#draxum raises the turtles au

[bambiraptorx]

[I.D. Drawing of Lou Jitsu and Draxum from ROTTMNT. Lou Jitsu sits on the floor in a cage and Draxum leans over him, looking excited as he asks "Can I use your DNA for numerous illicit and probably dangerous genetic experiments?" Lou Jitsu responds "Eh, sure". End I.D.]

How it would have gone if Draxum hadn't mentioned the whole 'making super soldiers' thing probably

[thedawningofthehour]

Went to the plant nursery today for Mother's Day and all I could think about was Draxum taking his shitty kids to one and driving them all insane.

Donnie is the only one who follows him but all Draxum does is meander around and compare plants to the color scheme he has in his head and ask for opinions he doesn't listen to. Even Donnie's love for plants can't sustain him and he wanders off.

Meanwhile the other kids are checking out the weird garden ornaments and taking selfies in front of the funny ones.

[its-wabby-stuff]

Introducing

Sp-Raphael

Just a normal dude who needs some help finding his dog. It’s a normal dog. And it’s definitely his. Will you help?

Spoiler:

[forgetful-nerd]

Baby!Donnie: Da-

Splinter: what is that purple? We're you going to say “Dada?” Say “Dada!”

Baby!Donnie: DEATH!

Splinter: Hmmmm, “Dada.”

Baby!Donnie: DOMINATION!

Splinter: umm, “Dada?”

Baby!Donnie: Destruction. Domination.

Draxum: *clearly prideful* Nice.

[goodlucktai]

In the human!Splinter AU, Lou Jitsu is such a prominent figure, it’d be really easy for someone like Big Mama or even Draxum to find him…

that’s true !! thankfully draxum is going to come around a lot quicker in this au, and big mama doesnt like her odds against both him AND yoshi. and god forbid she even LOOK at the turtles in any type of way, bcus then aprils mom would kill her with her bare hands ☺️

i know there’s angst potential here but i’m not into it. this is essentially the one big happy family au

[weirdotheweirdness]

Just a little turtle and his Simurgh (and a little more)

[spinoff-antithesis]

rottmnt separated au but whoever gets stuck with big mama winds up becoming besties with her assistant

[oofins-mcgoofins]

single child moment

'no one is safe'- until Dónnie

Oh, you know what-

Mikey does the Adorable Baby Brother Eyes on Donnie fully expecting it to work, because why wouldn't it? Donnie's family, his older brother, of course it would work!

...Except it doesn't. Donnie has no prior connection to Mikey, blood-relation doesn't count, he has no Older Brother Instincts to be exploited. To Mikey's absolute horror, Donnie is IMMUNE.

.... Donnie's Older Brother Instincts DOES eventually kick in.... like. WAY later. It takes a really long time for Donnie and Mikey to actually grow close, but it does happen. And then Donnie ends up VERY susceptible to Mikey's Baby Brother Tricks (Smarts n' Crafts Duo my beloved)

[bambiraptorx]

mcmt draxum reading to his kids. he's reading them a chemistry book. or maybe the bacchae idk

Commissions Info

[I.D. Draxum sits on a brown couch surrounded by toddler versions of the turtles. Draxum, colored dark blue, sits in the center holding a book in one hand. He wears a robe and smiles as he reads aloud, holding Leo against his side with the other hand. Leo, a light cyan, has his arms wrapped around Draxum's and a fairly blank expression. Raph dozes on his stomach Draxum's other side, colored red. He has one arm under his head and the other dangling off the front of the couch, his legs sticking up behind him. Donnie, colored purple, is perched on the air of the sofa, one hand in his lap and the other resting on the sofa back as he listens to Draxum read. Mikey, colored orange, sits on the top of the couch's backrest, mostly hidden behind Draxum's head but peeking over. One of his hands rests on the top of Draxum's head, while the other hovers next to Draxum's ear. End I.D.]

[kaysdenofchaos]

What is your Lost Love AU about?

Lost Love AU: Tale of Two Sisters

hehe im glad you asked :)

Lost Love AU is a parallel universe that explores one divergent idea: what-if Big Mama said yes to Lou Jitsu's proposal and never made him a Battle Nexus Champion?

It follows a similar plot to 2012 but with a villainous turn. Big Mama and Lou Jitsu get married, Yoshi adopts a turtle, Draxum kidnaps and mutates Frida and Lou before kidnapping Karai at birth, Big Mama dies, and Splinter vows revenge against Draxum. Despite being raised as enemies, Karai and Frida develop a close bond, finding comfort amidst the neglect of their fathers and eventually deciding to take over the world that's forsaken them.

[s0fti3w1tch]

Another AU Leonardo?

large text: Another AU Leonardo? /end large text

Forgot I never posted her. Had her for a couple months now. Transfemme Leonardo btw :] Her name is Doremi (from the 'Do' part of Leonardo)

This is for a Casey (Cassandra)-centric I haven't talked about publicly whoops. She's Casey's childhood friend and was separated from the other turtles and raised by Draxum (and Big Mama).

Image Description: Digital drawing of Alternate Universe Leonardo from Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Details written on the side show she's named Doremi, goes by she/her, 5'5 feet tall, 16 year old, transfemme, and queer. She's drawn in a casual pose, longsword over her shoulders. Instead of canon Leo's outfit, she wears no mask, has a dark red short kunoichi-inspired sleeveless wrap dress tied with a black obi-style sash that's in a bow in the back, black bicycle shorts, black combat wraps on ankles, and black sheer + fishnet style undershirt and fingerless gloves. She also has few scattered slashing scars on her body, along with two small ones just at her left cheek. /End ID

[hanjil-kbr]

oMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

This is too good I can't, omg

YIPPEE!!!

Master post

Part 2

Part 4

[tangledinink]

edit: tag! fic!

ive spent a stupid amount of time recently thinking about a rottmnt au where circumstances allow splinter to figure out a way to get cloaking 'brooches' for himself and his children when they are still lil, giving him a chance to raise them as 'normal' kids. (normal kids who are genetically engineered mutant turtles, actually, and they're, like, SO good at sports, dude.)

surely nothing can break this idyllic illusion of a life that splinter has built. definitely nothing that rhymes with daron braxum.

i can only imagine this would work if the threat of both draxum and big mama were neutralized. i think in this universe, draxum's life of crime caught up to him much sooner than it does in canon, and he's imprisoned for his unethical experimentation when the turtles are still little-- raph maybe around six or seven, mikey around four or five. once splinter learns of this, he pulls every string he possibly can to 1) get cloaking crystals for himself and his family 2) cut a deal with big mama to ensure his children's safety.

after spending about a week or two in the sewers fucking drilling the cover story into the children's heads ("remember, mikey, what do you do if people start asking you too many questions?" "CRY!" "good boy!") he very nervously brings them up to the surface, armed with an elaborate story to explain his disappearance and new children and a shitton of forged documents. there was so much fucking paperwork, christ. (also, it turns out the blue one is biologically female? but he does not have the mental space to deal with that so they all just keep calling him leo, and he's totally fine with that. so.)

and he collects ALLLLLLL the royalties, babey.

(the kids are kids, and definitely slip up occasionally or do... weird shit. but, luckily, since they're small children, people pretty much just chalk it up as "oh, these kids have such wild imaginations.")

eventually, enough time passes that the brothers just kinda... forget that they were ever actually turtle mutants who lived in the sewers. coz, like, that's crazy, right? they're pretty sure they just imagined all that stuff. they weren't turtles, they were PRETENDING to be turtles... and people give them weird looks sometimes when they bring it up, so they don't.

overall, they THRIVE on the surface, to no one's surprise. they are, in fact, secretly genetically engineered super soldiers, actually. and they are crazy good at, like. so many things. especially martial arts! they compete at a national level on the regular, in addition to a shit ton of other extracurriculars (ballet, art, basketball, and cooking for mikey, swimming, basketball, gymnastics, and theatre for leo, dance, gymnastics, and swimming for donnie, not even to mention all his academic stuff, basketball, wrestling, and swimming for raph...)

they're still besties with april, obvs.

[darth-sonny]

Draxum Raises the Turtles AU....................................but make it regency era

also, credit to @blinday giving me the idea of naming Leo "Edelweiss"

(edit: I got the names mixes up I am so fucking sorryyyyyy)

[poppedbubblgum]

I’ve had this au in my brain for months now and only recently drew for it so I’m here to add to the pile of rise aus haha

It’s the standard separated au but my version B) - Donnie grew up with Splinter, Leo stayed with Draxum, Raph ended up at the battle nexus and Mikey was left to roam the streets of the Hidden City.

More info under the cut-

Donnie: The most mentally stable of the brothers somehow. He was raised in the sewers with splinter, and even though he did receive care, splinter still couldn’t really provide much in terms of affection. Despite that they still love each other, even if distantly. He’s chronically online. He knows every vine ever and plays fps games a lot yes I made him a gamer. He and April are extremely close in this au, having met at a young age and April being the closest thing Donnie has to a sibling until finding his brothers. Splinter also refuses to tell Donnie anything to do with mutants/yokai, or even where they came from, much to Donnie’s dismay. Without his brothers and their antics, he doesn’t get out much, and hasn’t made a battle/protective shell for himself yet.

April: She and Donnie met in early childhood and were practically inseparable, them both being only children, and they basically became each other’s annoying sibling. She’s the only reason Donnie came out of his shell (heh) and she likes to take him onto the surface streets for shenanigans.

Leo: Huguinn pulled Leo from the wreckage of Draxum’s lab and was raised in the rebuilt lab. Draxum genuinely didn’t expect the turtles to come out as literal infants after mutation so it’s a miracle Leo even survived this long lol. (Huguinn and Muninn did most of the work tbh) Draxum considers Leo to be a biproduct/fragment of a failed experiment and uses Leo more as an errand boy than anything else. Because of that Leo’s and Draxum’s relationship is also distant. Leo acts nonchalant and sarcastic for the most part, but he can’t help but want to please Draxum. Leo knows about his brothers and even tried looking for them early on, but eventually gave up. He and Donnie meet first. Also he sneaks out to get pizza at Hueso’s when he’s bored.

Raph: His and Mikey’s stories start out intertwined. They both ended up in the hidden city and lived out the early years of their lives there. When he was around 7 years old, Mikey being 5, Raph was taken as a contestant for a battle royale at the nexus, composed entirely of young yokai. (The battle nexus is quite literally a gladiator ring where contestants kill one another) Raph was taken due to his large size, and after managing to survive the battle royale, Big Mama allowed him to stay and become a fully fledged fighter at the nexus. He moved his way up in rank and became one of the top Nexus champions under the stage name, The Beast. He’s soft spoken and quick to anger at first, having received so little friendly interactions.

Mikey: He and Raph lived in the hidden city together until Raph was taken when he was around 5 years old. After that he was basically left to fend for himself. He survived via stealing and living on rooftops and alleys Aladdin style. He’s incredibly agile and a master pickpocket. He even made a name for himself in the district where he lives as the local thief. This, however, hasn’t dampened his spirits at all and he’s just as bright and bubbly as ever. He loves anything and everything to do with art and often does graffiti wherever he can. He’s an avid battle nexus fan and watches the battles whenever he can ( Leo is also a huge fan).

I’ve legitimately had this au in my head for months and this isn’t even close to everything I’ve conjured up but I had to make something for it or else I’d explode. Despite there being a lot of room for angst in this au, I imagine it as more lighthearted and similar to the show in terms of comedy. If you read this far congrats and give me your strength please

[sad-leon]

Part 1 :D

and here i present, Finding Home :D

This is a seperated au that focuses on Leo and how he grows as he learns what "home" is

Not all the parts are gonna be this long, but I wanted a solid start. I don't have an update schedule either, but feel free to ask questions :D

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A bit of background if yall want it:

When Splinter drops Leo in the explosion, all he sees is the turtle disappear into smoke as the lab is actively collapsing. He assumed Leo died and left to make sure none of his other turtles got killed.

Draxum picked up Leo and look care of his wounds. Leo has scrapes on both sides of his shell from being stuck in the ground, along with a scar on his right arm. Draxum tried raising Leo for a few years on his own before realising it would benefit both of them if he had help, so he turned to Big Mama.

Bug Mama and her assisstant, Galileo, help raise Leo for years. Gali teaches Leo how to speak, though he still chirps quite often, especially when sad or startled.

A bit of Gali lore: Big Mama had orignally named her Leo when Draxum gave Gali to BM. Gali didn't like having that as her name, so Big Mama helped her find a new one and they settled on Galileo.

Splinter takes the boys to tour the hidden city so they're not caught off guard by mystic stuff and yokai like he was. That's when Mikey spots Leo on TV and Splinter recognizes the son he thought he lost immediatly :)

About the sword comment: I'll reveal more in the comic itself, but Leo and Draxum made a deal that if Leo could prove his strength by winning the Battle Nexus championship 5 times, he'd train Leo with the mystic sword.

How the Battle Nexus works in this au: there are always battles going on, but once during each season, a championship/tournament is held to name a champion.

This is technically Leo's 7th tournament, but 5th victory