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oddly-casual · 8 months

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This entire scene makes me hurt but I wanna talk about this part in particular because it drives me insane.

Like- Splinter knows they aren’t just running errands. He can see his sons sneaking out thinking their slick and he found all their human stuff bc he’s nosey and if his sons won’t talk to him he’ll just have to investigate himself right?

So Splinter knows his sons are hiding something from him because duh- and he knows they want to be apart of the human world but he’s scared they’ll get hurt so he tries to bring the human world to them.

And you can just see the cringe and discomfort in the boys eyes because their father keeps trying to make them stay but it’ll never be in the way they want it, but they clearly feel bad.

And the real kicker is when Splinter tries that thing he did in the beginning of the movie, where he presses his sons about the truth but he specifically looks at Leo, like the screen cuts to Leo and even Raph looks at Leo because Splinter knows his eldest son would never lie to him.

But then he does

Leo lies right to his fathers face no hesitation and Splinter gets that look that just screams ‘i lost them’ because even if his son’s disobey the rules and don’t talk to him anymore, Leo was like Splinter’s insider into what his kids are doing and how to keep them safe. Splinter lost their trust.

But now even Leo is shutting Splinter out, so Splinter has been completely walled off by his sons and to Splinter he has no idea why because he’s just doing this to protect his kids.

Looking at it from Leo’s perspective, he has a strong sense of Justice. In the beginning when their father grills them about where they’ve been, Leo caves immediately even though he knows it’ll make everyone mad at him.

He braces himself for it too. There’s no reward in telling the truth but Leo does it anyway.

But Leo is a teenager, and teenagers tend to act in their own self interest. So when Leo keeps snitching and it only leads to punishment on all sides

Isolation from his brothers, distance from his father, of course Leo is going to cut his losses and stick to the thing that brings him joy. Possible acceptance and April. It’s also the most we see him bond with his brothers since Leo isn’t trying to follow their fathers rules.

#mutant mayhem #tmnt #tmnt mm #mm splinter #mm leonardo #mm spoilers #Leo👏has👏eldest👏daughter👏syndrome👏#i could talk about Leo a lot from this movie because there’s a lot left unsaid #Like most of what we gather from his relationship with his family is very show don’t tell #In the beginning it’s Donnie Raph and Mikey goofing off and making fun of Leo and Splinter #even if Leo always does what’s right you can tell it was kinda taking a toll on him because he felt so isolated #on the rooftop scene when Raph uses Leo’s sword he’s Literally sectioned away from his brothers in the dark #but after they start taking down Superfly Leo is always with his siblings in the light and the dark #most siblings bond in way parents could never because it’s like having a best friend to do stuff with #and Leo being the ‘snitch’ siblings basically excludes him from sibling bonding and it sucks #leo literally had to choose between his dad and his brothers and Leo didn’t like his dads rules either #anyway I’m ranting point is i feel bad for Leo

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