I love your Making Peace AU and really admire your artstyle :D It’s so detailed and colorful and pleasing to look at!
Do you have any more stories or concepts of the Mad Dogs after they move into the farmhouse? I imagine once Leo feels better he’s quite the mischief-maker on a big farm like that XD Also Donnie might run into some problems trying to renovate everything (not to mention a lack of WiFi) XD
Thank you!!! That's so kind of you to say :) I'm glad you like my art 😊
I really wanted to answer this with a full story, but I just don't have any prepared or close to being done, so for now I'll just give you some general concepts about the Mad Dogs farm life I like to think about:
I think that they would spend A LOT of time out in the sunshine. Like, back when they lived in the city, they mostly stuck to the sewers and only went out on patrol at night usually. But now, with mutants and yokai being recognized as citizens, the Hamatos can be out in public without hiding their faces (not that they ever did a GREAT job of that before haha). And at their farm property, I like to imagine they spend a lot of time outside, working the gardens, tending the livestock, playing sports, and just sunning themselves.
I imagined they would have a pool, and they would swim in it a lot during the summer, but also I think they'd just lie in the deck chairs and directly on the concrete around the pool to soak up those rays. Rays they probably only mostly got from lamps and artificial sunlight before.
I like to think Leo is an early riser and likes to go on jogs down the country highway in the morning, as the sun is coming up. Raph would also join him, at least at the beginning of the run, but at some point, since Raph is so much bigger, Leo would probably fall behind at his own pace and Raph would pull ahead. They both run for the same amount of time, but Raph can cover WAY more ground. I don't think either of them mind, they just like to at least START the run together, and then they're perfectly content to spend the rest of it apart in peaceful solitude.
I like to think Donnie spends COPIUS amounts of time in his greenhouse, maybe even more so than his workshop. I like to think Raph has a plethora of creative hobbies, from knitting to crocheting to whittling to carpentry (mostly birdhouses) to basket-weaving to sewing to macramé (lots of plant-hangers for Donnie). I think Mikey would also keep busy with arts and crafts, painting and pottery and sketching. And Raph and Mikey would probably be the two to spend the most amount of time with any of the animals on the farm.
In terms of what you brought up, I think that Leo would be a mischief-maker even BEFORE he's fully healed lol. While everyone else is busy renovating the house and property, he'd probably be sitting in a chair like it's a throne and being an absolute DIVA, bossing people around and giving them unsolicited advice on how they should maybe move that plank of wood a liiittle to the left.
(No one listens to his instructions ofc, and he doesn't expect them to, but everyone knows he's just bored, so they play along in mock-irritation)
And he'd definitely be doing all sorts of pranks. I'm not a very devious person myself, so it's hard for me to think of something Leo would pull, but maybe when his brothers go off to the city to fight crime while he's left behind at the house to heal, he'd make his way around the house and property (carfeully ofc) and hide a bunch of mini plastic figurines everywhere. I have a few friends who have done it while they were house-sitting for someone (they called it 'ducking' the house, cuz they used little plastic ducks haha), or with green army men all over their highschool as a Senior prank. I did this once to one of my brothers and put aliens all over his bedroom while he was away for a while :)
Imagine Donnie and Mikey and Raph over the next few weeks, months even, finding more and more of little guys like these in the weirdest spots:
In the bathroom cabinet, coffee cupboards, tv console, on top of doorframes, behind books in bookshelves, in dresser drawers, in the back of the fridge, the barn rafters, buried in plushie piles. Hundreds in hundreds of different hiding spots. For eons, Mikey, Raph and Donnie just. Keep. Finding them. XD
When it comes to Donnie renovating, I think it would be quite a challenge, partly because of how run down the property and house are and partly because he has just SO many plans. But he would relish the challenge. I also think he'd have more than plenty of resources, both from humans and yokai providing materials and finances in gratitude for the Mad Dogs efforts during the war...
And also just from his own bank account.
We're shown in Repo Mantis that despite Donnie only APPARENTLY having dimes, nickels and pennies, he SOMEHOW gets the resources to COMPLETELY renovate Todd's puppy home. (The joke is not lost on me; like, if he had the finances to build all that, why didn't he just offer that to Repo for the moon buggy in the first place? XD)
AND also the "yeah, yeah, yeah we are poor as dirt," line in Mutant Menace as he's thumbing through his fat stack of dolla dolla bills 💀
And I think you're right that he would NOT be having a good time without his precious WiFi. So the first thing he'd build is a cell and WiFi tower lol.
Thank you so much for the ask!! I had fun thinking about all this :)