#raph is complex

[rhinocio]

mutant mayhem design team I have one question

[qoldenskies]

Srry I dont know if this is spoilers, but what would the Season 2 Finale be like in Canary Continuity? Would anything be super different?

its simultaneously both a spoiler and not, because there's some stuff about ninpo in CW that's spoilers so i cant go over it yet. NEEDLESS TO SAY they will already know about it (trying to phrase this in a way that doesnt give anything away), so im not sure how the emotional core would really be with raph, considering spoilers spoilers they dont rlly have to "unlock" it when theyre already so knowledgeable. all i can say with that. im pretty sure everything else would be closer to canon, albeit with a lot more intensity because everything's hardened them quite a bit (theyre still HORRENDOUSLY silly, its a rise classic, but when it comes to important battle there's less fucking around, and they watch out for each other a lot more, especially with donnie who's going to struggle on the field despise his insistence otherwise. i think the way they approach the shredder would be WILDLY different.)

HOWEVER

i think losing the old lair is going to be less traumatic and a lot more cathartic. i wouldnt kill off shelldon because ive been cruel enough, donnie would probably just have to rebuild him. theyd look at the rubble of their former home and finally breathe.

its scary to have to go through the rubble and salvage what they can. its the loss of a lot of childhood memories, and change is hard. but fuck, that place was a HELLHOLE of bad memories for all of them. i think they'd jump at the excuse to move, despite having to leave a lot behind and having to rebuild. unlike CU i think the process would be a little slower and everyone would be helping out to the best of their ability, and it would genuinely just be... healing. it's a group project. donnie didn't even realize before this point how much weight being in the old lair put on his chest until he felt the relief of it gone. they have a chance to rebuild, and while its still an adjustment, it's happier. being in the old environment is definitely a contributor to his anxiety NOW in cw, mind you.

i think what you should worry about is the movie. not something i'll ever be touching but think about how raph would react after the fact to beating up and choking leo while kraangified. that is all.

[docthesock]

[margridarnauds]

[Tw: Rape, suicide]

I was browsing through Magadon's story for Raphael Reasons and...

Is it time to kill Mephistopheles? I really think it's time to kill Mephistopheles.

(Note, since Magadon mentions his mother surviving: The lore about cambions' mothers dying during birth comes from The Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix, which is 2e, and Expeditions to the Demonweb Pits, which is 3e [both editions are also interesting for consistently putting Cambions in with Demons]. The 5e Monster Manual seems to imply that Cambions' mothers might live: "Cambions grow into ruthless adults whose wickedness and perversion horrifies even the most devoted mortal parent. Even as a youth, a cambion identifies its rightful place as an overlord of mortals. It might orchestrate uprisings in towns and cities, gathering gangs of humanoids and lesser devils to serve it." 4e only says that cambions can be raised in one realm or the other without getting into specifics.) (All this to say that I support any means of torturing Raphael possible and highly encourage finding new and exciting ways of doing it, BUT it isn't necessarily inherently keeping with 5e that the cambion's mother HAS to die.)

[copperpipes]

[o4o41]

Raph needs bifidobacteria

Raph should check mushrooms in his body. And quality of food he takes. He feels like in a constant first-day menstruation period. Irritated. Maybe he has cramps too. He might have poor food intake(or lack of food) or mushrooms in tum-tum or lower, like, below the belt part.

[theetherealraphael]

i has no gender now

same!

[tmntplusadhdcauseschaos]

The ROTTMNT turtles as humans!

[zee-rambles]

How did Raph fight Knuckles to a standstill?

Oh it’s simple because-Raph and Knuckles are two BIG, RED, DUMB, GOOD BOIS that love to fight, can take a hit, and have an incredible sense of honor. Somewhere in the middle of the fight, they just went…

For anyone wondering, this has to do with the crossover comic, which you can start reading: HERE.

[purplepixel]

Y'all, IDW TMNT is SO GOOD

If I wasn't working on multiple long term projects, I'd be boarding some of these scenes.

[mousermayhem]

Tempted to give Raph the Zoro Treatment.

[witheringnostalgia]

Shoutout to the people who dissociated through their entire life. Shoutout to the people who can’t trust their own memory because your perception of how things “really happened” got fucked up. Shoutout to people who spent so long in a vacant mental state growing up just to survive that it still affects them today. Shoutout to the people who think what they went through wasn’t “bad enough” or that it “doesn’t affect them” because they don’t remember it enough to process it. Shoutout to the people who spent so long dissociating that the only way you’ve tricked your brain into pulling out of it for even a second is by hurting yourself. Shoutout to the people who are afraid of who/what they’d be without it. Shoutout

[arintheman]

My Raph

I had to fucking scale him down so he wouldn’t be in like three separate images

Mikey

Leo

Donnie

[skeleton-in-a-hoodie]

In DDMG, Mikey and Splinter end up learning how to cook together. Most of the time they pick out really simple recipes so they can figure out what they're supposed to be doing + minimise the margin of error as much as possible.

They also do a lot of really cheap recipes, like the type of thing where you don't need many ingredients because they've got to feed five people on whatever money the boys can make, because Splinter's a rat yokai so can't really get a job.

The recipes that turn out okay get written down, and the ones that are kinda meh are either thrown away or retried later to see if they can make them good. Helps that Splinter isn't picky with what he eats, so usually if something turns out bad he'll eat it so it's not wasted.

But sometimes they'll find a recipe that's so bad Splinter won't just spit it out, the fur on his body will stand on end and he'll sort of hiss at the food. Once, out of curiosity, Mikey tried it and immediately realised that Splinter's reaction was warranted.

That recipe got set on fire.

They also like to try Japanese recipes, even if they've not got all the ingredients so have to get creative. Mikey is also the type of kid to see something on tv and want to have a go at making it.

Later, Socorro teaches them both how to cook, which has a much higher success rate.

[mikittalabs]

honestly shout out to mikey and april for being the only bitches with self-esteem in this fucking family. the rest of you? do better

[ducknotinarow]

Me the second Kezzie or Josie make the slightest mention of something that can be used to hurt Raph