#leo's askbox

[pinkanonhopes]

delivering the sweetest smallest butterfly to give you a gentle bugkiss

hiiii babyyyy

delivering the tiniest most perfect ladybug to wish you luck forever and ever

[tangledinink]

was leo given to the fae? 🤨

[ clover crown au ]

[quartergremlin]

I love your post about balding Casey. There’s something beautiful about growing older. It warms my little LGBTQ+ heart to see LGBTQ+ characters grow older 💜

Thank you! I know "haha 👉 bald" is a tried and true facet of comedy, but I wanted to take this seriously. Balding and aging aren't a terrible misfortune that happens to people when all their youth is shriveled up. It's just a part of life.

"Look at you, finally joining the bald beauties!"

[tervaneula]

@witchofthemoss

Well. I have now. And let me tell you how these sudden feelings just kicked me in the chin and sent me rolling down the hill towards Emotions Town 🥺🥺🥺 Ilysm this made my NIGHT

(i listened to this on repeat while drawing, i think lyricstranslate has it in english if anyone's curious)

[sad-leon]

Misa has a gift

doe appreciates it :D

[incorrect-tokyodebunker]

MC: Reminder that I'm sweet and endearing, so be nice to me.

Leo: Or what?

MC: Or I'll punch your lights out.

he thinks ur flirting with him tbh

[remedyturtles]

I lovee how we get no chapter from Leo‘s POV in firefight (there might have been one, Im too tired to look it up at this moment) and that just creates this frustration in the reader as well because we assume stuff about his mental state and stuff but we don‘t know. With Donnie, we at least have an introspective view on what he thinks, what he feels, what he needs and even why he cant accept their family offering exactly that and we even see Mikey and Raph‘s frustrations and worries because we got their POVs too sometimes, it‘s aghh just awesome

you are correct we get no leo POV on purpose. our view of leo is the same as donnie and mikey and raph's: only what we can gleam from his words and actions, but how much can we trust when it's leo? we are just as clueless to his mental state as the characters themselves. as said in a few comments, it as if we are watching a star collapse through a telescope...

[indiegowrites]

i'm asking between 28-31 in that ask game I WANNA KNOWWW

28.) What is one thing you would like to see explored more in TMNT art/fics?

APRIL O'NEIL.

So often April just gets completely sidelined—or, if she is involved, it's to a much lesser extent than the main four are. I feel like a lot of people forget that April is, for all intents and purposes—outside of 2012—their sister. She has as much a role in their family dynamic as the guys do.

Let's look at Rise, which is the iteration where she has the biggest role as an active family member IMO. In the final episode alone, she's all but verbally confirmed to be a member of the Hamato clan.

For instance, look at the usage of "it's us" here—they are a group. You either take all of them, or you get none of them.

Note the fact that her sequence in the battle against Shredder takes place in the very middle, between Raph and Mikey's sequences. Moreso, think about the way she appears from behind Raph's copy. It's a move that's VERY reminiscent of what Raph just previously did with Leo hardly 15 seconds prior.

She then has an entire battle sequence against him, which is, by the way, SO sick. This little move she and Karai do is topped only by Leo and Raph's teleport segment.

She's with the entire family (plus Casey, my beloved!!!!!!!) when they launch their final attack on him!!!!

Hell, SHE'S the one who holds the spear with Karai! You know, the guys biological great-great-great however many greats grandmother?

I could talk for HOURS about April's connection with Karai, the guys, and the Hamato clan in general, and its usage of cementing her role as their sister in all but blood—but this is only the first question and I've already rambled for too long HAHAHA.

I want more April! Outside of Rise, inside of Rise, wherever, however, I don't care. Give me more April O'Neil. Stop sidelining her. She is a Hamato, just as much as the guys are.

29.) What is one headcanon that you have?

I see a lot of transfem 2012!Leo passed around, and I genuinely do subscribe to that—but my main headcanon is that 2012!Donnie is also genderqueer (whether that be transfem, nonbinary, or whatever else). Their relationship with April and their whole dynamic takes on an entirely different light when you view it through that lense, and becomes a lot more fascinating than...whatever is going on in canon.

(Sidebar, but Rise!Leo is transmasc. That's not even a headcanon, I fully believe that to be a genuine part of his character.)

30.) What is one common headcanon that you reject?

Not really rejecting, per se, as I believe that any headcanon can be true if you do enough mental gymnastics (#transfem12!donnie WOOOO), but my own take on Rise!Leo's sexuality is a lot more ambiguous than I know a lot of people go for. He's a pretty large kin of mine, and my own sexuality is hardly cut and dry (all I know is that I am queer, and that I don't like putting labels on myself beyond that), so I perceive him kind of in the same boat HAHAHA.

I don't know if this really counts, however, as Rise Leo being queer is hardly a headcanon. That's just...canon. Subtext canon, but canon all the same LMAOOO

Also. Again. That is a trans man. Rise!Leo is transmasculine. I will die on this hill. Argue with the wall.

31.) What is one piece of TMNT canon that you dislike/ignore?

I don't know that I really have any canon that I ignore, to be honest. I think that every TMNT canon is enjoyable in its own way, and that includes the more...let's go with controversial media, like the Bayverse, or Next Mutation,

There are some comics that I just couldn't really get into, but that's more of an ADHD thing than an active dislike.

[turrondeluxe]

TMNT au where Mikey becomes god in order to erase all the suffering that the Shredder did to his family and ends up being forgotten but Leo still remembers him and Yoshi still becomes Splinter but he has Tang Shen and Karai and they still adopted the turtles but there are only three because Mikey restarted everything and doesn't exist they are all mutated except Karai but Tang Shen is a rat as well because she touched Splinter when he had mutagen on his skin when he was transforming along with the turtles and everything stays the same with how they were raised on scraps but when Karai reaches a certain age she is taught to go up the surface and steal food for them down below in the sewers she also the oldest and still a ninja. Leo ends up experiencing weird and vivded dreams of an orange turtle with freckles he has never seen before but feels like he knows him and he keeps this to himself and the dreams start to feel even more real they all go up to the surface to fight the kraang save April and fight the other villain's that have no ties to the Shredder since he's gone and Leo starts looking around for Mikey since he's been in his dreams and he learned that the mutagen he came from was from the kraang and that's it mutated other animals and humans so now he's trying to figure out if there is an orange turtle.

WHERES THE FIC ANON.

WHERES THE FIC?????

[amcdrawnon]

Hanekoma tests Another Day Neku™'s power at the top of Pork City. Neku fails miserably. Mr H is like oh shibuya's screwed I guess

VIBE CHECK

[pinkanonhopes]

morning leo!!!!! the views here are incredible and the air doesn’t smell like chemicals and gross water ♥️♥️♥️ i want to move to europe immediately like not to be THAT tourist but oh my god ….

please move here so we can visit each other please please

[daisyssousa]

Trick-or-Treat! I have come knocking on your Tumblr door asking for a treat. You can answer with a meme, a bit of art/fic, a fic recommendation, pictures of candy, or something else! Then go to your mutual’s Tumblr door and ask them for a treat! Happy Halloween! 🎃👻 (don’t answer until October 31)

@backgroundagent3 Happy Halloween friend! :D <33 I made some smol!bus kids for you!

[quartergremlin]

Balding Casey is so cruel like..... he survived the apocalypse just to end up bald....

Isn't that a good thing though? Going from an apocalypse where you are sure you're going to die any day now to a somewhat quiet life were you grow old enough to go bald... I think it's what Leo would have wanted for him.

On Casey's side I don't think he'd think much about it. He grew up with michelangeo, and most of his family doesn't have hair anyway.

[hamburgrr]

3,7,15,19!

3. Iteration you haven't seen/read but want to start: I think the only one I haven’t seen is the 87 show! I really want to though. It looks HALARIOUS

7. Favorite really obscure character: None of you know the love that is stored in my heart for Harold from the IDW comics. You don’t know. The ammount of pictures I’ve taken of my copies. The GENVY I expedience. Harold is love. Harold is life. What an insufferable old bastard I LOVE HIM

15. Have you ever made fan content for tmnt: Oh my god so much. Half of it doesn’t get published cause it’s in my notebook, a WIP on my docs, or just too self indulgent for eyes other than mine. But uh. Here have a doodle page I made to make fun of my twin @fowlaroundtown to make fun of them for finding Bad Future Leo hot. You don’t wanna know how much I’ve drawn this man

19. Give ONE character a gun: Ice Cream Kitty from Tmnt 2012. I need to see what she does.

[go-see-a-starwar]

Help! I made this impulsively and I haven’t even finished watching the movie yet! 😭😭😭😭 I also haven’t taken my medication yet! 😭😭😭😭

No but they are the same picture 😅 I've said before Little Italy should have gotten the hair style notes from American Heist because Hayden's dark hair looks natural and good in AH but they went with printer ink instead. (Also I'm a big ol Office nerd so love to see my interests colliding here.)

[mirrorama]

ibb (dot) co (slash) 87rsZSH

DEAR.........GOD............................! IT'S SILLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!