#leorai

[lotus-duckies]

okay so uh interesting detail about The Good, The Bad and Casey Jones

Casey gets introduced to the turtles in a way that's Extremely, eerily similar to Karai

One of the turtles express frustration with their brothers usually in a way that's signature to their character (raph having anger issues, leo not being taken seriously as a leader) and go out to be angry and kick a roof or something

then a fight sequence with a secondary antagonist occurs (ie the purple dragons, the foot guys), and the human person is introduced in an ominous, mysterious and probably violent way.

Then the turtle and the human have a fight sequence (albeit Casey's and Raph's fight is much longer, Leo's and Karai's is spread out over the episode in question) where one of them almost kills the other for one reason or another

The human continues to pursue the turtle until they get exposed to the family, usually in an intruder fashion and the brothers say something like "wait you know them? why???" and Stuff Happens

That's not even including like. when leo saved karai from falling in a similar way Casey saved Raph from falling and giving an awkward "thanks". (also the fact that both of them get adopted into the clan at some point which is important)

And isn't that so interesting???

I don't know what that says about the respective relationships and how they're portrayed, other than maybe that's part of the reason why people like Rasey so much, because we were essentially given a plotline meetcute that's really similar to a canon romance plotline

But I do think there is something to be said about how situations get recontextualized as romantic/sexual or as platonic, and if the relationship is presumably heterosexual that probably plays like. a big role on the reading. If a boy and a girl get into a fight, it's like erotic or something but if two boys get into a fight, it's just boys being boys.

However what happens instead is that I'm looking at two different potentially queer situationships like "ah yes, homoerotic sword fight my beloved"

(also there is something to be said. about how it's canon that both leo and raph like someone who can beat the shxt out of them, just that apparently casey doesn't apply to that because boy?? but also he expressed enjoying being a girl so like????)

[nostalgicninjas]

take notes peter parker 🤭

[wr-winter]

chu❤️

[mishajeans]

Poor Leo can`t decide.

[moccaaaaa]

Diseñar es mi pasión XD

(por si alguien se arde, leo y la kachanga no son hermanos ojito)

[fallingintotragedies2]

Controversial opinion ahead!

Idk what the tmnt 2012 writers were on but like

Not every 15 yr old needs a love interest

‘But some of them r cute’

Are they? Are they really?

Is Donnie being creepy about April cute?

Are Leo and Karai being siblings yet still being shipped cute?

Is the fact that, Mona Lisa’s age wasn’t disclosed so Raph, a 15 yr old, is being shipped with someone who may as well be way older then him, cute too?

You know what would actually be cute?

Realising that 15 yr olds are kids and don’t NEED a love interest, and even if they do have one, do it right. Don’t be weird.

Some of y’all needed a reality check, you’re welcome

[life-set-to-random]

I need to write a fanfic wherein theses two look at their fathers and say “Enough of your blood fued!” Marry, merge their clans, and actually make it work!

Oh sure it wouldn’t be easy, there’d be pushback from both sides, but ultimately I would want it to work.

[your-lie-in-leopril]

guys I had a funny idea

@paramountpictures hire me

[tulipvalley27]

❤️My World❤️ Leorai❤️

“Where is she going to live? Where is our daughter going to grow up? Down in the sewers or here in the Oroku Saki’s tower?” Karai breathed heavily wondering where life would take her sweet baby girl. Leo wrapped his strong arms around his beloved. Just the having them both in his embrace was all he needed. There was peace, there was bliss whenever they were together. It was perfect! He wondered about Karai’s questions deeply. He was going to be a Father in a few weeks. He needed to tell his brothers and Splinter soon. Although he had a strong hunch that they figured out what he was up to with all the secret disappearances. There was no more hiding in the shadows. Leo wanted to welcome their little angel with joy and acceptance from all of the family. But where they were going to reside was another tough question. Would she be safe underneath the city in the sewers or at the Foot Clan headquarters? Leo’s chest tightened at the very idea. He remained silent thinking… absorbing Karai’s feminine presents. She was so strong and yet so vulnerable. His thoughts were interrupted with the sight of her curves, the sweet life that was growing inside her. HIS child. Leo would do anything to protect them both. He signed with a smile and leaned in for a kiss. Karai pushed away her nervous thoughts and embraced Leo’s warmth. He was perfect. They kissed. Then suddenly Karai remembered her family home outside of the city in Southampton along the bay. It was a secret mansion encircled by a beautiful garden and orchards. Of course! She smiled looking at Leo

“I think I have an idea…”❤️❤️

[nixariel]

[leorai4life]

Hey guys, I made a thing! <3

[myleorai]

holding hands relieves pain

[nostalgicninjas]

2012 Leorai Rant

there’s so much discourse about whether 2012 leorai is considered incest or not and i kinda wanted to throw my two cents in ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i grew up with the 2012 series, and as a kid, i was a hardcore leorai fan. now as an adult, i’ve become neutral to the ship (though it will always hold a special place in my heart for nostalgic purposes). overall my thoughts/perspective on leorai have changed a lot over the years. i’ve grown to ship them more with other people (‼️ aprinardo and shinirai supremacy ‼️) while still loving and appreciating their canon dynamic. personally, i don’t view their relationship as entirely platonic or romantic. on one hand, i believe leo and karai do love each other like family (the same way all the turtles love april and casey like family) but they also connect on a deeper level that’s too intimate to call them “siblings”. it’s not as black and white as them being either brother/sister or boyfriend/girlfriend. to me, their relationship has so many layers it’s too complex for labels. which is fine because labels are overrated anyway. but that’s just my opinion.

i completely get why some people (especially those with adopted family members) think the relationship is weird, and i also get why some people see no problem with it. at the end of the day, it all depends on an individual’s life experiences or personal preferences.

note: if two people are biologically blood relatives, then an intimate/sexual relationship between them is 100% incest and i do not support or condone such behavior.

in this particular case however, i believe there is a difference between real incest and what society views to be incest. imagine two people have been dating for a while and then their parents fall in love and decide to get married. are they supposed to just turn their feelings off for each other and break up because they are now “technically siblings”? i’m sorry to break it to you but that’s not how emotions work. emotions are complicated. and frankly it seems wrong to try to force two people to think/feel a certain way about each other just because it’s what society excepts. i have always been a firm believer that people should be free to follow their hearts and love who they love. if there is no blood or biological connection involved (or any other illegal factors), then i see no reason why people can’t be free to choose how they get to view a person or how they wish for those relationships to develop. because in this case, love is not a crime.

in a way, the same can be said for leo and karai. first impressions count for something, and leo had already developed feelings for karai long before he found out she was splinter’s daughter. i know most people would disagree, but just because they view the same man as a father figure does not make them obligated to view each other as siblings. just because mikey CHOOSES to view karai as a sister does not mean leo is obligated to view her the same way. same goes for raph and donnie. from what was shown in the series, those two (especially raph) hardly considered karai to be a part of their immediate family, much less considered her a sister. and that’s their right. as much as i’m sure we all wanted to see the turtles and karai come together (and trust me i did too), donnie and raph had valid reasons to dislike/distrust karai and they shouldn’t be forced to brush their justified feelings aside and immediately accept her as a “sister” if they don’t want to. they may view her as an ally/asset to the team, but if they don’t want to view her as family, then they shouldn’t have to (though i’m sure they would eventually accept her in the future; whether or not as a sister or just a distant family member, we’ll never know).

i even once saw someone say that if shipping leorai isn’t incest because they aren’t blood related, then it shouldn’t be considered incest when shipping the turtles with splinter since they also aren’t blood related. that’s a really gross comparison for multiple reasons but mainly;

1.) the turtles are all MINORS and splinter is a grown ass man which is reason enough because W T F

and

2.) splinter has always viewed the turtles as his children and the turtles have always viewed him as their father. for him to suddenly take any kind of sexual interest in them is downright predatory, blood or no blood.

as for the whole “whether or not they share dna” debate, that’s honestly up to interpretation. splinter was never actually seen touching the turtles, so it’s not a canon fact that they actually absorbed any of his human dna when they mutated. and even if they had, the notion that this automatically makes them biological relatives to splinter is actually quite comical. that’s like saying the radioactive spider that gave peter parker superpowers is suddenly his new father. sounds silly, doesn’t it?

overall, i hate it when careless leorai fans make insensitive statements about adopted families, and i also hate it when anti shippers treat leorai fans like freaks just for having a different perspective on their relationship. if you prefer to think of them as brother and sister, then that’s cool. we’re all entitled to our opinions. what’s not cool is constantly harassing fans of the ship and shoving your “sibling” agenda down their throats (and vice versa).

to borrow a paragraph from @orokukarai’s rant:

If the ship makes you uncomfortable, whether it's for personal reasons or you're just not vibing, that's OK. If you personally see it as incestual, that's valid. But going around saying Leorai shippers all like or support incest is not true and there are many valid readings where they're not incestual even if you disagree with them. Some shippers probably do like incest, but then so do many non-Leorai shippers.

in conclusion, respect other people’s opinions. if you stumble across content you don’t like, block or ignore it. no need to comment hate or fill up the ship hashtags with negativity (and that goes for ALL fandoms).

just stay in your lane and keep scrolling ✌️

[mishajeans]

Love them together since Karai was a Lotus Blossom. <3

[pojofi96]

it’s giving “divorced parents”