Bluemoon

Base story:

So he went out with Casey (Cassandra) doing vigilante stuff (does his brothers know? maybe, maybe not)

This takes place well after s2 finale when the leader job is off his shoulders and he has more free time (fights with leo aren't that bad yet).

So he gets bit with an oozesquito, then he freaks out like how could he not?? He's growing bigger and more terrifying but Casey's on the side was like "YOO THIS IS COOL AF??"

So it took him a couple of days hiding at Casey's place (he's overthinking how to break the news to everyone), all the while there's been rumors about this new vigilante that looks like a beetle/turtle hybrid, and the guys started investigating but RAPH'S STILL NOT HOME.

So they turned to Casey. She refused to spill. The others started pestering her and April kept banging her doors and Mikey's bringing out Dr. Delicate Touch and Donnie's threatening to bring out his drill from beta and Leo is messing around with his portals (travelling to everywhere and nowhere to search for even a glimpse of that red tail mask)

it wasn't a pretty scene. Casey's apartment door busted and lo and behold their Big Red is right there.

A couple things to note:

This Raph is terrified of bugs

DM Raph and DM Mikey aus are both separate.

I haven’t come up with name for this au yet 😔(welcome to suggestions!)

I did it! Hooray!

I saw a severe lack of Double Mutated Mikey’s in the bug variety so I just had to do it

Ok ok- so story time

Donnie and Mikey went out looking for scrap metal in the junk yard and whoopies! -Mikey gets bit D:

Donnie sees him mutate like:

They hurry back to the lair and when Raph and Leo see Mikey they’re like, “DONNIE WHAT DID YOU DO”

Donnie tries working on a cure but Mikey intervenes like “hey wait this is kinda cool” and yeah :]

The name is still in the works but for now I’ll call it “The Tales Of Ladybug and… Wait a Minute”

Phew! It was incredibly helpful that I found references and art studies of the turtles or I might have waited until who knows when to actually work on these. (The book I’m using is also a great help for this! The paper is very forgiving and the graph is awesome)

I used some references from these blogs:

Palettepainter101

mangomutech

I used many more but these two genuinely helped so much. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find a clear Donnie and Leo ref/study that really helped me as much as Raph’s and Mikey’s did (even tho the twins have similar body types), so I’ll have to create my own at some point.

I was really torn with the choices I created for Mikey’s outfit, to the point I got tracing paper and took a picture of every combination I had. Most likely I'll alternate with some of these if I ever make this in comic form. I didn’t even have scissors for these 💀

Now imagine like 15-18 of these in total… yeah

I did nowhere near as much drawing with Raph’s design too much, though I did do a handful of sketches just to get used to drawing him

Yes I did redraw the same screenshot from the Raph study, I was too lazy to look for a different side profile

Once again this paper is very forgiving considering how dark my draft is before I refine it, you can barely even see what was left in the final design up there before the cut.

Anddd this is where the art block got me

Like I said, I couldn’t find a reference that really helped me plus I am still really stumped about what clothes I should give to Leo while still being consistent with the other two. Same thing for Donnie, tho I may have a clearer idea.

And that sent me down a spiral of what clothes Connie, Steven, and Casey Jr. should wear. Steven may be the hardest because I want to keep his look iconic but not completely deviate from his style.

Now with that said, no, the art block isn’t going to make me drop this au lol. If anything I’ll just take more time to actually write out more of the story

The two people left reading this are probably so confused of what this au is even about.