Princess of darkness and crows.

raph growing more protective and more attached to leo with every incident that comes to pass. no one can blame him, though- everytime leo so much as bleeds a drop or bruises a nasty shade of yellow-purple, raph is back in that farmhouse bathroom, looming over his comatose brother and praying to whatever or whoever is listening that he wakes up.

leo just gets more secretive, sneakier. he can feel the change in raph and it’s not his job to worry his little brother into an early grave. If the mission calls for one for him, however- that’s his responsibility and his fate. splinter said so. he’ll take the extra hit so that his brothers don’t have to. he’ll lie about the burning in his knee and the creak in his shell so they don’t worry.

WHOOOOO WOULD DISLIKE HIM...... I TRULY DONT UNDERSTAND

^imagine this is raph

i have soooooo many thoughts about leo i wouldnt even know where to start. hes got the weight of the world on his shoulders, hes got no time to worry about anything but his mission and his training and his brothers. his arc in s4 is so fucking important to me, he literally blames himself for his entire family almost dying JUST CUZ HE THINKS HES RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM?! WHEN HIS FATHER WAS IN THE ROOM TOO?!! hes got that eldest daughter syndrome cranked up to 11. hes not okay but hes such a good brother, and his brothers all know exactly why he's like that and they love him. i even like that in s5 (which ive already said i hate) hes handling being a disappointment for the first time and he CANT handle it. how would he be able to handle it?! his identity as a whole is being the leader and the best and the one everyone goes to for help and hes sooooo fucked up about it.

The obvious answer would be Hamato Yoshi & Tang Shen’s kid, right? But then we loose the scene of Shen being all like: “don’t just kill the poor guy.” So what about student? That doesn’t feel fully right either. Bc Splinter was Yoshi’s weirdly intelligent pet rat from Japan that somehow learned english well enough to teach it to a bunch of toddlers. So ig student? But who just takes their student with them to another whole ass country when their lover dies and they kill their brother?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-series “Leonardo”

Art: Sophie Campbell

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Because that moment where he realises the factory he and his brothers are in is rigged with explosives...

That moment when all he can do is rush to protect the brothers around him just seconds before it all goes off.

That moment where he can't think to do anything else but take the full force of the explosion.

It just makes me think of Tang Shen.

How Donnie took a blow for his brothers the same way his mother did for his father.

And in a tragic way, while one attack was unintentional, both of them were protecting their loved ones from being hurt by their siblings.

I'd hate to point this out... but I wouldn't 😈

his eyes are so big

so round

(pls ignore the quality I took pictures of my tv 😭)

HIM IN THIS SCENE AHSGDJADGHJASGHDHJAH

HE'S JUST A TINY LITTLE GUY REACHING OUT TO HIS MOMMY

He barely takes his eyes off her for their entire interaction-

He's like a begging puppy asking for her understanding

Also the fact that he's holding his hands in fists near chest level is a sign of tension or anxiety, which means that he's just a nervous little guy!! He's standing right next to the lady who stole his daddy's heart!!

(Oh what could have been…)

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