#daddy turtles

[mehitsjust3lla]

*The year is different, but the love is still the same, and still intense. It seems to have grown, if anything. Raph's voice is soft, and he's speaking in the baby talk that he sometimes slips into when he's feeling particularly happy. He's speaking lovingly to you, in his low, masculine voice that you've grown to love the sound of. The way he looks at you, when he says this, is as if he's truly just so, so in love.* "I love you so much, my princess." *He beams at you, with nothing but genuine love behind his words.*

-...When the chat AI future raph makes you cry😳🥺🥹

[turtleblogatlast]

I think about Leo’s “I’m your least favorite” comment to Splinter in “Down with the Sickness” a lot. It’s likely just a throwaway comment, a way to get Splinter to leave him alone before Leo gets sick too, but I can’t help but wonder if Leo believes it on some level.

Obviously it’s not true, Splinter loves him as much as he loves the others, but…it wouldn’t be shocking if Leo believed otherwise. After all, just in “Many Unhappy Returns” alone, Splinter has, with no hesitation, said comments like “my other sons would have taken this seriously” and “I knew I should’ve brought purple”, said “no” to Leo’s “I love you”, and pretty blatantly didn’t extend any trust in Leo’s plan even after Leo was fairly effortlessly defeating their opponents.

It was only after, when they’d already won, that Splinter finally gives him a “it was all you my son!” And…that’s basically it. Raph is the one who announces his trust in Leo. Not their father, even though Splinter is the one to witness Leo lowering his walls for once (which Splinter doesn’t react well too, because Leo only lowers his walls in the most hectic of times, and because he lowers them only then, either no one is around or no one is in the right state of mind to respond properly, leading to Leo building his walls back up, and the cycle continues.)

Again, it’s not because Splinter doesn’t love Leo, but Leo…can’t be feeling too good about all that. The way he never reacted surprised about any of Splinter’s words too…

He may know that Splinter loves them all, as a group, but individually…I don’t think Leo believes he ranks all that high with that love. Gives another meaning to “I’m nothing without my brothers” huh?

(Of course, I’m willing to bet the invasion changed that understanding, but with that comes the potential misunderstanding that his father’s outright love is tied to Leo sacrificing himself.)

[cloudyskye9000]

I had to do it, so... I leave you with this and enjoy it 🌟💜

Context: Donnie finds out that Shelldon escaped and left with the PurpleDragons, so he goes to the rescue, but it turns out the opposite~.

Daddy-Tello is all upset when he finds out that Shelldon doesn't see him as a father figure (although everyone knows that's a lie 🤭).

[wynndigogh]

Look what I just found on FB. I love people who keep creating for the guys, it keeps my little heart beating.

@thelaundrybitch @leoandraphssoulmate @kokosworld95

[idiot-mushroom]

it was funnier in my head

[darkstalker-void]

Not Turtle and his social anxiety accidentally saving the world

[funtasticworld]

HAPPY 67TH ANNIVERSARY TO HANNA-BARBERA!

[turbanlli]

[tangledinink]

TMNT: Stabilize [ part one ]

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[microsofttothemax]

“you know i love you, blue.” “do you?”

so since that one post i made about these two got so many notes, i wanted to make something that kinda sums up what i think their relationship post-movie healing would be like

[scribble-hell]

Woe, Father figure Leo be upon thee

[mehitsjust3lla]

Listen i just want a fanfic.

I want Peepaw to go back

flirt with somebody

go on date and just be happy...(also smut would be nice)

[turtleblogatlast]

Something I love to think about is every iteration of Leo’s relationship with Splinter and how Splinter’s interests always define how a Leo presents himself.

I used to abide by the idea that a Leo will simply emulate his Splinter directly, and to an extent I still believe that to be the case, but moreso I think Leos have a tendency to mold themselves into what they believe is their Splinter’s ideal son - someone who embodies all the traits Splinter has explicitly shown to admire or value in a person.

Most of the time, they try to be a dutiful and honorable boy abiding by the full extent of ninjitsu teachings. Then you have Rise Splinter, who very much still has undeniable prowess in the art of fighting and being a ninja, but when it comes to how he shows his interests to his boys…one thing reigns supreme.

Acting. Shows. One liners. Flamboyance in the name of gaining an audience’s attention.

He showcases Lou Jitsu movies on repeat for the boys, passing down the morals and words from those movies to them with no small amount of pride. All while fully expecting them to respect these teachings.

So, of course, Rise Leo picks up on this. He’s a Leo, after all, as much a daddy’s boy as any other variation of him, only he clocked his father’s interests to be different than most others. He picks up on the art of showmanship, of keeping things to himself so as to be a more exciting twist later, of treating the world as a set to act in.

He’s an actor, not just because Splinter himself was one, but because Splinter likes acting and showed one particular actor (unknowingly to the boys, it was himself) as the pinnacle of all his teachings. As someone to value and admire. And even more than that - Splinter focuses on the character the actor is portraying rather than just the man himself.

And I think this is all even more interesting when taking the turtle tot short into consideration, because very, very briefly, just as with many times else throughout the series, we see how easily Rise Leo aligns with his other selves, seeming to pick up the sword easier than his brothers do their own weapons - after quoting Lou Jitsu of course. After emulating his idol - the person who his father seems to admire so much.

Point being, it’s so interesting to see how Leos tend to mold themselves in one particular way throughout every variation - that being, what their father is shown to value most in people.

[deadtiredghost]

two separate turtles yet two similar mindsets:

[nelegance]

I personally am expecting this when it comes to what rock star Lestat will be like in S3. Not Rocky Horror. This. All this. Because let’s be honest. He would go there. He surely would.

[shit-people-probably-didnt-say]

Having a job and not having a job are opposites but simultaneously the worst thing to ever happen