#the other is splinter and that bug and that's just weird

[fabuloustrash05]

My Favorite Ship in Each Version of TMNT (so far):

TMNT 1987: Raphael x Mona Lisa

TMNT 2003: Leonardo x Usagi

TMNT 2012: Raphael x Mona Lisa

ROTTMNT: Donatello x Kendra

Mutant Mayhem: Leonardo x April

[griffinclaw7]

So one thing that’s been living rent-free in my head since I watched the episode „The ancient art of ninja hide and seek“ is this weird hotel room where the brothers have their final showdown of the episode, you know just showing off their newly acquired skills

You know this one.

And it just could have been that the creators thought „hey, let’s just use a random hotel room for this scene“ but the thing that’s been bugging me is that this doesn’t look like a randomly chosen room at all

It doesn’t even look like a regular hotel room

It is hidden behind a secret door and the turtles only get there by pure accident and as we can see in the background that other rooms have regular doors. Heck, this room is so well hidden that even Splinter can’t find the entrance even though he was standing right in front of it.

Another thing is how the room is furnished. It is very blatant that this room isn’t meant for guests to stay in. The entire room has been personalized, there are posters on the wall, we have a car bed and a surfboard, there are vinyl records scattered across the floor and the bed isn’t made. Overall it looks very much lived in.

What I noticed, that was also kind of weird is how accessible the rest of the hotel seems to be from this room as seen with how out of every corner Big Mama‘s goons pop out of more hidden doorways.

The only use I could see in this room is if it was the room of one of the employees because that seems like the only logical answer for this kind of room since who else would need this level of accessibility.

But there is still one more thing. In this episode all of the employees we see on screen are adults and I don’t think it’s the room of any of the goons we see in this episode. Why? Well because this room looks like it belongs to a teenager. The posters, the general messiness and choice in furnishings all don’t give off the vibe of the inhabitant being an adult and look more like how a teenager would decorate and upkeep their room.

My personal headcannon (and explanation) for this room is that this is the room of Big Mama‘s Assistant, you know the person who’s been confirmed to be the turtles missing sister. It would make sense for this to be her room since she’s the only character I can think of that would fit all of the criterias for this room, since A she is employed by Big Mama and it would make sense to keep her room as such separated from the guests rooms but still central to get around the hotel quickly. And B she would be the turtles age, between early and mid- teens, at this point in the story. If this is the case and the room is in fact belonging to the sister (Frida) it would also serve as a nice foreshadowing if the turtles kind of indirectly interacted with their sister before actually meeting her

[goddessofstories4]

𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦 // Ticci Toby x Reader fanfic

ˋ°•*⁀➷ You were left for dead in the Appalachian woods, but he saved you—Toby Rogers. Now, youre heading west, stealing food, escaping shadows in the night, and trying not to look behind you. Because something is following—and it’s getting closer.

Word count: 700

Prologue

Flies buzz around the opening of your half crushed juice box, sticky and warm where it was abandoned a few minutes ago. The straw is gone, and ants crawl in and out like they own the place.

You’re sitting in the treehouse—your tree house—even though no one ever told you it was yours. It just was. It’s crooked and leaning slightly, patched together with leftover nails and the kind of wood that splinters if you touch it wrong.

It’s hot enough outside to make the air shimmer, and the sun hangs low, orange and drowsy, catching in the branches like it’s too tired to set. Everything smells like dirt and mandarins and something burnt from a nearby grill.

You’ve got a book open in your lap—a story or a boy who becomes a god—but you’re not reading it. Just watching the leaves stir in the corner of the room. A twig snaps below, making you flinch slightly.

“Hey—uh—hey. You live here?” You peer over the edge to find the source of the voice. A boy stands halfway up the ladder, one leg dangling in the air. His t shirt is too big, his sneakers are caked in mud, and he looks like he’s either really excited or really nervous. Maybe both.

You don’t answer right away, and he hesitates. “Sorry. I didn’t, uh, I didn’t know it was like… someone’s spot. I can go.”

Your voice comes out small as you inch back to your original spot. “No, it’s okay.”

He climbs the rest of the way up, moving slowly like he half expects the entire thing to collapse beneath him. When he pulls himself onto the floorboards, he’s breathing hard, one hand still gripping the edge tightly.

“Thanks,” he says. “Didn’t wanna get yelled at or anything.” You shake your head and look at the pages in your lap. “No one yells up here.”

He smiles at that, crooked and real. “I’m Toby. Im nine.” He thinks for a moment. “Well, almost—I’m almost ten.”

You blink once. “My names Y/n. I’m eight.”

Toby’s eyes widen as he takes a seat beside you. “No way, you look like you’re seven, tops.” You frown at that. “No I don’t.”

“Okay, okay. Sorry,” he grins, holding up his band aid covered hands in defense. His head jerks to the side—once, twice. You watch him curiously, and he notices. “That’s my—uh—my thing. Happens sometimes.” You nod and push a container of peaches towards him. “Okay.”

Toby relaxes then, eagerly accepting the packaged fruit like it was a gift from God Himself. With a mouth full of peaches, he crawls over to the corner and sits cross legged, peering out the window at the fireflies blinking below.

“My sister says those bugs are magical, like fairies. She—she also says chocolate milk comes from brown cows, so…” he shrugs.

You pick at your loose shoelaces. “I used to catch them in jars. But I felt bad. Like I took the other bugs’s stars or something.” Toby laughs. Not loudly, more like a puff of air from his nose. “You’re weird.”

“So are you.”

He smiles again. “I guess that makes us even.”

The sun dips lower, painting the sky a deep purple. Toby points to the fireflies as more appear. “Hey—maybe they do look like little stars.” You hum in agreement. Neither of you say much after that. He kicks his feet while sifting through a card deck. You lean against the wall and watch him.

He doesn’t stay long. Just until the sky turns dark enough and he tells you “I gotta go before my mom freaks out.” The messy haired boy climbs back down and disappears into the trees, shoelaces coming undone with each step.

For a moment, everything is peaceful. Empty without his constant hum of chatter, but still the same—the sticky air, the fading light, and the chirping of cicadas. Then everything stops. With no warning, the silence is so sudden it makes your ears ring.

You sit up straighter when the porch light of your house flicks on. Maybe you’re imagining it, but the treehouse feels different now. The air is too still. You wait for the bugs to start again. They don’t.

ˋ°•*⁀➷

Authors note:

Hey guys! Sorry for the radio silence, things have been absolutely INSANE these past few weeks. But guess what... I GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL THIS WEEKEND WOO!!

Now, I'm going back to my roots with this summer project. This series will be rather short but I am SO excited as Creepypasta was the first fandom I was ever invested in. Toby has been my comfort character since day one, so I'm SO excited to begin this new story!

I will be posting chapter updates on here and on Wattpad (same username there)!

Please caress that like button and smash that reblog if you enjoy, any feedback or comments are super encouraging! Thank you all for your support I love you Xx

[torturedblue]

There are so many fun Disaster Twins parallels I caught the last time I binged Rise

I’m mainly going to start with lines before I get into some deeper stuff in part two, but as far as I’ve seen this pair seems to have the most parallels and I love it

Both the sillies have a line about sounding naturally sarcastic: “And I know everything I say sounds sarcastic, but I’m being completely genuine… This time.”

“Oh sure, let me just load my Tap Into Every Security Camera in New York app! I’m sorry if that sounded like sarcasm it wasn’t I am in.”

They both land on Warren in his first episode 😂

These sillies in Bug Busters:

Also LOOK at these guys in their matching cutesy pajamas

Donnie teasing his brothers and hitting them with the tennis balls all smug in Smart Lair feels very Leo of him

Leo being the naysayer of the group in The Gumbus and constantly insisting there has to be some kind of logical/scientific explanation is very Donnie of him

“There has to be a simple answer. Earthquake, magnets, giant prankster mice. There’s no such thing as ghosts!” “A model train. Simple answer.” “Aha! Right? The simple answer!”

Donnie has a funny line about Dragons (and their teeth) not existing, both these moments being ironic since discovering yokai, the Hidden City and the whole mystics world makes dragons and ghosts not just possible, but proven real

Their iconic weird showing-off-clothes poses in Purple Jacket and Late Fee

These lines:

“Can’t we get new brothers?!”

“We have to go back for our brothers! Or are you gonna replace them, too?!”

“Guh-ee…”

They are also the only two characters with lines mentioning they think Splinter would’ve been cooler specifically as a tiger 😂 While I love the Eric Bauza/Tigerclaw references to ‘12, otherwise the comments are rather random other than saying tigers are cooler than rats. It made me realize how much they really do think alike. “You’re just a rat, we need a tiger.” “Yeah sure you’re a rat and it probably would’ve been cooler if you were like a tiger or something.”

More similar lines when they both break the fourth wall: “One season later and I still have full battery!” “If this isn’t the poster shot, someone’s getting fired.”

Leo’s chosen last words: “With my last breath I told you sooooo!”

Donnie’s chosen last words: “At least I shall perish knowing I was the better brother.” (a lie)

I believe they’re also the only ones to call Splinter Papa whereas Raph and Mikey use ‘Pops’ more

And last but not least, their shared aversion to Staten Island

Bottom line, the rottmnt writers practically made their twinship canon without realizing it sooo it’s pretty much undeniable now 😊

[indieyuugure]

Hi there!

I have a question: what are the indie turtles’ biggest fears? And because? Is it because of a past experience or something like that?

I’m curious

Sure why not!

Well to start with their collective fears humans, needles, The Shredder, and a world with no pizza or videos games or TV (a true horror).

Most of their fears are spawned from Splinter trying to make sure his boys stay safe. You can’t explain to a 5 year old the true gravity of the situation they’re in. How do you explain that they live in a world where if they’re caught, their life is basically over in the most horrific way you can imagine? So Splinter ended up relying on fear to try to keep them from getting too friendly with the outside world.

Of course, childhood fears aren’t easily overcome, though in most cases their fears become more of a deep respect, like with humans, though some of their fears, however, have evolved beyond reason, but it’s also arguably the only thing keeping them alive, like the Shredder.

But for individuals fears, they mostly come about from unpleasant experiences.

Leo fears failure, though this is more of an insecurity than a fear, I feel like it counts. If you want the psychology on that just read this short comic, it does a better job explaining it than I could here 😅 He also dislikes snow/the cold as he has unpleasant memories associated with it.

Raphael hates bugs, he’s not really sure why but they just disgust him to an almost irrational degree, though the bug themed enemies they fight probably don’t help. He probably takes trauma the best of the brothers, but he can still be shaken. He fears failure similarly to Leo but more in a protective way than a responsibility way (if that made any sense,

Don starts out with probably the least number of fears of his brothers—being the most logical and rational of the four—however develops several trauma related fears including fear towards medical equipment, being alone, and restricted movement/tight spots.

Mikey is weird because somedays things bug him that won’t the next, however the most consistent fears of his are of getting lost/being alone(which stems from his lack of a sense of direction and knowledge that he didn’t pay attention) and loosing others, either in battle or can’t find them which is only exasperated over time.

I may end changing some of this, idk, my plans are ever evolving, but i’m currently happy with this.

Good question! :]

[deadlyflan]

4. mikey asks

4. What headcanons do you have?

2003!Mikey is as gross as he needs to be to annoy a brother. Michelangelo's A+, #1, All-Time GREATEST, brother-bothering tool? He had a skin mask. Which sounds super-ghoulish, but it was just his own shed skin. He must have been about 14 years old and his whole family—reptile members specifically—had been shedding their scaley skin a few times year since forever by then. Mikey knew how to deal with it: Don't Scratch It! Even though the old scales made your whole body feel too tight. Even though the old scales were super-rough and snagged on everything. Even though the old scales looked awful and milky. You weren't allowed to scratch. It could damage the new scales growing underneath. Then you're the worlds worst piece of flaky fried chicken AND you're bleeding. Scratching could also tear the dead skin—which left a horrible full-body dandruff trail for anyone or anything that was following thoughtlessly itchy mutant turtles. And even when you got home and everyone knew just how insane you felt from the itching and the pulling and squeezing and the rustling and CRUNCHING AS YOU SAT—you still weren't allowed to scratch because showering the sofa in your sweaty potato chip skin was TOO GROSS. Like Donnie hadn't repaired the vacuum cleaner. When Mikey hit his shed that season, Halloween was only a month away. And just about every family member had been on his shell to NOT SCRATCH. Leonardo had even managed to peel off his whole lower leg skin like a freaking shin guard. OOooOO. It was cool. It was really cool. But also, was that guy sleeping in a coffin or something? How'd he keep his whole leg from snagging on his blankets?! Impossible vampire brothers and their deathly sleep habits aside, Mikey had an idea. He was going to shed his entire head in one piece. He spent most of the month of September in the tub. Soak it off. If not in the tub, under mounds of lotion like a teen girl mudmask. Moisturize it off. At night, he wound a wet length of the softest fabric he could find around his head and slept in a shower cap. Sluff it off. Broad patches separated first. He looked like he had leprosy. Donatello thought his plan was hysterical and contributed vasoline and other ointments to keep the smaller, more difficult scales moist until they finally worked loose. Leonardo and Master Splinter clearly had concerns, but after Donnie reassured them that Mikey's health wasn't in danger, they largely resigned themselves to occasional aesthetic critic. Even still. It was the spirit of the thing and if Michelangelo was attempting a challenge, both of them supported him. Even if it was weird and off-putting. You can do it, Mikey! Just… do it over there, okay? Raphael, though. Raph HATED IT. Top to bottom. Beginning to end. Just viceral rejection. "Geezuz! You look you got cornflake skin! No. Sit over there. I don't eat next to zombies. Stay away you're gonna peel inta the popcorn." When larger parts of the face started separating from Michelangelo's mouth, it was worse. "NOPE. Sensei, I would spar with YOU before I let him get near me— LOOKIT HIM! He's like a bug comin' outta its skin! His eyes don't line up with his eyes! It's GROSS!! Nope! Just SCRUB IT OFF IN THE SHOWER LIKE A NORMAL TURTLE!" That year, not only did Michelangelo manage to shed his entire head in one piece before Halloween. (Donatello helped him cut it appropriately so he could take it off.) But he totally jump scared Raphael with the Dead Skin Mikey Mask a good 11 different times before the old lair caved in that next year and he lost it forever. (To Raph's great relief.)

[thunderberryz]

So, some more random yelling about Splintered Fate: Holy hell, do I love this game. Yes, it is basically a Hades clone and can be a bit buggy at times, but I have become so ridiculously invested in this version of the turtles that it's not even funny.

Outside the fun gameplay that, nonetheless, makes my poor right thumb and wrist sore (I use an off-brand controller for my Switch that ain't exactly the most ergonomic), I've been aggressively invested in the lore of the universe. Naturally, as a one-off video game, this particular universe isn't as developed as, say, literally any comic book or cartoon iteration, but there is still a BOATLOAD of lore to dig into and with some things left open-ended, it leaves a lot of room for fanon interpretation.

Now, at first glance, the universe takes the most inspiration from the IDW comics; this is made apparent through details such as Stockman being the mayor of New York City, as well as Angel being the superhero Nobody. That said, you can very clearly see a lot of inspiration taken from other iterations as well; the turtles' characterizations strongly remind me of their 1990s movie counterparts, and there are a lot of fun nods to the 2003 series. (The Foot clan's crest is the same as the one in that particular iteration, and both the Sword of Tengu and Heart of Tengu appear as equippable Artifacts.) There are probably other fun easter eggs/references as well, but I mean... I'm a fake TMNT fan lmao <- Still hasn't watched 1987, 2012, or Rise.

Some fun details that I've noticed:

In their selection descriptions, Leonardo is referred to as the "soul" of the family, Raphael as the "strength," Donatello as the "brains," and Michelangelo as the "heart."

As typical of Leonardos, Splintered Fate Leo was ambushed on the rooftops by the Foot at the beginning of the game. He was not, however, tossed through a window. He got sucked into a portal instead.

Michelangelo references the Ninja Rap in a potential dialogue when selecting him, which is really cute.

A lot of Donatello's battle dialogue makes it clear he's fond of classical literature and poetry.

Mentioned in a previous post, but this version of Raphael has acrophobia rather than a hated/fear of bugs like 2003 and 2012.

The turtles confirmed to be AC/DC fans thanks to posters hanging in the lair. (Or as it's referred to in-universe for copyright reasons, AB/CD)

They also own a SNES from the looks of it

Despite the universe being heavily based on IDW, Metalhead does not have the same origin as his comic counterpart; he is stated to have been created by Donatello from scrap. (In the comics, he was a creation of Harold Lilja, Donatello's online frenemy.)

Casey's design in the game leans pretty heavily towards his depiction in the 1990s movies where he was played by Elias Koteas.

The Turtle Power elements in this game are weird. Flame and Water? Pretty standard. Astral Light and Astral Dark? Okay. Ninja, Utrom, and Ooze... interesting.

One of the Dreamer Coin upgrades is a nice nod to the Pantheon.

The Sword of Tengu's description made me lose it; it's basically one big nod to the fact that the Shredder was an Utrom in the 2003 series. (Now, I don't think SF!Shredder is an Utrom, but if he were, it'd be hilarious.)

Some details that are left ambiguous

It's unclear whether this version of Splinter is Hamato Yoshi's pet rat or Hamato Yoshi himself. (There's no mention of the reincarnation plotline from IDW, so I doubt he's "Hamato Yoshi reincarnated as a rat.") Edit: Just got a dialogue that confirms this version of Splinter is indeed Hamato Yoshi. It's just a question of whether he follows IDW's plot of him being Hamato Yoshi reincarnated as a rat that was later mutated, or if he's simply Hamato Yoshi who was mutated into a rat.

It's also unknown whether the turtles directly mutated into teenagers as seen in some iterations or actually grew up from babies/toddlers into teenagers.

While Utrom appears as an "element of technology," the actual Utroms are not mentioned; as such, it is unknown whether they are a benevolent, peaceful species or a more warlike one.

Ooze is depicted in two forms; a purple-pink variant that manifests as a Turtle Power and is also used by Rocksteady as well as the Punk Frogs, and a green version that's depicted in the Broken Ooze Canister artifact. I'm inclined to believe that the green ooze is the one that actually mutated the turtles and Splinter, although it begs the question of what the purple ooze is.

Due to the absence of Harold Lilja, it's not indicated where Angel got the suit she uses when in her "Nobody" persona. (Dialogue would imply that Donatello did not build it.)

[daisychainsandbowties]

Lilith in N7 armor, though…

It may or may not surprise you to know that I actually have a whole mass effect au planned out in my head. I just…. Yeah. Ava Silva and the weight of the world on her shoulders. Ava Silva giving exclusive sponsorship to every single tech and weapons shop on the Citadel. Ava Silva with her aquarium and her pet hamster and a shadow longer than her life.

Ava Silva, waking up to fire in the sky above Mindoir. Ships blotting out the sky and the trees a smear of sound and heat and light outside her window. It’s enough to make them burst inward, waking her in time to save her life.

Boots in the hall of their little house and her mother running inside the room, pushing the dresser she made out of this planet up against the door they brought with them from the stars. Ava doesn’t know anything but this place – the grass crunchy in winter and the flowers in spring and the leaves in autumn and all the sunsets in summer.

Her mother has old scars on her hands and an old rifle she keeps under her bed and an old set of armour she wears now. It’s broken open across her chest and the gauntlets are cracked, falling onto the wood floor as she looks for Ava, finds her by the window in a halo of broken glass.

It’s weird, too see her smiling and bleeding at the same time.

There’s a second red heart on her chest, and when she speaks she leaves blood spatter on Ava’s forearms. Clutches at her so tightly that Ava is certain she could never let her go, but then she’s smoothing Ava’s hair off her face, tucking strands behind her ear.

She carries Ava to the window – she’s nine, too big for carrying and she squirms but her mother’s grip is iron. The grass is still wet from overnight rain, somehow, even backlit as they both are by fire. The shape of tall trees in her mother’s eyes which are just the same colour as hers. Brown like earth.

The door to Ava’s bedroom splinters and the last thing Ava hears as she’s pushed onto her back – out of sight and out of reach – is her mother telling her to run. This she knows how to do, running laps around the track at school while the other kids are still stretching out their legs. She knows how to do it alone in the woods around their house or down toward the lake, pretending to chase birds or her own shadow.

Ava, running and always, forever after this, running. Away from town, from home, with an old Alliance beacon in her hand, blinking like a red eye against her palm.

They’ll find you, she’d whispered, pressing it wet into Ava’s small hand, and they did.

When the Alliance come they find Ava. Just her. They ask her questions but all she can tell them about is fire, and sitting in the old cabin by the lake, underneath the floorboards with bugs the size of her hands crawling in the dirt around her. Staring at the beacon until she slept again. Woke again. Slept again.

Ten years later she’s on Akuze and everyone she trained with is dead around her. She’s fresh out of basic training and her armour belonged to someone else before her, ill-fitting at the shoulders and the hips. Her greaves rattle when she walks, and everyone teases her about it and then she’s running past pieces of them.

The creature responsible bleeds so much when it dies, and its insides burn where they touch Ava’s skin. When they find her, she’s carrying a fistful of dog tags, spends a week in a medi-gel bath regrowing a fifth of her skin. They recruit her straight into the N7 program, and some nights, sitting in various drop-ships eating expired ration bars, or gunning down mercs, she wonders if her mother would recognise her anymore. They were supposed to be farmers.

Then Eden Prime, the beacon and a Turian called Adriel who wants to bring about the end of the world. She meets an odd archaeologist on a lonely dig site and her name is Beatrice. A sniper on the Citadel called Shannon, who likes to wear blue. Their pilot, Mary, has a knack for pissing everyone off and a soft spot for Ava.

She sits in the mess late at night, when the ship’s circadian lights make everything dim and secret, drinking coffee with too much creamer and listening to Beatrice talk about the Protheans.

It's the wrong time to fall in love.

They win, eventually, and Ava is quietly side-lined for saying too much, too loudly about the Reapers, who want to come down from the sky and burn everything, like the slavers burned her home once upon a time.

And then she dies.

Her body, burned by the mouth of a planet upon re-entry, finds its way into the hands of a shadow organisation called Cerberus, who call her Lazarus and bring her back from the dead. She wakes up full of hairline fractures, her face trying to break open, bleeding red light like her once-small fingers, like running away again and waking up to flashlights, strange voices. Everything about life is circular.

She wakes in the hands of a girl with designer blood and bones not quite as handmade as Ava’s, but close. Her name is Lilith, and the first thing she tells Ava is that the galaxy hasn’t run out of ways to use her just yet.

[turtleblogatlast]

Wait come back those tags on your last post about mystic sickness I love those ideas!! :0 /lh /gen

Do you have more ideas? /nf

-☆star anon☆

OH BOY DO I HAVE IDEAS!

I bet the topic has been touched upon many times before, but I personally adore the idea of the boys getting some type of mystic sickness - either by catching some weird yokai bug or just from overusing their mystics to the point they get overloaded.

The following are just base ideas so anyone is free to say their own additions!

For Raph, I’d imagine he just makes a ton of copies of himself - but these copies aren’t fully developed, and range wildly in size. He doesn’t posses control over them as well, so they’re basically running wild all over the place (which is Not Good considering how strong they are.) Luckily they’re easily poofed, but another keeps taking the place of any that are dealt with.

For Donnie, I think literally any thought that crosses his mind manifests itself into reality. Like Raph, he can’t control what it is or what it’ll do, but unlike Raph his constructs are more often just space fillers - in that, the Lair gets very very crowded very very quickly. For the more active constructs he thinks up - basically he Kevin McCallister’s the Lair on accident, so pretty much everywhere he’s even near is automatically booby trapped.

For Mikey- poor Mikey is overwhelmed to the extreme. I see him as having the most innate mysticism, so it stands to reason that he’d be very affected by an illness like this. Portals to different timelines open in rapid succession all around him, he can’t make get his feet back to the ground due to continuously floating upward, and sooooo many burning gold chains cover the place. Luckily it’s not as painful or fatally dangerous as a focused sustained usage of his more powerful abilities is, but it’s still dangerous in its own right.

For Leo, like I mentioned in those tags, I love the idea of him simply being unable to exist in a single space for longer than like, a second. If the space exists, there’s a chance he shows up there. He’s just flitting in and out of space really. He finds it more annoying than anything, but it’s also terrifying! Especially considering the types of places he has the potential to show up in. (But yes he does end up in at least one person’s found footage by accident lol)

The others (Splinter, April, Draxum, etc) would absolutely be trying to wrangle the boys while this occurs.

[jadetheblueartist]

Were little sharks hard to feed? Like being able to feed them?

How did they meet april!?

-They weren’t too much trouble to get them to eat as they weren’t all that picky. The problem was getting the food they needed to actually eat. Though he was grossed out at first, Lou could eat mainly bugs if he needed so he didn’t have to worry too much at first. With the boys, their main food would be fish and other small sea creatures, along with anything else he found. They would be able to fish the sewers sometimes but a lot of the time Splinter would have to find fish other places by finding stuff in restaurant trash or sneaking into some parks to fish there. Whatever he could to get the boys what they needed really.

-She probably noticed some weird things around the manholes and then one day she (unbeknownst to her mother) chased one of them down and it left the manhole cover open. She followed it (“APRILLLLL O’NEIL”) and discovered their whole situation. She was a little weirded out at first so she ran back up, but she was curious. So she kept going down there to watch them until she was discovered and some mild hijinks ensue but they eventually become friends. It was probably around the time that Splinter got pretty depressed so he wasn’t really aware of this until one day he went out to see his boys and there was just another one hanging out hahaha

THANKS FOR THE ASK AGAIN DGSLALSHDLDGSKAGAJSVDJSKAGDJDJSLALDHDJSLDGGDHDK These asks get my creativity flowingggggg I love it

MASTERPOST

[raphmybeloved]

Mama

This is a little fic I made for @idiot-mushroom 's Teenage Turtle Ninja Mutants iteration. This is not canon to that iteration but I was just thinking a lot about shitty parents who suck at boundaries and the combination of oldest daughter syndrome and this was born.

TW there is no actual incest but Splinter makes an incredibly poor taste joke along those lines that's uncomfy to read

Raph doesn’t know when her brothers first start calling her mama. They mostly use it to tease her or complain that he’s a mother henning them. She thinks there may have been a time where it annoyed her but these days he likes it. 

As far as nicknames go it’s pretty solid and better than the normal dipshit and dickface that they tend to call each other. 

It doesn’t bother her. Until it does.

At first none of them put any thought into Leo entering the kitchen with a “hey mama what’s cooking?” It’s practically a guaranteed reaction from Leo when he sees Raph wearing an apron. It's normal.

They aren’t thinking about the fact that Splinter is in the room.

“Mama?” Splinters asks and Raph watches her siblings all freeze. This could go bad. Splinter's parenting is one of those things he’s sensitive about and there's always a chance he’ll have a reaction even to something as small as a nickname.

Splinter laughs and Raph knows it should be her cue to relax like her brothers are doing but she just can’t. She just has a feeling of dread that keeps her shoulders tense.

“Oh Mama, that is hilarious. Raphael is such a good mama after all. Always taking care of cooking and cleaning! It’s like he is my little wife ha!” 

Raph watches her brothers relieved awkward smiles transform into uncomfortable grimaces. He has no idea what his own face looks like or even how to fix it to an appropriate expression. Splinter seems to be immune to the clear discomfort that is drowning the rest of them as he continues laughing.

“Alright ‘mama’ I am going out,” Splinter says, patting Raph on the back before heading to the door. “Make sure to put the kids in bed.” 

The silence after he closes the door is suffocating until it isn’t. His brother’s are talking but Raph doesn’t really know what they are saying. Everything is a little too fuzzy to understand and it's hard for Raph to fully comprehend anything except this feeling of wrongness..

She feels weird. She feels gross. He can’t even quite pinpoint why but the feeling just consumes her. Eventually he must have shaken it off even if he can’t remember doing so because suddenly he’s in bed and everyones eaten and the lights are out.

She has no choice but to try to fall asleep and ignore the phantom feeling of bugs crawling all over her.

Like a lot of things they don’t talk about it. Her brother’s stop calling him mama as much and she tries to ignore the feeling of wanting to vomit whenever splinter says it.

She would have probably continued to never talk about it if it wasn’t for Casey Jones.

It's a fire escape night. A routine for just Raph and Casey to look out at the city, eat snacks, and shoot the shit. No siblings, no responsibilities, just a flimsy little platform that could give out any moment and two teens who don’t care. 

“So is something up?” Casey asks. The snack of the night is sunflower seeds and Casey seems determined to get as many shells into a flower pot on a balcony across the alley between apartment buildings and is mostly failing at his goal.

“What do ya mean?” Raph asks. She wishes she could join Casey in his quest but he eats her sunflower shells whole in a way that horrifies her friends and family and therefore has nothing to throw. Instead she picks at her nail beds.

“You’ve been weird, Mikey called you mama and you flinched. You’ve never done that before.” Casey says and not for the first time Raph is reminded that Casey is far more observant than he lets on.

“It’s nothin,” Raph mutters. 

“C’mon you know I don’t believe that.” Casey stops his sunflower seed mission and turns to look at her. There's something about the look Casey is giving him that Raph actually wants to tell him. 

“Splinter caught on to them calling me ‘mama’ and now he's started doing it,” Raph tries to keep her voice even as she stares out into the city but she can feel the bitterness sink in. “Pretty sure he can tell I don’t like it but he won’t stop.”

There's a moment of quiet before Casey lets out a hiss of air from his teeth.

“That sucks.” There's another moment before Casey lets out a small laugh.

“What’s so funny asshole?” Raph says glaring at the boy who is unfortunately her best friend

“Your dad is such an ass that he accidentally validated your gender. I mean obviously he’s being a dick but it’s just kind of funny that he is doing it in a way that uses feminine terms after trying to ignore your whole deal for so long.” Casey snorts, “What a fucking idiot.”

Raph looks at Casey. In a way he’s right. Splinter has brushed off any attempt Raph made to come out and now he’s using a feminine term. Sure it’s in a shitty way. At best it’s a crappy consolation prize and it doesn’t fix the weird gross feeling but-

Casey is trying. Raph shared an actual feeling and Casey isn’t mocking isn’t ignoring he’s trying to make her feel better. It’s.. nice. It helps Raph push away that gross feeling Splinter brings.

“Yeah,” she says. “What an idiot.” 

Things aren’t really better. Splinter is still an ass and Raph is still stuck in a situation where he just has to deal with it but when Casey smiles at him it's not hard to smile back.  

She at least has that.

[hassledvania]

Someone's been writing in my diary.

22nd Nov '98

Decided that my fair project is going to be about different types of mushrooms. Mushroom are Science right? To be honest, I don't know anything about them. I just know I've seen a bunch of different ones over in the woods by school. It'll be a pain to go looking by myself, so I convinced to come help. He told me he'll help me pick few if I take him to the cinema first. He wants to see this film about bugs. I'm a little old for it so I hope none of my mates see me, but I need to go into town anyway and pick up a mushroom book (or whatever they're called), so why not.

Mum's more into the fair than I am, I'd really not bothered. But the grief she'll give me outweighs the work it'll take. So as long as I look like I'm working hard and have something on the table it should be fine. Honestly the whole day sounds like a drag, but if I power through and get... I want to say 5 types will do? I'll have the rest of the week to myself to just chill.

23rd Nov '98

Okay so that was weird.

Couldn't find the book, film was fine. Got to the woods around early sunset when the sky is lovely; all red and orange. I instantly regretted taking, he was all hyper from the film and snacks. He kept quoting the jokes we had just seen and was running between the trees with a "sword" (big stick). So instead of speeding up the legwork, I was randomly picking up stuff I didn't know the name of by myself while babysitting a kid on a sugar high. I got some white ones with circle tops and some gross layered ones sticking to the tree while looked for one's "like in Mario". For what was meant to be an easy phone-in, it was quickly becoming a right pain in my arse. I was contemplating whether a display on what bark does would work when I heard call for me from across the woods.

I must have really taken my eyes off him because he'd managed to get pretty far away. There was this little alcove hidden behind a bush you have to crawl under. Don't know what he was doing in there, I got tagged by a bunch of thistles and an errant thorny twig took my glasses off. Still, it didn't take me long to realise why he called for me.

God, how do I even explain this.

It was a little taller than I am. It was all mushy and lumpy, but also kind of like this thick froth. It's colour was somewhere between grey and purple, with masses of black clouds swimming through it.

I almost feel like the English language is letting me down here, it's really hard to get across just how... wrong this thing was. The texture was smooth and had this... bright sheen to it? You ever see old sci fi films where they'd shine a light under the cell to make special effects? Yeah, that. But the weirdest thing was how it just... hung there. It was moving upwards. It squirmed and it's mass shifted and pushed. It was definitely climbing up from the ground. But at the same time, it wasn't moving. At all. It was like I was staring at an optical allusion. A physical impossibility physically in front of me.

asked if it was a type of mushroom, he thought he had done a good job finding it. I told him I didn't think so as I leaned in for a closer looked. You couldn't tell at first, but at around an inch away you could make out hundred of these little black... hairs? They reminded me of when you get a splinter, but cast over it's entire form.

I don't know. I got this instinctual, gut feeling about it. It was wrong somehow. I kept having to tell to stay back, that it had germs. God knows if it did, but the thought of touching it put a knot in my stomach. That was when I noticed as I moved, the little hairs were moving with me. If I shift left, they went left. If I shift right, they went right. Whatever it is, it's alive. Some kind of alive.

I kept moving, watching as the little hairs tracked every move. Tattling on me to their tumorous owner. I reached the other side and that's when it's shape clicked. It was kind of cylindrical, and its mass branched off into smaller tunnels. It was like this thing was clinging to a tree. To a tree that was not there.

You ever get caught trespassing? I have once, and that general vibe was coming over me. I took and we went home with two pockets of mushrooms.

24th Nov '98

I looked at my diary this morning and remembered the thing. Which was odd. I mean, we only saw it yesterday but it feels like a really old memory. I asked if he remembers finding a weird thing in the woods yesterday. He paused for a while struggling but then said he did. Maybe the experience just took it out of both of us.

When she got back from work we told Mum about what we saw. She didn't quite seem to get it at first, I don't think I did a great job at describing it. She kept saying it was some kind of fungus or mould. It felt like I kept managing to get her to understand how... strange this thing was. But then it was like her eyes reset, and she'd go back to saying it was just a strange vegetation. was no help either, he's at the age where anything she says it pure fact no matter what he's seen.

Asked her to borrow the camera to take a picture but she said we'll have to wait till the roll is finished before we get them developed. Screw it, told to just take 15 pictures of it. We're going back tomorrow.

25th Nov '98

26th Nov '98

Why'd we go back? Why the fuck did we go back?

It's my fault, I don't know when to just leave things alone. I wanted to prove it was real. I wanted her to listen but she wouldn't.

No it's my fault. It's my fault. It's my fault I brought. I thought he'd back me up.

and I went back to it. Scraped under the brush with the stickers and found it there waiting for us. I started taking pictures of every angle. I needed to show, to prove to her this thing wasn't right. I was taking pictures of the little hairs when I noticed something I hadn't before. This thing didn't smell of anything. Like, anything at all. I could still smell forest fine, but leaning in it was like I was pinching my nose shut. Not only that but even though it looked like it was moving and squirming, it didn't make any sound either. I got-

I was too focused on this that I

Oh God, I took my eyes off him. I wasn't watching him. I wasn't telling him to stay back. I heard say my name. I didn't even have a chance to reply. I barely had the chance to turn my head and see him get... taken. It was like he fell into it. Or maybe it was like he was sucked into it's folds. It was all so quick. I happened so quick. One second he was they, the next he was crumpled into it's pulsating sea.

I just froze. I don't know how long I stood there doing nothing. I did nothing. I tried to call out for him but the noise barely escaped my throat in a smothered whisper.

Then I ran. I just ran. I left him there. I was running as hard as I could, but it was like I was running in treacle. My brain was telling my legs to move but I was moving like I was in slow motion. I left him there. He sounded so worried when he said my name.

I got home and ran to Mum. I tried telling her what happened, that we needed the police or an ambulance or something. But she just stood there doing the washing up. She didn't even turn around. I said it again and still nothing. No reaction. I screamed at her to help and she finally looked at me. "Oh you're back." "Why are you so late? Been hanging out with your friends?" It was like my words were passing right through her. She was looking at me... but she wasn't looking at me.

I explained again. She smiled like I hate told a boring joke she wasn't paying attention to.

I kicked over a chair. I explained again. She smiled.

I pleaded with her. I got on my damn knees and begged her to go an help her other son.

She smiled.

"Who?"

I don't know what's happening. I don't know what is happening.

Today I tried to go back and find by myself. But somethings not right with me either. I walk to the woods. I crawl under the underbrush. Then I'm outside the woods. I know I crawl back out of the bush before reaching the other side. I know I calmly walk out of the woods and towards home. But I don't know why.

I've tried twenty goddamn times to get to that fucking alcove but I'm still here. And is still there.

I've got to calm down. I have to breath deeply. I called the police but they told me to have my Mum call to report any missing persons. I've tried so many times to talk to her. Until my throat is raw. She just smiles. Tells me that I know I'm an only child. That I've never mentioned the woods before.

I need to sleep. It feels wrong but I can't keep my eyes open any more. My body still feels stiff. Sluggish. I just need a couple of hours and I'll go back. I'm so, so sorry, I'll find you. I promise, I'll get you home. I just need to catch my breath.

27th Nov '98

Writing this in bed. My head feels weird. Not a headache, just kind of foggy. Mushy. Like a damp sponge. Keep falling asleep. Not dreaming.

I can't stop thinking about being out there. Somewhere. Is he hurt? In danger? Alone? Scared?

Mum says I'm just delirious and must have picked up a cold but I don't feel ill. More like... my batteries are low. I know I want to get out of bed but my body won't listen, it's a little scary. I keep crying and can barely wipe my face. I hope I need to feel better tomor

28th Nov '98

29th Nov '98

30th Nov '98

1st Dec '98

Over my cold, Mum says I can go back to school now. Shame, I probably could've made it to the weekend.

I think someone's trying to scare me. Found my old diary and the base of my bed - but it's got some weird entries in it?

Some kind of spooky story about some guy's brother. I think. One of my mate's must have used it. Probably thinks he's the next RL Stine.

Anyway, now I'm better I do need to decide on my project. The mushroom thing doesn't actually sound like a bad idea so I might just do that.

Will need a new disposable camera for the pics though, Mum's melted in the Sun somehow. Weird for the time of year. Maybe Global Warming? Or is it Climate Change? One of them. Honestly, who even knows what's going on out there.

[certifieduruihater]

really wish the 12 series didnt have raph bring out the splinter's favorite line. they were so close to not doing it. so close to not slapping that on as the reason for raph being raph.

but they did it. and it lowkey still doesnt make any sense? not once in the show were there ever any hints of this being an issue. not once was it ever hinted as something that bugged raph. i think this could have worked, but it needed to have some sort of precedent, and it didnt. this leaves the statement kind of feeling like it came out of left field.

i always got the impression that raph's anger came from other sources. like being cooped up with your brothers for 15 years and not being able to go outside for fear of being hunted down like an animal. no way to release pent up aggression. and when it comes to leo, the first few seasons made it seem like raph's anger was due to his perceived shift in power dynamics. for 15 years he was on equal footing with his brother, and in the span of a day, suddenly he's the leader? maybe raph always did feel some sort of rivalry towards his brother, maybe he was jealous of leo to some degree for his skills/some other reason like that, and these feelings were exacerbated when leo became the leader. but to say raph was actually always jealous of leo because "he was always splinter's favorite?" huh? where did that come from? when was this established? either way for it to work i feel like this should have been brought up before.

and you could chalk it up to raph perceiving leo to be splinter's favorite, and this not actually being the case, but i dont think the series ever explores raphs feelings any deeper than this so idk. and then once again, you'd probably have to establish this earlier if this were to be the case. season 4, which is basically the last season of the main story, should not be the first time we're hearing about this major aspect of raph's character. is it ever even mentioned again??

and honestly, i think slapping this on as the reason for raphs issues is kind of boring at this point. its been done before in so many other characters in other stories. boo. give me something else. youre telling me yall cant look any deeper into raphs character than this, that you have to give a surface level reason? it feels like a cop out to just blame splinter. but hey, if you guys really want someone to blame, SHREDDER IS RIGHT THERE. maybe if they didn't have to live in fear of getting killed their whole lives things would have been different.

i guess im also just bothered by this because now it gives fuel to the "abusive parent splinter" fans who have this weird agenda of completely rewriting splinter's character to be a terrible parent and then blaming all of the boys' issues on him

also, why muddy raph and leo's relationship even more? honestly to me their relationship already started getting muddier by season 2 due to weird writing decisions, but overall i really liked how they genuinely seemed to be good friends and have a close bond with each other. i got the vibe that they liked hanging out with each other in their spare time, and that most of the time they did get along (just look at the amount of times they're just casually hanging out in the background/sparring in their free time/in the same room). it's just that whenever an episode focuses on them, they tended have some sort of conflict due to the nature of an episode, i guess. but when you introduce this to their dynamic it just feels weird. like i guess having this added to their dynamic doesn't have to negate their friendship, but it adds another layer of complexity that the writers just didn't seem to be willing to face/deal with properly

[torturedblue]

Just thinking about how some of the mistakes that Raph makes when Leo advised him otherwise, he actually follows later…

Like in Bug Busters, Leo’s warning Raph and the guys of stranger danger over and over with Big Mama but he doesn’t listen

Then in Jupiter Jim Ahoy Raph’s the only one who isn’t blinded by his starstruckness and realizes how weird it is that Marcus Moncrief was inviting them to his house

Another example, in Many Unhappy Returns Raph’s extremely against Leo’s idea to split up to fight The Shredder and ask Big Mama for help (like bad mouthing Leo for multiple consecutive scenes against it)

But then in E-Turtle Sunrise of the Spotless Mind when Lou Jitsu is attacking them in Splinter’s mindscape, Raph has the idea to split up so the others can fight off Lou and he can find out the secret to defeating Shredder by himself

I think Leo and his leader skills might’ve been secretly rubbing off on Raph 🤔

[hood-ex]

How did you like mutant mayhem? who was your fav

Loved it!! I had SO much fun watching it!!

The turtles getting their groceries from shipping containers/trucks?? Brilliant! Love that take!

I was pressed when I read that Leo was going to have a crush on April, but I actually didn't mind it in this case. (Even though I 100% prefer for them to just be best friend's/family and would never want to see April with any of them). Like Leo being such a nerd made it work plus April didn't show any interest in him, so it didn't bug me like I thought it would. Now if they try to turn that into something in the future then we're gonna have a problem, but it being a one-sided thing that Leo will hopefully grow out of (quickly!) is fine.

Speaking of April, I LOVE this version of April, and I love how they switched up the reporter thing a bit with her being super anxious to be on air bc it made way for some character progression. I do tend to prefer her being quite a bit older than the turtles, but I feel like her being a teen like them works in this universe.

Also, I love it when Leo is characterized as a nerd who says cringey/nerdy things sometimes and they delivered on that beautifully here with his speeches. It's veryyy 2k12 Leo vibes. Fucking loved it. Especially loved it when Leo actually had an amazing rousing speech during the Superfly fight scene and then after Raph complimented him on it, Leo started geeking out about how cool he sounded LOL. Obsessed.

"GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO!" I started screaming when this started playing!! Secret of the Ooze reference let's gooo!

The milking... THE MILKING... the nipples and the milking!! Mikey and Raph got milked!! That running joke killed me. Also, since Mikey got milked first, I couldn't help but compare that to 2k3 when Bishop was going to use a saw to cut into Mikey's carapace while all the other bros had to watch. Althouuugh... ngl, I kinda wish Raph had gone a little more berserk over Mikey getting milked since he's so protective, but I understand they were trying to keep the mood light even though... it was... a torture scene... so uhhh... anyway.

"6 N' THE MORNIN' POLICE AT MY DOOR!!" 😂

"He's molly-whopping me!" LMFAO I was wheezing

All the bros singing BTS for Donnie's sake, and Donnie being like, "You guys don't even know the words..." HAAA

I love it in every iteration when Splinter gets involved to save his boys and this time was no different. Hell yeah feral rat dad!!

Mikey and Mondo Gecko, hell yes!! Bro, when the explosion rocked all the turtles and Mikey was disoriented?? The way his eyes looked after that?? Yeees!

THEIR SHELLS CRACKED 😱😱😱!! That "I'm gonna crack you like pistachios" joke killed me though

WHEN THE NEW YORKERS STARTED HELPING THEM TAKE DOWN SUPERFLY YESSSS LET'S GOOOO!!

Mikey or whoever telling Raph he needed therapy ALSKDJA

All the mutants living in the sewers with the turtles?? Full House vibes!! With Bebop and Rocksteady there idk kinda weird but I guess it works for this version of them.

I could not with their high school fits like 😭 April please take them shopping 😭

All in all, I thought it was super fun and I couldn't stop laughing the entire time. There was still kiiinda more of a Leo focus this time around, but it wasn't nearly as much as the Rise movie, so I'm glad it felt more balanced between each brother (and thank god we didn't have to sit through another Leo vs. Raph type of beef thing).

I think in terms of characterization, Leo was definitely characterized the best and felt IC. I feel like there could've been a bit more development for Donnie, Raph, and Mikey. Donnie had his anime/kpop thing, Raph had his love for violence, and then Mikey... there wasn't anything super defining about him other than maybe the fact that he signed up for the improv team try outs. But honestly, I'm not that mad at it because I'm sure they'll get more fleshed out in the TV show that's coming in the future. Now that they're attending school, I do kinda hope that Donnie takes some kinda robotics/woodworking/science classes because I'd love to see him develop the skills he's always depicted with.

As for my fav, I mean, it should be noted that Mikey is always my guy and that I'm usually going to focus on him the most in every scene, but other than him, I'd say Leo. I also really enjoyed April, Splinter, and Superfly though.

[beeceit]

I have a few..... Since Bitty chirps as well as talks does that mean Casey's gonna chirp a lot with him? Also how old is Casey? Is Casey Bitty's big brother or are they closer in age? Is Bitty more attached to Leonardo due to the fact that Leonardo helped him calm down first? What is Bitty's reaction to Donatello gonna be? Does Bitty sort of recognize the older turtles as looking like his brothers or no? How is Bitty going to react to Michaelangelo? Is Bitty's favorite place in Leonardo's scarf? Cause that seems really cute. Is Casey gonna be jealous of the attention Bitty is getting or is he too curious about Bitty to care? Has anyone told April and Cass about Bitty's arrival, and what do they have to say about the baby? How would Raphael react if Bitty cursed in front of him? Who would get blamed first for that?

Your baby has taken up a lot of my brain space and I can't stop thinking about how things are going to go with the future gang and I am terrified for the other babies that just got put in a horrible bad timeline because of this situation but I'm curious to see how this is gonna go.

❤️💜💙🧡

I'VE BEEN STARING AT THIS AND GRINNING ALL DAY AT WORK, YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW EXCITED I'VE BEEN TO ANSWER THIS!!!!

(this will get long lol)

Since Bitty chirps as well as talks does that mean Casey's gonna chirp a lot with him? Also how old is Casey? Is Casey Bitty's big brother or are they closer in age?

Casey will try his best! The uncles tease him for it, lovingly, but they think it's the most adorable thing in the world. Casey is currently 3, while Bitty is 1 and a half. He's gonna be SUCH a good big brother

Is Bitty more attached to Leonardo due to the fact that Leonardo helped him calm down first?

Leonardo seems the most familiar to him for reasons that he can't understand. He's also SUCH A DAD even if he won't admit it

What is Bitty's reaction to Donatello gonna be?

He's gonna be a little spooked at first, Donnie's poking and prodding doesn't exactly help, but he'll warm up to him pretty quick and as he gets older they will be very close. Right now Donnie wants to study him like a bug

Does Bitty sort of recognize the older turtles as looking like his brothers or no?

Nah, he's too little to be able to piece that together. They seem weirdly familiar to him, but the poor thing is only one and a half, his brain is literally not big enough for that

How is Bitty going to react to Michelangelo?

He LOVES Uncle Angelo! Mikey is very good with kids and plays a lot with Bitty. His hair is his second favorite place for a nap :) (it reminds him of Splinter's fur)

Is Bitty's favorite place in Leonardo's scarf? Cause that seems really cute.

It is :3 It's soft and warm and he can hear Uncle Nardo's heartbeat and breathing which is very comforting for him! Even more if he's singing or laughing or talking

Is Casey gonna be jealous of the attention Bitty is getting or is he too curious about Bitty to care?

Maybe for a day or two, but he's curious and having fun with Bitty so it's all good. He's also got his mom, his aunt, and his four uncles on top of whatever other adults are closest to the family, so he's definitely not being left alone or anything, there's more than enough people to pay attention to them both :)

Has anyone told April and Cass about Bitty's arrival, and what do they have to say about the baby?

They'll be finding out at the top of next chapter, before they announce it to the whole base. They're both kinda weirded out, April is especially worried for the family he left behind, but they absolutely adore him. Casey Sr is especially excited that Jr will have a friend and immediately considers Bitty her kid. They both take up Aunt status very quickly

How would Raphael react if Bitty cursed in front of him? Who would get blamed first for that?

He'd be absolutely scandalized and immediately search for the culprit. His immediate suspect is the twins and neither of them are getting away without a smack on the head! (It was Mikey's fault though <3)