I've been obsessed with @hatekawa 3 Months AU and been wanting to do a drawing for it for a while. I might do a better piece later but this is what i have for now :p
This just started out as a doodle and playing with lighting but i kinda like how it turned out.
Most of these are redraws of pre-existing panels from the comic so uh. See if you can catch em all i guess?
I'll be honest. I have never drawn a proper turtle in my life. I have never drawn Donnie in my life. I've never drawn Casey.
But sometimes a series about turtles (cough cough @somerandomdudelmao 's Cass Apocalyptic Series) hits you straight in the guts with feels and you just. Gotta open up your drawing program
this comic is one of the major reasons why i still use Tumblr AND DARN IT I LOVE IT. SO MUCH. I COULD SCREAM ABOUT THIS TO SOMEONE FOR LIKE. 3 HOURS. ITS SO GOOD
I’ve seen around theories about ninpo being connected with emotions, but I found something I haven’t seen lots of people talk about!
(It’s fairly long so continue after cut lol)
So Mikey is a staple to this argument, since he’s the most connected to his emotions from his brothers and he’s the one who figures out his mystical weapon first. Also he becomes something short of a god in the apocalypse
This connection has also been seen how Ralph tends to use his powers to protect his brothers and how Donnie, a logic driven character, uses ninpo to create the entirety of the U.S arsenal
But I haven’t seen much of Leo?
And yet he has a specific scene that just ENHANCES this whole thing!
Remember in the movie when he’s trying to explain to Casey that he messed up?
His marks are glowing
Just as they glow when using ninpo or other mystic abilities
Also notice how no other character is glowing
He’s also VERY distressed, in a way we haven’t seen much of until now, AND lots- I mean LOTS- of character analysis reference the movie as one of the biggest evidences of Leo’s insecurities
A commonly made point is his rapid change from face-man-as-a-joke to ignorant-even-when-in-a-HUGE-argument-with-Ralph
In this scene we also see his facade crack, as his facial expression alternates LOTS
So if we’re merging the ideas of ninpo with Leo’s struggle with his emotions, it helps explain why it is his marks glow. It’s becoming harder to hide his true feelings, and one of the ways they’re showing is through ninpo. And as his feelings are a mess, his ninpo in battle can be a bit uncoordinated, which can ALSO explain lots of his blunders in the movie (lack of plan and insecurity of ability to execute it directly affecting his ninpo use)
☆Suppressed emotions>sudden realizations>burst or just fail to continue to cover emotions☆
Even though in the series we don’t get him blatantly admitting to all of this, I feel it’s more so because of the show being cut off rather than disproving this point
I’m not sure if I’m REALLY onto something or if someone already covered it, but I just thought it was really cool and wanted to put it out there!
P.S. all of the Leo-centric ideas (AND THE SCREENSHOTS) I got from THIS wonderful video I think EVERYONE should watch just bc it’s so in depth and one of the most thoughtful ROTTMNT analysis I’ve seen in a hot sec
Oh look, it's me, coming at you, the viewer, with another RotTMNT fic that's been waterboarding my brain in all the best ways possible. It's got everything: supernatural eldritch forces at play, a plot that slowly unfolds before you, elements of phycological horror, beautifully descriptive language, and all the brotherly angst you could ask for.
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@filsa-mek I have so many more things I want to draw I am legit drowning in creative ideas and I do not have the time for them all your fic is a siren song and I am just a hapless sailor 🙏
Some of them are more into the pose than others... I couldn't just choose one Raph, come on, that's my emotional support red turtle, I love them all, even the ones not pictured here <3
Bonus because I can't not include my own iteration
I'm probably gonna do a couple more and I'm being generous here because I've decided it's a smarter choice to let my computer just rest (in peace)