Fun little silly thought I had about the Lair Games and specifically Leo deliberately losing is all the reasons he could have for doing so.
My favorite headcanon for his main motivation is that Splinter wasn’t proud of him anymore.
I imagine that, in the beginning, winning the Lair Games was Leo’s opportunity to shine. He wasn’t artistic or the baby of the family like Mikey, wasn’t a tech genius who created amazing inventions like Donnie, wasn’t the eldest who was insanely strong and dependable like Raph. So he had to shine somewhere else- anywhere else- and what better way to get attention than to be a winner? A champion?
And then he won too much. And it wasn’t special anymore. He got too big headed, too cocky, he knew this was his element and he ran with it.
Splinter’s words of congratulations slowly petered out. Suddenly, there was no real reason to win.
Winning feels empty when the only one cheering you on is yourself.
So- Leo schemed. And he’s a great schemer, fooling his whole family (and Donnie did deserve a win- people were way happier when he won.)
He even gave up his prized possession! His room!
Though he knows his brothers probably think it’s a bad prize. A terrible one, even.
Leo doesn’t sleep much as is, though. So Dad’s snores were more comforting than anything. It was reassuring to hear him so clearly alive and close by.
Even if the distance between them was larger than Leo’d like.
He’d just have to find something else, something more to show his dad that Leo was someone to trust, to be proud of, to love.
He gets his chance soon after, when he needs to pull off a plan against Big Mama at his dad’s side. Leo can only hope this victory is one that has a lasting effect when his father looks at him with pride once more.
It has been a little bit since tbb ended and even longer since “Plan 99” aired and I’m still sitting here completely crushed. I miss Tech. I miss him and I’m still so upset and I don’t want to be a complainer but I’m still so gutted by season 3 and *gestures to everything* and I just feel so emotional about it.
Anyways now that I know that evil Jay is real can someone who’s listened to/ listen to Home by Edith Whiskers and tell me how painful of a Jaya/ just Nya animatic I could make to it (without actually spoiling ANYTHING. I want no dialogue no scene descriptions. Just and only a scale from like 1 to 10 or something.)
guys i feel bad bc there ARE some legitimately nice tim stans but the majority make me wanna stuff rocks down their throats. like, the nice tim stand make him interesting (tho it’s mostly ooc) and (almost) likeable while the… others make him so y/n, self insert, sad boy, whumpy, SO ooc it’s almost worse than he is in canon
the only seb fics i’m currently reading are @adylorewrites + @choccy-milky’s. i used to read a lot more, but they’ve all either been abandoned or update so infrequently that i’ve put off reading them until they’re completed.
if you’re looking for fics, here’s a link to an AO3 filter i used to use with seb fics sorted by most hits with some other tags excluded that tend to get in the way, so it should be like 99% seb/mc fics.
for one shots, @applinsandoranges is my favorite writer. she writes seb so well and her writing is very hogwartsy. i’ve even requested a few there
also omg i almost forgot but i wrote a one shot myself LMFAO you can read it here! it’s based off of choccy’s fic so if you’re a fan of hers you’ll probs like it, BUT even if you haven’t read her fic as long as you like taylor swift you’ll like it TRUST ME. even if you don’t like taylor swift it’s still a funny scenario to read play out: of seb and mc experiencing a concert 100+ years into a new era, all through their poor victorian child eyes (and ears)