#Rottmnt Leo angst

[zoniks]

TW: BLOOD

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Have I ever told you guys i love Leo angst?😁

I tried to add a little hints here and there in the drawibg, so it’d be fun if someone noticed it:b

(This was actually another fic idea that I just ended up drawing lol)

Kinda sad that the mirror got so blurry (it was on purpose) so, Here’s the unblurry version anyways:b :

[phoebepheebsphibs]

Rise August: Prison Dimension

I don't always draw backgrounds. But when I do…

…I absolutely kill it.

@sariphantom

[moonstruckdraws]

Heart-throbbing

Haven't drawn anything sad in a while. Want to get back into that, so why not the fandom's favorite turtle to traumatize

[torturedblue]

Just got to the end of season 1 of Rise yet again, and this time it’s really given me some extra thoughts and perspective about Leo’s behavior in the movie…

So we know at first Leo is goofing around like he usually does after the Dark Armor spits Draxum out. Undoubtedly with a huge boost of confidence from just defeating their Big Bad season 1 villain by merely creating total chaos and throwing plans out the window. After all, “we be we” right? Which leads Splinter and Raph to yell at him a lot while he just constantly insists “they’ve got this”. Which, sure, but Leo baby you have to actually fight and get focused for that to be true 😂 But it keeps Splinter’s doubts up all the while they’re moving through the Battle Nexus arc, and Leo doesn’t really get Splinter’s approval for his while big plan until he proves he knew what he was talking about all along and the Nexus crowd is cheering them on

“They love ya, Pops!”

“It was all you my son!”

They spend scene after scene with Leo insisting they’ve got this while working his Face Man routine on the Spiderwoman up until he gets thrown in the “kraken’s den” with Rat Jitsu and it’s not until then after he says it was all part of his plan and Splinter again doubts him, that Leo’s had enough of his lack of faith and failure to really pay attention to his strategies enough to say “How come no one trusts me? None of you have any faith in me, why?” Which, ouch.

And it’s kind of the same when they get back to the rest of the team. We know Raph was very unhappy with Leo bouncing on them even though the plan was actually Splinter’s, and as soon as they get back he chews Leo out for leaving them high and dry. Thus Leo’s “when I said you guys got this I meant that” speech. Raph remarks about how accurate Leo’s guesses were about how things went when they were gone, and when Shredder shows up again Raph asks if Leo’s sure about this to which he replies yet again “Trust me.” And while it may be with a confident grin, after all the previous events of the episode it makes me sad to hear the way Leo asks for trust again.

(Which, I love my guy Raph, but after watching him also doubt Leo for the whole episode it does make it hard to believe when he finally says he does)

And I could go off on a whole other tangent about Bug Busters and how Leo saw everything that Big Mama did coming beforehand unlike his brothers—like altering the terms of the deal Raph made with her at the last second—which allowed him to expect exactly that in Many Unhappy Returns and outsmart her… but I don’t think I need to.

So even though Leo doesn’t see it as much with Raph, he really had to work to earn his Sensei’s and his leader’s trust as a reliable team member. Now to be fair, he did keep his plan on the DL from Splinter up until the end, which makes it a little more unbeatable, but I always felt like he did that because someone who worked for Big Mama was always around and blabbing about what he was going to do around any of them wouldn’t have been smart.

And interestingly enough, the only episodes Raph does use him to do his Face Man thing are after all this, in Todd Scouts and Pizza Puffs, but I don’t think Raph ever did that in season one. “Go in there and do what you do best: face!” This leads me to think it’s the season 1 finale events that showed Raph Leo’s people skills and cleverness really were more useful than he thought

Looking back on all of this it really makes clear now more than ever why Leo had such hesitation about accepting his promotion to leader and acting accordingly.

Because Leo’s proven to know his family a lot better than they know him… which is actually really saddening

Even if you set aside all the other aspects of Leo being used to getting to take it easy, or seeing how when things get really serious the pressure of leadership can really get to you, or how people can actually die, like in the season 2 finale. At the end of the day we know Leo’s insecurity comes a lot from thinking his brothers or family don’t believe in him, so even after being given the leader role, how is he supposed to believe in himself?

[riseriot]

⚠️WARNING⚠️

!SELF DEPRECIATING THOUGHTS, SU!C!D@L IDEATION, BRUISES, IMPLIED SH!

He went sparring with the furniture in his room. :)

(Without Words)

(Without Shadow and Background)

[tvb0y]

TW// Vent Art ( ? )

"I made You Your Favorite Leo!"

"...."

I love using my fav character to vent :D

Uhm Anyways I Was just Feeling Really Shitty Abt Some Stuff And Almost Had A Meltdown So I Drew This Horror RPG Styled Thing. Nothing Too Deep But Ifykyk what this is abt then uhh...No You Don't.

Anyways I'm Better Now. Stay Safe And Drink Water :)

[irequirealobotomy]

PLEASE TELL ME SOMEONE CAN SEE MY VISION

I LIVE FOR INTENDED TO SACRIFICE HIMSELF LEO AND

THIS SONG RAHH

I NEED TO WRITE A FIC JUST FOR THIS SONG

[twitchstoleyourbagel]

He just really misses them 🫠

[mehriigss]

Rottmnt weird drabble/one shot because I have anxiety so Leo has anxiety too.

Based on a headcanon you can find here.

Leo was at the verge of a panic attack. No, he was going into a full anxiety spiral. The best part? He was currently having a family dinner.

Everyone was having fun. Raph was stuffing his face with Mikey's meatballs, April was trying to prevent him from choking, his twin was recording everything with his phone, his father was scolding him for using his phone during a family event, Mikey was still cooking in April's kitchen and Draxum and himself were having a smooth conversation about biology. About literal photosynthesis to be precise. He might hate him but he has to admit Draxum really knew how to get him to talk.

There were oh so many details in every single thing his family was doing right now, but he's brain chose to focus on himself. How selfish.

Draxum was rambling about his favourite photosystem when it hit him. The increased heart rate, the tunnel vision, the distorted hearing, the nausea, the damn choking sensation and that fucking piercing pain in his chest that just won't go away for the rest of the week.

Why did his anxiety have to be such an opportunistis?

He stared at Draxum like he was trying to read his soul out loud. Leo could hear him but he wasn't listening. No words seem to get into his brain but the usual 'you're nothing but your brothers', 'too little too late for redemption', 'you'll never change', 'under that mask is a scared little boy'.

Did Draxum just make him a question? He could tell by Draxum's body language.

"So?" Said Draxum to the turtle that barely registrated anything but the strong static in his ears.

Masking this kind of things was easy for him. He just had to ignore and endure it in equal proportions and play face man. He could do it, he was the face man! The actor! The lier among them! Misleading was his specialty.

He would just put on another layer of paint to his mask and flee forward.

"I'm not sure." Leo said a bit too low but steadily nonetheless.

"Well, if you are not sure, I could suggest a few scientific articles". Draxum replayed, apparently content enough with the poor answer.

Draxum was suddenly silent, already used to Leon's seemingly infinite energy for conversation, waiting for him to say something.

So he said the first thing he could muster, the quickest he could: "I-I'd love to read t-them".

That was clearly not a good plan.

It had begun. The stuttering, because his poor mouth couldn't keep up with his anxious brain. He hated that. He's good hiding his panic in plain sight but his stupid stuttering is something he can't control or cover! He could only go mute and hope he's not asked many questions because of it.

But going mute would be extremely suspicious when he's literally in the middle of a conversation!

"Ok...?"

Ok, Draxum was a bit confused, he could work with that. That is fixable. As long as he can keep a low profile he's good.

But his breathing was getting more and more erratic and being and acuatic turtle didn't actually help keep the need to just breath at bay.

Could he fix this?

'Of course not, you're useless!'

'You're eyes are watering, you big crybaby!'

'Just flee. They're not gonna miss you anyway '

'They're better off without you'

He took a big, deep, audible, shaky breath and surrendered.

"Are you ok, bro?" Mikey, bless his soul, had just entered to room and immediately noticed his struggle, taking over the conversation. "Barry, mind if I steal my brother from you for a sec?"

Mikey did not wait for an official answer, he grabbed Leo by the wrist and forced him out of the room. That, in all honesty, scared the holy shit out of Leonardo. And everybody else.

He felt a little naked now that he wasn't around his whole family, but at least the living room smelled like April. It was a nice smell to focus his mind on.

"Leo... It might not be anything serious- and I hope it isn't! -but..."

"I-I'm hav-ing a p-panic a-attack".

Another shaky breath was all it took for Leo to become a hyperventilating and sobbing mess.

That image just fits too well 😙

[doodle-buggie]

Various chaotic turtle doodles

[heybluez]

not me putting an edit on tumblr first bc my tiktoks r flopping!!! n e wayz have some leo angst!

[zoniks]

“Do you know who we are yet?”

Note to self: never create a comic on one single canvas (I had 9 layers max and tumblr ruined the quality 😢)

(Aaaahhhh) finally finished this ohmigosh

There’s WAYY too many songs in my playlist about pretending for me to not draw Leo🧚‍♀️

I might post just the line art later but I’m not sure😔

Sketches under cut, cuz I thought they looked cute:3

Sad Leo😔

[thedemisapphic]

After so many months I think the next chapter for What If It Was Raph is ready.

I was going to cut it in half because it is

40 PAGES LONG

But I decided not to.

So instead of getting two separate chapters, y’all will get one absolutely fucking MASSIVE one.

I can’t promise when tomorrow, because I have stuff going on, but I will make sure it happens tomorrow! SO GET HYPE!! I’M FINALLY DONE!!

And Y’ALL AREN’T READY FOR WHAT I HAVE COOKED UP 😈

It’s-

I’m gonna need to add so many trigger warnings…

[moonstruckdraws]

Fun! :] Don’t know why I drew this a while ago, but was more experimental if anything

[torturedblue]

The way neither of them can bear to hurt their families 🥺

[nerdyboiyeet]

whats that metal thing on twos chest

does big mama like two

will two tell his brothers the truth!!! 😡

who is twos favorite

BLOOD WARNING!!

Our poor boi done got vivisected for an experiment. The metal plate can be removed for punishments though

Two doesn't like it very much :(

Big Mama and Two's relationship is. . . . complicated. Who can say for sure ;)

Idk, will Two tell his brothers the truth >;)

Also, Two doesn't have a favorite (yet!) He doesn't know any of his brothers yet. He knows who they are and how they're related, but not them as people

Feel free to give me more asks!! I love drawing and answering them!! ;)