#april meeting the turtles

[magsterdragster]

I wanna talk about my TMNT but idk what exactly to talk about... And most of the time when I wanna talk about something I don't bc I tell myself I should draw stuff to go with it. But then my stupid brain is like "okay but if you spend all that time drawing and no one asked?? Like?? Why??"

Ugh..

[camilieroart]

Grocery shopping gone wrong

Why would they go grocery shopping in the middle of the day, in Manhattan, the most anti-mutant district of New York (mostly influenced by mafia boss Don Vizioso) ? Who knows ! Not Raph, who was having an off day, and is VERY surprised to see his family return with 1 (one) grocery bag and many (a lot) of bruises.

COLORCODED TMNT ITERATION

[turtleblogatlast]

Something I really like is that April’s constant stream of odd jobs she goes through is somewhat reflected in the boys as well. Like, you have April working at random pizza places or getting a crane license or being fully willing to apply for a job at a place clearly made out of cardboard. Then you have the boys as well who do anything from working as a basketball mascot, building a massive dog park, being waiters, getting a whole band gig at a theme park, etc, etc-

Main difference is that April actively applies for these jobs (and is hopefully paid for the short time she’s in them) whereas for the bros the jobs usually find them (and they practically never get paid.) It doesn’t even stop at jobs either, they just seem to casually amass skills in general.

I don’t know, I like how both April and the turtles are just so ready and willing to do things. Sure, they’re not always good at these things, but they do them readily! In a way, being heroes is just another job (well, more like volunteer work/vigilantism/another fun activity) that they initially took on because of their general sense of “why not?”

They’re very willing and open to trying out new things despite their tendency to revert back to what they enjoy (and how commonly trying new things ends up going wrong), and I think that adaptational interest of theirs really helps them be well rounded in multiple regards.

[incorrect-tmnt2012-quotes]

Mikey: How’s my breath?

April: Ooh, like flowers! How'd you do that?

Mikey: I ate two flowers.

[rottmntpeepawpolls]

ALRIGHT EVERYBODY!!

The bracket's all been put together!

Please note that there were a few more submissions that I had to take out of the running for the sake of space, but I hope that everyone's still excited!!

Full list of names (the text is tiny ik I'm sorry) and links to the content themselves below the cut

For the record, I put all of the names in the order I had them saved then just shuffled them, I didn't make these match-ups.

I also haven't seen 100% of these, nor do I remember all of them, so if I don't remember the nicknaming system used in that specific fic, I apologise.

Left Side

ITBOTB Blue vs. Fracturing Time Mikey

Hansel AU Leo vs. Kosmara Mikey

wify,ifm Leo vs. TAE Leo

AMW Leo vs. RtEoTW April

NQK Leonardo vs. Red Rover f!Leo

TFLB Donnie vs. JTOEL Donnie

Full Lair Leo vs. Dead Man's Deal Leo

IBEH Leo vs. GitS Ghost

Right Side

Separate Times Donnie vs. MNMC Leo

Cass' Uncle Donnie vs. 2 arms left Leo

Time Napped Raph vs. LCD Leo

His World Nidas vs. Kosmara Leo

WMAS Leo vs. Two Souls Aoi

LMAD Leo vs. Mystic Hands Mikey

NQK Michelangelo vs. OMO Leo

Replica Leo vs. Last Hourglass Leon

[chiangyorange]

MORE FUTURES!!! i love them both so so dearly

LEONARDO

CASSANDRA

design notes under the cut <3

Future April

ROCKET BOOTS ROCKET BOOTS ROCKET BOOTS

she has red eyes like leonardo bc theyre both like a little radioactive but its ok she got free lasik eye surgery

shes the only one with a death scar so far oops

Future Mikey

RAINBOW MAN.

single bean brow. you agree.

beads with 1 color representing his family, most of his hair has white for splinter, teal for draxum, and pink for cassandra cause theyre. you know.

also his hair is technically spoilers for the fic that hasnt even come up yet <3

[bambiraptorx]

Draxum has no idea how to parent teenagers. They're going to drive him insane

(he also still can't spell lol)

Part 2

[eateth-thy-words]

getting ice cream with the april squad

tumblr is gonna crisp crunch ghrhghgr to the quality so click if u wanna see the crisp clean lines mmm yummy

also reblog pretty please mWAH xoxo

[buxiee]

day 30 - Turtle Tots

[liathgray]

Can we hear some of your Brain farts about green screen please?

OF COURSE

This AU is in a squishy stage (read: I am open to suggestions) and not everything is set in stone, but I do know one thing for sure: lil April is a conspiracy theorist.

She spends a lot of her free time doing baby detective work because it was fun, "cracking cases" like who stole the pizza boys delivery bike!

She starts reading up on conspiracy theories / checking the paper for any ongoing investigations and most of what she comes across doesn't need investigating, theres always one theory ppl agree is right.

Until she finds out about the Lou Jitsu conspiracy. The celebrity who vanished for over ten years without a trace and returned with strange children.

Not. One. Person can agree on this. There's like a million different explanations and none of them fit! April. just. it sucks her in so fast and this girl is NOTHING if not stubborn.

She digs and digs and digs and the crazy thing is: she solves it. April correctly figures out what happened via paying attention to small things, and also being a child that can accept things like "theres a magic city under NYC" girly GOT IT! But of course no one believes her.

If only she could prove it...

Rest of AU: First, Second, Fourth

[familyofpaladins]

TMayNT Day 2: Favorite April

I love 03 April in how Smart and kind she is, but also willing to fight when needed. I love Rise April in how Spunky she is and willing to just jump into fights right along side the turtles.

Anyway here's the two of them bonding over breaking into labs and discovering things they weren't supposed to know about lol (at least that's where the conversation is going)

[mysonsareturtles]

Guess who got to meet THE teenage mutant ninja turtles? (Hint: it’s me).

[camilieroart]

HAPPY ONE YEAR TO TMNT COLORCODED !

To celebrate here is a double poster set, themed after one of the main "ep" of "season 1" I just outlined :D! It's filled with meaningful details :D!

COLORCODED TMNT ITERATION

[turtleblogatlast]

I find it interesting that Leo tells Raph that Raph was Mikey’s age when he first went out alone because it’s fun to draw the conclusion that Donnie and Leo were not that age when they themselves first went outside.

Sure, they likely could have just ventured out at the same time as their brothers and Leo just chose to focus on Raph to make his point, but given Donnie and Leo’s respective personalities I can absolutely see them just leaving anyway at a much younger age.

[incorrect-tmnt2012-quotes]

April: How’s my hair?

Casey: Hasn’t changed in six years.

[tending-the-hearth]

MORE TURTLE ANGST AU BECAUSE TURT ANGST

because i am very very obsessed with versions of the turtles meeting each other i couldn't stop thinking about the utter angst that would ensue but also the softness and slow found family vibes

specifically the 2012 turtles meeting versions of themselves where tang shen doesn't exist, where splinter's entire world is the turtles + april

the 2012 turtles meeting, say, the rise!tmnt, the bayverse!tmnt, or the mutant mayhem!tmnt?? versions of the turtles whose splinters never had a serious love interest prior to their creation, whose love and attention was always solely focused on them?

i'm thinking about bayverse!splinter, who sacrificed himself for his boys without a second thought, who finds out about another version of himself who has all but pushed the turtles away, the precious turtles who are the light of splinter's life

mm!splinter, who literally was desperate to keep his beloved sons protected from possible dangers, who faced his greatest fear in order to help his boys, seeing how broken, how tired they are.

rise!splinter, who, despite how it seems, can and will put his boys above everything else, who cannot even fathom the idea of not wanting his sons around, of falling back into his life before the boys, seeing these versions of his sons be so easily abandoned

just... the 2012!turtles meeting different versions of themselves, and meeting different versions of splinter, and being so fully prepared to recieve that same cold shoulder, only to be gathered into warm embraces, and have gentle, fatherly reassurances whispered to them.

and they're rightfully hesitant, they're unsure, because having your father immediately turn to his original family without a second thought leaves some lasting trauma and pain, but they can't resist falling into the different splinters' arms, pouring their hearts out as they cry and listen to advice that only splinter can give.

and somehow, idk maybe the donnies make dimensional transport watches bc that's definitely a thing that would happen, so visiting the different dimensions, and hanging out with the different versions of themselves + splinter becomes a weekly thing. and slowly, the 2012!tmnt bring the other versions to their own world, introduce them to xever, and chris, and april, and casey, and the mutanimals, and it slowly spirals into all of them getting together and hanging out.

and the 2012 boys slowly start to realize that they do have a family. it may not be the one they thought they had, but it's even better, and full of people who truly love them.

@queen-with-the-quill @madcatgurl