#tmnt mirage leonardo

[theyhavetakenovermylife]

Nerdy Boyfriend (Fluff)

Mirage!Leonardo x reader

A/N: Just another short one, because why not. It’s cute to have that sometimes💚

Warnings: None❤️

Your boyfriend was a nerd. Probably one of the biggest nerds in this world. A stereotypical sci fi nerd. Whenever you spent the night with him in his home in the sewers, it wasn’t uncommon for you and him to cuddle while he was reading Dune or maybe even read something about Star Wars or Star Track.

You found your boyfriend’s nerdy nature cute. Especially when he tried to explain it to you. The way his eyes would light up when he rambled on about certain plot points, or the complexities of certain fictional societies. It was adorable, and a much needed break from his otherwise griddy and hextric day to day.

Sometimes you would ask him to put on a sci fi movie, just to see how he would react. And each and every time, he was as adorable as ever. Hugging you tightly as you laid on the couch, after having finally managed to get his brothers to leave the two of you alone.

Cuddled up with a blanket, and sometimes a few snacks, watching or reading whatever Leo’s sci-fi heart was beating to show you, was always worth it. And each time, wrapped up in each other’s arms, you couldn’t wait for the next time, you and him would find yourself together like this again.

Leo’s brothers may find his nerdy tendencies strange from time to time. Even Donnie had made fun of him from time to time. And there was a time where Leo might have found himself becoming insecure when his brothers decided to make fun of him. But then he found you, and suddenly no comment or joke on his behalf could tear his mood down. Especially when you said out loud that you found his sci-fi fascination cute, giving his brothers something to think about. But that left his brothers with one question; why were you so into Leo being such a nerd? Simple answer - a nerdy boyfriend is a happy boyfriend. And a happy boyfriend is a joy to be around. And you loved your nerdy boyfriend and all the things that came along with him. Even if that meant watching the same movies for the 500th time in a month… But his big smile was all worth it.

[aleksiej]

okay, 03 leosagi is great, but mirage leosagi has me in a screaming-crying-throwing-up state at least once a day

[eg-tmnt]

[doodle--den]

WE’RE GETTING MORE RISE WOO!!! And more outfits at that

New rise sneak peek for those who haven’t seen :)

[artisahobby]

Celebrating 40 years of teenagers, mutants, ninjas and turtles!

ID in alt text

[tmntkiseki]

No talk him he angy

[kobbers]

TMayNT day 1: Favorite Turtle

In a real sense all the guys are my favorite, but one of them hits the "lawful good dork doing their best to hold everything together for the people they love" archetype I love so much. Therefore, Leonardo is my favoritest.

[mymomsaiditwasaphase]

[forgetful-nerd]

If these two were the same Usagi that would have been so funny.

Do you know how great it would be if Usagi just took one look at this angsty, young, and traumatized 2012 Leo and thought “Welp. I’ve seen THIS before” so he just snatches him (+ his brothers) up, hauls their turtle butts to the 2003 tmnt dimension, and plops them down right in front of their 2003 counterparts?

I guess some things can never be (at least not in canon)

[atalante241]

Shout out to all the TMNT fans still rambling on and on about those turtles, some shows may have ended like almost 30yrs ago while others 4 or so, some pieces of media may only be one movie long while others an entire comic series, but you still keep going.

[turtle--soup]

Okay.

I have not seen ROTTMNT yet, but I've picked up some stuff from just floating around the fandom. Something I've learned, which is discussed in this post here, is that Rise Leo is generally considered - and considers himself the 'Face Man' of the team. (GIFs below are swiped from the linked post by @risestarkiss - I couldn't find them in tumblr's gif search function...)

Anyway. This is interesting to me because I am, for my sins, also a fan of The A-Team.

(I promise this is going somewhere! If you want to find out where I'm going with this, I'll put the rest of the post under a cut because it got a little long...)

For those of you unfamiliar with The A-Team, it's a (very silly) 80s TV series about a group of Vietnam War veterans who are on the run from the government after being convicted of a crime they didn't commit. The four of them spend their lives in hiding, making a living by using their combat skills to help people in need.

Here they are:

Left: Colonel John 'Hannibal' Smith, leader of the team, brains of the outfit and most likely to have become an evil mastermind in an alternate timeline.

Right: Sergeant B.A. Baracus. Nicknamed 'Bad Attitude' due to his lack of patience for bullshit, B.A. is the resident tough guy but also an absolute teddy bear of a man, and is always ready to help people, especially children and the elderly.

Left: Captain H.M. 'Howling Mad' Murdock is the team's pilot and can fly just about anything. As his nickname suggests, he's considered a bit eccentric and is a silly kind of guy. (He's also a permanent resident of a psychiatric hospital but let's not get into that right now.)

Right: Lieutenant Templeton Peck. His role in the team is to provide them with whatever they need, whether that be vehicles, weapons, tools or access to places. He usually achieves this using his charm and wit, gaining him the nickname 'Face Man.'

Okay, so bearing these descriptions in mind, look at Leo's dialogue in this GIF:

I'm assuming that Donnie is the brainy guy, Raph is the smashy guy, and Mikey is the 'eats peanut butter with his fingers guy'. And Leo is the Face Man. That's his role.

But these descriptions fit the members of The A-Team too. Hannibal is the brainy guy, B.A. is the smashy guy, Murdock is the guy who absolutely eats peanut butter with his fingers (while maintaining unbroken eye contact throughout). And then there's Face.

How is this in any way relevant?

Well.

It just so happens that someone else is a fan of The A-Team...

Of course the Mirage turtles watched The A-Team! It was a popular show in the mid-80s, and you have to admit - they do have a lot in common, being four guys fighting injustice from the shadows and all... The A-Team even have a friend on the outside who helps them out - Amy Allen.

She's a reporter. Like someone else we know...

But which of the Mirage turtles in the image above is suggesting they should watch The A-Team?

According to this bio card from 1990 that coincides with the 1987 series...

... it might be Leo!

Was this intentional on the part of the Rise writers? I don't know!

Is it relevant? Probably not!

Does this tentative link between these two silly 80s series make me ridiculously happy? Yes!

Was this entire post just leading up to this? Yeah... sorry...

I like to think that the link is intentional. I've heard that Rise makes reference to other iterations of TMNT, as they all do. I would just personally love it if someone on the team wanted to draw parallels between these two series on purpose!

Anyway.

I just noticed that and really needed to get it off my chest! Thank you to everyone who stuck with this longer-than-intended post right to the end! 💙💜❤🧡

[theyhavetakenovermylife]

I think I just realized why they stopped drawing the turtles with tails. It looks a little like...

Ya know...

Heh...

Dicks

[aleksiej]

was anyone going to tell me that mirage leonardo canonically has the sword excalibur

[eg-tmnt]

Guy who missed first contact because he was too busy training.

[aissadraw]

This was a task for my graphic design career, the task was to make a free theme collage so I decided to make this

The only thing I drew it was Leonardo from Mutant Mayhem (it was difficult to achieve a texture or coloring something similar to that of the movie)

What I wanted to tell here is the fear and insecurity of the new Leonardo for the future, after witnessing what most of Leonardo has had to go through,Leo is afraid of what could happen to him and his family.

Could things be a little different for him? Can he become the leader his family will need?

He won't know until the opportunity presents itself.

[tacit-semantics]

In the spirit of fundamentally ridiculous lace projects!! I bring you a fundamentally ridiculous lace project, wherein I was like hey, I wonder if I can mimic a comic panel in lace, and the answer was. Well kinda?? Anyways this took me like two months (watched the entirety of 2003 in that time) and some parts very much worked better than the others and you can’t really see it in the pictures but the solid portions are done in black/gray like a screentone which COULD have been more obvious but frankly. Given the subject matter and medium I’m giving myself a bit of a pass sjsjsj. Smallest thread I’ve ever worked with too!! The finished product is smaller than my stretched out hand. Also there are absolutely no defining features but in my heart and soul this is Leo :)