#leo: fuck off i get older sibling privilege

[threestripeslider]

Casey Jones Jr is both the most polite little boy and also the most violent one if you cross him, like he will wipe the floor with you if he thinks you deserve it.

Casey Jr: [will jog all the way to Irma‘s locker to get her her eyedrops and also stops by a vending machine to get them both drinks]

also Casey Jr: [will start a fist-fight in the middle of the hallway bc someone was slightly too mean to a freshman]

[ftriver]

hi   angels   !   im   most   likely   sleeping   right   now   so   i   have   this   drafted   but   let   me   just   say   i   am   fucking   buzzin’   to   be   a   part   of   this   group   ,   i've   been   itching   to   write   again   for   the   longest   time   &   thankfully   i   can   do   that   with   dis   shithead   named   river   .   i   go   by   t   ,   she   /   her   pronouns   ,   and   i   would   absolutely   love   some   messy   plots   to   dig   into   so   please   milly   rock   on   that   like   button   .   :~)  

𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠  here  and  do  i  have  the  tea  for  you  .  river  is  back  on  campus  ,  which  is  surprising  considering  the  threatening  note  i  left  them  .  yes  ,  i  know  all  about  his  growing  alcohol  dependency  because  of  their  gluttony  .  imagine  the  tabloids  and  how  the  o’connor  family  would  feel  for  such  information  to  come  out  ,  not  to  mention  the  reputation  of  pike  because  of  their  actions  .  at  this  rate  ,  he  is  better  off  staying  put  in  tampa  ,  florida  and  living  off  that  $900m  family  net  worth  .  what’s  the  point  in  studying  business  law  with  plans  to strive  into  the  nfl  unbeknownst  to  his  family ,  is  it  worth  it  with  what  i  know  ?  anyways  ,  they  may  want  to  continue  to  be  charismatic  &  perspicacious  because  the  choleric  &  imprudent attributes  make  me  want  to  spill  . trigger warning :  alcoholism  ,  republicans  . 

𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥  𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞  :    alexander  river  o’connor  . 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬  :   only  goes  by  river  . 𝐚𝐠𝐞  : twenty  one  years  . 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲  &  𝐳𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐜  : leo  sun  ,  aquarius  moon  ,  gemini  ascendant  !   𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧  :    tampa  ,  florida  . 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥  𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧  : swings  both  ways (  family  are  unaware  ) , &  has  only  been  in  relationships  with  girls  so  far  . 𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲  :  painfully  caucasian  . 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐬  &  𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞  𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐬  :  obnoxious  laughter  ,  snapbacks  ,  empty  beer  cans  ,  protein  shakes  ,  dust-covered  study  books  ,  two  seasons  into  spongebob  squarepants  on  netflix  ,  unread  message  from  father  ,  bitten  nails  ,  overflown  trash  cans  ,  used  condoms  ,  cupboard  full  of  ramen  pots  .   𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐒  : • the  o’connor’s  hail  from  an  incredibly  political  background  .  river’s  grandfather  ,  great  grandfather  were  both  former  mayors  ,  his  father  is  a  wealthy  senator  &  his  mother  a  news  anchor  with  a  heavy  hand  in  journalism  ,  she's  been  called  out  for  her  controversial  right  -  wing  opinions  in  the  media  .  river’s  raised  in  a  family  who  hold  strong  christian  ,  conservative  values  ( republicans  ,  yuck  !  )  though  his  father  remarried  two  times  before  winding  up  with  river’s  mom  .  needless  to  say  ,  this  clueless  boy  stuck  out  like  a  sore  thumb  compared  to  the  rest  of  his  full  &  half  -  siblings ; who  all  had  fixated  dreams &  plans  from  a  young  age  ,  whether  that  was  delving  into  medicine  ,  business  innovation  and  even  the  world  of  criminal  law  . • in  all  honesty  ,  though  ,  let’s  not  get  it  twisted  !  river  was  subject  to  a  very  privileged  childhood  .  he  had  everything  handed  to  him  on  a  silver  platter  until  the  age  of  sixteen  lmao  &  that’s  when  his  father  was  tireless  with  his  efforts  to  align  his  political  aspirations  with  river’s  future  .  he  made  sure  that  river  was  a  hard  working  boy  with  several  public  sector  volunteering  jobs  along  with  school  (  it  was  more-so  about  maintaining  “image”  &  brushing  up  on  prowess  ) ,  & all  throughout  high  school  he  still  sustained  tip  top  grades  .   •  during  his  private  academy  years  river  was  also  an  active  member  of  his  school  council  ,  debate  team  ,  played  lacrosse  &  football  but  really  fell  in  love  with  football  more  than  anything  .  he  dropped  the  rest  of  the  extracurricular’s  towards  the  end  to  focus  on  football  ,  as  his  coach  was  a  huge  positive  influence & encouraged  him  to  pursue  this  lil’  ol  ambition  !   •  so  lets  skip  to  college  !  river  knew  by  senior  year  he  wanted  to  get  away  from  florida  and  embellish  in  new  surroundings  for  his  college  years  . ngl  his  family  initially  wanted  him  to  go  to  harvard  so  he  had  to  put  up  a  good  fight  to  attend  hollingsworth  .  he  pledged  for  pike  even  though  his  upbringing  was  more  aligned  with  the  sigma  house  ,  but  tbh  river  knew  from  the  get-go  he'd  better  fit  with  his  pike  brothers  'cause  thats  where  he  could  find  kindred  souls  for  his  love  of  football  .  he  immediately  hurled  himself  into  a  wild  partying  lifestyle  (  lets  get  reckless  luv   )  .  alcohol  ,  drugs  ,  sex  ,  you  name  it  .  &  as  of  now   he  is  currently  playing  for  the  college  football  team  as  a  wide  receiver  in  the  pipeline  dream  of  getting  scouted  lmao  ,  but  his  parents  of  course  pushed  him  to  take  on  a  degree  that  could  be  utilised  for  a  political  future  .  he  figured  business  law  was  perhaps  the  most  ideal  course  of  action  'cause  he  really  doesn't  want  to  delve  into  the  world  of  politics  ,  especially  seeing  as  he  internally  opposes  everything  his  family  holds  dear  as  their  beliefs  .  also  ,  if  the  football  thing  doesn't  work  out  for  him  ,  corporate  law  is  the  next  best  thing  fdjdfnj  . so  yeah  !  though  he  comes  across  really  meathead  -  like  &  kind  of ( ? )  a  mess  ,  back  home  river’s  family  are  on  the  receiving  end  of  a  more  polished  ,  cultivated  version  of  their  son .  

𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀 :

•  okay  first  thing’s  first  .  river’s  a  huge  shithead  but  the  rare  times  get  him  in  his  philosophical  spiels  talking  about  the  world’s  political  state  ,  or  rather  ,  america’s  political  state  ,  he’s  far  more  woke  than  his  family  ,  &  actually  doesn’t  believe  in  a  lot  of  what  his  family  spews  .  there  have  been  far  too  many  family  dinners  where  there’s  been  heated  debates  between  him  &  his  relatives  .  some  of  his  siblings  also  share  progressive  opinions  but  there  are  others  (  the  older  ones  )  that  are  exact  replicas  of  his  father  lmao •  as  i’ve  mentioned  before  ,  he’s  become  a  huge  party  boy  ,  &  with  this  ,  unfortunately  ,  in  the  recent  year  there’s  been  a  slight  dependency  for  the  bottle  (  jsyk  he’s  not  a  raging  alcoholic  yet  but  im  js  nine  times  out  of  ten  you’ll  find  homeboy  buzzed )  .  river  doesn’t  think  he  really  has  a  problem  though  , &  he  especially  doesn’t  think  he  has  a  place  to  really  scream “  woe  is  me  “  ,  if  that  makes  sense ?  he’s  aware  of  his  privilege  &  most  times  when  he  feels  the  whole  world  is  piling  on  top  of  him  ,  it’s  just  easier  to  go  out    &  turn  up  .  he’s  stressed  a  lot  of  the  time  ,  but  again  ,  it’s  easier  to  bury  this  with  the  company  of  his  friends  on  some  #lets  get  wrecked  boys  lmao  .  also  when  he  goes  back  home  between  semesters  ,  he  helps  with  his  father’s  campaign  &  the  like  .  there’s  responsibilities  ,  he  doesn’t  get  to  go  back  home  for  a  break  .  he  used  to  be  a  freak  of  routine  &  get  lit  until  six  in  the  morning  every  day  &  then  run  his  normal  errands  on  no  sleep  but  recently  his  partying  habits  have  caught  up  to  him  ddfjnfd  he's  kinda  been  having  more  and  more  trouble  recovering  as  time  has  gone  on  . his  attendance  at  school  is  slowly  declining  this  year  cause  there'll  be  days  where  he  misses continual  day's  worth  of  classes  and  you  wont  hear  from  him  for a while... but  eventually  he’ll  show  up  like  nothing  was  wrong  . :~) •  an  attention  -  seeking  fuckboy  ,  he  can  very  loud  and  vulgar  but  is  here  for  a  good  time  not a  long  time.  most  of  his  relationships  have  either  been  very  on  /  off or  flings  that  have fizzled out  due  to  the  fact  he’s  a  leo  &  river  is  too  invested  in  himself  to ~ open up ~  emotionally   .  he’s  an  athlete  so  he  is  very  competitive  ,  a  sore  loser  dfjndfj  & can  have  a  melodramatic  temper  both  off  and  on  the  field  !

[alckzandria]

Is that ALEKZANDRIA "ALEK" ADDINGTON? Wow, they do look a lot like VIOLETTA KOMYSHAN. I hear SHE is a EIGHTEEN year old FRESHMEN who are studying BALLET at Luxor University. Word is they are an ARISTOCRAT student. You should watch out because they can be WILY and  VAIN, but on the bright side they can also be SPIRITED and PERKY. Ultimately, you’ll get to see it all for yourself.

Hey friends !! Mimi here, bringing back this lovely cupcake: Alek.

For those of you who don’t know, I also play Jackson King. HMU for plots with either but READ ON to learn about my sweet angel child. (There is a “too long, didn’t read” summary at the bottom lol)

PERSONALITY

☆*:.｡. Alek is bubbly asf. She is talkative, she is giggly, she is full of energy, she is always goofing off and laughing about stupid things, she is truly a ray of sunshine

☆*:.｡. At the same time though, Alek can be very devious. The way I always describe her is that she is the type of girl to be dragging you over a “No Trespassing” fence to sneak into the back entrance of a private party, whilst giggling the entire time

☆*:.｡. A lot of Alek’s rebellion is related to the fact that she has had such a controlled upbringing. Because of who her family is, she is always expected to be on her best behaviour and essentially, the second her parents aren’t looking, it’s like she flips a switch

☆*:.｡. Alek loves meeting new people and learning all about them. She is the girl who will get along with the conceited, preppy kids but also a girl who could sit with the loner kids at lunch, and know their life story by the time class starts again

☆*:.｡. I imagine her as the girl who can talk gossip with the gossipers, be bitchy with the bitches and just overall be chill and get along with nearly everyone

☆*:.｡. Although she doesn’t seem to take many things seriously, she is highly competitive and can be very cut-throat when it comes to the things she involves herself in professionally or otherwise

BACKGROUND BRIEFING

(Basics, values, education)

☆*:.｡. Alek is 18, a freshman and is a Libra Sun, Leo Rising, and Aquarius moon

☆*:.｡. She started at Luxor Academy at the same time as the Carnifex/Luxor merge, so she’s been here since May of 2019. Unlike most students who arrived at that time, she isn’t coming from Carnifex Academy, but her family has  traditionally attended Carnifex since the inception of the school and she is well aware of the rivalry between the schools

☆*:.｡. Alekzandria’s family is extremely elitist. She, personally, doesn’t hold these beliefs but she is (among a handful of other family members) an outlier in that regard

☆*:.｡. While Alek doesn’t hold these same values as her family, having grown up around them and around other elitist families, she has grown accustomed to blending in with them when she has to

☆*:.｡. Anyone who is anyone will know Alek’s family in some capacity because they are one of the most influential families in America, in media, entertainment, politics, finance, etc.

☆*:.｡. Alek was expected to attend Carnifex with the rest of her family, but from a young age, she didn’t want to attend such a school for what it would represent (following in her family’s footsteps and being forced to live by their values.) Instead, Alek transferred from Vaganova Ballet Academy, Russia (more on this later lol)

FAMILY HISTORY

(Family, wealth/careers, lifestyle)

☆*:.｡. Alek has a twin brother named Lévi, a younger brother named Éliphas and an older sister named Merri and more than a dozen cousins.

☆*:.｡. Her family is of old money, and the Addingtons, as a dynasty, have been within at least the top 5% of earners, to the top 0.1% of earners in America since the early 19th century, making her family one of the riches families in America (and even having made Forbes’ annual list of 400 wealthiest Americans) Her immediate family making the top 1%

☆*:.｡. The Addingtons could be compared to the Rockefellers or the Kennedys in terms of household names. People may not know exactly what they do but they have at least heard the name

☆*:.｡. The Addingtons have been a part of nearly every influential position in society since the 19th century. Her entire family making up of politicians, public company executives, television journalists, financiers, philanthropists and some of America’s top businessmen. Alek’s mother being a television executive and her father being a politician and philanthropist.

☆*:.｡. Although Alek isn’t necessarily classist, she does tend to be significantly unaware of her privilege. She doesn’t see life at all the way someone from the middle class would see it. She has never known life any different than being able to fly to England for a day trip, be picked up in her mother’s private jet or ordering 20 different custom dresses by the world’s top designers just to test them out for an upcoming event... To put it simply, the world has literally always been Alek’s oyster.

☆*:.｡. In the same breath however, Alek also hasn’t known a life that didn’t involve responsibility. She has always had to maintain her family’s appearance, and ensure that the people she surrounds herself with do as well. She has had to be careful with where she goes in public/where she is seen in public

☆*:.｡.  Alek’s entire life has involved attending social events, opening nights, expensive restaurant debuts, etc. She has always traveled and spent vacations at her family’s condos

☆*:.｡. Alek, along with her siblings, is expected to go into one of these major professions to continue the Addington’s expansion and influence over the country and the world

☆*:.｡. Despite endlessly enjoying her money, Alek has never wanted to fall into the corruption her family has adopted in their years of wealth and power. A part of that resistance had always made Alek resistant of Carnifex Academy. After years of begging her mother to attend Luxor instead, their compromise was being sent to attend Vaganova Ballet Academy in Russia when she was 11 years old.

☆*:.｡. This allowed Alek to be free from her family from the ages of 11 and 16 years old and transferred to Luxor just after the merge between Luxor and Carnifex

TL;DR

☆*:.｡. Alek is bubbly as fuck, she’s a ray of sunshine. At the same time she is devious as fuck and will giddily lure anyone over a “No Trespassing” fence to sneak into the back entrance of a party they were already rejected from entering.

☆*:.｡. Alek loves meeting new people and learning all about them. She is the girl who will get along with the conceited, preppy kids but also a girl who could sit with the loner kids at lunch, and know their life story by the time class starts again

☆*:.｡. I imagine her as the girl who can talk gossip with the gossipers, be bitchy with the bitches and just overall be chill and get along with nearly everyone

☆*:.｡. The Addingtons are rich as fuck. Overall, they make the top 0.1% of wealthiest Americans. The Addingtons’ net worth as a dynasty is enough for them to be wealthier than all of the Luxor families combined

☆*:.｡. The Addingtons could be compared to the Rockefellers or the Kennedys in terms of household names. People may not know exactly what they do but they have at least heard the name

☆*:.｡. Anyone who is anyone will know Alek’s family in some capacity because they are one of the most influential families in America, both in media, entertainment, politics, finance, etc.

☆*:.｡. Alek attended Vaganova Ballet Academy in Russia until just after the merge between Carnifex and Luxor Academy

LIL FACTS & TINGS

☆*:.｡. Everyone in Alek’s fam are multilingual. Alek herself, is fluent in English, Russian, French and knows a bit of Spanish

☆*:.｡. Alek spends a lot of her time outdoors

☆*:.｡. She doesn’t take it too seriously, but she has a cute little book that she uses for attempted poetry as a cute art journal

☆*:.｡. Alek has been begging her mother to attend Luxor Academy rather than Carnifex for Y E A R S. Her mother wouldn’t allow her to, as Carnifex was a part of her family for many generations. Alek’s ballet teacher was meant to be transferring to Carnifex and ultimately got a job at Luxor once Carnifex was destroyed … which, is the only reason she was allowed to transfer

SCHOOL SCHEDULE

Major: Ballet Minor: Entrepreneurship

Ballet

Palates

Business

Economics

Calculus

Communications

Psychology

Yoga/Hot Yoga

( crossed out are classes she took in high school and is no longer taking )

Linguistics

German

Trigonometry

Yoga

Advanced Psychology

Advanced Level Ballet

Business

Literature

Data Management

EXTRACURRICULARS

Is the Prima/Principal dancer in Luxor’s ballet company

[angeldormante]

Hi! I have another TMNT question, or two? Leo is a closed off brother and holds in his emotions, but would he express his feelings to April or another if he were to have actual *feelings* for them? How would that look like? Also, do you think it's easy for others in their lives (April, etc) to read Donnie's and Leo's emotions/feelings as easy as Mikey or Raph who seem more open about their feelings (wears heart on sleeve, etc)?

you’re always welcome in my ask box, anon!!

if we’re talking about 2003 leo in particular, i’ve always interpreted him as gray aro-ace. the leo we see in the show seems fairly out of touch with his sexuality – they all do, to a degree, which isn’t surprising when you consider how limited their opportunities have been to socialize outside of their family. even when he starts making personal friends and connections, though, leo in particular never seems to show any signs of physical attraction towards anyone. speaking as an asexual person myself who went through my teenage years undiscovered, i think that maybe leo has never actually thought much about sexuality as something that applied to or affected him. like many things the guys don’t understand about society, he probably dismissed it as a “human thing”. in fact, while i don’t believe he’d necessarily be sex-repulsed, i do feel like the topic of his sexuality would be such a totally unexplored thing for him that it would make him greatly uncomfortable if he were made to confront it.

that said, though, i can easily see him as demi-romantic. he’s formed some intense emotional attachments to certain people like karai and usagi that feel, at least to me, much different than the one he has to his brothers or april. i do hesitate to call even those attachments “romantic” as they appeared in canon, but i do think the potential for them to develop that way was there. i again boil it down to leo’s inexperience in processing intimate emotions aside from the platonic ones he’s familiar with. the boy is just woefully out of touch with 70% of his emotions.

which finally brings me to your first question?? forgive me for the headcanon exposition dump oml. my personal interpretation, building off of everything above, is that leonardo is very closed off from the concept of romance and sex – due to a mixture of his own gray-spectrum sexuality and his tendency to ignore/repress emotions he doesn’t know how to deal with. so closed off, i really don’t think he’d be able process them without some help. i do feel like if he were to get there, and it’s possible, he’d be a very warm and gentle lover – but the way he is now, i just don’t see him as having the emotional maturity to recognize these things in himself and take any sort of first step at all.

sorry if that’s kind of an unsatisfying answer… (- ̫ -`;) i know it’s p dependent on my personal headcanon, ahaha

as for your other question!! i do think donnie and especially leo can come off as slight enigmas to people outside of their immediate family. it seems like every incarnation of april cottons onto them both pretty quickly, though – which i write down as her sharing some unique traits with both of them. she and don tend to be the intellectual heavyweights that protect the family with their scientific expertise, which is a heavily involved endeavor that they rely on each other a lot for; and on the other side of the same coin, april definitely has that older sibling/maternal caretaker position in the family that lets her commiserate with leo on a level that i don’t think anyone else really can. it makes sense that she seems close to and is easily able to read them in most of the ‘verses.

for others who don’t get the particular blessing of being april o’neil, though, it’s almost definitely harder. don and leo can both be pretty closed off, though i don’t think don is too tough to read unless the situation is one that he’s intentionally detaching himself from. in that sense, don’s mood can be its own context clue: he tends to be fairly warm or at least good-natured unless something is truly upsetting him, in which case the shutters come down. the issue is that he rarely actually gets that upset, so for people who aren’t super familiar with him, they probably don’t realize what a distinction there is between don’s more neutral moods and his sour ones.

back to leo – who just continues to be a pain in the ass. tbh leo probably comes off as cold and distant way more than he intends to, and i don’t doubt that anyone outside of his family would be totally blind to most of his “tells”. i imagine they’d be subtle things: the way he carries his tension, disruptions in his routines, sharper speech patterns, things like that. understated changes that you’d only notice about someone you live with every day. even casey seems mostly unable to read leo, and he’s one of the extremely select few with the privilege of being considered part of the tmnt’s extended family.

all in all, yes – i definitely think that the guys’ casual friends/acquaintances have a harder time reading don and leo. it’s what makes them super dangerous in their own way, but at the same time…… it also means they could literally just be thinking about what pizza toppings they want and meanwhile they’re giving someone a 30yd death stare like please, boys, fucking emote for once in your lives.