#donnie and mikey are geeky telepaths together

[brightlotusmoon]

I forgot about LGBT TMNT week. Oh, well. October is ADHD awareness month, and Mikey is the poster child.

Wait, it’s LBGT TMNT week? COOL. *cracks knuckles* Headcanon: gray-asexual aromantic Leo, panromantic demisexual Don, aromantic pansexual Raph, gray-asexual demiromantic April, pansexual genderfluid neurogender demiboy Mikey, trysexual panromantic Casey. Games of Twister are fun. It took me a while to figure Raph out. To me, he’s not a bubbling cauldron of hormones as much as a nervous pupper needing solace. A reader once asked why Gaia and Raph only had sex in the astral plane since Raph was so physical, and I said that that the point - Raph didn’t want to hurt anyone, no matter how much Gaia assured him about her fibromyalgia and cerebral palsy. In the spirit plane they can be as kinky and intense as they want. “Apriltello” always made me feel weird precisely because I always see April as on the ace spectrum when not paired with Casey. The reason she was with Casey was because Kevin and Peter didn’t want her with a turtle and the turtles were most likely asexual themselves. But that was Mirage, in the 1980s, and it’s the late 2010s now. 2003, 2012, and IDW have shown that Donatello had a small crush on her. In my stories I very specifically ignored that in favor of pure platonic squishes, but I know it at least used to be there. In the “Cold Fire Rising” sequels where I introduce my pansexual OC who has my disabilities, I involve Mike and Don in a polyamorous triad with her. Since she’s a telepathic neuropsychologist who is really fucking open about love, therapy sessions involve sex. For Raph and Leo, it’s astral plane only for Reasons. I know people don’t read “CFR 3: Lightning Crashes”, but it’s important to the AU, even with the “OC has sex with all four brothers plus Karai” thing. Besides, the award-winning “CFR 4: Crossfire” might be a little confusing without it. So much comfort sex. Ah, shit, that reminds me. “CFR 5: Mind Games” will finally have Mikey come out as autistic after Gaia and her sister Rhea blatantly point it out after Mike helps Donnie with a thing and Gaia’s like, “Guys, he’s autistic as fuck how did you not realize this? Oh right, isolation underground.” I know he (and Don) are aut in “Mikey The Lifegiver” and “The Sunshine Child” but if I’m going to give my OC my disabilities, well, blah blah blah. Fanfiction AU allows for many liberties. Also I surprised myself with how much attention I’ve been giving Donatello in my fics outside of his relationship with Mikey. Donnie’s the fandom darling so I have my reasons for being so extremely Mikey-centric. But Donnie is growing on me as a point of view character. That means he’s in trouble.

[brightlotusmoon]

I need a TMNT Michelangelo hug. I screwed up on some things now the overwhelming anxiety doesn't want me to fix it. I'm gonna write a small oneshot from my Mikey The Lifegiver AU with Raphael and Donatello struggling to work with the fallout powers that came with their new spiritual connections to Mikey, with Raph being empathic and volatile, Donnie translating energy into words and being too logical, Mikey trying to help and teach and overloading himself into epileptic seizures and autistic meltdowns, Leo and Splinter serving as anchors and guides.

...it could help me work past my guilt. Then I can write more of The Brightest Fire without guilt over describing 2003 Splinter's bizarre neglectful tough love treatment of Michelangelo after the first realizations that little Mike had psionics.

Plus I need an explanation for all those smacks to the head from his brothers in canon so I can use it in the fic.

The new psychologist wants to help me get to that Zen state where I can emotionally detach myself from my trauma when telling the story. Being abused, manipulated, gaslighted, tricked, betrayed, driven to suicidal thoughts, then watching the abusers spin it around and project onto me as being the harmful one to them has been a fascinating study in mindfuckery. My fiction would certainly reflect my psychological fascination.

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TORMENT! and Mikey.

When your two AU fic series in the same fandom basically have the exact same premise with small differences, but it really doesn’t matter because the characters are still different versions of themselves. What I’m tryin to say is: the latest story in “The Sunshine Child” and the first chapter of “The Brightest Fire” are coming from the same place, but it’s actually a nifty challenge to recall the differences between 2003 TMNT and 2012 TMNT so I can get the details right. I’ll need to do some research, maybe ask some 2k3 experts about episodes. Now that 2012 canon officially gave the green light to torture the cinnamon roll, I am going to run through the Break The Cutie and Iron Woobie tropes like there’s no tomorrow. Y’all are going to hate me. But someone has to keep the “Hurt Mikey” fics going, because there are so many “Hurt Donnie” fics out there. My two geeky neurodivergent turtle children are beloved so much that they need to be tormented. In relation to each other. Throw Leo into the mix emotionally, make him watch. Raph can comfort everyone, it’s his new job. Haa, ha ha. (PS, all the wikis and descriptons of Michelangelo mention that his 2003 incarnation is something that is never talked about in the show: “ Michelangelo is also appointed to be "the one with the brightest fire" or with the most potential by The Ancient One. Master Splinter also claims a few times that Michelangelo obtains the most "raw talent" of all the brothers. Although, both Master Splinter and The Ancient One, say because of Michelangelo's lack of focus and interest in training, he will probably never meet his full potential.” The 2012 animated comic released before the CGI show had Splinter talking about Mikey having the most raw potential, more natural talent than his brothers combined, lacking the focus and drive. So what if Mikey started really using that potential and talent? He would be terrifying and amazing. It’s a good thing he has such a good heart and a cheerful disposition, because if he was trying to deliberately hurt someone, it would be the most horrifying game of cat and mouse ever. I love fics and headcanons that portray him with that possibility.)

[brightlotusmoon]

TMNT MTL fanfic question

So, hey, while I'm writing "Children Of The Moon" with polyamory and sexualities and mental illness and physical disabilities and psychic powers getting passed around, is there anything I should write with the boys and Mikey's psionics linking them? Like, with the previous Raph story. Or a telepath thing with Donnie. Or Leo doing a remote viewing on his own without Mikey. I dunno. I mean, a lot of it has Shinigami and Renet arguing until they start getting along.

[brightlotusmoon]

Hey, fandom, let's do 03 vs 12 B Team comparisons!

So Iv'e realized there are allot of paralells between stuff that happens to the b teams of 2003 and 2012 tmnt. I don't remember them all but in total there's

Electrocution(03 Donnie,12 Donnie and Mikey)

Having your mind probed by aliens (03 Donnie and 12 Mikey)

Getting stuck in a wasteland and or just a horrible place in general (03 Donnie and 12 Mikey)

Gaining power over lightning(03 and 12 Mikey)

There might be a lot more between these two that i just can't remember or never saw(not counting the parallels of stuff Donnie and Mikey go through in their own iterations right now but those are important too). @brightlotusmoon has officially helped me fall down into the tmnt rabbit hole and I'll probably have tmnt stuff in influx for a while now.

[brightlotusmoon]

Autistic Michelangelo

Who else headcanons TMNT Mikey on the spectrum aka rainbow infinity knot of Autism?

I myself am actually autistic and ADHD and epileptic with fibromyalgia, which I gave to Mikey in my all my fanfiction AU series. I also have an autistic OC in the CFR AU, she is psionic Mikey's psionic loveperson and polyamorous and everyone is queer along the Asexual spectrum.

But I am curious about other fic writers, neurodivergent or not.

A lot of the fandom likes to make Donatello autistic (or Aspie, which got merged with autism). I say he and Mike display their Autistic traits in different ways. Donnie with hard science and medicine, Mikey with soft science and culture and a little medicine. He's totally Donnie's assistant as long as he focuses.

Mikey is much more intellectual, wise, insightful, spiritual, emotionally intelligent, and savvy than he is portrayed.

[brightlotusmoon]

Wait, it’s LGBT TMNT week? COOL.

*cracks knuckles*

Headcanon:

gray-asexual aromantic Leo, panromantic demisexual Don, aromantic pansexual Raph, gray-asexual demiromantic April, pansexual genderfluid neurogender demiboy Mikey, trysexual panromantic Casey. Games of Twister are fun.

It took me a while to figure Raph out. To me, he’s not a bubbling cauldron of hormones as much as a nervous pupper needing solace. A reader once asked why Gaia and Raph only had sex in the astral plane since Raph was so physical, and I said that that the point - Raph didn’t want to hurt anyone, no matter how much Gaia assured him about her fibromyalgia and cerebral palsy. In the spirit plane they can be as kinky and intense as they want.

“Apriltello” always made me feel weird precisely because I always see April as on the ace spectrum when not paired with Casey. The reason she was with Casey was because Kevin and Peter didn’t want her with a turtle and the turtles were most likely asexual themselves. But that was Mirage, in the 1980s, and it’s the late 2010s now. 2003, 2012, and IDW have shown that Donatello had a small crush on her. In my stories I very specifically ignored that in favor of pure platonic squishes, but I know it at least used to be there.

In the “Cold Fire Rising” sequels where I introduce my pansexual OC who has my disabilities, I involve Mike and Don in a polyamorous triad with her. Since she’s a telepathic neuropsychologist who is really fucking open about love, therapy sessions involve sex. For Raph and Leo, it’s astral plane only for Reasons. I know people don’t read “CFR 3: Lightning Crashes”, but it’s important to the AU, even with the “OC has sex with all four brothers plus Karai” thing.

Besides, the award-winning “CFR 4: Crossfire” might be a little confusing without it. So much comfort sex.

Ah, shit, that reminds me. “CFR 5: Mind Games” will finally have Mikey come out as autistic after Gaia and her sister Rhea blatantly point it out after Mike helps Donnie with a thing and Gaia’s like, “Guys, he’s autistic as fuck how did you not realize this? Oh right, isolation underground.” I know he (and Don) are aut in “Mikey The Lifegiver” and “The Sunshine Child” but if I’m going to give my OC my disabilities, well, blah blah blah. Fanfiction AU allows for many liberties.

Also I surprised myself with how much attention I’ve been giving Donatello in my fics outside of his relationship with Mikey. Donnie’s the fandom darling so I have my reasons for being so extremely Mikey-centric. But Donnie is growing on me as a point of view character. That means he’s in trouble.

[brightlotusmoon]

2022: I do not remember writing that massive essay.

I've also learned things since then that shifted my focus.

2k3 Michelangelo Appreciation Post aka Turtle Titan aka Battle Nexus Champion aka Baby Bro <3

I adore Mikey, and I’m so happy he got some shining moments in the 2003 series.  I liked that it appeared he was just playing the goof off and, when things got serious, he toughened up and proved himself to be a capable and versatile ninja.  I know he was kind of a little brat sometimes, but I think it was because, like he said himself, he’s able to “take it easy.”  I often think how Mikey would’ve turned out had the series continued its more serious tone, and I like to think we would’ve seen him become more like Mirage comics Mikey, utilizing his intelligence and creativity to the fullest.

[brightlotusmoon]

Donatello: "Turtle Cave"? That is so lame.

Michelangelo: What would you call our new digs? The Shell-ter?

Donatello: Uh...how about "The Sewer of Solitude"?

Michelangelo: "Terrapin Station"?

Donatello: "The School for Gifted Reptiles"?

Michelangelo: "The Hall of Nin-Justice"?

Splinter: Ahem. We will call this place...home.

Michelangelo: Hm, catchy.

-2003 TMNT S1E2 A Better Mousetrap

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It's a lair, boys, you live in a lair. You're lair-dwellers. Lairdwellers. Laird. Well, okay, then.

it’s so funny to me that the boys call their home “the lair.” alright my funky little superheroes, it’s time for bed

[brightlotusmoon]

2023, still queer but now with louder queerness

Donnie have you ever been on a sofa?

It’s like looking at that sofa sitting positions meme with the stock photos.

[brightlotusmoon]

Hi, 2023. There sure are a lot of autistic Mikey fans now. And Autistic Mikey fans.

Thanks, fandom.

Autistic Michelangelo

Who else headcanons TMNT Mikey on the spectrum aka rainbow infinity knot of Autism?

I myself am actually autistic and ADHD and epileptic with fibromyalgia, which I gave to Mikey in my all my fanfiction AU series. I also have an autistic OC in the CFR AU, she is psionic Mikey’s psionic loveperson and polyamorous and everyone is queer along the Asexual spectrum.

But I am curious about other fic writers, neurodivergent or not.

A lot of the fandom likes to make Donatello autistic (or Aspie, which got merged with autism). I say he and Mike display their Autistic traits in different ways. Donnie with hard science and medicine, Mikey with soft science and culture and a little medicine. He’s totally Donnie’s assistant as long as he focuses.

Mikey is much more intellectual, wise, insightful, spiritual, emotionally intelligent, and savvy than he is portrayed.

[brightlotusmoon]

It happened again.

This time, the headcanon and fanfic features Raph struggling with his new Empath powers all by himself while Mikey is in a Depression episode so Don suggests that Raph do Projective Empathy on Mikey and Leo has a doubting so of course Raph sees it as a challenge and then Mikey makes it into a real training challenge because he's empty and full of hollow pain and wants his brothers to have control without needing his help because he is tired. Mikey is their psionic sensei.

I want a psychic sensei.

PS, I have another alter named Oneira, guess what she helps me cope with.

I am still very postictal, ie post-seizure in epilepsy, so I might ramble and babble and stream of consciousness a lotly. Just pet my hair and purr at me. I’m okay. But my writerbrain is bursting with headcanon. (Mikey pulling Leo into the astral plane for a telepathic telekinetic flight). Aahh.

Wonderland in my brain shrinks and enlarges the world. My psychological coping mechanism headpeople named Alicia and Ariana will help take care of my fucked up head.

[brightlotusmoon]

Hi, Autism Month!

Wait, it’s LBGT TMNT week? COOL. *cracks knuckles* Headcanon: gray-asexual aromantic Leo, panromantic demisexual Don, aromantic pansexual Raph, gray-asexual demiromantic April, pansexual genderfluid neurogender demiboy Mikey, trysexual panromantic Casey. Games of Twister are fun. It took me a while to figure Raph out. To me, he’s not a bubbling cauldron of hormones as much as a nervous pupper needing solace. A reader once asked why Gaia and Raph only had sex in the astral plane since Raph was so physical, and I said that that the point - Raph didn’t want to hurt anyone, no matter how much Gaia assured him about her fibromyalgia and cerebral palsy. In the spirit plane they can be as kinky and intense as they want. “Apriltello” always made me feel weird precisely because I always see April as on the ace spectrum when not paired with Casey. The reason she was with Casey was because Kevin and Peter didn’t want her with a turtle and the turtles were most likely asexual themselves. But that was Mirage, in the 1980s, and it’s the late 2010s now. 2003, 2012, and IDW have shown that Donatello had a small crush on her. In my stories I very specifically ignored that in favor of pure platonic squishes, but I know it at least used to be there. In the “Cold Fire Rising” sequels where I introduce my pansexual OC who has my disabilities, I involve Mike and Don in a polyamorous triad with her. Since she’s a telepathic neuropsychologist who is really fucking open about love, therapy sessions involve sex. For Raph and Leo, it’s astral plane only for Reasons. I know people don’t read “CFR 3: Lightning Crashes”, but it’s important to the AU, even with the “OC has sex with all four brothers plus Karai” thing. Besides, the award-winning “CFR 4: Crossfire” might be a little confusing without it. So much comfort sex. Ah, shit, that reminds me. “CFR 5: Mind Games” will finally have Mikey come out as autistic after Gaia and her sister Rhea blatantly point it out after Mike helps Donnie with a thing and Gaia’s like, “Guys, he’s autistic as fuck how did you not realize this? Oh right, isolation underground.” I know he (and Don) are aut in “Mikey The Lifegiver” and “The Sunshine Child” but if I’m going to give my OC my disabilities, well, blah blah blah. Fanfiction AU allows for many liberties. Also I surprised myself with how much attention I’ve been giving Donatello in my fics outside of his relationship with Mikey. Donnie’s the fandom darling so I have my reasons for being so extremely Mikey-centric. But Donnie is growing on me as a point of view character. That means he’s in trouble.

[brightlotusmoon]

I just got a fascinating message about how Rise Donnie was nothing like the other Donnies because he lacked their inherent intrinsic kindness, and was in fact both a villain stereotype and a poor representation that allowed his writers to project far too much lofty techbro ideas. And I was asked if that meant Michelangelo was a better representation. And I can't answer that. I don't know how to answer that. Feels odd to even be thinking about it. But now that I am, it's hard to stop.

Autistic Michelangelo

Who else headcanons TMNT Mikey on the spectrum aka rainbow infinity knot of Autism?

I myself am actually autistic and ADHD and epileptic with fibromyalgia, which I gave to Mikey in my all my fanfiction AU series. I also have an autistic OC in the CFR AU, she is psionic Mikey’s psionic loveperson and polyamorous and everyone is queer along the Asexual spectrum.

But I am curious about other fic writers, neurodivergent or not.

A lot of the fandom likes to make Donatello autistic (or Aspie, which got merged with autism). I say he and Mike display their Autistic traits in different ways. Donnie with hard science and medicine, Mikey with soft science and culture and a little medicine. He’s totally Donnie’s assistant as long as he focuses.

Mikey is much more intellectual, wise, insightful, spiritual, emotionally intelligent, and savvy than he is portrayed.

[brightlotusmoon]

If the original post is from early 2018, that means it only took a year on Tumblr before I started nudging this headcanon into it.

Autistic Michelangelo

Who else headcanons TMNT Mikey on the spectrum aka rainbow infinity knot of Autism?

I myself am actually autistic and ADHD and epileptic with fibromyalgia, which I gave to Mikey in my all my fanfiction AU series. I also have an autistic OC in the CFR AU, she is psionic Mikey’s psionic loveperson and polyamorous and everyone is queer along the Asexual spectrum.

But I am curious about other fic writers, neurodivergent or not.

A lot of the fandom likes to make Donatello autistic (or Aspie, which got merged with autism). I say he and Mike display their Autistic traits in different ways. Donnie with hard science and medicine, Mikey with soft science and culture and a little medicine. He’s totally Donnie’s assistant as long as he focuses.

Mikey is much more intellectual, wise, insightful, spiritual, emotionally intelligent, and savvy than he is portrayed.

[brightlotusmoon]

Five years later: Yes, good job, 2017 Me, a passionate rant. Now give me back some of that creative god power so I can update what you started.

Wait, it’s LBGT TMNT week? COOL. *cracks knuckles* Headcanon: gray-asexual aromantic Leo, panromantic demisexual Don, aromantic pansexual Raph, gray-asexual demiromantic April, pansexual genderfluid neurogender demiboy Mikey, trysexual panromantic Casey. Games of Twister are fun. It took me a while to figure Raph out. To me, he’s not a bubbling cauldron of hormones as much as a nervous pupper needing solace. A reader once asked why Gaia and Raph only had sex in the astral plane since Raph was so physical, and I said that that the point - Raph didn’t want to hurt anyone, no matter how much Gaia assured him about her fibromyalgia and cerebral palsy. In the spirit plane they can be as kinky and intense as they want. “Apriltello” always made me feel weird precisely because I always see April as on the ace spectrum when not paired with Casey. The reason she was with Casey was because Kevin and Peter didn’t want her with a turtle and the turtles were most likely asexual themselves. But that was Mirage, in the 1980s, and it’s the late 2010s now. 2003, 2012, and IDW have shown that Donatello had a small crush on her. In my stories I very specifically ignored that in favor of pure platonic squishes, but I know it at least used to be there. In the “Cold Fire Rising” sequels where I introduce my pansexual OC who has my disabilities, I involve Mike and Don in a polyamorous triad with her. Since she’s a telepathic neuropsychologist who is really fucking open about love, therapy sessions involve sex. For Raph and Leo, it’s astral plane only for Reasons. I know people don’t read “CFR 3: Lightning Crashes”, but it’s important to the AU, even with the “OC has sex with all four brothers plus Karai” thing. Besides, the award-winning “CFR 4: Crossfire” might be a little confusing without it. So much comfort sex. Ah, shit, that reminds me. “CFR 5: Mind Games” will finally have Mikey come out as autistic after Gaia and her sister Rhea blatantly point it out after Mike helps Donnie with a thing and Gaia’s like, “Guys, he’s autistic as fuck how did you not realize this? Oh right, isolation underground.” I know he (and Don) are aut in “Mikey The Lifegiver” and “The Sunshine Child” but if I’m going to give my OC my disabilities, well, blah blah blah. Fanfiction AU allows for many liberties. Also I surprised myself with how much attention I’ve been giving Donatello in my fics outside of his relationship with Mikey. Donnie’s the fandom darling so I have my reasons for being so extremely Mikey-centric. But Donnie is growing on me as a point of view character. That means he’s in trouble.