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All the unfinished boards coming out for the episodes we could have had

Original boards from here

Leo's relationship with death

Leo really doesn't like to think about death.

I mean, we all saw how much impact Karai's death had on all of Mad Dogs but Leo was the only one that had to be dragged from her, yelling after her, he really, really didn't want to lose her.

And I think when he lost her it left a deep scar.

I saw posts talking how Leo wants for things to get back to normal and pretend nothing happened, which I completely agree with. I think it's in big part because of his fear of repeating losing a close one.

He REALLY doesn't want to even acknowledge death.

Here Raph seemed to be getting through to Leo-

-but the moment he mentions possibility of his family dying?

Nope, time to deflect, joke and feign ignorance.

Leo's aware that death is a big part of being a responsible hero and that's why he'd rather goof off with his brothers and not train.

Because obviously when you ignore something it just dissapears, right? So if they ignore severity of certain situations and possibility of dying it won't happen, right?

If they don't treat it seriously they'll be fine! Totally!

Then Raph shields Leo from the Krang and sends him away.

And it's as if Karai's death stared right in his eyes.

So Leo picks up the slack of leadership in order to save Raph. He behaves carelessly during this time but can you really blame him, he desperately wants to save his brother, to stop yet another family member from death that he is so scared of.

He still tries to be positive and nonchalant, that "pfff obvioulsy everything will turn out alright!" but at the end of the day, it's not that simple.

Casey's speech had hard time to really hit Leo, he's still avoiding confronting resposibility, literally and metaphorically turning away from it. But the moment Casey says Leo's whole family died?

Now that made an impact.

And every time his family is in terrible danger he looks absolutely terrified and basically every time Leo has to be dragged away to not just return and try to save them again.

And when there's nobody to drag him away?

First thing he does is sacrifice himself. Because I don't think Leo is scared of his own death, or at least he is not as scared of him dying as his family. He'd rather give away his life than live through another grief.

Obviously I'm not sayin that the rest of the fam isn't terrified of close ones dying. But while they seem less aware (Mikey) and/or more ready for the possibility (Raph)...

Leo's wholly aware but he'd rather not be and ignore his fears until he can't anymore.

ICHIMATSU MONTH BEGINS!!!

it's april, it's april! (for me at least, i'm a little ahead of some timezones x-)c)

i'll be drawing ichis every day – trying my best to, at least – though i do have some prompts to aid me. please look forward to it! and thank you to @mushimatsu for the inspiration, seeing you work on choro month was my main motivation teehee (prompt list under the cut)

and yes, if you're perhaps thinking 'hm, i've seen your username before but there's nothing on your account' - i goofed up and managed to delete my old account and ososan sideblog while trying to remove inactive sideblogs! i'm back though <3 i've learnt my lesson haha

"Guys, I found tomato!!"

*".. You got the wrong turtle"*

"OH MY FUCKING GOD, I KNEW YOU WERE STUPID BUT *SERIOUSLY*??"

Some fanart for @ramblehour 's turtlesona Cyrill! He was grabbed by Mickey and brought to the other mud dogs, thinking that they were Belatova.

Religion

Peace Offering

@spoopyblues214 tagged me in this and I thought it’d be fun. ☺️

Rules: you will be given a five letter word. Then you share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that starts with each letter of your word!

My word is: FIGHT

Fans were ecstatic that there was a famous person like them, not to mention how they found out.

It all started as a normal day in the sewers, well as normal as it can be when you live in the sewers.

“Gender norms?” “Yeah, that. Did I ever tell you humans are weird?” “Every other day.” “Good.”

“How?”, asked Mikey, “You’re like way too nice.”

Tao wore his long reddish hair down with a few braids. Usually, they preferred tying his hair up. Much to Raph’s surprise they wore a really nice dress.

It took way too long to find someone with F. That was like the only one!

So, now for the tagging.

@anyone who wants too…

I don’t have many writing mutuals….

Anyway, your word is: SOUND

AND MEEEEE HEHEHEEHE🧡🧡🧡

@the-demon-of-twilight @goldanrabbit

Damn I'm crying

listen i know turtles is turtles is turtles believe me i love them all

but i just think no raph will ever be quite like him

hes such a beacon of positive masculinity in childrens media (using his strength and size to be protective, being openly emotional and unashamed of crying, and confident in his soft side) and i just want to celebrate that ❤️