no raph don't eat your brother!!

Donnie has a child! His name is Shelly and yes, he's named after Shelldon

pov: you're a tired ex-actor mutated rat dad who just discovered your toddler mutant (pre-ninja) turtle has unlocked your family's innate mystic gifts including a bunch of untapped powers your Grandpa Sho never bothered mentioning (_ _;)

like they say, representation matters

based off a letter I wrote to my brother when I was little lmao

vote SNAPPER LOU AU! @tmntaucompetition

He saw a happy color and got destoried 😔

Still thinking about brand new mutated Dad Splinter figuring out the dynamics between his children. It wasn't until I was lining some of this that I realized the unintentional angst in this cute comic, because Splinter seeing how distraught Leo and Donnie are at being separated would hit a little too close to home for him.

Moar

They get chunkier and chunkier every time I draw them. And I will continue to draw them as chubby babies.

My favorite ninja turtle is Splinter–

It’s a good thing that the boys had cute little button eyes when they were babies, because imagine if they had big ol eyes instead, like

Considering Donnie in the Seperated AU literally had NO friends for the first several years of his life (no his dad does NOT count!!) it prompted Donnie to start developing Shelldon way earlier on out of the desire to have a friend. Even after meeting and befriending April, he still spends most of his days being quite lonely considering she'd be busy with school and stuff. Shelldon was a way to combat that loneliness. But considering the fact that Donnie wouldn't have had nearly as much experience with tech when starting on Shelldon's development, he started out as a very rudimentary AI only able to produce a few simple responses. (Donnie having basically no stanards for what social interactions should be like was not at all bothered by this lol) Over the years however, as Donnie's skillset grew Shelldon would become more and more complex, so at the time where the main story takes place Shelldon Hamato is for all intents and purposes a real person and not just a mere machine.

Also I drew him with his Metalhead-inspired design cuz uhhhh cuz I wanna

Also uuuhh have some extra turtle tot doodles cuz omg they're so fucking cute I can't stop drawing them hhhhhhhhh

idk if thrice is a real word,, anyways,, baby lita growing stronggg 💪🏾

original ⤵️

More turtles✨

Forever mourning the loss of the cut episode where Mikey becomes biggest bro after the boys are turned into tots

Close ups below cuz tumblr assassinates the quality of these lol

Next stop: ???

want you to want me

Forgot to post these here (and I have several more lil comics coming later too) but I have some sibling shenanigans based on @sha-biest’s adorable Chosen Family AU, where the boys and Splinter meet April and her mom Carol much earlier than in canon. They’ve each got their own way to say their big sister’s name as they learn to talk.

Bonus, the daily routine:

Took a fat nap today omagosh 😩 have some late night tots tho ✋✋