"In our house the lights go out at 11. But we couldn't sleep, Uncle Michelangelo didn't sleep either. He showed us glowing insects and said they were butterflies! They were very beautiful, I would like to see the ones that were in his world"
I used a lot of Mirage references for this - but Casey was taken and raised by the Krang. He was brought up by Glurin, named after an Utrom from Mirage:
He's a scientist inside the Technodrome and modified Casey with the Krang enhancements. He acts like Casey's dad and does show him affection. Though, it did give him a complex being known as a human risen above the others. Even if you remove the Krang he would still want humanity's end. At first, the Leader wanted him to be a mindless beast but Glurin convinced him that they could bring him up as a Krang and infiltrate human bases. I'll finish my Glurin's ref sometime...
Casey goes by Shadow (ow edgelord), because he followed the Leader around the Technodrome when he was little and the name stuck. Also another reference to Mirage; Shadow was Casey's daughter.
The Krangification is all internal to better hide himself.
Ty for looking at my edge-
BYE
next update will be a little longer than usual as I am away (probs about a week or so)
there is so much I wanna info dump about spaceship design and everything and aifbajkebfkjbgksbgjbsrb someone needs to open this can o' beans before it explodes in the microwave
I’d originally introduced Lita to my patreons, but Ive now changed a lot of her backstory (and design), because I was struck by inspiration at like three in the morning, (and was getting fomo from all the other absolutely adorable turtle babies I’ve been seeing)
So we all know Donnie created a mech body for Raph thanks to concept art, but in this AU, I feel like Donnie would be juuuuust morally questionable enough to think creating backup clones first would be a good idea. He wasn’t expecting the small bits of Krang tech he had to incorporate to have such a huge impact, tbh he wasn’t even really expecting anything at all—which is also why he used his own DNA for the trial run, and…since Donnie wasn’t expecting a success, he was pretty shocked at the final result.
Donnie was also only able to observe the first month and a half of “incubation” (tube not egg), but was, unfortunately stuck at another resistance base for so long, when he returned, Lita May had grown a substantial amount and was ready to be removed from her tube (he was back for like two days before she started opening her eyes and reacting to stimulus). She took three months total to grow.
Raph and Leo kinda don’t really know how to react to her. Leo immediately clocks the Krang characteristics and is pretty furious. Raph is just confused, but when Donnie fills them in on the origin of Lita’s birth, Raph’s not too happy either. Neither one takes it out on Lita. Donnie does get a pretty severe talking to. Mikey, Timothy and Cass are so excited, and April is beyond shocked to be named the godmother. The family keeps Lita a secret, but it’s evident that she’s got some Krang in her, and they all know that the other members of the resistance might try to hurt her, and ask Renet to take her. Casey loses his playmate, but he does get to see her every few months.
She’s kept in the dark about her family’s future, and is pretty mad at Renet for not warning her of her anything, and she eventually gets sick of the secrets.
So I’ve cried a lot to this comic…. More than I’d like to admit. Lol
I’m obsessed with @somerandomdudelmao story/comic and I’ve been wanting to draw something for it. So why not my favorite boys. I’m so glad my friends introduced me to their story, it’s always in my brain now.
I like to think about how Future Leo would blame himself for the apocalypse. That inherently, the world’s mass destruction was his fault, and that what he does for the resistance, is a futile attempt to make up for it. These are more-so his bad thoughts, but the idea of these thoughts taking the form of his brother, who had died, makes it worse.
This was cooked up because at first, I was making a trigun stampede au, right?? And I was talking to my friend otter about it, showing them a scene I really liked, and he put in the idea of it being about future leo!! soo ,,, chuckles nervously.