#biblically accurate turtles

[copperpipes]

You actually need to climb to get decent connection in desolate areas >:/

Actually just realized this would make an amazing wallpaper

This also was a random surge of inspiration which i don't know what to feel about because I should be doing homework right now 🙃

*please do not repost anywhere without my permission and credit* otherwise you are free to set it for yourself

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Some sketchbook pages of my studies of real turtles! The first two are skeletal studies and the third is a general placement of muscle groups :)

[lil-beanz000]

Gift for the lovely @copperpipes ❤️❤️❤️❤️

luv ya!~ hope you are taking care of yourself >:V

[glitched-username]

..★soo- , urh- I got a little concept regarding rottmnt G/t, thought about sharing it with you- if you don't mind.★

★M'kay- so combining the latest analysis that you made about Donnie being a size-shifter and the turtles heights in your 'Biblically Accurate Size' AU- I managed to cook up this (no, this does not only concern Donnie by the way) :

|⭐| What if the turtles were size shifters- who could only shrink, but wait- there is a catch. What if the absolute minimum of how small they can get depends on their species height. Like, once they reach said height- they won't be able to shrink any more.

|⭐| For instance, if Raph wants to get smaller- the absolute minimum could be 30 inches- since that is his accurate height, based on your AU at least. Same goes for the other turtles as well- such as, Mikey's minimum height is 5 inches tall- Leo's minimum is a foot tall, Donnie's is 9 inches- yeah, you get it.. I hope (—‹ —⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ..

★..erm. just a thought that has been spiraling around my head. I let you do what you want with it or smth, smth..★

★soo, bye for now-★

(I might return with a little idea regarding size shifting brains & brawn duo. erm. since Raph is technically a size shifter of some sorts- and Donnie does have the potential of being a size shifer. Though I don't have much in mind for this concept.. fuck =[[)

SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG TO GET TO THIS! My brain has been mush the past few days 😔😔😔

Anyway

Yes. Absolutely

Mikey 100% does it the most. To annoy older brothers, practice his "razzmatazz", and perfect cuddle buddy. Very "marketable plushie" coded. I just have a mental image of Mikey taking the place of whatever "sports ball" they plan on throwing around. He's already the biggest adrenaline junkie on the team and in the show, they already make it a habit of throwing brothers around like ragdolls so this is an entirely real possibility lmao

Donnie does it for science purposes like 99% of the time. Especially before he got his mystic goggles/powers. Machine is down but don't wanna tear it apart to get at the ONE section failing? Just shrink down and work on it there. The next 0.50% is when he's too overwhelmed and just needs to get small to hide from the lights, sounds, everything, just 'get me the hell out of here'. The last 0.50% is purely for personal comfort. Small bath turns into massive pools for the aquatic turtle to enjoy, warm human friend is suddenly a super warm and comfortable giant heated weighted blanket.

Leo is by far the most unpredictable. He'll do it to annoy Raph and Donnie and also LOVES how it can make him the center of attention. Leo is like the master of "I'm secretly craving affection but I'll cover it up with a cool guy persona who 'totally doesn't need hugs'!" April and his brothers will just carry Leo around like that one ferret gif:

Post krang, however? That boy does NOT like shrinking down. It makes the room seem massive, never ending, cold like the prison dimension. And his brothers, normally a comfort, morph into large terrifying shapes, reminiscent of the Krang. But "EveRYThiNGs FiNE! DoNT yOU WorRY aBoUt 'ol NEoN LeON!"

Raph shrinks down the least. He's too big to enjoy the perks being small gets. Still too heavy to be casually carried around. Still too big to have a nice heated bath feel like a nice pond. Too spiky to have the same huggable qualities as the other two. Not to mention the only time he really feels comfortable is when they're all shrunk down at the same time because he's worried that he would not be able to help his family at the smaller size. But at the same time he'll have those moments where he wants to be small, to be taken care of, to be the younger brother. He'll never admit it but the others can always tell when something's off. They've figured out enough that while he can't really be carried or held like the others, Raph still makes a perfect lap dog/turtle and is perfectly happy to just flop down on someone's lap and enjoy the free scritches during chill hours.

Splinter thought he was hallucinating for the first couple years when the boys would just randomly change sizes until he actually caught the turtle tots shifting in real time. Then he just was like "yeah this might as well have been another thing Draxum did to their DNA"

Also I started writing a response before I reread the ask and noticed it said "could only shrink" so under the read more was my thought process before of how that would effect the growing part of idea 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

And to add on, what if it kinda works in the opposite way when they grow. Like the Scale for BA Mikey is about 1:10, so what if when he grew it was flipped so he's 10x the size instead of 10% (47 feet)

Same with the others. BA Raph is about 1:2.5 so 2.5:1 when he grows (15 feet). BA Donnie is a 1:7 scale so then 7:1 (37 ft). And BA Leo is 1:5.25 so 5.25:1 or 28ft.

Suddenly biggest brother is now smallest brother and the smallest brother, Mr. "more than happy to chuck himself off a building to do a cool trick" is now the SIZE of a building.

It think I'd be really funny/cool as an added thing.

[allosaurids]

I have seen people saying that Donnie should be bigger than Leo because softshells are naturally bigger, which is the case!...if Donnie wasn't a spiny softshell.

The image above shows an AFRICAN SOFTSHELL compared to a Red Eared Slider. The second one below shows an CHINESE SOFTSHELL with an fellow Red Eared Slider.

Now let's look at a SPINY softshell turtle with an Red Eared Slider!

Herees one where we see that this TEXAS SPINY SOFTSHELL is not massive compared to the slider in fact they are similarly sized!

Here's another clearer one! Donnie is canonically a Spiny Softshell Turtle and despite him being a softshell, unluckily he just wasn;t the correct the species to dominate over his twin brother.

Please note in fact that this IS NOT to bash on people headcanoning Donnie being way taller than Leo I find it people making one the twins way taller than the other funny to me, but I wanted to clear the fact that scientifically accurate or canonically they would have remained on a similar height probably.

[atearyamallari]

Been thinking about making my own tmnt au and loosely basing the stories on some of my experiences as an Asian American with multiple siblings, so I drew up some concept art. Here's Leo and Raph

Also, big shout out to @copperpipes for the inspiration to make biblically accurate turtles lol

[apalonecreations]

Slides into here

Guess who I finished :>

PEEPAW LEOOOOOO‼️🗣️

(and him in comparison to S.H.E.L.L.D.O.N and PancakeTello)

[agentwaffle]

Well I searched it and idk what I was expecting but... it wasn't this...

Biblically accurate turtles are weird

[ultrasweethibiscustea]

donnie is giving untitled goose energy and i love that for him. leo has no idea what's going on and doesn't want to

Here they are! All together now! Bask in their glory!

[randomrottmntscreenshots]

[rat-knee]

I've been a little dead lately but with my trip coming up this Wednesday maybe I'll have more art once I'm back :DD !!!

[copperpipes]

Support <:)?

[charcoaldustonmyfingers]

Biblically accurate Leonardo! Real red eared sliders look like they have a little cat smile and stick their noses straight up in the air, it’s so cute! They are also very square looking, with boxy little heads and shells. I think you can tell the ball python inspiration in his head shape here tho, I’ve drawn a lot more snakes than turtles in my time lol

Real turtles’ shoulders are actually fused to a shoulder girdle formed by their shoulder blades and collarbone within their shells, so their arms kinda stick out elbows up and aren’t super flexible. Being mutated, the brothers would have flexible shoulders and independent bones in there, but I think they’d still have the thinner skin and soft scales around their necks, shoulders, and thighs that allows them to tuck into their shells and on their outer arms and calves I think they’d have much thicker scales to protect those soft parts.

They probably can’t fully fit into their shells due to their mutation, but I think the idea of them still being able to pull their heads in like a seal is quite funny.

Imagine swinging a sword at him and his head just goes “swoop!”, and then all there is is his nose poking out and he’s glaring at you all huddled in his shoulders. If I was a Foot Soldier I’d incapacitate myself just from laughing, no fighting needed.

[Raphael] [Donatello] [Michelangelo] [Extended Family]

[artblock-addict]

teenage regular ninja turtle

[checkeredblueskirt]

Had a dream where I was looking up the Rise turtles’ species’ actual eye colors, and the dream website said sliders=brown eyes, softshells=blue eyes, snappers=red eyes, and box turtles=violet eyes when young but blue when older. Dream me thought it made sense, but made me curious about what the REAL colors are:

Red-eared sliders: sources vary but yellow/green, and sometimes blue

Spiny softshell turtles: yellow/orange eyes

Alligator snapping turtles: dark colored with a pattern; they actually look pretty funky!

Box turtles: males have red eyes (which are cool but kinda scary 😭) while females usually have brown eyes

Now obv you can give them whatever eye color you want as they are fictional characters, so this is just a fun reference if you want to make them more like their original turtle-y selves. Reference photos of their eyes below:

[apalonecreations]

I accidentally sketched this silly goober

And now that turned into a concept redesign of my sona Bentley