#rise Leo angst

[blue-tailed-artist]

Last one for the night, gn

[deadbeatbug]

Forgot I made this and wanted to post it here :1

[sad-leon]

that picture with Leo's portal around his neck gripped my by the throat and wouldn't stop shaking me until I wrote this tiny thing for you I hope that's okay! feel free to delete if not <3

(tw: suicidal thoughts/putting self in danger obv)

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A flick of Leo’s wrist is all it would take to close the portals currently circled around his neck. 

It had become sort of calming, doing this. The subtle hum of energy hitting him from every direction. The gentle static-like feeling that clung around his neck. The soft, blue light that lit up his surroundings just enough to stop the darkness from feeling suffocating. It almost put him into a meditative state, to hold the portals open around himself. To let himself stare into the darkness and get lost in whatever it was that looked back at him. To entertain the thought of letting the portals close with his neck still…

The irony of something so dangerous being so calming was not lost on him.

It had started out innocent. Testing the limits of his portals, seeing what he could and couldn’t do with them. Training, you know?

Maybe it was still training. In a way.

It would be so, so easy. Quick, too. Maybe his family would even believe he’d done it by accident. Stupid, reckless Leo, messing around and making a terrible, fatal mistake.

Hm.

Leo took a slow, deep breath. The faint smell of ozone used to fill him with adrenaline, but now it calmed him in a way he couldn't explain.

It would be so easy.

Link to OG post

this is very good!! I wanted to do another little doodle for this, but the writing is very solid on its own so im gonna share this before it continues to sit in my inbox!

[someloserinajaywig]

rise! leo (post movie) and a Pearl by mitski. that’s all

[kuro8566]

Post-movie leo angst

Tw: self hate

[stephuart]

Have some angst *poof*

Edit: to be continued....

[grey-viridian]

Even death can't separate them

[meggalice]

I said you weren't ready...

We've already seen in canon that Donnie and change are at best a tumultuous combination; I think that'd get ramped up to like 1000 after Splints' passing

Originally it was just the first drawing with April but it felt wrong not to include all of his sons.

The other side of the coin.

[sarathrwizard]

:)

(Ouch. that looks like it hurts.)

[soldrawss]

I uh, started this as a little wholesome thing but it QUICKLY got out of hand, anyway part 2 here.

[violynt-skies]

the parallels of rottmnt.

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the way rottmnt portrays the cycle of sacrifice and generational trauma through the concept of the hamato tradition is so beyond phenomenal it’s really hard to articulate with just words how hard it really hits. there’s so many parallels btwn splinter & his history/family than can be seen within raph & leo that can also almost be translated to f!leo & casey in some ways, not to mention the parallels btwn karai and leo as well.

the way splinter tried SO hard to break from that cycle, the way he saw how it effected his family and himself and didn’t want to put his family through it again yet it seemed to be inevitable regardless. he never wanted to have to choose btwn his family and the world and yet even when he made that choice in S1, in the end he still ended up losing a family member (karai) in exchange for time to save the world.

and even though he tried to break the chain so hard, the cycle of sacrifice was still adopted into raph and leo in different ways which was later passed down to donnie and mikey.

not to mention the future timeline where they ended up losing EVERYBODY and in the end of the movie casey is met with the same choice of the world over family just as many family members before him have.

the sacrificial bone and need to protect is just so ingrained into the entire family, to the point where the same events just seem to happen over and over no matter what is done.

the cycle of love and loss, protection and sacrifice, family vs the world. over and over.

[blue-tailed-artist]

Inktober day 20!

[shalaaex]

[1/10] I will post a page at least once a week :)) they’re mostly lined :DD

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[daflangstlairde-art]

you are sixteen when you kill everything you've ever loved.

it's not funny.

Finally I managed to draw this doofus' shell

[kaysdenofchaos]

can you see them where you are now? they're pretty. i hope you're seeing them too

[circusinarun]

Yippie! Anxiety attack! :]

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