#Aw Look at mikey

[princesskkfish]

hehe hi buddy :DD

[turtleblogatlast]

[ cw: scars / permanent injuries / chronic pain / ]

Leo’s shell gets some permanent cracks in it due to the Krang, and as a result his shell’s pattern is all messed up.

He makes a fuss about it in a lightheartedly vain way, but it’s clear that it bothers him, more than just the chronic pain that comes with it.

The one who breaks about the cracks isn’t Leo in the end, it’s Mikey.

It’s a night where Leo can’t sleep, insomnia and the remnants of a fit pulsing through his shell keeping him awake. When making the rounds to check up on everything, he sees Mikey, crouched over some old crayon drawings, drawings that were only salvaged by some miracle.

Mikey always loved matching with his “cool blue bro” growing up. Their shell designs were something they had in common, different from the spines/spikes that their other brothers had. It felt good to share that with Leo.

To Mikey, seeing that pattern tarnished felt a little too much like their home getting destroyed. Worse, even. The two of them are complementary colors, it hits harder when things disrupt that.

And Mikey admits this to Leo, on this day where emotion kept mounting up in him until he couldn’t help but break a little. It feels selfish to say, but it’s the truth. It’s a visual that’ll constantly haunt Mikey, knowing what the cracks represent, knowing how they lost something that was just theirs to share.

Drawing Mikey to him, a hand on Mikey’s intact shell pattern, Leo admits that that’s what kills him the most too. He can deal with the pain, he can deal with the appearance, but he can’t deal with no longer seeing himself in the crayon drawings they managed to salvage from their past. Drawings that highlight their shell patterns, because Mikey always had a lot of fun drawing those.

He always loved what they decided they represented.

———

“Like links of a chain!” Little Mikey had called them as he scribbled them down in oranges and blues.

“Of course it’s like chains!” Little Leo nodded, having never noticed that before, “It, like, shows how we’re- how we’re always connected!”

Little Mikey had gasped at that, stars in his eyes as he babbled endlessly about how that meant they’re the chains holding the family together, right?

“Raphie and Donnie don’t have chains on their shells, so we gotta step up to keep everyone together!” Little Mikey said as he drew big circles around his drawings of their family, overlapping circles of orange and blue around everyone.

“Yeah! And if anyone gets lost, we’ll bring them back!” Little Leo boasted with a laugh, “No one has to be alone, we’ll make sure of it!”

“We’ll make sure of it!” Little Mikey echoed with a happy giggle.

———

‘You sure made sure of it, Mikey.’ Leo thinks, continuing to run his hand comfortingly down Mikey’s shell.

Then a thought hits him.

“Well, we got something better than just shell patterns in common now!” Leo starts, waiting until Mikey looks up to continue, “We got portals, little brother!” He grins, “And y’know, I think you’ve done a great job keeping us all together, Miguel. Sorry you had to pick up my slack.”

Mikey looks two steps away from sobbing at that, but his smile is wide, “You just got lost, of course I had to bring you back.” He leans back, out of Leo’s hold, and looks his big brother in the eyes, “That’s what we said- Raphie and Donnie don’t have portals…”

“-So we gotta step up-“ Leo continues.

“-To keep everyone together!” The finish simultaneously, laughing a little at the juvenile words.

A wry smile crosses Leo’s face, “Again, sorry I’ve been dropping the ball there. Feels like I did a lot of the opposite instead.”

He yelps as Mikey swiftly smacks him on the head.

“Nuh uh uh, none of that!” Mikey puffs out his chest, “I’ll have no slander toward my fellow portal pal!”

“Alright, alright…”

It’s not a fix to anything, more of a new way of looking at a change. Bringing that change into their lives as something familiar.

The cracks in Leo’s shell remain, and the cracks in Mikey’s hands scar over, but their family stays together all the same.

They gotta make sure of it, after all!

[snackugaki]

surprise my other hobbies are window shopping and fashion

[imagionationstation]

Leo and Raph Arguing About Everything?

A Common Occurance In Rise?

Nah, that’s a ‘negative toxic trope’ that just happens in the movie because plot and insane stress and sudden role changes-

I DON’T THINK SO.

Even Donnie acknowledges it’s a classic them.

Not everything has to be toxic. Brothers argue, okay?

Especially the older ones.

[twinklingchode]

happy national can opener day. iykyk.

[yorshie]

Pea Brained Bounce House time. Was thinking about the earlier Mikey bit. Then I started thinking about Warm Coded. And then:

Raph’s got like. This thing, when you’re working out with him. He uses the cover of coaching you to stare.

It’s not until he’s got you doing chairs against the concrete wall, and you look up in pleading askance on how much longer you’ve gotta hold the position, that you finally catch the way his attention is trained on the swell of your stomach. The uncanny focus of his gaze on your thighs as the muscles start to tremble and seize up.

Raph likes to stare.

[bookiedoodles]

God Casey Jr must have the most god awful absolutely phenomenal fashion sense, what with having a lesbian mom and a gay father

[arthurtaylorlester]

so me and @smallsies went a bit insane this afternoon which resulted in this abomination of a chart. enjoy.

fully blaming finch for this being online /joke

[angelmichelangelo]

top ten image to scare you

[shiftdrawwing]

So I made the turtles into The Magnus Archives avatars and Ngl I think I might go in with a full AU on this it just seems WAAAY too fun not to kekekek Def want some extra opinions/ideas on some stuff if you’ve got any!! Any-who, reasonings and other ideas below the cut;

Raph and The Hunt! I was stuck between Hunt and Slaughter for him, but figured Hunt just fit a lot better given it is heavily based around the idea of instincts especially with it’s whole predator/prey deal, being sure to take into account the canon “Savage Raph” that we know and love.

Donnie and The Lonely! With his outrageous smarts and lack of understanding in terms of mystic magic, I’d say this is definitely the most fitting of the fears for him. Despite being surrounded by a loving family at all times it wouldn’t be surprising if that just made him feel an even greater sense of loneliness.

Leo and The Eye! Leo’s a show-off, we all know this, and he often goofs off in moments of stress and panic. His ego’s bigger than Donnie’s forehead and he wears it proudly, but ofc, the fandom (me included) LOOVVESSS to have this be due to his incredible lack of self-esteem. I think of the fears The Eye would definitely have a hold on him if not being an avatar of it, since he’s so keen on preforming with this confidence. All eyes on me type beat, got that paranoia.

Mikey and The Stranger! I was honestly pretty split with Mikey. One one hand I was thinking web because of his younger-brother-therapy-ness, and how it can be taken as his way of trying to have some control over things for the sake of feeling more secure, but on the other hand he’s real acrobatic and in the air a bunch so The Vast could be interesting, and then on ANOTHER hand his whole art obsession could lead to The Stranger (which was actually recommended by a friend of mine, love you Vix) in terms of just un-canny creep factor, with a lot of his mental stability maybe resting on his artistic ability and a sort of perfectionism? That and the use of two separate kinda personalities (Dr. Delicate Touch and Dr. Feelings). I dunno! I just went with The Stranger for the time being.

THE OTHERS!! I was honestly thinking April falling into The Spiral side of things could be interesting, mainly because of the fact that in this situation she’s the odd one out and that whole freak-out over trying to be normal. Draxum I thought could be neat as The Corruption, Big Mama as The Web (cause c’mon, she might as well be Annabelle you can’t deny that), Casey and the Slaughter, Splints and The Corruption (have you SEEN his backstory??? Yeesh!!), aaaaand I think that’s all I’ve thought up for the time being!

[turtleblogatlast]

I like to think alternate Leo was about 17 when he got ricocheted into the universe. I also like to think he turned 18 at some point as he was still away, becoming an adult and meeting that milestone in his life all alone.

[softshuji]

I'm devastated holy fuck

[princesskkfish]

Some random doodles I’ve made the pst few days

and a hand study ig

[motherforthefamicom]

fuckingggg crab

[phoebepheebsphibs]

So there was this JANKY AS HECK animatic that I was planning on making much nicer buuuuuuut life got in the way so currently it's gathering dust on my flash drive

It was a portal pals thing about the movie

Uhhhhhhhhhghh it's so janky why did I ever post this...

I was trying so desperately to just get the gist of the storyboards down while traveling so it looks so bad AGH but oh my gosh if it doesn't kill me in the feels —

Anyways here's half of it (because Tumblr is stoopid and can't do the whole thing so I guess only half of me will be embarrassed haha)

Gawd i hate this gawd i love it

(The song is "Fix You" by Cody Fry)

Part 1

[fletcherwilbury]

@whumpuary Day 15: "You look awful."

Warning for Illness, injury, medication, overworking, self-sacrifice