#raph rambles

[raphaerolo]

I'm imagining being a fast food coffee shop worker on coruscant. Like... the customers you'd get. And their orders.

Like Imagine the Corrie guard coffee run. This poor trooper comes in and orders like a large black with a straw please and thank you he needs a straw (and the employees just about to ask who He is but this poor guy continues), a small iced caf with five shots of espresso and twenty pumps of various syrups, and then like four other monstrosities of a drink order, and then two cups of whipped cream (one is for grizzer but the other is for a trooper and no i'm not saying who) - And then that poor shiny orders himself like a medium regular and he Does Not need a drink tray, he balances those out the door like it's a sport or something all the way back to the corrie guard break room. And imagine if yhat brave caf balanccing trooper was a regular, comes in several times of day for the caf.

idk i think its fun

[lyfrasilly-edda]

Ivy woke up, her head still fuzzy, in a warm pile of blankets and twisted anchors. She felt at home, though she wished her head wasn't so fuzzy.

"Whys my head still feel like tape recorder static?"

“Hm? Oh,” Raphaella rubbed the sleep from her eyes, yawning a bit. “Yeah, painkillers take a bit to wear off, sorry. But I’m sure you’ll feel better by the end of the day.” She smiled at Ivy. “Do you want to go grab breakfast?

Besides them, the rest of the crew was asleep. Jonny and Tim were curled into Ashes, while Nastya leaned on their back, Raphaella and Ivy tangled next to them, all civered in blankets.

[grungelvrr222]

going to make an anderperry collage bc i love my gay poets.

[the-mechasillies]

I meant do you want to he concerned with his decisions, but if you want to interveiw him you can do that after he wakes up from the deal :)

I’ll have to start preparing my questions!

[bettertwin9000]

#justperiodthings

[jellyjamheadobb]

God someone please draw this

[djpachipikachu]

sand in the hourglass; boy lost through time

a couple of weeks late but </3 a tribute for the rottmnt movie anniversary !

its rly hard to put into words how much this movie and franchise has genuinely changed my life for the better ! im so much happier with who i am, the company i keep, and so much more passionate about where i want to go in life just because i decided to watch this series and movie on a whim one day

ive met some of my dearest and closest friends via shared interest in tmnt and as a result im just :] in the best place mentally in all my life bc of it

this series is crazy meaningful to me so i wanted to draw smth big as appreciation; my friend told me it gave the energy of a poster for a movie re-releasing in theaters and i took that to heart to make it as grand as possible

close ups:

im planning on making this into a physical print/poster ! so far ive only got a few friends who are interested in buying one but would the public be interested in buying some as well

tldr watch this series and its movie its pretty awesome

[raphaerolo]

I wish i knew my mutuals irl so i could just off handedly give them trinkets and snacks

[lyfrasilly-edda]

Ivy looked at the Raphaella in front of her. The Jonny whose eyes were not yellow and the Ashes who had two eyes. The room she was in which was not hers.

There was only one explanation for this in her foggy mind. The Stranger. Not alternate dimensions and body swaps, no, the Stranger had gotten her and were playing the roles of those she loved.

Ivy squirmed out of their hold, muttering that she had to use the rest room before booking it out of the room to find somewhere to hide. Somewhere away from these Strangers stealing the faces of her people.

( @ashesarchives )

“Ivy, wait-“ Raphaella called after her, taking a few steps forward, before Ashes held out a hand.

“If we chase her, she’ll just panic more.” Ashes hissed. “Maybe we can- Raphaella, see if you can get her to the archives.”

“how?”

“Set out a trail of books or candy or something?”

“I-“ Raphaella let out a huff. “Okay, we’ll try that. Let me go find some stuff.”

[grungelvrr222]

saw the wild robot with my bf last night and i LOVED IT

[grungelvrr222]

sooo i have a bunch of dps collages that i need to post. time to spam

[outer-andromeda]

... I made a thing. And it's angsty.

(TW - Short mention of death, implied transphobia/deadnaming)

Raph has a... very strained relationship with his dad. He holds a grudge against him for not having been present in his and his siblings' lives when they needed a father figure most.

I'm still figuring stuff out but I wanted his dad to be a sort of showman? So he's always been away, always prioritizing his work (and "fame") over the well-being of his own children. Raph admired him growing up, but as he grew up, he slowly started despising him. His anger towards him grew tenfold when he came out as trans and his dad rejected him completely, and he decided it was best for him to cut ties with him entirely the moment he moved out of their house.

So yeah. For Raph, seeing him show up suddenly at his uncle's doorstep, acting all worried and caring... it feels all too fake. He's ain't willing to forgive and forget.

[risestarkiss]

"This Whole Situation"

Rise Ramblings #1

So as you guys know, one occurring phrase in the show between the boys and April is “This whole situation.” Although vague, and used in many other contexts, sometimes the family uses the phrase to refer to their mutations.  

However, once finishing the series it’s hard to miss that Donnie never says the phrase. Now, I could be wrong (and If I am, just comment and let me know!) but I have a theory as to why Donnie doesn’t say it… Donnie never says “this whole situation” because in his mind, there IS no situation.

The Evidence:

I started noticing something interesting about Donnie’s state of mind about himself.

He never really expresses that he’s different from other people, he’s just…him. Obviously, he knows that he’s a mutant, but it’s not something at the front of his mind. I associate it to if someone has a certain attribute, that person is just that, a person first. I believe it’s the same for Donnie. He’s a person, that just so happens to be a mutant turtle, and I live for it.

What made me solidify my theory was the use of disguises in Rise, specifically the use of disguises in April’s school.

All of the boys have visited April’s school, and all of them decided to wear disguises, except Donnie.

He just shows up in his regular clothing. One could argue that the hoodie is his disguise, but then why did the rest of the boys wear actual (silly) disguises while our boy Donnie is just like, “Hoodie? Check.” And not only that, but for the whole episode, all eyes are on him, and he just. Doesn’t. Care. It’s glorious!

Later, in the episode Donnie vs. Witch Town, we see that Donnie showing up all willy-nilly pell-mell at April’s school was not a one-time thing. It’s literally been happening for years!

Therefore, I believe that canonically Donnie doesn’t care about “this whole situation.” And if someone does, as far as he’s concerned that’s their problem, not his.

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Part Two: On His Own Terms

[oobbbear]

Best dynamic

[the-mechasillies]

Raph do you wanna question a mortal Marius?

Oh? Like an interview! I love interviews!

[catparent94]

All the ROTTMNT brothers are self-sacrificial idiots

So I hear a lot of people talk about Leo’s self-sacrifice in the movie. Which makes sense because it was essentially supposed to be the gut-wrenching scene at the end of the movie.

But I think it is important to highlight that all the brothers are all self-sacrificial, just in different ways. I am going to list all the times I think that they have sacrificed themselves in the movie and how they do it in different ways.

Side Note: I will elaborate the self-sacrifice dynamics of the series overall, in depth in another post, but this one is going to mainly focus on the movie.

Raph

The first obvious one is Raph. He literally jumped in front of Leo to save Leo and prevent him from being killed by the Krang spear like thing. It literally put a crack in Raph’s shell.

Based on how fast Raph moved immediately in front of Leo, I think his self-sacrifice was based on instincts.   

Important side note: I consider this and Leo’s sacrifice scene more of a “role reversal” that happens in movies. Mainly because Raph jumped in front of Leo to save his life. So, Leo is doing the same thing Raph did for him at the beginning of the movie, except for the whole world this time.

Another important side note: Raph has jumped in front of someone to save their life before by using his whole body. The example the one I am referring to is in Battle Nexus: New York, where Raph jumps in front of Donnie to protect him from the Shredder.

Donnie

In a similar way to how Raph saved Leo by jumping in front of him, Donnie did a similar thing with Mikey twice. First was when Mikey was trying to make a portal when they were in front of the Krang but a portal did not appear. So Donnie tried to cover Mikey to prevent him from getting hurt by the Krang. This caused his battle shell to break. So the Krang creature that hit Donnie’s battle shell was really close to him.

I think about how if the spear Krang thing came even closer to Donnie’s normal shell, it could have pierced it. I am kind of surprised I don’t see as much, or any, angst related fics about this scene. 

Secondly, in the scene where Donnie and Mikey were standing in the air on a building, Donnie tried to protect Mikey from the Krang by stepping in front of him and trying to make a construction with his ninpo. But it did not form in time, and Donnie was hit straight in the face by the Krang. It seemed like he passed out.

In these two scenes, Donnie self-sacrificial behavior seemed to be based on instincts because of how fast he was in front of Mikey both times.

Side note: For the second scene with Donnie, I don’t know if Donnie had a particular construct in mind he wanted to build because it did not fully show up.

But I have headcanon’s that how fast he builds mystic tech really depends on how memorized the thing is in his head. And he essentially has blueprints along with him to create a physical and mystic version of his tech.

Next with Donnie, there is the Technodrome scene. First, it is shown in the movie that Donnie tried to just submerge himself with the Technodrome by using his arms, which he has a sensory issue reaction to.

After that, he let his whole body be submerged in the Technodrome without his battle shell.

Important: It seemed like neither one of them knew whether Donnie would have survived in the Technodrome. To elaborate, after Donnie was in the Technodrome, Mikey just said “Donnie?” like he didn’t know whether Donnie was alive or not.

This type of sacrifice seems to be more like Donnie was just guessing what to do and hoped it worked. But he had a little bit of time to think of it, and he still decided to go in the Technodrome.

Mikey

With Mikey, the most self-sacrificial scene I can think of is him opening up the portal at the end of the movie. I say this because he was starting to be literally torn apart with his mystic powers to make the portal, even though he did not know it could do that to him. To be honest, I think his sacrifice scene was a mix of his desperation and instincts based on his emotions. He didn’t know if the portal would actually work, but he still tried anyway.

Donnie and Raph Joining Mikey

In the next scene, Donnie and Raph joined Mikey when they started to see the cracks in Mikey’s arms. In the scene, they all got hurt, it seems, from the portal. All three of them, once joined, had glowing cracks coming from their arms. The arms that were cracking were Donnie’s right arm, both Mikey’s arms, and Raph’s left arm.

I would consider this behavior more based on instincts because of how fast Donnie and Raph joined Mikey soon after he was starting to make the portal, and his arms were starting to crack.

Leo

For Leo, I think it is a little bit different compared to the rest for how he self-sacrificed himself. Mainly, because in the movie, his self-sacrificial behavior is more calculated. Mainly shown by him saying “I missed on purpose” and “close the portal, Casey.”

This shows he already had it semi-calculated in his head.

Conclusion

They are all self-sacrificial idiots. But they all think about/do it in different ways in the movie.

For instance, Raph does his self-sacrificial behavior more on instant rather than a fully thought through plan. I mainly attribute this to him being the older brother.

For Donnie, he tries to prevent bad events from happening by creating things like the Donnie pods. But he will jump in front of people he cares about if he really needs to, which is based on instincts. This shows some kind of parallel between Donnie and Raph. But he also self-sacrifices more calculated sometimes, such as with the Technodrome. He does need time in between to figure something out compared to Leo.

For Mikey, when he does self-sacrificial behavior, it mainly comes from emotional distress, and more specifically instincts.

I think people mainly focus on Leo’s sacrifice is because it is more planned out compared to the other’s and is more “showy.”

But the bottom line is that they are all self-sacrificial idiots. But it just comes out in different ways.

Also, I want to see more fics revolving around these moments, and I am working on fics for some of them. Especially the parallel shell scene with Donnie and Raph.

Side Note: I like the headcanon that Donnie is younger than Leo.

If there is more from the movie you want to add, feel free to add it below.