#rottmnt oc rikki

[tmngoose]

POV: Some rowdy customers are giving Clem a hard time, so now you gotta sweep out the riff-raff 😤✨

I commissioned the wickedly talented Mop (@/cptmop_kira on Twitter) for this 2-year time-skip Rikki reference and they did an ✨AMAZING JOB✨ 🥺💖 I’ve been looking at this for 84 years ;v; she’s perf!

Rikki also does a good job at hiding the fact she’s actually a tiny mongoose ghost but who needs to know that, right :A

[tmngoose]

Idk if I’ve done this one yet but ✨👀

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[scentedcandlecryptid]

I simultaneously regret everything and nothing.

Rikki is the wonderful rottmnt OC belonging to equally wonderful @tmngoose​! I am so sorry that I didn’t do your OC justice, but I hope it’s still okay-

Lemmie know if you like my art and want to see more, and click for better quality! <33

[tmngoose]

OC Musings —

Clem hosting a holiday party at his store so Rikki can be apart of it. Like, she’s still stuck behind the counter (lol) but at least she’s included in the festivities. All the E.L.o.M homies are there; the Mad Dogz hold a truce and join in. Just one big ol’ party where Rikki gets to see all the people that matter to her, even the ones she finds annoying (😒Warren)

[tmngoose]

While cleaning my room today, I found a sketch book with an old idea for a Rikki & Warren comic. I decided to pencil it in a little bit ✨

[tmngoose]

Just imaging Clem sitting/standing in a tree like normal goats…

… and Rikki standing at the base of the tree because she has to catch him.

[tmngoose]

OC Musings — Your OC running into Rikki’s mom & it’s just… a very off-putting experience.

And then your OC telling Rikki you met her mom & Rikki is just mortified.

“We don’t get along,” says Rikki. “At all. Ever.”

“She can’t be that bad, right?” asks your OC.

“If she knew this is what my life’s amounted to, she’d kill me.”

Your OC thinks Rikki’s over exaggerating but the mongoose keeps her troubled expression, “… 😬 oh, you’re being serious.”

[tmngoose]

I don’t really have any rottmnt oc’s but i do have a self insert here named Ramsen,

What possible hex could they get?

if you need info to base of

they just happen to be a local artist that got mutated, and in general is a neutral person

Oh, sweet Ramsen 🥺 Idk what they could’ve done to incur a hex from Rikki but it must’ve been something … ba-aaa-aad (ba dum tiss?)

Rikki’s got a few hexes for artists:

Digital artist? Good luck trying to find any of the nibs for your stylus. The sensitivity on your tablet is also out of whack no matter how many times you reset it, and you’ll always draw on the wrong layer.

Traditional artist? Your new pens are out of ink. Your pencils break no matter how careful you are, and your erasers leave smudges behind.

The worst hex Rikki could cast on Ramsen? Artist Block 😬

[tmngoose]

For the Rikki hex, I volunteer my OC Chiyo, a rabbit yokai who is a part time baker/vigilante!

You’ll have to forgive Rikki, Chiyo—I’m sure she has a good reason for hexing you! (Okay maybe not 🥴)

So you’re a part-time baker, eh?

A classic hex you can expect is all your baking attempts end with the smoke alarm going off. Burnt cookies aren’t that bad right? Baked Alaska? More like Over-baked Alaska.

Your oven timers either stop working or never go off. Or they never stop ringing. You can never tell what it’s gonna be.

Is it salt? Is it sugar? You can’t tell the difference 😱

And the most severe hex would be a loss of Chiyo’s senses. I’m sure it’ll make baking a little harder when you can’t smell or taste anything :’T

And as for the vigilante stuff?

Chiyo can’t stop tripping over nothing. So much for chasing after bad guys 🤷‍♀️

Say goodbye to stealth because Chiyo can’t stop sneezing. And we’re not talking about a sneeze that builds up & she can stop. No, these are the ‘dad-level’ sneezes. The sudden sneeze that makes you go “AH-CHOOOO!” — that’s gotta be distracting in battle too :\

Rikki knows Chiyo’s a rabbit yōkai, but she’s got a hex to make her feel hare-brained. It’s going to be hard coming up with strategies when all she can think about are old commercial jingles from the early 2000s.

[tmngoose]

Happy Halloween! I love your sketch of Rikki's costume! But why does she look so tired? She stay up too late trick or treating and is dreading coming in for work in the morning?

Oh, it could be several reasons:

She works at a candy store, so going out of her way to get candy from strangers when she can just steal—er, buy some with her employee discount—seems redundant & degrading.

Maybe she spent all night guarding Clem’s shop from pranksters the night before.

She keeps getting mistaken for a kid… and having humans ask “where’s your mommy/daddy?” Gets kinda annoying and unsavory after awhile.

10% finds the holiday insulting & if she could, she’d just walk around as her ghostly-self and show those kids what REAL FEAR is

[tmngoose]

Warm-ups ✨

[tmngoose]

What if I wrote something self-indulgent to make myself feel better … 🤔

[tmngoose]

OC Musings — Rikki coming home slightly battered. There was a rowdy customer and she had to fulfill her role as security.

Rikki doesn’t think much of it but Red insists on treating her injuries. It’s just a couple of bruises and scraped knuckles.

Red doesn’t care. She sits Rikki down and gets out the first aid kit. While Red dresses Rikki’s wounds, it dawns on her—

“You don’t normally do this, now do you?” Red asks.

Rikki shakes her head, “When you’re a yūrei, you don’t really grow up worrying about cuts and bruises. You’re just told your vessel will fix itself, so why bother?” She eyes the bandages on her hands, “I’ll admit, I do look pretty tough with these things…”

Rikki looks up and sees the look on Red’s face. Is it pity? Sympathy? It’s hard for the mongoose to tell; nobody’s ever looked at her like that.

It makes Rikki uncomfortable. She fidgets, says thanks, and heads to bed.

[tmngoose]

Loving all the snimatics the Rise crew has been posting lately! The "bloopers" animatic is my favorite aside from the alternate ending, it reminds me of the bloopers from earlier pixar movies lol . Made me think of Chiyo and Rikki if they were in the movie; messing up their lines, cracking a smile during serious scenes, or accidentally punching a stunt man a little too hard in the fight scenes XD

Omg yes! The Pixar bloopers 🥺💖 I don’t think I appreciated them as much as a kid but now I love the extra dimension it gave those movies. And the Rise ones were SO GOOD 👏

Rikki would definitely deck a stuntman by accident. Or accidentally bump into Chiyo and just be all “Oh 🥺 sorry, squirt 🥺🥺”

[tmngoose]

I've been scrolling through the rottmnt fantasy au tag (i seriously need to start reading the fan fics, the fan art I've seen is awesome and makes the story look so interesting!). I came across your sketch of Fantasy AU Rikki and she's so cute! Even in a world of magic and fairytales, she's still gotta work for minimum wage lol. Have you thought at all about how different her story would be in this au?

Fantasy AU is an absolute banger ✨👏 There are a lot of wonderful AUs in the Rise fandom & they’re all lovely.

Fantasy Rikki leans more to the bad guy side vs. Regular Rikki, who is trying to better themselves but ✨ bad habits & learned behavior ✨ makes it challenging.

Fantasy Rikki cares more about benefiting herself and doesn’t care if your feelings get hurt because she swindled you. She still keeps her ghoulish presence on the down-low. Ideally, Fantasy Rikki is waiting to get her paws on some juicy secrets/intel or rare artifacts to sell to the highest bidder.

Regular Rikki has a closer relationship with Clem, unlike Fantasy Rikki, who feigns being a loyal worker.

[tmngoose]

OC musings — a detail I forgot to add to Rikki’s timeskip design is a notch in one of her ears. Courtesy of her mother, of course. She plays it off very casually (“Can’t get any more punk rock than this =w=“)