have you read the lion blaze self harm scene? kinda sh ig he basically lets …ratscar i think like scratch him up bad by holding his powers back. interesting to me what’re ur thoughts? (idk if that’s the right definition, i’ve always defined it as having someone/yourself injure your body with the intent to hurt) sorry if this is a downer, i just know your a lion blaze enthusiast and wanted to know your thoughts
ohhh yes i do actually. its one of the few scenes i remember better bc i actually own the book where it happened.
to elaborate on the scene more, it happens after he has an argument with cinderheart, who claims they shouldnt be together since he's part of the prophecy, how his destiny is to save the clans (and coincidentally not get hurt) and them being mates would only be distractions
lion's rebuttal? instigate a fight w a patrol near the shadowclan border, disallow himself to fight back, and force the wounds to get inflicted on his body, as a show that he CAN choose to get hurt. that he CAN choose what kind of 'destiny' he should have. ive put my own thoughts about it under read more bc this got long (unsurprisingly jkhasdkjfhd)
i spent like a solid few minutes re-reading the chapter to gather my thoughts on it LOL i remember not thinking much about it when i was a kid, but i think its interesting to analyze now!
what was attempted to be written, at least, piques me bc its about lion trying to prove that they can exist outside of the narrative the prophecy has given them. which is funnily ironic, since the start of the chapter is of him having self doubts regarding saving the clans when they found out theres a fourth cat, how that basically means that the three of them wouldnt be enough, how his destiny might have changed. reading this chapter just gave me a new can of brainworms but ill try not to delve into it too much bc its gonna get way messier LMAOOO
to go back to lion purposely getting himself hurt, i dont think he's the type of person who would do that for the sake of it, unless as a really dumb way to prove a point. but it makes me think he really doesnt have much of a care of whether he'd get hurt or not. a severe lack of self-preservation, and all that. cats back at camp react to his wounds w all around shock, he's herded into the med den all the while he acts like he'll be fine. i dunno if the shock from the cats is just bc theyre just so used to seeing him NOT hurt, or if his wounds were really that bad. but either or both still pretty much gives me a lot to think about. homeboy doesnt know the limits of his body, and that makes for interesting scenarios of how he manages to deal w that after losing his powers
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A Twin Thing - Ch. 1
read on A03
Rated: G
A/N: I am not okay since watching the Rise!Movie. I can’t stop thinking about or crying over these damn turtle boys. I wanted to explore some soft moments between the brothers, to soothe all the hurts this film left me with starting with the twins. There's also a bit of angst because come on this movie, how could I not touch on it. T AT
Summary: Calling them twins has always been Leo’s thing, and Don has always discredited the claim with science. No matter how many facts about their very distinctive species of turtle were spit at him though, Leonardo’s irrefutable truth since childhood was that Donatello is his twin.
Status: Complete
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Chapter 1: Sixteen Years Old ~ I
The pink tinged sky hanging over the city is alien. Naturally, because the Krang are aliens. The technodrome that Donnie piloted only halfway back into the portal is suspended in the sky like a still frame from a bad Jupiter Jim rip off. Raph cuts off his tirade of data collection, voice strained.
“Donnie-- Leo’s still up there!”
They stare into the gaping darkness of the portal.
Calling them twins has always been Leo’s thing, and Don has always discredited the claim with science. No matter how many facts about their very distinctive species of turtle were spit at him though, Leonardo’s irrefutable truth since childhood was and always will be that Donatello is his twin.
“Casey, close the portal now!!” A heavy thud cuts across their comms as Leo grunts in pain, “Casey-- ungh-- Please!”
The portal whips closed like an elastic band released after being stretched past its limit, freezing only a moment around the technodrome before disintegrating in a blinding flash. The shockwave rips past them, flinging small bits of debris all the way across the river. Smoke plumes through the sky in elegant concentric rings, the graceful pattern beguiling of the massive destruction they wreak.
Donatello sees none of it as he turns his back, staring in silent shock at the piece of wreckage that has sailed across the bay with their initial fall. Behind him, Mikey is sobbing, and Raphael cries quietly curled on the ground in front of him. But Donnie cannot see him clearly, his vision blurs as something moist trails down his face.
The world feels sharp and wrong. Darker. Duller. Tilting on its axis, as if gravity has stopped working, yet the weight of the atmosphere crushes him from the inside out. There is a sharp ringing, but it isn't in his ear. It is somewhere, far off and yet somehow, inside.
Empty. Gone. Missing.
From a source he cannot name, deep in his consciousness, psyche... spirit? Emanating from a place so integral to him that he can hardly begin to wrap his brilliant mind around it.
A gap, a breach, a void.
Something is gone. Ripped from him the moment the portal closes. And it aches like a gaping wound in his soul.
His breath hitches in his chest even as he lifts a hand to wipe at his eye, fingers coming away wet.
Donatello shakes his head as he stares at the tears glistening on his fingertips and comes to a startling realization.
Leo-- His twin.
His twin is gone.
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A/N: Next chap already up on A03 and is turtle tots to soothe the hurt T wT
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my back and shoulder are killing me rn and I'm pretty sure this is my karma for bullying a bunch of 13-14 year olds in dodgeball yesterday but also why is this the thing out of everything to take me out
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