#leo's sacrifice

[shaotie]

**WARNING** this comic does NOT have a happy ending

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What if Leo didn't survive the prison dimension?

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"Took You Long Enough"

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- masterpost for my rottmnt ao3 fanfics and art

[kazaleas]

Leos sacrifice riff

[haematoclan]

Leo's relationship with death

Leo really doesn't like to think about death.

I mean, we all saw how much impact Karai's death had on all of Mad Dogs but Leo was the only one that had to be dragged from her, yelling after her, he really, really didn't want to lose her.

And I think when he lost her it left a deep scar.

I saw posts talking how Leo wants for things to get back to normal and pretend nothing happened, which I completely agree with. I think it's in big part because of his fear of repeating losing a close one.

He REALLY doesn't want to even acknowledge death.

Here Raph seemed to be getting through to Leo-

-but the moment he mentions possibility of his family dying?

Nope, time to deflect, joke and feign ignorance.

Leo's aware that death is a big part of being a responsible hero and that's why he'd rather goof off with his brothers and not train.

Because obviously when you ignore something it just dissapears, right? So if they ignore severity of certain situations and possibility of dying it won't happen, right?

If they don't treat it seriously they'll be fine! Totally!

Then Raph shields Leo from the Krang and sends him away.

And it's as if Karai's death stared right in his eyes.

So Leo picks up the slack of leadership in order to save Raph. He behaves carelessly during this time but can you really blame him, he desperately wants to save his brother, to stop yet another family member from death that he is so scared of.

He still tries to be positive and nonchalant, that "pfff obvioulsy everything will turn out alright!" but at the end of the day, it's not that simple.

Casey's speech had hard time to really hit Leo, he's still avoiding confronting resposibility, literally and metaphorically turning away from it. But the moment Casey says Leo's whole family died?

Now that made an impact.

And every time his family is in terrible danger he looks absolutely terrified and basically every time Leo has to be dragged away to not just return and try to save them again.

And when there's nobody to drag him away?

First thing he does is sacrifice himself. Because I don't think Leo is scared of his own death, or at least he is not as scared of him dying as his family. He'd rather give away his life than live through another grief.

Obviously I'm not sayin that the rest of the fam isn't terrified of close ones dying. But while they seem less aware (Mikey) and/or more ready for the possibility (Raph)...

Leo's wholly aware but he'd rather not be and ignore his fears until he can't anymore.

[turtleblogatlast]

Imagine little Leo having trouble sleeping so he ends up watching tv and movies with Splinter to pass the time. Splinter often just passes out in his chair, but Leo likes the company anyway.

One day, Leo’s rifling through the movies his dad brought back for them (usually 70s and 80s stuff - Splinter has a bias) and he gasps.

Leo runs over to Splinter and holds up a copy of The Last Unicorn, begging that they watch it that night.

Splinter remembers absolutely nothing about the movie, but hey it’s got a unicorn and it’s animated so it’s gotta be fine, right? So he turns the movie on and passes out near immediately.

He’s woken up roughly an hour and a half later by Leo climbing up onto his chair and sobbing hysterically into his chest.

The movie is now one of Leo’s favorites.

[itsbasicallycanon]

zoom in to see leo’s eye bags in 3-D!

also i kinda mashed a bunch of headcanons into this one but it’s my sleepover and i get to alter canon

[qoldenskies]

Can you shower us with circumventing death lore please? (chaotic besties cj and Donnie my beloved)

i have only angst facts .... like how the (soon to be) running gag of donnie refusing sleep for several days at a time is directly correlated with his lost sense of time in technodrome and the fear that he's just going to wake up back there (<- cptsd moment), and how f!april watched f!donnie die, and how technically f!leo is responsible for the deaths of ALL his brothers, and how because of everything that happened f!raph of all people (who is AFRAID OF BEING ALONE) is going to spend the afterlife without any of his brothers,

[tepli-mravenci]

guys I'm rewatching tmnt 2012 and I'm having a fucking moment rn

[royalelemental]

Did I ever tell anyone about my crack Winx Rottmnt AU where the turtles are somehow flung into the Winx’s magical dimension and accidentally separated? Enjoy an old sketch.

[yki-dolls]

The grind never stops 💪💯

Pixel art Commissions

[valzhangism]

i think it's interesting that frank zhang is someone who lost a loved one but instead of questioning the system or ideologies that caused said loved one to die, he buys into it completely.

for a series that repeatedly dogs on the gods for using demigods as their soldiers and tools, not only is emily zhang's death portrayed as completely heroic, but the military as a whole is.

in fact he starts the series cynical about it—his attitude to his mom's medallion is generally "man how the fuck is this supposed to make me feel better?"—but he ends the series saying he truly understands "duty and sacrifice". he becomes a military leader, and of course most egregiously, lets someone he cares about sacrifice himself for the sake of saving the world.

he really did become a true roman!

[side-effect-alien]

UNCLE LEON!!!! @bettertwin1

I have no self-control so we're posting this late at night. Anyways, guess who got an art style glow up!!

[shaotie]

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the Movie - Krang vs Leo

Death Theme X Kai Theme | EPIC MASHUP (Puss in Boots X Kung Fu Panda 3)

I've been wanting to do this for such a long time but kept getting sidetracked by other projects, enjoy!

- original audio (YouTube)

- masterpost for my rottmnt ao3 fanfics and art

[astro-nomaly]

MK 🤝 Rise!Leo Sacrificing themselves to save their families

[turtleblogatlast]

[ cw: death mention / strangulation mention / stabbing mention / blood mention / self-sacrifice / codependency mention in tags / ]

I think a lot about how common it is for Raph to be the one to have direct focus put on him when Leo gets into all his near death experiences.

Like, when Leo is thrown off a building, it’s Raph who’s right there jumping after him, not even thinking about the consequences to himself when he does. When Leo almost gets skewered by the Krang, Raph’s right there to take the blow and send Leo to safety without a second thought. When Leo’s being strangled to near death, it’s a Krangified Raph doing the job, doing exactly what Raph would never, ever want to do. When Leo is telling Casey Jr to close the portal, it’s Raph who tries desperately to convince Leo otherwise.

Likewise, Leo is consistently very single minded when Raph gets forcibly separated from them. Both when in the sewers and by the Krang, Leo is dead set on finding Raph first and foremost.

I also think it’s interesting that during each of Leo’s near death experiences, the lightheartedness of his words during them goes directly hand in hand with both how close Raph is to him physically and how much danger Raph is also in in that moment. From a literal “I told you so” as Leo’s falling away from Raph to a soft joke about how “hero moves” are Raph’s style - both of these are on the more morbidly carefree side and both of these notably take Leo farther away from Raph and, in turn, have Raph not in immediate danger.

On the other side of things is the apology from Leo, heedless of the danger he himself is in as he seriously and genuinely speaks to a Krangified Raph face to face. Then there’s Leo’s freezing and desperation as Raph takes a hit meant for him and sends just Leo to safety, leaving Raph himself behind. Both of these involve much closer proximity and Raph being directly harmed - these together make Leo much more vulnerable in his words and actions, something not even the threat of death can make him.

These two care about each other so much, and they’re way too much alike for their own good.

[demigod-of-the-agni]

redrawing characters i first drew in seventh grade for my novel (link for some background info)

the original cover is... terrifying. so. under the cut it goes

bro smiling like CRAZY man it's absolutely devastating

[hitwiththetmnt]

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