#raph is a yellow bellied slider‚ leo is a western painted turtle‚ donnie is an african sideneck turtle and mikey is a spotted turtle 👍

[classicsonic]

making my own tmnt. grins

[knight-a3]

Some concepts for my TMNT AU. I just doodle for it because I like character design. Design notes under the cut.

Leo is a cumberland slider. It's similar to a red-eared slider and yellow bellied slider and other pond sliders. They're quick and sleek.

Raph is a common snapping turtle. Common snappers are more aggressive than alligator snappers. And I thought it was fitting, since he's more hotheaded than rottmnt's Raph. Snapping turtles have smaller plastrons than most other turtles.

Donnie is an eastern spiny softshell. I probably would've made him a florida or smooth softshell so he was a little different from rottmnt Donnie, but I just like the look of the spiny the best. He has his own version of the battle shell, but it won't be as advanced as rottmnt Donnie. It comes with robot arms to give him some extra hands while he works, and serves as a protection for his shell since it's different from his brothers. Without the battle shell, he's the fastest and most flexible, but most vulnerable. With it, he has the best defense and can scale walls, but loses his speed.

Mikey is a midland painted turtle. Midland is like an in between of the Western and Eastern painted turtles. Mikey leans a little more western though. He has yellow markings on his face, but they're red on his body. They should technically be stripes, but I'm pushing it. Painted turtles are pretty similar to sliders, but smaller. I chose painted for Mikey because the name fit his artistic characteristic.

Mona Lisa is an MMA fighter, her real name is Elisabetta "Lisa" Miles. Her sister is Vanessa Miles(based on Venus). They may or may not get mutated, idk. Vanessa has a pet turtle. Probably either a box turtle or red eared slider because they're the common to have as pets.

Leatherhead is a must. I'm going for a primarily 2012 type backstory for him. Mutated Alligator prone to animalistic fits of rage. I always thought a loincloth would suit him. That tail will not accommodate pants.

Tokka and Slash are merged into one character, but I liked the name Tokka better. I chose the alligator snapper for them because they're very large and have an intimidating look, as well as a powerful bite. Again, Snapping turtles have smaller plastrons than most other turtles.

I liked Timothy(although they played up his annoying aspects a bit too much), due to his potential as a friend for Donnie. It was a shame they totally abandoned him without even finishing his plotline.

Fugitoid/Professor Honeycutt. Haven't really figured out how I want to incorporate him, but he's enough of a TMNT staple that I want to include him. I just don't want to get too crazy with alien stuff. Having the Kraang around can get crazy enough.

Renet is either a seamstress or physicist(maybe both?), because I don't like time travel gimmicks.

[tumblemutantninjaturtles]

Alright! Can't technically end the poll but here are the current form results since that's what's won

Reminder! You can edit your responses and discuss/make propaganda for your choices

Leo:

Red eared slider: 4

Sea turtle: 4 (plus another 1 for specifically Ridley Kemp sea turtle)

Spotted turtle: 2

Leopard tortoise: 2

Diamondback terrapin: 2

Map turtle: 1 (plus another 1 for specifically Pearl River map turtle)

Yellow bellied slider: 1

Eastern painted turtle: 1

Mud turtle: 1

Painted wood turtle: 1

Pond turtle: 1

Common snapping turtle: 1

River cooter: 1

Blandings turtle: 1

Donnie:

Softshell: 2 (plus another 2 for spiny soft shell and 2 for asian giant softshell)

Wood turtle: 2

Pond turtle: 2

Map turtle: 1 (plus 2 for False map turtle, 1 for Ouachita map turtle and 1 for Common map turtle)

Big headed turtle: 1

Spotted turtle: 1

Galapagos tortoise: 1

Green sea turtle: 1

Red footed tortoise: 1

Diamond back terrapin: 1

Painted turtle: 1

Red footed box turtle: 1

Geometric tortoise: 1

Raph:

Galapagos tortoise: 4

Alligator Snapping turtle: 3

Red footed tortoise: 3

Western painted turtle: 2

Southern painted turtle: 1

Red painted turtle(?): 1

Suwanee snapping turtle: 1

Golden thread turtle: 1

Diamondback terrapin: 1

Mata Mata turtle: 1

Smooth softshell: 1

Angonoka tortoise: 1

Indian star tortoise: 1

Leopard tortoise: 1

Red eared slider: 1

Bog turtle: 1

Ouachita map turtle: 1

Japanese Pond turtle: 1

Speckled padloper tortoise: 1

Mikey:

Box turtle: 2 (plus 2 Ornate box turtle, plus 1 Clemmys box turtle)

Wood turtle: 2

Sea turtle: 1 (plus 1 Green sea turtle and one Leatherback sea turtle)

Painted turtle: 1 (plus 1 Eastern painted turtle and one Western painted turtle

Spotted turtle: 1 (plus 1 North american spotted turtle)

Egyptian tortoise: 1

Chicken turtle: 1

Four eyed turtle: 1

Caspian turtle: 1

Red bellied sideneck turtle: 1

Snapping turtle: 1

Impressed tortoise: 1

Golden coin turtle: 1

Bog turtle: 1

Yellow bellied slider: 1

Yellow footed tortoise

Splinter

Rat: 3 (plus 1 Norway rat and 1 Hooded rat and 1 Husky rat(both are breeds of norway rats), 1 Mindoro black rat, 1 Bushy tailed wood rat)

Raccoon: 3

Red panda: 2

Vole: 2

Cat: 2

Horse: 1

Human: 1

Sugar glider: 1

Otter: 1

Hedgehog: 1

Pika: 1

Tanuki: 1

Chinchilla: 1

Squirrel: 1

Platypus

ALRIGHT so I may or may not have briefly forgotten about this for 1-2 days (curse you ADHD) BUT Tomorrow is when we've been planning to begin the species vote so First:

LAST CALL TO SUBMIT SPECIES!

You can submit any species of turtle or tortoise for the four brothers and ANY Mammal for Splinter HERE

Second: Looking at the current votes its going to take a bit of figuring out to decide which species will make it to the polls as there still aren't many repeats