#i love rat dad

[trshpndal]

I don’t believe in 12 Splinter slander.

Everyone be blaming the poor guy for his children’s trauma, calling him the worst dad ever because the turtles were seen as his students before his sons.

He was a single father with not very much experience.

When Yoshi moved to New York, he was still going through a lot. The love of his life and only child had just died along with his only home burning up in flames.

Eventually he had adopted the four turtles, perhaps to have some company because he was still such a lonely man. And literally seconds after adopting baby turtles, he gets mutated.

Now he has absolutely no where to go with the condition he’s in, and suddenly he’s expected to raise four helpless little turtles.

Yoshi could’ve easily left the turtles when he was first mutated, but he chose to save them and help them because he wasn’t about to lose another thing in his life. Obviously he felt bad for them.

Eventually Splinter gets his life somewhat settled in their new home and accepting the fact that he’s a giant rat raising four turtle sons. But still, raising four boys was new to him. There were going to be some mistakes made that he would learn from.

Miwa had to have been around a year old when she was “killed” so there were going to be so many milestones crossed by his sons that he never got to experience with his daughter. He was really trying to hold on while still attempting to give his sons the best childhood and life possible.

And when the boys came of age, Splinter only decided to train them because they clearly seemed interested, and for self defense. Even if their life seemed calm and safe, Splinter was a worried father and feared that life wouldn’t always be like this (clearly).

Now having four rowdy little ninjas running around, Splinter was probably stressed out. Still, he loved his sons more than anything and was in no way abusive to them. They’re just a handful, especially at such young ages (5?)

As they got older and more independent, they were expected to be responsible. All the times in the show where Splinter would get mad at them and ground them for weeks over a small thing was for their own protection.

Splinter never wanted them to go topside because he knew all about the awful things that happened up there. He never wanted the world to be placed on their young shoulders. But it was, and he pushed them to keep going because he believed they were capable of anything, and to show he cared and loved them the whole way.

When Leo feels overwhelmed with his role as leader he doesn’t hesitate to go to his father ever, because he knows Splinter cares. Splinter never had any intention of harming his sons with these burdens and was always there for them, we just never saw it.

They all look up to Splinter and just don’t want to disappoint him. They’ve all been well disciplined and loved their whole lives. Splinter went through the rockiest of roads to make sure he raised his kids right. He was given a second chance and didn’t want to screw it up.

He was just deeply misunderstood.

(sorry if half of what I said didn’t make much sense lmao)

[mrjeremyman]

RAT DAD GHOST!!! HE HAS MANY RATS THEY’RE HIS FAMILY!!!

Phillip: absolute trouble maker, will escape and will cause chaos. Has to be separated from the group sometimes because he will start fights.

Gregory: Polite and gentle young lad, loves his berries. Ghost tends to let first time rat handlers hold him first to get a feel as Gregory isn’t fussy.

Ivo: Most skittish but over all nice. Never bites, will go bald soon.

Toms: most energetic and curious rat, is usually the one scrapping with Phillip. Fussy eater, might bite of feeling moody. But on a good day, very happy to get pets and to be held. Might run away if too excited.

I love them. So much.

[devil-in-hiding]

HE IS JUST A LITTLE GUY 😭😭😭

I'm seeing a lot of Simon is a dog guy vs Simon is a cat guy when it is painfully obvious that Simon is a rat guy.

[raerodart]

What do you mean he didn’t adopt the lamb when they were little??? HE FOKING TOTALLY DID!!

Part 2

[hammity-hammer]

steve harrington would absolutely get big dogs when he moves out on his own-- maybe his grandparents had one or two when he was younger & he'd visit them and see his family love the dog and play with it & just be happy, and he vowed to get his own one day so he could have a big ole best friend. & i dunno what breed specifically he'd get, but that dog would be so loved & would eat only the best food (because steve would chef up some cool fancy dog stuff because like why not??? if he can eat good, so can his pup) and have so many toys, and go on so many walks and have so many dog friends (that he met at the dog park) and they would wrestle & he would just-- give all of this love to his dog & it would have the dumbest name, chosen by dustin & max who just had to torture him with something stupid, steve picked out a sweet girl puppy so of course they named her Cheese, because what other name could they have chosen? (steve hates it but it is pretty funny to have to scold something named Cheese) and maybe one day he's walking Cheese (whom he does not call Cheese unless she's being bad-- he calls her all kinds of ridiculous petnames instead) and they stumble upon a very pretty, loud metalhead, walking his tiny ass chihuahua that cannot seem to leave Cheese alone. It just keeps leading the man over to them and Steve gets flustered every time, because wow he has such big, pretty eyes and oh wow, his mouth moves so pretty when he talks and-- oh god he's been talking and steve has no idea what he's saying and just has to awkwardly smile and nod, and the man blinks at him, waiting for an answer to the question he'd asked but steve has no idea what he's supposed to say.

"I can't just call you Pretty Boy, sweetheart, as much as I'd love that, I don't think that's your real name." The man laughs and then Steve realizes he has to introduce himself to him, and when he finds out that his name is Edward he has a whole hayday with that one, because he seems nothing like an Edward.

And maybe once they keep on talking, they make little playdates for their babies, and they plan real dates for themselves<3

[backpackingspace]

More of penelope and odysseus being rat bastards in love please. I know for a fact that these two were menaces to any neighboring kingdoms. They were pulling scams, they committed crimes, I know these two are just the most obnoxious people at a party.

[weepingtalecowboy]

Rodent links

Fanfic prompt: many rodents have a tendency for allogrooming (which essentially means they bond by cleaning eachother)

So it is very likely that four is aggressively braiding and combing the links hair

(if we go from rat logic because they are canonically one of the smartest rodents on earth so if I use it for minish it would make a bit of sense)

But rabbits also use it as a form of dominance

If a rabbit is grooming another they are essentially acknowledging the other rabbit's dominance and add their smell to the rabbit to show it

So the reason why legend is a bastard to warriors is because wars once gave him his shampoo and he decided that obviously he is superior to him since then

Four doesn’t have a clue why legend always looks so smug when he is braiding his hair

He just thinks they are friends when legend goes up to him to get his hair braided because obviously they are friends

The chain had to learn that they should under no circumstances give legend their personal shampoo or perfume(even if their lives depended on it)

Rodents especially rats can also tell when another rat is related to them because of smell so four could probably tell that wind is related to him

Then chase the dirty animal into a corner and drag his filthy body into a bath (no way wind would willingly take a bath if he isn’t carried there by sheer force )

Because bonding and the fact that rats genuinely get anxiety when pups in their colony are not clean enough because filthy pups imply low health and carry stronger oder making them easier to detect for predators

Rats have an obsessive need for grooming because it is both beneficial in an environment like sewers and also beneficial for the health of the colony

Four has to get physically dragged away from wind if the chain doesn’t have the time to clean up because wind WILL be dropped in the nearest river

In minish form he will be licked too death by four

(Now blue being a neat freak makes perfect sense now he is secretly a rat)

Also rats have a surprising tolerance for other rats and will even let other rats they have social bonds with assist during parenting their own pups

Warriors is allowed near wind and even encouraged into being a dad everyone is

Warriors sad that four is bonding so close to wind and he isn’t needed or wanted by the family: ;(

Four about to attack him as well and drag him to wind : SIKE no milk for you ,you are not getting milk ,nobody is

[veinsfullofstars]

🐭 Kirbtober 2024 Day 13: Spin-Off 🐭

(ID: Kirby series fanart of Daroach sitting on the floor surrounded by ten Kirbys, tipping back the brim of his hat and looking amused - if somewhat exasperated - as they play and tumble and roughhouse in a pile around him. On top of his hat beside one of the puffballs, a little yellow Squeaker peers down at him in curiosity. END ID.)

“Sheesh, you guys are a handful, ain’tcha? Still, compared to a ship fulla rowdy little rats, this is a walk in the park, hehe.”

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Started on 09/16/24, finished on 09/17/24. | Kirbtober 2023 Comp

[sweetbitey]

He met the new baby rats... he's feral with excitement

[boombhauer]

snaps fingers

[scatterbrainedbot]

here have a wip of a rat sons comic that i keep tearing up about while writing

(feat. tortoise papa splinter and his rat baby leonardo)

[donkeys-waffles]

I just love the versatility of AFO fans, like on one side you'll have this incredibly Indepth analysis of his childhood trauma and on the other side you have the horniness people you've ever encountered. And it's amazing.

[umbrrholly1997]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPAMTON!!! OUR LITTLE GUY IS 46 NOW!!

It’s a little rushed but I wanted to get SOMETHING out lmaoo I’ve neglected his past 2 birthdays I can’t do it again

[decaffeinatedpartymuggoop]

I was re reading a bit and looking back camp half blood DEFINITELY has some sort of hazing going on.

Cause you look at characters like Percy and Piper and start to wonder.

Like, a LOT of people forget, but Percy was NOT well liked when he got to camp. He was the newbie, unclaimed, AND he was getting attention because he killed the Minotaur. Clarisse wasn’t the only one out to get him. It took Percy until the third book to get the reputation that he as with the campers because they didn’t like him.

He was mocked for everything, for being a new kid, for not knowing anything, for killing the Minotaur, for being a child of the big three.

And you have to realize that outside of the big three thing, they were ALL in his shoes before. So it’s almost nonsensical for them to give him a hard time. Unless it’s a type of hazing.

This behavior is never brought up again but it’s actually one of the reasons Percy likes Luke so much in the first book. Outside of Chiron and Grover, Luke was the only one being nice to him.

Because he was being HAZED.

And it would’ve been a one time thing but I think each Cabin has there own niche of hazing because you then get Piper and get a look into the Aphrodite cabin.

Firstly, you have to break someone’s heart in order to be accepted, weird. You have to do everything Drew says or else your on cleaning duty or want to wake up in the middle of the lake or smth. And your start at the bottom of the pack before working your way up by becoming one of Drew’s minions. It’s like every stereotypical sorority film.

There’s also the fact that it’s mandatory that you get robbed when you first stay in the Hermes cabin, need to get glory in order to STOP being bullied, and kiss a boar when you first get to camp (deleted chapter)

Like throughout the series, I think the only people we don’t see go through this are the Zeus kids (privilege), Annabeth (seasoned camper) and Leo (nice siblings).

And like Nico kept leaving because he thought no one liked him because he was a Hades kid. So imagine if, no, it wasn’t being he was a Hades kid, he was just getting the mandatory hazing. Like he thought everyone hated him but they were just fucking with him the whole time.

But yeah, CHB definitely hazes people.

[raerodart]

What do you mean he didn’t adopt the lamb when they were little??? HE FOKING TOTALLY DID!!

[rataticaisdreaming]

happy father's day to my favorite dads 🥺🩵💛

glitter family propaganda! 🫶✨