Cabinet Man Hippoworm AU
I’m having intense brainrot so I’m combining two of my special interests (Lemon Demon and Hippoworm) into one AU - let’s trudge through my insanity together, shall we? (also, this is a human AU, everyone except the turtles are human)
Ron (Hypno) is a magician and he’s also been shown to be pretty good with technology, so it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a version of himself that did the “ultimate” disappearing act and decided to turn himself into an unwinnable game. Why did he do this? Well, he tried out an actual magic spell he found and then things went sideways fast.
When Ron’s disappearing act is later reported as a death in the news, it’s of enough national interest for local newscaster Warren Stone to go out of his way to perform his own investigation. Soon enough, all of his leads run cold, leaving him at his wits end as he goes to his final site of interest, Albearto’s pizzeria.
Things are going just as poorly until the Hippo Crush arcade cabinet in the back draws him in, a nearly hypnotic pull that has captivated everyone else in line; children all waiting patiently for their turn. No one’s winning but no one’s complaining either. It’s an eerie silence only broken by sounds of 8-bit game play and the occasional button mash. And yet as Warren appears, the line parts, as if someone had pulled the kids aside with strings attached.
Warren reluctantly steps forward, the first step reluctant at least. The rest of the walk up is calm, his nervousness overridden by some unseen force. Compelled beyond his will.
So when he finally does get to the object of his complete attention, he blinks in surprise as the screen crackles and then flashes to life. Now filling his vision was the digitized version of the supposedly late Ron Pēwhairangi. Warren watches as Ron looks him up and down before winking.
There’s a moment of putting all the pieces together before Warren exclaims:
“Oh my god, you’re alive!”
Ron simply smiles back him, chuckling.
“And you’re as smart as you are handsome.”
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More ideas for this AU include:
Ron’s digital avatar is a bipedal hippo when he’s not presenting as himself to Warren
Warren falls in love with Ron despite the whole arcade cabinet situation - Everyone is wondering why the fuck the local newscaster is bringing flowers to the Hippo Crush arcade cabinet
Warren and Ron go on a date after hours since the owner of the shop is absolutely gonna let this weird celebrity have a romance with his game that seemingly has a hold over people
Warren asking Ron how the hell his whole situation happened and getting a wild answer
The Purple Dragons break into the arcade one night to bust the machines for old tech and then they come across Ron and start destroying his cabinet
There’s gonna be a lot of traumatized teenagers
Warren enlists the help of Donatello to help fix Ron and things get fucky fast
Turns out a half-man half-machine is hard to fix
Oh, and April is working at Albearto’s the entire time and does her best to keep her job so she can keep spying on her favorite newscaster. She knows there’s something up with the Hippo Crush machine but never suspected that it was alive. The only knowledge she has about Ron comes from Leo who was incredibly upset that his favorite magician died a couple years prior.
[Feel free to contribute to this in the notes if you’d like! This is just a bunch of ideas. I rarely post about my AU ideas on here and mostly keep them on Discord in my son’s server. Decided to share this one here.]
Oh, and here’s the song that inspired all of this:
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August Art Challange
Day 23: Warren Stone
The concept for this piece was the realization that Warren Stone was a well known if not famous reporter before he mutated. It is not inconceivable that he would have merch and while that much could have gone up in value, I belive it would hit him hard if it decreased. Hence the 50% off sale sign.
In this piece Warren stumbles into a store front display of his former life.
Sidenote: Warren Stone, Warren Hypno and Hamato Yoshis backstories are very similar. Famous stars who were mutated by accident, had their body irrevocably alter to the point were it stripped them of their fame and had their life destroyed as a result.
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