I MISS THEM

Though the Hamato clan in Rise is often more openly affectionate than past iterations I’ve noticed that the amount that each family member actually says the words ‘I love you’ actually differs for each family member.

Mikey: I’ll say it again, I love you guys

Leo: We did it!

Mikey: Love you dad!

Splinter: My sons, you know I love you, but you only remember lessons when you learn them the hard way

Splinter: We are not giving them the evil teapot, we are going to save my beloved sons!

Throughout the series Mikey & Splinter are the ones who tell their family that they love them the most, often either staying it in their everyday life or having it come up in conversation. They’re the ones that most easily say ‘I love you’ because it’s a simple fact to them, they do love their family why shouldn’t they say it?

Raph: Tests are easy, it’s answers that are hard 

Donnie: I love you so much! Let’s do it!

Leo: We learned a valuable something about never something-ing you alone again

Raph: Aww I love you guys!

In contrast to Mikey & Splinter, Raph & Donnie are the ones who use the words ‘I love you’ the least out of the family because they have other ways of showing their family that they love them, Donnie shows his love for his family through his inventions & Raph shows his love for his family by protecting them & keeping them safe.

Donnie & Raph save the words ‘I love you’ for moments where they’re particularly excited or touched such as when Raph gives Donnie the go-ahead to use an untested invention because he believes in Donnie’s inventions enough to think, even untested it will help or when Leo promises Raph they won’t leave him alone again, even taking care to not say the word ‘leave’ because he knows the word is upsetting to Raph.

Leo: I love you guys!

Leo on the other hand is firmly in the middle, he says the words ‘I love you’ more than Donnie & Raph, but he’s not as able to simply say it in everyday conversation the way Mikey & Splinter are.

In fact Leo seems to save the words ‘I love you’ for situations where he feels as though something is wrong & he feels as though he’s let down or upset his family in someway.

Leo: Raphael, I love you my brother but you do tend to fail in big moments.

Leo: Raph, you know I love you but people don’t focus on punctuation when they’re stuck in concrete

Leo: Donnie, you gotta stop this! I love you and your gaming is hurting me!

Leo: Okay Señor Hueso, my beloved brother Donatello and I had a bit of a spat

Raph is the person Leo typically says ‘I love you’ to the most & he usually says it when he’s pointing out a flaw in his older brother’s plans, it’s Leo’s way of saying even when he’s telling Raph something isn’t going to work he still loves him.

The second person Leo says ‘I love you’ to the most is Donnie & it’s usually reserved for when they are fighting such as in episode The Purple Game when Leo thought that Donnie was still controlling the robot that was attacking them & during the episode The Hidden City Job where after Leo has an argument with Donnie he primarily refers to Donnie as his ‘beloved brother’.

Leo: I love you

Splinter: No!

It seems as though Leo reserves the words ‘I love you’ for when he feels as though he’s upset a family member, either by disagreeing with them or getting into a fight with them & combining this with the fact that in the episode ‘Flushed But Never Forgotten’ when Leo thinks he might loose his family forever, the last thing he wants to say to them is how much he loves them, ‘I love you’ might be the words that Leo says when he thinks he’s done something that would make him loose his family.

When Leo says ‘I love you’ what he’s really saying is ‘I love you, please don’t be mad at me, please don’t be upset with me,’ ect

baby learning object permanence

thank you to @stormanbates for the prompt!!

“Please, live on. You and I cannot be the same anymore, so, build a new future you will be proud of. Find a new family, find new goals but please… Don’t recall those memories tainted with selfishness.” Lulled the other in the girl’s mind. 

But even if she said that, this body they used to share was still belonging to “the other”. Those scars, those changes… it weren’t hers. Even if she tried to live a new life, she would end up only being the shadow of that old self, not just for herself but to others too.

No matter how hard she would try, in the end, the person called Emma would still haunt her. 

from the flash 80-page giant (1998) #2

and if tomorrow it’s all over, at least we had it for a moment.

(happy birthday to the Girl Ever, Emma!! 8.22.24 ☀️🦒🧡🪓🌻)

Any fun facts or doodles for your new Mikey au that you have or can share???

Sure! Oh, how about the exact reason Splinter thinks Mikey's talking to their ancestor!

I said it was a silly misunderstanding lol. (i think the conversation between Splints and Mikey gets sad after that though, at least for splinter. B/c at some point Mikey admits they're his age and turtles so Splinter assumes he's hanging out with the spirits of his brothers, who either aged as spirits or made themselves look that age so they could play with Mikey. That's part of the reason he never tries to stop Mikey from hanging out with them, b/c he doesn't think he should separate brothers like that, even if two of them are 'dead'.)

Also, bonus fun fact. Mikey's able to meet with them so regularly b/c splinter takes him and Raph out to the scrap yard every couple weeks. He lets them roam and explore b/c he figures they can't get into much trouble there since it's mostly abandoned and everything's already broken. So Mikey slips out of the scrap yard and to a nearby alleyway to hang out with the twins. and as long as he comes back when he hears splinter call for him, he's fine.

Thank you!

One year closer to saving them.

Real reason the imperial soldiers couldn't come help Peter out

Art trade with @fowlaroundtown , who asked for Donnie and Shelldon hanging out 😊

I’ve never drawn Shelldon before, but it was a lot of fun! 💜