#Venus de Milo tmnt

[abbykmtr-13]

TMNTOBER 2024 | 20. Rejection

Venus de Milo was a controversial character… and, because of that, she was left out of plenty of TMNT projects. Fortunately, she was re-introduced in the IDW comics! We need more of Venus.

@traumas-tmntober-2024

[candied-opal]

spooky dress

[gonetoforks]

frick it uhhhhh leosagi 2: Venus x Chizu i need to go to bed

[we-are-not-your-kind]

Hello Rise fandom - I present my version of Venus!! For the past few weeks I've been absolutely obsessed with the lost sisters, so I finally decided to make my own versions of them. Decided to start with Big Mama's Assistant and I'll get around to the other lost sister in a few weeks 🐢 👀

I based Venus largely off her NM and IDW looks with a bit of Jennika thrown in for fun. Tried to stick as close to her canon look as Big Mama's Assistant as possible while giving my own spin to her. This is how imagine her to look once reunited with her family! Feel free to click see more if you'd like just a lil more info on her, or check out my fic where I'm writing my own missing sisters arc we were robbed of where Venus and the other sister will appear 🐢💕💕

So here's a lil more info on Venus...

Venus is ofc the sister raised by Big Mama who became her Assistant. The night of the mutation, Venus got caught up in an explosion in Draxum's lab which led to her getting injured. When Big Mama finds her, she gets the little turtle help but Venus nonetheless becomes a double amputee. And Big Mama is still a little sentimental about Lou - she thinks about how much he loved art because of his mother, and sees the turtle as her own little treasure and so names her after the Venus de Milo. There's much more to her backstory than that but - spoilers! You'll have to check out my fic for more (and I've already spoiled more here than I've revealed on AO3 oops lol). But here's a few more facts about her!

I've decided that the Disaster Twins are actually a trio - surprise! Leo, Donnie, and Venus are the Disaster Triplets because I just find it adorable and she just gives me such middle child energy tbh.

Venus' ninpo is very much tied to her amputation and weapons. She can manifest constructs of her arms, similar to Raph being able to copy himself. But she can also teleport those constructs around and use copies of her kaiken as well, kinda like Leo and his swords. As you can see on her character sheet, her ninpo manifests as flower petals! This is because I really wanted her to take after her grandmother aka Splinter's mom, Atsuko - thus the petals, and also where I got the shape of her eyes.

Also her favorite parent is absolutely Draxum and yes it drives Splinter up a wall, in particular because of how much Venus reminds him of his mother.

I've got so many more notes than just this but I really wanted to share my girl - give her some love if you want and feel free to check out my fic as well! I'll be updating more regularly in June when I have time to actively write. Might get to the other sister's character sheet first, but who knows! 💕💕

[l0stn3v3rf0und]

TMNT: Elemental Madness - Venus De Milo

Venus de Milo

Nicknames: Venus, Vee, Vivi, Milo, Veedee, Mom, Mother, Ma

Role: Ally - Enemy - The Supplier

35 years old

Personality

Stoic

Witty

Dutiful (always fulfilling one's duty)

Motherly

Overprotective

Selfish (in a way she thinks she can do anything on her own)

Independent

Holds grudges

Restless

Likes: Art, Making Jewelry, Open spaces, Caves, Sleeping

Dislikes: Sports, Bright lights, Crowded places, Homelessness

Fears: Abandonment/Being alone

Weapon: Double Ice Knives

Element: Water

Powers include: Hydrokinesis, Invisibility, Ice

Fun facts! (Wee woo fun facts and lore!!)

ULTIMATE MOM (she is the biological mother to the brothers)

Venus is a self-taught painter, she uses her art as a way to cope or express herself

She is very independent

Despite her cold demeanor, Venus has a good heart. Her trust issues and independence gets in the way sometimes

She may or may not have killed someone who hurt one of her kids (rip karai)

Venus prefers to work alone, she thinks that no one will truly understand her motives and would get in the way of her mission

She made it her life mission to find her lost children, even if they are presumed to be dead, she will do anything to find them

Venus is a well-known thief and criminal (she broke the truce with humans and the people of Eidos by killing one of them) so she is constantly on the run

Caves are her safe-place, since she found herself raised in one

The only person she trusted the most was her older sister, Jennika

She kidnapped Hamato Yoshi and held him hostage, because he was an accomplice to the injury of her kid

The reason why she held him hostage was because Yoshi requested that he could make up for what he had done if she spared his life.

Over time, he gained her trust. Venus trusted him enough to take her kids onto the ship and raise them.

Sometimes she takes things too seriously and often misunderstood certain tasks, she will not admit when she is wrong though

Her and Splinter have a "I am a better parent than you" rivalry, both are on good terms but the tension is still there (it giving divorced parents but they never dated)

VA Headcanon: Mel Medarda (Arcane)

References

Masterpost

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Mona & her siblings have NOT had an easy life. (very basic lore is that: Mona (middle) is the oldest, David (left) is the middle child and Venus (right) is the youngest.

(and yes, David is named after the sculpture cause I wanted to keep the art-piece name theme, and that is why Venus is Mona's sister. cause her being a sis to the turtles and doesn't have an artist name rather an art piece name)

More lore (plus designs for David that's clearer and 16 yo Venus)

[jakkrabbitz]

Beach episode featuring Mona Lisa !!☀️🌊🏖️

[littlemacbagel]

So you know that one turtle from that one TMNT serie... Yeahhhhh..

Well now he's a trans guy and has a violin as a weapon.

Totally will not project dysphoria onto this one... promise/jk (Psst! click for better quality!!)

[cagednoob]

Random Venus tmnt thought-

If she does appear in Mutant Mayhem I really really want her to be a weird girl. Someone who says the most out there thing, and collects rocks, or dead bugs in her spare time. Talks about stuff that that are obviously not real (unless 👀), and probably prefers the company of animals rather then people (and mutated animals I guess).

I still wouldn’t want her to be tight with the turtles, or at least not assume the family member role from get go… or whatever was going on in Next Mutation. Maybe as a reoccurring character seen in the background from time to time after introduction. Maybe some point becoming a main character

But in the end I want weird girl, Venus. Punk girl is fun, but weird girl I just want so much more.

[junk-thrillz]

To me the ‘real’ reason Venus wasn’t in TMNT 2012 is because I feel like there’s no way she wouldn’t be the youngest sibling, and the sheer chaos that would ensue from Mikey no longer being the youngest would derail the entire plot. The second he realizes he’s an older brother he’d be roping Venus into shenanigans that would have the rest of the siblings wishing they were only children

[silly-nic]

Some venuses from a scrapped au 😭 i might reuse concepts for her for Renaissance though... She'll just look less alive thatvtime around ..!

[candied-opal]

my dtiys that I did for twitter :]

[gonetoforks]

Introducing; my version of Rise’s Venus de Milo! (OUTDATED; adding the canon design for BM’s assistant!)

(she/her/thon/thons) She’s about 9 ft tall since she’s equally based off of Frankenstein, IDW Venus and the OG Venus de Milo. more info about her and her life under the cut! (Like, a lot more info, she’s been living in my head since last April) (She’s a year old and I’m only now revealing her info!) (HBD Venus!!)

Her Family in the Hidden City

Big Mama had her made by a scientist/patron of hers during the first 2 seasons as a synthetic competitor for her Battle Nexus, but after her change of heart in the S2 finale, she took thon in as her heiress and daughter to try and do something right for a change. It’s very hard for her. Her parenting style is a good balance of gentle and stern but she thinks praise is a good replacement for emotional vulnerability and it’s turned Venus into quite a megalomaniac. Venus just calls her “Mama” and BM calls her “Veedee” (If she calls thon “Venus,” thon’s in deep shit)

Time wise, after the movie she’s physically at age 1.5, 2 years old, though mentally thon’s about where Leo and Donnie are, 16. (Still very young, please keep in mind she is a child and has big eyes like the teenagers in the show, she’s just tall. If you sexualize her I will send you to the shadow realm. BEHAVE.)

Venus also sees the doctor that made her, Dr Shelly, as her father, and they’re quite close. She spent the first few weeks of her life in his home, mostly in his library where she filled her head with everything most people know intuitively. She often can recite information she has no memory of learning, these first few weeks were less like learning and more like remembering information but from no memories.

Venus’s closest friend & surrogate older sister is Jennika, who works as Big Mama’s assistant (and a fine artist!) under the codename “Frida.” The 2 spend most of their days on diplomatic missions in the Hidden City mafia underworld and managing/restructuring the Battle Nexus to be more ethical. Venus is a naturally studious academic who loves philosophy, literature, and of course, renaissance art, so adults tend to think she’s mature, but only Jennika really knows how naive she can be. Jennika misses her human family, so they’ve really latched onto each other.

She picked her name out herself. When thon was first revived, Shelly rushed up to her and almost addressed her with a name starting with V but stopped himself before he could say it in full. Changed his mind and said that he supposed that name probably wouldn’t fit right now. So she had a preference for a V name.

Thon’s Physiology

It’s quite the mystery how he did it, but the secret to Venus’s sentience is a machine that manages to convert any matter she digests into energy in the form of empyrean. This is why she was mostly kept a rapunzel-like secret for the first few months of her life before she had Jennika as a bodyguard. Nobody knows about her heart except herself, Jennika, Shelly and Big Mama.

If she bleeds or cries, it glows bright green, so she hates both because thon feels like she’s drawing attention to herself. She’s insecure about most of her organic parts anyway and pushes herself to appear stoney, inorganic and perfect. (The consequences of idolizing and wanting to emulate a literal goddess statue, skill issue) It’s not like her fears are completely unfounded though, she has no idea where Shelly got her dead body parts.

If she’s too stressed, the seams on her upper arms bleed and they fall off like a gecko tail. She kinda looks like the og Venus do Milo statue when that happens, it’s a bit gruesome.

To represent her need to balance the organic/inorganic parts of herself, thon’s biggest dreams vs realistic expectations for herself, her right hand is organic (and based off the 2012 turtles) while her left is robotic. (& made to look like big mama’s claws in her spider form)

Goals & wants

She wants to overthrow the council of heads and rule the Hidden City as president. (Through a democracy of course!) She sees them as ineffective and useless, she went to them during the Kraang invasion to tell them something needed to be done about the alien invaders but they did nothing and said to let the turtles handle it. She’s grateful everything turned out well but she still has a grudge against them and the way they run things. Big Mama thinks she’s silly and Jennika thinks she’s a mentally unwell, workaholic, megalomaniac but pizza supreme as her witness, thon’s gonna do it.

Thon wants to be a good, ethical leader/politician (oxymoronic, I know lmao) and sees the increasing amount of Battle Nexus estate Big Mama entrusts her with as practice for managing yokai society. She would love “the Good Place.”

She also wants to know more about Jennika and for her to reconcile with her father.

Venus’s arc

“Your life is your own, ok?!” She struggles with dehumanizing (de-turtle-izing?) herself because she believes it makes her greater, more fit to achieve her goals. When the fact that she’s a mortal, breathing, living being, that can’t possibly be anywhere near divine like thon thinks she needs to be hits her, she spirals. Thon desperately needs to learn that being imperfect is a necessary gift, that she is “the protagonist of her own life” and that you don’t need to be a great person to do great things, you just need to be a person.

She’s very studious and seen as intelligent and mature for her age, but when she’s put in real life situations after meeting her cousins, the turtles, she has to learn to to manage imperfections and embrace them.

She’s quite based off of MP100 and Barbie haha.

For this internal conflict I was inspired by how the original character’s depiction back in the 80’s was really,, dehumanizing? if that’s the right word? Misogynistic very much too. I find the message that; “no matter what other people think of you or what you think of yourself, you will never be anything more or less than a regular being” both comforting in itself and a neat subversion of the original VdM since one of my favorite aspects of Rise’s writing is how subversive it is.

I can’t wait to show you more of her! Esp how she interacts with the Mad Dogs!

Bonus; Design Details!

All the turtles have shape motifs; square, rectangle, circle, triangle, her’s is a Raindrop shape! Combined with her electric motifs she’s a bit of a storm cloud lol

The Turtles’s shells are s-shaped and follow the curvature of a human spine, I draw Venus’s shell really distorted and disproportionate to this since she’s inorganic.

Similarly, while the other turtles shells and plastrons are like boxes that contain their whole torsos, thon’s kinda just sits on top of her torso, where her plastron ends and her legs begin don’t line up. It started out as an anatomical error but i liked how it made her look distorted and off somehow. (Kinda gruesome, but it kinda helps her look like a bloated corpse, which is what she is aksjks) To be clearer, the difference between how the mad dogs’ shells/plastrons/bridges(sides) are attached to their bodies vs Venus’s is like the difference between a bodysuit and a t-shirt.

[j-t-designs]

I drew Venus de Milo! I did my own version of her!

[royal-they]

design for my one fic

[masked-kitsune]

Ya know if Rise ever got a third season. Venus de Milo could be introduced as a missing sibling for the turtles. I could see her being a painted turtle to go with the themes of the boys being different turtles. She could have been living on the streets of the mystic city after being separated from Splinter and the boys when Draxum's lab exploded and they could have been thought to have been lost in the explosion.

Her nickname would probably be yellow because she could potentially have a yellow mask and it could be a reference to her yellow stripes