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HTB - CHAPTER ONE

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Here we go :)

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"You let him go!?"

Donnie doesn't bother turning around; he can hear Mini-him pacing back and forth around the lab, and he doesn't have to look to know how this is shaking out.

"What was I supposed to do, tie him to a chair?"

"Yes!?" says Mini-him like he's stupid, which warrants a scoff.

"You know as well as I do that when Leo decides something, you can't talk him out of it."

"Yes, which is why tying him to a chair is the appropriate response!"

"No one's invented a rope strong enough yet, not even me."

"I can. I will. Watch me."

Donnie does not watch. Mini-him is still pacing back and forth, from the sounds of it, so there's nothing to see. It takes him over a minute to finally stop.

"...You feel it too, don't you?"

"Of course I do," Donnie says. He doesn't need any clarification. "We're the same person, I'm just older, smarter, and sexier."

Mini-him huffs, not rising to the bait, which means there are more feelings in the air than Donnie cares for. But he gets it. He wasn't lying about feeling it, after all.

"...We almost lost him," says Mini-him at length, and finally Donnie turns away from his work to look at the kid. He's got his arms crossed tight, looking away, seeing something else. "We did lose him, for a few minutes. But I could still feel it." He sighs, looking down. "If Mikey hadn't been able to open that portal..."

"Then you would have found a way to tear it open yourself," says Donnie, and Mini-him's eyes jerk up from the floor. Donnie just shrugs like he's saying something obvious. "Leos get into trouble, and Donnies save them. Right?"

Finally, a small smile from Mini-him. "He's more trouble than he's worth, though."

Donnie grins, then grabs a wrench and holds it out for the kid to take. "Now are you going to keep angsting or are you going to help?"

"I'm not angsting," he says unconvincingly, but he does come forward and grab the wrench. "What are we working on?"

"Before I tell you, you have to sign an NDA."

"Oh, well, if this is official work, you'll have to pay my contracting fee."

Something I made while dealing with my own stuff and hoping drawing this would pick me up somehow. Maybe it worked.

read "Like Father Like Son" by @eternalglitch a while ago and man i'm in my own puddle of my own tears rn

1. Leo makes a mistake:

Leo: Funny story I may have left one thing out, the only rule in the Maze of Death is no mystic powers

Raph: Maze of what now?

Leo: Okay two things

Leo: We decided to replace Piebald with an identical goldfish so dad’s heart wouldn’t be broken 

Raph: I got it!

Leo: With those clumsy hands? No, I got thus one

2. His family is in danger because of the mistake

Mikey: We’re going to be skewered!

Piebald: Once I find the blue fin it’s flushing time

3. Leo decides to sacrifice himself to save his family  

Leo: Wait! I’m the one who cheated, I created the portal to save my brothers punish me

Leo: Flush me and let my family go!

Leo: Casey listen to me. When I get to the other side, you close that door.

The Inktobertale/Inktale challenge originates from the mix of Inktale and October. The challenge consists of drawing a prompt with Ink!Sans either every day during the month of October, or during the highlighted days for a more condensed "weekly" challenge. Any medium is welcome for this challenge, including writing.

This theme was created and voted as an Ink!Sans challenge, since there are a lot of other Undertale monthly challenges. The Inktale challenge/Inktobertale focuses solely on the character of Ink!Sans. You are free to make Ink!Sans interact with other characters.

You are free to skip, swap, or alternate days as you like. You can also do it digitally. Feel free to swap between different challenges! The point is to have fun and experiment this month, so make this challenge a fun experience!

The new addition from last year's Inktobertale is an alternative "weekly" challenge! All the highlighted prompts are a suggestion for people who would like to try a different pace, with roughly one drawing every few days. You're totally free to swap with other prompts if some speak to you better for this list as well.

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I've been wanting to make a fan animation for @somerandomdudelmao for a while now, and my sister came up with this brilliant idea. Here's to Tiny Tello; may we see him again one day.

Audio is from "Baby With A Gun" by TomSka

Clown boy will occasionally put himself and the others in danger to Prove Himself or Prove Someone Wrong (see Minotaur Maze and the movie) but like otherwise... i think people forget Leo's overwhelmingly the voice of reason in most situations?

Raph, Mikey, and Donnie are all incredibly powerful boys with very specific skill sets. They are also, as a direct result of this, the WORST decision-makers on god's green earth lmao. When presented with a problem, Raph will smash, Donnie will blow shit up, and Mikey will razzmatazz. They will all run straight toward death with the same oblivious enthusiasm of a dog about to run straight into a screen door. None of them realize this and all of them think they are Extremely Good At Problem-Solving.

And the only guy cursed with the common sense to realize this is literally the LAST person anyone would expect.

When you look closely, the entirety of Rise is actually a chronicle of Leo trying to find new and creative ways to keep this team of superpowered fools alive while simultaneously white-knuckling his Cool Fun Guy persona so the others don't realize he's secretly the Boring Responsible One. Haha, you know what would be Cool and Fun, guys? Not going after the Spine Breaking Bandit lol. Getting home before the sun goes up lol. Evacuating that civilian lol. Not telling the guy dangling me off a roof "you won't, no balls" lol.

The key detail that shows that Casey Junior hasn’t yet fully processed the deaths of Future Leo & Mikey is that there’s difference in how Casey Junior talks about the future versions of Leo & Mikey when compared to how he talks about the future version of Donnie.

Casey Junior: You are the greatest ninja the world has ever seen

Mikey: What do I do in the future?

Casey Junior: You are the most powerful mystic warrior the world has ever known

When Casey Junior talks about the future versions of Leo & Mikey he uses the present tense ‘you ARE the greatest ninja’ or ‘you ARE the most powerful mystic warrior’ however when Casey Junior talks about Donnie’s future self he uses the past tense he says ‘you WERE’

Casey Junior: Donnie, you were the most brilliant, innovative mind of all time

The difference in present & past tense that Casey Junior has when referring to the future versions of Leo & Mikey compared to the future version of Donnie is also most likely a deliberate one since a deleted scene from the movie even draws attention to it

Donnie: I’m sorry, ‘were’? As in… past tense? Does something happen to me in the future? Do I… do I die?

The scene was most likely taken out so that the scene where Casey Junior tells Leo about the fate of everyone in the future would have more impact but the fact that there’s a difference in tense in how Casey Junior talks about the Future Leo & Mikey compared to how he talks about the future version of Donnie shows that Casey Junior is still processing their deaths.

Casey Junior: I never thought I’d see you again! I’m so happy I could hug you!

Though we don’t know when exactly the future version of Donnie dies we do know that it was before the events of the movie’s opening due to the fact that Future Leo has already tied the future versions of Donnie & Raph’s masks onto his sword.

Though we don’t know how much time there is between Future Donnie’s death & the movies opening it’s clear that it was enough time for Casey Junior to process his death & accept him as gone however that isn’t the case for the future versions of Leo & Mikey

Casey Junior: How am I gonna save them all, Sensei? I really wish you were here. Wait, you are! I just need to find you

The future version of Leo & Mikey die in the movies opening, for Casey Junior they’ve only /just/ died & the second he starts attempting to process their deaths & accept that they’re gone, he backtracks immediately when he realises that the past/ present versions of Leo & Mikey are still alive.

Casey Junior: You told me to find the key and stop the Krang

Casey Junior: That’s exactly how you freed all those families from the Krang labour camp

The fact that Casey Junior talks to Leo as if he’s still the same Master Leonardo that trained him is also an indicator of Casey Junior not yet processing Future Leo’s death. While Casey Junior probably had time to deal with living in a world without the future version of Donnie, Casey Junior met Leo & Mikey’s past/ present selves shortly after loosing their future selves in the movies opening.

Casey Junior treats Leo the same way he would his sensei because he wants to act as though nothing has changed, he’s not processing Future Leo & Mikey’s deaths because they aren’t ‘gone’ their past/ present selves are right there.

Casey Junior: Actually, there is something I should tell you

It’s only when Casey Junior sees Mikey try to use his mystic hands, the very thing that killed the Future Michelangelo does it begin to hit Casey Junior that the future versions of Leo & Mikey died.

Casey Junior: Everybody dies fighting the Krang. The world needs Master Leonardo. And all we got is this guy

When Casey Junior confronts Leo on his refusal to act like a leader, it finally fully hits Casey Junior that his family is gone, that everyone he knew is gone, that the past/ present version of Leo isn’t the same person as his Sensei because Leo hasn’t had the experiences that made the ‘Master Leonardo’ that Casey Junior knew.

Okay, everyone says two Donnies in the finale is funny, but I think it's also pretty symbolic.

And I wanted to do something sweet about Ghost, because I have a deep respect in my soul for him and his story😌

@rottmntpeepawpolls @amevello-blue

On a separate note, the shadow ban is gone!

Still, he had Donnie's smirk, intelligent eyes, that spark of curiosity that seemed to take over his entire body language as he stared at Ghost. Ghost could only stare at him, chest tight, waiting for him to speak first. He never knew how to say hello first.

"You," Donnie says instead. "You are me! Donatello."

The name hurts. It hurts like it's always hurt when Splinter says it, but it hurts even more coming from Donatello. It hurts that this one recognized him immediately when no one else knew who he was. Of course Donnie would figure it out. Of course Donnie would know immediately.

Why did he have to know? It was obvious Ghost from somewhere else, some other reality, and his brothers were not here. There were no others that looked like him, as much as he'd looked for them. There was someone else not from this reality, but he wasn't Ghost's brother. Another Leonardo, another version of Ghost that had failed to keep his family together.

"So! You managed to get all the way through the other half of the tournament!" Donnie continued when Ghost didn't speak, grinning. "Impressive. You really are Donatello."

Not anymore, he wanted to say. I can't be. I failed them. I left them. I abandoned them. I'm gone and I cannot ever go back to them and they will never know. I can't be Donatello. I'm only a shell of my old self.

Instead he felt his eyes tear up. His chest bloomed with warmth. He'd met so many versions of his kids during this entire thing. He'd seen some more scarred and lost than others, some more confident. They had all grown up so much. So, so much, with so much loss and everything that he had never wanted any of them to go through.

He was terrified his presence would make no difference. Maybe his absence would have been better. Maybe he should have stayed in that little corner of the sewers, tucked away and alone.

This Donnie looked impressed with him, though. Proud, even, that he was Donatello. Fundamentally he was still Donatello, even if it was only the shell of him, even if the name was no longer his, he'd been born Donatello and he would always be Donatello, no matter what other name he took.

His eyes slid past Donnie, focusing on his family cheering behind him. Donnie's brothers and a small human child he didn't recognize that he was sure he would eventually. Raph was a robot, Leo was missing an arm, but they were all alive and thriving, cheering on their Donatello with their whole hearts.

Ghost somehow managed to swallow everything and murmured, "Is that your family over there?"

Donnie's expression sobered, and he glanced away. "Yeah," He said, mouth turning into a faint smile.

"You have grown so much," Ghost whispered, taking a breath. "Promise me you won't let anything happen to them."

Ghost needed Donnie to know. He needed him to know. He hoped he could hear the plea in his tone, the desperation he had. Please, let him make the difference that I couldn't. Please keep them safe. Let him keep them safe. Let him never feel what I do.

"Heh." Donnie smirked and held out his hand. "I guess that's just what we do."

The "we" hurt, but it brought that warmth he was starting to get used to. He took Donnie's hand and it hurt. Everything about this hurt, but he wasn't going to run from this. Not this time.

"Maybe that's why we're here." He ducked his head to try and hide the smile of pride at how confident this Donnie was, how strong and open and sure he seemed.

They shook hands, and Donnie spun them, lifting their fists up above their heads, practically pulling Ghost along. When did Donnie get so tall?

The crowd was roaring, and Ghost hated all the eyes on him, but Donnie was so eagerly drinking it up, and Ghost was so proud of him.

He loved all of them so much. Every single one that he'd seen, the ones he hadn't seen. He loved them all and he hoped they all had people who loved them just as much in his place.

He smiled at the crowd, glad his mask could soak up the wetness from his eyes.

Off to the side, he could hear his little Leo scream, "HE HAS DIMPLES?!"

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I'M SOBBING THIS IS ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME THING I WAS THINKING ABOUT THEM MEETING AND GHKFHGHGFH

I JUST MADE IT A LOT SADDER IN GHOST'S HEAD BUT GOD

This has been so much fun and I just couldn't pass up writing a little short thing for them because I just nfgljdhlfg I loved this too much I'm so sorry

I'm glad this ended the way it did, even though it's wild to me that Ghost made it so far as to face up against Cass' Apocalypse of all things like JEEZE I didn't know this many people liked Ghost so much?

When I drew this, I was worried about the part of the comic that shows Ghost's emotions. He has so much going on in his head, things like that look so much better in text than in drawing.

BUT NOW.

It's what they do.