#copper son

[readatrix]

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” ― Jorge Luis Borges

[scatterbrainedbot]

Hello :D

You're so cool

Anyway have you thought that in your rat sons au Splinter might outlive the boys?

You're very cool :D love your stuff dude

(tw for some blood, light gore, implied overdose (kinda??))

hi copper!!! this is a fantastic question!

so obviously typical irl rats have far shorter lifespans than the average irl tortoise. according to google (yes, be awed by my spectacularly in-depth wealth of research) the average pet rat lives between 2-4 years ish, and the oldest on record lived to be about 7. meanwhile, an African spurred tortoise (Splinter's species) averages more around a 50ish year lifespan in captivity, tho is suspected to possibly exceed 75 or more in the wild.

Now, the mutation does give us a lot of wiggle room for playing with these numbers. For the rat sons boys, id say their natural lifespan probably clocks in at about 45-55 years old? definitely not old by human standards, but not young young either. (though, its also important to note that the boys were exposed to the mutagen just days after being born.)

For Splinter, meanwhile, aging is slightly more complicated. He lived the vast majority of his life as a regular normal African spurred tortoise (well, non-mutated at least. there were perhaps some shenanigans of a more mystical variety going on before he was mutated, but thats a separate matter) He was about 70ish i think? when the boys were born and they were all exposed to the mutagen. so he is already distinctly an old man turtle papa. id guess he'd probably still have another eh lets say 25-30 years after his mutation. he could probably push it a little farther even with some mystic nonsense, but when push comes to shove id say his 'natural' post-mutation lifespan would put his death like a solid decade or two before his sons.

of course, the tricky part of the matter is that theres no way for Splinter to know any of this. theres no way for him to know how the mutation affected them all, or if it even affected them all in the same way. especially since the boys dont show many physical signs of mutation for the first few years, and just kinda look like normal rats, (albeit with a more human sort of intelligence) — what sort of health standard do you hold them to? what if they simply dont show external signs of sickness or old age anymore? how do you actually know if something is wrong?

for a while there Splinter is very worried that one of his babies will just essentially reach the end of their normal rat lifespan, fall and not get up again.

so mostly, he just tries to live in the moment, enjoying whatever time he does have with his little ones, taking each day as a gift <3

still,

that fear

never

really

goes

away.....

[paper-lilypie]

Pssst hey Lily

Here's a tiny CCRT Moon I doodled for you at work

ILY

grabbing him and shoving him in my mouth. chewy

[drumlincountry]

If I knew a single thing about Irish Americans I would connect the dots between rich bitch Patrick Zweig's first name + the big irish head on Josh O'Connor + the I TOLD YA tshirt being a reference to the JFK campaign. But i do not, so i'm just contemplating them.

[kyeterna]

Midnight Library

[spicyflameprince]

If you were to be any color other than red what color would you be?

Well, I've never considered choosing another color, but Mother has theorized that consuming certain metals might change the colors of my flames. I've always been rather fond of purple as an option though.

[lacystar]

I missed amongus server drama? 🥲

Qwerty no amount of update accounts could describe what happened

[markiafc]

i know cannibalism / eating each other or yourself has gone stale, its become an easy shorthand for desire and obsessive love. but its still a really scary, gruesome notion to me.

i remember first watching that early arc in one piece when i was really young, where sanji is stranded on an island with his father figure as a boy. and his father figure gives him all the rations, lying about having food of his own. sanji survived those long months with food, while his father figure survived because he was eating his own leg. it was done out of love, but it felt horrific to me then and i still feel that way now. at the same time full of revulsion and dread, but incredibly moved by the sacrifice too.

its reminiscent of watching will throw up abigail's ear in the sink. that dawning realisation that he had ingested her in his madness. that she was inside him, or at least pieces of her were. and he couldn't get her out of his body. the idea makes him retch and i feel that deeply too. it feels frightening and also bewitching ofc. like trouble every day 2001, when the cannibals seduce their victims into having sex with them. it begins willingly, then it devolves into the cannibal forcing their brutal expressions of lust onto the victim. whom we see try to resist and get away but they're subjected to the grisly sexual violence anyway. the sequences terrify me. its also undeniably compelling.

it has entered the mainstream, but there really is a nightmarish edge to cannibalism that feels cathartic to me.

[dabid-motozalea]

[burning-thistles-bt]

family tree fun facts

Dawncloud is Badgerfang's maternal half-aunt :)

[ablooskie]

Golem guys!!

[hvnqr]

when I see overhaul my chrono muse just ; 👀

[rainingmusic]

Oathbreaker "10:56" / "Second Son of R." 

[womanlives]

“YOU GET PAID FOR THAT?”

Diplomacy’s never been what you could call Kara’s strong suit. Here she is, busting her balls and investigating crimes the ‘normal way’ — motive, evidence, blah de blah de blah — and this guy’s talkin’ about aliens?

(The small voice, the one she tries to ignore because blind belief’s got no place in a murder investigation: what if he’s onto something?)

Kara wrinkles her nose and puffs out her cheeks. She leans back against the plush red leather of the diner booth. Her latest case has her stumped — so much so she’s done the uncharacteristic move of asking for outside opinions. Okay, maybe not so much asking. Maybe more like bullying info out of every investigator she can get her hands on. Yeah. That sounds like her.

She lifts her shake to her lips and slurps noisily on the straw. Rookie mistake: overdoing it on the nonchalance to cover up the fact that she’s interested. (Is not.) Is. Liar.

“Okay, I’ll bite,” Kara says at last, and for once doesn’t mean it literally. “Name a case you solved that had the supernatural — ” this emphasized with overdramatic air quotations “ — behind it.” She smirks. “I’ll wait.”

@mcstunwanted looks divorced.

[kyeterna]

And in that serene forest only you know, she planted a garden of those cherry blossoms you gifted. So you wonder, does she know what that means to you? She smiles warmly and thanks you as the first rays of the morning sun gently hit her face. Does she know what that means to you?

[travelnew]

Copper Pod - Trees of Mumbai

Son Mohur/ Yellow Flamboyant/ Rusty Shield Bearer/ Peltophorum pterocarpum (clicked on 26 March 2024).