#Lou Jitsu

[goatedgreen]

you will NEVER fumble a bitch like Baron Draxum fumbled Lou Jitsu. NEEEVVERRRRRR

he saw what he considered to be the PEAK HUMAN FORM and thirsted for him so bad he KIDNAPPED THAT MAN to make lab experiment MUTANT CHILDREN with him (leading to said man being turned into a RAT MAN) instead of just like. saying hi.

CATASTROPHIC LEVELS OF DOWN BAD

[sticker-star-sketchbook]

pov: you're a tired ex-actor mutated rat dad who just discovered your toddler mutant (pre-ninja) turtle has unlocked your family's innate mystic gifts including a bunch of untapped powers your Grandpa Sho never bothered mentioning (_ _;)

[andva-ri]

☆ So happy to finally share my piece for the @turtlestogetherzine ☆

It's been an honor to participate along with so many talented people!

♡ Thank you all so much for having me ♡

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[tizeline]

So I've been agonizing what Raph, Leo and Mikey's names should be in the AU, cuz if Splinter didn't raise them then they Draxum would've been the ones who named them and why would he pick human artist names?

Alas, I am lazy, and I don't wanna spend a bunch of time figuring out alternative names for them, so I quickly thought of an in-universe reason why they all ended up with the same names as in canon lol

(TBF Splinter did immidietly start naming in the show as well, he was just a bit less creative about it)

[cheezthatboiii]

I miss rottmnt so bad

Dropping my rottmnt doodles from late 2023 -> few minutes ago ;D

[ihateitallsomerandomguy]

some sad sketches

[kathaynesart]

Here is my submission for Round 3 of the @tmntfashioncompetition. The theme was "Heroes and Villains" and while I was tempted to go the cosplay route I really wanted to see if I could lean hard into the fashion aspect and still get the theme across with Vogue vibes alone. This is my first time drawing either Lou Jitsu or Big Mama, but I felt like they were the perfect pair for this theme. I will be going up against the lovely @pommigranite this round! Best of luck to both of us, dear!

Inspo below the cut.

[bicryptide]

The fact that Rise gave Splinter not one but TWO love interests will never not be funny to me.

[notsotinyblob]

so how do you guys think splinter found out about april

[s0fti3w1tch]

"You have to go to bed after this."

plaintext: in quotes "You have to go to bed after this" end quotes. /end plaintext

Image description: Lou Jitsu era ROTTMNT Splinter, with acid burn scars on his arms and missing fingers except thumb on his left hand, in pajama-wear feeds baby Donnie a bottle of milk in his arms, with a fuzzy blanket on the arm he's holding him in. Donnie is wearing a purple hoodie, black shorts, and baby glasses, and grabbing at the milk. /End image description

Pt. 1 Leo, Pt. 2 Raph, Pt. 3 Mikey

Thank you for enjoying this short series of Lou-era Splinter with the baby turtles. I made the initial 3 to cope with some stuff and felt better afterwards, but I decided to complete the set. Anyways, yes, Splinter did get more disheveled as the night went on. And yes, just like me, he'll get his rest now too.

[isonachiumbu0]

People harp about how much leo looks like lou jitsu yet donnie's body has a closer resemblance to lou jitsu's than leo's does because of his long legs (lol they're posing the same)

Leo has a long torso and short legs (in proportion to his body) to push his triangle shape language, unlike lou jitsu and donnie

[onionninjasstuff]

LETS ALL PRETEND IT HASNT BEEN EIGHT MONTHS

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[andysuriano]

Some more old concept sketches…I was told that Lou Jitsu was a ‘baby girl’.. can someone explain that to me please?

[sticker-star-sketchbook]

alright let's do this >:)

(raising your mystic kid au -- episode 0)

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reblogged version with script lol

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[tizeline]

So, when Leo's around 10-ish, he accidentally stumbles accross a box filled with a bunch of Lou Jitsu movies (there's even some merch in there!) Which confuses him, considering Draxum had banned anything Lou Jitsu related in their household. He'd shown them some footage from Lou's Battle Nexus fights for research purposes, but his movies were appearently "nothing but human propaganda" so they were strictly off limits..... so why did Draxum even have these?

Leo knew that he'd definitely get in trouble if he watched them and his dad found out but.... if this is the guy who appearently kidnapped his Long Lost Brother, then he should know more about him, right? If Leo was gonna save the softshell from the evil clutches of Lou Jitsu one day, he needs to prepare. So he decides to watch the movies, y'know, for research purposes.

So he does that and uh-

Okay, so in this AU, Leo is a HUGE Lou Jitsu fanboy, and he hates himself for it. Cuz on one hand, he's clearly evil and responsible for taking his softshell brother away from them, but DAMMIT he's just so cool! And Leo appearently has this guy's DNA!? How awesome is that!?

He manages to hide his Lou Jitsu obsession from his family, and being introduced to his movies led to Leo seeking out other human media as well. There are a couple of different reasons why Leo is the first to go against Draxums evil plan and one of those is that, unlike his brothers, Leo is quite familiar with human society and culture. Him being able to teleport also leads to him sneaking to the surface sometimes find out more about humans. All of this leads him to eventually realize that humans really aren't that different from yokai, uh oh, are we the baddies?

[thedawningofthehour]

On Splinter and Colors

I know we all joke about Splinter giving the red-eared slider the nickname Blue and I agree that it is indeed a peak troll dad move, but consider-

This is what we see of the baby turtles in Goyles Goyles Goyles

And this is the same picture put through a colorblind filter showing protanomaly, or red deficiency

Through deuteranomaly, green deficiency

And through protanopia, total red blindness

Yeah, makes sense why Leo might be Blue.

(there's green blindness and blue deficiency/blindness as well, but Leo's eye bananas still looked red in those)

If you haven't gotten to high school physics yet or have forgotten that lesson: we have three cones in our eyes that respond to light of different wavelengths, perceiving the color red, green, and blue respectively. All the colors you perceive are a mixture of these cones receiving light and yelling at you. (except for purple, purple's kind of weird) (as is black and white, and magenta, and-there are a lot of non-spectral colors, actually) Color blindness occurs when one or more cones is bad at its job or not working, resulting in the eye having difficulty perceiving that wavelength or not being able to see it altogether.

Now, considering he did give another child Red, he most likely can tell some shades apart. So I doubt he's completely red-blind. But it's very possible that he's red-weak or green-weak colorblind and literally saw Leo as having blue stripes as an infant, because they were in a shade he had trouble seeing.

This could also explain why he wore yellow-tinted glasses. They might have literally helped him see better by filtering everything to a wavelength he could see more comfortably at.

But, you ask, why didn't the name 'red-eared slider' tip him off? Splinter's not a native English speaker. He's fluent, but it's his second language and it is very different from his first. English is a confusing and often contradictory language, so even if he realized that red-eared was meant to refer to the markings around their ears that were red-well, what does he know? English came up with all sorts of weird, misleading names for things. The black mamba isn't actually black, goldfish can come in all sorts of colors, and there's a frog called the mountain chicken. Who is he to argue?