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Do you ever think about Donnie and the Technodrome. Do you ever think about how in order to use it, he had to shed the very thing that had saved him from grievous injury or death time and again, to entrust his body at its most vulnerable to an invasive, completely alien construction. How the Krang’s machinery straddles the line between technological and organic, how Krang Three hardly needed to open his eyes to pilot the Technodrome and try to kill Donnie and Mikey, how deeply the connection between ship and pilot has to run for it to work at all. How the Technodrome reshaped itself to project Donnie’s face, while his body lay comatose in its inner chambers. How suddenly that connection was severed when Krang One discovered them. How Donnie might remember it. How he might still feel the cool, wet matter spreading up and around his soft shell, while his mind interlaces with technology that was not meant for his biology, remembering the sensation in his sleep. How he might miss it. How the whispers of the machine that might as well be alive come to him at night, lauding his abilities, his work with such primitive technology, haunting and yearning for a pilot back. Do you ever think about Donnie and the Technodrome.

I NEED TO KNOW!!!!

DOES BABY LEO CHIRP OR BABBLE?!?!?!?!

pls say yes

Protective lil guy lmao

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the baby

Could I make a drawing request for Draxum finding out about Raph's telepathy? I just really wanna see that expression in your style!

as requested by a few different people : )

Draxum's rethinking all his life choices while getting bullied by two of his kids. Raph's just a bit in shock. lol. I don't think he even notices Cass at the moment.

Thank you!

Turtle tot Disaster Twins :3

This is based off of real life events with me and my younger sister. She used to mumble a lot and I'd tell my parents what she said lol

So I figured it would be funny if I drew it with Leo and Donnie :>

Got any more ideas if Raph being a telepath?

Yep! i was just thinking i should probably do some sort of summery about his telepathy abilities so it's less vague and more solid. (if anyone has anything they want to add, feel free.)

soooo i'mma gonna put this under a 'read more' since...um...i may have went a little off the rails again. like 1.2k off the rails.

So yeah. Info dump under the break!

Like the twins, Raph has had these powers for his whole life. Unlike them he's actually aware he has them and just doesn't realize his brothers don't.

At the start, it's mostly just psychic bonds he shares with his brothers. Little strings of emotions that are always running in the background; if he focused on one of the bonds he can pick up on some vague thoughts. Unfortunately thoughts aren't the easiest to translate so he can really only understand the gist of what each sibling is thinking. (Like Mikey's thoughts are bright colors and pictures often too abstract for Raph to fully understand, Leo's were words but they scattered around so fast the ones he can pick up didn't always make sense together, and Donnie's were a seemingly random mix of images, numbers, and words that Raph had trouble understanding how they would relate let alone what Donnie was thinking of to make them do so.) But he learned each thought language enough to know when one of them had something wrong or if they needed him for something.

When he was little, he had a knack for knowing exactly what each of his siblings needed. Splinter couldn't get Mikey to eat dinner? Raph tells him Mikey has an upset stomach but will eat some chicken noodle soup if given to him. Donnie crying for seemingly no reason? Raph magically appears with some earmuffs explaining it's too loud for Donnie today. Leo's cranky and keeps snapping at his siblings? Raph somehow knows he didn't sleep a lot last night because of a nightmare and is already wrapping him in a hug intent not to let him go until he takes a nap.

Splinter asked him about it once and Raph simply said that "They tell me in my head." which a confused Splinter took as a toddler's way of saying 'he just knew.' Raph, on the other hand, took that whole conversation as 'oh it must be rude to talk about your siblings' thoughts like that' and, not wanting to be rude, never outwardly explains it again.

Later on when Splinter taught them about the Ninja Mind Meld, he thought that is what he's been doing this entire time.

fun fact! (that i just came up with)

Raph doesn't actually know how to legitimately mind meld the way Splinter tried to teach them. For this Mind Melds are just sharing a singular thought with one teammate. (ie battle plans.) All Raph does is tune into his bond and pickup on whatever thought his brother is trying to send him (which is a lot easier to understand b/c they actively want to be understood) and goes with it. None of his brothers have questioned why it's so much easier to 'mind meld' with Raph, or why Raph seems to pickup on the thought they want to send almost before they actually send it.

SO! Savage episodes!

Savage episodes, are when Raph's bonds go quiet too quickly for him to compensate/prepare. Those bonds strengthen and weaken by distance. So the combined stress of finding himself physically alone, the constant hum of his siblings suddenly disappearing, and his head going silent, sends him into a panicked savage Raph episode.

Sometimes his brothers can snap him out of it if they come back in range quick enough so Raph can hear them again. But the longer he's in a savage episode, the more he starts actively suppressing the silent bonds on instinct and his brothers will have to snap him out of the episode first before he reopens them.

AFTER NIMPO

After the Nimpo gets unlocked, Raph's powers get stronger to the point where he can hear his siblings thoughts all the time even if he's not trying. He has to start actively keeping the bonds partially suppressed just to get some semblance of quiet like he had before (basically the bond is stronger now so he's actively limiting it to only let through what it used to before.) He also finds that with the bonds so much stronger, the distance he can go without them going silent has drastically lengthened. He can be half way across the city hanging out with Cass (b/c Casey and Raph r bffs in every version. those are the facts.) and still know exactly what Mikey is making for dinner that night if he wanted to.

He can now also see further into their minds, even see their dreams (not that he does that often. I think he accidentally ended up in one of Leo's dreams turned visions once. He only actively tries to do it when Donnie ends up in that waking vision and they're trying to snap him out of it.)(OH! Wait! What if Raph's accidentally Dream hopping most night! like he goes to sleep and just keeps ending up in his brother's dreams! like sometimes he'll sleep and have his own but now a lot of the time he has to put up with the ridiculousness that is his brothers' dreams. (or simply coax them through nightmares from the inside.) I kinda like that.)

He now finds he can also tune into minds that aren't his brothers, not nearly to the extent he can with his siblings, but enough that he can pick up on surface thoughts and feelings. (but, again, the thought language barrier is a thing. it takes time to translate each person's way of thinking, time he doesn't really want to put into b/c it feels rude to invade their privacy like that. Cass is probably the only one he actually does so with b/c once she heard he can do that, she wouldn't stop bullying him to try it on her lol.)

He might be able to form new bonds like he has with his siblings but i'm not exactly sure about that. (maybe it's something he will grow into? again, idk.)

HOW THE POWER'S DISCOVERED

ok, so everyone else finds out about Raph's telepathy very casually. Like everyone (Draxum included) is there probably talking about the twins' visions. (this is post first waking visions so everyone knows about them by now.) And Leo says at one point that Raph's almost always there when he wakes up from a vision to give him a hug. to which Donnie states that Raph seems to always know when he's had one as well.

Raph just shrugs saying "Raph can't see your visions so if Raph can't see what you're seeing then Raph knows it's a vision."

Draxum asks him to elaborate. And Raph calls it 'mind meld' but it becomes increasingly clear that whatever Raph is describing is not ninja mind melding.

by then, Draxum is just beside himself. When he had created them, all he wanted was basic super soldiers. Instead he ended up with both seers, an OP mystic user that can bend the fabric of time to his whim, and an extremely powerful telepath.

if they had stayed at his side the earth would have been doomed.

no wonder he lost so damn much to these teens when he was their enemy.

Ok, so that turned out a lot longer than i thought it would. So yeah. Hope you enjoyed this info dump!

Thank yoU!

- brother, let me be your shelter

Better Genes pg 1-5 / 38

A short ROTTMNT comic based off of 2003 TMNT Good Genes

(Read right to left)

Note, this comic will contain in either imagery or text: illness, fever, injury, bruises, blood, IV, needles, syringes, drugs, sedatives, body aches, sprained ankle, mild mutation, cracked ribs, injured eye, tranquilizer gun, pharmacy, TV Medicine, TV Science

as well as

familial fluff, hurt/comfort, very minor drama/angst, personal adjustments to canon designs

Featured characters: Donnie, Mikey, Leo, Raph, April, Splinter, Casey

Pg 6-10

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Hey 8′D So the backstory for this is pretty much over in this post (contains spoilers). This’ll be a short comic, only 38 pages, ‘cause it was actually supposed to be shorter but my brain ran off on too many details |D

One thing I will mention though is that I almost completely skip the fight scene in this, so if you’re looking forward to that, my bad. I don’t want to draw a fight scene in a comic just yet, I’m still a noob at comics.

Also there’ll be no set update schedule. I’m a busy woman and also too much of a perfectionist XDD I also have a bad habit of working on the pages that are more interesting to me at the moment, even if they aren’t the next ones in order. But I’ll try to upload multiple pages at a time. I started this on Nov 1, 2022, and only have 14/38 pages “finished”, I am very slow, so be patient X’DDD

The gorgeous Tiresias animatic by @somerandomdudelmao rewired my brain and I couldn’t rest until I made this. What if— Mikey’s prophecies were delivered by the ninpo manifestations of his brothers? Wouldn’t that be jolly?

More doodles for my Separated AU

just a bit of the dynamic between donnie and mikey, as they do actually know eachother. it just kinda happens when your parents are both powerful and morally questionable yokai ig

mikey is absolutely ecstatic at the idea of having a brother, meanwhile donnie views mikey more like a kind of annoying younger cousin

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Doodle of something about Splinter and Draxum and their council archive heist for more information about seers?

They're just a very tired college student intern. They're literally just there for the school credits. They give no fucks. (i said i'd draw them again lol. This is why i usually don't spend a lot of time designing background characters. b/c i get attached too easily. BTW, their name is Morgan (They/them))

Thank you!

Do you guys ever do the thing where you flail your arms to ask for a hug

Because im suffering right now

Anxiety aint doing me no good i need a breather

WAIT HAPPY END OF THE YEAR!!!

raph:3

He may still be cold idk

May I plz have more apocalyps3 twin doodles???

May have went a little overboard, but its a baby CJ day : ). (Future seer donnie has little retractable view screens instead of a full goggle set. if he engages them on and off quickly it looks like wiggling antennas, which baby CJ is fascinated with. He also gets a long bandanna purely b/c i wanted CJ to be chewing on one of the tails lol)

Thank you!

If you ever want some more levity during the council kidnapping storyline consider a new intern mistaking an escaped Donnie hiding from the guards for another exhausted employ and giving him some coffee

I loved this far too much for words lol. So here

Donnie has made a friend : ) (one i might have to draw again b/c they turned out really freaking cute lol)

Thank you!

Baby turtles for a week sounds adorable! Do you have plans to doodle it?

Funny you should ask that b/c...

I drew this this afternooon lol : ) Poor Raphie is beside himself. They're just too small for him to handle lol.

Thank you!

“Don’t worry, I’ve taken blood…”

Eileen stop lying to make us feel better. We know based on your NPC fight that you don’t have blood vials.

I am once again making Bloodborne shitposts instead of thinking about my finals 

Leo likes to talk, it’s part of being the face man & his role as a strategist that can manipulate situations to be in his favour but because he likes to talk there are certain words that can act as tells for his behaviour 

“Spill the beans Leo! Every time you say ‘indubitably’ I know you’re up to something”

In Bug Busters we learn that Leo says ‘indubitably’ when he’s trying to hide something but Leo also has another word that’s indicative to his true mood.

Ninjocity.

There are two prominent times where Leo uses the word Ninjocity.

Donnie: I don’t know how much longer we can keep this up, he’s crushing us!

Leo: Really? ‘Cause I thought my overall ninjocity was totally working

Raph: So what if I say he- that word a lot. It’s a good word. We need to be that word.

Leo: Relax Raph. We’ve got this hero thing wired. I mean, our ninjocity is off the charts

The two times Leo uses the word Ninjocity is in Many Unhappy Returns when he’s fighting the Shredder & at the start of the Movie.

Leo likes to make jokes when he’s stressed he admits to it in the very first episode saying it’s ‘how he copes’ & people have discussed that the reason Leo is making so many jokes at the start of the movie might be because he’s stressed about the idea of having just been made leader & is trying to make Raph take the role back. 

Leo using the word ‘ninjocity’ at the start of the movie is just proof of how stressed he was at the idea of being leader because the only other time he ever really uses that word is when his family is fighting a beast-like Shredder for the first time.

When people think of Leo in the episode Many Unhappy Returns they mostly think about how he was able to outmanoeuvre Big Mamma & how he knew his families strengths so well he was able to state exactly how they were able to hold off the Shredder while he & Splinter were at the Battle Nexus, but Leo’s attitude at the start of Many Unhappy Returns is perhaps the closest he’s ever acted in the show to how he acts at the start of the movie.

Meaning that at the start of Many Unhappy Returns his humour is cranked up to 11 & it appears like he isn’t taking anything seriously.

Leo: Thanks for doing the dirty work for us big up Shreddy!

Splinter: Not now Blue!

Leo: What? I thought a nickname might give us a nice repport.

Leo: One & Oh baby!

Leo: Going to need to make a two & Oh T-Shirt after this!

Leo: Oh Cheater! Don’t think we’re letting you keep those!

Raph: This is serious stuff Leo! Would you shore up our right flank already!

Leo: What? Mid-battle banter’s my thing like how your’s is saying words like flank

Leo likes to make quips in battle but the only times, he makes joke after joke, are the start of the movie & the start of the episode Many Unhappy Return or to put in other words the time he was trying to get out of being leader & the time his family was fighting Shredder for the first time.

People seem to think Leo had every thing under control the entirety Many Unhappy Returns because of how expertly he outmanoeuvred Big Mamma but he was only able to think of a plan involving Big Mamma /after/ Splinter suggested going to her. Before that he spends the start of the episode making joke after joke but whenever his families attention is off him

He’s terrified.

The fact that Leo’s actions at the start of the movie & the start of the episode Many Unhappy Returns are comparable means that the idea of being leader was as terrifying to Leo as fighting a beast-like Shredder.

And this is further evidenced by them being the only two real times Leo uses the word ‘ninjocity’, if Leo is stressed & scared he’s making joke after joke, appearing to not take anything seriously & the word ‘ninjocity’ makes an appearance in his vocabulary.

Leo likes to talk to try & distract others from his true feelings & intentions but he has tells.

If he says ‘indubitably’, he’s trying to hide something. If he says ‘ninjocity’ he’s stressed out & scared & is one bad event away from a panic attack.

Can we get art of 03 Raph finding Donnie and immediately rushing the kid to Don for medical help because A bloody cuts from hobb, B he think the soft shell has something wrong with it.

Yes! and i'll even go into a little more about it since it's pretty neat (and definitely different than standard adopted au). Ok, i went a little overboard but here!

Poor Raphie. He just went from panicked b/c the baby is hurt, to panicked that he's hurt and permanently vulnerable.

Ok, so when Donnie escaped Hob, the cat tried to grab him again, but ended up just catching his arm and shell with his claws, leaving cuts. Donnie saw some water and immediately jumped into it, letting the sewer system take him away (he's an aquatic turtle so being in the water wasn't a danger to him, other than it was dirty water and he had open wounds.)

When Raphie finds him, he almost misses the fact he's there, simply b/c he blends into the water really well and only had his head sticking out. He realizes it's a small turtle but when he tries to get near him, Donnie hisses and even tries to bite him (he's scared b/c of hob and thinks that this new mutant wants to eat him too.) So Raphie, not wanting to get bit or upset the kid anymore than he seems to be, just sits down and tries to talk him out of the water. It doesn't work. Donnie understands what he's saying but doesn't trust it at the moment. No he'd rather stay safe hidden in the water, thank you very much.

Eventually Hob appears and Raphie, realizing this dude is what probably spooked the kid, chases him off. Donnie sees this and is like "ok, maybe he won't eat me." But Donnie hasn't started talking yet (he just didn't want to and now he's somewhere else and really doesn't want to) but he does make turtle sounds his brothers knew. So he curiously chirps at Raphie, figuring if he chirps back then he's safe since he's only had his brothers chirp back to him before. When Raphie doesn't do it immediately, he gets frustrated and thinks he's wrong. But then he does, a cautious, embarrassed chirp (b/c Raphie hasn't chirped since he was five and decided he was too old for it) and Donnie decides he must be safe and goes to him.

cue Raphie going into panic mode b/c holy shit, this kid has open wounds and he's been sitting in sewer water for who knows how long, and why is his shell so soft, something must be wrong!

thank you! This was really fun to do!

“i’m the biggest, i gotta keep em safe” “you’re only 17”

yea idk future leo meeting post movie raph and truly realizing how young he really is to have done so much and realizing how brave his own raph must’ve been

the projection raph on its own bc i like it

also tcest dni this is purely familial

Just a SHIT TON of leo and future leo because they are so dear to me oh my god i love them so much

be lucky i spared the angst i could fucked shit UPPP with them-

A hunter should hunt beasts. Leave the hunting of hunters to me...

There is an emerging rumour which is becoming quote popular that what happened all thoes years ago was that someone with a big grudge against Big Mama paid a witch to place a curse on the boys to make them "disappear". The witch did not have the heart to do that and instead turned them into turtles so that they wouldn't be recognised and left them outside the hidden city to be adopted by a lone kind rat-yokai.

I hope you have had a nice new years and enjoyed this lightly fairy tale inspired rumour mill update

That yokai rumor mill is just too wholesome for it's own good lol. I love it!

thank you! and i hope you had a good new years as well : )

Sunita absolutely keeps April up to date on the latest rumours surrounding the turtles and co,

this weeks one being;

 CJ looks human because he inherited the jorogumo shapeshifting ability and the poor boy's obviously just not used to being in a yokai safe environment.

Lol i love that! I imagine the yokai that end up believing that try to be exceptionally nice to CJ, in hopes he starts feeling comfortable enough to shift out of his disguise. CJ is just super confused that week when like five different shopkeepers hand him free stuff and April's laughing more and more as they go.

Thank you!