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We on the same page of OC × Donnie! May you talk about your OC? I'm genuinely so curious!

Oh my God. Somebody wants to know about my OC??!

Okay, okay, this is not a drill, everybody calm down.

*Puts on yapping glasses*

Oh my gosh, this ask was perfectly timed. What better way to spend Valentine's day in Brazil than talking about my cute idiots?

Let me tell you about Maxine Santos— the girl who almost lost everything to the Kraang, but also found so much because of it.

Maxine is Brazilian-American. She was born in the USA, but when she was around 8 years old, she moved to Brazil with her family. After a nasty divorce at 17, she moved back to New York with her dad.

It took her a long time, but she was getting used to her new life in New York. She bonded with her cousin Markus, made a couple of friends, but unfortunately they all ended up at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Maxine and her friends went to what was supposed to be an abandoned building for some fun underage drinking, but what they didn’t know is that the building was actually a Kraang warehouse, and all of Maxine's friends, including her cousin, ended up either being kidnapped by the Kraang, or horribly mutated in front of her that day.

Due to Markus' sacrifice, Max was the only one who managed to escape.

Traumatized and shaken, Maxine tried all of the "correct" routes to find out what happened— she told her father, she told the police, her family even tried a private investigator, everybody turned up with no leads. It seemed as if her friend's had just disappeared, and no one believed in the tale of the girl who claimed they were turned into monsters and taken by brain creatures inside robot bodies.

Her dad nearly had her institutionalized before she went completely silent.

But—BUT MAXINE SANTOS DOES NOT GIVE WITHOUT A FIGHT.

She went back to the warehouse and found some clues that pointed to the kraang— empthy mutagen containers, broken blasters— and launched her own investigation against the Kraang.

Eventually, she met Chloe and Nathan, two kids from the journalism club investigating some strange disappearances at their high school. Maxine becomes a leader of sorts for her new group, and they burn down Kraang warehouse and sabotage Kraang labs, all while trying to find the missing people and saving evidence to create an exposed on the Kraang.

Maxine's story is a really big metaphor for when life just springs a bunch of responsibility onto you when you aren't ready for it, all while other's depend on you, but everything keeps going wrong no matter what you do. So even though things seem like they're going well for Max at tgat point, it doesn't stay like that.

Eventually, this new group of hers also turns into a tragedy, Maxine was obsessed with finding answers and destroying the Kraang. One day, when Maxine gets really hurt after a mission, her friends want to call it quits, but she pushes them to go on one last big mission against the Kraang, which they agree to— but it goes south.

Nathan gets horribly mutated and goes insane, he blames Maxine and tries to kill her, but the hit lands on Chloe instead, who was trying to break up the fight.

Maxine manages to escape with her life, but with Chloe gone, and Nathan missing, the last part of her that held out some hope that things would be alright just breaks.

Yeah...

So Max becomes even more intent on destroying the Kraang, even if it kills her. She becomes a loner. She pushes away her family, her remaining friends, even her —honestly shitty— boyfriend and shuts herself out because Max believes she is the only one who can continue to fight the Kraang, and if anybody finds out about it they'll just get hurt— and she can't keep risking that, not anymore.

She breaks into laboratories, she sabotages resource deliveries, she steals valuable tech from their warehouses for months. She tries to find a "cure" for the mutagen on her own, makes her own custom weapons, and strategies to take down the Kraang, believing that she is alone in her fight against the aliens who want to take over the world from the shadows. But— a couple of months into her loner vigiliante schtick, she starts to run into 4 human sized turtles with ninja weapons.

It.... doesn’t really go very well at first.

They keep showing up to her stake out spots. They keep alerting the Kraang during her stealth missions. They keep messing things up just as she's about to have a flawless getaway.

Maxine thinks they’re loud, noisy, and constantly getting in her way. She didn't understand what their deal was— but she thought it was best to stay away, least the Nathan incident repeat itself.

The turtles thought she was reckless, untrustworthy, and a potential threat. All they knew was that this random vigilante stole Kraang tech, never cooperated, and could be working for someone dangerous.

One day, Maxine and April—although neither know of the other's double life at this point— are working on a science project for their high-school class. They're not friends, just got randomly paired up by the teacher after nobody wanted to choose Max as their lab partner. The project is supposed to be about catching radio signals, but they accidentally catch a Kraang distress signal instead.

Maxine immediately recognizes it and runs off without telling April anything. A confused April goes down to the lair, when she explains the whole thing and turns on their science project, the Kraang orb in Donnie's lab starts to play a distress signal, which he traces to an underground Lab in the bronx.

So the turtles go check out this lab, and apparently, it's been abandoned because it was overtaken by this mutant plant growth. They run into Maxine, who is annoyed that they are there, and now even more annoyed that they know her secret identity. The turtles are annoyed at Maxine and suspicious of the teenage girl who's in a Kraang lab during a school night, but they come to a common understanding that they need to work together to solve this issue.

Mutant shenanigans happen, and Donatello and Maxine are cut off from the other three, and they have to work together to destroy the mutant plant. They have some sarcastic banter and immediately realize that they're on the same side after talking some more. Maxine reveals that in one of her earlier encounters with the turtles where she stole some Kraang briefcase, she had actually stolen a bunch of samples of mutated subjects from the Kraang, and after testing her own failed batch of retromutagen on it, it killed the mutant plant instantly, and she plans to use it to solve their current predicament.

They go to the heart of the mutant plant thing in the core of the lab, they try to use the failed retromutagen to take it down, but it goes wrong, yadda yadda, a bunch of cool action stuff happens, Donatello thinks it's the end when his brothers possessed by plants are about to rip him to turtle pieces— BUT THEN Maxine comes out of the debris, battered and bloodied, holding what seems to be some kind of laser cannon that was abandoned in some part of the lab in her shoulder.

Despite her injuries, she jumps into the core of the mutant plant, makes it eat hot laser, and kills the vines, saving New York in a plan that Donatello could only think someone like Raph could ever come up with. For some miracle, she didn't die lol, just got another concusion.

Donnie helps her out of the mess of dead vines, and she helps him take his now unconscious brothers to the shellraiser but rejects Donnie's insistence on letting him fix her up. Before she leaves, however, she gives him her phone number.

She winks at him and tells Donnie to call her if he ever wants to kick Kraang butt again.

After the lab incident Donatello convinces the others to trust Maxine, and convinces Maxine to trust them past just going on missions, which is when they form a sorta awkward friendship, to best friends, to Maxine getting a crush on Donatello, to Donnie getting a crush on Maxine, and then they started dating, because I'm a sucker for best friends to lovers.

Donatello x Maxine Ship Dynamics

Sooo I was yapping a lot about Max's dynamic with the entire family because I genuinely think she is so interesting I have so much to talk about, but since today is Valentine's day and you specifically mentioned Oc x Donnie, I cut that out, maybe I'll make a separate post. But anyway, for the specific dynamic between Maxine and Donatello— They are two idiots madly in love. They would do everything for one another. Think Gomes and Morticia Addams.

I lowkey hate it when people erase 2012 Donatello's creepier—and lowkey pathetic— aspects when self-shipping/oc shipping, so I keep these aspects/flaws, and Maxine helps him grow past that because IN THIS BLOG 👏 WE BELIEVE IN RELATIONSHIPS 👏 HELPING PEOPLE GROW 👏 INTO BETTER VERSIONS OF THEMSELVES 👏 AND NOT ERASING THEIR FLAWS 👏

Look, Donnie being lowkey a creep is canon, and pretending it didn’t happen flattens his character.

They support one another in their scientific pursuits, and they enjoy spending time watching movies, playing video games, reading in each other's company, and sparring together. They both feel like the other deeply gets them, a mutual understanding that they hadn't felt before in their lives.

When Donatello starts to crush on her it's very subtle at first, he doesn't even realize it because he's still in his "crush on April" arc, where he hasn't realized yet that the reason he likes April is because she represents the love and acceptance that he craves, not necessarily because he likes HER, and when Maxine slowly starts to give him that acceptance and affection unprompted, his brain short circuits before fully processing it.

Maxine quickly grows to appreciate Donatello very deeply because she relates and understands his struggle, to be the "responsible" one in the family, to be the only one who can find the retromutagen, who can disarm a Kraang bomb at night, and the next morning still has to keep up with her daily life activities, to feel like the weight of the world is constantly on her shoulders.

Despite Maxine's tough exterior and distant personality that she puts on, she is actually deeply empathetic, especially to mutants, since her very first encounter with them was watching her own family members/friends turn into mutants in front of her, she always tries to approach them with kindness, even if it doesn't always work.

Maxine genuinely thinks Donatello is so cool, although it takes her a while to admit it.

His ninjutsu skills. His intellect. His stupid gap tooth and how he pokes his tongue out when he's deep in thought.

It makes her heart do little backflips.

And how kind and attentive he is makes her swoon, how he insists on patching her up after a particularly bad fight, when before she had no one but herself. His slightly sarcastic nature and also the fact he can't read the room for shit sometimes? It's endearing and adorable.

She thinks it's so cute how he can retreat into his shell like a regular turtle, Maxine feels so attracted to Donatello not despite the fact that he is a mutant, but BECAUSE of it, if Donnie wasn’t a mutant, he wouldn't be who he is. She loves to trace the pattern of his shell, the texture of his skill, and how cool it feels against her own during summer nights in the lair. The deep red color of his eyes, how big his hands are, but despite it, how delicate he is when working in his lab or checking for injuries. She feels a bit pathetic, for how hard she falls for a guy who is clearly head over heels for a girl who barely recognizes his existence.

So Maxine tries her best to make it known to Donnie how much she appreciates him for everything he does. Maxine compliments Donnie's shell patterns out of the blue, she hugs him tight whenever she comes to the lab, she tells him how pretty the color of his eyes is and it makes his brain short circuit every single time. At first she's not even doing it to flirt with him, but just to try to genuinely show Donatello how much she cares about him, but she can't help but laugh when his cheeks go hot pink at any of her compliments.

Donatello starts to fall for Maxine when he starts to notice the little things about her.

How Maxine bites the edge of her pen and doodles mindless on the edges of her blueprints when she's thinking. How she seems quiet and distant, but once she's talking about the things she loves, she gets this fire in her eyes and her voice. How cool she is as a vigilante, her leather jacket, her custom kraang blasters, her fully modernized helmet with neural controls.

Donatello loves her sarcastic snark, but loves it even more how she seems to have this never ending patience for him and his family.

If Max comes around the lair and leaves when Donnie's pulling an all-nighter. There's always a fresh jar of coffee in the kitchen that he definitely doesn't remember making, and the others definitely didn't make.

Maxine listens to Leo's long rants about Space Heroes and even started binging the show with him. Spars with Raph and lets him vent, humors Mikey's antics and brings him art supplies, even leaves little gifts for Master Splinter and listens to some of his more boring stories about Japan—not the cool ninja stuff, the boring adult stuff don't like to listen to!

The way she cares not only for him but his entire family as if they were regular people, it melts his heart.

And then the way she brings him pizza when he's working in the lab and forgot to eat after being in the zone for 6 hours straight, or how he can find her talking to Timothy in his lab late at night, when she thinks nobody can hear her, how she listens quietly when he's this close to having a breakdown because he can't figure out how to destroy the Kraang portal or find the retromutagen for Mr. O'Neil or how there's a million things in the lair to fix, and she just hugs him silently, and when he wakes up half of the things in his to do list have been crossed out, after Maxine fixed the creaking chair in the kitchen, and the leaking faucet in the bathroom, and the faulty light in Mikey's room, all without him having to ask.

Oh boy, does he fall hard!

So of course I have to talk about Donnie's crush on April and then obviously Apriltello, now, if you take a quick peak at my posts, you might realize I don't really like 2012 Apriltello even as a concept, and that's because not only is Donnie's behavior unacceptable— but understandle— but because I genuinely think April O'neil is...not a good person, and does not see the mutants as standing on the same level as humans. Which, while understandable for a teenage human girl, is a recipe for disaster.

I mean, think about it, what kind of relationship would form between a guy who puts a girl on a pedestal and always thinks of himself as lesser for being a mutant, and the girl who does think mutants are inferior to her, even if she doesn't say it outright, her actions spell it out for him?

Not a healthy one, lemme tell ya!!

So in this way, Maxine is essentially the opposite of April, which is why she works as a healthy relationship to Donnie.

While April calls mutants "monstrosities" in front of Donatello, Maxine still calls Fishface and Dogpound by their names, even when they're not around. While April calls Timothy "Donnie's monster", Maxine goes out of her way to talk to him and brings him food whenever she brings Donnie a late night snack. While April says she just wanted a normal life, Maxine goes out of her way to spend more time with the guys and include them in her own.

In short, April is self centered and does not see Donnie as an equal. Maxine, while she has her own struggles, after getting over their initial rivalry? She makes every second with the guys count, and cares for them just as much as she cares for her own blood.

Once Donnie and Maxine finally start mutually pining for each other, it's so obvious to everyone, but they are both two oblivious idiots for a long time.

Max, because she has massive PTSD from watching all of those closest to her end up mutated or dead. But also, for being a black girl who is very buff in the early 2010s, which did not do wonders for her self confident, in Brazil, when she stood up for herself? That was her being fierce, smart, standing up to her potential. In America? She's the trouble student, loud, too much.

In Brazil? Her hair was beautiful, her lips are plump and the bridge of her nose was the perfect mix between her parent's features, she's not a victoria's secret model, but she was attractive, in America? Her braids were considered gross. She was called fat on more than one occasion by boys and girls her age. She's the girl guys want to sleep with, not the kind anybody wants to ask out on a date— her own ex told her before dumping her, just days after she lost Chloe and Nathan.

So when she looks at the way Donatello looks at April and then looks at herself in the mirror, it stings her heart to think a guy like him would never think she's his type. While she doesn't try to change who she is, she does believe that with the path she decided to take and the man she loves being in love woth another— she is doomed to end up dying in a tragic manner, all alone.

Donatello on the other hand is massively insecure, he believes he isn't good enough because he's not human, and constantly tries to rely on his strengths to make up for this perceived flaw but still feels deeply inadequate, especially since Maxine is so affectionate towards all of his brothers. She hugs lLo, tussles with Raph, cuddles up to Mikey during movie night, what if he's just reading into it? Why would Maxine like him more than his brothers? Leo's the leader, Raph's strong and confident, Mikey is the lovable bundle of joy, and Donnie— he is none of that.

Donnie believes Max's so smart, she doesn't need him to help her fix her toaster or coffee maker, hell, she does it for him sometimes! And even though it makes him feel warm inside to know how much she cares for him, if he's not the guy who fixes things for Maxine, if he can't impress her with his smarts, then what can he offer her?

He can't bring her out to date nights. He can't give her a house or travel with her. He's just some... mutant.

It takes a while for both of them to leave their brains enough to realize the other is absolutely enamored with them, but when they finally are forced to stop being idiots, they are the biggest dorks about it!

They plan date nights on rooftops! They break into museums at night! Maxine does little sketches of dinosaurs while Donatello infodumps about them! They do rooftop picnics while watching meteor showers! Maxine drags him to comic con and nerd gatherings where she can pass his appearance as a highly realistic cosplay! They would die for each other!! They would live for each other!!

Donatello is a creepy little weirdo who stalks Maxine through rooftops and gets jealous when she hugs male friends. Maxine gets massively insecure when Donatello hugs April or when she gives him on the cheek after he saves her dad. They are both little shits sometimes, but they love each other so much they are willing to work past that, Max calls out Donnie's behavior and he apologized and makes an active effort to grow past it, with Maxine reassuring him she loves him. Donatello calls Maxine out when she's shutting him out because she's jealous, and he reassures her she's not a replacement for April.

Anyways I love these two idiots, I just love healthy relationships, I like to see characters who have flaws, who get jealous easily, who get insecure, who get angry, and when they are at their lowest, their partner doesn't scream, mock them or makes sarcastic remarks, but genuinely listens and understands them, and they work together— because they love each other.

This was... very long, hahah! Anyways, thanks if you read this so far, and thank you so much for asking and letting me yap about Maxine, my babygirl, my precious baby.

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Somebody sent an ask about my oc...oh my god, what beast have you unleashed

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for the requests...

2012 brain and brawn working on some vehicle? or just hangin out in general

I'm sorry for taking so long but this one was so good I had to bust out the colored graphite to make it semi decent

Here's some brains and brawn chilling after working on the Shellraiser, Raph is convincing Donnie to make the truck more deadly, with laser cannons and saws ( Donnie is seriously considering it )

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ok so like...

can you draw Donnie and Raph spending the night hanging out and enjoying each other's company and shit...

pls I need brains and brawn duo in my life-

I'm sorry for taking so long on this, life's been getting in the way—

But here's some Donnie and Raph hanging out

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More whiteboard doodles! I did a collab, but idk with who... lol

I'm still figuring out who is who in this fandom, if you guys recognize this artstyle, please let me know who this other creator was so I can tag them

Here's Donnie telling Mikey to try a substance he made that he totally swears isn't gonna explode, well, it didn't, but it did almost kill Mikey lmao

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I am SO interested in learning about mad scientist Donnie. Do you plan on writing for him? Like his slow decent into madness after Timothy mutates? 👀👀👀

Oh mi gosh! I can't believe someone is interested in my AU stuff. Thanks for asking!!

Okay, so I will try to make this semi coherent—

*Puts on Yapping glasses*

Mad Scientist Donatello

I thought of Mad Scientist Donatello as I was planning out the arcs for my very self-indulgent OC, Maxine Santos, and the fanfic I'm writing for her. Since I don’t think there is much interest in OC x Cannon, I will likely not post the actual writing— unless I make a drabble just for him— but I can tell you more about him!

More info under the cut, line thingy?

Okay, so one thing that I feel is never properly addressed in the show is the whole Pulverizer/Timothy/Mutagen Man arc. While those 3 episodes are executed masterfully in my opinion and fulfill their narrative purpose, afterward, it's just... abandoned by the show? Everybody just forgets about poor Timothy's existence.

I always thought that was odd and that Timothy's mutation should have a heavier narrative weight on the story, especially on Donatello, since he feels personally responsible for the kid ending up as a blob of acidic mutant goo, so I really like imagining different scenarios for how this would affect Donatello.

The idea is that after some time traveling shenanigans from the Kraang and the turtle's interference, they accidentally create several "bad ending" style timelines for the turtles, each with a different twist, zombie apocalypse, Kraang empire, Footclan!Leonardo, and so on. Since my OC, Maxine, was the one to get caught in the crossfire, Renet— the time master assistant— is the one who requests her help to save those timelines before they become "fixed" and cannot be changed anymore.

In this specific timeline, Timothy actually becomes the second human ally for the turtles— the first being April, of course— because even though they think he is a massive dork, he keeps getting himself into trouble and the turtles have to save his butt every time. But!! Eventually, they create a friendship of sorts, they find out more about Timothy's life, and there's some angst, I haven't decided exactly what yet, but it explains why Timothy is trying to live in fantasy land and play vigilante.

So they have this sorta awkward friendship, and Timothy eventually does start to help out in missions, not physically, but he helps the turtles investigate things that they can't, such as gather intel from other humans, investigate weird stuff happening at the local high-school, and he is a very good gamer, so he controls metalhead before Donnie creates his AI— and he's pretty good at it!

Things are going pretty well for a while until Donatello gets kidnapped by the foot clan, and they're planning on dunking him in a vat of mutagen because evil ninja clan shenanigans.

Despite the other brother's warnings, Timothy follows them because he wants to help Don, things happen, and instead of Donnie getting mutated, Timothy does.

Donatello is overcome with guilt because he is the closest to Timothy, and that's what lays out the groundwork for his madness. He starts obsessing with finding the retromutagen, and every new bad thing that happens keeps pilling up on that until it breaks the cammel's back.

Then Kirby O'Neil gets mutated and April is much meaner about it in this timeline, then they find out Karai is their sister and right after that she gets mutated and tries to kill all of them, she mutates earlier in this timeline, too, btw.

And as if that's not enough pressure on our poor boy Donatello to find the retromutagen no matter what happens, the turtles fail on a mission where the Kraang were trying to use some kind of mutagen infusor on the crust of the earth, and it gets a big part of the city mutated. Leo gets double mutated and goes insane, Master Splinter ends up extremely injured after fighting a mutated Shredder, and April and Raphael are missing. April has been kidnapped by the Kraang, and Raphael has been brainwashed by the foot clan with the brainworm.

SO, at this point, Donatello absolutely loses his shit.

He starts to experiment on Timothy, himself, and his brothers and Master Splinter, because of it, trying to find the retromutagen, but because he doesn't have April's DNA, it's a fruitless task.

Donnie is so far gone down the rabbit hole that he spends long hours down in his lab ranting to Tim about his efforts to find the retromutagen, how he's the only one who can find a cure, his crush on April becomes 10x worse because he's grasping at straws to keep going, Master Splinter has been in a coma ever since his fight with the Shredder and is in no condition to fight even if he woke up, and Leo and Mikey are constantly being experimented on, and can't do anything to save Don from himself. :(

Don is constantly hallucinating April and Tim. His hallucinations for April range from weird self-indulgent and delusional romantic scenarios to her mocking and insulting him for being a mutant, and he believes that if he finds the retromutagen then everything will be alright. His hallucinations for Tim are mostly geared towards friendly banter, with the occasional lashing out when Donatello is going through a particularly bad episode.

Don gets frequent headaches from not eating right, not sleeping right, and the constant experimentation and stress and it's just generally very angsty because I love to put this man through massive amounts of physical and psychological torture :D

Anyways, that's it— thank you so much for asking!!

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A doodle of an injured Donatello all wrapped up and another Mad Scientist! Donnie doodle from the whiteboard session today!

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A baillerina April, requested by @dekenak

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That one luffy pose, but it's Mikey. Art request by @dekenak Thanks for requesting!

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Finally we have my Hamilton Au thingy with Lafayette Don and George Washington Splinter and some love for my favorite Shredder Henchman ( Xever )

No, I don't just like him because he's brazilian, hushush

His face shape is so hard to draw my god

There’s also a small Baxter Stock and a Chris Bradford that's suffering

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And then we have some undertale, iscdisc was drawing some Deltarune and it awoke the sleeping beast ( I was in the Undertale fandom back at it's peak )

*shivers*

We have a Gaster Don, a MTT Don, a Frisk April, a Sand Mikey, and a random Jotaro Don poking in

Open for better quality

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Aaa I participated in iscdisc's whiteboard session and it was so fun, I think I got a little bit excited 🥹 thanks for inviting me

My back is killing me but it was every bit worth it

Here's some of my tmnt bullshit

Unfortunately I can't plan my sketches for shit, I'm so sorry

First we have Donnie being a pathetic little nerd about his crush on April

We have a mad scientist Don, where he went mad after Timothy got mutated

Then we get an Echoes of a Burden!Donnie, which is my AU that I have never posted about lol

And some random Maxines poking in

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I'm glad that you liked it!! It was really fun :) I love me some Donatello angst

Oh that's really good! It's pretty much cannon that most of the brothers go into a panic/don't know what to do during these high stakes situations, Raph especially :(

That scene is very well written! Could you tag me when you start posting the fanfic? I would love to read it :)

@foxtrixcore asked for a Donatello who got some kind of facial disfiguration after some fight and made himself a mask to wear, and what that mask design might look like

So here's my idea of what a partial mask cover Donnie would wear, I took some inspiration from mutant apocalypse Donnie

And bonus art

My poor baby :(

Additional thoughts:

I really like drawing/writing about Donnie getting really hurt physically. While I believe all of the 2012 turtles and Splinter know basic first aid — and Splinter for some reason knows healing magic ( or "mantras" )— I still believe that Donatello is the only one who has extensive medical knowledge and can perform surgery and treat their mutant physiology, soooo it just really scratches my brain to imagine what might happen to Donnie if he got too hurt to treat himself, since his brothers surely wouldn't be able to treat him themselves.

That also makes me think about Mutant Apocalypse Donbot in the series, is the only reason why his mind was transferred to Metalhead 2 because Raph wasn't able to treat him after his amnesia? Donbot says his original body was destroyed, which could either mean Donatello immediately died after the mutant bomb explosion, or he held on for a little longer.

While if Donnie did die immediately after the bomb there was nothing anybody could do, what if there was something that could be done? Let's say, a possible cracked shell?

Cracked shells can be lethal, but they are not always a death sentence to a turtle depending on the severity, but if they aren't treated, a turtle will bleed out or die of infection. That's to say what if after the explosion, Donnie was severely injured but could have been treated, but Raph was in almost as bad shape, and couldn't treat his brother, which is what led to Donnie's death? The angst is just so good

While Donbot doesn't seem to have any issues with the fact that the original Donatello is dead does he ever wonder what could have been if the original Donatello was treated?

Did he even try to treat the original Donatello? He seems to imply that he was already cybernetically linked when Donatello died, rather than consciously uploading his consciousness because he knew he would die, so is it fair to assume that maybe he tried to save himself— sort of like in the comics— but there was nothing that could be done? And if that wasn't possible, would he ever resent Raph? Maybe not forever, but right away? I mean imagine being the only decent doctor in your family, you save their shells for years, but when you really need it, and not a dislocated shoulder, or a sprained wrist, but really need medical help, there's no one there for you?

Anyway I loved this idea :)

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@foxtrixcore asked for a Donatello who got some kind of facial disfiguration after some fight and made himself a mask to wear, and what that mask design might look like

So here's my idea of what a partial mask cover Donnie would wear, I took some inspiration from mutant apocalypse Donnie

And bonus art

My poor baby :(

Additional thoughts:

I really like drawing/writing about Donnie getting really hurt physically. While I believe all of the 2012 turtles and Splinter know basic first aid — and Splinter for some reason knows healing magic ( or "mantras" )— I still believe that Donatello is the only one who has extensive medical knowledge and can perform surgery and treat their mutant physiology, soooo it just really scratches my brain to imagine what might happen to Donnie if he got too hurt to treat himself, since his brothers surely wouldn't be able to treat him themselves.

That also makes me think about Mutant Apocalypse Donbot in the series, is the only reason why his mind was transferred to Metalhead 2 because Raph wasn't able to treat him after his amnesia? Donbot says his original body was destroyed, which could either mean Donatello immediately died after the mutant bomb explosion, or he held on for a little longer.

While if Donnie did die immediately after the bomb there was nothing anybody could do, what if there was something that could be done? Let's say, a possible cracked shell?

Cracked shells can be lethal, but they are not always a death sentence to a turtle depending on the severity, but if they aren't treated, a turtle will bleed out or die of infection. That's to say what if after the explosion, Donnie was severely injured but could have been treated, but Raph was in almost as bad shape, and couldn't treat his brother, which is what led to Donnie's death? The angst is just so good

While Donbot doesn't seem to have any issues with the fact that the original Donatello is dead does he ever wonder what could have been if the original Donatello was treated?

Did he even try to treat the original Donatello? He seems to imply that he was already cybernetically linked when Donatello died, rather than consciously uploading his consciousness because he knew he would die, so is it fair to assume that maybe he tried to save himself— sort of like in the comics— but there was nothing that could be done? And if that wasn't possible, would he ever resent Raph? Maybe not forever, but right away? I mean imagine being the only decent doctor in your family, you save their shells for years, but when you really need it, and not a dislocated shoulder, or a sprained wrist, but really need medical help, there's no one there for you?

Anyway I loved this idea :)

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Sunrise duo requested by @reapleaser

I love drawing Mikey and Leo being silly together, although Leo's face is a little bit weird in this, I find Leo's and Raph's face shapes to be the most difficult to draw, but I think Mikey turned out really well in this one, even though I had to hide some mistakes

But here they are!! Some other people requested more Leo so hopefully I will get more practice with drawing one of my favorite turtle nerds

[mrcaffeinatedisopod]

I'm glad you liked it!

[Oh wow- little nervous because I hardly ever ask for requests lol]

Can I request my OC Nebula x 2012 Leo? Just having a wholesome little moment. Maybe Leo telling him about Space Heros because Nebula is an alien and Leo's definitely a space nerd lol.

I can dm you his ref, or you can find it through the tmnt blog in my pinned post. Up to you! ^^

Alternative option if you don't want to do the first, just 2012 Leo being a space nerd. Love his little obsession with his show.

This was really fun :)

Glad to see there are other 2012 Leo appreciators around

I also love Leo's obsession with Space Heroes, he's such a little nerd, I headcannon that he has a lot of secondhand merch from the show and comics

[mrcaffeinatedisopod]

[Oh wow- little nervous because I hardly ever ask for requests lol]

Can I request my OC Nebula x 2012 Leo? Just having a wholesome little moment. Maybe Leo telling him about Space Heros because Nebula is an alien and Leo's definitely a space nerd lol.

I can dm you his ref, or you can find it through the tmnt blog in my pinned post. Up to you! ^^

Alternative option if you don't want to do the first, just 2012 Leo being a space nerd. Love his little obsession with his show.

This was really fun :)

Glad to see there are other 2012 Leo appreciators around

I also love Leo's obsession with Space Heroes, he's such a little nerd, I headcannon that he has a lot of secondhand merch from the show and comics