#and they recognised eachother as being ready for a fight and misinterpereted it as aggression

[fawkesthefox]

OK IM GONNA RAMBLE A BIT HFKDS (under cut cause I don't want to clog up anyones dash too much)

The basis for the oc's is that they're other mutants from Draxums lab. The story is that the place Draxum actually got the turtles from was a reptile seller, and he also grabbed a bunch of other animals to do experiments, though his main focus was turtles for their armored shells so they're the ones that went through the main experiment with Liu Jitsu.

These are Mary(left) and Shelley(right) Mary is a red footed tortoise and Shelley is an indian star tortoise.

They were both unmutated when Draxum brought Liu Jitsu in, positioned near the turtles. They weren't mutated with them because Draxum was set on turtles and he only had the four slots anyways, but the proximity meant that they were splashed with the goo that mutated the turtles and they are mutated with Liu Jitsus DNA as well. In the chaos of the lab they cling to whatever they can grab to feel safe, including eachother and another fleeing mutant which heads for the surface. After being able to calm down it shakes the babies off of it and disappears, they're found by a nurse as the woman is walking home, she doesn't really understand what she's seeing but she gets that they're defenseless and cold so she brings them home and raises them.

They barely manage to remain secret over the years that they grow, and that difficulty only grows when mutants become more commonplace and its more difficult to say that its impossible for there to be a big bipedal tortoise in your apartment building. They just lay low for a while, hating being cooped up but not seeing a better option as they don't want to scare anyone. Then they see the turtles in the news, people don't realise that they're trying to help, but the girls get that that's what they're trying to do. Mary gets the idea to try and do something similar, going out when there are attacks and disasters and rescuing people and providing medical care they've learned from their mom. After doing so for a bit, with their plague-doctor-esque masks to protect them from breathing in dust/gas or getting anything in their eyes (plus a bit of a disguise as a lot of people don't realise that they're not just people in strange costumes, which helps when you're trying to help someone afraid of mutants), they started being seen as heroes as plenty of people told stories about being helped by them. They were nicknamed the "turtledoves" as they have shells and birdlike masks.

On the other side of things! This is Plato(Play/Clay idk its hard to shorten a 5 letter name), Aristotle(Ari), and Socratese(Sock) Plato is a green iguana, Ari is a burmese python, and Sock is a satanic leaf tailed gecko (sick as fuck, I know)

These three were experiments with mutating animals with human DNA (taken from the pet seller they were stolen from) before Draxum tried anything on the turtles. They had just a bit of time to grow and process what was going on around them before Draxum found Liu Jitsu, so they eagerly took the chance to escape when the opportunity presented itself. They took a different path out of the lab and ended up in the underground city, luckily they didn't have to fend for themselves for too long as they were found by a kitsune who took them in and taught them. They live relatively normal lives compared to the turtles and tortoises as they don't have to stay in hiding (they still get some strange looks from yokai as they're not any identifiable species, Ari kinda looks like a naga but even Xe doesn't really get a pass) (I don't have as much story for them kdhf but they're all blorbo from my mind ok they're beloved)

i am very observant so i hope you’ll forgive if this is a silly question but fawkes do u like rise tmnt? if so who is your favorite turtle

I do!! I kinda got a obsessed with it fairly recently fjd

I'd say either Donnie or Mikey are my favorite. Donnie cause me autism he autism. Mikey cause he's so charming and goofy but he barely gets any expansion on his character beyond "little sibling not allowed to do stuff!" and the Dr Delicate Touch/Dr Feelings bit (The latter is more to help the others instead of being about Mikey anyways :\\)

I've also come up with a few oc's but I haven't really had anyone to talk about them with so they've jsut been rotating in my mind for a while