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State of Survival x TMNT

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Fandom Problem #9296:

When you like some of the TMNT releases (old cartoons, new movie) and want to discuss it, but the fandom is utterly insufferable because of purity culture and too many damn uneducated, whiny kids.

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@ihavewritersblockbutinreallife 03 Dragon babies?

Here me out: 2003's dragon avatars, but babies.

Do you feel me? Do you see the vision here?

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Raphael’s family is his world...

…and he’s emotionally demonstrative about it.

Literally crying with worry over his beaten and unconscious brother, Leo. “Tales of Leo”

Screaming because he can’t find his father. “Lone Raph and Cub”

The fear when he thinks Mikey has been killed. “Hunted”

Throwing his arms around Donatello at his sudden reappearance. “Same As It Never Was”

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fun behaviors to give dragons that aren't feline/canine based

cause as much as i love dragons purring and roaring i wish there was just more variety in how they would act

clacking their teeth together to show contentedness/happiness (budgies)

using tails as a defensive weapon in a whip like fashion (iguana)

twitching to express that they're not a threat to members of their species (hognose snake)

feeling calm when eyes are hooded/covered (birds of prey)

head bobbing as a threat display (anoles/bearded dragons)

flattening neck or sides to appear bigger (snakes/lizards)

mantling over food to protect it from hatchmates (birds of prey)

wiggling neck as a courting maneuver (budgies)

audibly grinding teeth as a warning (macaques)

maintained eye contact as a challenge (gorillas)

pounding wings against sides as a threat (gorillas)

slapping other dragons with their claws when their personal bubble is invaded (seals)

hoards used as a site to impress mates (birds of paradise)

snorting when undergoing heightened stress (horses)

making repeated loud noises with surroundings to establish territory (woodpeckers)

loud constant arguments with other dragons when roosting (bats)

building lairs that cause a domino effect of change in the land around them (beavers)

slapping their tails against the ground/water as a warning (beavers)

wiggling tail tip to attract prey (various animals)

wiggling tail tip as a warning (snakes)

plucking or scraping off scales as a sign of stress (parrots)

raising spines/frills as a response to danger and carrying on with their usual business as they believe they're protected (lionfish)

and im not saying canine and feline behaviors are wrong or bad to give a dragon (people wouldn't write dragons with those behaviors if they weren't fun in the first place!) but i feel for creatures that are mythological giant winged lizards that you can do more and get experimental with it. often the more unfamiliar behavior the more dragons get that much more dragony

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tired of seeing people say draconian (meaning “excessively harsh”) when they mean draconic (meaning “dragon-like”)

dergs aren’t all like that! this is a harmful stereotype!

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Y'know what's interesting to me?

03 Splinter became a ninjutsu master all on his own.

Sure, he was able to observe and copy Yoshi's (and probably the Ancient One's) moves back when he was a normal rat. But no one corrected his form. No one directed his katas. No one helped hone his skill, or show him where his strengths and weaknesses lay so he could correct them.

He had to learn ninjutsu all by himself, and then relearn it in his new mutant body!

And yet, he never set out to turn his sons into child soldiers. Sure, he taught them ninjutsu, but he did so to protect them from a world that would never accept mutants like them. In fact, early in S1 he directly points out that he didn't want their hearts and training to be marred by hatred.

Splinter taught the turtles ninjutsu to keep them safe (and probably to help burn off 4 growing boys' boundless energy 😅).

It makes me wonder: what if Splinter didn't start out with the intention to teach the turtles ninjutsu? What if he was just practicing the katas he knew as a way to exercise and grow used to his new mutant body (and feel close to his late Master), and the tots saw and started to copy him (because children).

What if he noticed them copying him, and realised it would help their physical and mental development too, so he started to teach them all he knew.

What if Splinter never intended to be a Sensei, just like he never intended to become a father. It just... happened. And he realised teaching the boys ninjutsu was a way to connect with them and hold on to his connection with his beloved Master Yoshi.

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Leo to the rescue!

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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL TMNT DAY,GUYS !!1!!!!!1!! 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐀

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Happy TMNT Day once more!

Guess who finally figured out Isabella's spots and got her a reference? I did it! Me! YEAH!

Anyways, here’s the most simplified, a better updated profile I got for her.

I think I got this profile template from @ilovebeinaturtle (I gotta check hold on. Edit: so it’s something similar. Eh, I’ll still tag her.)

Name: Isabella Splintersdottir (Hamato, later on)

Nickname: “Isa” (Her Brothers), “Bella” (Not often), “Ella” (for a gag), “Lil sis” (her brothers as well), “Little Lizard Sister/Lil’ Liz’ Sis” (by Mikey), “Banana lady” (Mikey thinks it’s funny) & “Honorary Member of the Serpentine Rebellion” (Hinting at a crossover that'll happen in the Ultimate Drako arc)

Sex/Gender: Female

Pronouns: She/Her

Race: Mutant Leopard Gecko

Age: 15 (at the start of the series/2003), 21 (in Turtles Forever)

Sexuality: Demiromantic

Year Hatched: 1988

Year Mutated: 1988, though she was already mutated before she hatched

Eye Color: Blue-Gray marble eyes. Aka Sectoral Heterochromia

Height: 5’1” (154.94 cm, roughly estimated) (She’ll be stuck there for a while)

Weight: 137 lbs. (62.1422 kg, rough estimate again)

Mask/Bandana/Headband Color: Very dark grayish blue (hex code: 696b6e)

Significant Other: None (She’s literally a teen lizard. Let her figure things out first.)

(Personality, Bio, SAINW, Other Info below)

Personality: She arrived to Splinter and the Turtles as a skittish, quiet little lizard. She was still shy for a while and the boys, Mikey especially (since he’s the most sociable out of them), helped her break out of her shell. (Figuratively speaking, of course). She’s kind, much more energetic than she once was, intelligent, imaginative, witty, adaptable/flexible, passionate, relentless, and has a strong will and a sense of justice much like her brothers. She is confident most of the time, but there are still times when she feels she’s not enough.

Backstory/Info: On June 18, 1988, she was hatched in an underground laboratory sometime after her older siblings hatched too. For most of her infant years, she was handed off to other staff like caretakers, nurses, etc. One of these staff members would become sympathetic to her.

When she was finally of age, she was sent off to testing. Testing the mind, hoping to use her age to begin absorbing more information. Testing her body and its limits, and her reflexes. What did these tests entail and what was the main goal of the program? Who really knows. She didn’t.

Whatever it all was for, she figured she must’ve upset them cause they were getting frustrated over her not showing much prowess by their standards, hearing things like, “Maybe the next one won’t be such a disappointment.”

And even later she heard, “perhaps when it matures, we can use it for.. other uses.. Find a suitable match…. Combining one with a capable mind and body with a friendlier stature would be more… beneficial.”

Essentially she was seen as nothing more than an unwilling pawn in a game she had no idea she was in.

Later on, a former resident of the laboratory had returned. An older, fawn-colored rat who was seeking her pups, releasing plenty of subjects to do so and one of them was the little gecko. The rat woman picked her up and kept her has a companion for a long while after they escaped the laboratory.

However it was only for a small time and they began catching on. The rat mutant would leave the lizard in the borrow and begin causing a panic with the armed men, tearing through them and leading them far away from the little one.

The lizard girl would be found by four turtle tots and a dark grey rat, who would not only keep her out of sight from the returning forces, but also take her in and name her Isabella after looking through a book on Italian Renaissance history.

And the rest of her story follows the series. However Isabella wouldn’t see the rat woman for a long time.. Not until they all encounter Bishop, but that’s for another day.

SAINW: During a Foot lab infiltration, Isabella would be found by the guys (who’re reunited with Donny and working together to find a way to put Shredder down for good). Tubes and machines were hooked up on her.

She looked so exhausted from all they put her through. She had lost so much, first Donny disappeared, Splinter died, Casey was gone, her brothers fought then separated, and Zephaniah and his group would be lost sometime after a fight with Shredder’s space fleet. Isabella was only captured because of a mission that went awry and she forced April to get out before she could get captured too, insisting the rebels needed a headstrong person in charge. When she failed to do her part in providing a decent service to Shredder's forces, she was kept alive to suffer for causing so much trouble for him back her youth.

There’s a mix of disbelief and shock when she saw the guys together after she gained consciousness. She believed her will to fight died after all the loss but Don pointed out one thing. (“Isa, sis… if your will was really gone then you would’ve been long gone too. I think you know that… And I know underneath all that’s happened, you’re still the same person as I knew years ago.”) It might not have had her up and running but it did reignite something in her and she helped all she could.

When the final fight with Shredder would take place, Isabella would take it upon herself to go through the human forces with April. She would find the lead scientist of that laboratory (who had arrived with a report for Shredder) and attacked him before he could get away. There was only one thing she said to him. (“You took them from me…. My sons… I won’t let you take anyone else..”) She had snapped that man’s neck with her tail and left him to rot while her brothers were handling Shredder and the Karai bots.

She did find the other three dead and watched Don disappeared, but she had a new goal in mind. Find out just where exactly her sons were sent and what did the Foot tech find in a message they intercepted from space?

Other Notable Stuff:

Isabella is named after Isabella d'Este, a Marchioness of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure.

Her MBTI personality type would be ISFJ (aka the Defender) along with an enneagram of 6w5. (I put myself into Isabella’s point of view while going through the tests. I will get a much more accurate version of personality tests at a later date).

She received some scars across her chest from the first fight with Shredder.

Just like her brothers, she is a practitioner of Qi Gong, something that is shown in the Space arc. (Raph does it the best though).

Raph will never let her live down the fact that she had a childhood crush on Gex the Gecko. Of course, she'll never let him live down the fact that he crocheted a teddy bear for her.

Later in life when she’s an adult, she’d live in an old lighthouse that’s renovated and would eventually have Inizio (aka baby Drako) in her care.

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This is honestly more funny if you know the context.

And yes, I did draw a chibi Zanramon just for this exact TikTok idea.

And here it is in better detail.

( Ignore the fact that I forgot to add the triangles on his collar in the video😅)

And yes, I do have a TikTok, same username and everything, it's just very, very empty.

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The TMNT 2003 version of your OC is only complete once you've created their SAINW version

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You know that lackluster Don & Leo reunion handshake? I fixed it.

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“It’s a spider. A big fucking spider. Size category: fuck.”

— Our DM describing the approximate size of a spider

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Getting back into TMNT and I have one question

Well it’d be content for a minute but I could get the fic up soon enough.

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I say all of the above.

The Triceraton All-Stars are the best sellers and the Spasmasaur and that one yellow creature are someone's favorites.

I am manly asking this question because my OC Maxx's childhood plush toy was bought from the Arena by his grandfather, and I'm having second thoughts on what it should be since it was originally supposed to be a Spasmasaur plush, but then I thought maybe it wouldn't be marketable as one. I don't know, so I decided to ask you guys for your opinions.

Also, if you're wondering what the " big one-eyed yellow creature" is, it's this thing( And yes, I'm using a screenshot from TMNT: Battle Nexus for GBA, it's a better angle, and the screenshots from the show are blurry)

It's irritating that this thing doesn't have a name. And believe me, I tried looking for its name, but it isn't anywhere, not in the games, not on Turtlepedia, not anywhere. I keep having to call it" The creature from the Arena episode".