#rottmnt textposts

[whatup345]

Hear me out: Savage Raph as a metaphor for repressed anger.

Because it's like: Raph spent so much of his life knowing that he could hurt someone if he got angry, that he had to restrain himself even in the most emotional moments, or he could be a danger to his own brothers. He couldn't let himself fully express his anger, not until he was alone.

Then the whole hero thing got started, and Raph started to build up a moral code. We see through the whole movie that he takes the hero role very seriously, putting in all his effort to protect others. Again, Raph couldn't let his anger win over, because it would go against his one goal of keeping others safe. Again, he couldn't let himself express his anger until he was alone.

But then, the instant Raph is alone, the instant he doesn't have to worry about hurting others, there's nothing to stop all that anger from bubbling up, from overwhelming all of Raph's other emotions all at once. Then, once the anger has got the best of him, that's when Savage Raph able to turn on his brothers; after he already got to his most emotional point.

Just. Savage Raph being something that goes against all of Raph's values. Anger being something that goes against Raph's values. All that anger building up over time, until it all boils over, during the only times when Raph isn't faced with the overwhelming fear of hurting someone else- the times when there's no one around for Raph to hurt.

Raph hates this of course. Savage Raph goes against everything Raph tries to be. And by extension, Raph starts to hate being alone too. He starts gettting anxious when he's by himself in the lair. Raph needs to be around someone at all times, because if he is ever really alone, he will lose control of his emotions; and for Raph, that's the same thing as losing control of himself.

[roryjor]

<<Prev

Sources:

Raph

Mikey

Leo

Donnie

Splinter

April

[pealeii]

i just started watching rottmnt again and i forgot how much i love this show ohhh my goshh

[jennsmelody]

[flurry-bace]

Raph and Mikey are Suns. Donnie and Leo are Moons. End post.

[gonetoforks]

A bit of a hot take; I hope if Frida gets introduced properly with an official name, it will be something other than Frida?

(omg this rant became so long please read it tho i’m going insane)

I hope so because I feel like it would characterize her life (assumably) being raised by Big Mama a bit more, since her design tastes as we see through her hotel’s decor leans a lot towards old money art deco motifs combined with gothic architecture. I feel like Frida Kahlo’s primitivism and surrealism would be a bit out of character? Or at least a missed opportunity for some characterization.

(Okay maybe it’s not quite gothic but idc, let me speak-)

See here all the difference between Big Mama’s taste and Frida Kahlo’s paintings, I’m not saying she wouldn’t like her work, I just think that if Big Mama designs all her estates with such a clear creative vision & what seems to be her own personal tastes (*cough cough* old money ass fashion sense *cough cough*) I feel like she’d be more knowledgeable and/or more partial to a different area of the art world for Kahlo to be enough of her favorite to name her personal assistant/maybe I hope surrogate daughter after her?

I like to think if Big Mama named her after some artists she personally liked, I think she might lean more towards artists from the art deco scene like Tamara de Lempicka, or Sonia Delaunay.

Or maybe gothic architects could give her a name truer to the hidden city and battle nexus architecture that she’d’ve been surrounded by her whole life. All those gargoyles and sprawling jagged designs once you push past the illusion of Big Mama’s normal hotel front make such a dichotomy! Julia Morgan (the lady who designed California’s Hearst Castle which, “mixes Spanish Colonial, Gothic, Neo-Classical and Mediterranean Revival style all in one property.” I think that would be such a good combination of styles to reference with Big Mama’s choice on what to name this person omg) and Odile Decq are such pretty names!!

I love Odile Decq’s personal style and work on one particular building sm, the Phantom Restaurant of the Garnier Opera.

LIKE OMG THAT JUST SCREEAAAMMMS BIG MAMA, she would absolutely name a girl after the lady who’d design that and you cannot convince me otherwise. And Odile would fit in with “Michelangelo, Leonardo, Donatello and Raphael” so well omg. And look at this woman, look at her style, she NEEDS a ninja turtle named after her omg.

And finally, a bit controversial but I never really liked the name Frida in the first place?

Don’t get me wrong, her work is legendarily meaningful and skillful. It’s just that in recent years, she’s been packaged and sold as this “girlboss feminist icon” because of her suffering, and because of that, her image in pop culture has kind of been watered down to the point where it feels like if they were to name her Frida, i’d think like, all the thought that went into it would be, “okay she’s a girl, what girl painters do we know?” Which (although well intentioned-) kinda feels like reverting back to stereotyping her as “the girl one” even though that’s what they were trying to avoid by not naming her Venus? If that makes sense? So I’m glad her name isn’t concrete yet lol.

And OMG I WANT HER NAME TO BE ODILE SO BAD NOW YOU DONT EVEN KNOW💖✨💝‼️✨ I only found her work literally as I was typing this but I just love that building and how much Big Mama would absolutely love that building, she needs to be named Odile, look at her face, that’s an Odile face <3

Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael, and Odile, (and maybe Kirby? :D) i love itt

[reesespiecesofart]

guys i've been on tumblr for a while and i'm well versed in shipping language BUT WHAT EXACTLY DOES OTP MEAN

[jester-complex]

feels like coming home making these :p

[hatchi-matchii]

i just realized I’ve had each one of the ROTTMNT turtle species in my house at one point or another minus a softshell

[whatup345]

Little idea I just had:

After Leo's tragic death, Donnie builds a robot that looks just like Leo (like in all those fanfics). The twist? Leo's actual spirit possesses the robot.

At first, Leo's ghost can't do much. He's weak, and so the robot just follows its intended programming while Leo goes along for the ride. But slowly, as Leo gets used to his new existence, he learns to override the robot's AI, and basically use the robot as a new body. But, there's a problem.

Leo's brothers don't know that the robot is possessed. So when Leo starts to disobey the robot's programming, it causes issues. Donnie barely convinced the family to let him undertake this project, and now, his robot is getting far too invasive, clinging to it's "brothers" even when explicitly commanded not to. Of course, this is just Leo trying to interact with his family after being thrust into the spirit realm. But in everyone else's eyes, it's a weird and creepy robot, with faulty AI that can't understand boundaries.

Finally, Donnie has enough. The robot crosses a line, so Donnie takes it out into a sewer tunnel and destroys it, smashing it into scrap metal. The family is glad to be rid of the thing, which they began to see as a flawed coping mechanism. But Leo's spirit still clings to the robot.

And Leo is terrified. He doesn't understand what happened, or why Donnie would do something like that to him. Leo had been using the robot to live a second life, to speak and move freely, to talk with his family. And once Donnie destroys the robot, that is all ripped from him. Without a vessel to ground him in the mortal world, Leo is forced back into the spirit realm, separated from his brothers all over again, rejected by his family. And in his confusion, Leo gets angry.

Strange little things start to happen in the lair. People get calls that just play static, mystic powers fail more often than usual, Donnie's tech malfunctions. It's weird, but no one minds too much.

Then, one day, Donnie walks into his lab, to see Leo's robot, sitting on the table. It's perfectly repaired, to the extent that no one could even tell it was broken in the first place. It's eyelights are on, and it slowly looks up at Donnie.

"I hate you," It says in a perfect copy of Leo's voice. "I hate you."

And for the first time since his robot was finished, Donnie understands that something is very, very wrong.

[roryjor]

He would

[Image id: Screengrab from the Pizza Puffs episode where Raph yells at his phone. Overtop is a twitter post that says "when i was a kid i was hospitalized because my gameboy shut off in the middle of a gym leader battle on emerald and i got so mad that i took the batteries out and ate them"]

[pealeii]

Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2018-2019) + textposts (1/2/?)

[jennsmelody]

[flurry-bace]

do you think people in the Rise universe would learn about the alien invasion through the Destiel meme

[gonetoforks]

i think casey jr should be able to contact the spirits of the dead resistance members using his own special flavor of hamato ninpo, as a treat

[summerofstarlight]

The love of a fictional character will break you like no other love. The one-sided relationship you hold onto for so long because they make you feel happy. The yearning to meet them, talk to them, be friends with them. Then, the show gets cancelled, the book ends, the story is over... and suddenly, you are lonely again. The person that brought you the most joy is suddenly ripped away from you. Sure, you can go back and relive all the moments in which they exist. But it's the same as losing a loved one to death; you only have so many memories to remember them by. You can never make more. So, you are stuck wishing. And you whisper things you wish you could say to them. Things like... I wish I had been born in your world. I wish you could give me rib crushing hugs. I wish you could stay up late and talk to me about your special interests. I wish we could order pizza and play video games. I wish we could make puns and joke together. But we can't. Because I'm real, and you're not. Or perhaps... you're real, and I'm not.