a human at first until he is "killed". Then he is mutated and turned into a rat like Vander is theorized to be Warwick.

Oroku Saki/Shredder (Slico). Taking the backstory of the 2012 and adding it to make Yoshi and Saki brothers in this crossover. Slico's personaility stays, just with Saki's physical features and wearing more armor.

Mona Lisa (Caitlyn) will look like 2012 tmnt version and the same outfit as Caitlyn, but light blue instead of purple. Still a sharp shooter.

April O' Neil (Ekko) as the childhood friend who leads a resistance. I imagine MMTMNT hair style and ROTTMNT general attitude and positivity to be here. Of course instead of white on the head, it would be red/ginger. Abilities and weapon choice stay the same as in Arcane.

Bishop/Krangg (Heimerdinger) is a human-looking robot, but is acutally a krangg. I imagine he does the robot thing to give some ease of mind to other humans on his appearance. Got the idea from 2012 version of Bishop.

Casey Jones (Jayce) as the charming man with smarts to change the city. I am still on the fence of having Casey be in Jayce's role, but it seemed better fitting than others. I imagine Casey to be more goofy and a joker in this version like other TMNT ones, but way more using brain smarts.

Viktor and Mel is a lot harder and I haven't really thought of any. I thought Viktor could be Baxter Stockman, but I like Baxter as the doctor working for Silco instead. Donnie could be Viktor, but in this universe, Donnie and Leo are already dead when Raph and Mikey are adults. Maybe Viktor could be leatherhead since he was a scientist in the 2003 version. Maybe Mel could be Karai here. I imgaine Viktor's assitant to have been Irma from TMNT

Anyways those are the ideas! Feel free to reblog or comment your opinions, additions, ideas, etc. If anyone does art with this crossover idea, please use the tags! Would love to see it

[ashwii]

i wanted to ask stuff about your rottmnt celestial au and idk if i'm doing it right (im new to tumblr), but uh apologies in advance i thought of a lot of questions

so since Leo feels pain when one of the stars die, does Mikey also feel pain when a comet dies? what about the things they overlook but don't embody (other moons, other suns, all the other zippity things)? do they still feel physical pain for those things?

2. are Raph and Donnie literally the sun/moon? bcuz you said what happens for eclipses , but like- is the sun literally a giant turtle and are donnie and raph just stuck in orbit? if they wanted to travel to a different part of space, would the sun/moon just disappear?

3. is each individual star, zippity thing, moon, and sun, embodied by a creature thing like the turtles? you said that they consider the planets good friends, so are the planets creatures? and is earth literally whatever creature they are with people living on it?

4. you said that raph is the oldest even though leo would technically be oldest, but i like to imagine leo is the oldest, he just did something really dumb centuries ago and "got his oldest sibling rights revoked." he complains about it sometimes but was compensated with getting to be twins with donnie (this wasn't really a question lol)

5. do the siblings ever feel inferior to each other? like does donnie get upset that he always has to orbit something and does raph get upset he embodies something leo already kinda does? is this angst potential?

6. if the turtles are just floating around in space, does NASA not have any pictures of them? cause satellites? what do they think about satellites and the humans trying to go to space?

7. if the earth's sun/moon died, would raph/donnie also die, or do all of the suns/moons have to die? what about mikey? is it just the comets dying that would kill him or does it have to be everything?

8. is any of the siblings more powerful than the other, or all they all balanced out somehow?

9. what do they do in their free time? it seems like they would get bored a lot

10. what do they think about humans worshipping the sun and stuff? do they even know about that?

11. not a question, but this au seems really cool and i really love the designs C:

Oh boy this is a lot, SO IN ORDER

Yes they do! It's just no where neat as prevalent as leo, since there are LOTS and LOTS of stars up in space.

Ah, that's kinda thinking too deep about it — they make an eclipse bc it's a "sun and moon thing" to do, but it's not like they're literally stuck to one spot and can't move. This is just a silly au with fun ideas, no need to limit ourselves to what legitimately happens up in space ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ [and even then, I almost think of the celestial turts more as concepts than physical beings — maybe only having a physical form to talk to april hehe].

Nope! The planets and such are just there doing their own thing. It's like how maybe you pass a tree every day on you way to work, and overtime you say hi to the tree, maybe sit by it, talk to it — that's about the turt's relationship with the planets [and other celestial things], except i like to think there a bit of a legitimate connection there hehe.

[Skipping down to 5] Mmm I don't think so 🤔 maybe as a sibling rivalry thing Leo reminds raph that he's "so much better" than him XD. But they all love their rolls and what they look over.

NASA doesn't have any pics, like I saod I think of the space turts more as concepts than physical beings. Donnie js suoer into eath tech tho — S.H.E.L.D.O.N. is actually made of lost human space tech, and the turts love that the human want to see space so bad.

Donnie and Raph a little different than Leo and Mikey — at least in my head. Donnie and Raph SPECIFICALLY embody earth's moon and sun, so if either Donnie or Raph die, then earth's sun/moon dies. Mikey is the embodiment of ALL the comets, and Leo is the embodiment of ALL the stars. So if Leo were to die, then all the stars would go out, and same kind of thing for Mikey and his comets.

I mean, none of them have powers or anything 🤔 they don't exactly "control" everything that goes on in space, they're just uo there kind of vibing, hehe.

They talk to each other, they tend to what they look over, and they observe the life on earth— seems boring to us, but they love each and every thing up and space, and they love the life on earth so much <3

Mm, I honestly have no idea what they would think about that XD. I feel that maybe they'd be flattered, aha.

And thank you, I'm happy you like the au <3

[will-continue-livinglikeimtrying]

ROTTMNT short fic:

I'm Sorry

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Leo huffed and grumbled under his breath as he kept bandaging and undoing and re-bandaging the same stupid dummy , replaying the "Basic Bandage" video on his twin's purple tablet (a beat up and cracked old thing it was, but still worked great!) at the same time because well he just couldn't focus !

"Stupid big brother privileges, stupid Raph, stupid Dad. "

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Earlier that day, in the late afternoon-ish, their father had once again announced that he would be going on an emergency supply run. They were running out of food fast, and ironically, it wasn't even due to his biggest brother..... Well, mostly.

Apparently baby brothers came with big appetites too.

Who knew?

Dad had been in one of his moods as well all day, but it wasn't his usual 'hide away' moods, or his 'dis-a-so-si-a-ted' moods (as Donnie calls it), he was in one of his 'snappy angy' moods (as Mikey called it) and wasn't to pleased to find out that most of the food was gone, though he didn't say it, his not so quiet grunts and the look on his face said everything.

He had asked Raph to go with him, again, needing the extra help because his back had been bothering him more and more recently.

They had all noticed, especially Leo, resident medic (self-proclaimed after Dad got him a first-aid kit for his and Don's birthday), and he thought, now at age 8, he could totally go with and help them more! That way they'd be able to get way more food and other goods back home and their dad wouldn't have to go out so often or carry a lot with his poor old back! Perfect plan!

But when he asked...

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"No." Dad has answered. "Absolutely not. I do not need more to worry about while we are on top."

Donnie and Mikey were already in the 'play room', ready with entertainment, enough to keep them distracted till their father and brother's departure and return, while Raph, already packed to the T with bags, was standing to the side of his Father and little brother, awkwardly shifting from side to side as he waited for the argument that was bound to break out, as that seems to be happening more often these days.

"But why?" Leo asked genuinely, not in his 'whiny' and 'demanding' voice as he knew that would make his father upset quicker, and this was serious. "I know we need more things than usual, and I know you need more help, I'm quick and small so I can get into places faster, and I have a better chance of no one seeing me, and- and ! Donnie's super smart and is good down here with Mike so there's nothing to worry about on that front! He's great at watching him! Please Dad! Please !"

His Dad rubbed between his eyes and turned to him swiftly, gaze narrowed. "I. Said. No."

Leo looked away with a pout, unable to shake off the inevitable disappointment he was honestly expecting, as it seems to be happening more often these days, but Blue Leonardo Splinterson wasn't anything if not stubborn!

"But why ?"

His Dad went to open his mouth, the typical response on his tongue until Leo said loudly "And 'because I said so' won't work this time! The man on TV said that wasn't a real answer!"

Splinter closed his mouth and grumbled again for a bit about how he shouldn't have let them watch that show when he wasn't awake.

"Listen, Blue, I do not have time for this. Raphael, explain to your brother why he cannot go, I will make sure we have all we need before our departure." He asked Raph and walked away to make last minute checks of everything, leaving his eldest son standing there annoyed at him while his third youngest watched him walk away before whipping around to his big brother.

"Please can I go?"

Raph sighed heavily, staring tiredly in the direction their dad had disappeared to before turning to Leo. "Sorry bud, no is no, it's just... no."

The pout was back and Leo looked away from Raph, rubbing hard at his eyes before looking back up at his oldest brother with big shiny eyes. "... Can you at least tell me why?"

This seemed to catch Raph of guard, and yet he expected it. "It's cuz you're..." But how to answer him, "Well... Uh..."

"Cuz what Raph?" Leo looked up at him again, tilting his head, genuinely curious.

"Cuz, uhm..."

"If it's a spefif- spesis- if it's cuz of one thing, maybe I can fix it!"

Raph looked around the room at that, setting his eyes on anything that isn't his little brother looking at him with new found determination and bouncing with a little bit of hope and excitement.

"Is it cuz I'm too loud? I can be quiet! As silent as a ninja, I promise!"

"uh..."

"Is it cuz I move around a lot? I can't help it! I just have a lot of extra buzz going through me! But I can stay still! Well, I can try! I'll stay as still as a pole and won't leave yours or Dad's side the whole time! So still no one can see me so please please can I go?"

"It's not that Leo it's..."

Leo stared at him with big hopeful eyes.

"You're- it's the, uhm..." Raph sweats, feeling like a thousand pairs of eyes were on him instead of just two.

'Gosh why couldn't Dad do this.'

"Uh... Oh! "

'Duh, Dad said it before.'

"It's cuz you're the 'problem child', y'know?"

Leo's exited shaking stopped, and he stared up at Raph confused.

Problem child? What's that mean? He wasn't a problem... was he?

"... I... don't get it."

"Well, Just means ya, uh, make things a little more, uhm... difficult, to do when you're around, is all."

"... Difficult?" Leo didn't know what to do with that, the little hope he had was suddenly replaced with hurt, and it was the usual hurt he would get with Dad so it shouldn't be bothering him this much.

But it wasn't Dad this time.

"Yeah..." Raph kept going, "and, well, look, it's just... It's safer if ya stay here is all, with Mikey and Donnie, and you guys can even have fun here, Gosh I'm so jealous, you guys get to watch those movies Dad found last time and eat snacks, sounds cool right?" Raph tried to cheer little brother up, but quickly deflated when he saw that Leo wasn't looking at him, just at the floor with a huge frown and eyes scrunched while he was rubbing his hands together, breathing quick.

Raph resisted the urge to roll his eyes at the obvious signs of a meltdown. 'Oh please don't throw another tantrum.'

What was surprising was that a tantrum didn't follow, not this time at least. Leo simply, scrubbed his face on his shoulder and shrugged. "Oh... Okay."

Neither of them moved after that.

Leo tried so hard to keep his tears at bay. He wouldn't be that surprised if it was his Dad saying something like that, they haven't been on the best of terms as of late so it didn't hurt him as much as it used to, but for his oldest, biggest brother, his best friend, to say those words so casually, to call him a problem, like they didn't sting...

Like he believed it...

... Nah, that didn't hurt at all either.

Raph noticed his brother's slight shaking, and rubbed his arm in guilt. "Sorry bud, but this one's really important, maybe next time, okay?" He smiled reassuringly, and took a step forward with open arms to pull his brother into one of his famous 'make everything better' hugs (as Mikey called them), but instead, Leo took a step back, turning away from him.

Raph recoiled his arms back like they had been slapped away, confusion and hurt on his face.

Leo paused for a bit, then took a deep, shaky breath and shot his big brother a smile, it didn't feel real, more forced- a lot of them felt that way these days- but that's ok, Raph didn't need to know that. He threw his hands behind his head and decided it would be best to just walk away this time.

'Run away like I always do.'

"Nah, it's cool, I don't really care, it would've been super boring anyway, see ya."

He casually walked to his room, ignoring Raph's calls for him, passing by Mikey and Donnie setting up the TV for their movie night, and then his Dad, who was walking back with two big bags. "Ah, I see your brother managed to help you see reason?" Leo stopped and shot his dad a sharp smile. "Yup, he helped me to see a lot of things actually."

"Good." His father gave a firm nod, and then hesitated for a bit. "... You are too young to understand the dangers of the outside world just yet Leonardo-"

'-And Raph isn't?' Leo wanted to cut him off with a sneer.

"-But one day, you will know that these decisions I make, I made out of care for you and your brothers." His father said, a bit of light that wasn't always there coming into his eyes.

But Leo didn't respond, so once again awkward silence followed instead.

His father shifted nervously. "... Why don't you tell me what you would like from the surface, and I will do my best to get you it while me and your brother are out, hm? How does that sound?"

Leo resisted the urge to roll his eyes at his Dad. "Yeah, sure." He shrugged.

Silence once again.

His father coughed and pretended to look in the bags he was holding. "... What is it would you like?"

'For you to trust me.'

"Nothing really, comic maybe? I don't know, why don't you ask Don-Tron and Mike?" He turned around and continued his way to his room. "See ya later, Splinter."

Splinter stopped then to look up at his son's retreating form.

... That was the first time any of his sons had called him anything other than father.

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Leo had made his way back to his room after that, and after some silent crying in his pillow decided to make use of himself and keep working on his doctoring skill.

Donnie said it was "Medic Skills" and that "Doctoring" was something completely different, but Leo liked saying Doctoring, so *blows raspberry*.

As he finally finished bandaging up the dummy's arm, he looked back at the video and realized he did it wrong.

"Dangit!" He lost focus. Again. "Ugh!" Why was this so hard?! Why couldn't he just focus?!

... This is why Dad and Raphie didn't wanna take him with them though, isn't it? Cuz he couldn't focus, or pay good attention, or sit still, or do anything right.

Leo pushed the doll aside and curled up around his knees.

He couldn't help it, but he was trying his best, really he was, it's just.... he doesn't know.

But that's the problem, isn't it.

He never knows.

Leo sniffed as he quickly tried to scrub the tears away.

He just wanted to make them proud. Show them that they can trust him, that it doesn't always have to be just Raph, or Dad.

... Whatever, if they want it to be just Raph and Dad, so be it.

He shook the blurriness from his eyes as he looked up at the replay on the video, and then back at the dummy...

He might not be the strongest, or the smartest, or the most creative, but as the "medic"...

Well...

Raph's hands are too big to help with a lot of the boo-boo's they get, and he gets so scared of his own strength that he gets shaky.

Donnie hates the squishy, and the sticky, and the messiness of it all, and usually prefers running tests with diagrams and pencils (as well as some of the computer and tablets they've been "finding").

Mikey, along with how he doesn't really like the icky, also can't focus well, and gets really scared and hysterical when one of them gets hurt, something he might grow out of later maybe, but they don't need a medic later, they need a medic now.

And Leo... He gets scared. He hates it when his brothers get hurt, or upset for real real, but he's the only one brave enough to pull through, or at least he can pretend to be long enough to do it. He can hide the way he really feels better then any of them, so he might not be the greatest, but he's, for now, the best (and only) medic they've got, and that means something.

At least it does to him.

So, with one final sniff and wipe at his tears, he sat back up and tried again.

After all, Blue Leonardo Splinterson wasn't anything if not stubborn!

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After what felt like hours, Leo finally finished learning his fourth bandaging technique: Elbow Bandage- figure of eight.

Not half bad if he does say so himself.

And he does.

He decided to move away from bandaging to study up on some Sickness & Medicine. Can't ever be too careful when you're a Turtle living on the sewers of New York City.

As he was pulling out his supplies, books, gloves, masks (like I said, can't be too careful), he heard footsteps walking towards his room.

'Hm, who could that be?'

Couldn't be Mikey, his footsteps are either super fast or tiptoey, never an in-between.

Couldn't be Bubby, Don's surprisingly super quiet but usually sounds like patpatpatpat, plus these one's were too heavy.

It's not Dad.

So that only leaves...

Leo shot a glare at the figure that appeared at his room opening: "Raph."

Said Turtle just stood there, staring at the floor and shuffling his feet, hands behind his back.

Leo 'hmpf-ed' at him. "Well," he snapped out, "I hope you came to say sorry cuz I- !" he paused suddenly, now noticing the quiet sniffles coming from the Snapper, as well as tear marks going down his face. Leo felt whatever petty anger he had held towards his older brother for the past hours disappear, in turn worry replaced it. "Hey buddy," he started, much more quiet and softer this time as he crawled to the edge of his bed, "what's wrong?" Raph let out some more sniffles as he finally looked up and pulled out something he was apparently holding behind his back.

A lovingly used, maroon colored teddy bear, who wore a top hat and a bow.

Who was also, upon closer inspection, torn at the top of her right arm.

"Oooooh, Ms. Fluffington."

Leo moved to one side and patted his bed, a clear invitation that his immediate older brother took hesitantly. "What happened to 'er?" Leo asked, carefully reaching over for the stuffy. He knew how much the bear meant to Raph, it was one of the nicest things that had ever been given to him by their Dad after all.

Raph whined high, but otherwise didn't do anything as Ms. Fluffington was gently taken away from him to be examined. "I- *sniff*- I- I got m-m- angry again and I- *hic*- I couldn't- I shouldn't- I don't know she was there when I- and- *sniff* and- *hic*- I'm sorry !" A damn seemed to have broken cuz Raph was full-blown sobbing now. "C-can you h-elp her?" He managed to gurgle out between tears.

Leo looked closely at her arm with his loupe that he definitely didn't steal from Donnie. After a tense examination he gave a firm nod and jumped off his bed (not before placing Patient Fluffington down on his blanket) running to grab his secret surgery kit (it was a simple sowing kit he definitely stole from Dad). "Aha!" He ran back to his bed and clambered on, opening the lid and grabbing a needle and some baby-pink sewing thread.

"Uh," Raph rubbed at his face as his cries grew quieter, "d-does Dad know-"

"You want me to help or not?" Leo raised a challenging- non-existing- brow.

Raph immediately clamped his mouth.

"That's what I thought."

Silently Leo got to work, careful sewing Ms. Fluffington back together, occasionally pulling up a short video to see the best way to do it, or shooing away his hovering worry wort brother. He was deep in focus in thought as he slowly made sure he got each stitching right. 'He wasn't said sorry yet.' Leo snuck a glance at his biggest brother, noting the worry and regret on his tear covered face and softened a bit. 'but... I guess it's ok, this time.'

After a stressful almost hour he was finally- "Finished!"

He held patient Fluffington up proudly as he gave her one last check-over, nodding in approval when nothing else seemed to be wrong and happily handing her to his red clad brother. Raph lit up like a Christmas tree when he saw she was ok. "Oh Ms. Fluffington!" He pulled her close to his chest. "I'm so so so sorry! I promise I'll never ever ever hurt you like that again!" Leo smiled at his big brother's happiness and began cleaning up the kit. "Uh... Leo?" Leo gazed up at his older brother, head tilted. "What's up? Did I miss something?" Raph once again wasn't meeting his eyes, just looking around with sad eyes as he hugged patient Fluffington close. "Are... Are you still angry with me?" He asked, bottom lip quivering.

"Hey hey big guy, 'course I'm not still angry buddy!" Leo pushed to sowing kit aside and sat closer to his brother. "It's... it's ok, I know you didn't mean it. Besides, we're A Team, remember!" Leo held his fist up to his older brothers, who looked at it with new tears brimming in his eyes. "We'll always come back together, no matter how annoying you are."

Raph laughed wetly, wiping away his tears with his sleeves. "Me? You're the one driving me crazy!" They both laughed then, Leo shoving Raph gently with foot, before nudging his fist on his brother's side. "Well...?"

Raph looked at it and then smiled at his brother's, colliding their fists together as they both yelled out:

*BOOM*

Ringing filled Raph's ears as he stared up at the illuminated colored sky the purple sheen that surrounded it suddenly turned into a multicoloured mess. It looked unnatural.

It looked like hell.

In the center of it all was the ship. Or what was left of it at least. Falling out the sky, sliced in half.

Kraang Prime had blown his two youngest brothers off both a powerful hit, and Leo, his ever fearless brother, sent Raph right after them, the last thing he heard was his name before he was portable towards Mikey and Donnie.

Leo didn't follow them though.

No.

He stayed behind to fight that monster, because of course he did.

Heh, makes sense.

Leo's never been much of a follower.

As the blast of the explosion reached them it hit Raph not just straight on, but it felt like it shook him inside too. Like his heart was sinking, like his mind was numb.

He didn't even feel it as his knees hit the ground.

'No.' He thought. 'Not like this. Please, anything but this.'

His fist hit the floor as he heaved to the ground, sobbing but no tears came out.

'Please,' He asked anyone, anything that would listen, 'please.' He coughed, unable to breathe. 'There's so much we have to do, so much we have to talk about still. So many jokes and puns and quips and what-have you he hasn't told me yet.' Raph sobbed at the ground, but still nothing came out.

'I didn't get to say I'm sorry.'

[azar-rosethorn]

Introducing........

A fanmade TMNT Iteration created by yours truly!! Inspired by Rise and TMNT 2012.

ALSO feel free to drop into the ask box ANY questions u have pls I love interacting with yall!

also I would love you forever if u reblogged this so it reaches more people pls pls pls

Origins:

The Hamato Clan had broken into the Foot Clan headquarters in order to steal the Dark Armor before Oroku Saki could inherit it. But, Hamato Yoshi underestimated the armor's power, and got mortally wounded while trying to obtain it. He would've died if it wasn't for the mysterious purple vines that wrapped him up before he blacked out. Three days later, Yoshi woke up in a sewer, all healed up (though, with some strange new physical features), and accompanied by some strange looking turtle eggs, as well as a note taped to the basket they came in. Over the next 3 years, the eggs hatched one by one (well, except Leo and Donnie, those two hatched around the same time), and over the next 16 years, Splinter raised the turtles, and he hopes that one day, he'll finally get to thank the person that saved his life and gave him his children. Meanwhile, the turtles' gain powers from both their mutation and their Hamato ancestry, and end up digging up secrets of the past that should've stayed buried.

Meet the Cast!

Leona is not what you'd think of when the image of a leader comes to your mind. She's slow to adapt to new surroundings, a bit arrogant, looks to the past way too often and, to quote her older brother, "Her anxiety has anxiety!" But, despite all her flaws, Leo has been able to lead her team through unfathomable challenges, way more naturally than her precedent, Raph. She works hard to live up to her family's expectations (which, despite what Leo's anxiety tells her, aren't actually that high. Basically just "don't die.") Leo also loves anime and is in many fandoms; she has actually made her own cosplays and has gone to the surface for conventions on the surface. She is 15, a hawksbill sea turtle and her mystic power is hydrokinesis (water).

Donatello honestly could not care less. They spend most of their time in their lab, creating who knows what. But whenever Splinter or one of his siblings go scrounging around in the sewer, he'll definitely come with. They really don't like interacting with people outside of their family, especially humans, after a traumatic event when they were eight. Needless to say, Donnie made plans to create his battleshell the second that he was all healed up. But, despite that, Donnie is surprisingly close with April. Those two are basically inseparable. Actually, they're pretty close with all their family, even though they act like they hate everyone, but that's just typical sibling stuff. Donnie's 15, an indian flapshell turtle, and their mystic power is aerokinesis (wind).

Raphael would rather die than admit that he's scared. As the oldest, he's always been a role models for his younger siblings, even though, he wasn't very good at leading, well, anything. But, as the strong big brother, he always felt the need to bottle up all his feelings for the good of the team. It took Raph a long time to learn that Leo could handle the weight of leadership, much better than Raph did actually. He is extremely overprotective of his siblings and sometimes that equals holes in the walls. He does have anger issues which he takes out on the objects surrounding him. It's one of the reasons why nothing in his room is completely intact. Recently, though, he's targeting his anger towards enemies instead of household objects, so it's progress. Raph also learns to chill out a bit when he meets (and falls for) a certain runaway foster child who has just as much of an anger problem as he does. He's 15, a common snapping turtle, and his mystic power is geokinesis (earth).

Michelangelo just wants to party with his fam. He's an eccentric little dude that always knows how to turn up the party. She's the heart of the team, always knowing how to resolve issues within the team and how to find the positives in stuff. When she was mutated, she was actually given a little more power than her siblings, making her the most powerful with her mystic abilities. But, that means that controlling their power is a lot more difficult, and being kinda sensitive and emotional has resulted in more than one room of the lair getting burned down. They've tried their best to keep it under control but if their emotions end up getting the best of them, uh...good luck, bud. You'll need it. He's also taken a great interest in art and sometimes goes to the surface to graffiti the city, often joined by either April or Casey. He's 14, an eastern box turtle, and his mystic power is pyrokinesis (fire).

Hamato 'Splinter' Yoshi needs sleep. A lot of it. He grew rebellious of the Hamato Clan due to his father's treatment of him and left for Los Angeles to become the action movie star Lou Jitsu. But, when his father called and said there was a Foot Clan situation up in NYC, Yoshi just had to help. And the rest is history. He was aware that while he was in Hollywood his family captured Oroku Saki, the one to inherit the Dark Armour and become The Shredder, but he never knew what Oroku Saki looked like. This had consequences later on. After an incident on the surface that involved a break-in, a human with a weapon, and a dent in Donnie's shell, Splinter finally went back to the ways of ninjutsu to keep his children safe from the surface. When the turtles met April and Casey, Splinter practically jumped for joy at the thought of talking to actual people again. he also trains them as well as the turtles. Splinter hopes to reconnect with the Hamato Clan after him and his children started fighting the Foot, but little does he know the lies that he's been fed as a child...

Baron Draxum is, well.... we don't exactly know what he is. After he and his mother were taken and experimented on by a human military group called the Terrestrial Cryptic Research Inventory (TCRI) when he was six, not even he does, really. All we know is that he's a powerful guy who HATES humans after his encounters with TCRI. Though, a long time ago, he did save the life of one man and entrusted said man with 4 turtles that he mutated with the powers given to him by TCRI's experimentation. And meeting them again 16 years later was definitely a shock. But, he's tried to be as best of a father as he can to the turtles, and has tried to teach each of them about their own powers as best as he can. He owns a store in the Hidden City that sells all sorts of mystic goos, potions, and enchanted objects.

April O'Neil CANNOT catch a break. Let's just say that, being raised in the foster care system, she knows how to defend herself. April and her cousin Casey Jones ran away from their foster parents when she aged out of the system and they wanted to separate April and Casey. But, when Casey got in trouble with the cops, April got separated from them, now she's trying to find where they are, as well as finding her father, who she discovered is a scientist in NYC. She's very introverted and has a lot of trust issues, which is why it takes her a long time to actually open up to the Turtles once she becomes friends with them. She's also a huge bookworm and a great writer, and wants to have a career in journalism. She's currently living with Splinter and the Turtles until she can find Casey and her father and start a new life for both of them.

Casey Jones is a menace to society. Can't go one month without getting in trouble, and that's only when they get caught. They're not immediately introduced at the beginning of the story, due to the Foot Clan framing them for a crime they didn't commit. Instead, they're going to show up 6 months after April meets the turtles. Casey is instantly a part of the family due to April's stories about them, plus watching them in action during a street fight with some petty criminals (which Raph was absolutely smitten by). They're definitely a wild child who is on a mission to play hockey and overthrow society. They will also fight you for that one specific brand of eyeliner.

And that's it! I can't wait to show you guys more about this AU! I'll probably do another post that's all about the villains in the future. But in the meantime, u can read this post if u would like to see some silly villain banter

[kingedel-of-the-garden]

My Precious Secret: Chapter 1

After a training session and a shower, Leo sat down in the kitchen with a cup of tea. It was a lavender kind, a gift from April who said it'd help him "stop worrying so much". He prayed it worked at least a little because all he seems to be doing lately is worrying.

The purple dragons had gotten a lot more aggressive recently. Breaking into houses, robbing local bodegas, threatening people on the street, they were causing panic! Leo couldn't shake the feeling that it was a ploy of some kind, like a smokescreen to hide something more sinister. However, all the thugs they'd interrogated weren't informed at all and said they only did what they were told.

Taking a sip of the tea Leonardo rubbed his eyes, the youngest of the turtles could be heard in the distance singing a song. Something about breaking points or something.Which leads Leo to another worry of his.

Mikey had been acting…strange or rather, different. He's been more relaxed as opposed to his usual bouncy-ness. He's been staying focused a lot better during training too, making the sessions go a lot faster which Leo appreciates. Don't get the turtle wrong, he loves that his baby brother is bettering himself. Mikey seems a lot happier these days, a silent kind that infects others with smiles of their own. It's all good things.

If you don't factor in being constantly glued to his shell cell(more than normal) or the massive amounts of time up top at unknown places that have yet to be disclosed. 

It's like, as soon as training ends, instead of eating the entire kitchen or playing video games like usual, he leaves! Says he's "going out to get pizza" or something and doesn't come back for hours. Leo has tried to get answers out of him. Making small talk about his recent behavior and how proud he is of him. Leaving an open-ended question to be answered like "How did this change come about" only to be given an obvious lie and walked away from.

Was Leonardo hurt? No.

Maybe a little, But! He was more worried than anything. He's long since accepted how Raph leaves for long periods of time topside, it's his thing, he needs air. It's just Mikey is his baby brother, it's so easy to…fret. At least Raphael has the decency to let someone know where he's going but Mikey? He hardly says a thing!

It's with this in mind that when Mikey comes around the corner, skateboard in hand, Leo stops him. It was time for a more direct approach.

"Hey Mikey, can I talk to you for a second?"

The orange-clad turtle swiveled on his feet to face his brother. His mask was hanging around his neck, a brow ridge was raised and he had a questioning smile.

"Sure, what's up bro?"

Deciding to cut to the chase, Leo smiled with a shrug, "I've noticed you leaving more often. Can I ask where to?"

Instead of being scared or alarmed, like the leader had thought he'd be, Michaelangelo looked almost lovestruck. It was an expression Leonardo had never seen on his brother before. His cheeks tinted pink and his eyes got soft. The smile he wore was small, almost unnoticeable, but portrayed how much he cared about whatever was on his mind.

Until he realized he hadn't yet answered, snapping out of his stupor and fumbling for an explanation. It was hard not to smile at watching his goofball sibling trying to find an excuse in real-time.

"Of course you can! I actually uh…"

"Actually uhh?"

"I found a…spot! A new boarding spot!" Mikey held up his skateboard victoriously, "I really like it so far and it's huge ."

They'd all been to every skatepark in the vicinity by the time they were 16. Considering Leo knew it would take too long to get back if he left the city, the leader would bet money the youngest was lying. Might as well play along to see where it goes.

"Really? Those are hard to come by, mind if I go with you?" Leonardo tilted his head innocently.

Mikey bit his lip and chuckled, forced and unnatural, "No way dude! It's too earl—new! It's too new. I haven't got a feel for the place yet."

The oldest frowned at the slip up and watched his brother try to walk backwards with out making it obvious.

"But you've been going to this 'new boarding spot' for almost 3 months now. It can't be that big can it?"

"It is!" Michelangelo insisted, nearly three feet away from the exit, "I promise, as soon as I explore it all we can hang there together like old times~"

Then he turned and bolted down the tunnel without another word. The echo of his skateboard hitting the pavement followed soon after.

Leo slumped in his chair letting his forehead rest against the table. That conversation was quick, to say the least. Thankfully, after living with each other for their whole lives, it wasn't hard to spot each other's tells. Going over the words in his head, the leader was certain he knew what was up.

That weird look on Mikey's face and the slip up made Leo think of something. What if their youngest had found a partner? It would explain his resent phone addiction and his happier mood. His excuse for not "having a feel for the place yet" might be a metaphor for him not being ready to introduce them. As silly as he could be Leo knew Mikey wouldn't bring someone to the lair unless he was sure they were trustworthy. 

Of course, without proof there was no way of truly knowing. However, Leonardo had a gut feeling he was right. Call it sibling intuition but he was sure his baby brother had found someone that made him happy. 

 

And in true older sibling fashion, he wasn't going to breathe a word of his theories to anyone. Still, it'd probably be good to see if his other brothers knew something he didn't.

***

"Wadya callin' us here for fearless? I was just about ta head out wit Case."

"And I was gonna do some research with Leatherhead."

Donatello and Raphael were a little annoyed with their brother at the moment. He called them into the kitchen outta nowhere talking about needing to discuss something. It wouldn't be so bad if he didn't have the worst timing ever.

"Sorry guys, it'll be quick." Leo at least had the decency to look apologetic. He was leaning against the counter with his fingers interlaced. Donnie took a seat in front of him and Raph stood with his arms crossed, waiting for the turtle to talk.

"Have you guys noticed anything different about Mikey recently?"

Raph scoffed with a little smile, "Ya mean more den usual?"

Don held his chin in his hand looking up at the ceiling. It was an odd question but it did bring up some observations the ninja had noticed recently.

"Well, now that you mention it," he turned, looking at Leo, "the other day he brought me a toaster and asked me to help him fix it."

Donnie motioned to the very usable and unbroken toaster on the counter by the sink, "While I did end up helping him, we don't exactly need a new one. Plus, I haven't seen the thing since."

The turtle in red sniffed, standing up a little straighter. He tried to think about how his baby brother had been recently. How they don't rough house as much and his more focused attitude during training and patrol. It was a bit weird looking back on it.

"He has been less…hyper? More calm an' what not. He's on his phone a lot to so we don't bicker like we used to." Raph stared down his older brother, "Do you think this is somethin' serious Leo?"

"Not at all," the leader shook his head, "It's not anything too bad but the lying does have me a little worried."

Eye ridges shoot up, "What do you mean? Lying about what?" Donnie is the first to ask.

"Just a little earlier I managed to catch him before he left the lair–"

"He has been doin' dat a lot."

"–to ask where he was going. He said he found a 'new boarding spot'." The disbelief in the room was palpable.

"That's nearly impossible! Unless he's going to Staten Island , there are no skate parks we haven't been to in the area. I've checked!"

Leonardo nodded slowly, understanding Don's exasperation. If it weren't for the fact that he had a pretty good idea about what was going on, he too would be a little more frustrated.

"I know. I even asked him if I could come with but he said he still hadn't gotten a feel for the place."

"We all know if he really found a new spot he wouldn't stop talking about it. How odd." The nerd of the three sighed, spreading out on the counter defeated. 

Realistically, he knew it wasn't anything to be concerned about since Mikey always came back at the end of the day. Still, the similarities between Mikey right now and Raph when he was younger was kinda giving him a migrane. Fingers crossed they don't have to start having arguments. Donnie shudders at the thought.

"Whaddya want us to do, fearless?  Seein' as it's not serious an' all."

Placing a gentle hand on Donnie's head, Leo smiled at Raph, "Just keep an eye on him for now. We all know how trapped you felt when I would push you for answers. I don't want us to make him feel like that."

He shrugged, a mischievous smirk playing on the eldest's lips, "Besides, he's horrible at keeping secrets. He'll come around eventually."

(This is a fanfic I'm writing at the moment. It's a Mikey/poc reader. I'm very new to posting and everything but I really wanted to try. I enjoy writing and want to get better at it so please feel free to give me some pointers if you have any. 😁)

[fan-maniaer]

After a while of working on it, I would like to share my own tmnt universe called

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : The Hamato Destiny

Or TMNTTHD for short.

I would like to share the ages of the turtles for each of them there personallys there friends and villains. Let's go with their ages first.

Donnatello is 17 years old. The oldest of the brothers.

Raphael and Leonardo are 15 the murder twins I like to call them.

Michaelangelo 14, the youngest of the four turtles.

In my version, Donnie starts out as leader because of him being the oldest he views it as his responsibility to protect his siblings at all cost. Even if it means sacrificing his own well-being. He is still the tech guy in this version, and he likes his siblings to utilize his tech a lot in missions, and he gets very upset if they don't use them like he intended. He also has a werid obsession with dragons (I wonder why). He's also a great cook.

Raphael is the silent type who likes to smash heads on and break bones, but he also likes the feeling of water on his skin, and most of the time, his siblings will gind him just Submerged in water. He also likes stuffed animals, and his room is full of it, and his twin brother likes to make fun of him for it. And yes, this guy does have a bit of anger issues, but it's most of the time controlled and only let loose in very stressful situations. He also likes to exercise a lot, especially in his free time.

Leonardo likes to play pranks and make puns most of the time. But he is also a big animal lover and likes to spend most of his time at the zoo when it's closed and no one's around. He is also like his twin likes to smash heads in and break bones he's just less violent about it as Raph. He also can camouflage with his surroundings, which (most of the time) helps him pull off most of his pranks. He also looks up to his big brother Donnie (tho he'll never admit it out loud).

Michaelangelo, the little sister of the group she is the youngest and uses that power to the fullest. Like having Donnie not put her on top of the fridge. (She doesn't like the fridge punishment). She is also a great singer and cook (she asked Donnie one day to teach her how to cook and he agreed). She is also a little artist and likes to paint and draw all over the lair. She is also very close with april sense thereb oth the only females of the group. She also sometimes helps Leo out on his pranks.

Speaking of April, she's the first human who they make friends with. April and the Turtles met when they we're all kids and theu all been inseparable sense then. She is very close with both Mikey and Donnie, thanks to Mikey being the only other female of the group and Donnie and her being the oldest of the group.

I would like to mention splinter, but I don't have a lot to say about him right now other than he starts out as an emotionally absent father and didn't teach them anything about Ninjasue (at least at first). But he does get better over time.

Now on to the villains. I can't really say much about them yet sense it would be spoiling a lot of the plot, but I will name each big bad

1 Rat King

2 Drako

3 Baxter stockman/Superfly

4 Jigoku

5 Kurōn

6 Karai and Bonesteel

7 The Krang

8 Savanti Romero

That's all for now. I'll probably explain more of this au in another post. But here are some sneak peaks of their designs for now!

[toothlesshat]

tang shen being alive au you say? i've always loved the idea of the turtles having a mother, mostly because in most versions they never really address is or mention it (it would have made for a few interesting filler eps if anything). but i would have loved to have seen more of their interactions in the show when they went back and met her. like do they consider her their mother? technically? when they were kids did they ever question why they didn't have a mother and how did splinter first explain who she was to them? many thoughts to be had...

but as for this au!! how would she interact with each of the boys do you think, in terms of their personalities, strengths and weaknesses? i would love to know more if you wanna share more of your thoughts on the matter !! :)

No seriously!!! I’m not gonna say their interactions with Shen were wasted potential bc I still liked them a lot, but I would’ve loved to see them talk to her for longer and really reflect on meeting their would-be mother. I imagine this whole au starts because they liked her so much that they decided to drag her body out the other end of the dojo, knowing she’s clinging to life, and flagging down a stranger to save her. Idk I’ll work that out later but that’s basically how I imagine it going.

As for Tang Shen’s relationship with the turtles, here’s a brief list!

For Leo, I think they’d be close. Leo has a lot of pressure put on him from Splinter as both the oldest and the leader, so I think that having Shen there, another rational adult who can talk Splinter down better than anyone, would be like an answered prayer. She’d listen to him better than anyone, and also encourage him to keep his youth instead of trying to rapidly mature.

For Raph, she’s kind of the same. I’d LOVE if she was closest with Raph because like, Raph craves parental validation, but Splinter focuses a lot on his anger issues in their interactions. Tang Shen is super patient and understanding, she’d be perfect to talk him down and help him rationalize his feelings, and work through why he’s upset in the first place. Raph can tell her anything. Hell, he can do anything and she’d still love him to death.

For Donnie, she’d be very encouraging of his interests and goes out of her way to help him out with his projects. When he gets his first crush, he’d go to her and she helps A LOT. They’d be really cute imo, kind of the “hey hon, I brought snacks since you’ve been working so hard. It’s looking really good! Can’t wait to see it finished! Hey, how’re your friends?” Relationship if you know what I mean.

For Mikey, MAMA’S BOY!! Clings to her hip, always talking to her, loves to be around her- everything. They watch a lot of shows together and cook with one another :) Mikey isn’t the one for deep conversation, so he’s still a bit of a mystery to her, but they’re still very close. She’d also encourage him to be more confident in himself, like speak up and don’t let your brothers push you around too much!!

[tmntxthings]

一∑raphael hamato。・゜・┻━

(pics from pinterest)

> leo’s < | > donnie’s < | > mikey’s <

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version: rottmnt aka rise

aesthetic: red + hobbies

song association: pump it by black eyed peas

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author’s notes: another addition to the profiles, continuing with the theme ‘here raph fill out this profile application, it’s for my school project :D’

> Profile <

name: raphael hamato

nickname: raph, boss, big guy

aliases: red reign, red angel of preventing harm

location: right now? in my room! uhh in the lair

species: mutant, alligator snapping turtle

age: 17!!!! (rise movie)

height: 6’0 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

color: red but green is cool too

weapon(s): ninjutsu, tonfā, sai, fists

appearance: raph’s the big green guy! it’s only right since i’m the oldest, i’ve got lots of spikes but don’t worry i’m super careful… most of the time, signature snaggle-tooth, usually wearing wrappings & a red bandanna

personality: wellll raph would say..strong in the rough and tough sense!! and protective, and trying to be more observant & mindful , hmm also sociable raph hates to be alone, caring, there’s probably more but let’s keep moving!

likes: smashing like a boss, working out aka becoming stronger, doing the right thing, taking care of my brothers, playing games, watching movies, being a hero, learning new skills, soul music/jazz, stuffed animals, team building, real animals

dislikes: mrs. cuddles (it’s scary just writing her name down), solitude :(, failing.. especially letting down my family, when crime wins, losing control (of myself/emotions), bullies

other: this was cool, writing stuff down about myself and thinking about raph’s own inner thoughts, i think i learned some things even i didn’t really know! raph hopes you get a great grade and i hope my answers were helpful :) when your project is finished we should pick back up with the training!! self-defense is a really good tool to have in your toolbox, especially since you’re already super smart (don’t tell donnie but maybe even smarter than him c;) but if you don’t have the time that’s cool! just let raph know whenever you’re out late and i’ll swing by to walk you home from work or from the library, or from the grocery store, or from late night classes, or from anywhere, raph thinks it’s better to do those kinds of things together, i wouldn’t want you to feel lonely (it’s just a bonus that i would also be able to protect you heh) i think i’ll end it here, good luck on your project!! ace it like a boss ٩(˃̶͈̀௰˂̶͈́)و

[greenunoreversecard]

Greeny's Musings of a Madman ep.1 pt.1

Today on Greeny’s Musings of a madman, I am going to be combining my absolute love of rottmnt, music and writing to present the people with this absolute mess of a playlist and character analysis mix! (Basically I made a playlist of songs I think Leo would listen to and feel the need to justify my choices)

-Early 200’s music/Kesha-

Jumping right into it, I have quite a few 2000-2010’s songs, most of them are kesha. Leo is, for lack of a better term, very flamboyant. The early 2000’s was quite a revolutionary time for the music industry, with many artists we listen to today paving their path during this time. 

  This era definitely had and still has in effect on people of all ages, even now, during 2023. With Leo being roughly high school aged (depending on where you look at him, pre or post movie.) We can assume his father is around Gen-X, maybe a millennial. And with him being a middle child, as Raph is the oldest, it is quite likely that he was experiencing this genre of music from a young age. So, I’d like to think he’d keep the music from his childhood with him, so I put some in this playlist. He definitely seems like he would enjoy Kesha’s music, so I did put a lot of that on there, but he would likely listen to more than just Kesha. 

-The Rare Americans-

I put a couple of The Rare American’s songs on the playlist. So I’ll explain in the order in which they show up.

Odd Ducks- This song is about being proud to be different. Seeing as Leo and his family are quite different from the normal, as most of them are mutants, I feel like at times, he might not exactly have enjoyed being different, but comes to terms with it, and takes pride in that fact. 

“I'm an odd duck, darling and I'm proud to be

I'm an odd duck, darling, doesn't bother me

I'm a strange bird, baby, I'm the first to say

I'm a strange bird, baby, it's the only way”

Cats Dogs & Rats- The song itself is a commentary on modern society, dealing with a ‘cat’ who, drowning in the fast pace of life, finds himself powerless against the system as he is sentenced to life in prison. Knowing Leo has trouble with thinking he’s inadequate, He would likely feel like things are indeed moving too fast, and he can’t keep up. So, He’d probably enjoy this on a certain level, and while he’s not in the same situation as the MC of the song, he could relate to the relentless feeling of time racing by. 

“Got lost, clowder, group of cats

Lost cause, louder, dogs in a pack

Yes boss, now sir, mischief of rats

Numbers matter, we’re all stats”

-David Bowie-

I believe it’s in the “Al Be Back” episode that Leo has that outfit that lowkey looks like Ziggy Stardust. So I had to put some Bowie songs in the playlist.

List of Bowie songs I put on the playlist:

Heroes-2017 remaster

Space Oddity-2015 remaster

Rebel Rebel-2016 remaster

Ziggy Stardust-2012 remaster

Rock ‘n Roll suicide-2012 remaster

I do in fact realize I can do an entire rant about how it would fit his character. I just don’t feel like it.

-Billy Joel-

On the topic of older music, I did put some Billy Joel songs. Why? Because I love his music. Also you cannot tell me Leo doesn’t relate to Vienna. Anyways, explanation time. 

Vienna- Vienna is a song about life, and the crossroads you encounter. The first line is “slow Down you crazy child” 

I feel Leo would really like this song, as he feels the need to be perfect. And, due to his inexperience as leader, he might feel the need to do everything all at once. I feel he needs the reminder that life is a journey, and it’s important to slow down and experience it. 

“Slow down, you crazy child

You're so ambitious for a juvenile

But then if you're so smart

Tell me why are you still so afraid? Mm

Where's the fire, what's the hurry about?

You'd better cool it off before you burn it out

You've got so much to do

And only so many hours in a day, hey”

Moving out (Anthony’s song)- This song focuses on the aspirations of working and lower-class New Yorkers, the song puts into question the amount of effort it would take for the characters to achieve their own slice of the “American Dream.” I feel like that because they are self acclaimed “dirt poor” Leo might really ponder the american dream and the effort it takes to achieve it, and if it's even worth it. 

“And it seems such a waste of time

If that's what it's all about

Mama, if that's movin' up then I'm movin' out

I'm movin' out, mmm mm

Ooh-ooh, uh-huh, mmm”

Only the good die young- I know this song is about Joel and this catholic girl but I thought the title of the song was ironic as he tried to sacrifice himself. 

“Well, only the good die young

That's what I said

Only the good die young

Only the good die young”

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Individual song timeee~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It’s called:Freefall by Rainbow Kitten Surprise- This song overall is about someone who spent their whole life trying to be a good friend to others, but is always resented and left alone. With nothing else left in his life, he turns to the devil for friendship, and even the Devil is unwilling and unavailable to him. Rather than turn the narrator to vice or put up a fight, the Devil pushes him further into despair, suggesting that he give up, commit freefall.

And while Leo doesn't really struggle much with friendships I Really feel like Leo would relate to this part: 

“Don't get me ventin' on friends who resent you

'Cause all you've ever done is been a noose to hang on to

They thought was a necklace and reckless

They fell into Hell where you both hang with nothing to do but

Scratch, kick, let gravity win like

Fuck this, let gravity win like

You could leave it all behind”

Because yes, he does portray signs (not taking into account his self sacrifice) of depression/possible Suicidal thoughts. And he struggles with being emotionally vulnerable.

Afraid by The Neighborhood- We all know he has issues with self image, and how useful he can be to the group. This song, from my perspective, is worrying about if you’re enough, and if you’ll ever amount to anything, or be remembered. I know he definitely struggles with the same anxieties the song mentions, and thus I added it.

“When I wake up, I'm afraid

Somebody else might take my place x3

When I wake up, I'm afraid

Somebody else might end up being me

(Being me, being me)

Being me can only mean feeling scared to breathe

And if you leave me, then I'll be afraid of everything

That makes me anxious, gives me patience

Calms me down, lets me face this, let me sleep

And when I wake up, let me be”

A/N:I will post a part two, because I have much more to cover, I just haven't written it yet and I wanted to get something out. Feel free to add stuff and give advice in the comments! Reblogs are welcome :)

[transformersandturtles]

I finally come bringing ninja turtle content!! It's been a hot minute, lmao.

It's not EXACTLY Rise or any of the shows, but my own AU/iteration of the turtles. Currently don't have a name for it, it's just dumb and goofy and made me happy so here's some info about it!! Note that these are just doodles! Not their fully fleshed designs. Also please correct me if I am wrong with any measurement conversion! I am (unfortunately) American. 💀

First we'll start with Leo and Donnie, the oldest two!

Leo is the oldest of the four (16). He is a Bog Turtle, he stands at about 5'2" (157.48 cm I think). As the oldest, he's always been there for his brothers and Splinter. He is very quiet compared to the others, not that he is mute but he talks very rarely. He is the most serious, yes, but he is also a very bad influence. . . Especially to Raph. Not that he is violent or anything, but he has definitely said some things that none of his younger brothers should hear. He is the most advanced in speaking Japanese of the four. He is also into Herbology and is a wanting to become a botanist. He has many plants in his room

Now onto Donnie!! They're the second oldest (15). They are a Florida East Coast Diamondback Terrapin and stand at 5'10" (177.8 cm I think). As the second oldest, they're often the forgotten one. Not in the sense that the others forget their name, but they are also quiet, and timid, so the others unintentionally forget they're in the same room or area with them. They try to be the voice of reason, especially in dangerous situations but their words fall upon deaf ears. . . Well, that is often literal if they're standing on Raph's left side. They're like a gentle giant, trying to use their science skills for good but if they've been up for more than 48 hours with no sleep, their experiments, research, and technology become. . . Questionable to say the least. They enjoy video games, their favorite being Minecraft. If their game was ever deleted, then safe to say New York City would be wiped off the map.

Here's Raph! I've drawn him the most but you'll have to wait for that. He is the second youngest (14). He is a Pascagoula Map Turtle and stands at 4'11" (149.86 cm) making him the shortest, but don't think for a second that you can underestimate him. His entire left side is quite weak, having deformities to his plastron and carapace at his shoulder. He has scarring at his neck and on his face, being partially deaf in his left ear and partially blind in his left eye. He had a hearing aid and glasses with the one lenses when he was younger, but it always made him mad so Splinter stopped forcing him to wear them. He does have to wear and arm and leg brace however when him and his siblings go out to the surface. He is almost on the same speaking level as Leo with Japanese, but writing is often his struggle. He is easily frustrated by simple things, let it be simple tasks like doing dishes or cleaning. He wants to prove he can do everything the others can do, having been "sheltered" for a long time by Splinter. He has grown a major soft spot for animals, especially cats and dogs. Despite his flaws and disadvantages, he never lets that stop him, being too stubborn to give up.

And last but not least, have Mikey!! He is the youngest (13) and is a Western Painted Turtle and stands at 5' (152.4 cm). He is a bundle of joy and chaos, never let his cute appearance fool you. A the youngest, he absolutely has his ways of getting what he wants. Well, he did when he was younger but now that trick doesn't work anymore. He is an artist, making money from commissions without ever having to show his face! He has horrible humor, like it's not funny at all. He was an IPad kid, playing lots of brain rotting games and having access to the internet way sooner than he should have. It got to the point where Splinter unforced a 1 hour screen time and supervised him until he was old enough to know better. His brothers often let him paint their shells when he's bored and the walls in his room are already covered with paint. He's a joy to be around and can make anyone happy. Also has goofy lil braces :)

Some additional info -

Leo - He/Him

Donnie - They/Them

Raph - He/They

Mikey - He/She/They

If you want anymore info, please leave a comment!! ^^

[nerves-nebula]

OKAY HIII I'M BACK AND I BINGED A LOT MORE OF RISE TMNT AND YOOO??? I AM HERE TO GUSH ABOUT IT

SIDE NOTE BEFORE EVERYTHING I SAY THEY WENT SO FUCKIN HARD ON THE ANIMATION OMG IT IS STUNNING AMAZING SUPERB!!! HOW DOES IT LOOK SO GOOD AND AESTHETICS AND ?? I WANT TO CHEW DEVOUR BITE BITE ABSORB IT

(break down and thoughts and everything below.SORRY THAT ITS LONG I AMM. OBSESSED. THIS IS LIKE A WHOLE PAPER ON THEM SORRY BUT NOT FULLY SORRY BUT SORRY)

After the first half of the first season (? i am using a totally definitely legal sight that does each episode as 11 minutes and I'm on what it says is episode 38, if one actual episode is two of those 11 minute ones then I'm guessing I'm around episode 19?)

Maybe earlier than that BUT LIKE AFTER THEY SET UP THE WORLD THEY LIVE IN???? OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG HOW DID I NOT WATCH THIS EARLIER??

Raph is so cool Love him, like he's big and spiky and probably the softest in terms of open outwardly affection towards the group (he does the most group hugs I'm pretty sure? if not HEADCANNON that when they were little and any of them had a bad dream Raph got everyone into a little turtle pile and they could hug it out and feel safe)

Leo!!!!! I AM GETTING SOME OF THE GENDER VIBES!! So far his character feels the least dove into? Like Donnie has episodes where his character is a focus and so does Mikey and Raph to an extent but so far Leo feels more like part of a duo rather than fully solidifying his own persona (to me and I'm no where near done the show SO that most likely changes!) BUT ALSO that feels like it adds to his character in terms of I think he's the second oldest?

(I thought Donnie was the second oldest but hmmm if they're more like twins than the rest of the brothers then it kinda feels like they both tried to be the protective second oldest sibling and the second youngest at the same time and rapidly switch between each other, but like clash heads if both try to fill that role at the same time? MIGHT be head canon stuff at this point, but I need to watch more to find out. Leo DEF has something going on, like please Mx. can you reveal your hidden secret self that isn't based entirely on how we see you interact with others? like who do you think you are Leo...)

Mikey! What a fun guy, he's like. The same vibes as that "I'm just a little man, just a little man and it's my birthday. You wouldn't hurt a little birthday boy would you? on his very big special birthday day? I'm such a little guy why hurt me?". Head empty no thoughts, he's got the DVD screen saver (corner bouncer) playing on loop and probs the THX loud effect. I hope he gets more time to shine because he kinda feels like he swaps between being just for comedy and someone that wants to prove themself(which would then help them feel better about themself and improve their own self worth and stuff)

DONNIE!! MY GUY DONNIE!! HOW DID THEY MAKE A CHARACTER SO BITABLE. MY MAN IS AUTISM. HE IS MY AUTISM CREATURE. <- I thought his design was cool at first and then I saw him exist

Donnie is so character though like sorry to the rest of the turtles but Donnie is going to be my new blorbo, new little skrunkle that I'll probably project onto. He has all the issues and none of them. He has that "no one understands how my mind works and I must study other's and the world just to be partially accepted" vibes WHILE ALSO having "the world will adapt to me. If not through understanding, then my force" sorta vibes and ? the range! He's dynamic, he's wild, he probably orders the exact same thing at one specific restaurant if he's ordering for one.

APRIL!! YO SHE IS GREAT! I love how we learn more about her slowly like she's a character living her own life that happens to appear in this show, like I'd fully expect her to have a show on her own and her here is cross overs (compliment). So happy to see where they go next with her, I am like a cheer leader she can do no wrong. She could plan to kill me and I'd give her a thumbs up and say that she should believe in herself and her ability to cultivate her own life. SAD that the people at her school aren't nice, but I feel like that adds to the whole "oh the outsider must be lying about who they are if they act like someone else when not in school/[insert environment] vibes/story lines some things get into. Like we fully understand why she acts like that and get a more objective perspective of everything. She makes me feral in the sense that I want her to have the world (she also reminds me of my younger sister xD)

I also am so thrilled to see that NOT all or most of the main human cast is white. Like that's a huge think that sucks with western animation and honestly the first episode having the white guy be the first experiment and overall kinda dumb was so cathartic. Like yeah, ANYWAYS we don't need to get into my personal issues xD

All of the turtle brothers have obvious/noticeable behaviours impacted/caused/influenced by trauma and GROWLING SHAKING SCREAMING!!!1

Raph being alone omg. Splinter was probably an even worse father then and maybe not even a mutant yet??? And either Raph found the red thing and that's why splinter called him red or splinter grabbed the first thing and just colour coded him. The balll is probably his first friend and the fact that the football is vaguely turtle shell shape is giving me emotions.

Leo I feel like he always needs to prove himself because maybe he didn't have a lot of chances to be alone? He's the second oldest so idk how long there would've been between him and Donnie joining but I fully feel like when Raph realized he had a brother he tagged along with him everywhere and probably tried looking out for him more because he might've been (as a younger child) like "why is he smaller, is he okay? will he get hurt?". Leo my man are you okay you seem like you just compartmentalized everything :(

Mikey I think needed more attention and Splinter did very little so a lot of his earlier development would have been focused on getting all that important attention from his (not by that much) older brothers who ALSO were in that situation. He's got the vibes of someone that in years time (maybe few maybe a LOT of years) he'll be like "heyyy wait a minute do I use humor to cope with everything and heyyy are these things maybe not just fun little quirks?" <- neglected younger sibling vibes where he had to fight for attention where he never had time to ever figure out who he was outside of the four brother unit

DONNIE!! HE HAS SO MANY ISSUES!! Okay but the fact that he's low empathy is NOT one of them I will fight people on that. He is great and pretty relatable as someone who struggles with displaying emotions and voice inflections (I try, but when I first learned to speak I didn't realize you had to move your mouth into shapes a lot (I thought they were exaggerating just so I'd understand) so I'd be like 5 and doing ventriloquism instead of speaking properly.) <- this is one of the things I'm adding to my head canons for him. It's why he exaggerates a lot of his hand-when-speaking actions (and body movements) and apologizes for not having the right tone. Just quirky neurodivergent things :3 )

okay okay but seriously Donnie both somehow manages to be the clearest with how their childhood/life conditions negatively impacted him and also the least affected. I think it's compounded by even if he was human and not a mutant turtle, he still wouldn't be able to fit into the mould of a "normal" human, so as a mutant turtle he sticks out even more. Might've been something he struggled with until later because rn in the series it seems like he's embraced that a lot more, although still struggles. I could go on, but he fits my brain's vibes for "projection mode engaged" so yeah, babygirl

Donnie has autism and Mikey has adhd no questions asked. Raph is on the neurodivergent spectrum but in a less defined way (DEFINITELY HAS SEPARATION ANXIETY!!) and Leo is the token neurotypical that adopted neurodivergent behaviours and mindsets because that's what he grew up around. So he gets the same outsider feel of being different while coincidentally having his difference be that his brain is ""more normal"" <- heavy quotation marks.

uhhh final thoughts because I could ramble for days.. Splinter so far sucks I think that there's something really weird in the vibes of him purposefully raising all the turtle brothers in a way where the only times they got much validation/even just acknowledgement was through them obsessively watching all the films he was in. Like idk something about the vibes of him not telling them at ALL that that is him but heavily encouraging them to act out his movies in front of him gives off something weird.

SIDE RANT ABOUT THEIR COLOURS!! I AM SO INTRIGUED ABOUT THIS ELEMENT

Also like Splinter calls them by colours which he probably colour coded them all just to tell them apart (maybe why they always wear the masks? Because that's the only way they felt external validation of their lives and existence that wasn't just through the four of them??)

He might've did red first because we see him wear a lot of red, and blue is the stereotypical opposite of red so it makes sense to choose that second. Red vs Blue stereotype, etc etc. Maybe why Leo is competitive too? Because he felt his first experiences were being compared to Raph?

It's interesting that Donnie got purple because that's a mix of red and blue, so maybe Splinter wanted to give them some sort of cohesive theme at that point? Like a sliding scale of colours? Maybe it started because Raph and Leo both gave Donnie some purple, idk tho.

Purple is heavily used to either represent (evil) tech or just Donnie and Donnie has the most attachment to the colour so there's definitely something going on there.

Maybe Splinter didn't even realize there was a third turtle kid until Raph and Leo found a way to get Splinter to recognize there was a difference at all (maybe why Donnie in particular strives so much for acknowledgement by Splinter? Because his earliest life was defined by being mistaken for other people?

Mikey being Orange feels like Splinter gave up and didn't want to go with yellow (the more obvious choice as it's a primary colour, kinda surprised Donnie didn't get assigned yellow) and maybe did the same thing with Raph where he just took some spare material (he wears a lot of gold and orange in hems and whatnot) and just plopped that on Mikey.

Kinda shows how Mikey is separated by the rest by being born the youngest, they might've had some sort of living routine set up before he was there and he didn't have much say in how it adapted? Like Leo and Raph are opposites or could've been intended as opposites by Splinter, and with Donnie being so close to the same age as Leo (but his soft shell making him more prone to injury and therefore requiring both Raph's and Leo's protection) he fit into the middle but still closer to Leo (<- Donnie thought of himself as the middle child between them three for sure, but both Leo and Raph think of him as the youngest out of the three).

Mikey being orange shows that's he's kinda excluded from the twins thing that Leo and Donnie have, and might be closer to Raph because of that. After all Mikey and Raph are the only ones with masks on the warm side of the colour wheel (also adding that Mikey is a combination of red and yellow, with yellow not symbolizing anything so maybe that's adding to Mikey's vibes of being an outsider/different/unique?

He's loud in all the different ways that Donnie is (which was probably worse earlier than it is now currently in the show) and struggles with focusing his attention and thoughts where Donnie struggles with the opposite. Both Leo and Donnie saw themselves as middle siblings and treat may tried to treat Mikey similar to how they treated each other (in terms of "this is how I know how to interact with younger siblings and you are younger so this is right, right?" sorta way)

Raph would've had the experience of having two fairly different younger siblings, so he adapted more easily to the personal needs of Mikey as a younger brother? Like he unlocked his emotional intelligence earlier and could recognize (possibly comparing their behaviour to Leo?) that both Donnie and Mikey are different (more obviously neurodivergent, both probably would've been special needs kids).

Plus Donnie would be struggling more with his low empathy, perhaps not recognizing it at all and being constantly confused about others, further pushing him into the younger sibling role for both Raph and Leo because they might see that as him "struggling with something basic" (heavy quotation marks)?

Which would make Mikey (who is a fairly emotions driven person) and Donnie have difficulties communicating/Donnie having difficulties being a decent older brother. And Leo being worried and distracted by Donnie having a soft shell and maybe falling into the trap of "hey Mikey's shell is hard like Raph's and Mine so he's probably going to be okay, not like this bozo over here".

ANYWAYS I AM FERAL OVER THIS THE COLOUR SYMBOLISM AND HOW IT COULD REFLECT THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH EACH OTHER AND DYNAMICS BUT ALSO SHOWING HOW THEY WERE TREATED (as creatures to be colour coded rather than named and raised) IS OUGOUHGOUGUHGOU !!1 <- howling

FINAL NOTE: I keep thinking about how Donnie might have first gotten into science by testing which materials could help make him less "weak" (cover up the soft shell) and how his soft-shell-only years could have been defined as him being the "official most fragile" brother. And how finding a way to mimic a hard shell would be what he needed to officially be more equal to the rest of the brothers, and how he might've fallen in love with science then but it's intrinsically tied to his self worth and need to prove that he can pull his own weight/be helpful enough to stick around and be treated as an equal. And how his science experiments might have been what got him some of Splinter's earliest acknowledgements and AAAAA

Like maybe before he was "the purple one" he was "the soft shelled one" or "the weakest one" or (more extreme) the "defective turtle" (because turtles are known for having hard shells, so why didn't he?). And how he leans into the purple so much is because he's trying to erase that feeling of being defined as not a name or not even a colour, but by how "weak" he was, and his intelligence could be some level of survival mechanism to not be stuck in a loop of negativity towards himself and be an equal in an already extremely small world where his existence itself is "a crime against nature" so to speak.

He will be loud about being the purple one because he'd even give up being the smart one because he would much rather be defined as even a singular colour than just "the defective one". That's why he'll make bad(?) choices if it's got something to do with the colour purple, because unlike the rest he wasn't even dignified a colour when he was young and feels like he has to fight for it or earn it, to some level.

<- I am so normal about him I swear I swear I'm not biting him like a dog and rapidly shaking him like a chew toy. I am so normal about him your honour

A LOT of this is based on where I am in the show now and my educated guesses on what I know about the characters and what I've watched and YEAH I could be completely wrong about their early lives maybe they like, all fell out of a tube one by one and the "big time difference" between their ages is like, minutes vs seconds lol. Maybe it's entirely head canons maybe I've done analysis. BUT YEAH ANYWAYS THOSE ARE MY THOUGHTS THANSK FOR READING IF YOU DO GET THIS FAR, I AM SO FERAL ABOUT THIS SHOW AND I AM BLAMING YOU (compliment, positive, cheering in the distance)

IM Always happy to make someone feral about my favorite Media.

There’s wayyy to much here to really respond to but I basically agree with most of the stuff you’ve said. (and the only stuff you've got wrong you only got wrong cause you havent finished the show lol)

The thing about the colors is that Red, Blue, Orange, and Purple are already the TMNT colors and there’s no way you could get away with changing them in a new reboot without people getting mad, I think hhahfadsf. THAT BEING SAID I think your analysis of their colors is still very fitting and cool and interesting, even if the out-of-universe reason they are that way is cuz that’s how they’ve always been.

NO SPOILERS but later on Donnie has an ep that basically confirms his tech and self worth are connected and idk if you know this, but Donnie and Mikey canoncially have autism/adhd. 

I LOVEEED reading ur thoughts on the characters and their minds and im SO GLAD you like it ahsdfasdf

[goldenfire357]

I'm not really into this fandom anymore, but I'm STILL REBLOGGING IT ANYWAYS!!!!!!!!

Guys trust it's a good movie. You may not like the show, but the movie is infinitely better because it's way more serious and dark compared to the show. What's crazy is that Leo was actually supposed to DIE in this movie originally, but he didn't because of one thing: Hope. Which is US FANS!!!! Like literally, I always saw the symbolism in this movie as Nickelodeon trying to cancel RiseTMNT.

Kraang=Nickelodeon

Hope=Fans

Turtles(mainly Leo)=RiseTMNT show

If it wasn't for us, then Leo would've quite literally died in this movie, just like the show could've died, but technically it didn't. From what I know, it is seemingly "ON PAUSE." Sooo yeah, go watch it on Netflix. If you don't want to, then at least give it a like. Two likes. The double thumbs up please!

MILD SPOILERS START HERE!!!

Honestly, last year I used to LOVE this movie. I would think about it everyday, jot down concepts that I want to draw and only draw 10% of those ideas ;) I wouldn't say I have a favorite turtle(at least in Rise, in 2012 that's Mikey) but I hated how weirdly underrated Rise!Raph was in his OWN fandom. So most of my TMNT thoughts were mainly about him because he needs some love :(

Believe it or not, I didn't watch the season 2 finale. I couldn't because I don't have Paramount Plus. But I pretty much know what happened. I honestly still think it was downright FOUL that Splinter decided to make Leo leader and replace Raph.

Imagine practically being a big brother/second parent to three younger brothers(two of them desiring for approval and recognition) and taking care of them while your dad goes through a depressive spell and automatically being enrolled leader because you're the oldest, only to be really bad at it and have all of that pressure on you to do better to protect your family or else they'll all end up dead and you'll be alone forever, so you sacrifice yourself FOUR TIMES(maybe more, read the tags if you don't know) and then you actually DO better around the end of season 2 along with having reassurance that you aren't alone and then they "Anata wa hitori janai'ed" that bitch Shredder and they save the city and your leader skills have finally improved and you were finally do good............but NOO. Then your neglective(but trying) dad then decides to swap your leader role with your younger brother LEO with NO EXPLANATION WHATSOEVER. I'm honestly surprised he wasn't way angrier with Leo after that. The only reason he gets mad in the movie is because Leo isn't taking "Anata wa hitori janai" seriously(basically he doesn't want to work as a team) Raph actually wasn't mad at him for taking his role, and that takes MAD PATIENCE. Guess he's called a MadDog for a reason.

But let's be honest, it makes perfect sense why Leo was chosen as leader. Sure, he's a jokester and takes situations lightly, but at times, he was shown to have WAY more leadership qualities than Raph did such as quick planning and keeping calm under pressure, which were two things Raph ABSOLUTELY struggled with. And another thing is that Splinter noticed these qualities in Leo, especially in S1 Finale/ S2E1, and knew he was leader potential. As for Raph, well... it's been a while since I saw the show, but I assume he only saw the worst of his leader moments. And most importantly, he didn't see Raph's breakdown in the S2 finale where he literally did an emotional trustfall off of a cliff. So these factors inclined him to choose Leo as the leader(in the worst way possible).

Besides, Leo IS leadership potential, but he has no confidence in himself. Despite his humourous exterior which makes him appear overconfident and cocky, he really has no faith in himself. And he doesn't think he's a worthy edition to the team. So when Splinter elects him as leader, even he is surprised by his choice. And ever since that, he's been trying to do stuff his way, and alone, so that he can finally proof himself worthy of a leader, and as a creature. Problem is, that actually makes everything WORSE especially since the S2 finale's message was about TEAMWORK. "Anata wa hitori janai"= "You are not alone." And Leo just ignores all of that. And it bites him back in the shell in the worst way possible in the movie.

I want to talk about Mikey and Donnie and the movie, but I wrote WAYYYY too much and I have stuff to do. So yeah, give this show it's recognition!

Hey RISE FAM! Time to join the event!

Watch the movie! Post about it! TODAY IS THE DAY! Spam the hashtags! Let’s confuse Netflix AND Nickelodeon and show them that the show is NOT going down without a fight! Shell yeah!