#also yes the last thing was inspired by t33la's chronicles of the cretaceous. if you couldn't tell.

[lycanthropiclesbians]

Hi friend =D have some ✨ love your fandom asks ✨!

2. a headcanon you weren't sure about at first but have come to like!

11. if you're a writer or artist, what fic or piece of art are you proud

16. a tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate

Thank you so much for the ask, my friend!

1: Hmm... This first one is quite difficult. But if I just had to pick something, I might say--and I suppose this doesn't really count as a headcanon, but--in Raphael's issue of the 2007 prequel comics, he meets this old man who, spoiler alert, dies and leaves Raph the Nightwatcher gear.

And my first thought is, this is kind of stupid, because how and why is a human going to have a mutant-turtle-shaped get up. Y'know? The whole situation just seemed so serendipitous, which is fine I suppose, but I just wasn't a huge fan. But the more I think about it, the more interesting it becomes, because it's this whole other aspect to the Nightwatcher business that his brothers have no idea about. Like, he held that old man in his arms as he bled out and died. Did he ever talk to his brothers about that? His dad? Could that have been the real beginning of his pulling away from them, this trauma that only he experienced? I'm just saying, it has some potential.

2: Of the fics I have posted, I would have to say that I'm most proud of good genes. It's short, but I would love to do more like it.

3: One thing I would LOVE to see people talk about: at the end of s4e21: Return of the Savanti, April rushes to tell Master Splinter something very important--something that concerns the safety of his children! But he brushes her off, saying it is probably better if he doesn't know. Then, the turtles emerge from a time portal, their weapons and armor augmented with bone and hide and scales (hell, Donny is carrying a Triceratops skull on his shell), and they don't really want to talk about it right now, and Splinter doesn't even try to ask. I just? ??

They just came back from a three-month impromptu camping trip in the Cretaceous, a planet-killing asteroid breathing down their necks the whole time--not to mention dealing with Savanti again and all that. Why did Splinter act this way? I know it's almost certainly just a bit of poor writing and this ultimately being a kid's show, but like. Can you imagine? Returning home by way of a miracle from some of the harshest survival conditions possible, isolated by 66 million years from everything you ever knew and love, but now you're back and your father... hardly gives you a second glance? What? I get that no time has passed for him, I get that he's used to them getting into strange and terrible things, but like. Come on.

Perhaps the knowledge of all they endured would just be too painful to bear as their father. Y'know? And that's a whole other can of worms. How many times have they stumbled home with broken bones and open lacerations, assuring him that it's no big deal, just a scuffle that got out of hand? How many times does it take for him to not smother them afterwards? How many times before he stops asking? How many times before he won't even listen? And it's not because he's gone numb, it's not because he doesn't care--it's just the opposite! It's heartbreaking every time and he doesn't know how much more he can take, watching his sons, his whole world, put their lives on the line every night, knowing that this is how he raised them to be.

Thank you again for the ask, it made me very happy!!