#draxum is lawful neutral

[n0rthernghostbat]

Ship chart of Barley and his husband, Draxum

this is all canon, my dm said so

[murasakibonnet]

Murphy’s Law

How did we get here?

Part One of my Liminal Space Au which I’ve linked the Masterpost of here. I’d recommend reading that post just to get some context on what’s to come in this little blurb. 

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Two years after the Kraang invasion, the boys and April have uncovered that the U.S. government is secretly kidnapping and experimenting on mutants. During one of their missions, they encounter a yokai with the ability to supposedly move both forward and backward in time, but only by a few days. They try helping this yokai only to learn that the Earth Protection Force (EPF) has fatally injected them with a rather lethal amount of modified Empyrean they harvested from sister Kraang when she was captured and studied.

They were only able to neutralize this yokai by using the Kraang technology that initially nullified their mystic powers like in the movie and while the yokai is able to move spatially through time and space, they aren’t exactly capable of changing the state of their own body so in essence without intervention they could have died of old age so to speak.   

With their last few breaths, the yokai transforms into a pocket watch that contains a rather alarming amount of mystic energy similar to how Karai was transformed into a sword to seal the Shredder. The watch is bestowed upon the boys for the time being as Draxum is in Japan meeting with some of his old colleagues. Donnie tasks himself to see whether or not he’ll be able to either harness the powers of the artifact/further study how the effects of empyrean could lead to such a state in the first place, (perhaps to even find a way to reverse it).

He spends a couple days troubleshooting theories here and there but by the end of each session he seals it up by manifesting a purple bubble around the object using his mystic powers. 

On one particular day, he steps outside his lab while studying the artifact to retrieve one of the packages he’s ordered from online, but not before sealing the pocket watch in a suspended purple orb, just in case. Shelldon accompanies him since the package he ordered was larger than he could handle.  

He’s away from his lab for exactly seven minutes. 

Leo and Mikey step into the room two minutes after, trying to scope out what Donnie’s been up to and whether or not he’s withholding some goodies. They do the obligatory search through his stuff calling dibs on doo-dads here and there, before they finally come across the Chekhov’s gun of this story, the pocket watch. Leo is more fascinated by the orb and how it suspended the item playing around with it carelessly. 

He throws it over to Mikey who catches it worriedly but Mikey proceeds to squish the orb noticing how it really does have a rubber bubble like texture before throwing it back to Leo. 

Raph, who’s big brother senses have been tingling, checks out the commotion coming from the lab because he knows Donnie stepped out just a moment ago. He’s about to reprimand them both for going through Donnie’s stuff without him present but almost instantly Leo hurls the orb at his face and Raph proceeds to block it out of instinct with his ninjutsu unknowingly causing the orb to react poorly and begin to bounce around the room carelessly knocking over much of Donnie’s lab equipment and research. 

The brothers do their best to avoid the projectile all the while the pocket watch begins to pulse from the rough treatment. Leo’s able to portal it within Mikey’s reach who in turn is able to use his mystic whip to grab it. However, the whip grips it a bit too harshly causing the purple bubble to pop and the pocket watch unceremoniously drops to the cement crackling in green power. 

Raph and Mikey automatically panic worrying about how Donnie’s going to retaliate in regards to them trespassing on his research. They approach the watch and scoop it up, placing it on the table it was originally set upon. 

Leo’s slightly more worried about how the pocket watch is behaving strangely but is distracted as Donnie runs into the room, having left his package with Shelldon, since he was able to hear the yelling from quite a bit away. 

Raph and Mikey immediately begin coming up with excuses for their presence turning away from the discarded watch. 

Big Mistake.

Donnie’s the only one paying attention to how the watch surges with green energy quickly pulling Leo close to him so that he can hastily manifest a small wall shielding them from it. When the light dims, Donnie notices how Raph and Mikey’s image glow aggressively green and practically start glitching out of reality. He can only watch on in horror as they panic at the circumstances until they just blip out of existence and he proceeds to run to their last position yelling out their names frantically. 

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“Donnie?” 

Donatello’s eyes snap towards Leonardo and only then does he notice that his brother’s shoulder got nicked by the green energy and it’s quickly spreading to the rest of his body. 

“Leo,” he begins repeating desperately. He retreats back to his brother. 

“What’s happening?” Leo observes his hands glitching before looking up back at Donnie reaching out to him. 

They grasp hands but Leo is as good as gone within the next couple of moments. 

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This is pretty much where Cause and Effect diverge as mentioned. Cause following through with present Donnie’s POV and Effect following through with Leo, Mikey and Raph’s POV in the future. I do actually plan on making a small comic for this when I get the chance.

[rottmntrulesall]

[spectrumscribe]

I really love your draxum raises the turtles au! But something caught my eye. Leo caring about being in good graces and raph silently begging him not to say anything, does that mean hes kind of a snitch? I might be reading it wrong but I'm rly curious.

Leo is a bit of a snitch! But he’s also really lazy, in the sense that he’ll do the least amount for the most benefit, or just avoid conflict completely if he’s able. So after the events of my fic here Raph definitely has to do Leo's share of chores for a week at least (Donnie probably gets in on that one too, so he can focus on rebuilding the destroyed experiments).

I see Leo in my AU as someone who’s an opportunist. He doesn’t go out of his way to do particularly nice or bad things; he’s very chaotic neutral. So yeah, if he’d felt it’d benefit him more to tattle on Mikey and Raph he would’ve, but he’s holding a grudge against Baron currently so the indirect revenge was more appealing.

[mishacakes]

Hey so its that same person who just recently asked about the whole Tomiko's dad thing but i have a new question. how does Tomiko and her mother know Draxum? Like do they know know each other or is just that thing were they run into each other time to time and don't talk to each other a lot? Also how did they meet Draxum in the first place. Also again if this question was already asked im sorry lol

Senri Kaneko (Tomiko's mom) is basically the Hidden City CPA/Banking specialist, but also runs the majority of the mob groups books. She's Lawful Neutral, leaning Evil, if anything, but is a master at exploiting loopholes.

Draxum, being in charge of Hidden City defense, has been working with and a client of Senri's for a long time. They don't consider each other friends but also wouldn't admit they enjoy each other's company. Draxum has no opinion of Tomiko, she does her job and they've spoken about 30 words to each other total.

(this is from nov 2020)

[knickkatstuff]

au version of venus de milo, for scarletverse

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Name: Mei Pieh Chi 

Aliases: 

Subject 3b14; former name 

Mei; very common 

Age: 25 years old  

Date of Birth + Astrological Sign: March 14th (Pisces) 

Species: Mutant; Yunnan Box Turtle 

Alignment: Lawful Neutral  

Orientation: Lesbian 

Occupation: 

Alchemist under Baron Draxum; current 

Ambassador of the Underground; future 

Personality: 

Scatterbrained 

Compassionate 

Particular 

Reserved 

Warm 

Responsible 

Story Summary: 

For as long as she could remember, Mei lived in a lab. She remembered being watched over by a large goat-man called Baron Draxum, and an Inugami called Chung-I. While the Baron would check her health and mutation process; Chung-I took a more sympathetic approach towards her. He would often talk about his own life, and even was the one who chose her name, Mei. 

Throughout her life, she was described as “unstable”. Considering she was the first prototype of Draxum’s mutations, she was far from perfect scientifically. Her blood had to be mixed with constant stabilizers or she would go into seizures; she would be chained down or she would pick at parts of her skin that she described as “burning”. Through the mistakes in her, she did hear of more experiments being made, but she isn’t 100% sure. 

Eventually, she was finally perfected around the time she was a teenager. Finally allowed to be seen outside the lab, she was immediately put to train under Draxum, along with another student named Scarlet. Almost instantly, Mei fell smitten for the other creature. Considering she had never met anyone both her age or anyone aside from Chung-I in general, these feelings could be understood. For a long while, Mei harbored a rather obvious crush on Scarlet, shown through her becoming flustered around her as well as being hesitant to train with her out of her own empathy. Most of the time, Mei was met with grumbles and stubbornness. All of this culminated into Scarlet blurting out feelings for Mei, something the latter found enlightening as she expressed her own feelings. 

Through awkward teen years into adulthood, Mei and Scarlet developed a secret slow-burn relationship. Although being with each other made them both happy, there still was that lingering hunger inside both of them demanding freedom, demanding inner peace. Ultimately, they decide to stay loyal to Draxum and the Underground, while also exploring the world for themselves. During their exploits, they run into the Turtles. Mei is extremely empathetic toward the boys and enjoys spending time with them. It is unknown if Mei was aware of the correlation between Project Renaissance and the boys. 

Currently, Mei lives with Scarlet in an abandoned subway station and regularly visit the Turtles to train and spend time with them. 

Relationships - 

Family: 

Unknown biological parents 

Chung I; adoptive father 

Artemisia; future adoptive daughter 

Friends: 

Michaelangelo; close friend 

Donnatello; close friend 

Raphael; good friend 

Leonardo; good friend 

Love Interest(s): 

Scarlet Pieh Chi; current fiancee 

Songs: 

"Heartburn"; Wafia (Jarami Remix)  

“Lucky”; Jason Mraz feat. Colbie Caillet 

“Thunder Clatter”; Wild Cubs (Chelsea Cutler Cover) 

“What I Wouldn't Do”; Serena Ryder 

Trivia: 

Mei’s choice of weapon is a pair of tessen. She prefers speed and agility when fighting over everything else, and finds these weapons most useful. 

Mei would most likely be voiced by Rachel Bloom, who voices Autumn Blaze on MLP: Friendship is Magic. 

Mei is a mild practitioner of the Buddhism faith. It’s helped her from going insane like her beloved Scarlet. 

For as much as Mei is more innocent than that of her partner, she is quite the sucker for instances of Scarlet saying… rather inappropriate things in the languages that she knows. 

When living in the Underground, Mei was surprisingly much more feared than that of Scarlet. This was mainly in the sense of Mei often smiling in dangerous or threatening situations; giving off a creepy vibe. 

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good teetle mom