It was mentioned by one of the crew on ROTTMNT the potential reason Donnie built himself a battle shell was because Raph accidentally hurt him somehow when they were little and naturally I had to make a comic about it❤️🩹
Bonus, the first time Donnie talks again in over a week:
Can we get art of 03 Raph finding Donnie and immediately rushing the kid to Don for medical help because A bloody cuts from hobb, B he think the soft shell has something wrong with it.
Yes! and i'll even go into a little more about it since it's pretty neat (and definitely different than standard adopted au). Ok, i went a little overboard but here!
Poor Raphie. He just went from panicked b/c the baby is hurt, to panicked that he's hurt and permanently vulnerable.
Ok, so when Donnie escaped Hob, the cat tried to grab him again, but ended up just catching his arm and shell with his claws, leaving cuts. Donnie saw some water and immediately jumped into it, letting the sewer system take him away (he's an aquatic turtle so being in the water wasn't a danger to him, other than it was dirty water and he had open wounds.)
When Raphie finds him, he almost misses the fact he's there, simply b/c he blends into the water really well and only had his head sticking out. He realizes it's a small turtle but when he tries to get near him, Donnie hisses and even tries to bite him (he's scared b/c of hob and thinks that this new mutant wants to eat him too.) So Raphie, not wanting to get bit or upset the kid anymore than he seems to be, just sits down and tries to talk him out of the water. It doesn't work. Donnie understands what he's saying but doesn't trust it at the moment. No he'd rather stay safe hidden in the water, thank you very much.
Eventually Hob appears and Raphie, realizing this dude is what probably spooked the kid, chases him off. Donnie sees this and is like "ok, maybe he won't eat me." But Donnie hasn't started talking yet (he just didn't want to and now he's somewhere else and really doesn't want to) but he does make turtle sounds his brothers knew. So he curiously chirps at Raphie, figuring if he chirps back then he's safe since he's only had his brothers chirp back to him before. When Raphie doesn't do it immediately, he gets frustrated and thinks he's wrong. But then he does, a cautious, embarrassed chirp (b/c Raphie hasn't chirped since he was five and decided he was too old for it) and Donnie decides he must be safe and goes to him.
cue Raphie going into panic mode b/c holy shit, this kid has open wounds and he's been sitting in sewer water for who knows how long, and why is his shell so soft, something must be wrong!
thank you! This was really fun to do!
April gets stood up by her prom date, so the fam steps in to make sure she has the best prom ever (and maybe to enact some revenge on her behalf).
Headcanon that this is how her parents meet the turtles. They go to check on her and find four mutant turtles fixing her makeup, packing her a bag, talking about how they’re going to make this night memorable and how they’re totally not going to avenge her but just in case let’s bring your boots so you can escape comfortably.
Au idea where drax has a total morality shift and decides to actually help raise the turtles with splinter (listen, i have no clue how this would happen/ work, i just wanted an excuse to draw them as a family))
OKAY SO I cannot make a comic to save a life, BUT I really needed to get this idea out so here we go!
kid me hated 2012 raph with all her passion and yet now I just want to hug the shell out of him, cause I'm sorry but this poor kid- is just a kid ffs
I HAVE DONE IT! BEHOLD, THE FIRST EDITION TO THE UNIVERSAL DIVIDE AU!!! This is the first encounter of 12!Raph and little Rise!Raph
Again feel free to leave input, ask for what 'First Encounter' you wanna see next, and ask questions, I love talking and sharing about this AU ❤️
when donnie gets more comfortable does he happy stim? how does the turtles react to that? :0
I might’ve gone a little feral with this ask….😅
This is about three months after Donnie leaves Draxum.
thinking of casey junior picking up turtle noises from his timeline and then doing them at the turtles in the current timeline. yknow. as a treat