Part one of my TMNT iteration...not 100% sure what to call it yet, I'm thinking either 'The Casey-verse' or 'The Kids're Alright', but eh, I'll worry 'bout that later lol
Update: Practiced a bit of animating with this lil' guy here :)
I know this is definitely not what a lot of you follow me for but these guys have been on my mind lately and after tons of thought and concept art I now have designs for the boys in my tmnt iteration!
Planning out my own TMNT iteration. Not anywhere near completion or anything fully concrete. Here's just an idea from a couple months back where Donnie was missing for several years, turned into a weapon against his own family, and Leo just breaking.
Leo is the second youngest (2 years younger than Donnie and Raph and 1 year older than Mikey). He was mutated into a Map Turtle at the age of 6 and doesn鈥檛 remember much of his life before that.
Leo had a quiet and calm temperament and enjoys watching his siblings train, play video games, and engage in their hobbies just as much as he enjoys doing it himself. Much like the rest of his family tho he has a mischievous streak and loves to mess with them, specifically by subtly inconveniencing them.
He much prefers to be in the company of his family over being alone even if they鈥檙e not actually interacting. He can especially be found shadowing Raph, who he looks up to immensely, almost to the point of hero worship when he had first met him after watching him fight tooth and nail against the lab agents to keep them from getting to the rest of them despite being weak and tired from the mutation process.
After being taught it by Donnie Leo communicates through sign language equally, if not more than, through speech. He is also the team medic because if he鈥檚 not as big as Raph to protect them like a wall then he can at least take care of them after.
Leo also goes by Lee/Lee-Lee, Nardo (Mikey), Lame-O-Nardo (also Mikey), Lilo (Raph and Donnie because he loves Lilo and Stitch), and Short-Stack (Raph)
So basically Mikey sends Case through portal and turns into mystic dust, Leo dies, probably months or even a year or two later, maybe more, he reforms and gains consciousness and the Kraang have killed literally everybody. There's absolutely nobody left, and the Kraang are settling down and making their Kraang land place.
Mikey is in the middle of nowhere and travels for probably months, foggily. Not dead, not alive. Basically a zombie, dissociating the whole way, until he comes upon a medium sized settlement of Kraang. He brings back into reality, and rage, pure, unfiltered, rage fills his body.
With barely even a swipe he takes out half the settlement, obliterating every thing in his wake. Even when they fight back, hell, one gets a tentacle through his stomach, he doesn't die. He can't anymore. His form just comes right back. It hurts like hell, but nothing kills him. He is immortal. He is all powerful.
Eventually after god knows how long, the planet is just empty. No Kraang, no people, just this barely even Mikey sitting in the empty, dead planet. Just a lone god with no place to rule, no friends, no enemies. Just his own self. Is he even a god if there's nobody to worship him? To fear him?
I'm naming this au "Mystic God" future AU.
(If this gets popular enough I might actually either make a fic of this, or at least write bro a happy ending)
Somehow this part of the song turned into an entire AU.