2012 Separate AU but with a twist
Tang Shen manages to survive but she and Yoshi both believe each other to be dead, so neither seek each other out. When she realizes Saki took her daughter, she manages to steal her back and flees to New York like her original plan and goes into hiding to avoid being found, including going by a different name.
Tang Shen raises Miwa while running a dojo below her apartment, though most have never seen her face. She covers herself basically from head to toe due to the severe burns she received during the fire.
One night she is running an errand when she hears a commotion coming from an alleyway. She goes down it and sees strange men surrounding what looks like a baby turtle (though it looks kind of weird for one). Getting a bad feeling about the men, she fights them off but is covered in a strange ooze that mutates her into a version of the alley cat that had ran past her before the fight while still retaining her burn scars. She manages to get away with the turtle, who she ends up later realizing is more like a baby than just a turtle and names him Michelangelo (since she wants to honor her late husband and his love for the Renaissance).
Since she already covers herself due to the burns, it doesn't take much to continue the charade that she is still human while still managing a normal life. She raises Mikey alongside Miwa, and he is able to have a semi-normal life while being homeschooled. It's amazing how far a sweatshirt, baggy pants, a face mask, and some custom gloves can get him.
Not to mention a rumor about a genetic birth defect. There's no details, but people are willing to ignore a flash of green skin or three fingers out of awkward politeness.
Meanwhile, the other three brothers grow up in the sewers with Splinter telling stories of their presumed dead brother.
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Ive thought of an au where bolas is an actual cult, they worship the goddess of death and live in the woods near a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city
They are known as the Rojas Cult (or Bolas Rojas but most people refer to them as the Rojas Cult because it sounds less stupid).
Philza, the leader, (they call him the Crowfather when they want to be edgy) knows the goddess of death personally and can pass through to her world freely. Both him and the goddess of death think that messing around with cults and murder is fun, they are literally just messing around. Phil didn't want it to go as far as it did but he isn't exactly complaining either.
After the death of Charlie's daughter, he had a dream where the goddess of death visited him with Juanaflippa and then she told him that she could keep bringing his daughter back if he just did a few small things for her. Those small things got bigger and bigger and caused Charlie and Mariana to get more and more distanced from each other because Charlie kept burning things that were more and more valuable. Eventually, he met Phil and they went out into the wooss together.
Jaiden's a pretty normal woman if you ignore the shrine to her dead son. After Bobby died, the goddess of death brought Bobby to see her and asked Jaiden what she would give up for Bobby. Jaiden said anything, she said she would give up anything for him and so the goddess took that and told her to make a shrine, to sacrifice something to that shrine every day by placing the item on the shrine and then letting a few drops of blood fall on it. Jaiden did this in secret for a month or so before she met Phil. She was led into the forest and is having so much fun!
Cellbit is a serial killer on the run. Well, actually, he managed to escape Brazil where he was wanted with some random guy, two of the people he escaped prison with and the security guard he thought he killed in prison. Either way, he made it to where he is now and- Yep! They adopted a child as a group because Pac thought he was cute and refused to give him up! Aside from that, Cellbit is a pretty normal guy until the government realises it's him and tries to arrest him. He ends up in the woods and meets Bolas Rojas. Charlie and Phil know nothing about him but Jaiden saw some stuff about him online and invited him to join them. Jaiden even lets him live in her and Roier's house when he isn't living in the woods. Bolas Rojas actively makes him worse and he's entirely willing to kill for the sake of the goddess.
They are all entirely convinced that Carre was sent by their goddess. He appeared one day with nothing, no one knows who he is or why he's here but they love him. He also randomly disappears from time to time. Phil isn't entirely sure what's up with him but goes with what the group thinks because it's easier that way.
Baghera's a pretty normal woman if you ignore her entire childhood and the way it's affected her entire life and the fact that if she tells anyone, she will die. But other than that, she adopted a child with some of her friends and moved somewhere nicer with them. She was visited by the goddess of death, who told her that she could protect Baghera, she could ensure her and her child's safety for eternity just as long as Baghera gave up someone's blood every day. It could even be her own blood if she wanted to do that. Eventually, she met Jaiden and they talked about the whole death goddess thing together and Jaiden led her into the woods where Baghera began living.
Foolish was only there to talk to Bad, to visit him for the first time in a hundred years because Bad was stupid and wanted to train his child grim reaper in training on Earth first. Foolish didn't expect to arrive at night, watch a guy kill someone, make eye contact with him and then smile. He also didn't expect to watch Philza walk out from behind the guy and stare at Foolish. And Foolish ended up joining them because hey, he was bored and he needed something to do.
At this point, Jaiden suggests the gas mask thing as a statement. She thought they needed something to make them stand out from normal people, to make them truly Bolas Rojas. Gas masks looked cool and kinda fit the dark, edgy theme they had so they all started wearing them.
Etoiles was a little bit concerned with Baghera's sudden interest in disappearing into the forest for days on end before returning for a day or so. She always returned different, she was never the same person. Etoiles needed to know what was going on so he followed her and found the cult. He knew Phil and trusted him and hey, he never said he had many morals when it came to killing anyway. It was fun and he didn't mind worshipping a goddess that had been kind and merciful to him time and time again.
Roier was curious what was going on and one day when Jaiden and Cellbit were home at the same time for dinner, Roier asked them what was going on. They both thought that one of them had told him and they ended up explaining everything to him. He said he could join them if they needed him at any point and they immediately said yes. That night, they dragged him out to meet everyone and initiate him.
Mouse walked into the woods to explore because she was bored, met the cult, Baghera was having a breakdown and initiated Mouse and Mouse sort of just accepted it. She's a demon, cults are fun, these people are nice to her and do crazy things for fun. She has no reason not to enjoy it.
Bagi is a detective. She found her brother in Brazil in the prison but lost him. She kept investigating even after. The government contacted her to help them catch Cellbit. Little do they know, she's only helping them so she can find her brother and run away with him. She's incredibly confused about the cult because she recognizes Cellbit's kills but they aren't normal kills and they're somehow connected to a random cult, which is all incredibly strange to her.
Team Soulfire is living in a big house near the woods. They're pretty normal people and also Bolas Roja's new targets. Black feathers are being left around the outside of their house and they aren't exactly happy about it. They also aren't scared because they have Bad. (I haven't really thought of a lot to do with them aside from the main plot but don't worry they're important!)
Bad has one child and then also adopted the child that he found crying that her parents had gone off into the woods. He actually did meet Baghera that way and they talked and she said that he could take care of Pomme and Etoiles said the same thing. That was also how Bad found out about the whole cult thing. He regularly bugs them, steals their food and has almost set the forest on fire a few times. It's all in good fun, or at least, he's having fun.
Tubbo is an engineer, his crush is a government worker who occasionally visits him and randomly went missing. He's having fun, he likes fighting with Etoiles, Roier and Cellbit who have all tried to kill him several times. He isn't exactly sure why they want him dead but they do and he's kind of just enjoying learning how to fight back properly.
Tina was honestly just trying to live in peace but then Bad and Tubbo found her and she was happy even without peace. Anyway, she got invited to hang out in the woods by a stranger through a text and went out. Bad called her stupid but she had seen him walk into the forest and come back relatively unharmed so she wasn't too scared. She walked in and had a pretty good time with everyone until they started talking about eating people, which is when she left. Bagi is her sort of girlfriend, they flirt, Bagi visits Tina a lot (she makes the excuse that it's for work but it definitely isn't) and will often get her flowers or some sort of pastry and Tina will have tea ready and waiting for her every time she visits.
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