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6, 12, 30, 31, 49, 50 and 79 for the ask game?

6. Is there a battle nexus? Is it a respected facility or operated by criminals?

Yes there is a battle nexus! In terms of respectability and the legality its a little iffy. The battle nexus is an underground yokai fighting ring, run by Big Mama and connected to her hotel chain. The issue is that its a yokai owned, run, and visited business, and yokai societies that are so closely connected to human society, like those in New York, aren't able to be closely organized enough to have things like "laws", only "rules", and there's no one to enforce those rules really, people only follow them for the sake of self preservation (exposing the yokai world to humans would royally fuck them over)

But back to the facility itself. Mama does technically do things "ethically", as long as you thoroughly read your contract with her before signing. There is no way to get out of the contract once its signed though (poor Hueso, he'a a prime example of this. He isn't involved in the fighting ring but still, he knows better than most how much a Big Mama contract can ruin your life). The fighting itself is brutal, the only limitation is that you can't kill (Mama would lose so many fighters and potential signees if she allowed that), its an absolute bloodbath in there. Aside from the terrifying fighting, painful and potentially permanently disabling injuries, and the inescapable contract though, the life of a battle nexus fighter is pretty great, Big Mama knows how to make her show ponies want to prance, y'know? They all get private rooms in her hotel chain (unless they try to escape), and a large amount of luxuries (unless they try to hurt staff or guests), and they can live pretty good lives (unless you hurt one of her children. That is the only way you'll escape a contract early. Some have purposefully chosen to go this way though.)

12. What is the main villain's motivation?

The Krang want to enslave the planet and use its residents and its resources to make more bodies for themselves! They're a hivemind (just one mind, last hivemind of the species, entirely by choice on their part) who are practically immortal as long as they keep getting new bodies, and having a lot of them makes enslaving planets much easier (they don't like to keep the bodies of those they've enslaved, too cramped, and its been proven that some species can escape and cause problems). They've learned in the past that a loud hostile takeover (especially without adequate numbers) can cause annoyances like "rebellions", and one species in particular, the Salamanderians, even managed to build a resistance to their control and force them off the planet, so yeah, slow and subtle. And the easiest way to do that is find the planets most compatible mind, one that could work as a conduit, if they can get into this mind and spread through the population through them, takeover is a piece of cake.

It just so happens that the Hamato family line are the last yokai-human compatible link, even witches (yokai-human hybrids, not at all uncommon) aren't good enough, it has to be a Hamato. And unknown to anyone who isn't from the Bad End timeline, the perfect Hamato is Angie (Michelangelo)

30. Is there a Venus?/31. Is there a Jennika?

Yes! Two of a trio! Venus, Jennika, and Lita, are the only survivors of the Bad End timeline, and they're the kids of Lee (and our OC Julie), Raph (and Mona Lisa), and Angie! They, along with Usagi, are at the core of the chaos in season 2, where the present Hamato family have to prove to the Time Court that they will properly take in the future children and bind them to their timeline (not an easy thing for Angie, as zeir daughter is.....well there's a few major ethical dilemmas with her creation)

49. Are the turtles the same species?/50. Are the turtles the same age?

Nope and nope!

Lee is the oldest, 15 in the prologue and 23 in season 2, and she's a spotted turtle.

Angie and Donnie, the twins, are next, 14 in the prologue and 22 in season 2, Angie being the older twin and Donnie being the younger twin, they're pink bellied sideneck turtles!

And Raph is the baby, 13 in the prologue and 21 in season 2, they're a white morph Mississippi map turtle!

78. Tell us something you want to share about your au/iteration!

Hard to think of one specific thing, but we really wanna emphasize the farmhouse arc! Sooooo many big things happen in this arc, including the mutation of one character, the introduction of a certain baby girl, the end of the coma arc + recovery from said comas, and the introduction of the yokai ocean cave village! So many events to talk about, it makes it hard to talk about the events themselves!

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Today we want to ramble about the Krang and their goal! We don't know if we've ever really touched on what, exactly, the Krang are doing. Or what the Krang actually are. So lets take it from the top!

The original "Krang" species was a cluster of hivemind colonies who expanded their population (and thus gave each colony more time to live as their older bodies died out. Effective immortality!) by literally building themselves bodies, but one colony got sick of competing for resources and decided to take over, spreading through the same means they used to connect to their original bodies (though its always less effective when the body already has a mind, its a lesser secondary form of hivemind and no one in the Krang's species would have found it comfortable to live in a host like that without bodies of their own). They used the other colonies bodies to run a true factory line to make more bodies for themselves, keeping it going until resources ran out and all the other colonies bodies died from starvation, injuries, or old age.

From there, the Krang started planet hopping. Their first planet went perfectly according to plan, and was eventually drained of its resources just like their home planet.

The second planet seemed to have been going similarly, but the Salamandrians turned out to be a lot more mentally adaptable than the Krang had ever experienced before, and their method of takeover was too slow to avoid it. They'd still had enough of the planet to start their production lines and run them for a decent amount of time, with only a small resistance to bother them, but as time went on and generations passed, the small resistance eventually became a real threat with natural mental barriers that the Krang couldn't get through. The Salamandrians survived and the Krang were eventually forced to flee the planet (the Salamandrians feel a lot of guilt for letting the parasites get away, they have teams out scouting the universe for Krang infested planets and trying to eradicate them, hoping it'll make up for them being unable to kill the colony while it was much smaller and weaker on their planet)

Its only a few hundred years after this point that the Krang arrive on earth. The Salamandrians had managed to stop almost all of their takeover attempts, but they've perfected their method to avoid any Salamandrian-like resistance threats and detection from the Salamandrians themselves.

They need a conduit. A magically inclined local who is compatible with the entire planet's population. All they need is one, if they can get to one they can spread to them all regardless of distance. But its not an easy thing to do on earth when there's two dominant races they need to find a very specific magic user. It gets even more complicated when one of the races has essentially wiped out their own magic users. They have to find the one remaining magical human family line. Aka the Hamatos.

From there, the worst case scenario is obvious. We'll get into the litpm bad end timeline another time though

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4. How does the Shredder end up interacting with the Krang in litpm?

It was mostly random luck really! The Krang were scouting out people who would be ideal for their world domination plan and while the Shredder doesn't have the most important piece of the plan, he is the first person they came across who was in a position of relative power and had the potential means of finding the missing piece of the plan. And so, the manipulation begins

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Oh! Apocalyptic ending au! Guess the path to that is obvious, figuring out who would survive and how is less so. If the Krang had won, the end of the world for humanity and yokai would be relatively instantaneous. There are at least two obvious survivors, and beating the Krang this late in the game has been done before, but it wasn't easy and the victims are still recovering from it, will continue to be recovering for a long time. It was a rough war. One can only hope earth has that same stubborn determination.

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Hello! We tried to go to sleep last night by thinking up our own tmnt iteration, and we did fall asleep so technically it worked, but we underestimated how much our brain can come up with in a short period of time and now we have an AU so developed that we can't write it all down in one go....so.......

PLEASE ASK US QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR LOST IN THE PINK MIST AU

Please help us get all this out of our brain and into at least word form (art form will be slow going as we recover from trying to hand write way too much lore)! Ask us any question you can think of! This iteration is very different from the canon iterations (but also some things are mixed and matched in, so your mileage with that statement may vary) so there's a lot of changes and things to clarify!

For actually explained lore check out the tag #the pinkest of lore, and for unexplained but slightly implied lore memes check out #no context only pink! Sorry for the lack of tag links, we only have mobile to work with!

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Lee's design! - Angie and Donnie's designs! - Raph's design! - All Four Character Sheets (With Updates)!

Julie's design! - Victoria Shelley's design!