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TMAYNT DAY 26

Favorite Series

apologies ladies and gentlemen but i simply cannot pick a favorite among this franchise in which every one of its creations is art(minus the cringy music videos from the early 2000s)

so imma say my favorite features for the main six characters that I love most

Leo

oldest child(rise I love your Leo, but I prefer big bro Leo)

Anxious little dork(my man needs his space hero obsession)

long mask tails

great with kids

Raph

Wears head covering mask

signature plastron scar/injury

not so secret softie(mainly for his brothers)

Sassiest turtle you’ve met

Donnie

glasses

Has robot son(in the form of metal head/sheldon)

Scientist goggles

Definitely goes to Aprils girls nights

Mikey

Freckles

pops into his shell for comfort

smallest turtle

Splinter

is called dad by his sons rather than Sensei

shorter than his sons

some kind of connection to Hamato clan

Uses tail for fighting/handling his sons

April

same age as turtles

black

Wants to be a news reporter

baseball bat for a weapon

Sister figure to the turtles

Chapter 4 Part 1

Last night was a blur.

Hours spent talking and arguing with their dad. Trying to stay up later and find out every possibility of what could have happened to Mikey. All just to be left back where it all started.

Leo stood there alone on the rooftop across from Eastman High. Raph had locked himself up in the bottom bunk. And Donnie. . . Leo could only hope that he would actually unfreeze from the numb gaze he kept since the night before.

That was when Leo came to a scary realization.

They had never been so separated before.

Sure now that the turtles all had their own separate friend groups and activities. But they had never all been alone. Usually they were always at least a phone call away.

But now Leo had to face the school day alone. And on top of that he was the only one who could and needed to ask for the help of their one true best friend. The one who stuck by the boys through thick and thin. The one they all shared but in completely separate ways.

Of course it was up to the eldest and most responsible brother to handle the heavy burden. Alone. With a life on the line.

Leo thought back to one of his earliest memories. He and Mikey were venturing out into the sewers racing to their usual swimming spot. They were probably about 4 or 5 years old then with Leo just an hour or two closer to aging up than his other brothers. Though they never talked about it until the boys started finding out that siblings had an age order Leo was always assumed to be the eldest. The mother hen. The boss of the brothers.

Even their dad would ask out of all of them for him to do the hardest and most important tasks. Like babysitting while he went to get supplies or making sure Mikey and Donnie wouldn’t get hurt. That pair was always assumed as the younger and delicate ones being smaller and having softer shells than Leo and Raph.

As the two ran, feeling the wind against their cheeks, their feet splashed in the little stream running through the tunnel. “Wait up Leo” Mikey giggled stumbling behind his brother. Eventually the tunnel met an end and Leo paused looking down from the tiny ledge to take a breath. This part of the sewer was his favorite. The lake-like body of water was perfect for swimming. It was like a private beach only known to the inhabitants of the sewers. The turtle tot breathed in and out slowly taking in the smell of salty water pouring in from the Hudson.

“Watch out!!” Mikey yelped as he slipped onto his back and continued sliding towards Leo at top speed. “Wha- oof” Leo managed to turn around right Mikey’s shell came slamming into his chest knocking them both off the side of the ledge.

“Eeugh. Mikey what the-“ Leo said rubbing his head as he looked around to see nothing on the little beach.

“Mikey. Mi-ike.” He called as he turned around to his little brother. He was tucked under the pipe entrance hugging his knees and whimpering and chirping every minute or so. Blood slowly dripped down from his knee. “Oh mi gosh! Mikey! Are you ok?”

Mikey shook his head. Tears glazed over his eyes. “My knee. I want papa.”

Their dad was on a scavenging errand trying to find things that would be helpful towards trying to survive down there. Leo was supposed to be keeping them in the lair. Not goofing around getting his brothers hurt. “It’s-It’s ok. It’s just a little scrap” Leo was stuttering like he always did when he was nervous.

But he couldn’t be right now because his brother needed him.

‘Cmon Leo you can do this. Your brother needs you.’

After a few deep breaths he continued to comfort Mikey. “It’s ok. You’re gonna be just fine.” Mikey looked at his brother. Fear didn’t fill his eyes just sincerity and love. His whimpers turned into sniffles and his eyes focused on his brother.

“Can you let me carry you? We can do a piggyback ride home if you can be strong enough for it.”.Leo had him at piggyback. Mikey raised his arms and immediately started gripping the air. Mikey loved to be carried especially by his older brothers since they would rarely do it. Leo giggled as he lifted his little brother onto his back.

“Hey Leo.” Mikey whispered. “Mm hm”. “I love you bro.”

Leo stared at his drama king of a brother. “You’re not dying.”. “I know!” Mikey answered annoyed. After a long period of silence, Mikey squeezed his brother just a tiny bit tighter. “I just wanna tell you that. Cause I mean it.”

Leo was kind of shocked by how serious his baby brother was being.

“Yeah I love you too. But everything’s gonna be ok. You’re strong.”

Leo blinked himself back to the present. He took a few deep breaths and made his way to homeroom.

“You’re strong”

So just a quick peak in and out of the brothers past.

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JUSTICE FOR MS. KATRI!!!

I really like her character so far. Even though she’s only in one episode, we get to learn about how big of an impact she had on helping the turtles. Cause trust me it’s hard enough paying for groceries in a stable home with a paying job and one kid. So doing that with no job and 4 kids plus the cousins and Peter has got to be quite the challenge. She reminds me of Murakami from 2k12 Tmnt. It would be cool if she showed up in later episodes to help out more.

(Ps I get that she’s in love with Harold and it’s a cute ship and this could just be how they show affection but she deserves a little less time playing damsel in distress to show she’s in love with him)

Edit: is it Katri or Khatri? Someone please tell me in the comments.

Songs that make me think of Tottmnt Ship Headcannons

Just a couple of songs to give some inspiration for ship content.

Aprilnardo/Leopril:

Shut up and dance with me

Dandelions

Cheerleader

Rasey:

Sincerely, Me

Jenny(I wanna ruin our friendship)

Both:

Ho Hey

See you again

Genius

I wanna be yours

I swear I’m gonna get around to drawing these two perfect pairs at prom eventually. I literally cannot think of any other case in which April and Leo dance in the cannon and it’s not because Leo attempted to ask but was stopped by April kissing him and then saying something along the lines of “shut up and dance with me”. I also can’t listen to Sincerely, Me anymore without thinking about Rasey.

ok

I can work with this

So now it’s kinda hinting that Angel is gonna have a similar origin to her original ones and Hun is the leader. IM LOVING IT!

Sorry not sorry now the twins little sister is Joana(don’t judge me it’s a cute name for a cutie patootie like her). Hun switches places with the role I gave to “Kendra”/Angel and now Angel would probably have a redemption arc with Casey(Cass has too much of a grudge with the Purple Dragons to try an help).

THE CASEY TWINS HAVE ARRIVED!!

I’ve been hearing and thinking about this headcannon for I a while now so here’s some smaller headcannons:

Casey(left) and Cassandra/Cass (right) are on the Eastman High ice hockey team

By day they beat other teams in hockey by night they beat up perps like the Purple Dragons

The Purple Dragons are actually the reason why they became vigilantes after being jumped by Kendra and her squad

They live with their moms and little sister Angel(age 8 and eventual bestie of Lita)

They first meet Raph after he gets separated and become great friends with him from there

Casey even more so(😏)

Casey is the older twin

Cassandra is the most sensitive (never tell her I said that) and short tempered

Cass is mainly embarrassed that she bit off more than she could chew and has a physical reminder on both her and her twin

Casey tends to try and avoid the whole trauma thing following the logic that ‘if both of us are freaking out nothing’s gonna fix itself’

going of the headcannon that this⬇️

Is Kendra(I fell in love with her character design btw) her and the twins are gonna have beef

mainly Kendra being spiteful to Cass and rubbing salt in that wound

Upon meeting April and Cass become instant besties

Whilst Casey and April have more of a teasing the living crap out of each other style friendship

The Casey’s don’t trust the police with shit

Mom is a marine and Mami is a waitress

and das it

Cowabunga turtle fanz!

School Doodle Art Dump

I GRADUATED TODAY(not that you have to care BUT) I’m SUPER emotional so art dump to cope

WARNING‼️ this post contains many many MANY pics

Random objects

Venus doodles that I can’t find the ability to redraw

Flowers and dancers

*me pre drawing this* Man I really love MM Mikey! Should I draw him?

*draws this* Wow I’m a sick person

Anyone else do these every where in your notebooks

Semi angelic and demonic drawings cause

Bb turtle😊 . . . And rain?

Front cover rando doodles

Lots of hand practice

Tottmnt kinda sorta oc girls(litas mask styles and Venus’s school clothes)

Apparently I can’t fit them all on one post

Lemme cook I just got like art done for a certain two bone mask related characters

Chapter 7 Part 2

“Karai! You came!”

Aprils face somehow brightened from the last time Karai had seen her. That or Karai was still forgetting that most normal humans lived normal lives.With normal families and simple pleasures. They didn’t usually have a reason to be as harsh as the Foot were.

But besides her expression you could probably guess that her life was a train wreck. Her hair was messy, clothes were wrinkled, and her beanie was slightly crooked on her head. Please don’t be doing what I think you’re doing.

“And why wouldn’t I meet up with the news-dork I call friend?” Karai fully entered the dark room, dropping her bag on the nearby chair. The smug look on her face automatically formed without warning nor awareness.

“Hey! I didn’t call you any names when you walked in the room.” April responded placing her hands on her hips in her signature jokingly sarcastic pose.

“You were about to though.” Karai crossed her arms across her chest, leaning over April(whom was slightly shorter) as she narrowed her eyes. “Weren’t you?”

“Mhm. But only cause you fall for it.”

“Oh ho ho. Is that so?”

April straightened up her back and also narrowed her eyes before continuing.

“Yep.” April smacked her lips on the p.

A moment of silence fell between the two before April’s laughter erupted followed by Karai’s chuckles. It was so hard to not smile in the reporter’s presence. Once you got close enough to her.

“Haha! Man I don’t know what that was.” Her laughter slowed as she wiped tears of joy away from beneath her glasses.

Karai wasn’t quite sure either but the comment still made her smile. She hummed as she looked around the dark room. Faint red light tinted every crevice and corner of the room including all of Aprils research. Several empty bulletin boards laid askew on the floor. Few hung on the walls covered in sloppily cut out photos and news articles. Nothing bad yet. Please don’t be doing what I said stop doing.

“What’s up?” April had texted her before but not like this. At least not without a reason. And last time it wasn’t exactly a . . . comfortable experience. For either of them.

April barely held in a squeal, her hair bouncing in time with her body. “Okay! So you know how I may or may not have been researching about TCRI after their whole out of the blue disappearance?”

Damn it

Karai let out a low sigh like the ones she had heard countless times from her father. God how she hated that thought. Her acting like her dad. Her head hung low with her eyes tightly shut. Her mouth was drawn so tight she thought the lightest touch would break it.

“April. . .”

“Well I just found a massive lead. So I traced back to where their usual supply ports were . . .”

April kept on rambling excitedly. Any other subject would have left Karai at least amused by her friend’s enthusiasm. But fear flooded her thoughts.

“April.”

This time her friend heard her. April turned revealing a look of small shock on her face. Karai’s face softened slightly. She couldn’t hurt her feelings. She knew how much April toils over this kind of crap. But she also couldn’t let her walk straight into becoming a target of a super powerful company with enough resources and intelligence to kidnap the president. Or even worse hire their closest partner to do things even worse than death to the unsuspecting teen.

Stuck between the controversy that was her entire life at this point, Karai settled on massaging her forehead and releasing yet another sigh(that’s definitely gonna get old). “Come on girl. We talked about this.”

“Oh! Right.” April looked down disappointment fading onto her face. She rubbed the back of her neck as the look fully set in. With a hint of guilt adding to both of the girls emotional weights.

Great! What have I done now? My last night with the first new friend you’ve made since Jennika and you ruined.

“Maybe . . . I took it as a strong suggestion.” She looked up at Karai guiltily but at least smiling now. Yet again that meant she was trying to get away with this and still wasn’t comprehending how strong of warning Karai had made.

Karai let out a long groan. “April.”

“Oh come on! What’s the worst thing that could happen if I expose a toxic company?! Whom of which hurt some of my closest friends!”

Great! Now she’s mad too.

If Karai could be honest she would read off the entire list of bad things that could be done to the news girl for exposing them. But alas she was not supposed to be Karai the kunochi and double agent. Right now she was Karai the normal teenager. And even as a normal teenager she could not hold back her anger.

“Look. I’m just trying to look out for you. Believe it or not exposing a super powerful group of psychopaths may not help you as much as you’d think.” Karai‘s’s gritted teeth made the comeback sharp and silent but luckily enough to get the point across.

“And I appreciate that! But sitting around doing nothing isn’t how you change things! And that company’s existence is definitely a change that needs to be made ASAP!” April’s volume only grew with her anger. “My friends really need this right now!”

“Who?! The mutant turtles?!” Karai blurted, at this point she didn’t care about temper. Her thoughts had been straining against the barriers in her mind for too long. Especially in front of someone she thought she could down those barriers upon feeling her presence. “Why do they matter in this argument?!”

“What is up with you?! And why are saying it like that?!” April backed away slightly as if she was the one being insulted.“Yes they’re mutant turtles! So what?! They’re my friends and they need help! I would do the same for you!”

Karai wanted to puke.

A deathly silence fe over the room. Adding to the choking thickness of the sea of shock and regret she had plunged under.

She never seriously thought about how much April connected with the turtles. How much she cared. And for her too. They had just become friends less than half a week ago and April cared enough to risk her safety for her. That hit the nail to the coffin.

What are you doing?! GET OUT BEFORE YOU BLOW YOUR COVER!!

Karai quickly snapped up, escaping the very unwanted thoughts zooming around her mind. She quickly grabbed her backpack and opened the door. Before she could step out April broke the silence.

“Karai, I-”

“Nevermind April. Just-.” She looked up for second. Probably the worst mistake in her life besides the day they died, as she saw Aprils look. She looked so shocked and confused. Somehow in the short amount of time Karai had spent with April she had gotten to know her very well. Well enough to know she would blame herself for . . . all of this instead of the one who took up a tone first. “-nevermind, ok.”

She slowly shut the door behind her. She didn’t want to leave like this. But what choice did she have. It was either fight with April and give the police a good lead on who to start looking to for answers or do the job she was meant to do without hesitation and good leads for the police. And hopefully April.

Just as the door almost fully closed Karai peered through the crevice one more time. “Sorry. Sayonara.”

Karai made it longer than she had expected. A total of 3 blocks before finding a good alleyway. From their tucked into the little corner she locked into a tight ball and slumped to the ground.

A moment of weakness was highly frowned upon by the foot but they couldn’t see her here. She could be a disappointment all she wanted without bothering anyone else here.

Get up.

Listening to the voices in her head Karai quickly wiped her eyes careful not to smudge the eyeliner. Her oni mask slipped over the bottom of her face. The cool metal brought a chill into her body. The rest of her armor was strapped on just as the troops stalking the target area signaled her.

Withdrawing her twin wakizashi she was ready to end this.

Nothing left for her to hesitate over.

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So yeah sorry this took like over a whole ass month to write but stuff got crazy and I got distracted. Hopefully the next few chapters will come quicker. In this chapter I kinda wanted to take from the perspective of being in the passive position of one of those two second arguments you have with your friends that creates a grudge for the rest of the day before forgiving and forgetting completely the next day. But obviously Karai ain’t gonna forget this little talk. (Quick fyi when reading this I am not trying to ship Karai and April. Any of what you might think is that is just April having a bi panic and Karai struggling to figure how to do a healthy relationship) Anywho hope you like it. Cowabunga turtle fanz!

To be clear on who Clunk from the latest chapter of Difference Between the Appearance is I got the idea from another post I saw. Sorry I couldn’t find the original post.

But if you find the og post it’s great and contains a lot of cool consent art for the turtles den in the MM/Tottmnt universe.

PS this image is a picture of said og post I did not write any of the comments on the pic(but I do agree with them)

*Me trying to think of ways to make the next post of Tmaynt special*

Me: Oh! I know! I’ll do a collab of day 7 and 8

*day 8 comes*

Me: Wait. Which turtle ally is my favorite?

*whole day pass without work done due to inability to choose favorites*

Me: Ah Shit! I still can’t choose! And I have zero time to draw this collab! Uh that’s ok I can just post when I choose.

*the next day*

Me: ok I’ll definitely post today

*day after that*

Me: well I can’t miss one of the main four characters of a franchise that im obsessed with

*misses one of the main four characters*

Me: WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!

*continues to miss two more days*

Me: 😑

Well dammit

And that’s the story of why I didn’t post for the past few days. I tried SO hard to post each and every day for TMAYNT but I just couldn’t do it.

Might as well do it now I guess

Day 7 Best Gadget

I love the little Christmas lights and whisks at the ends

Day 8 Favorite Turtle Ally + Dynamic

Karai has got to be one of my absolute favorite characters in Tmnt. No matter what they do with her she is always a queen(except for bayverse but we don’t talk about that)

I ship them so hard but I love how their dynamic has so much variety . They’re best friends and lovers (head-cannon) and badass warriors.

Day 9 Best Raph

Look at him being so supportive of his bros

and then going rogue on the garage mission

but the first part is still true

Day 10 Favorite Turtle Curseword

I know everyone says this but probably shell

Day 11 Favorite Splinter

I still can’t pick one favorite bro 😭