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Are you going to submit your Fang AU in the TMNT au competition this year?

I really want to

I will admit, I'm still relatively unsure about what it's supposed to be for! XD I'm only as familiar with whatever I caught posted or reblogged last time while still trying to figure out the weird workings of tumblz. It looked like fun though?

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"Nothing can stop us noooooow~~o/`"

HAHAHA you bum

No but I love this! This whole different angle and take, the colors! I should just make you do my colors while I go roll on your bed.

Thank youuuuu!!! <3 They're so cute.

So I'm late. That's not gonna stop me, time is a concept and it will fold.

Getting to the meat of this: I wanted to do a DTIYS for the longest and I fumble it every time there is one. HOWEVER. @trilobitepunch set one up and of course I procrastinated on it I finally got to slap everything down.

For the Fang AU! Aaauaaaahhhh!

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EEHEEHEE!!!! You know I always enjoy your writing but I have just been *gleeee!* reading this on the way home from work. Love these dumb boys. Love poor Raph playing cat-herder for his feral bros. The boy tries so hard. Thank you so much for participating!!!<3

I meant to do this earlier and then I didn't |'D but quick little ficlet for @trilobitepunch 's DTIYS!

I've tried to read all the stuff about fangiverse but I may have some lore wrong... but I hope you enjoy this anyway, Aya!

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Raph has always kept an eye on his little brothers, and that hasn't changed. Two of them have some added... difficulties now, but that's all. They're still his little brothers, and Raph will watch out for them, same as usual. Everything is totally normal.

Thinking that way helps him stay calm, anyway.

Like now, wandering through a marketplace in the Hidden City, eyes on Donnie as he pokes at the gourds at a stand with a frown. They have a whole shopping list from Draxum, for some medicines he wants to try to make that he thinks will help not just Donnie and Leo but all of them. Raph had almost insisted that he and Mikey could do it on their own, but Leo starts going stir-crazy if he's kept locked in the lair too long and Donnie can lock himself in so long he needs the vitamin D.

Besides, Raph doesn't want to feel like he's keeping them prisoner. It's not their fault.

But against all odds, the day has turned out surprisingly well! They had lunch at Run of the Mill, and ate all their favorites. Leo and Mikey spent their remaining New Year's money on candy from a shop that temporarily turns keratin weird colors; it's supposed to affect fingernails, but right now Mikey is sporting a bright pink shell as he trails after Donnie (Raph has to admit, he wants to try it later). For his part, he has an almost-eaten cup of froyo, which he'd piled high with some pretty weird toppings (the Hidden City has weird green mushrooms that taste like cotton candy!). And they've made it through over half the shopping list without incident! Maybe everything will go smoothly after all.

And just as Raph thinks that, he hears a familiar snarl, and everything falls apart.

His mistake, he realizes even as he turns to look, was focusing so much on Donnie that he forgot to keep an eye trained on Leo.

Donnie's easy to trigger, and he sinks deep, devoid of everything but the urge to attack, to fight. Leo can usually keep one finger in reality, just enough to be the bridge between Donnie and the rest of them. Donnie is unpredictable in a crowd, but Leo loves being out around people. That's why Raph had kept his eyes trained on purple.

But the thing is, when Leo goes down, he goes down hard. And there's nothing to stop Donnie from being swept right along with him.

Raph swivels on his feet, froyo cup tossed aside as he scans the crowd. He finds Leo fast, poised like a snake ready to strike, snarling and hissing, pupils flared and wild. His fangs are out and they're bared, staring down a yokai almost three times his size - Raph doesn't know what happened in the lead-up, but he has a feeling that Leo's freakout is deserved.

It doesn't change the fact that they can't stay here now. If Leo hurts someone in this state, he'll beat himself up about it for weeks - and it's only a matter of time until the cops show up and arrest all of them.

"DONNIE!"

Raph isn't at all surprised by Mikey's shout, or the sudden blur of purple that shoots past him. Donnie is at Leo's side in an instant, snarling just as loudly, the two of them circling back to back in challenge to the increasingly panicked crowd.

It's time to go!

"Raph!" yells Mikey, but Raph doesn't spare him a glance. He trusts Mikey to keep up.

"Hitch a ride, Mike," is all he says, before he's clearing the space between himself and his snarling brothers in two big steps. A second later, a familiar weight lands on his shell; one problem taken care of.

Donnie is just about to launch himself at a yokai brandishing a short sword when Raph swoops in, grabbing his little brother by the battle shell and tucking him under his arm. Donnie howls in frustration, but Raph has experience on his side; he pins Donnie to his side and makes sure his teeth can't get anywhere near him.

"No biting, Dee!" he calls over the noise of the crowd, and gets a frustrated chatter in return.

"I can't reach Leo!" Mikey reports from his shoulder. Raph swivels around to look at his remaining sibling, currently advancing on the big yokai once again. Said yokai has his hands balled into fists in front of him, but he looks more than a little concerned as Leo lurches toward him with predatory steps.

Maybe he could just let him get a little closer...

No, Raph should definitely stop this.

With another big step, Raph comes level with Leo and scoops him under his other arm, earning a startled yelp that would be hilarious under other circumstances. Both feral turtles struggle under his arms, fangs bared and hands strong, but Raph has them in his grip.

A police siren echoes over the din of the crowd.

"Time to go!" Mikey shouts, thumping Raph's shell.

"Don't gotta tell me twice!" he yells back. He's already muscling his way through the crowd, making a beeline for an alleyway off the market. They need to get off the main streets, then book it for the nearest portal topside.

The whole trip, the bundles under his arms hiss and snarl and claw at him, completely ungrateful for how he just saved their butts. He ought to drop them and leave them here.

But he won't. They're still his little brothers, after all.

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<3!! I love this, thank you!! That subtle difference with Raph's eyes, heehee... It looks like an animation still, so crisp and clean! Also love the added textures. I've just been enjoying seeing their silly expressions translated by other people, this is great. Thank you Untitled!!!!

It's barely in time, but I did finally finish my drawing for @trilobitepunch's DTIYS!

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I don't know anymore...

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Donutello...

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Chibitello....

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AHAHAH yessss!! And that is exactly it for those two, angry cats. I love the way you did their faces. And this sketch fills me with glee. XD XD Thank you for participating!

@trilobitepunch has a DTYIS up rn and I decided it was a great way to try my hand at more Rise styled bois

ID in alt

Tfw ur middle siblings get a bit too much hunting instinct u-u

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nskGNlgiuhFeikeaj AAAAAH nono I love it!! Your style always makes me grin! Ngl I've been excited to see what you were going to do when you mentioned your interest. Thank you so much for participating!!<3

@trilobitepunch I finally got around to finishing your DTIYS!

Congrats! I always love your artwork, your style is so beautiful and inspiring! Ahshsjj it looks so wonky, but I had fun nonetheless! And I absolutely love your fang AU so much!!

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Somehow I forgot to post the full pics of the Fang top page thing, haha.

Was torn between shading it and leaving it with just flat shadows. I always have so much trouble with flat shadows but I'm pretty happy with how this one came out.

And I forgot how much fun inverting images is. This is a different version of the inversion but I thought it looked neat. And creepy.

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How does the rest of the family react to Leo also contracting the illness in the fangs au? Do they get put in quarantine? Are Leo and Donnie dangerous to each other or just people who don't have the activated genes?

Since they really didn't have any idea what it was that had stricken Donnie to begin with, they're shocked when they find out Leo is also infected. I won't give too much away but I can explain things from the Inktober prompts.

Leo and Donnie operate as a pair of hunters once the virus settles in. There's a connection between them because of the Krang slant, which makes them even more dangerous. The rest of the family don't even realize Leo's infected and to what extent that means until they come across the feral turtles, who specifically seem to have it out for humans. But given what's happened to Leo, Mikey and Raph have to be extra cautious so they don't end up like their brothers.

Quarantining them seems the most logical approach, but actually managing to do so proves tricky!

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This started as random ideas from prompts during the latter half of Inktober 2024. It's mutated from there thanks to feedback loops with @colibrie .

Summary: Post-movie; an encounter in a questionable lab exposes Donnie to an experimental virus, and due to certain previous experiences with the Krang, it reacts in ways no one anticipates.

N A V I G A T I O N

Inktober 2024

Day 16 - 19, where it all starts

Day 20 - 26

Day 27 - 31

Story

"Just keep breathing. In and out. You're doing great." (Injury/Blood warning)

Accompanying images for above drabble request

Colibrie's story blurbs for Days 21-23 and 25

Ephemeral (Extended for Day 25)

Extras

1K+ DTiYS

On sensitivity (Ask Box)

Just a couple of fangy boys (sketches)

Family reactions (Ask Box)

Fang top illustration - full ver.

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Yo! I don’t mean to be weird….. but is this you??? I found it in the wild

... *cackle*

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I just want to say I absolutely adore your art style. Something about it makes me giddy. I’d love to take inspiration from it but I have no idea how to do that without straight up mimicking it.

Aw, thanks!! I never really set out to do any particular style, it just sort of happens. My media's been very ink-related for a while and I find it more comfortable to work with multiliners, fountain pens and ink than with colors or computer, I've finally found my home. •ᴗ•

It's been refreshingly different drawing turtles, even though it took a while to get used to their shapes! But they're such wonderfully different shapes. I've found it funny how I can see how other people have adopted their particular 'look' for their turtles when I'm drawing them, how very different a single line can make things.

I'd say to explore and experiment with what you want, make it work for you. Maybe it might seem like you're just copying things at first, but that's how we all learn in the first place, right? And then we find something that really sticks, and maybe in that focus, you find and make something new, something you.

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@colibrie 's Fang!AU prompt has spawned pictures so...

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F3 gives big Leo vibes

...his head keeps expanding when I'm not looking.

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More fountain pen sketches, different ink.