#leatherhead tag.

[incorrect-tmnt2012-quotes]

Renet, to Leatherhead: How can anything be wrong between you and Mikey? You love him more than I do.

Mondo Gecko: *looks at Renet*

Renet: It's true and I'm okay with it.

[sand-scourge]

leatherhead but i drew her again

[yellowhollyhock]

okay okay so the 2003 turtles. The mutagen is a byproduct of Utrom technology right. And made hem super strong and intelligent, but when Splinter describes their mutation he mostly emphasizes intelligence. Which is the opposite of what Bishop's mutagen does in season 4, instead of increased intelligence and super durable bodies you get reverting to lizard brain and cells breaking down. Or was the cells breaking down only Donny because of how it interacted with his mutation? I think it's not specified and for a few reasons I prefer option 1 but I'll have to go back and check

Anyway. Thinking about how some versions of turtles have Hamato Yoshi's DNA, thus part human, while others are literally hyper-intelligent giant turtles. Technically 0% human just seem humanoid because of how the mutagen affected them

So so what I'm saying is. They're not part Utrom either, like it's just a byproduct, however, it makes more sense that the heightened intelligence would be making a creature more Utrom-like rather than humanoid

And so and so see guys the the hive mind. The 2003 turtles, the codependency the silent communication. The type of intelligence the mutagen caused them to develop specifically being a kind that would lead to: extremely tight knit social unit, each member responsible for a certain role in order to make one whole, loyalty to a cause and/or leader. Also the extreme importance for little blob creatures living cooperatively like that of not physically harming each other, as well as durability (Ch'rell the cockroach)

And then! think about Leatherhead. Developing that type of intelligence while also being socialized with the Utrom. And going from that to being completely alone. And the fact that after being so traumatized by Bishop he retreats back to the familiarity of the last thing that traumatized him so deeply, because he's so afraid of hurting his friends. The fact that the only people on earth who can understand his specific social needs are right there and want him with them but he can't.

[my-name-is-bunnyfoxy]

~ TMayNT Day 6: Favorite mutant ally ~

I was terrified of drawing Leatherhead but he came out good! I had fun with the textures.

@tmaynt I came to know I actually gotta tag ya. I think-

[68spidey]

@weregreatatcrime @suetonicsonic @magic-mikey @violetscacti-art @bloopsalot @kreoenadark (HELP WHAT'S YOUR USERNAME) I think that's everyone who joined in on the doodling last night! I was going for like... nine hours and didn't realize it until it was almost 3 am.

Uhhh Leo has a lil buddy now?? It started as a quick little gift but then spawned into a "Yeah this is a thing now" as @weregreatatcrime can attest to. It started off cute then it got spicy then it got REAL SAD but it's fine. It's all fine.

[squidsqwag]

I CANT DO THIS THE WAY MIKEY TRIES TO GIVE AN OVER THE SHOULDER HUG BUT LEATHERHEAD IS SO FUCKING MASSIVE SO HE JUST SLIDES OFF OF HIM ….., I CARE !!!!!!!!! I CARE SO MUCH !!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE CARE

[glubby-guppiez]

*Random TMNT 2012 (mainly side characters) hc's bcuz hyperfixation

*(this is the best divider to ever exist btw)

*Warnings: Spoilers for TMNT 2012 ofc, mentions of gender dysphoria and trans related insecurity, transphobia, accidental arson, bullying, manipulation, ptsd, also the tone of the headcanons shift randomly also also typing quirk

*Chris Bradford is trans. )(e did a full transition, he did hormones, voice training, top and bottom surgery, a few different surgeries to make him look/feel more masculine, all the bells and whistles, even went the extra mile to do procedures to hide his surgery scars. )(e's closeted and does about everything in his power to make sure no one even question that he was assigned female at birth because he's scared of his social image of being the great macho man, Chris Bradford, crumbling.

*Leo mainly or solely uses fandom and fanfic socials like Wattpad, AO3, Amino, Tumblr, and maybe Twitter. She mainly interacts with Space )(eroes and Crognard The Barbarian fan posts and shows a special interest in gender swap aus.

*Later on, post show with Muckman's help the mutants are actually able to freely walk around humans without them completely flipping out and starting a mob to witch hunt after them.

*Speaking of walking around humans, Napoleon and the frogs down in Louisiana are considered local urban legend and humans get really excited when they spot the frogs in the woods.

*Dr. Rockwell is a very big coffee enjoyer and used to secretly steal coffee from the nearby shops around the mighty mutanimals hideout and on the rare occasion when someone caught him and called him out he would always use the excuse of the shops being owned by big corporations.

*Don Visioso is a deadbeat father of 5. )(e also has had multiple wives and many divorces.

*Mondo Gecko will call people posers if he's jealous enough of them.

*Ivan Steranko is also trans but has only had hrt and face masculinizing surgery and refuses to get top and bottom surgery.

*Anton Zeck is incredibly smart and performed extremely well in high school and even got free scholarships for how well he did.

*Shinigami is a big video game nerd and will geek out if anyone mentions one of the games she plays.

*The reason Anton hated the mutant name Mikey gave him at first is because it either sounds a lot like or straight up is a nickname old bullies of him gave in order to make fun of him.

*Premutation, Chris acts transphobic towards Xever (despite Xever being cis) out of jealousy and insecurity.

*Baxter Stockman is either a gay aroace trans mspec nonbinary man or a cishet ally. No in-between.

*Mini April cluster!!!:

*April has a deep love for literature and writes poetry in her spare time.

*She almost burned down the culinary class in her school once.

*She's questioning aroace.

*She felt extra empathy for Muckman because he reminded her of Kirby a little bit.

*She likes to hide stickers around the lair whenever has them on her person.

*She thoroughly enjoys having long conversations with each of the individual turtles. (It's her favorite way to spend time with anyone tbh)

*April does eventually take some time to properly learn Japanese and becomes pretty decent at speaking and reading it.

*)(er and Donnie often like to geek out together whenever they find anything new about aliens (both species they haven't seen yet and ones they know well like the kraang).

*End of the mini April cluster!!!

*Kirby O'Neil is a pretty decent cook. That man can make a mean chicken stew.

*Shinigami actually owns multiple cats. 2 ragdoll, 1 sphinx, 1 Persian, and 3 British shorthairs (I could name them all, but I don't wanna). Also, the majority of them are black cats. She feeds strays, too.

*The last headcanon is much to Karai's dismay because she is somewhat allergic. She gets headaches, her skin gets slightly irritated and she gets the sniffles if she's around cats for too long.

*Casey's younger sister wants to be a hair stylist when she grows up, so Jones let's her do his hair every once in a while and he flexes it to every one at the lair like: "Oh? My hair? Yeah, my sister did it for me. Pretty metal, what she did with it, right?"

*Tigerclaw is the only Foot Clan member to not bully Baxter Stockman.

*Someone manipulated and lied to Alopex in order to make her hate and hunt down her brother.

*After season 4, Baxter Stockman leaves New York and takes over Stockman Industries. (If you're unaware of what that is, it's on billboards that the turtles pass throughout the show the most notable appearance being in the ending scene of the final season 4 episode, 'Owari'.)

*Slash deep down still misses The Newtralizer.

*Leatherhead kind of freaks out (apologies for the bad wording) when someone fully wraps their arms around his neck when hugging him because it reminds him of the restraints the Kraang put him in.

*Pigeon Pete learns how to bake so he can make his own bread.

*The turtles get a Wii (or whatever the universes equivalent is).

*Mondo Gecko gets an old Xbox and plays Tony )(awk games, Bully, and Twisted Metal on it.

*Ivan and Anton actually move out to New Jersey post show.

*Alr, that's all for now, toodles!!!

[kesoyotes]

@tmaynt Challenge: Day 6 - Favorite Mutant Ally

I had this prompt on lock since day one, they can never make me hate her

[sailorrdee]

You guys seemed to really dig my rottmnt Leatherhead design, so I thought you’d be interested in the story I wrote for him! 

You can read it here!

I’m working on a multi-chaptered sequel to it that’ll be up once I feel like it’s ready to be shown to the world.

[radical-rigatoni1]

Fanart for the masterpiece of a fic called 'Hey Sunshine' by @leadenn (sorry for @ ing you): https://archiveofourown.org/works/46360378/chapters/116722423

Its super good read it, I'm forcing you with my superman Lazer eyes zoning in on your position RIGHT MEOW(not rly)

(Me screaming below👇)

They look kinda silly here bcs I've never drawn Leatherhead AND IM TIRED OUTTA MY MINDD but i NEEEDDD to draw this or else ill explode. Hey sunshine has made me appreciate these two as a pairing so much more. Lik i alrdy did but now i cant get em outta my headd AAGHHHH SO TY LEADENN AND I SWEARRR IM MAKING MORE FANZART 4 UR FIC I SWEAR!!! I MAY BE IN 5HE SCARY ROADS OF TEXAS ON MY ROAD TRIP OR IN A HOTEL WITH DOOKY WIFI BUT BY GOD THE GRIND NEV ER STOPS!!

[joyfuladorable]

Sunshine in the Rain by Carnati0n_bl00m

“Wait, you don’t have a name? What about your parents, didn’t they give you one?”

The man simply raised his eyebrow, a small grin revealing pointed teeth.

“I do not truly have parents.”

“ What!? That’s insane!” Mickey had never been so - so -

Scandalized!

WOW OKAY!! This kinda gotta away from me cuz I wanted to TRY doing two (technically 3) scenes. THIS FIC, MAN!! It's got Mikey angst and hurt/comfort! It's got Bishop being an absolute bastard, and I wanna punt him to the moon and back!! It's got Mikey & Leatherhead becoming Besties!!! I read it right after watching the Rise Movie and OHHHH boy, it is GOOD!!!!

Concepts for Bishop and Leatherhead! Did not draw Bishop much at all, lol. Will probably use the ref for future stuff, though! Also, I took forever finishing these cuz LH's design started becoming Bleh to me, but I had to commit cuz I was most of the way through the naming scene. Will likely tweak the design later!

[turtle-trash]

More leatherhead and Korosensei crackship art this time with even more homosexuality. Btw the context for 2 of These is that dee essentially makes a modified mutagen specifically for Korosensei to be able to control the antimatter in his body (hense being able to switch back n forth between human and octo form. I know this makes no logical or scientific sense but tmnt is a fantasy Land at heart, which bleed over to the AC side of things)

Also Bonus aguri meme

[sand-scourge]

very real tottmnt screenshot, not edited at all

[iridescentmidnights]

Donnie the couch hog in progress. Now featuring Leatherhead and Klunk 💖😌💖

Left to right; Leo, Mikey, Donnie, LH, Raph, Klunk.

[eyeknowmayhem]

@z0mburger ❤'d for a one liner

"lil' piece of advice, if yer gonna make burgers with perfectly good roadkill, actually cook it. The rat's still squeakin." quite literally, in this case; the tail twitches where it hangs out from the bone dry burger bun.

[gothamcitycentral]

Annnd this is the semiofficial Reptilian Swag Wars and it’s entrees. If enough people agree to participate (through reply, reblog, an ask, whatever you can come up with) I’ll set up an official voting. A poll for each round would be set up on google forms, each round having a day to carry out, the first theoretically beginning on Oct 10th.

If you think someone should be a candidate and isn’t, I’m all ears! Though I can’t say there’s a high chance of a change.

I hope we can crown a monarch of reptilian characters!