#Leos no good timeline

[nerves-nebula]

That fic got me thinking about the leo who let his brothers go again.

[rusttmnt]

Oh Raph, what are you going to do now?

[cupcakeslushie]

Leo might not have got to spend much time with his niece in the doomed timeline but good timeline Mayday def has a fav uncle.

[avephelis]

twenties mutant ninja turtles or whatever you call it

[beebopurr]

We're making moves

[dustbunsinspace]

Part of 🟢 Leo gets Overwhelmed au🟢

Aah, I’m so happy I made it in in time! 💙✨ Merry Christmas, tumblr nation! Here’s a little comic about 03 Usagi and Leo going so see the Rockefeller tree after the events of the Christmas Aliens episode.

Little post about events earlier that night

Also this is literally how maskless Leo looks to me, he’s so moomincore ;

[iooiu]

“it’s called going down memory lane!”

vote tltc uncle jello in the @rottmntpeepawpolls and yes, you heard donnie right, we’ll get to hashtag drop a new banger called bad future timeline remade in the form of a side quest (chapter 7)

[foxsoulart]

Untwins your disaster (lazily)

[olive-garden-hoe]

Man when 2012!Splinter said “you are who you choose to be, not what others made you” that really hit my little non-binary heart

[thejadecount]

Man haven’t read the actual 40th anniversary ROTTMNT comic yet but from what I’m hearing it’s going to be HILARIOUS watching every canon-compliant AU desperately trying to add all this in and explaining what siblings X and Y were doing when and where and why

[roseverdict]

i've fixated on the sticks for the past 7 months and i also just finished watching the first half of rottmnt s1 and also the movie, and i have come to the following conclusion:

this venn diagram is almost completely just straight-up a circle

[nerves-nebula]

hiiiii i have questions abt the 'leo lets his brothers leave' universe:

is there even any chance of leo like,,,,, EVER forgiving or liek not wanting to kill(?) his brothers for leaving him? do the other three ever think they fucked up by leaving and feel guilty at all, or try to do anything to fix things with leo? (as much as they could ever possibly be fixed lolll) do any of their friends find out what happened? (specifically april or casey?) and do they think the three were kinda fucked up for leaving leo to be abused and manipulated and sa'd by his dad for years?

Great questions!

1. There is definitely a chance for redemption (tho I don’t really like that word) for everyone involved but first leo has to have a massive breakdown. Think azula from atla. It has to be messy and violent and unhinged and probably end with him restrained in some way lol. The road to recovery for this leo will be way tougher. People will say cruel things they can’t take back :p

2. Yes and no. At the point where they leave none of them really know how bad it is for Leo. They still think he’s splinters pampered favorite who never gets hurt as bad as they do. And since he didn’t want to come with them at the time, and they’re small children with a limited worldview, they kind of just assumed that was always the case. They miss him and think about him but they don’t really feel guilty or like they abandoned him until he comes back spitting vitriol. (Though they know from April that he’s become increasingly unpleasant, they chalk it up to his usual Leo Sucks behavior)

And even then they dont feel TOO bad until they figure out what actually happened. idk if Leo would even talk about tho he’s probably convinced that he hasn’t been abused and assumes all his feelings of rage and betrayal are cuz his brothers abandoned him- they might have to do a memory trip about it to get the to the truth. And even then it would be a significantly more brutal experience than the canon Leo memory trip.

3. Their friends don’t blame them cuz they were literally soooo young. Like the oldest was 13. I’m not sure if they meet Casey the same way tho. Raph originally met Casey while healing from his broken arm after their failed attempt to run away. If they’re in the hidden city most of the time I don’t actually think they’d meet Casey until later.

In fact it’s far more likely that Casey meets April and Leo long before he meets any of the rest of them, so he’d probably be sort of on Leo’s side. But since he knows April she’s able to tell him their side too. Casey has experience with splintered (haha) siblings so he gets it and tries not to pick sides, but since Leo’s his friend he’ll be on Leo’s side if he has to choose.

At least until he falls for Leo’s brother with resting bitch face, but then again fist fighting your gay crush is also a fantasy of his so if leo brings him to a brotherly conversation that turns into a brawl he’s not gonna pass it up…

April is solidly on the boys side tho cuz she’s received a lot of abuse from Leo (especially when she refused to tell him where his brothers went) so she gets why they didn’t bring him with. In this timeline he’s kind of a horrible menace. His relationship with April is super strained

Also important to note that while Leo got most of it, they were all abused and manipulated by splinter, and raph was also sexually abused. So like yes it’s terrible but also it’s not like leo has a monopoly on suffering here (though he’d beg to differ)

[rusttmnt]

Right hand man(turtle)🐢

[darth-sonny]

In your Bad End au-of-the-au, the topic of Leo as Prime's Host seems like a bit of a campfire story.

I imagine tellings range from brief mentions of the kappa that the Krang are using to take the planet (does anyone even know what he looks like?) to detailed descriptions of the 'dark deals' some yokai and humans think he's struck with their alien overlords to the more sympathetic ones who think he was just in the wrong place at the time.

Does anyone think Leo was chosen specifically? And does anyone blame Casey Jr for not being able to stop the apocalypse even though he was sent back in time to save the future? (do they know he's a time traveller and do they believe him?)

CAMPFIRE STORIES!!! CAMPFIRE STORIES OH MY GOOODDD!!!!

now I'm just the Resistance 2.0 telling Leo's story as a warning. like. "This is what happens to you when you go up against the Kraang alone"

and the fam wants to smack whoever came up with that story so badly. because, yes, Leo was alone, but by his choosing and because all of them were too in denial to realize that something was wrong with him until it was too late

honestly, I don’t think none of them believe he was chosen, more like; he was either the only willing option, or he was just really unlucky on which Kraang decided to take him

and no. the Resistance 2.0 have no idea that their leader is from the future or that he's a time traveler. and no one from the Hamato Clan blames him, but Casey really wishes they did. at least that would've been easier to understand than them forgiving him

[pizzazz-party]

Do you have an tmnt/uy au you're working on?

YES.

So the gist of it is, is that the UY cast are native to Rise’s distant past—from way back when the Krang first originally invaded.

After successfully sealing away the aliens, Edo-period Japan collectively gets, like, zero seconds of rest before their key explodes—damn I wonder what (ninja turtle family) caused that—and present-day New York’s timeline comes crashing into theirs like a bus.

[dianagj-art]

I've gotcha

I know alligator snapping turtles are massive and I know it wouldn't logically make sense. But I love the idea that Raph just stops growing and Leo, Donnie, and Mikey grow to be as tall if not taller than him