brainrottmnt

So I’ll be using this blog as an art dump for my most recent obsession, which has now snowballed into the creation of Mutant Manhunt (a Separated Raph AU that is now my pride and joy) along with other Raph-centric nonense

Mutant Manhunt Masterpost (on hiatus until further notice!)

Important tags:

#mind swap drabbles A fight with Hypno results in the brothers swapping bodies! This comic is more like a bunch of loosely tied together, lighthearted shenanigans... for now.

#burnout Raph centric comic! After a routine battle, Raph's powers mysteriously stop functioning. Maybe it'll work itself out?

#just one tot Mikey returns home with a mysteriously de-aged Raph, and the three remaining brothers are left to find a remedy. But with no clue how it happened, where do they even start?

Couple of notes about asks:

- I have asks open atm, but I'm a little slow getting to them, so bear with me if it takes a while before your ask is answered :')

- Requests for art are very touch-and-go! I'm much more open to asks related to questions about the various comics I'm posting, those are a thousand times easier to answer for me fhskjf

And just remember! I'm a college kid trying to keep my grades high enough to not lose a scholarship while doing this on the side to maintain my sanity :]

Mind swap drabbles my beloved (I’m hoping the color coding helps to figure out who is who)

We’ve finally made it! Welcome to the next official installment of Mutant Manhunt :)

I need to draw Leo more often, he’s so neat

Hi hi! Sorry for leaving this ask in the void for so long but I shall answer >:)

Favorite turtle? I think this comes as no surprise:

Favorite NON-turtle? That’s a harder choice… Draxum and Splinter are great, and I think April and Cassandra are my top two, because I have a fun time writing both of them. BUT I think April wins out by a small margin!

My advice for art/comics can be summed up pretty easily: do not stress the details. For myself, I’ve found it really hard to stay consistent and work on any kind of art involving complex character designs, not to mention I get WAY too wrapped up in smaller details that nobody else is going to notice. This is mostly for artists like me who have a hard time with motivation: make the designs easy to replicate, and find a way to make the tedious parts fun! Line art is the thing I struggle with most, but by experimenting with styles and changing techniques, I’ve been able to make the tedious parts a little more enjoyable.

Future art/comics plans…. The biggest plan is to finish all of the random ideas I’ve posted, like the mind swap drabbles and baby Raph. Hopefully, I get to make more and stop disappearing for months on end? Since I’ve been forcing myself to worry less about quality and more about getting my ideas on paper, that should make it easier, but I don’t want to make any empty promises so. Take that with a grain of salt (._.’)

Hardest character to draw? Honestly it switches between these three.

I plan to! My attention has been torn between rottmnt and other fandoms in the past couple years, but Mutant Manhunt is still my pride and joy that I want to write out to its conclusion. Or, as close to a conclusion as I can get it, lol

Aaa tysm!! That's such a relief to hear :')

I'm going to keep researching and do my best to approach this part of his character as respectfully as possible, even if it's not going to come up very often. Because if there's one thing I don't like, it's slapping a disorder onto a character's information and calling it a day. Not to mention, it's been really interesting to look into how DID works!

He does! It may not be canon, but there's so many implications toward ROTTMNT Raph having DID in the show that I adopted the headcanon for both regular Raph and MM! Raph :]

Rant/explanation under the cut because I've thought about this a lot

Have a slightly updated Mutant Manhunt Raph design! Don’t worry, his Battle Nexus outfit hasn’t gone anywhere— I just wanted his plastron visible to figure out what scars to add. I would not dare get rid of his drip

Couple of fun facts under the cut

Just wanted to ask if you can give a small explanation about your Manhunt AU? (or a big one, your choice)

It looks really interesting and your art looks SO FREAKING GOOD!!

Two Raphs for ya (although the right one might be a common snapping turtle and not an alligator snapping turtle 🤔/

Aaaa ty!! I will take ANY AND EVERY OPPORTUNITY to talk about Mutant Manhunt so strap in

At its core, this is a separated Raph AU where he was raised by the Mud Dogs first, then taken by Big Mama to become a Battle Nexus Champion! The timeline is very shaky in a few places, but for the most part it stays the same as canon with the added side plot of Leo, Donnie, and Mikey trying to make contact with Raph.

It's a manhunt in several ways: The brothers trying to find and connect with their brother, Baron Draxum discovering one of his experiments is under a contract with Big Mama, and the Mud Dogs trying to break out of prison while also figuring out what happened to their old crew member. Then later on, Big Mama joins the manhunt once he's broken out of the Nexus-- she won't be too happy about losing one of her best fighters...

Just popping in to say that I've made a bunch of edits and updates to the pinned post! Not only are the extra comics now labeled under a respective tag, but we ALSO finally have a fully updated MM!au Masterpost >:]

I'll be gone for a bit to lock in for midterms so in the meantime, have a mikey doodle

!!! OMG

I love comic dubs, it's such an honor to see people actually want to voice over my own stuff so YES PLEASE

I talked a LOT about writing a Mutant Manhunt fic a while back, which is still happening btw! But I also have a shit ton of smaller one shots and blurbs that are wasting away in my google docs :( there's a couple having to do with post-movie recovery, plus some short drabbles around the mind swap au, AND stuff for the raph tot one I'm reviving. So I've got plenty to share that's for sure

Leo is way too tired to take this seriously. You know when you’re too mentally out of it to handle problems and can only laugh when something goes wrong? Yea

Back at the lair… what will they do

Short update I know :’) side note, don’t expect crazy detailed backgrounds because the movie lair is actually a nightmare to draw /hj