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phoebepheebsphibs · 4 months
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Completed Draxum's Nightmare Comic!
CW: PTSD, nightmare, anxiety attacks, implied character death, trauma, Mikey's hands do the snap-crackle-pop-glowstick thing
I had a fun time creating this miniseries comic, answering interesting asks about writing Draxum's character and angst ideas, and just seeing people fall to their knees over the angst I fed them.
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Thanks for reading! See ya in the next comic!!
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Now go get some rest.
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theellipelli · 2 years
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My take on a separated AU because all the cool kids were doing it
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idiot-mushroom · 11 days
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based of an audio i heard
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rise-uncalledfour · 6 months
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@jasontoddisbest ANOTHA UPDATE TEE HEE
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sad-leon · 1 year
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Mmmmm angsty leo brainrot go brrr
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Context:
Draxum took Leo during one of the fam's first adventures on the surface (8ish). He raised Leo as a warrior, training him with the portal sword. When he was 13, Leo felt confident enough to fight back and managed to get himself away from Draxum.
In his time with Draxum, Leo woundn't stop talking, complaining, joking, or pestering until Draxum snapped and nearly strangled him. He can still talk, but he chooses not to. He was trained (read:abused) constantly. He sustained plenty of leg injuries, leading to constant pain that braces barely help. On bad days, he can't walk at all. Most days, he uses his sword as a crutch.
The brothers meet April soon after Leo was taken. Donnie's the first to tell her about it as he's constantly looking for any signs of his twin. When they drop into the Hidden City, and end up in Draxum's lab, the Raph and Donnie go feral at the sight of the man that kidnapped their brother (they get even angrier when Draxum says Leo had run away. They don't believe him). April drags Mikey to the weapons room and grabs the weapons that seem to fit the others' fighting styles the best. April nabs the crystal in hopes it could help Donnie.
The brothers + April and Mayhem retreat when the lab is about to explode. They immediatly tell Splinter of Draxum's location. Splinter is too focused and the possibility of finding his baby blue, that he doesn't ridicule them too much for going down to the Hidden City.
Splinter and Donnie do as much research as possible to find out what Draxum could have done with Leo. It's only a day before the fam planned to go raid Draxum's destroyed lab when Donnie catches a suspicious figure portalling across the city, fighting off the mutants created by the Ooze-squitos. Donnie decides to go off on his own, having a gut feeling that the mystery person in important. Raph and Mikey follow close behind him.
For a year, Leo is out on his own. He stays away from the sewers, scared to face his family again. He hates he's become under Draxum (he does have innocent blood on his hands). He decides that until he can redeem himself, he'll stay hidden. When mutants start popping up in town, Leo is scared that Draxum had begun his plan to destroy the human race. Leo fights them and becomes sloppy at hiding himself.
He's nearly asleep in his hideout one night when he hears someone approach. He immediatly gets ready to fight until he freezes when he meets Donnie's eyes.
He panics and tries to portal away, but the panic disrupts his abilities and he ends up portaling directly into Raph and Mikey.
Do y'all want more of this au? I originally called it my villain Leo au, but I think Lonely Leo fits better..
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sweeneydino · 16 days
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Dragon lore...?
Idk I'm sure there's something comprehensive in here, I need to go to sleep this was killin me
If it helps, I was listening to me and my husband by mitski 👍:)
>:))
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mushroomgrenade · 1 month
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This. is my THIRD time. trying to upload this. So I know this was a more serious comic but, cmon its funny. Anyways, 'Daddy no more' is now on YT!
Thank you @onionninjasstuff for letting me dub over the (not so) sillies again!
Also guys Im a cool VA Im a professional I swear look I have a demo reel guys guys GUYS-
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nardos-primetime · 30 days
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TW FOR CHILD NEGLECT/ABUSE & SH
More info under the cut.
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Things were hard at first. After the (final) lab explosion, it took a while for Lee to even want to leave it. A part of all of them kind of hoped Muninn and Huginn would come back for them.
Where Draxum's inconsistent dehumanization and high praise only served to build a connection that has rules such as "No calling me foolish names like Dad, only Father if you truly insist." his two henchmen provided more security for the boys.
Once they did leave, Lee- Or Blue. Because names were forbidden from Draxum. They were Red, Orange, Purple, and Blue. Nonetheless, Lee remembered something about getting above ground, into human society, so that's where they worked to get.
Mic has a bit of a temper if he feels like he's being treated like a baby, he'll often respond angrily. (Such as when Lee and Donno try to hide their arguments from him.) This isn't to say he doesn't try to stay cheery, he often plays more of the role of what he thinks a little brother is. Sometimes he cant even control the act, sometimes it feels like his energy levels aren't under his control. He's ironically cooped up by the situation, making him rather antsy since he doesn't have the safety to be free and do things for fun. He is also the one that often collects food and tries to prep some kind of meals for the group. He looks up to Rage and Lee the most since they work to keep happiness between the four.
Rage is mostly nonverbal, only very occasionally will he talk, often quietly. In most cases, he uses body language or other noises. He struggles with his own anger and urges to lash out, which results in him doing the opposite to not scare the others, trying to become as harmless as possible towards them. He tries to help Mic feel better during Donno and Lee's arguments (normally pisses Mic off more.)
Donno is confident. Not really, he often makes jokes and pushes his own ego to ignore the uncertainty of their situation. He is often sitting down or carried by his brothers since his right ankle tends to hurt, possibly from the growth enhancer they'd all been given. He's also the most hungry, so the lack of consistent meals hit him the hardest. He tries to avoid problems, leading to arguments with Lee about what they should be doing, (he normally caves in, though.)
Lee became the de facto leader, leading the others around to try and find their father, which he does believe loved them. Just in his…. Own way. Lee finds the places for them to sleep and takes up responsibilities when needed. Every day, he insists that they'll find their dad (they still follow the name rule, but since dad isn't here, it's not that bad to call him that, right?) Everything will be okay! Even if he's starting to have his own doubts. He's their hope. He can't give up.
Donno always gets hungrier first.
Donno starts an… ugly habit between his brothers and him. And an uglier hunger for a... certain type of meat.
(This is messier ironically since the first draft I had to delete cooked so hard but here's some lore for the beginning Era of the au.)
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takaaxo · 8 days
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Alice, Alice. Don't you know? Wonderland is all a hoax...
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I find Mikey very relatable from the younger sibling perspective. Mikey always tries to prove himself that he is capable (going on a mission by himself, becomes competitive against Leo in Hueso's restaurant, tries to convince raph of their own plan (in one episode of 🎶mystic metal needed🗣️🎶 and Donnie shouts TOP COIN PAID(I love them), I feel like he's pretty doubtful in his position of the family.
Plus I want to mention how he is the family therapist, he is the bridge of his family, if he collapses, he will lose his family. I just believe Mikey daydreams a lot by means being delusional, to keep himself going. When daydreaming you're mentally absent.
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hasello · 1 year
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Baby Blue (13/25)
first/previous/next
BARRY SPITTING FACTS
Also I finally kind of know how to draw him, cause man - I was so stressed out anytime I drew him at the beginning of this AXVCBAS
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mehriigss · 21 days
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Rottmnt weird drabble/one shot because I have anxiety so Leo has anxiety too.
Based on a headcanon you can find here.
Leo was at the verge of a panic attack. No, he was going into a full anxiety spiral. The best part? He was currently having a family dinner.
Everyone was having fun. Raph was stuffing his face with Mikey's meatballs, April was trying to prevent him from choking, his twin was recording everything with his phone, his father was scolding him for using his phone during a family event, Mikey was still cooking in April's kitchen and Draxum and himself were having a smooth conversation about biology. About literal photosynthesis to be precise. He might hate him but he has to admit Draxum really knew how to get him to talk.
There were oh so many details in every single thing his family was doing right now, but he's brain chose to focus on himself. How selfish.
Draxum was rambling about his favourite photosystem when it hit him. The increased heart rate, the tunnel vision, the distorted hearing, the nausea, the damn choking sensation and that fucking piercing pain in his chest that just won't go away for the rest of the week.
Why did his anxiety have to be such an opportunistis?
He stared at Draxum like he was trying to read his soul out loud. Leo could hear him but he wasn't listening. No words seem to get into his brain but the usual 'you're nothing but your brothers', 'too little too late for redemption', 'you'll never change', 'under that mask is a scared little boy'.
Did Draxum just make him a question? He could tell by Draxum's body language.
"So?" Said Draxum to the turtle that barely registrated anything but the strong static in his ears.
Masking this kind of things was easy for him. He just had to ignore and endure it in equal proportions and play face man. He could do it, he was the face man! The actor! The lier among them! Misleading was his specialty.
He would just put on another layer of paint to his mask and flee forward.
"I'm not sure." Leo said a bit too low but steadily nonetheless.
"Well, if you are not sure, I could suggest a few scientific articles". Draxum replayed, apparently content enough with the poor answer.
Draxum was suddenly silent, already used to Leon's seemingly infinite energy for conversation, waiting for him to say something.
So he said the first thing he could muster, the quickest he could: "I-I'd love to read t-them".
That was clearly not a good plan.
It had begun. The stuttering, because his poor mouth couldn't keep up with his anxious brain. He hated that. He's good hiding his panic in plain sight but his stupid stuttering is something he can't control or cover! He could only go mute and hope he's not asked many questions because of it.
But going mute would be extremely suspicious when he's literally in the middle of a conversation!
"Ok...?"
Ok, Draxum was a bit confused, he could work with that. That is fixable. As long as he can keep a low profile he's good.
But his breathing was getting more and more erratic and being and acuatic turtle didn't actually help keep the need to just breath at bay.
Could he fix this?
'Of course not, you're useless!'
'You're eyes are watering, you big crybaby!'
'Just flee. They're not gonna miss you anyway '
'They're better off without you'
He took a big, deep, audible, shaky breath and surrendered.
"Are you ok, bro?" Mikey, bless his soul, had just entered to room and immediately noticed his struggle, taking over the conversation. "Barry, mind if I steal my brother from you for a sec?"
Mikey did not wait for an official answer, he grabbed Leo by the wrist and forced him out of the room. That, in all honesty, scared the holy shit out of Leonardo. And everybody else.
He felt a little naked now that he wasn't around his whole family, but at least the living room smelled like April. It was a nice smell to focus his mind on.
"Leo... It might not be anything serious- and I hope it isn't! -but..."
"I-I'm hav-ing a p-panic a-attack".
Another shaky breath was all it took for Leo to become a hyperventilating and sobbing mess.
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That image just fits too well 😙
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phoebepheebsphibs · 6 months
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Draxum's Nightmare: A Post-ROTTMNT Movie Comic, Part 3/9
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On a personal note I HATE having to draw Draxum's big shoulder pad sleeve things they make me so MAD and I don't know why but I actually hate them and then it dawned on me that I'm the artist... I can change his fit... I can draw him however I like...!
So minor wardrobe change for Mr. Warring Warrior Scientist over here he is so much easier to draw now :D
Also a few fun details: The posters on Draxum's wall include: my classifications and categories of ROTTMNT magic, a Draxum version of Leonardo da Vinci 's "the Vitruvian Man", and a list of several ROTTMNT artists/writers/animators/creators that I follow
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I hope the artists don't mind me tagging them... @filsa-mek @hatekawa @funneylizzie @kathaynesart @somerandomdudelmao @ashwii @angelpuns @sariphantom @imaginashon @tapakah0
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maki--na · 2 months
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MORE CAIN Sketches!!!!
...what?...No, he's not Raph...He's Caín :D
Based on the last chapter of the fanfic. Donnie has several interactions with Raphael's new alter. Cain! And Donnie reminds him a lot of his father.
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idiot-mushroom · 1 year
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the gays are fighting again
but seriously they fight like this all the time, and part of the reason Draxum doesn’t come around as often. this mostly stems from how they both love each other but have horrible communication skills, and get very defensive when their flaws are pointed out but yk adults are weird like dat 👍
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that-gay-gal · 27 days
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March for Raph day 31!:
Standing up to bullies
Aaaaand with that, it is the end of this event.
I had an amazing time doing this! It was so fun, and I found a lot of new cool artists to enjoy! I’m so surprised I managed to do so many of them. I only missed 2 (which I might make up for later)
This whole thing was so fun. Thank you @yellowhollyhock for this opportunity! It was wonderful, and I would never give up the chance to draw Raph for a month straight. I’m extremely grateful that they helped put March for Raph together!
I feel like these few small paragraphs aren’t enough to sum up my entire experience doing this. But just know, that this was the highlight of my entire month! And while it was hard at times to finish so,e prompts, and others far easier, just know that I tried my best and did what I could, and that I had a great time.
And so, 31 days later, the finale words I will say in March:
Thank you for everything and everyone! Yes, even the people who have never seen me before, thank you!
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Chapter 1 of These Are Not Our Masks!
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“This person clearly wasn’t media literate enough to truly understand the beauty of Jupiter Jim Pluto Vacation 4, so I graciously decided to school them.” Donnie puts a hand to his chest smugly.
Leo taps away at his phone with a smile on his face.
Donnie’s phone vibrates.
“Gasp! ‘Just because I have a five head doesn’t mean I know everything!?’ How do they know how big my forehead is!?”
Leo glances at a make believe audience with a smirk.
“Just block ‘em Donnie.” Raph advises.
“But then they win! And I have never lost an internet battle before!”
“What about that one time in the Atomic Lass forum?” Mikey comments.
“We don’t speak of that.”
Raph chuckles before something catches his eye.
“Hey guys! Shiny trash!”
The other three ooo at the prospect of something cool having been thrown away.
They all stare at each other for a second before sprinting towards the alleyway, shoving and pushing all the while.
So distracted, none of them notice the several figures rushing away further into the alley.
Leo swipes the item first.
“Ha! It’s mine-!” He pricks his finger and drops it out of surprise.
Raph snatches it up.
“Wrong! Raph’s got it! And he ain’t sharing!”
Leo pouts and holds his hand.
“No fair, that thing has it out for me! It bites!”
“It can’t bite, Leo. Masks don’t have teeth.” Donnie corrects, hand snaking up to try to get it from Raph.
“Oh is that what it is?”
The item is a metallic red with black, almost lace looking patterns. The sharp areas are constructed almost like some kind of warrior’s helmet.
Raph smacks Donnie’s hand away and raises the mask up high.
“Looks like it, and I told you, Raph ain’t sharing!”
“No fair! This is the coolest trash we’ve found in weeks!” Mikey whines, trying to climb up on his shell.
Raph picks up Mikey with his other hand and places him back on the ground.
“Spiky guy gets the the sharp mask thing! Those are the rules and I’m the spikiest guy here.”
A thought occurs to Donnie.
“Maybe I should take a look at it with my goggles.”
“You are such a sore loser.” Leo nudges him.
“You do remember pieces of the armor we’re looking for wound up in the trash, right?” Donnie raises an eyebrow.
“None of the pieces looked nearly as cool as this mask does.”
“For once, Leo’s right. It’s got the coolest color a turtle can wear.” Raph smirks as he places it on his face.
Donnie is less than enthusiastic at being called out despite their statements being mostly correct.
He swipes his goggles down and his heart nearly stops.
The mystics in the mask are at extremely high levels, but that’s not even close to being the biggest issue.
It’s spreading.
“Take it off.”
“Come on Donnie, red’s not even your color. How’s it feel being fab, big guy?” Leo comments, leaning on Raph’s arm.
Something squirms out of the sides of the mask.
“Take it off!” Donnie screams, reaching out.
Leo only has time for his eyes to widen before a fist suddenly slams into the side of his face.
He’s sent flying right into a wall where his shell painfully absorbs the blow. Most of it, anyways.
This is a harder hit than Raph usually ever gives so he was completely unprepared.
“Raph! Why did you do that!?” Mikey rushes over to Leo.
Donnie grips his tech bō tightly.
“R-Raph?”
His brother turns to him slowly before grabbing him by the throat and lifting him up.
Donnie struggles, hitting a hand against his arm.
Mikey looks back and gasps.
“Raph! Stop! What are you doing!?”
Raph cocks his head sharply to stare at Donnie, completely ignoring Mikey.
“Help Donnie, I’ll be fine.” Leo winces.
Mikey frowns but nods and goes back to them.
Raph sees him, looking with a calculated gaze.
He uses Donnie to hit Mikey with and sends them both tumbling to the ground.
They both groan in pain.
Raph moves faster than he should be able to at them.
Leo suddenly moves just as quickly, his odachis drawn and being used to block the next hit.
“Guys, I am definitely not going to be able to hold him back for long! We need to do something!”
Donnie comes to his defense, jabbing his tech bō into the crook of Raph’s neck and sending a wave of electricity through him.
Raph actually growls at them.
No.
It’s more of a roar.
The tendrils coming from the mask squirm like they’re in pain until Raph opens his mouth wide and bites down, chomping the bō into two pieces.
Donnie barely catches the half that wasn’t in his grip.
He stares down in horror at knowing that this could easily have been an arm, potentially his or Leo’s.
Mikey takes this opportunity to jump onto Raph from behind and tries pulling the mask off.
Raph slams him right into the wall behind them as hard as he can.
Mikey shouts in pain and slides down onto the ground when Raph moves away.
Leo goes back to having to keep Raph from hitting him and Donnie.
Things only get worse when a bunch of Foot Soldiers suddenly start rushing into the alleyway.
“Donnie. Grab Mikey.” Leo says so seriously that Donnie is caught off guard.
Donnie dives to avoid Raph grabbing at him and pulls Mikey close to him.
“I got him, but we need a way out!”
Leo looks at Raph and smiles unsteadily.
“I won’t leave you behind big guy, promise.”
Donnie wracks his brain for Leo to be able to keep that promise somehow.
“If you buy me time, I could try to get my battle shells to-“
“I love you guys, tell dad what happened!”
“What!? Leo-!” Donnie is interrupted by the portal that appears under him and Mikey.
Leo closes it right away, barely avoiding any of The foot getting to it.
Raph quickly gets fed up and starts coming after Leo again. There’s no opportunity for him to open another portal with both his brother and The Foot being so unrelenting.
His odachis get broken anyways when Raph grabs and snaps them like they’re two twigs.
Leo has no way of defending himself against the blows anymore except with his arms and dodging.
Raph’s ferocity and the sheer numbers against him leave Leo open to something grabbing his ankle.
He flails in the air before realizing what exactly wrapped around it.
The Foot stop attacking and even Raph seems more still as the looming figure approaches.
“Draxum! What did you do to my brother!?” Leo yells through gritted teeth.
He wants to wipe the smug look off the dumb sheepman’s face.
Draxum approaches Raph first, examining him like he’s window shopping.
Raph growls and looks ready to use his strong jaw against the helmet Draxum wears but seems held back by something unseen.
“He’s twitchier than I thought he’d be. No matter, the job has mostly been done.” Draxum observes.
“Stop pretending I’m not here! Tell me!” Leo insists, swinging in the air due to his angry movements.
Another vine approaches Leo, this one with a flower right in front of his face.
Leo stares at angrily and with confusion before it sprays him in the face.
He coughs as the pollen irritates his lungs.
“Ew, seriously!? Talk about….insult to….injury….” Leo trails off, the energy in his body waning.
His eyes slowly shut despite how much he doesn’t want them to.
When he wakes up again, both his arms and legs are held against a wall with thick vines.
He struggles heavily against them.
“You’re not getting out of there, turtle.”
Leo looks over at the source of the voice.
“Foot Recruit. They bump you down to prisoner guarding duty?”
She punches into the wall next to his head.
“No! I just came to relish in your capture.”
“Then why did you do that!?”
Foot Recruit removes her fist.
“Because you are always annoying but I’m not allowed to hit you yet.”
Leo tilts his head.
“Not that I’m complaining, but why not yet?”
She smirks.
“You’re going to be working for us, just like your brother.”
Leo tenses.
“What are you talking about?”
“You’re a fool for assuming Draxum didn’t make more than one mask.”
“How many did he make!?”
“Are you too dumb to remember how many brothers you have?”
Leo struggles more violently.
“Do you even want us working with you!? You hate us! Let me go and we can go back to being enemies!”
Foot Recruit turns away.
“With me? No. Draxum and I are partners! You’ll working for us both, for the entire clan! We’ll get the rest of the Dark Armor in no time with you out of the way.”
Leo’s heart nearly stops.
Could Draxum have…?
He really, really hopes not.
Especially if he’s about to experience what it does.
Leo swallows nervously.
“You think Draxum sees you as an equal? You’re human. He’s trying to get rid of humanity. All that’ll happen is him using you or worse!”
Foot Recruit scoffs.
“I know what I’m doing and what you’re trying to do. Draxum warned me.”
“Warned you!? About what!?”
“What he made you to do. It made me see why you kept interfering so well. It also made me see that you’re only pretending to be so dumb.”
“I am not pretending! I swear!”
“Silence! There’s no escaping your destiny, turtle. You’ve already done so for too long. Be honored to be a part of the Foot Clan.” She walks off.
“No! Come back!”
Someone else takes her place in the room.
“I see you were trying to put my work to good use.” Draxum smirks.
“Your work? Trying to take credit for the less absent father in my life?” Leo fakes a cocky smile.
Draxum walks close to him.
“I would have been in your life if I knew you existed sooner, and if you hadn’t been fighting me this much.”
Leo immediately feels uncomfortable from this proximity.
“You dropped me off a roof! Am just supposed to believe you!?”
“Fair point, which is why I made these.” Draxum grabs his face.
Leo tries to thrash his head around but the grip is too strong.
“Don’t touch me!”
Draxum tightens his hold as one of his vines holds up a new mask.
The expression of it looked like both a tragedy and comedy mask, one half of each. It’s metallic blue with a square checkered pattern and red lines over the eyes.
It reminds him of a jester.
“I would prefer keeping your face unobstructed, but no matter. I’m sure the skills I gave you will triumph.” Draxum starts bringing the mask to his face.
Leo keeps struggling.
“Wait wait wait! Can’t we talk first!? You can try to convince me again! Or explain your evil plan! Don’t you want a nice evil monologue!?”
“I could, but I won’t give you time to stall.” Draxum places the mask on him.
Leo screams out as something feels like it’s digging into his skull.
Draxum takes a step back, arms folded over his chest while he waits for the yelling to subside.
Eventually it does and the vines finally release Leo.
He falls onto his hands and knees.
“I’m aware that Lou Jitsu has given you a name twice before. While he has immense physical prowess, names are not included in his talent. When I imbued these masks with some of my own mystic energy I corresponded commands with your true names. Artemis! Show me what you can do!”
Portals start appearing all over the place despite Leo not having his weapon.
He slides into one and Draxum’s eyes dart to each of them to try to guess which one he’ll leave from.
The moment he sees something come out of one his vine grabs it.
It’s just Leo’s fanny pack.
Draxum gets pummeled into by a blue blur that disappears before he can react.
It happens over and over again as Leo propels himself through different portals at high speeds.
Draxum sends out his vines again near every portal to stop him.
When one does catch him, he rips it apart and tosses it through another portal to hit Draxum in the eye.
While he’s distracted, Leo tackles him and goes for the throat.
“Artemis! Stop!” Draxum commands.
Leo barely stops with his fingers mere milliliters from Draxum’s neck. His breathing is heavy, but at the same time, it sounds like he was just itching to finish the job.
“Get rid of your portals.” Draxum orders.
Leo hesitates but the portals go away one by one.
Draxum smiles widely.
“Excellent.”
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