#nardo's asks.txt

[nardos-primetime]

hellllo :3

I heard you were taking art requests

soooo

could you draw my boy?

time traveler Leo :3

(Click for higher quality)

"I'm going to take simple doodle requests" I say, knowing of the cursed cycle I have where I suddenly go incredibly hard on "doodles" for no reason

In another news this drawing helped me fix my painting brushes so thank you!!!

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first thing that pops up on my for you page from your blog:

i am so lost from where this guy came from. is this an au? also i am extremely jealous of their hair, i want it for no good reason. lmfao sorry for the weird question/ask.

He's from a newer au I haven't talked about yet! Don't feel weird for asking at all!

The whole au is like. Heavily inspired by Cyberpunk 2077 (a guilty pleasure of mine), it could technically be a crossover au, I guess? I dunno, but I'm lazy/like to do stuff for fun, so certain aspects are obviously going to be changed. I'm not totally settled on designs, but I think I'm gonna keep most of the design aspects from this drawing for the "finalized" concepts.

The main plot centers on Casey Jr being put under the care of the turtles by "Mother" soon after having a whole (unwilling) relic insert situation in his brain, leading to former star Lou Jitsu to be revived within his mind!

The issue is that all of the turtles aren't really. The best father figures. None of them even want anything akin to a child, and even if Casey is 19, these guys are Mercs. Outside of their own clubbing and shows they do gigs for cash, including dangerous ones, ESPECIALLY dangerous ones. Having this new guy is like, a total roadblock, especially because Casey still, somehow, despite Night City's clutches and the last group he was pressured into before this, has some morals about him. The only reason they didn't kill him and stage an accident is because Mother promised them financial compensation for caring for him.

So he's stuck with four new "dads" who mostly all hate him or find him annoying, and Lou is not any different, he also finds him naive but he dislikes the turtles as well because he's a jaded old fuck (major hypocrite, too).

While the turtles are baseline all mercenaries, they share some traits between each other instead of leaving it to a "one guy only" job in most cases.

Donnie has the most technical skill, falling mostly under Techie and Net/Edgerunner, he adores tech after all, he also has illegally dabbles in being a ripperdoc, primarily for his brothers.

Mikey is actually the fallback for general medical issues, including those involving backfiring implants. He's only better at this because he's dabbled in researching (and using) tons of remedies, mainly for pain. He's the guy who's helped Donnie when working on inserting implants in the others. He's even stayed awake during his own surgeries to help Donnie during his fuck ups and implants.

Leo, while not extreme netrunner levels, does hold some hacking knowledge, just what he needs to make things a little easier with anything but combat most of the time, as combat is what he enjoys the most within jobs. He also tends to be the one to make their deals with Mother.

Raph is mainly muscle. Not to say he's simple, it's just his main role and main focus, having grown much more protective over the years, often acting as a bodyguard for the others during their own shows (hence he has the least involvement with any of their music). He's the least of the bad influences for Casey, at least directly.

They used to have another member of the group a few years ago, a media. Or a media wannabe, at least.

They normally have some reference to her, even if small, hidden within their shows.

This is all, of course, not tapping into their mystics, which are a bit different in this au as well with how they work. Lets just say Mother allows them special permissions when it comes to mystic usage.

...at least those are some of the basic ideas I've been throwing around in my head for the story, lol. I like to throw ideas at the wall and see what sticks to me. The whole thing is technically a wip still but so are 90% of my aus tbh lmao, this onrs just a lot more wippy because it's mainly a "for fun" au and I also haven't been able to play cyberpunk for myself to brush up on things outside of research and sometimes a man is just... not up for that, especially lately with my attention span, I hope to brush up a little more again sometime soon and maybe even delve into some aspects from the og ttrpg perhaps, I'm not sure yet, though, haha.

Oops long post, huh? My bad </3

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LEO DESCRIBE ME IN THREE ADJECTIVES GO 🎤

Silly

Uhhhhhh, Talented,

UHhhhhhhHhhhhhhhh Fun

👍Nailed it

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what's the most fucked up thing/AU/whatever you made? I wanna desensitize myself to your work before diving in.

Starting out with saying I wouldn't condone any of the bad shit within my stories, often times these are just what ifs I find interesting to look into. I wouldn't look at an actual murderer irl and go "Awesome" but I'll joke around with my villain Mikey like "He hasn't done a thing wrong heart emoji" when he has actively killed and enjoyed the murder of multiple people.

A lot of my aus are more toned down from my regular more personal works, solely because I can't help but go a bit easier on the turtles since they are a comfort for me and I wouldn't find my more personal topics appropriate for the turtles.

Overall, I'd say body horror, disease, self harm, suicide, murder, and mental/physical abuse/child abuse/neglect is something to look out for in a lot of my works, along with gore and injury in general. I also have a tendency to write cannibalism (an interesting motif to me, I would not condone it irl, obviously) and/or autocannibalism (to cope with personal issues I am not comfortable elaborating on, it's some Mental health stuff.) Overall I like putting the turtles through it, lmao.

(Forgot to add animal abuse/death)

I will never directly delve into the topic of sex within my works (as in you'll never see me write any of them doing such acts), but I have a handful of somewhat older Leo's who specifically deal with unhealthy romance, one of these is within my magical boys au where all four experience some level of inappropriateness due to their fame, not once is this a good thing, and this is meant to be a bad thing within the story. The other has a Leo who dates around a lot but always falls short due to his anxieties and commitment issues. He never goes through with it, though he likes to joke about more sexual topics. (He's crude.)

The magical boys au, priorly mentioned, contains underage drinking and smoking, mental health issues, self-harm, and the boys being mistreated and abused within their own workplace, one way or another.

One of my oneshots currently has a younger child get murdered in it, though I've deliberately made the death surrounding it not as detailed, as even if younger children die in my stories it makes me uncomfortable to focus on it the same I would other characters, unless it's an injury a child survives, then it's a 50/50. This is a situation that is conflicting for the main character, but is done out of survival's sake. (In his eyes.)

Viral.Donnie has evolved into a character that focuses on addiction later on, and I do tend to give the turtles addictions depending on the story.

Million Dollar Box/Villain Mikey has hallucinations, vivid, probably not 100% accurate, but these are not his real brothers. Story wise, they are a way to delve into his mental state and look at his conflicting feelings about his family.

Villain Raph is less developed, but he actively is mentally (and physically) abusive to his brothers in his own way.

A lot of the time, my writing style mixes with the thoughts and personality of the main focus, and a lot of these times, the characters are not rational nor moral. Untrustworthy narrators are fun.

You will see I don't like actively splitting up the turtles entirely very much. Normally, I'd be able to do it easily, but I have a soft spot for them. Hell, Viral Donnie, Villain Raph, and Million Dollar Box Mikey's follow-up story gives them a family after losing theirs. Most of the time, if one turtle falls, I take the others, or at least one others with them. For fun.

I try to not go for just shock value, even if I like describing the horrors I like having a reasoning, whether it be some insane deeper meaning I made up, it fitting a character/their personality, or just being interesting for me. I do my best to tag all potentially triggering topics within my works, but I may slip up at times. Apologies for that.

Horror is my main fixation overall outside of TMNT, and I like various types of it. The Nonsense Apocalypse AU is supposed to be a mixture of slice of life and horror, resulting in a world that just doesn't make sense, with some more... serious aspects on top.

I hope this helps, I kinda went on a ramble, but I didn't want too much confusion since most of my actual aus aren't fully out yet in any way.

Hope it helps again, Anon.

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You've said things with Big Mama eventually get sour for the clone boys (how can they not) but do they just try to run at that point or...

Fuck it lets lore dump I'm bored and too lazy to make comics maybe one day we'll see these in drawings but I'm feeling nice to I'll give more than normal. Typos inbound probably.

The clones are children. They started out homeless and hurt and only had each other to support themselves. Safe to say if they did run it would have to be something all four agreed on.

Technically it got worse before they even knew it.

"They're really close friends with a bird yokai around their age. She often comes in because her dad has work with Big Mama. Sometimes, they even sneak her out to hang out, too!"

This was about a yokai called...

October is essentially the only healthy friendship they gain while with Mama, being their "April". Her father is engaged in business with Big Mama, often taking his daughter with him, which is how the boys meet her! They played together a lot, even taking her behind the scenes despite some other workers warning them that Mama might not like it if she finds out.

At this point, the boys would have (somewhat reluctantly) taken on a few hits for her. As much as they threatened and fought the original turtles, they were effectively all bark no bite until Big Mama pushed them. Lee, ever the optimist, insisted that if they stuck together, it'd be fine, and despite obvious trauma that comes with taking a life, it was fine. They got praise from their mother, and they kept their home and the various needs/vices provided with it.

Mama had long prior learned about October. She's not stupid, after all. She'd even greeted her one time when the boys were sloppy with a sneaking out plan, inviting her to dinner to not only the clones' shock but October and her father's shock as well.

Unfortunately, October's father drops the ball. He doesn't follow up on his end of the deal.

And Big Mama is Big Mama. She knows she's the only person who has really gained a connection with these boys, and due to an issue Mic is having (he was the closest to perfect, but never quite there), the concept of going back out to the streets would not only be stressful, but potentially dangerous. So she uses this to give a warning to October's father.

The boys stop making friends with guests after.

Donno gets worse some would say, he never had as much as an averse reaction as the other's. (Nowhere near as worse as doomed timeline, he just starts getting far more into his "surgeries.") Rage shuts down for a few days before getting back to his work. Lee distracts himself from what they've done by trying to focus on the others (Rage accepts this the most).

Mic locks himself in his room for 2 weeks until he absolutely has to come out. Even then, he refuses to take any care from the others for half a week until he breaks down in front of Mama and has a wonderful bonding experience that she would totally never use against him.

So no, they don't run. They more or less make excuses or "man up", only after a certain aspect of their deal comes back up do things get extremely sour, but I need to expand on it a little more and I'd REALLY like to draw or write it out because I love traumatizing turtles. Who knows what I'll do, though.

(Thanks to @midwesternvibes for the bird idea in the first place hehe)

[nardos-primetime]

MY SAVIOR GOD BLESS YOU My Donnie page on my homescreen is BLESSED

[nardos-primetime]

Just wanted to say

love ur art

:D

andimstillslightyintimidatedbyyou

My art is fueled my neurodivergencies baby

Anyways here's a hypno from a wip set of images I'm doing (the other mutants are so hard to draw I'm dying out here)

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Which TMNT versions have you watched, out of curiosity?

Only one I've finished is Rise (my main favorite), though I have watched the Mutant Mayhem film and I am interested in it and will likely attempt to keep up to date on it to quell my fixation needs.

I've watched a decent bit of clips from the 2012 show and did watch the first ep all the way through, and I'm planning on trying to watch more sometime but my tism a lot of the time make it hard for me to watch shows all the way through a lot of the time if I'm not fixated. Plus for some reason the ep count is intimidating to me lmao.

From what I can tell I think I like 2012 Raph and Donnie the most, if ur curious! (Ironic since Mutant Mayhem Raph and Donnie have stolen me so far too lmao)

[nardos-primetime]

hey LOSER, you're GAY!!!

Also hiiii I love you sm ur so amazing :3

-🍴

Why is this homosexual on my blog don't you know I'm homophobic </3

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HEY HEY I JUST SAW YOUR CYBERPUNK AU CHARACTER STUFF CAN I PLEASE ASK WHAT THIS FLAG MEANS? :0

I saw it and I have a vague idea of what it could be but I’m mostly just confused about how someone can be gay and bi at the same time LMAO (/lh I’m genuinely curious and confused, not judging or anything) :))))

it's bisexual homoromantic

Kinda like how someone can be asexual and have a romantic orientation but different, obviously there's more to it because sexualities, like gender can be confusing but this is the most simple answer I can give

Most of my leos are bisexual homoromantics because i am, lol

[nardos-primetime]

HEY CAN YOU TELL ME MORE ABT BROKE A MILLION DOLLAR BOX??? SOUNDS RLLLLYY INTERESTING IWOULD LOVE TO HEAR THAT!!! BIG FAN BTW I ADMIRE YOU A LOTTT <33333

FIRST OF ALL WAAAH THANK U!!!! Idk how to feel about having fans but it's definitely not a negative emotion haha! Also I decided I'm keeping the million dollar box name now, ill just use it along with the villain mikey tag lmao.

Overall, the main idea of the story is already out there, it's just an unedited ramble of when I first created it. The fic will be those ideas but more cleaned up.

Broke a Million Dollar Box specifically is going to be before the "Extermination" section of his timeline, coming in around the point where Donnie drops the ball so to say and joins in on Raph and Leo's arguments, effectively giving Mikey no in-house positive outlets, seeing as Splinter is neglectful of the problems as per usual.

Mikey starts getting unhealthy coping mechanisms and his brothers (semi unknowingly) and up feeding into them until it's too late to fix things and Mikey does something really bad called murder!

Now (extermination arc) he hunts the multiverse to kill alternate versions of his brothers if they fuck up in hopes to protect other Mikeys! He also imagines a "perfect" Leo, Donnie, and Raph when he's lonely on his journeys and to keep him motivated!

He is TOTALLY not a hypocrite and TOTALLY not making things worse and TOTALLY not traumatizing people with human flaws because he never resolved his own problems!

After I finish it, I might focus on his extermination arc w more various oneshot style stories, since there's a whole multiverse situation going on.

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📝 I want the WIPs...

And if I told you it was the Spilled Milk oneshot what would you do?

"He regrets this, he should've stayed in his room, put his headphones on, waited till he finally passed out. He shouldn't have risked this.

The milk within the bag gets heavier and heavier as he hears Donnie take a few steps forward.

He's such an attention whore.

His breath shakes.

Nothing went right this week. He got nothing done. He was dead weight. He couldn't even get himself to socialize properly. Remember when he snapped at Mikey because he was being too insistent? God, Mikey didn't do shit. He's normally so social. Mikey expects him to be social. And he shut him up."

Leo my beloved 💙💙💙

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You're G A Y 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🫵🫵🫵🚨🚨🚨‼️‼️‼️😧😧😧😇😇😇😎😎🦶

HOW DO U STILL HAVE MY OLD PFP HELP?

Technically yea tho. I'm a bisexual homoromantic so I only romantically like other guys. In a queer ass relationship rn 💙💙💙

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dunno if you already answered this/if you're still answering asks but what's your favorite song?? and/or music artist

I love asks I don't mind at all! Favorite song is Super hard because I normally switch between completely different vibes, very genre fluid over here.

Artists are a bit hard for me bc sometimes I just forget names pretty often but in no general order here are some of my current favorites -

Jhariah (oh my God he's so gender lowkey)

Junie & TheHutFriends (SUPER UNDERRATED THEY HAVE SUCH A COOL VIBE) (Perfect for Maladaptive Daydreams lowkey)

WHOKILLEDXIX (when I'm off my meds and in ur general area /j)

The Stupendium (BITCH WE LIKE NERDCORE IN THIS HOUSE)

Jazmin Bean (I like a lot of their older stuff but their new stuff is good too)

Mindless Self Indulgence (I'm kinda mentally ill, they do say slurs tho so be warned)

Graveyard Guy (I'm a horror enjoyer what do you expect

Chonny Jash (I haven't listened to much of their newer stuff but I bet it's good tbh)

Gorillaz (Most ppl know em but I love the vibes of their older stuff)

Ferry (Vocaloid)

Tally Hall (Who would've guessed)

IAMX (Pretty different sound from the rest, at least w the 2 albums I like "Volatile Times" and "The Unified Field" kind of an odd haunting vibe between them overall)

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Do you think I’ve drawn enough fan art for you??

That is up to you I will never beg for fanart nor stop others from making it do what makes u happy 💙

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Light blue, orange, and purple

Let me observe you you absolute critter while I tell u nice thinks about ur ideas and art

I am a silly fella :3 :P

(Half of my stories end in at least 1 murder!)