…Merry Christmas?? <3

the baxter who stole christmas??? I do hc him as a christmas hater so this is accurate lol it took me a while to respond 2 this bcuz i really wanted to draw him in that fucking outfit you gave him.....its so beautiful... alternate universe where 03 baxter dresses in ugly bright colors....wow

or au where after he get his body back (after fastforward) he dresses in the ugliest combos imagiable. the clip-on clown bowtie is killing me (+ bounus ff baxter cuz i like drawing him)

Tmnt 2003 spoilers (CW: 🧠)

Some silly 03 turtles just for you :)

Hi!! I was scrolling through your blog appreciating your banger art (as one does) and noticed you mentioned in the tags on one post that you’re thinking of trying to draw Bishop and Stockman and as a big enjoyer of both I am intrigued!! So I wanted to ask how that was coming along? :)

In exchange i offer this Bishop fic because it’s really well written and ties into a bigger universe me and my friend are making now, in case you need recommendations still :D

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46582162

Your art slaps severely! Hope you have a good day!

- @teenagemutantninjatrauma

i finally got around to drawing them and being satisfied with the result,,

anyway the fic you sent was insanely good, the writing was really captivating ahgh bishop is such an interesting character and now i will be thinking about future bishop, cody jones and dark turtles found family (it's making me run in circles)

and stockman!! hes so interesting to me as well,, especially if you've read the comics made for the 2003 tmnt show (very good btw you can find them online for free) they give a little more exposition for some of the characters and i enjoyed them

I'm finally back to the 03 series in my rewatch of tmnt franchises! I haven't watched it since middle school, Its very 2000s I love it. sketching while I watch.

baxter stockman in tmnt '03 annoys me.

so one person is literally torturing you, and you hate the guys that STOPPED YOU ONCE EQUALLY?????

dude just tell them "hey, sorry about that, but this guy is literally tearing me apart limb by limb, can you like. help me out?" AND THEY WOULD!!!!!!!

The Shredder's Henchmen from TMNT 2003 were parallels of the turtles. Not directly enough that it was on purpose, but they still managed to give the Shredder 4 primary henchmen with personalities that mirror the turtles' base traits of "Leader", "Rude", "Smart", and "Fun". (Also, I love character parallels and always try to finagle them out of any media I can.)

Karai is the most obviously made to mirror Leo. She's The Leader, the obviously favored child henchman with more power and authority than the others. She's a better leader than even the Shredder himself, her soldiers and technicians are better trained and more competent than the Shredder's original forces. It’s made obvious in the show, the increased threat she and her people are to the turtles. She is the closest to Shredder, literally his daughter, but she isn’t treated differently than Shredder’s other high ranking subordinates. She is praised when she succeeds and is punished when she fails, she’s just competent enough to never fully fail. She always has at least a little bit of a win that saves her from the really bad punishments, something she learned from Shredder.

Hun may be more of a parallel to Casey, but Casey is a parallel to Raph, so by the transitive property, Hun is Raph's foil. He's mean and angry and loves a good beatdown and wanton destruction, but he's also loyal and devoted to a fault. Hun is Karai's rival, put in a position of power above others, but Shredder's disrespect for him prevents him from moving up the ranks any more than that. To Shredder, Hun is just a gangster and can be replaced by any other gangster. To Shredder, Hun is just a ball of anger and muscle that can be thrown at a problem until it stops moving. Hun is treated more like a dog than a person, someone that can follow orders but not think for himself. But Hun is too loyal, too devoted to see that his master doesn’t respect him. Hun sees Shredder as a man who has earned his power, money, and respect, which is why he immediately turns once Shredder’s revealed to be an Utrom, that’s not a Man Who’s Earned His Place, that’s an alien who cheated his way to the top of humanity. Once Shredder is gone in season 5 - Once free from the “stupid gangster” box Shredder kept him in, Hun really steps up his villain game and turns the Purple Dragons from just a street gang to a proper organized crime syndicate.

Stockman “does machines” and also various other crimes against nature as desired. He's a genius unchecked by morals, and who seems to think caring for other people is a weakness and a detriment. He uses his intelligence to get fame and praise, he doesn't think "how can I use science to make the world a better place" or even "science/knowledge is valuable in and of itself", at best he thinks "what problem do other people have that I can fix and get praise for". And that mindset lead him to Shredder, who gives Stockman praise until his usefulness is outweighed by his ego. Donnie has a tempered ego, grounded by his brothers and his friends who praise him for his successes but who also care about his physical and mental wellbeing, but also an altruistic nature nurtured in him by Splinter. If Stockman’s mom hadn’t died, if he’d had anyone else to keep him grounded, if he had anything other than his own ego fueling him, he wouldn’t have ended up in Shredder’s employ, wouldn't have ended up in pieces (also, in Fast Forward, the moment he does get someone to genuinely care about him, he switches sides and starts, like, working on a farm for his bestie).

So, who's the Fun one then, you might ask? Why it’s Dr. Chaplin! He is a seemingly innocent and naive scientist, but is actually just as evil as everyone around him - he's just so nice to everyone! Even people who are mean to him or exploiting him or even try to get him killed - except of course he's also fine with destroying the world, enslaving humanity, and perpetrating intergalactic colonialism. He's naturally gifted, and seems almost desperate for praise and attention and acceptance, so much so, he’s willing to theoretically participate in multiple genocides. He's so happy to just be included, be asked to do things, be a part of a team, or even be put in charge. He just goes along with whatever will give him that attention, that praise, that acceptance, no matter the cost. He understands that other people are people and focuses more on making other's happy over his own desires, because he needs it, he needs them to like him, or at least, put up with his presence, and if making murder-bots will do that, then he's making murder-bots. He's willing to devote any and all talent and skill to anyone willing to give him a chance or who he can look up to. He's looking for a found family and doesn't care if they're the bad guys, he just needs to belong. A real Chaotic Neutral type of guy! And if Mikey didn’t have his family to give him affirmation about his place in the universe and direct his natural talents in a productive direction? Well, he would probably also devote himself to the first guy to come along and promise any level of acceptance.

tragic toxic old man gay love .... who did it better than them... nobody

More Fargo AU Stuff

Mostly about Season 1

Season 1 is basically set in 2003(like 03) where Stockman meets Bishop, who is a hitman in the AU and Bishop basically convinces Stockman to go down a path of violence after a fee meetings with the two. Bishop basically kills a bully Stockman had from high school which causes a set of chain reactions to go down.

April and Casey both have roles as well. April is basically the main protagonist and is a Deputy in the NYPD instead of being a scientist and Casey’s a vigilante, they both basically team up and begin to investigate the murders going on in New York

Bishop is the main antag of the season and is basically a mix of his original version and Lorne Malvo(main villain of Season 1 of Fargo). The EPF doesn’t exist in the AU and he’s basically a Hitman from North Dakota who thinks the criminal world is just as bad as any outer worldly threat to humanity.

And all i’m gonna say is that there is a LOT of violence in the season and the AU in general so expect a whole bunch of deaths

(Please share and try and repost this i really want this to get some traction before i post the first chapter soon)

Hun told him to try it

i luv fast foward btw i was rewatching it so the brainrot is strong

Who are your favorite and least favorite characters in 03

Ooooh, that's tough, of the turtles my list is 1 Donnie and Mikey 2 Leonardo 3 Raph

I love Casey, he's probably my favorite character, April is also great and I love Honeycut.

I don't know about least favorite characters though, I like the characters a lot to be honest, Hun and Baxter frustrate me sometimes, but I don't dislike them.

FELLAS???

splinter was so wrong for making donnie think this was going to happen to him 💀

s2 ep19 and 20 got me like:

Jeez, Bishop just let Baxter die already gotdamn

The true experience of working your way though every tmnt adaptation is slowly coming to the realization that you would very much like to kiss every Baxter Stockman directly on the mouth.

(With the exception of Rise. I wanna give that kid a juice box and tell him he’s doing a great job UwU)