#Leo's rant was weirdly therapeutic

[a-dumb-sarcastic-bisexual]

Alright, okay, hear me out

The turtles with cloaking broaches

Go WILD

I just want to start off by saying sorry (this is so late... like over 20 days late)

I feel like Donnie would immediately enroll in college 

Mans has been waiting for this day for years and nothing can stop him

Mikey would try and get his art out there 

He’s been running an art account since Donnie made him a drawing tablet when he was 5

(Raph the account to make sure he wasn’t posting anything too revealing and showered every single post with praise) (Leo wrote all his captions to make sure it didn’t sound like a 5-year-old wrote them) (and Donnie deletes every single negative comment before Mikey could read them)

He’s grown a mighty fanbase that has followed him from just about any social media you can name (he tends to leave an app when it gets too toxic) 

And after 6 months of getting his cloaking broach, he announces that he has an art gallery (that Donnie fully funded of course)

(can this actually happen? I have no fucking clue but I like to pretend it could)

Raph and April start restoring all of Splinter’s old dojos

They slowly but surely start to pass down all of the important stuff Splinter has taught them

And it becomes the most popular dojo chain in New York

I like to think Leo would just live his life 

He didn’t do anything with the broach the first year he had it 

He didn’t even touch it 

But with Splinter’s amazing intuition (and Donnie hacking Leo’s phone and looking at his Pinterest) the whole family discovered Leo’s bucket list 

One day the family confronted him and asked why he never left?

I mean come on he owns swords that could take him to any corner of the globe and he’s got a bucket list the length of the Nile

and he essentially says that he’s terrified 

He wants to leave but he also doesn’t want to miss out on the important moments 

Splinter is getting older and he doesn’t want to take the little moments for granted

He can get home the moment he finds out Donnie is graduating or Mikey is opening a second gallery but he won’t be there for the little things

Like the group finding the people they want to spend the rest of their lives with (romantic or platonic he doesn’t care) or when they move into their forever homes 

And he’s not going to see their reactions when the big news arrives 

He might get a call or got forbid a text 

but he knows for a fact that someday he won’t be the first person his family calls when they get exciting news because he’ll be in a completely different time zone 

and that’s mortifying 

And Splinter sits him down and essentially tells him “I would rather you love me from the farthest place you can imagine than have you slowly start to resent me for not being able to live your life”

Now don’t get me wrong those words weren’t a cure-all but they did ease some of his very obvious worries

He does slowly start to travel more and more 

And eventually, he spends days and weeks away from home 

and he misses some big and small moments but it doesn’t affect him as much as he thought it would 

because there are moments that Donnie Mikey Raph and April missed and they were living within five minutes of each other at the time 

and he’s weirdly okay with that