#papatello tag

[fowlaroundtown]

Was thinking about them recently.

Bonus:

[star-sparkler]

I like to imagine Donnie actually loves the water and the beach. And August DEFINITELY loves the water and the beach. So lil very messy beach time art.

[desceros]

me: gets super emotional when khaya draws donnie and lavi having the same face

[luckycharms1701]

@desceros @khayalli

so i was at the library today and i saw this

and i immediately knew that donnie purchased these books for lavi

they're her favorites

[fowlaroundtown]

Mhm yeah. Here’s part two of this. More of it + some context under the cut!

PART ONE

PART TWO

So we don’t see Shelldon in the movie. I mean. We see his head but it’s not operational and I’m 90% sure that it gets destroyed again.

And honestly??? After everything with Shredder, I don’t think Donnie is in the right mental space to try to rebuild his kinda-son-it’s-complicated. He just lost his home, all of his equipment, was massively traumatized, is in the middle of a dynamic shift with his brothers, and on top of that There’s no guarantee that Shelldon will retain ANYTHING from his previous life. It might just be a scenario of bringing back a blank slate with none of the memories or experiences of the Shelldon that previously existed.

He just starts to get to the point where he’s in the right groove to take the risk and then Krang happens. Which. Yeah. I think he keeps at the project over the years, but only really gets up the nerve to FINALLY boot Shelldon up again when he’s about 19-21ish.

Of course everything works out and it’s like Shelly just took a long ass nap. Of course, this does cause some issues between them moving forward because. Sheldon’s 13, he doesn’t get why Donnie took nearly SIX YEAERS MINIMUM to bring him back. He feels really displaced and it’s just. Not a good feeling to have missed so much (Casey helps him through that and it’s great) but for the meantime it’s A happy reunion!

Thanks for reading, sorry for diving so far into headcannons I just think about them a lot.

[fowlaroundtown]

Sorry for spam posting today but I figured out how to draw Shelldon today and it’s about to be everybody else’s problem

[fowlaroundtown]

Heyo! This is just a lil comic I thought up while watching Big Hero Six again (specifically this scene). Idk it just made me think of Donnie and Shelldon. I know their relationship isn’t the most perfect thing in the world but brainworms happened and here we are.

I think Im going to call it ‘Through Another Lense’. Idk tho I stayed up way to late working on this. The rest of part one is under the cut because of got. Obnoxiously long. Anyway. Enjoy.

PART ONE

PART TWO

[desceros]

Please spare us some more papatello headcannons 🥹🥹🥹 (I bet Donnie is the type to show off his baby mommy)

yessss an excuse to think about papatello tysm anon-chan!!!!

as per usual this got long so i'm sticking it under a cut bc i am OUT. OF. CONTROL.

thinkin about the first day of school. you'd insisted that lavi attends bc it's good for her socialization ("why would she need to talk to other people? i never went to school!" "yeah, hon, and look how you turned out." "perfectly capable of normal conversation!!" "...you asked me to marry you via text." "well sue me for wanting to be sure i got it right when just the thought of it made me flustered!" <- then you're both embarrassed), but donnie's not too thrilled. the whole morning he's sulking, pouting behind your shoulder as you take all the cute photos of her first outfit, writing a 5k word essay to put in her lunchbox saying how much he loves her ("don. donnie. love of my life. she's four. she can barely read go dogs go." "best she practice, then."). it's actually the worst... up until you come up behind him, wrapping your arms around his neck and reminding him that hey. hey. the four year old isn't here. wink. wink wink. (...donnie very quickly begins to espouse the value of a formal education.)

hm. executive decision that lavi has a sweet tooth. she's particularly fond of fruits, and she likes to come up to donnie while he's working and hand him an orange so he can peel it for her. without fail, he stops what he's doing and helps, taking one slice and calling it a 'papa tax'. then, one day, she comes to you and asks if you'll show her how to peel it. you're thinking hm. showing some independence, that's probably a good thing, so you do. only to have to bite your fist when you watch as she goes into the lab and crawls into donnie's lap, peeling an orange, and then handing him half. (he ugly cries a lot that night when he tells you about it.)

once mikey's hair starts coming in, i suspect she'd like playing with it. she'd rope him into having spa nights where the three of you do all kinds of self-care stuff like facials, hair masks, that kind of thing. donnie plays it up like he's super jealous, but you see the way he burrows his face into lavi's hair for their nighttime hug and smiles when it's nice and soft, and then when he comes to you and threads his fingers through your hair, murmuring a compliment at its texture into your nape.

during your pregnancy, he's a nervous wreck. the whole pregnant with a turtle mutant situation is already a lot on his nerves, but then on top of that, you don't call out of work. ("i'm pregnant, don. pregnant people work all the time. it's normal." "i'd argue that being pregnant with a turtle mutant is quite far out of the bounds of normal.") i think... the first real, actually nasty fight you ever have with him might be then. maybe the only one, but it'd be explosive. him concerned that you'll be somewhere, pregnant with what some would call a monster, having been bred by a monster, and if something happens, he'll be in his lab working, helpless, away. you don't take kindly at all to him calling your child (nor himself) a monster, even out of the mouths of hypothetical strawmen, and that plus the way he's catastrophizing every little thing strains your relationship to its snapping point. i think maybe for a solid month or so, it's. it's a real test of how much you love him, and how much he trusts you.

i dunno if i've already WOG'd this but if i did, i'm changing it and this is the official WOG statement that lavi's first word is 'papa' and donnie is FOREVER smug about it (even though, joke's on him, you find it absolutely adorable and are zero percent mad about it)

oh. lavi loves pineapple on pizza. the first time she tries it and it becomes her favorite, you laugh at donnie's face for like, ten years. sometimes you'll just be in the bathroom, brushing your teeth to get ready for bed, and he'll hear you start giggling where he's lying down reading and waiting for you to come in, and he just. grits his teeth bc he knows what's got you going.

there's a baby shark-esque song in universe that has a turtle instead of a shark on one episode of mrs. cuddles, and lavi fucking loves it. it's the worst ear worm in the entire world, and the entire lair quickly lays a ban on ever reminding her it exists. this is ultimately a failure, partially bc she is her father's child and thus the most stubborn creature ever to exist, but also bc leo actually enjoys it and ends up humming it under his breath while he's walking around. raph gets a little twitchy whenever he hears it, but he's the second-most vulnerable to lavi's charms (the first, of course, being donnie) so whenever she asks, on it goes, with him stiff as a board as she sits on his shell and claps her hands in delight.

[desceros]

i saw on your queue list that you’re wanting to do a papatello au!!! wondering if you would spare some headcanons????

ps your writing is great!!

[with heavy sarcasm] oh no, not someone asking me to discuss one of my favorite fic ideas, the absolute horror

after a terribly unfortunate incident (donnie learns he has a breeding kink and doesn't check to see if the two of you are biologically compatible before enjoying it, thoroughly, over a long period of time) it is discovered that you are pregnant. oops

after a days-long conversation where he freaks out because he's terrified about your safety when he runs some tests and the fetus is very much going to be a turtle with a shell inside of you, the two of you decide to... try. to try and keep it. it feels a bit like a miracle, after all, though he's very very careful to monitor the entire time. and well he should, as it's a difficult pregnancy; they actually end up taking her out a little early and putting her in an egg-like incubator for the last month or so when he starts getting concerned about some pain you're having.

the two of you name her lavinia, after splinter's naming conventions. but very quickly, mikey shortens that to lavi. she's very much a softshell turtle mutant, but she has your smile and (as she grows older) black hair just like papa splinter from having more human DNA.

lavi is the actual poster child of being a daddy's girl. from birth, she favors him for almost everything: being held, being fed, being bathed; if donnie's not doing it or close, she's fussy.

donnie is the actual poster child of being the world's most obnoxious father in the entire world. he's that guy who will insert his kid into every conversation, bending or even snapping its relevance to shoehorn her in. he has pictures upon pictures. videos of lavi doing absolutely nothing except being cute.

and she is so fucking cute. but she's also a bit of a demon, just like her father. wicked smart and always getting into trouble. worse still, if she gets caught, she just looks at donnie with big eyes like 🥺 and it's over. she's not getting in trouble.

lavi also really loves her uncle raph, and she has taken to stealing his catch phrases because she thinks they're funny. you have a video on your phone of her running agilely away from donnie with something very fragile and important, giggling and yelling 'stealing LIKE A BOSS' as donnie chases her, teeth clenched and hands outstretched, going 'lavi, dearest, sweetest little bug whomst i love endlessly and forever, please give that back to papa Right. Now.'

her favorite uncle tho is probably uncle leo. he has cool comic books and watches fun tv shows. she likes to climb onto his shell and curl up to take a nap. a picture of leo crying the first time she did that remains your contact photo for him for a long, long time.

this whole au is just an excuse for me to dump cute headcanons about donnie being the best dad in the world and no one has stopped me yet, so. yeehaw

[desceros]

ok. so we all know that lavi is a daddy's girl. but i'm dying thinkin how wouldn't it be hilarious. if when it comes time to switch her over to solid foods, she absolutely refuses unless you're the one doing it. like.

the first time donnie's trying so. hard. to get her to eat. his brothers try. splinter tries. barry tries. everyone tries. and lavi is just like NO. EW. GROSS.

and then you come back from wherever to find every turtle in the room positively covered in baby food, donnie looking at you with the most dramatic tears in his eyes bc his child isn't eating, she's going to STARVE. and you take the food, put it on the spoon, and hold it out for her, and lavi just

chomp. nom nom nom. :D

the entire kitchen is just deadass quiet as you and lavi just giggle together.

[desceros]

I feel like Donnie would be mush for his teeny, itty bitty little baby girl.

someone has been peeking in my google drive again i see....

yeah i think he (rise donnie specifically since that's the papatello i'm working on) would be one of those dads who has a big talk about how he's so strict, about the intense regiment he has his kid on to maximize their development, and he's always the most annoying piece of shit at the PTA meeting. flex brag flex brag

but then his little toddler comes up to him on wobbly legs and puts her hands on his calf, tapping at him for his attention and looks up at him with paint all over her face from where she got into the art supplies at the back of the classroom and made a huge ass mess, and he just melts at her crooked little grin (bc dad is the favorite) and is completely incapable of chastising her in any shape or form

that changes when she grows up and starts to act so much like him that he HAS to be firmer with her. the first time he has to put her in time out they both ugly cry a lot

[desceros]

WHY?! WHY MUST YOU POST ABOUT PAPATELLO IN THE MIDST OF MY BABY FEVER ARC?!

Like for the past three weeks I have been watching the cutest videos of daddies and uncles with babies and every time I try to crawl out of this rabbit hole I just get pulled in deeper.

papatello comes for us all in the end 😔

bonus idea bc i’m mean: im toying with the idea of her having hair (since she’s more human). and just. donnie learning how to braid her hair and giving her little pigtails. butterfly clips.

[desceros]

Is Spousy like "We gotta cap it at two, Dee." after the second kid?

He can probay find ways to help with that.

Also, would Splinter get called "jiji", since he's a grandpa now?

oh yeah. no more than two. donnie i think would be good for more but you’re like. no. absolutely not. i will Break you in half if you ever do this to me again. (this makes lavi and nico giggle bc they can’t see on your face how serious you are. donnie just nods bc he Can, and gets an implant or smth worked up)

i love that idea omg. i think splinter would be jiji and draxum could be bajiji. (the first time he hears it, he definitely cries but quickly kicks his foot into the corner of a table so he can blame stubbing his toe on it. everyone politely ignores the fact that he doesn’t have toes, except leo who mutters about it under his breath bc he’s forever a petty bitch)

[desceros]

speaking of papatello. i have been putting into consideration the anon-chan who asked if there'd be another one and i've decided that when lavi's abt four, after one very memorable mating season it happens again. oops.

this time, you're the one who is panicking a bit more bc you remember how painful it was to carry lavi towards the end there. donnie's the one who is calmer about it, showing you all the data he collected from last time, and that he knows better how to help now.

but i imagine that it's lavi who is the one who convinces you to try again; she's been working on her ninjitsu with papa splinter, and she'd overheard you and donnie discussing the possibility of another one and she Flips Her Shit at having a sibling. running around screaming excited, asking when it's gonna come, what color it's gonna have as its life color, does she have to share all of her toys or can she pick a few.

throws a dart at the board and lands on angst wheeee!. it's a much more difficult pregnancy even than lavi's. several times you and donnie wonder if you're doing the right thing, but you decide to persist. you learn it's a boy, and that he's a little smaller than lavi was at each point. still, even earlier than with lavi, he pulls the plug on you carrying yourself. it's harrowing transferring the lil guy over to the artificial egg, and for the first night it looks like he isn't going to pull through... but then lavi comes in and grabs her favorite blanket and curls up next to him, and by the morning, everything looks good.

i went with niccolo for a name since that's part of donatello's (the artist, not the turtle) name. nico for short.

i imagine that where lavi is very outgoing, sassy, and stubborn, nico would be quiet and contemplative. he's the kind of kid who spends the first few years of his life ducking behind your legs when someone talks to him. he grows out of his shyness, but he's always more introverted than his sister. he's a carbon copy of donnie, down to how he wears glasses (though i've decided that unlike donnie, he doesn't grow out of them). also unlike his sister, you're the favorite parent.

lavi is a beast when it comes to protecting her brother. she and shelldon work out super intricate plans in crayon that then pin to the fridge door should anything go down so they can save him (some of which aren't half bad, actually). she's very sensitive to his moods, and she'll snap at anyone whom she feels is bullying him. (even people she really, really shouldn't, which causes one memorable incident with a giant yokai that ends in several thousand dollars of property damage you quietly pretend not to notice donnie hacking out of the hidden city police system.)

[desceros]

With the occasion of Flat Fuck Friday, imagine Donald faceplanting the bed after 53 hours of straight up hyperfocused working, pancaking and almost, alllmmmmooosst falling asleep...

Then 7yo Lavi bursts in after a weekend trip to jump on his back cause she missed her Papa.

Spousy in the doorway looking at him like 'U dun goofed bruh.'

oh my god. he just rolls over and groans in pain while curling into the fetal position while she giggles and burrows into his arms. and what's he gonna do? not smother her with love and affection? his lavi? excuse you! even when you come up and try to scoop her away and explain that papa's shell is very soft, we can't jump on it like that, he looks at you aghast for telling his beloved daughter that she can't express the fact that papa is #1. you're just jealous. ("no. i'm concerned for your spine." "sounds like jealous to me.")

no lessons are learned.

[desceros]

I’m sorry if I’m bothering you! But can I use this picture of Papatello (the one on the left) for a c.ai bot?

Khayalli recommended I ask you, because Lavi’s your little baby. If you don’t want me to use it, I can’t find another picture!

oh yeah that's cool with me! not a bother at all :D