Fanart for @sugarpasteltmnt's the Neon Void chapter 21!
I had a bit of a fistfight with that one but I am happy to report I mostly won ^^
(Edit: my friends pointed out some things for me so I lightened Leo up a bit)
void’s fighting style mimics that of the krang in it’s mech. this makes sense, as he doesn’t have his swords, and the parasite likely affects his instincts.
void not fighting using swords was a very good choice imo, as his family would most definitely have recognized him by the way he fought.
even when he gets his sword back, he doesn’t get the chance to fight while using it. instead, he slashes open a portal, and then subsequently spends the rest of the fight trying to close it.
i feel like this fact really adds to the identity reveal and the distinction between void and leo: he tries to fight as void while using leo’s sword. this dissonance is physically manifested as a veritable black hole of a portal; a void.
and if he doesn’t close it, get rid of the void, his family will die. he has to act as leo in order to do this.
if that ain’t foreshadowing, idk what is.
i suspect that, in some way, his actions as void (possibly due to the crazed state that we last saw him in) will again put his family in danger. whether the danger is the krang or something else, idk.
in order to save them, he’ll have to save himself first; he’ll need to banish the void back to where it came from.
however, void is his coping mechanism. as long as he is void, he doesn’t have to process all of that trauma. leo, in his own words, is weak. a waste of space. i suspect that it’ll be a hard battle to get him to accept that he has to go back.
what’s more important to him? his family: the people he survived 5 years in hell for? or, his own self destruction: the thing that comforted him in that darkness. the thing that keeps him from falling apart?
putting together (almost) all of my tnv fanart I have made.
I’m nor that crazy over this fic I swe-
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Some of this I’ve already posted and some stuff went missing that isn’t here also left out one drawing I DESPISE 💔 sigh where is my drawing of Cassandra glaring while holding up the horse on a stick.
edit I found more but I gotta wait until later to get it up there ok bye
OK, first of all? Your new chapter was AMAZING i loved it so much. i never guessed that Leo would be the one to rip off his mask! Even if he just did it because of the parasite. when he was making a portal all i could think is that Leonardo Hamato is BACK. by the way, did you base Leos reaction to Casey pressing the panic button off Hades from Disney's Hercules?
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hehehe omg i won't lie i totally forgot about this scene (ᵕ—ᴗ—) but yes i see the resemblance LOL
i was attempting to channel both the inner "This Is Fine" dog and jake peralta but honestly Hades isn't too far off from that vibe either LOL
OOURHRGHFFH aside from the HORROR and HEARTBREAK from his brothers, imagine how many things are going to dawn on them and make SO MUCH SENSE now that they know it's him????
When he freaks out and threatens Casey, and then immediately freaks out about himself while said "w-wait, kill?" Part? He's struggling with a BRAIN parasite, and he's Leo, he doesnt want to kill Casey!
How he knows all of them and April? Those are his Brothers and best friend/sister!
How he knew where they lived? That was his home too!!!!
Why he saved April, going from manic clown to deadly serious and tactical when the rubble fell instead of leaving her to die? Again, that's his sister! He still cares for them despite the struggle of his will against the parasite, he wouldn't leave her to die!
The realizations of why he never actually tried hurting them, why he kept trying to keep them from his actual plans, why he actually wore the mask, why he was so casual about the art and setups the boys had of Leo. Because that IS Leo.
THE MIND MELD???
AA R RGDHDIDJ HE'S EVERYTHING TO ME HES SO 😭
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Bruh the biggest challenge of this fic has been trying to balance what is obvious to us, the readers, and what seems ‘obvious’ to the characters 😭😭😭 I hope it’s been somewhat believable, given that the fam would have no reason to suspect their dead brother was actually the villain
But yeah. The fam is going to have a lot of Big Feelings about…. This whole situation.