#mikey in the space arc literally gets me so excited there's so much good stuff going on there

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DAY 6 - Mikey

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Mikey is the youngest of the group and is a spotted turtle! He's maybe a little behind his brothers at times because of their age difference, but that mostly ceases to be an issue in their later teen years. Also an ADHD legend.

Mikey is the jack of all trades of the group. Kind of hand in hand with the ADHD and always feeling like he had to catch up to his brothers, Mikey has a bazillion hobbies. He'll give anything a try at least once and after a while, he just has so many skills that they all play into each other and help him learn more new skills. Stuff tends to come to him pretty easily, which isn't to say that he doesn't ever try (cause him always wanting to try extra hard is why he's like this in the first place), but just that he's built himself such a good basis he can be really adaptive towards anything new.

His family is really encouraging in regards to his hobbies and interests and is often a little amused by them (lots of good natured comments like "of course you mastered [x], what thing are you trying now" or "wow that's the third thing you've picked up this week", etc). If there's ever a random weird skill set they need, chances are Mikey can do it, even if he may have to remind them that it is in fact something he can do.

This quality of his however is something that really introduces tension between him and Donnie once the family starts really getting into mystics. Mikey's pretty naturally gifted at magic to begin with, but once given a little bit of direction he picks up the practical applications and spellcasting incredibly quick, something that annoys Donnie to no end as he really had to struggle through understanding mysticism and still finds certain aspects difficult. In his eyes, his little brother just came in and instantly got it, and that lingering jealousy combined with some other key differences in their mystic-related world views makes things strained between them for a while. They're nowhere near as bad as Raph and Leo of course, but still, the only time they'll ever present a united front during this period is when they're telling off Raph and Leo for trying to give them conflict advice.

Speaking of other brothers, Mikey is probably closest with Raph. It started when they were younger; the twins would always run off to do stuff together, so the two of them got used to doing things together too. Raph really occupied that "cool older brother" spot for him and included him as much as he could in activities. The age difference was a little more pronounced as kids, and Mikey probably got involved in or saw things that maybe he shouldn't have so young, but he mostly turned out fine. All of this is to say, the two of them share interests and activities all the time, and Mikey really looks up to Raph.

That last little bit unfortunately gets weaponized by Leo when he's criticizing Raph for not being a good role model, though he's usually the one to not baby Mikey at all outside of that. Those months where Raph is missing, Mikey barely processes them at all cause so much of his life revolves around the little things they shared together and he kinda doesn't know what to do with himself in the absence of that. He also takes the aftermath at the farmhouse the hardest, watching Raph act like a ghost while Leo's in a coma. His loss of innocence there reflects the beginning of the end of their childhood.

Mikey's journey overall is intrinsically tied to the turtles' coming of age, story-wise, and the third arc really makes use of that. That's their space arc, when the full wide world of the universe truly opens up to them, and the focusing being on Mikey for the arc is no coincidence. His openness and willingness to make friends is essential for them to gather allies against the krang, and the group's development is marked by how he learns advocacy for himself and others, which represents the way they finally come into themselves and begin to shake off all the forces seeking to control them. The friendships he spearheads with Leatherhead, Renet, and Traximus become absolutely crucial here.

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i got around to watching the latest TMNT episode, and it turned into 44 minutes of pure salt with my friend @lulusoblue. 

read below the saltmagedon.

onthespectrumwriting:

i'm finally watching the new ep and i'm five minutes in.

i honestly hate how much romance there is in this. :///

eeeerrrrRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAUGH

CAN

WE

NOT

PAIR THEM OFF

GOD

  onthespectrumwriting:

especially leorai

  lulusoblue:

there's a difference between romance and ship bait

 onthespectrumwriting:

jfc

i hate all of this

 lulusoblue:

same

 onthespectrumwriting:

no shipping allowed okay

 lulusoblue:

and i haven't even watched the fuckin ep

 onthespectrumwriting:

at all

 lulusoblue:

i can't even bring myself to watch Demon Mark Hamill's arc

 onthespectrumwriting:

there's a brief amount of good donnie stuff in there

 onthespectrumwriting:

otherwise: eh

oh there's also good mikey and leatherhead stuff

FOR FUCK'S SAKE STOP IT WITH THE LEORAI FLIRTING

GOD

they

they had raph wink at my girl y'gythgba

and she did this little blushy thing

no

noooooo

if this has to be a Thing

 onthespectrumwriting:

that goes the other way around

rgh

 lulusoblue:

take the reciprocative canon ship

it's as good as it will get

 onthespectrumwriting:

it makes me uncomfortable

on the other hand

the utrom are precious and should be protected

pls stop murdering them

 lulusoblue:

it's as good as it will get

 onthespectrumwriting:

BUT ITS BAD

 lulusoblue:

sorry my phone repeated the message twice

YES BUT IT COULD BE WORSE

 onthespectrumwriting:

ITS STILL BAD

ALL OF THIS IS BAD

 lulusoblue:

honestly thank god none of the other pairings are canon because they're terirble

 onthespectrumwriting:

oh for fuck's sake y'gythgba's entire planet went to war because she couldn't sacrifice one shitty turtle

apparently a shit ton of their soldiers died because of it

 lulusoblue:

p sure if any of them were actually canon they would be ACTUALLY lovey dovey and not just hanging out to make Raph jealous that his bros are around their crushes

lulusoblue sent a post Tell me that wasn't a...

is my phone just du

 lulusoblue:

plicating shit what the fuck

 onthespectrumwriting:

maybe

see?

romance gets you nothing good in this universe

OH BAD SHIT IS HAPPENING BC THEY GOT DISTRACTED BY EACH OTHER

I AM FURTHER VINDICATED

 onthespectrumwriting:

off topic all the boys and april need to use a phone tower to climb down but my girl karai can straight up scale a flat wall

oh and now she's back to being useless

okay then

 onthespectrumwriting:

eyyyy april

punch him

punch him good

 lulusoblue:

what is up with the writing like wtf

 onthespectrumwriting:

god this is so bad so far

at least april did a thing

that was nice

it was a brief thing

but a thing

where the fuck is my son casey tho

 onthespectrumwriting:

off topic: y'gythgba is still really good looking

OH SHUT UP RAPH YOUR OLDER GIRLFRIEND IS NOT GOING TO GIVE UP HER LIFE AS AN ACCOMPLISHED MILITARY WOMAN TO LIVE IN THE FUCKING SEWERS AND EAT GARBAGE

okay the writing is actively making me die right now

they pulled a "-and your little dog too" type line

 onthespectrumwriting:

where is y'gythba's fucking sword??? WHY DID THEY TAKE AWAY HER SWORD AND LEAVE HER WITH A PISTOL WHAT

god this is like april in the space arc all over again

snrk omg

 lulusoblue:

k watching your commentary is like

 onthespectrumwriting:

why thank you

also newt's voice actor slurred a little and bishop came out as "bitchass"

 lulusoblue:

Pffdffforplrprrlrddfffffft

 onthespectrumwriting:

oh hey so newt is a brainwashing victim nice

OH EW NO DO NOT EAT THE LITTLE BRAIN THING

you don't know where that's been, and i can see how badly the brainwashing has sucked his brian cells

he's so stupid

this dialogue is shit

why is that one utrom fucking french

but where is casey is what i'm really wondering

 onthespectrumwriting:

also: how will being in the D-x atmosphere affect april? since this is the first time

utrom are still cute btw, they're so adorably pink and tentacled

NO QUEENIE

LEAVE HER ALONE

she's like, one of the few female characters left

oh god more utrom vore

newt no

and donnie steals the weapon from the utrom

nice

my klepto son strikes again

 onthespectrumwriting:

WHERE

IS

Y'GYTHGBA'S

FUCKING

SWORD

WHY DOES SHE HAVE A DINKY LITTLE PISTOL WHAT THE FUCK

FUCK THIS

 lulusoblue:

"why is that one utrom fucking french"

coz he gave up

 onthespectrumwriting:

hahahahaha

april is doing cool stuff again

 onthespectrumwriting:

good

let's add water bending to her abilities lmao

well it didn't work but it was neat

now newt is playing at being mr. electro

 lulusoblue:

"WE THREW IN A REFERENCE ARE YOU FUCKING HAPPY NOW"

not until April chooses the Blue Spirit over Casey and Donnie

 onthespectrumwriting:

like out of spirderman two- MIKEY NO WHAT THEFUCK

NO HEY NOT OKAY

BRING BACK MY SON

wow they're causing a citywide black out and also mikey is dead

OH HAHAHAHA ITS THE BUG GUY

 lulusoblue:

nickelodeon: "just kill em all"

 onthespectrumwriting:

THERE'S A GIANT BUG INT HE SKY I'M YELLING

HIS SHIP IS A GIANT FUCKING BUG THAT’S SHITTING OUT DRONES

okay we're fucked

nice to know

mike's dead the world has no power and we're being invaded

oh and the romance apocalypse is still happening too

so we're really fucked

 lulusoblue:

Dregg:

fuck where the Oprah bees gif shit

onthespectrumwriting:

hahaha i get what your aiming for here

also new york is experiencing being shat upon by alien bugs

nice

OH HER SWORD IS BACK

Y'GYTHGBA MAGICALLY HAS HER SWORD AGAIN

WHERE

WAS IT

YOU FUCKS

hahahaha oh god i hate this

all of it

 onthespectrumwriting:

also none of the family is giving any fucks right now that mikey is literally dead

my god

this is like The Power Inside Her all over again

do they only freak out when its leo??? apparently so

so far this ep is getting a 2/10

and only bc of the sick bug ship

WHERE

IS

MY SONS

casey mikey where are you

 onthespectrumwriting:

"if you talk to my woman like that again-" HAHAHA OH SHE'S //YOUR// WOMAN NOW???

EXCUSE ME

WHEN DID SHE AGREE TO THAT SHIT

raph take that patriarchal nonsense and shove it up your asshole where it belongs

eighties TV has taught you nothing good

what a load of dicks

okay the show lost its two points for that line

fuck that

0/10

 lulusoblue:

uh oh

 onthespectrumwriting:

bs extravaganza

that's what this is

raph, bishop, both of you go eat ten bags of dicks and choke

and for the love of god DOES NO ONE CARE THAT MIKEY IS DEAD

 lulusoblue:

death is an illusion i thought u knew

 onthespectrumwriting:

"i can take care of myself raphael, thank you" honey just punch him already, i know you want to for that shitty possessive comment

oh shit nice y'gythgba is into utrom vore too

hahaha

yeah literally the only good thing here is the bigass alien ship

 lulusoblue:

why did you make me read that with my own two eyes

 onthespectrumwriting:

bc you have to suffer with me

also leo and g'throkka are uselessly captured

hahahaha

damseled in distress

raph's plan is to strap as many missiles to a barge boat as physically possible and then throw it at the ship

raph, honey, that's not how physics work

"i like it, but it feels... a little too much" y'gythgba just say it. its a shitty, shitty plan

don't spare this child's feelings

he needs to be knocked down like ten pegs anyways, the angst muffin he is

"you think? that's a mikey level bad idea" april calling things as they are

 onthespectrumwriting:

and look

she's the Only One to feel a moment of "wow he's fucking dead"

LITERALLY NO ONE ELSE COMMENTED ON THIS FACT OTHER THAN RAPH'S OFF HANDED "mikey's been disintegrated" and then NOTHING

ggggggod

off topic: where the fuck is casey

my son

where is my son

have you seen my son???

 lulusoblue:

he's probably getting his teeth foxed

*fixed

at P Sherman 42 Wallaby Way Sydney

 onthespectrumwriting:

he'll get those knocked out in two days tops hahahaha

wow this is disturbing

humans being glued to a tower with spit

ew

where is the fucking military

this is literally their job

oh donnie, oh april

you can't do anything cool in this series anymore, accept it

haha oh my god

 onthespectrumwriting:

they're stealing this right out of my fanfic at this point

mikey brought himself back from the dead

by pulling his molecules back together

this is exactly like my fanfic what the hell

electricity powers, existence despite apparently being dead, etc

also: wow what a lack of happiness that he's not dead

i'd like to call plagiarism.

 lulusoblue:

"what iz emote?"

 onthespectrumwriting:

this is so stupid

i did it better

 onthespectrumwriting:

okay the bug prisons are uncomfortably like assholes

ew

OH EW THEY'RE USING THE TRUSSED UP PEOPLE AS BUG EGG FOOD

THIS IS PARASITICA ALL OVER AGAIN BUT CITYSCALED

off topic: newt has a collection of utrom arms tied to his belt

just

chilling there

 lulusoblue:

as you do

 onthespectrumwriting:

he's got severed limbs flopping all over

bet that made bishop uncomfortable

 onthespectrumwriting:

oh shit its the military

its only been like a half a day since the world started ending

not like they're late

and where are the fighter jets guys

a ground assault won't do shit

oh no

its the turtle mech

again

....

i feel nothing, i never liked it

its so vulnerably designed??

like the cockpits are right in the front, completely undefended

nice raph's bug phobia is probably having a hay day in his head rn

parasite leeches are always great to deal with

eyyyy mike gets to do shit for once

he beat the last big bad, and now he's going to beat this one

how much do you bet they won't thank him this time either

my murderous daughter strikes again

she's so excited to flamethrow a bunch of bugs

dialogue still killing me

HA THE MECH GOT TOTALED

WHAT A SURPRISE

donnie is going to cry about that

i feel bad for him

he spent months on that stupid thing

oooooh SHIT

mikey is KILLING IT today

my son

i'm so proud of you

your shitty family doesn't deserve you or donnie

mikey is doing so great, i'm so proud

they're also in the heart of a giant space bug ship now, and he's got electro powers so

he's gonna FUCK THEIR SHIT UP

go child

this is the one thing you're good at

destruction of all good things

do it

meanwhile everyone else is having fun with bugs

revenge for all the magnifiers in the world

karai and april continue to not be allowed to be useful

ugh

 lulusoblue:

ps is karai still a snake orrr

 onthespectrumwriting:

she's done no snake things this whole ep

they're wasting her

but, on the bright side

confirmed: they're dating

femslash wins everyone go home

 lulusoblue:

WHAT bright side?

 onthespectrumwriting:

the gay bright side

mr. brightside

mikey is fucking shit up and i'm still proud of him

he died and literally brought himself back all on his own

this kid has so much to him

why does his family/the fandom/the show not get this

well he didn't beat the big bad on his own, but he did 99% of the work

MY SON IS SACRIFICING HIMSELF NO

mikey nooooooo

THEY JUST LEAVE HIM????

APRIL IS LITERALLY THE ONLY ONE CONCERNED THAT THIS KID SACRIFICED HIMSELF

wow he died for you assholes and all he gets is a highfive

and then they take his powers

and

clothes???

he's naked.

okay.

"pizza's on me!" leo you don't have money

you can't even go get the pizza without starting a riot

why would you say that

WHAT

NO

Y'GYTHGBA HONEY DON'T DO THIS

NONONONONONONONONO

okay so one

this is violating intergalactic laws

like ten of them at least

for another

y'gythgba don't do this

don't give up a very successful military career for a shitty teenage boy

he's not even twenty yet and he lives in the sewers angsting all day

you could do //so much better//

god no

he's not even letting her crash at his place

he's sending her to live with the mutanimals

"hey you gave up your entire life to be with me, how's crashing at my weird cousins' place sound? they're also fugitives and inhuman, you'll fit right in"

i

have

SO MUCH SALT ABOUT THIS

and then they end it there

*throws monitor through the wall*

FUCK THIS BULLSHIT

 onthespectrumwriting:

so that was one of the worst two-part specials i've ever watched

i'm going to go find something sweet to eat and then try to find purpose in life