#tbh i love to yap my ocs and headcanons and aus and stuff

[glitchingfluffster]

I hope you don't mind if I make a separate post @definitely-canon!!

this AU is still a work in progress, so forgive my rambling😭😭😭

in a nutshell:

raphael is portaled™ into mm/tottmnt verse and amidst a nervous breakdown realizes he's in the place he's always dreamed of.

I adore the idea of playing with themes like separation anxiety, his weakness for children and relatively chill life (!!!!) (I can already feel it getting old by the time the second movie comes out)

I think by the end of the story he'll adopt them all /j

also random stuff (will be under cut because holy hell it got very long very fast)

·raph's having a hard time getting used to splinter, who is a "dad", instead of "sensei/master" <- he'll call him "old man" cuz he is embarrassed as hell

·bro's scared shitless of scumbug. like he pretends he's okay in her company, but really he's like, "get me out of here, please, I want to get away as far, as mutantly possible"

·he often suffers from panic attacks, especially when the kids are in school. in those cases don allowed him to use his beanbag (it calms him down), splinter usually pours a special tea blend and when everyone is home, mikey usually sits close to raph and plays/talks about everything in the world to relax and distract him

·for the first 6-8 months he had a very hard time getting to the surface, because every time he went out, he was paranoid and felt like he was constantly being watched

·poor guy was intimidated by how much mm boys are touchy-feely/eager going for a hug. it took leo a couple months just to prove that "hugging is ok" (because god forbid 4Kids do anything more than HANDSHAKE or PATTING a SHOULDER/PLASTRON)

·from the very beginning he and donnie had a complete misunderstanding, like they're from different planets or smth. eventually don will find something to get raph hooked on anime (jojo, maybe?) and that will allow them to tolerate each other better

·leo is happy to not feel like the oldest for once. surprisingly, they are very well matched personality-wise, like yes, raph often banters with him, but there is not much fighting, and it doesn't come to full on outbursts with biting like with mm raph (😭)

·speaking of mm raph, he found himself the best sparring partner :) I also think they would go to the surface every night (when '03 raph will feel better, of course) just to kick some ass. <- casey'll be tagging along with them (and then everyone would get an hour-long lecture from leo)

·with tons of free time (despite splinter's offers to go to school with the others) he finds himself an irl telenovela as leo comes up with 1000 and 1 ways to win april's heart (he's friendzoned for life). at first he was drawn in purely for shits and giggles, but the longer leo's plans failed, the more raph wanted to unironically support him

·april has seen so many strange things over the last year, that the appearance of an alternative version of a familiar turtle somehow seems very normal. jones is just ecstatic - "a huge turtle???? fell out of a portal?????? from a universe where you constantly had to save the world from an alien?????? who is also a ninja clan master??????? that's fuckin' metal as hell, bro!!!!!!!!!!"

·casey had to practically stalk mm raph nonstop to get the name of the cool turtle out of him, to which he always got the "trust me bro, you don't wanna know this"