#teenage mutant ninja turtle kin

[citizenoftmrrwlnd]

stimboard for : leo (rottmnt) with a focus on blue and star themes

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[sinestrosmind]

shenanigans w/ @tinyghostotus lmao

[mmoofykins]

Mmmmnjjee thinking about them so bad

theres something about no color i really like

@tapakah0’s jacob‘s ladder au!!

[dumb-duxky]

~ Angry rant ~

GOD I HATE TECHNOLOGY FUCKKKKKK

LITERALLY FUCK DIGITAL ART IM NOT CUT OUT FOR THIS SHIT

SO IVE BEEN WPRKING ON THIS FOR DAYSSSS AND I LITERALLY HAD IT DONE, WITH SHAFING AND BRUSHES AND ALL THAT

BUT THEN I MESS WITH THE STUPID CANVIS SETTINGS AND MAKE IT SMALLWR, AND WHEN I TRIED TO PUT IT BACK IT RUINED ALL MY PROGRESS, SO ALL I HAVE IS THIS SCREENSHOT AS EVIDENCE DAMMIT

I want to die, and cry

Sorry about this, I just needed to vent my anger somewhere. I'm going to attempt to redraw it another day, like a month or something but NOOOOOO

The worst part is that it is literally my own fault, I'm the one who ruined my life. I should have listened to my brain when it told me to download it beforehand just in case

This has ruined my night. But at least it's a drawing that came from paper first, but I was proud of the progress I did digitally.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go beat up some of my plushies. They didn't do anything, but my pain must be shared.

This is @ezgurple 's April, btw [literally love her, she didn't deserve me doing her dirty like that 😔]

[goodforwho]

I've been drawing future leo for about 3 weeks now for an animatic. Today during class I thought why not do it in a more finished way (I love him so much)

[violynt-skies]

How Leo’s role as face man prevents him from confiding with his team

Watching throughout the entire series we see Leo constantly keep up with his role as the face man of the group

While on missions he can use his charisma and persuasion in order to get people to go along with his plans without letting people know what he’s really thinking

But he never seems to put it down

•Leos Emotional Guard

At first glance Leo’s entire personality revolves around being lenient laid back and chill, and to everyone else it makes him seem like a very open book, and that’s why the face man role works out for him

But it means that no one is really aware of anything beneath the surface. They never bother to ask because who would need to?

However, this also includes Leo’s family

Despite his chilled back personality Leo is one of the most emotionally guarded ones out of all of the brothers

Throughout the series we can see little moments of vulnerability from each members of the family, digging deeper into their emotions and their insecurities and then go on to discuss said feelings and gain some form of comfort or closure from their family. Most notable ones shown below

Donnie in “Donnie vs Witch Town”

Raph in “Anatawa Hitorijinai”

Mikey in “Hidden City’s Most Wanted”

April in “Always Be Brownies”

Splinter & Donnie in “Turtledega Nights”

•How Leo is Different

Similar to everyone else, Leo is shown to have these moments sprinkled in too but they never occur with his family

The two most memorable moments we have are shown in “Portaled Jacked” with Senor Hueso and during his one-on-one conversation with Casey

Why these two characters and not one of his close family members?

Because it’s easier talking about problems to strangers and people who don’t know you as they have no previous knowledge or connotations of you to fall back on and there’s no feelings of burden or guilt if you believe the topic will never be discussed with them again. There’s less feelings of consequences that comes with being vulnerable towards people who don’t know you well. Because if you open up more to the people who do, the risk that their opinion of you will change gets higher

Then we add in the fact that Leo is already extremely guarded of his emotions. He doesn’t want his brothers to think less of him because he already isn’t confident of his place in the team already and thus doesn’t confide in them

•Deflecting with Humor

And then the two moments where we do see little slips in Leo’s carefully constructed masks that occur around his family, which we can find in “Minotaur Maze” and “Many Unhappy Returns”

He ends up immediately backtracking and deflecting with humor, thus changing the subject and preventing anyone from delving into it further and reacting to the quips instead

“You know it’d really help me if you guys said that I was your champion.” “Just open it!”

“This whole situation was my plan all along. If it wasn’t, then why’d I ask your tailor to make me this outfit?” “So we could both perish looking super fly?”

What makes it worse is that Leo has such a habit of doing it that his family expects it, which  then causes them to believe there’s no underlying issues beneath the surface and thus don’t react accordingly. (with the addition that both parties had valid reasons for being upset with him at the time)

But it causes a situation of Leo internalizing his emotions, and if he doesn’t expand on the topic himself, then his family won’t see a reason to either nor think there’s an issue to begin with

•The Movie

To add onto this point, we see Raph and Leo arguing over Leo’s role as leader. As usual Leo deflects the argument with humor and avoids the situation. But we can see during the argument that how Leo privately lets down his guard and for a second the audience is able to see how he’s really reacting to Raph’s words. However, it is apparent that Raph doesn’t  see this side of him and most likely never really has

“You just don’t get it Leo”

Now as the audience it is very easy to draw to the conclusion that Leo has clear issues with his role as the leader and most likely many insecurities regarding it thus why he acts the way he does. Like any other serious situation, he copes with, he deflects with humor and tries to avoid it

This argument then implies that in the two years since Leo was made leader of the group, he never revealed his internal issues with it and never made it apparent to his brothers either because he hates being vulnerable

The face man role works for him because it requires skillful work in that you can manipulate people the way you want to without ever letting them know what your thinking. And Leo carries that role with him when it comes to his brothers and family as well. But this doesn’t work out for him anymore when he becomes the leader and communication becomes so important to the team. (I talk about this more on a different post)

Thus the events of the movie and why things played out the way they did

Naturally he learns how to trust in his team more when the situation becomes dire enough that he realizes he can no longer keep deflecting

But even after all the traumatic events that he went through. When it comes to the one time we see him really cry. He still only lets himself cry when he’s completely alone within the prison dimension

TLDR: Leo’s role as the face man is kept on both on and off duty as we find that he is really one of the most emotionally guarded out of all of his brothers as he doesn’t want to let them know what he’s really feeling out of fear that they might think less of him as he is already insecure of his placement in the group and would rather confide in people who don’t know him well over his family where he runs the risk of them treating him differently

Honestly, “Mr. Emotionally Unavailable” has some real competition ahead of him

If we were being completely blunt, all of the brothers have trouble when it comes to letting go of their real emotions, Donnie just being out of his depth with them and it being uncomfortable, Raph wanting to be strong for his brothers, and Mikey most likely wanting to focus on his brother’s emotions over his own as the Therapist of the group, but i believe the Leo definitely has the worst case out of all of them.

[sspicyramencup]

not an art post but does anybody else think about how not just in one, not two, not three, but in SEVERAL iterations of TMNT whenever Master Splinter is hurt or missing, Raphael is the first to throw himself in immediate danger?

No? Just me?

(yes i know he does the same for his siblings, but i’m talking about a father and son dynamic. not brothers)

Like Raphael will either scream in anguish or tear New York inside out to find his father. The passion he holds in his heart when it comes to his loyalty to his family is too big for his tiny turtle self. :((

When his father was missing with nothing left behind but a disheveled and destroyed home in 1990, his first instinct was to clutch his sais, the one of the few remaining things he possibly had left of his father, and screamed in absolute anguish and guilt.

In The Last Ronin, when his father was wounded and unsure of his survival, he alone took on an army and Karai by himself. While the truce was broken and he would’ve done that for any of his brothers, I just find it so gut wrenching when the child sees their parent in pain, and their first response is to assure that parent is in good hands before they personally fight against whatever may have harmed their parent.

In 2003 when Splinter went missing, Raphael spent hours looking for his father alone. He screamed his father’s name from the rooftops. But he still found time to help another child whom was missing their own parent. Because he understands the torture it feels to lose that bond.

And the absolute gentle care Raphael exhibits around his father is something that isn’t talked about enough. The bond that they have is so special to Raphael that he personally lowers his guard and his entire body language and behavior becomes gentle and kind. His father is one of the few people that is allowed to see his true self at any given moment.

I like when writer’s tackle that Raphael isn’t the angry violent brother all the time. But at his core, he is gentle and soft. And his heart is kind. But he is simply passionate and protective. His loyalty will pass every test you throw.

I need more one on one Raphael and Splinter scenes in TMNT.

[did-someone-say-aliens]

updated kinlist cus i removed a few and added some new guys

i’m not cringe

whaat who says i am whaaat who said that

i went a bit crazy in the tags sorry guys

[microsofttothemax]

found a few colors and techniques, decided to draw the goobers :]

[strawberrylind]

guess who’s been binging rottmnt (me :) ! )

(tc*st people do not fucking interact)

[lov3-bit3r]

Donnatello (ROTTMNT) Stimboard

[ Dividers used in this post were created by @/grungenglam ]

Requested By: Anon! Specifics: A Donnie (The Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Stimboard with secondary themes of uranium Date: September 18, 2024

[sinestrosmind]

more shenanigans w/@tinyghostotus lmaoooo

please don't actually eat rocks or slime Leo and Donnie are profesional dumbasses

also don't tell Raph

[mmoofykins]

Something done for @somerandomdudelmao 's apocalyptic series! I haven't used color on anything for a while.

I've been wanting to do fanart for them for such a long time now but I'm a nervous internet person so I don't show myself much or know what to say or how it's okay to interact. HALF THE TIME I DONT EVEN DARE REPOST AND ITS KILLING ME BECAUSE I LVOE THIS SERIES SO MUCH I CRY, as I'm sure everyone can relate.

Raph had never really been my favorite, but lately everything about him makes me so soft and with cass's newest updates? There was no way I could just sit still. It was enough to draw me out of my "too scared to post"-cave and I'm glad.

Also currently saving to buy a new iPad cause mine is usable no more, so I'm borrowing my brother's. The pain of not being able to draw when I want wherever I want has never been greater. I do have some things I wanna show though so idk maybe 🤲

[sneepsnoopart]

I am him, He is me, we are the same being its kinda scary I love him so much you dont understand i want to master drawing him, i need to get his head/nose(?) shape down...but shool starts tmrrw soooo yeah

[d4rk-x-w0lf-17]

i want them to be best friends so badly that it hurts

[pizzacastella]

WHICH NINJA TURTLE ARE YOU?!