#dont get my wrong i love raph and mikey but as soon as i saw the twins hc

[nanzyn]

i’ve scrolled through (most of, I keep specific filters on and refuse to take them off) the rottmnt tag on ao3 and I'm really sad that I havent come across the exact post-s2/movie disaster twin body-swap fic that lives in my head :/

like i want it to happen either cause of a mutant or cause mikey was practicing with his new mystic abilities and then just Chaos ensues

i want leo-as-donnie not knowing how to use the battle shells and accidentally wrecking a thing or two while donnie-as-leo panics

i want donnie having to tie together the long tails of leo’s bandana into a comically large bow cause they irritated him so much and leo threatened to lose his shit if donnie cut them short

i want leo refusing to draw on donnie’s signature eyebrows until they really start to fade and donnie essentially ties him to a chair and draws them on himself (or leo begrudgingly sits down one night and does them (they turn out bad but donnie appreciates it))

i want them feeling each other’s chronic pains. leo not realizing how much it hurts to have the battle shell on for as long as donnie usually has it on. and (specifically post movie) donnie feeling the chronic after effects of the krang’s onslaught when leo’s body has a chronic pain flare up (and since neither really complain about it both are like taken aback by how much pain their brother is in at any given point in time)

but most importantly i want a scene with both of them trying to teach each other their weapons because (for plot reasons) their specific nimpo powers didn’t follow them into their new bodies

so leo trying to teach donnie how to make portals and it going Not Well. like, raph having to make the rule “no one goes through the portal unless we can see the other one” bad. (they end up having to walk back from new jersey)

and donnie trying to teach leo how to summon tech using his bo and leo thinking it’s gonna be easy, just think of a cool rocket or something, and then donnie slaps down the schematics for something and tells him he essentially needs to know the ins and outs of anything he wants to make

and thats just the powers part of it. both of them having to learn the basics of using each weapon. leo doesn’t take it seriously at first but when he finally does donnie is surprised with how good he actually is at teaching (even if he doesn’t use the quote-unquote right terminology (“you gotta do a lil fancy footwork thing when you move like that” “feel the vibes, does it feel right?” etc)) donnie gets frustrated easily when he tries to teach leo (“no you do not swing a bo like a baseball bat!”) but leo eventually calms down and takes it serious(ly enough) for some of donnie’s lessons to get through

(at some point the boys try to play basketball and raph and mikey make them play on their own team and they get their asses hilariously handed to them.

until they play again after the scene(s) where they learn each other’s weapons and then they’re Simpatico (they still lose but not by as much))

and then the thing gets reversed somehow and they grow closer as brothers the end