#daughters of draxum

[lavenderpop]

i write things that make me happy :)

[gh0stlyscooter]

*throws this at you all*

Doodles from my silly little Foot!Leo Au where he was raised with Cass and they’re brother and sister :)

More rambling in the tags !!

[coco21candi]

I’ve been reading @less-depresso-more-espresso ‘s Never Better au and it has a chokehold on me rn- but I just finished it so I thought I would post some doodles I did :D

I have this headcanon that Drax can sew- why? Idk-

bonus:

Apologies for the horrid quality this is so rushed😭

You should go read the fanfic it’s got many lesbians and relatable neurodivergent turtles:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45309745/chapters/113995810

[rottmnt-honeybea]

A dad and grandfather across dimensions

[bookishnewt]

Most of my habits with fanfic ocs is “what if *insert character here* had a *insert familial relation here*”

[jocelynships]

Ya know. I should work more on my S/Is dynamic with Big Mama. Because despite her being evil at first, (I’m gonna give her a redemption arc tho) she’s fond of my S/I.

Idk why I saw the evil crime lord girlboss and went “she’s my mama” but I did 🤷‍♀️

[phoebepheebsphibs]

I mentioned in a reblog thing that I'd wanted to make a Rise comic series called "ROTTMNT: UNPAUSED" and I hinted to one of the finale episodes being called "Mikey's Birthday Bash"

Well I'm gonna infodump about that now...

So basically the episode started off with Mikey waking everyone up for a special breakfast to celebrate his bday, only to discover that not only did his brothers forget his bday, they all made plans of their own. To quickly make up for it, the guys take him into the Hidden City for a quick shopping spree before they all have to leave for their engagements. While Mikey is looking for something to buy, he overhears his brothers conversing about how in the next year, Raph won't be a TEENAGE mutant ninja turtle anymore (he is 17 currently). Donnie adds that he is already looking for colleges to join and hopes for an early admission. Leo also admits he has been planning for the future. Mikey realizes that his brothers are all planning to leave and grow up, which he is not ready for. He runs away crying, and meets a strange old hag who sells him a "special" birthday candle, which she promises will grant his biggest birthday wish.

Mikey finds his bros again and uses the candle on a meager cupcake they got for him. As soon as he blows the candle out, the four are transported into a version of the Battle Nexus, trapped there along with every other character from the show (and my comics) by the hag who sold Mikey the candle. She reveals that Mikey's wish was for "everyone to spend my birthday together", and the only way for them to escape is for the turtles to win the tournament! The bros are furious at Mikey for making the wish, and Mikey promises to get through the games as quickly as possible so they can get back to their plans and leave.

The hag states that the turtles will be pitted against their previous enemies, and with each round they win they'll will receive more allies. Anyone KO’d will be eliminated from the round and sent to watch in the audience, and upon the ending of the game all contestants will be returned to their last location. The enemies will get progressively more challenging until they defeat all of their opponents.

Round 1, April is with the guys, and they are up against Baxter Stockboy, Albearto, and the Purple Dragons.

Round 2, the Casey Joneses join the fight against the Foot Clan.

Round 3, Draxum, Splinter, Big Mama, and the two missing siblings hinted at by the writers join against the evil league of mutants and the Mud Dogs. April is KO’d after getting slammed into a wall and knocked unconscious by Heinous Green. Cass is KO’d by Hypno after he hypnotizes her to knock herself unconscious as well. Draxum is KO’d by Meat Sweats after he steals his power.

Round 4, Several characters (such as Agent Bishop and Mona Lisa) join to fight against the Triceratons (which were introduced in my series). During this round, everyone is K.O.'d except the turtles. However, Mikey sees that he didn’t finish the battles in time and his brothers have missed their appointments. He feels guilty, and his brothers are admittedly irritated.

Round 5, the final boss battle. They are pitted against the Shredder and the Kraang. Before the fight begins, Mikey has a blowout with his brothers and finally admits that he was angry they were gonna leave because he was scared of growing up, as he is not ready to be an adult yet and he doesn’t want to be alone. The Kraang interrupts stating “I can help you with that” and captures Mikey. However, the Turtles get one last team member… Karai. The Shredder -- having been defeated and Oroku Saki redeemed -- turns against the Kraang and sides with the Turtles and his daughter. The boys defeat the Kraang using the special formula from the movie, but not before the Shredder and Karai are K.O.'D by the Kraang. The Kraang are defeated with the last of the mixture, but to the boys' horror they see that Mikey was kraangified, and now have to fight against him as their last opponent. They try, but are unable to defeat him due to his increased strength AND his ninpo. Leo refuses to admit defeat, saying “Mikey never gave up on me… I can’t give up on him.” He tries one last attack, grappling with Mikey and holding him down...

I happened to make sketches of what came next...

The game finished, everyone is returned home. Mikey apologizes for everything, but Raph admits that he isn’t ready to grow up yet either, and he never wants to leave Mikey alone. He found out the hard way what that felt like, and the brothers agree to wait a little longer to grow up and enjoy being the teenage mutant ninja turtles while they can. Back at the lair, everyone bursts in to make sure Mikey is okay. They spend the rest of the day with him, enjoying his birthday...

So yeh that's that

[tangledinink]

Alright! So! The Gemini Twins were raised by Big Mama. Raph ended up with the Foot Clan. Splinter got stuck with April. And Mikey and Venus were raised by Baron Draxum... which means we're only missing one final Hamato.

( rebellious soldier ) ( indomitable spirit ) ( babyest sister )

enter -> jennika, daughter of baron draxum

the final of the trio of siblings raised by their creator, baron draxum, destined to one day form the army which defends yokaikind. jeni could not be more tickled about her place in the coming world, and is endlessly proud of her place as a fierce fighter and combatant amongst her father's ranks. while venus and mikey may be far more skilled in the mystic arts than she, neither of them can hold a candle to jeni's raw physical strength and skill on the battlefield.

though just as loyal as her two siblings and committed to their cause, jennika is a bet less willing to follow along and listen to directions as her siblings. being the youngest comes with its pros and cons, and though she is perhaps a bit spoiled at times, she is also often frustrated by feeling underestimated or left behind. especially by her eldest brother. she is spunky, fierce, and brazen... and perhaps a bit sassy.

in addition to this, while mikey and venus often seem willing to block off any distractions or other facets of life in order to chase their father's goal, jennika is a bit more inclined to... distractions. she may be passionate about her place in the prophecy, but there are other things she's passionate about, too!

and don't get me wrong-- jeni LOVES her siblings. but jeez, could mikey back off a little sometimes!?

[our-happygirl500-fan]

Rise is really good with family dynamics & they can show it in even the most subtle ways & one example of this is that even though we don’t really see April’s parents there’s a moment where you can kind of tell that April’s mother understands April pretty well.

Draxum: I told you Carol I do not want to meet your daughter

In the episode Reparin’ the Baron, Draxum mentions that one of his neighbours ‘Carol’ has been trying to introduce him to her daughter & according to the Turtlepedia wiki ‘Carol’ is April’s mother.

Meaning that April’s mother has been trying to introduce Draxum to April (not knowing that they’ve already met) & this little moment kind of shows that April’s mother kind of understands & accepts that her daughter is a weirdness magnet because one of her first thoughts upon meeting a sheep man is ‘oh I’ve got to introduce April to this guy’

April’s mother saw this guy & thought that April would love to meet him & that little moment really goes to show how much April’s mother accepts April as a weird kid because most parents when their kid finds weird things cool would complain or say they want their kid to be into ‘normal’ things but when April’s mother sees something strange or unusual what she thinks about is how much her daughter would like it.

The fact that April’s parents let April keep Mayhem shows that they are accepting of April liking weird things but the fact that April’s mother wanted to introduce April to Draxum shows that April’s parents aren’t just passively accepting their daughter being a weirdness magnet but are rather actively trying to engage with that side of April & be part of the things that April likes. 

[dancingdonatello]

Hiya can I get a one-shot of 2018 f!turtles separately finding out they have a daughter with their crush? Like how would they react? Like the girl comes to the present time and they look like their respective dads and also have a hidden similarity to their "mother figure". (I hope I'm using the right gn term for it, if not I apologize I'm unfamiliar with the terms.)

Thank you

rottmnt x gn reader

When Casey introduced the new turtle to Raph and his brothers, Raph didn’t really have an opinion. That was up until Casey revealed that it was his daughter. When he asked who was their other parent or did he raise them with anyone, Casey just smiled awkwardly.

Maybe Raph didn’t know them yet.

His daughter swayed back and forth nervously, asking Casey if she really wasn’t allowed to say who in fear of breaking time rules or whatever. And that’s when it clicked for Raph.

His crush, who he may or may not have been keeping away from his family so that he could spend the most time with them, did that too. Whenever they were nervous, they swayed.

It had been a week and Leo had finally decided to believe that this young turtle was his daughter in the future. She shared a lot of traits with him, not just the red stripes along his eyes. She had a good sense of humor (it had his brothers groaning), she liked comics, she liked basketball, she cracked her knuckles like he did, and she even knew some spanish.

There was one thing different though. She had a totally different laugh them him. But it sounded so familiar to him that it always caught him off guard. He listened to his family’s laughter, wondering if she picked it up from one of them. But no, it didn’t sound similar enough.

It wasn’t until he was horribly flirting with you and that you ended up laughing at one of his fails when he realized that his daughter’s laugh matched yours. Perfectly matched. He didn’t know what relieved him more, that he kept you laughing in the future or that you were able to put up with him long enough to raise a kid with him.

Donnie didn’t really think he ever wanted to be a father. But when a turtle younger with a soft shell and matching goggles (which he was later told was actually his that she took in the future), he inferred that for some reason he had changed his mind. But he couldn’t figure out what could’ve been enough to convince him.

Mikey demanded a family photo upon seeing the cute turtle. He gathered up everyone, including you and Casey and Draxum.

When Donnie looked at the photo, he noticed both you and his daughter were shyly covering their smiles with a hand in the photo.

That ended up being the first bullet point in his new journal as he began to observe both your traits and his daughter traits. When he reached about 50 shared mannerisms, he finally allowed himself to believe that he had a chance with you. Or at least, future him did.

“You guys didn’t tell me you had a sister!” you complained, rocking on the balls of your feet as you observed this new turtle. She was even shorter than you and Mikey.

She nervously stepped back and mirrored you, rocking on her feet as well.

Mikey blinked and looked back and forth between you two, the cogs and wheels in his brain slowly turning.

And then you both sneezed the same way. And then you both smiled the same way. And then—

Mikey could barely contain himself. He launched over to you and grabbed you, hugging you so tightly you wheezed for air.

[lavenderpop]

daughters of draxum + their reformed masks

(more about them under the read more)

01 - Penelope (scarlet red)

Raphael’s clutch mate

big moody baby

she’s been told that she’s aggressive and hostile simply because she’s a snapping turtle

the oldest but was never given the role as leader due to her anger issues

once reformed, she’s less moody but still quick to anger

prefers pizza with mushrooms and bacon

02 - Chiyome (arctic blue)

Leonardo’s clutch mate

resting face, but instead of looking angry she looks so depressed

she taught herself ASL and later taught the other three so she could communicate better

was never given the leader role because she barely speaks, is thankful for that

once reformed, she’s incredibly clingy (especially with Leonardo)

prefers pizza with extra cheese

03 - Marcia (periwinkle)

Donatello’s clutch mate

probably the most cocky piece of shit you’ve ever met with the actual skills to back up their claims

almost all of her scars are from fights with Chiyome, they’ve rarely ever gotten along

was given the leader role because of her strength, smarts, and overall confidence

once reformed, they talk less and prefer to just watch everyone from their body language to how they interact with the others

prefers pizza with pineapple, bacon, and ham

04 - Mercury (bumblebee yellow)

Michelangelo’s clutch mate

they prefer they/them pronouns, but honestly couldn’t care less how you refer to them

they went blind when they were 8 because of an accident in Marcia’s lab, essentially playing with something they weren’t suppose to

their headset helps amplify sound waves and vibrations so they can navigate using echolocation (a gift from Marcia)

once reformed, they LOVE spending time with their newly found family! they can finally relax and let their guard down

will eat any kind of pizza, no questions asked (an actual vacuum cleaner when it comes to food)

———

after they’re all reformed and everything settles down, they choose their own names to go by!

Penelope is nicknamed Penny, she acts like she’s annoyed by it but secretly thinks it’s sweet

Chiyome is nicknamed Chiyo, but is called Chi-Chi by Leonardo, he’s the only one allowed to call her that

Marcia is nicknamed Mars, Marshie, and Marshmallow, she tries to act all huffy when someone calls her Marshmallow but everyone sees right through her act

Mercury is nicknamed Mercy, Merc, and Bee (mainly due to her chosen color), Mercury and Mikey both like to call each other Mimi

[taringill]

Rise girls' families - part 2. O'Neil family and Tilley family (part 1)

Семьи rise девочек - 2 часть. Семья О'Нил и семья Тилли (1 часть)

Yes, there are two whole families in this part. There will be one more part and that's it.

Да, в этой части целых две семьи. Будет ещё одна часть и всё.

What can I say about the Renet family? A normal, ordinary family. Parents love their daughter. Reinet is such a fidget, cheerful and the soul of the company in her father. Her mother is more calm.

Что могу сказать про семью Ренет? Нормальная, обычная семья. Родители любят свою дочь. Ренет такая непоседа, весёлая и душа компании в своего отца. Её мать более спокойная.

Officially, all we know about April's family is that she has a mom and dad... and that's it. There is no more official information. April's dad didn't appear or flash in the series at all, and mom appeared once in the background.

Официально про семью Эйприл мы знаем только то, что у неё есть мама и папа... и всё. Больше официальной информации нет. Папа Эйприл вообще не появлялся и не мелькал в сериале, а мама появилась один раз на заднем плане.

Here she is. Carol O'Neill

Вот она. Кэрол О'Нил

I always imagined that April's dad was pretty busy and could sometimes go on business trips, and Mom also worked, but less. April's parents (at least mom) are calm about the fact that their daughter left an unusual and magical dog as a pet. Apparently April's mother accepts that her daughter likes oddities. She even wanted to introduce her daughter to Draxum in one of the episodes of season 2. This can be understood when Drax tells Raph and April, mistaking them for April's mom, that he does not want to meet her daughter. In short, everyone should have such moms👍

Я всегда представляла, что папа Эйприл довольно занятой и иногда может уезжать в командировки, а мама тоже работает, но меньше. Родители Эйприл (как минимум мама) спокойно относятся к тому, что их дочь оставила необычную и волшебную собачку в качестве питомца. Видимо мать Эйприл принимает то, что дочь любит странности. Она даже в одной из серии 2 сезона хотела познакомить свою дочь с Драксумом. Это можно понять когда Дракс говорит Рафу и Эйприл, приняв их за маму Эйприл, что ему безразлична её дочь. Короче, всем бы таких мам👍

[quartergremlin]

Since Lena is Mikey's daughter that makes her the Family Baby's baby, like Class A smoll bean👌🌱. How pampered do you think she is by everyone? I'm interested in how her interactions with Splinter and Draxum could play out 🤔🤔. Splinter seems like the dotting grandparent type and Barry in the very least has a soft spot for Orange.

sorry! i havemt been answering any of my asks. I sat on this for far too long just to come to the same conclusions...

1: Extremely pampered!!! With raph's general attituide towards most things smaller than herself (which is most things) + Mikey's new parent/independent baby anxiety + leos worry she's going to fall over and croak + donnies. *gestures vaguely*.

I think that the turtles would dote on her /constantly/ as well as work themselves up into a feedback loop of anxiety whenever anything even hints at being wrong. Like cheetahs. Good thing they're surrounded by their own labs to tell them to knock it off (April (been dismantling Turtle Bullshit for years), Cass (mostly thinks children are indestructible), SHELLDON (been through this before), etc.)

tho she had a bit of a Rocky start with the former baby of the family..... Not that Lean remembers it.

Splinter: they say that shit parents make great grandparents! Or at least. That tends to be my experience. They have matching outfits and take all those goofy CTRL + c/v photos that parents do.

Draxum: The turtles weren't supposed to be able to procreate????? The ability to have children and everything associated is a distraction when he would have been able to whip up new soldiers know no time flat.

And now he has four grandchildren.

that being said, Draxum was very involved in Lena's early development with all the health concerns - both from Leo's hunch and from worries of Mikey's mysticism being passed down and developing too early.

He made her do /tonnes/ of boring exercises, like /meditation/ and /breathing/ (ugh). But whenever he wasn't making her do Boring Mysic Things, he was happy to basically become a vegetable and let Lena do whatever she wanted to him.

[cupcakeslushie]

Alrighty, you’ve all been asking for it and here it is. I hope this timeline of what’s basically the first two seasons, makes following the comic easier. Which speaking of—obviously there will be spoilers for the future of the comic, so if you want to continue on reading that with blinders I would just ignore this completely or you could only read up to the prologue end where what’s been released catches up. And obviously the “filler episodes” might not make it into the comic—I’ll probably just get by on those being simple one shots or something, but I wanted to include all my thoughts.

This is really mostly for the ppl who want all that lore now. Or the ones who don’t want to go through a thousand pages of unorganized text posts 😜

Big Freaking Timeline for Empyrean Weeping Separated AU

Pre-Prologue

Many Generations ago…

The Leader of the Foot Clan [name lost to time] made a deal with an oni for power and was sealed inside his own armor. He turned his clan to the ways of murdering innocents and pillaging villages to spread their control. He quickly gained the name the Shredder. Hamato Karai, daughter to the Shredder, created her own clan to fight them. After many years of the two clans warring, Karai was able to banish the oni, killing her father. The power behind the armor was destroyed, leaving it as basically nothing more than ornamentation for each new leader of the Foot to inherit.

Karai sealed the demon in the twilight realm, but was killed by the demon’s final blow.

Many years later….

Hamato Yoshi and Oroku Saki are born into the still warring clans. Hamato Sho, grandfather to Yoshi, struck down Saki’s parents in revenge for them killing his daughter, Atsuko. He then took their infant son Saki and raised him alongside Yoshi, telling the two they were brothers, hoping that one day this would lead to a path of uniting the two clans.

Yoshi and Saki grew up together, trained in the art of ninjutsu, but Yoshi left to become an actor. Saki found out the truth of his parentage, and he embraced the Foot clan’s bloody path. He swore revenge on Yoshi and the entire Hamato clan.

Yoshi meets Big Mama on the set of Crouching Shrimp Hidden Tiger Prawn and the two date for a few years but break up.

Yoshi ran into his old childhood friend Tang Shen and the two began a romance, got married, and had a baby girl—they named her Karai after Yoshi’s great ancestor.

Big Mama kidnapped Yoshi from his wife and daughter, and kept him trapped in the Battle Nexus as her champion. Saki, not realizing Yoshi was gone, attacked Teng Shen, but found Karai in the fire and took her.

For five years (I know the creators said ten but idk that’s just way too long imo) Yoshi fought in Big Mama’s Nexus, until taken by Draxum.

Yoshi broke out during Draxum’s experiment and grabbed the four turtles he saw. As he’s escaping he dropped the soft-shell, but thanks to the fire and debris, was blocked from doubling back to rescue it, forced to leave it behind.

Draxum was left with a destroyed lab and only two of his five test subjects; Three—the male soft shell turtle, and Five—the female box shell turtle. Five was much too weak to live on her own, so Draxum was forced to keep her in a coma, confined to a healing vat. He worked on rebuilding his destroyed lab, and raised Three with the intention of training him to be a great warrior in the fight to save the yokai. As Three grew, Draxum was already impressed by the intelligence he saw from Three, but was not too pleased with the lack of interest Three showed for combat training. Still Draxum would work with what he had, and if nothing else, having access to Three’s blood meant at least he wasn’t starting from scratch. The boy was smart, and helpful in the lab. For eight years Draxum trained Three and helped nurture his mind. Draxum even found a way to get wider access to Empyrean, and was really able to continue his work, but the effects of working with the Empyrean….

Prologue beginning

Under the Cut

Five years after Splinter saved the turtles he could (Raph:7, Leo:6, Mikey:5). He brings them topside, having no choice but to do a food run with them all—unfortunately the Foot finds them, and Leo and Mikey get captured.

On the way, Leo is able to injure the nin holding him and Mikey enough that he drops Mikey. Leo ordered Mikey to run, while he struggled to keep the Foot Soldier from recapturing him.

Mikey left Leo behind and ran to hide in the alleyway behind Big Mama’s hotel, where he’s later found and taken in by the spider yokai, who finds Michael adorable and interesting enough to hold her attention for now.

Leo is taken before the Shredder, and Saki decides to raise Leo instead of killing him. He trained Leo to be Karai’s(10) bodyguard and demanded Kitsune use her mystic spells to bend Leo’s memories and mind so he became the perfect soldier.

One Year After Separation

Raph(8) meet April(9) and the two became best friends. Splinter begins training them both in ninjutsu so they can protect themselves from any surprise Foot Clan attacks.

Two Years After Separation

Three(8) developed an idea for a drill that Draxum took and employed to begin a secret way of mining empyrean without drawing the attention of the Hidden City Police. As the years passed, his experiments on Three became more and more depraved. The stress and torture caused a lot of strain on Three’s mind.

Three continued his work on Five’s body, convinced he can create something that will allow her to live outside her tank.

Overseas Saki ran the Japanese branch of the Foot, and ordered the destruction of a hidden yokai village. Usagi Miyamoto(9) is taken hostage and begins lessons with Leo(8) and Karai(12).

Four Years Post Separation

Saki returned (with his odd gaggle of child soldiers) to lead the US branch of the Foot Clan.

Five Years Post Separation—(ONE YEAR BEFORE SEASON ONE)

Usagi(14) finally escaped the Foot Clan

Big Mama grew bored of raising Michael(12) and threw him into her Battle Nexus. (First Actual page of the comic)

Big Mama and Draxum cut a secret deal, once he learned she has his Fourth subject. He offered Five to Big Mama as a go-between on the grounds that she will report Four’s status in the Nexus back to Draxum, but in the interim Big Mama may use her however she desires.

Three(13) began making shock collars for Big Mama with the demand that they will never be used on his brother, and that he got to see the weekly footage of Four’s Nexus fights.

Draxum met with the Foot clan and began providing Saki with empyrean in exchange for weapons. He saw Two(13) there, under the Shredder’s command. Draxum brings Three with him from then on, to gauge just how deep Two’s loyalty to the Foot Clan ran.

In that year of dealing with Saki, Three talked excessively to Leo any chance he got in the maybe four or five times they met, but was not provided with much of a response.

Usagi, with nowhere else to go, signed up for a few fights in Big Mama’s Nexus. He meets Mikey. Out of all the jerk contenders, the two actually like each other well enough. They’re as friendly as two people that may someday fight to the death would be.

After frequently running into each other, April(15) and Raph(14) got Casey(15) to give up her role as a Foot recruit and join their side. She gets the idea to become a double agent, and is now always sneaking out to meet them and be, in her own words, “a badass vigilant”.

After a few months fighting in the Nexus Usagi left and spent a few weeks on the streets before sneaking into Run of the Mill Pizza and getting caught by Hueso. The skeleton offered a safe place for Usagi to stay.

One night while patrolling, just the two of them, April(16) and Raph(15) see Mayhem get taken and April chased after just before the portal closed. Raph went to Splinter for help and the two headed off to the Hidden City. Before they can make it to Draxum’s lab, they spot Mikey(13), fighting in the Nexus, on one of the massive view screens.

After recovering April who’s basically saved herself and Mayhem without Draxum being any the wiser. Raph and Splinter brought her back home and then quickly returned to the HC and requested an audience with Big Mama.

Splinter dropped to his knees and begged to make a deal. He would fight Big Mama’s current champion if he could have his son back. Raph cut in that he would be the one to fight, and Big Mama accepted.

Raph fought a host of contenders before Big Mama revealed that he would face off against Mikey, who didn’t seem to recognize his big brother or father. Raph managed to grab Mikey in a bear-hold and got him to listen long enough for Mikey to remember the night they were separated. He and Raph and Splinter cried and hugged and Mikey confronted Big Mama to announce that he would be leaving with his family and that he would not fight for her any more.

Big Mama remained stoic and cold, taking the news rather well, until alone in her office. In a fit of rage she screamed and even threw a few glasses at the wall before she called for Five, who she had named Venus(13).

Big Mama gave Venus the footage for the previous week of Mikey’s fights. Along with the news that it would be the end of her and Three’s deal since Mikey was now gone.

Venus returned to Draxum’s lab and ran immediately into Three(14). Three, upset by the news that he would not be getting the most recent footage Big Mama had, and that their deal was ending, became upset and his yelling drew the attention of Draxum.

Draxum locked him up for a week before he allowed Venus to release her brother. Finally Venus sat Three down and began to tell him that Mikey is now with One and Lou Jitsu.

Quick Cut—Shredder has noticed that Kitsune’s magic on Leo’s(14) mind seems weaker, and demands more exposure to the empyrean. With a demon under his control, and Karai as the perfect successor, the Foot Clan will be unstoppable, and he will finally have the ultimate revenge on Hamato Yoshi.

Mikey returns to the lair with Raph and Splinter where he meets April. He’s shy, but content. Later, when in bed Mikey’s thoughts do wander to worries that his family may one day grow bored of him, just like Big Mama did. Mikey falls into an uneasy sleep.

SEASON ONE

Leo day after day as Second in Command of the Foot Clan finds his mind harder to focus lately. Something about the two turtles he keeps running into on missions plus the odd, manic one that always accompanies Draxum during his deals with Master Shredder. They seem to scratch an itch in Leo’s brain that just won’t go away.

Leo runs into Raph and Mikey and April long enough for them to finally try to talk, but . But Tigerclaw interrupts and takes Leo away when he refuses to fight his brothers.

Later when Leo is kneeling before Saki, Leo finds his Master isn’t pleased that he failed to kill their enemies when he had the perfect opportunity. Saki punishes Leo far more severely than he has in years. Casey, who knows Leo is in danger, fetches Usagi from his job at Run of the Mill, and Mikey meets them in the alley with the idea to go to Big Mama for the fastest route to Saki’s private compound and save Leo just in time.

Leo spends the next few months recovering and reluctantly staying in the lair, smart enough to know that returning to his Master would be a death sentence. Eventually his memories that were tampered with start to slowly return and he feels deeply the need to protect Mikey. Unfortunately his hatred for Splinter doesn’t seem to be dissipating and he spends a lot of time butting heads with Raph. He sees April’s skill and is impressed. He ignores Casey and refuses to see her as anything but a traitor.

Eventually his family grows comfortable enough to let him have more freedom, and Leo begins to join them on patrol.

While out one night, Leo cuts down a whole squad of Foot ninja when Mikey gets badly hurt. Raph is pretty shaken up and Splinter bans Leo from patrolling with the team, until he can learn to use less lethal methods.

One day, Splinter brings Leo into the dojo and shows his son the old shrine that was made for him and Mikey.

Splinter then shows Leo the weapons hung next to the shrine.

(Excerpt from notes app lol)

Splinter looked at the wall as he spoke. “Raphael and Michelangelo have already chosen their own. I always planned to gift these to you boys. Seeing how effortlessly you used to copy me when I practiced myself. I’d be honored for you to carry a piece of the Hamato clan with you.”

Leo mirrored Splinter’s gaze and stared straight ahead, not knowing how to feel about that bit of information. Regardless he found it easy to keep his tone detached.

“Shredder had me master a number of weapons. But I’ve always been best with my katana.”

Splinter chuckles with a fondly, sad smile. “Hm, yes. You were always most eager to swing around anything you could when you boys played. And would pretend to stab Raphael in the gut whenever he offered to play the role of the big scary dragon.”

Stoicism was now perhaps a bit harder. Still Leo would not allow himself to show any weakness over something so trivial as a tale he didn’t even remember.

“It would be foolish to trust your enemy with such a deadly weapon.”

Finally Splinter took his eyes off the wall and faced Leo. The terrapin refused to return the courtesy, but Splinter wasn’t deterred by the cold shoulder.

“You are not an enemy. You are my son.” Leo was slightly shocked at how easily Splinter claimed him. The rat spoke as surely as if he was simply reading facts from one of those dusty old scrolls he had tried to get Leo to read. A (poor) early attempt to reintroduce Leo to the great and honorable Hamato Clan. Perhaps his father had hoped it would be one possible way to cut through all the lies that Saki had spent years filling his son’s head with. Leo had not gotten very far into the literature before tossing it aside in frustration.

The rat continued on, still not once wavering. “The katana has always been a weapon of honor. I trust you to use them well, in the service of protecting this city and your brothers.”

Leo grew pensive—it was like viewing a weapon he’s cast his eyes on a million times in a new light. It had been a few years since Leo had heard something rather similar.

Only one other person in Leo’s entire life had spoken to him of honor in regards to the blade.

The slider tried not to think of the boy he hadn’t even seen in years. Now that he’s not so far under Saki spell, Leo could recognize the lump of coal that sat heavy in his stomach as guilt. Just the small reminder of the rabbit set it immediately ablaze.

Leo’s not sure why only now the idea of honor moved something in him, but since first waking up in the lair, and the months he’s spent with his actual, true family. The slider had found his thoughts more open to wandering and engaging with ideas that he would’ve never entertained while under Master Shredder.

Splinter continued quickly, seeing some kind of headway in the more and more open look that grew on Leo’s face. “These have been in our family for generations. And even though you boys were apart, It seems fate of some kind has paired you to each of these.”

He paused just a moment to chuckle sadly as if a stray thought suddenly occurred, “I do wonder, with you choosing the Katana. That just leaves the Bō. I’m curious how your brother Donatello would have wielded it. A simple weapon but in the right hands it can be most versatile.”

“Donatello?” Leo searched the bits of stray memories that had returned to him these last few months, but in none of them, he recalled seeing a third brother. Splinter’s words had him beyond confused, and a little worried that he had even more lost memories to regain.

Splinter looked embarrassed over the clear confusion his rambling had caused to suddenly shatter the previous air.

“Ah….yes. Forgive me. I did not wish to overwhelm you when you first arrived, but I suppose now you are ready to hear about how you were created. How Draxum—“

“Draxum?!”

Season One Midpoint

Draxum decides to finally hold another meeting with Shredder after a few months. Three now finds out that Two has ran away after failing in a mission. When he returns to his lab, Three activates the tracker he secretly placed on Two and is beyond shocked to see him in the company of One and Four.

Three suffers a serious break when he sees them with April, and thinks he’s been replaced by a human. As the final straw shatters his control, Three attacks them all in an attempt to get answers and find out why they all seemed so happy together while he was left alone. After an intense fight, Raph manages to grab Three and Leo knocks him out, so they can take him back to the lair.

Donnie spends the next few months getting used to living with his family.

Raph and Leo continue to get into frequent arguments. Leo’s anger only seems to be getting worse. Mikey tries to keep the peace and does his best to keep the lair running smoothly. Leo takes his anger out on Mikey and immediately feels bad.

Tide Pod bros themed episode. Leo apologizes to Mikey for yelling at him. They bond while doing something silly.

April and Casey start dating. Hypno and Warren episode (plot tbd but they keep interrupting the girls’ first date)

Donnie starts constructing his lab and finally seems like he’s developing a stronger relationship with Leo. The two come up with the whole ‘twin’ idea and agree to share a birthday.

Mikey and Raph have a fun bonding episode (Maybe either Meat Sweats or Stockboy)

Venus runs into the family while out on a mission for Big Mama. Donnie tries to talk with her but she remains silent and shows no mercy in attacking him. Later Donnie explains who she is to the fam and the brothers promise him they’ll find a way to bring her home.

April, Raph, Donnie run into the Purple Dragons while incognito at a tech store that Donnie really wanted to go to. Donnie is beyond impressed by them, but Raph is wary. April warns the boys the Purple Dragons are trouble. But Donnie doesn’t listen, and fights with April then to spite her, asks to join their group. They let him in after he shows off his tech and eventually Donnie discovers that April was right. She helps Donnie take back his tech that was stolen, but the Dragons get away. Donnie apologizes for the way he’s treated April since joining the family and the two gain a better understanding.

Leo and Raph argue one night and it’s so bad that Leo takes off. While out he gets recaptured by the Foot and Saki holds him for weeks at his secret compound. Leo sees visions of his long dead ancestor Karai who tries to help him through the constant torture, but thanks to Saki merging Kitsune’s magic with the empyrean, Leo’s mind is falling further than ever under the Shredder’s control.

Season One Finale

When the family finds Leo, he is trapped in a new type of mystic armor and doesn’t even seem to recognize them, viciously attacking them. He takes out everyone but Raph, and when he goes after his oldest brother, he almost manages to take him out as well, but Karai comes to Raph in a vision and helps walk Raph through the ancient ritual she created to banish the empyrean from Leo’s mind. Now free the two then take on Shredder, before grabbing their family and retreating. Family also learns about Karai being Splinter’s daughter.

Season Two

Twins’ Birthday episode for season premiere! Home once again, Leo finds he’s much calmer, only growing angry for shorter and less frequent bouts. And now that the family knows what’s causing it, they can work on controlling it. Donatello informs Leo that he and Draxum were the ones responsible for providing the Shredder with the empyrean, but Leo doesn’t care and tells Donnie not to worry about it. They enjoy their first real birthday with the whole family.

Another run in with Venus while Donnie is out with Mikey. This time Donnie tries his best to explain that he never wanted to leave her behind, and wants her to come back to the lair with him. Venus looks unsure, but refuses and retreats. Mikey&Venus twin reveal.

Leo and Raph gain a new understanding and grow closer. They settle into co-leading the team.

Leo, April, and Donnie have a fun episode together. Raph and Casey vigilante B plot. Splinter and Mikey want to watch their shows but the Wi-Fi is not working, with Donnie gone, they accidentally destroy the lair attempting to fix it.

April and Casey try again for a second date that once again keeps getting interrupted by goofy stuff. This time by the boys.

Rat Flu episode

The gang run into a salamander mutant named Mona and have to stop her from stealing a big jewel from a museum. Raph is pretty smitten when she manages to surprise him by taking him down easily and escaping.

Purple Dragons episode (plot tbd) but something akin to the Fourfold Trap from tmnt!2012

Donnie manages to convince the family to try and repeat the very same ritual Raph did on Leo, on Draxum. They reluctantly agree, as long as Donnie goes through it as well. He agrees and they come up with a plan to capture Draxum.

Season Two Midpoint

Venus agrees to join them temporarily, and helps them take down Draxum long enough to get him back to the lair. In the middle of the ritual, Mikey’s mystic powers activate and somehow manage to link Donnie and Draxum’s minds, pulling the boys in and letting them see all the horrible things Three went through. They run into the darker hallucination versions of themselves that Donnie always sees and have to make a run for it when they’re attacked. Then they meet an adorable, little Three who guides them deeper into the mental link where they finally see Draxum, who looks worse for wear and cries upon seeing the small, child version of Three.

The ritual works and Draxum is purged of most of the empyrean, when the boys are pulled out however, they realize it didn’t work on Donnie for some reason. Donnie doesn’t seem bothered and is just excited about what the ritual working on Draxum means, but Draxum is too ashamed to face anyone and makes a run for it while the boys are distracted.

The boys and April have a fun day enjoying the snow, but get into it when they can’t agree on whether Lou Jitsu or Jupiter Jim is better. Raph and Mikey are on team Lou and Leo and April on team JJ, Donnie who can’t decide, keeps switching back and forth.

The gang spends a day in the Hidden City and ends it by attending a show where the lead singer is a shockingly loud, spunky female turtle. The boys are confused to see another mutant turtle, but Donnie promises Draxum only had files on the Five of them, and is convinced she must be a yokai. The band gets attacked by some of Big Mama’s goons and the gang rush in to help. After everything is settled the female turtle introduces herself to the gang as Jennika and vows to repay the boys for saving her.

Karai episode (plot tbd)

Leo, Raph and Splinter all have trouble accepting the new Draxum so Mikey as Dr Feelings has the bright idea to spend a fun day touring New York. April comes up with a scavenger hunt but it quickly goes off the rails thanks to Big Mama (not exactly Battle Nexus: New York, more like a mix between the Hidden City episodes and then the start of the BN:NY ep)

(Now closer to the actual BN:NY ep) The whole family gets taken prisoner by Big Mama, who reveals her grand plan to have Raph and Mikey battle it out to see who will be her new champion. They win by outsmarting her and the last shot is her looking very disheveled and angry. As a last resort she calls a contact from deep in the underbelly of the Hidden City. A man covered with bandages, who looks practically like a corpse, emerges from the shadows and asks how he can help.

Leo asks Usagi to join him on a vision quest and the two leave for Japan via portal, where Usagi knows of a place that is said to provide those worthy with great inner peace. Usagi-centered episode. We get to see his village which Leo and Usagi are shocked to find out has been rebuilt in the years he’s been gone.

Season Two Finale

Donnie’s side effects from the empyrean are growing worse and he begins to research in secret the origins of the mystic substance. In his desperation for answers Donnie ignores an alert for a 317-39.4 that comes up right as he’s made a huge discovery. Not wanting to stop just as he’s found something big Donnie takes off without telling his brothers. His findings bring him to the Crying Titan where he discovers the source of the empyrean, the skeleton, inside. But before he can attempt to investigate further he’s stopped by the appearance of a young boy calling himself Casey Jones Junior, and his hooded companion. The companion warns Donnie that unless he wants to lose an eye, he shouldn’t get any closer to the creature. Donnie is skeptical, but heeds the warning, especially when the boy tells him they’ve come back from the future to help and uses a special code Donnie developed during a late night bout of insomnia driven boredom.

Donnie takes the new strangers back to the lair where Raph and Mikey are both upset over Donnie’s disappearance. Raph says they could’ve used his help fighting Warren Stone and Hypno, who managed to make off with robbing some old artifact. Donnie admits to ignoring that alert in favor of his research and Raph grows even more upset.

The hoodie figure declares to the boy that they’ve arrived too late and the two future strangers tell the family that they’ve come to stop the Kraang and that they need to call Leo back home. They will need everyone if they’re going to stop the end of the world.

MOVIE TIME

Haha jk no major spoilers quite yet.

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Incorrect Quotes w/ RotTMNT ocs

Just different incorrect quotes that fit these oddballs to some degree.

Cyrus Weaver

We got a free day now. What do you wanna do? Eat? Sleep? Nap? Snack?

Can I offer you a nice stick in this trying time?

Do you even, cuddle, bro? Do you even lift, bro… each other up with kindness? Do you tell your loved ones that you care about them regardless of who is listening? DO YOU EVER RESOLVE CONFLICTS, EMOTIONAL ISSUES THROUGH COMPROMISE AND COMPASSION RATHER THAN ANGER AND DENIAL?!

I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me first.

War is heck!

Valkyrie "Kyrie"

Underestimate me. That'll be fun.

What doesn't kill me better start running, because now I'm fucking pissed.

I scare people a lot because I walk very softly and they don't hear me enter rooms. So when they turn around, I'm just kind of there and their fear fuels me.

Does anyone know how to relax? Asking for a friend.

Unfortunately, due to several experiences in my youth, I cannot just 'walk up and join a circle of people talking', but it does sound lovely, thank you.

Irene "Ren" Weaver

I'm hot, I’m tall, I'm gay, and I'm on my theatre kid arc.

In case you haven’t noticed, I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t “fit in” and I don’t WANT to fit in. Have you ever seen me without these stupid sunglasses on? That’s weird.

I don’t think the therapist is supposed to say ‘wow’ that many times during their first session with a client, but here we are.

Like, no offense to myself and all, but what the fuck am I actually doing?

Arson? Oh, you mean "crime brûlée".

Judith "Jude" Weaver

I didn’t even realize how sarcastic I was being. It’s starting to become a problem, I think.

People always shoot down my ideas and I’m sick of it. Two sentences in and everyone’s always shouting “what the fuck? that’s illegal!” and “you can’t do that!”. Like, c'mon, let me talk!

I like wearing oversized sweaters. Not just because they're extremely comfy and cuddly, but because whenever the sleeves are really big, I get to flop them around and smack people.

I started school with straight A’s. Now I’m not even straight.

I love the term 'partners'. Are we dating? Are we robbing a bank? Are we the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies and are members of an elite squad known as the special victims unit? Who knows.

-Bonus, had Kyrie stick around long enough for snow day to happen-

Kyrie: I’ve never been in a snowball fight before. I don’t know the rules. Leo: What? Kyrie: Is there a point system, or is it to the death?

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Random question from someone who likes anatomy and fantasy anatomy. I saw your post about Leo's kids! They're adorable by the way. But I was wondering what your anatomy thoughts were if you had any? If Leo is carrying kids, are the turtles more mammalian in your AU? Or do you think Draxum managed to create something entirely new? Sorry if this is a weird question. Also love your other anatomy blurbs. Donnie with retractable teeth is very cool :)

Hullo

The way I view their anatomy isn’t all that confusing. Honestly, it’s probably surface level.

Yokai have a lot of mammalian traits, but I still see them as having the basic anatomical characteristics of their feral counterparts. However, instead of being able to breed only with species in their group, they can successfully breed with any species that has similar anatomy

For example, egg-laying creatures can only have viable offspring with other egg-laying creatures, and live-birth creatures can only have offspring with other live-birth creatures. They can attempt to intermix, but this almost always ends in miscarriage or the death of the potential offspring.

This is why turtle Yokai/hybrids are almost nonexistent. If they do breed, the child will most likely not resemble a turtle.

Now, entering the turtles bros, the problem with them is that they aren’t 100% turtle; they also have human DNA mixed within them. This is how Leo is able to have offspring with Usagi. The only problem is that he is half turtle, so his body will occasionally try to develop a live birth species in an egg, which causes instant miscarriage. This is what happened during his first pregnancy.

He was having a human child, but the child was developing inside of an egg, so it could not survive. In lore, this is called FHD—fatal hybrid development.

How I see it, Leo's anatomy can hold both human and reptile aspects, which is why he has a menstrual cycle instead of a heat cycle.

There is also the fact that when he’s pregnant, he needs incredible amounts of calcium that regular shells and bones cannot provide. The only place they can get a viable solution is from an island completely occupied by turtle Yokai called “Scute Island,” but that’s lore for later. :3

So in all Leo somehow despite all the difficulties was able to not only have triplets, and a daughter but also produce a turtle hybrid 👍 he’s built different