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Mind swap drabbles my beloved (I’m hoping the color coding helps to figure out who is who)

Shorter post but we balling. Anyways my favorite headcanon is that the brothers say genuinely concerning shit sometimes and everyone but them registers that whatever they just said was, in fact, NOT a healthy mindset/normal experience. Raph does it the least out of the four, though, so his “moments” tend to be especially jarring

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We’ve finally made it! Welcome to the next official installment of Mutant Manhunt :)

It’s been literal years but BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

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Recent commission I finished a day or two ago :]

I need to draw Leo more often, he’s so neat

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I have so many random questions! Who's your favorite turtle or non-turtle character in Rottmnt? Any art/comic advice or tips? What are your future art/comic plans if that's okay to ask? Who's the hardest/easiest Rottmnt character to draw? Sorry Im just really excited! You're very talented and I love you're art/comics!

Hi hi! Sorry for leaving this ask in the void for so long but I shall answer >:)

Favorite turtle? I think this comes as no surprise:

Favorite NON-turtle? That’s a harder choice… Draxum and Splinter are great, and I think April and Cassandra are my top two, because I have a fun time writing both of them. BUT I think April wins out by a small margin!

My advice for art/comics can be summed up pretty easily: do not stress the details. For myself, I’ve found it really hard to stay consistent and work on any kind of art involving complex character designs, not to mention I get WAY too wrapped up in smaller details that nobody else is going to notice. This is mostly for artists like me who have a hard time with motivation: make the designs easy to replicate, and find a way to make the tedious parts fun! Line art is the thing I struggle with most, but by experimenting with styles and changing techniques, I’ve been able to make the tedious parts a little more enjoyable.

Future art/comics plans…. The biggest plan is to finish all of the random ideas I’ve posted, like the mind swap drabbles and baby Raph. Hopefully, I get to make more and stop disappearing for months on end? Since I’ve been forcing myself to worry less about quality and more about getting my ideas on paper, that should make it easier, but I don’t want to make any empty promises so. Take that with a grain of salt (._.’)

Hardest character to draw? Honestly it switches between these three.

Idk what it is about their head shapes, but man. Sometimes I just CANNOT get it right. This is also a symptom of me almost exclusively drawing Raph but that’s neither here nor there-

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Haii uh just wondering... Are you still makin separated raph au comics?...i loves those comics and it's ok if you don't..

I plan to! My attention has been torn between rottmnt and other fandoms in the past couple years, but Mutant Manhunt is still my pride and joy that I want to write out to its conclusion. Or, as close to a conclusion as I can get it, lol

I've been trying to simplify the AU designs to make the process easier, so there's a good chance I'll be posting more soon >:)

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Finally someone has a good joke with the rot in rottmnt! I'm following cuz thats funny and you seem cool too <3

HAHA thank you! I'm honestly surprised I haven't seen more instances of that joke being used, it felt like I was being unoriginal when I first came up with it

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as someone with a dissociative disorder, thank you for being so respectful around raph's did <:) you clearly did at least some research, which is far more than most of the fandom is willing to do.

Aaa tysm!! That's such a relief to hear :')

I'm going to keep researching and do my best to approach this part of his character as respectfully as possible, even if it's not going to come up very often. Because if there's one thing I don't like, it's slapping a disorder onto a character's information and calling it a day. Not to mention, it's been really interesting to look into how DID works!

I really hope I can do him justice now that I've officially committed to the headcanon, and people are more than welcome to hold me to that in case I get things wrong o7

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does your raph have did? :0

He does! It may not be canon, but there's so many implications toward ROTTMNT Raph having DID in the show that I adopted the headcanon for both regular Raph and MM! Raph :]

Rant/explanation under the cut because I've thought about this a lot

Though he may not be fully aware of it himself, Raph has coped with the chaos of his life so far by quite literally hiding away and allowing "Savage Raph," a child/protector alter, to take over and handle it for him. Savage is meant to reflect his time spent underneath New York as a tot, between the time Splinter lost him and the Mud Dogs find him. Back then, he acted more like a wild animal than a mutant: focusing solely on survival and not registering how horrible the situation actually was for a child to be in. Which, tbf, not many children can grasp that until they're older, but because these memories have been locked away, Raph doesn't even get the CHANCE to grasp it.

Like it said in the previous post, Savage is the one who handles almost all of the Battle Nexus fights as the Red Angel, which is... not great for his perception of how the world works. But that will be helped along by his brothers! Once they figure out who Savage, aka the "Red Angel" actually is, of course.

Interesting thing is, Raph doesn't fully understand who Savage is either. He just knows that he rarely remembers how his Nexus fights go down and chalks it up to being unimportant, because to him, there's just... no other explanation. Anything DID-related is normal to him-- the amnesia, the arguments in his own head, retreating into his mind, etc etc.

Hopefully that all made sense because I ammmm very tired. Lmao

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4:00 am post? You better believe it

Have a slightly updated Mutant Manhunt Raph design! Don’t worry, his Battle Nexus outfit hasn’t gone anywhere— I just wanted his plastron visible to figure out what scars to add. I would not dare get rid of his drip

Couple of fun facts under the cut

Compared to canon, MM! Raph is slightly smaller and skinnier for a couple of reasons. The biggest being lack of proper nutrition, second being that he’s constantly training and fighting. Being a Nexus Champion and being in your teen years is a bad combination. Because this isn’t just your average exercise, it’s full on gladiatorial fights you’re having to undergo nearly every day, MULTIPLE times a day. Mans is gonna be a little worn thin, let’s be real

Because of his upbringing (the Mud Dogs not having resources due to being, well. Hardened criminals.) Raph never gets braces! So his teeth are a little fucked up, but Big Mama has no intentions of fixing that. He looks MUCH scarier and monstrous with crooked, fang-like teeth, which is exactly what she wants. It’s also useful in fights, so Raph prefers his fangs… even if he’s busted his lip more times than he’d care to count.

If you noticed that scar on the back of his head, you can probably guess where that came from. Having such a sharp shell is both a blessing and a curse: it’s useful until you’ve been flung backwards and your head makes contact with a sharp edge. Ouch.

Because he has to fight so often in a deadly environment, Savage Raph is in control a LOT. He’s also referred to as Raph’s battle persona, the Red Angel. Nearly every fight, he has to take over just to protect Raph’s mental wellbeing. Because of this, Red Angel is more “developed,” in a sense? Which just means he’s not dormant all the time and actually has a chance to experience being in control. Only problem is, he’s only in control when these fights are going down. So it’s gonna be a major shock to his system once he’s on the outside. And you better believe I have a planned scenario where the younger brothers meet Savage/Red Angel

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Helloo :>

Just wanted to ask if you can give a small explanation about your Manhunt AU? (or a big one, your choice)

It looks really interesting and your art looks SO FREAKING GOOD!!

Two Raphs for ya (although the right one might be a common snapping turtle and not an alligator snapping turtle 🤔/

Aaaa ty!! I will take ANY AND EVERY OPPORTUNITY to talk about Mutant Manhunt so strap in

At its core, this is a separated Raph AU where he was raised by the Mud Dogs first, then taken by Big Mama to become a Battle Nexus Champion! The timeline is very shaky in a few places, but for the most part it stays the same as canon with the added side plot of Leo, Donnie, and Mikey trying to make contact with Raph.

It's a manhunt in several ways: The brothers trying to find and connect with their brother, Baron Draxum discovering one of his experiments is under a contract with Big Mama, and the Mud Dogs trying to break out of prison while also figuring out what happened to their old crew member. Then later on, Big Mama joins the manhunt once he's broken out of the Nexus-- she won't be too happy about losing one of her best fighters...

It's confusing at times, especially since this is meant to be happening at the same time as the show's actual plot, but I'm having fun making it all work :D

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Waves! hello hello :D

Just popping in to say that I've made a bunch of edits and updates to the pinned post! Not only are the extra comics now labeled under a respective tag, but we ALSO finally have a fully updated MM!au Masterpost >:]

I'll be gone for a bit to lock in for midterms so in the meantime, have a mikey doodle

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Random question- are you open to people dubbing your comics? I just read your latest update for Raph’s burnout, and I thought it would be fun to do!

!!! OMG

I love comic dubs, it's such an honor to see people actually want to voice over my own stuff so YES PLEASE

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Walks in... I am slowly. But surely. Considering posting fics here.

I talked a LOT about writing a Mutant Manhunt fic a while back, which is still happening btw! But I also have a shit ton of smaller one shots and blurbs that are wasting away in my google docs :( there's a couple having to do with post-movie recovery, plus some short drabbles around the mind swap au, AND stuff for the raph tot one I'm reviving. So I've got plenty to share that's for sure

I've never posted my writing before so it's a little terrifying to even consider, but if anyone is interested in that uhhhh. yeah! Sorry this isn't an art post it's like 6 in the morning and my brain won't turn off so here I am asking for opinions on this

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One portal home later:

Leo is way too tired to take this seriously. You know when you’re too mentally out of it to handle problems and can only laugh when something goes wrong? Yea

Continuation of this post >:)

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Back at the lair… what will they do

Short update I know :’) side note, don’t expect crazy detailed backgrounds because the movie lair is actually a nightmare to draw /hj

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burned a few braincells trying to figure out the subway lair 🧍‍♂️

some of the research with hasty notes as i, a country person, tried to essentially explain how subways work to my city friends (idk how subways work). anyway, i figured i'd share these in case there's someone out there who's just as crazy as i am! :]

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That’s probably fine.

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