Princess of darkness and crows.

(Oh what could have been…)

Original:

In the series finale, Donatello finally gets to share a tender reunion with the spirit of his mother, Tang Shen. After everything he's been through. The weight of time travel, trying to fix the impossible, and carrying the burden for his family, he gets to say the words he's held in his heart:

"I love you, mom."

"And I love you… more than you know."

Understood.

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Do we not think about the way Mira hugged onto Raph the same way Karai hugged Splinter?

When the scenario is both girls reuniting with their fathers after losing their families?

Twice in both cases, as Karai lost Tang Shen and the little family she had with Shredder and the foot. And Mira's whole clan was killed before she found her new family and they got attacked, and she thought they were all dead.

Doesn't help that they were both kidnapped from their families.

So it becomes harder hitting when you think about how both girls are reuniting with their fathers, and they think they are all they have left of their former families.

The fact that Raph is essentially living Splinter’s life in the apocalypse and this moment is where he believes everyone in his family is dead. Except for his daughter, who was taken from him.

And the moment they reunite, she's the first one to hug him.

And like his father before him, he was the one to be taken aback by the sudden embrace and acceptance of his daughter.

Where both pairs understood they were all they had from the life they knew before.

And then there's the fact that both dads hold their daughters in THE. EXACT. SAME. WAY!

Holding them by their backs and heads to keep them as close as possible. And giving them love in their darkest moments after everything's changed for them.

Does anybody else think about that?

No?... only me...?

She's a wild child.

She's a cutie patootie.

This is how she hugs her dad.

She deserved to be in the canon verse of the show and RaMona deserved to be her parents.

Bonus: she could give her parents this face and Raph would have to pull Mona back from spoiling her.

hi hiii :3 💖

That's

That's Roy Mustang

Just the opposite.

Roy "I grew up with 10 sisters so I know how to disguise covert information reconnaissance as flirting" Mustang.

"I grew up with 10 sisters so I know how to weaponize my sexual charm to disarm others and win favor."

Roy led every higher-up to believe he was just a fuckboy and a manwhore in this for his own ego and that they shouldn't view him as any kind of violent revolutionary like "no sir I'm just a slut."

Which. is an absolutely batshit primary character backstory to mention once, late in the series, and then immediately move on from.

And actually Hiromu Arakawa did it so well that every single fan interpretation of Roy Mustang for the FMA03 anime treated him as an honest to god man-slut. Bought his whole act hook line and sinker.