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Wishing Stars
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My transformers hyperfixation has hit a new peak resulting in me making an actual mini comic lmao. Ngl the sketch in my notebook looked better I think lmao
sometimes i wonder if i’m really a perfectionist and then i remember that i have an incredibly detailed marauders era timeline that has every full moon, prank, birthday, and any important music that was released down to the day just in case one day i want to write fanfiction for this god forsaken fandom.
(and don’t worry it’s all fact checked and accurate)
okay it won’t let me put this in a reply so here it is lol
Marauders Era Timeline
This is a literal godsend. Thank you holy fuck. The amount of tabs I usually have to have open on my computer when I write for these dead gay fuckers. BLESS
I like how we all assume that Future Donnie and Future Raph died waaaaay into the future on different days when it's ENTIRELY possible that they died together at the beginning of the apocalypse.
Casey only heard stories of them. We don't know exactly when they died.
I think the main reason why we all assume Raph and Donnie died at separate times is because someone had to make Leo’s arm. So Donnie had to at least die AFTER Leo lost his arm and presumably AFTER Raph since the arm is clearly an homage to Raph.
Not to mention the scrapped character designs for an android Raph in the future that was meant to be something Donnie built after Raph’s death to y’know cope and try to deny his brother died. Which was likely also where Donnie got Leo’s arm from!
As for when in the future they died that’s completely up for debate! It could be Leo lost his arm trying to save Raph at 21! Donnie makes the android Raph in an attempt to preserve his older brother, Leo likely eventually convinced him to dismantle it and actually grieve and maybe he asks for the arm to be his new arm! And then perhaps shortly afterwards Donnie is killed, or five years down the line or fifteen but he does die and his bandana joins the red one of Leo’s hilt.
Or maybe Raph dies and Leo loses his arm later! Donnie already having dismantled the android several months after Raph’s death and offers the arm of the android to Leo. The possibilities are truly endless and I love seeing everyone’s interpretations! But to answer your non question lol, I think we all assume Raph and Donnie died at different times because Leo needs an arm. :’)
If the ROTTMNT turtles were human they'd all be blasian and no you cannot change my mind
EXACTLY! 100% agree. And to keep with them not all looking alike and because genetics are weird. Leo would likely look the most Japanese (I’m basing this on them saying he looks like Lou Jitsu and I’m in love with the idea that he is a spitting image of his dad), Raph looks more mixed, while Donnie and Mikey look more black BUT THEY ARE ALL STILL BLASIAN!!! THAT IS THE MAIN TAKE AWAY!!
I might try drawing my own interpretations some time so i tried mapping out some colours in advance. Their hair colours are based on a mix of their shell colours and Spinter's/Draxum's hair colours. Leo's also gonna get some red streaks to replace his eye stripes.
The light skin on the left is gonna be used for vitiligo. They all have it bc they all have turtle markings of some form that cant be translated any other way (Leo's stripes, Donnie and Mikey's spots, and Raph's spikes) and because I say so.
I have no idea if these colours are any good so feel free to rb with some advice.
Absolutely in love with this color palette! Can’t wait to see your rendition at some point!

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If the ROTTMNT turtles were human they'd all be blasian and no you cannot change my mind
EXACTLY! 100% agree. And to keep with them not all looking alike and because genetics are weird. Leo would likely look the most Japanese (I’m basing this on them saying he looks like Lou Jitsu and I’m in love with the idea that he is a spitting image of his dad), Raph looks more mixed, while Donnie and Mikey look more black BUT THEY ARE ALL STILL BLASIAN!!! THAT IS THE MAIN TAKE AWAY!!
What’s so funny about the ROTTMNT episode ’Late Fee’ is that there are two schools of thought for why the turtles are so excited about a hug.
A. Splinter is a not so great Dad that they really want affection from
Or
B. They’re teenagers and if caught in the right mood a hug is somehow more desirable than money 😂
When I tell you the amount of times as a teen I would get unreasonably excited over something like getting a hug or getting to watch a movie with my family if I completed a task. 😂 Like logically you know a greater “reward” could be given but you just do not care because your little chaotic gremlin cave brain has decided that a hug is simply THE BEST thing ever.
the fact that both of the twins have insecurities about their placement in the team and their value among the others and both end up coping with it by putting on an overconfident arrogant facade and no i’m not gonna start crying over this what???
“i’m nothing without them”
“if mystic powers can do everything that i can do but better than why would you guys even need me?”
Oh my GOD, I just realized why Donnie acts so weird in Man vs. Sewer. I always thought his behavior was odd in that episode, particularly in his nonchalance towards finding and saving Raph - but I had the most random thought occur to me during work that TOTALLY explains it. I'm sure some people have probably pointed this stuff out already, but I wanted to put this out there anyway.
This post is fantastic and does a great dissection of Donnie’s character! I also have an add on for why Donnie and Mikey are likely “out of character” that I wanted to share!
For in universe reasoning for Donnie’s behavior the above post applies! But from a writer’s room standpoint it’s a bit different.
Up to this point Raph has been presented as the undisputed leader of the group, he gives all the orders, he organizes missions, training etc. We see very few examples of the others taking point on a mission. The only one coming to mind for me at the moment is the episode ‘Mind Meld’ where Donnie attempts to lead his brothers in a mission to get the Dragons Tooth and we all know how well that went! My point here is that no one else has ever had to step up and be leader since Raph has just always done it.
Which brings us to the episode ’Man vs Sewer’
Now obviously because of previous iterations of TMNT we know Leo is usually if not always the leader of the group. But because in the ROTTMNT universe this is not the case it technically leaves the leader role “up for grabs” if you will.
At this point in Rottmnt, Leo has yet to even be shown as having leader qualities. In fact ‘Man vs Sewer’ is the first episode this leader potential is ever shown in show. And because these qualities have yet to be shown you could easily argue that either Leo or Donnie could be the new leader while Raph is absent. And I know what you’re thinking “Lily why aren’t you including Mikey in the running for leader?” And I have a reason!
See the Rottmnt crew is very good at characterization, as pointed out by OP. Which means logically it would make sense that Mikey who is the youngest and by proxy the least experienced, to not be in the running of leader. His brothers would likely often pull seniority if he were to take the role of leader, and since his character role in the show is to often be the comic relief and levity in a scene, making him leader who has to have a level of maturity, and seriousness would conflict with Mikey’s role.
Now you’re likely saying “Okay Lily fair enough but what makes you say Leo and Donnie are both in the running for leader? It’s obviously Leo.”
Several reasons actually!
First like I said earlier, at this point Leo has yet to be shown to having leader potential! The Rottmnt crew couldn’t just make Leo the defacto leader when Raph is gone because they have at this point no real in story proof that he’s got the capabilities.
My second reason is the ages of the turtles. Since Raph is the oldest it would make sense that whomever is the next oldest would be expected to step up (again reason for why Mikey wouldn’t be leader). Donnie and Leo are the same age which would reason that they’d either A. Fight for the title of leader or B. Co-lead which we actually see Leo try to do throughout the episode with Donnie but Donnie is just not having it lol.
Since the writers clearly wanted this episode to be about showing Leo’s leader capabilities (even though Leo clearly has no interest in actually leading) they have to take out the potential “competition” for the leader role. Which presents us to Donnie’s behavior in the episode.
By making Donnie very relaxed and as OP put it “in off day mode” it forces Leo to be in charge. He can’t try and pass the responsibility off to his brother who were he in “on day mode” would likely use some tracking system or tech to locate Raph. By making Donnie and Mikey “out of character” again OP does a great job at explaining this writing. We see Leo being what we all know him to be; a leader. See Rottmnt Leo is so resistant to being in charge and by proxy the chance to screw things up for him and his family that he has to be put in a scenario that absolutely forces him to take charge or else everything is going to fall to shit. And so the ROTTMNT crew has to dial Donnie and Mikey’s behavior up to 11 in the “goofy and not a productive citizen” category to make this happen. This writing choice ultimately doubles as not only character development for Leo but also character depth for Donnie as OP explained in their post above!!
Phew! Okay that was longer than I thought it would be! I hope this made sense to everyone! I just really loved OPs post and wanted to give my own two cents on the episode from the perspective of storytelling and writing! Again great post @freakadr0id ! :)
P.S.
Spoilers for the movie ahead
This is something I wanted to include but couldn’t find a great placement in this post. The Rise movie is obviously a second example of this exact same scenario just with the stakes dialed up to 11 instead. Which gives us a great showcase of how Donnie and Mikey behave normally with Leo in charge without Raph around. Donnie questions Leo and tries to reason with Leo when he disagrees e.g. he thinks they should come up with a plan rather than going in “half cocked”, he opposes the subway tunnels due to restrictive exits etc.
Meanwhile Mikey agrees because he’s still the wide eyed baby brother who doesn’t exactly know what to do and looks to his older brothers to have the answers. E.g. Mikey asks what they’ll do when they get to Metro tower. He doesn’t ask because he thinks Leo’s being rash in his decision but because he wants to know how they fix this. (Donnie does ask because he thinks Leo is being rash lol, not to mention Donnie acts as Leo’s number 2 throughout the film since again they’re the same age and since Raph isn’t there to be second in command)
Okay now I’m done!! For real! If you read this far thank you for reading! :) Again OP had just such a lovely post I had to add on!
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Leo would definitely pretend to believe in conspiracy theories or falsehoods just to mess with Donnie
I love this idea but Donnie is canonically the conspiracy theorist if you remember the conspiracy board in the episode “pizza pit”

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Okay i can buy Leo's stripes and Mikey's spots as skin coloration (because sliders have a lot of stripes (but going in the other direction) and box turtles have square and dot shapes) but i do not buy Donnie's very rectangular purple stripes. So whats the consensus on that? He draws them on like he draws his eyebrows? He let Mikey tattoo him? He tattooed himself? They're actually microchips he's inserted under his skin?
Well since I went and got screenshots have my theory.
Which is basically the markings are a side effect from mutating.
To add on to this lovely post. The reason Donnie’s markings are rectangular is because if you breakdown each of the turtles into basic shapes. For instance if you were going to draw them. They each are a different shape (this is most obvious in their head shapes and plenty of fan artists show this)
Raph is a square
Leo is a triangle
Donnie is a rectangle
And Mikey is a circle
And you’ll notice that their markings match this (sans Raph obviously) as for why Raph doesn’t have any markings I don’t really have an answer. Maybe it’s to link back to the typical design of the turtles? Or just to have it be a little different as opposed to ALL of them having markings? Idk but that’s why Donnie’s markings are rectangular! I hope that makes sense!
Alright nerds I'm back with more ROTTMNT content and this time we're talking about turtles being left alone
Spoilers ahead for seasons 1 & 2 and the movie
On yet another Monday evening I was thinking about the season 1 episode 'Man vs. Sewer' (which they really should have been called Turtle vs. Sewer c'mon now) and Raph's reaction to being left alone.
So naturally my mind wandered down the path of how the other three turtles would react to being left all alone. So I am here to present my headcanony thoughts similar to my other post about the turtles rankings of fav brother which I'll link here.
This post is going to be very long. I apologize now.
Now in the episode 'Man vs. Sewer' (btw I understand this is supposed to be a play on how every story is one of four or something story types, e.g. Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature etc.) I'm rambling again!
In 'Man vs. Sewer' the other turtles make it seem like Raph is the only one who has a reaction to being left alone, and while I'm sure Raph is the only one with such a... dramatic reaction we'll say. I feel that the other three would likely still have a reaction to being left alone given the fact that all four of these turtles have been raised in an EXTREMTLY close knit family. I mean prior to meeting April their only friends were each other and were likely the only other living beings they saw. After all in the episode 'Hot Soup: The Game' it's said that Raph was 13 when he got to go on his first solo topside mission. Now while it is possible the boys went topside prior to this as a group it wouldn't surprise me if this was the first time any of them were allowed to leave the sewers given their likely overall lack of um... stealth at such a young age since they barely have stealth as teenagers lol.
I'm getting off track though! My point is that because this family is practically always together I find it hard to believe that if any of them were left alone they'd be perfectly fine and so I will now present my headcanons/ hypothesis' about each turtles reaction to being alone.
Now Raph has already been cannonically shown in his reaction to being alone. He goes savage caveman brain, thinks everything is a threat and believes he'll die alone.
Next up we'll look at:
Leo
Now I know you could point to the movie for examples of Leo being alone but that is such an extreme situation in comparison to Raph getting lost in a sewer for like an hour or so that I don't feel the movie is a great comparison for "being left alone" so for this post when I'm talking about "being alone" I don't mean the others are dead, or kidnapped or anything really angsty. Think more lost in the sewers, or some of the family went to visit Todd for the weekend and one stayed at the lair alone and realized that was a mistake because separation anxiety and codependency lmao.
Now Leo is arguably also left alone in the episode 'Portal Jacked' (portal jacked is such a good episode for Leo character analysis I'm telling you) Now I know what you're thinking "Lily he literally is with Senor Hueso practically the entire episode" and you're right. Leo is technically only alone for maybe ten seconds between him exiting his portal outside Run of the Mill Pizza and entering the restaurant to find Senor Hueso but he's left without any of his family with him almost the entire episode and it leads to a lot of discussion about them and him being without them so I feel it will help support my argument.
Anyway!
In 'Portal Jacked' Leo whilst still being himself starts to show some of his insecurity in the episode. He admits to "being nothing" without his brothers and continuously brings up how he's better with his brothers. I feel based on these comments and this episode as a whole that if Leo were left alone for likely a longer period of time than Raph (let's say a day or two at the minimum for an effect to really set in) he'd likely let his insecurities get the best of him. As without his brothers as an audience to entertain, taunt, and distract himself from his own insecurities he's left with only himself to be his hype man and back up.
If you don't agree that Leo has insecurities I'll point you in the direction of the episode 'Minotaur Maze' and Leo's reoccurring need to prove himself to others and have them see him as important.
This insecurity is also what plays into Leo's behavior as leader in the film as he clearly doesn't view himself as worthy/ready for the title of "leader" at the start of the film.
Using these points I feel that without his brothers to back him up and perhaps cover for areas Leo lacks in he'd quickly spiral and become very unsure of himself and his actions. As Leo (prior to the movie especially) comes across as someone who does not want to take credit for something until it has already happened and succeeded. (e.g the episode 'One Man's Junk' where Leo literally waits to pick a side on the mystic meatal shop idea until after it fails and sides with Raph) Leo needs to be able to shift blame and "hide in the crowd" if you will in order to not feel like he's failing during a mission (which most the time he's actually succeeding just maybe not how he envisions himself doing so). So if he were to be left all alone with only himself to blame if a mistake was made I feel he'd become very unsure of himself and perhaps rather nervous his portals perhaps become more unreliable than normal (if we are setting this post season 2 finale then it would probably more like him earlier in the show where his portals don't always work. If we're pre-season 2 finale where his portals barely work on a good day then he'd likely cease making useful portals all together lol) and is continuously cracking jokes to whoever is around to listen (even if it's just himself) because to quote Leo: "That's how I cope!"
Final analysis of Leo alone: Very insecure, Nervous, desperately trying to find someone to hang around so he can throw his one liners to try to cope, and anxious to have his brothers back to back up him and his crazy ideas.
Whew! That was a very long research paper I just gave you and that's only the first one!
Again I am so sorry for the length of this post lmao I enjoy doing character analysis too much I'm so sorry.
Moving on to my favorite turtle we have:
Donnie
While it seems that Donnie enjoys being alone I find that because of this close knit family upbringing he'd still be affected by being alone. After all there's a difference between:
alone and lonely and
choosing to be alone and being left alone.
Donnie has plenty of hobbies that prompt him to be alone e.g. he has a video game addiction; or want to be alone e.g. He's the family genius/inventor whose in his lab for extended periods of time to try an accomplish something and anyone disturbing him is an unwelcomed distraction.
An example of this is the episode 'Mind Meld' when Donnie-fied Leo, Raph and Mikey try to get rid of Donnie when he asks them to come eat pizza with him. To quote Donnie "Hey wait! You're trying to get rid of me! That's what I do but... but to you!"
'Mind Meld' is a great episode for Donnie character analysis since there are basically 4 of him in this episode and we get to see how Donnie's character isn't just the smart inventor guy but also a normal teenager who likes to do normal teen things
While Donnie likes being alone and working in his lab, when he wants to see people he wants to see them and not be alone. This is shown in an earlier scene in 'Mind Meld' when Donnie excitedly asks if his brothers are ready for their game of skateboard ball. His Donnie-fied brothers give a very Donnie response and shrug him off saying they have better things to do and Donnie is left really disappointed. Leo, Raph and Mikey are acting like Donnie when he's in "genius tech guy mode" rather than "I'm ready to have fun with my brothers mode" like actual Donnie is in this scene.
Honestly the whole episode is a great example of how Donnie is a well rounded character and how he'd be very different if he only had one facet to his personality. With Leo, Raph, and Mikey all Donnie-fied but seemingly only to possess Donnie's intellect you see that Donnie is more than his brain and has other sides to his personality. That was a side tangent sorry! I really love the writing of this show! Back to my actual point!!
When Donnie wants to work on something people are a nuisance but when he wants to have fun then people better be around or Donnie will be sad.
Now that I have prefaced the circumstances, I will dive into my headcanon/hypothesis about how Donnie would react to being alone.
Now Donnie's reaction is entirely hinged on what mode he is currently in. If he is in work mode it would probably go something like this:
Like I have just stated Donnie is in his lab a lot working on various projects, be it improving his battleshells, working on his drill, working on the Turtletank etc. And based on Donnie's character he seems the type to hyper-focus on his work and not realize how much time has passed *cough* me on any passion project *cough* With this being said I feel that Donnie probably wouldn't notice he's been left alone at first lol. He'd probably hyper-focus for an entire day, forget to eat, maybe remember to go to sleep in a bed or just pass out in his lab, wake up and repeat the process until he finished his project or remembered to take a break. This would likely cause a decline in Donnie's overall well being and is why I think Donnie shouldn't be left unsupervised for extended periods of time lmao. So his family would likely have to be gone at least a week for Donnie to notice if I'm being honest. But that is only if Donnie were in work mode!
If Donnie was left alone in the lair and he was in social mode, I feel that he'd likely be pretty bummed that no one was around to bug him. Between Leo razzing him, Mikey always coming around to cuddle/get affection from each of them and just Raph's overall presence and dumb ideas like trying to shove something up his nose. Donnie would likely feel like he's actually alone. Like entirely alone. There's no hum of energy from his brothers, no slight annoyance just silence and emptiness. And he might relish it for a moment but after a few minutes of uninterrupted silence he'd realize that he can't take it and needs the energy to fill the space again. And knowing Donnie (and depending on how long the fam was gone for) he'd try to substitute it with tech. Causing a new start of work mode that was trying to fix the lack of socializing he craves.
Final analysis of Donnie alone: He doesn't immediately notice that he's alone but once he's made aware of the growing silence and actual solitude with no disruption it starts to get to him and makes him anxious for some social stimulation from others specifically from his family because turtle fam is best fam
Alright! We have made it through two turtle boys and only have one left! you know him you love him! He's the sunshine baby iiiiiiiiiiiittttttt'sssssss:
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Now Mikey is a lil bit more difficult for me to figure out how he'd react to being alone and this is mainly because I find it hard to imagine a normal situation that would cause him to be left alone. If we went with my everyone went away for the weekend idea I said at the start I find it highly unlikely they'd let Mikey of all people stay home alone. Simply because he's the baby and they don't like to leave him without supervision/back up (I mean just look at the episode 'Hot Soup: The Game' they literally watch him on security cameras like new parents watching a baby monitor) Like hell he's being intentionally left to his own devices for a whole weekend.
Which makes me think Mikey being alone would have to be accidental like Raph's in 'Man vs. Sewer' be it he got lost in the sewers, or like a proper younger sibling wandered off without paying attention and lost the group in: the Hidden City, Big Mama's building, the Sewers, New York City itself or whatever setting the boys are currently in.
Mikey likely wouldn't be alone for long since you know Raph will be on a rampage to find his baby brother, unless Mikey got hella lost and Donnie couldn't just track him lol.
So for this hypothetical scenario we'll say Mikey wanders off and Raph notices after several minutes and in classic turtles fashion hijinks ensues. Since this alone time will likely be brief and accidental I imagine Mikey's reaction (since he's played as the very emotional one -in a good way- and also for a little bit of comedic purposes) to be similar to a toddler who get's lost in a store.
Everything's fine before he realizes he's lost then he looks around doesn't recognize where he is or see his brothers he starts to freak out a bit and maybe get a bit teary eyed thinking he's been abandoned when really it's his own fault for getting lost. Y'know just normal baby sibling who's constantly supervised things ✌️
It's a lot of meekly wandering around calling out his brother's names hoping they'll magically appear before him and getting scared by anyone who approaches him, because even though he could definitely kill you since Mikey can throw a whole ass cargo ship around, now that he's scared he can't even lift his weapon high enough to seem like a threat.
This line of reasoning is mainly coming from the episode 'The Gumbus' where when frightened Mikey would rather hide and escape even if he has more than enough skill to defend himself from a normal threat lol.
Final analysis of Mikey alone: He's a frightened baby ready for his big brothers to come charging in to take him home and shower him with affection because while Mikey acts like he's big man on campus he is still bebe
And with that I conclude my long monologue about these turtle boys for another night! I will likely return with another thought soon as Rise has taken up every space square inch of my brain lately lol! Anyways as always these are just my opinions you are free to disagree with me this has just been rattling around in my brain for the past week and I had to share! I love all of these characters and I think Rise did a great job at revitalizing them to a new generation. With that I bid you all farewell! Until next post!
~ Lily's Niche
Do you think splinter still has access to his bank accounts from when he was lou jitsu?
This was too interesting not to post.
I would imagine at first he might have but by the time Splinter got mutated he had already been in the battle nexus for some time so it wouldn’t surprise me if Lou Jitsu had just been presumed dead and his assets were auctioned off or just divided by his staff or something since he had no living family at that point it seems.
Cause like the time line is Splints is in the heat of his career when he meets Big Mama, they date (he assumingely keeps making films during this time) then he proposes (idk how long they dated but I’d assume a year at least?) then gets kidnapped stuck in the Battle Nexus for awhile (again it’s an unstated amount of time but if I remember right he had like a ton of tally marks in his prison cell in the episode Goyles Goyles Goyles? I could be wrong) THEN gets kidnapped AGAIN, mutated and ends up a single rat father on the street.
Long story short. Depending on the amount of time he was missing he could have access but it’s more likely he was presumed dead after awhile and his money just disappeared. Not to mention the implications in the show that 1. Most things were probably found in junk yards/abandoned around New York and 2. The boys claim to not have much money (not including whatever side hustle Donnie’s doin to get that stack of cash in that scene) so I find it unlikely that Splinter would have this bank account of likely millions 😂 and NOT use it to score himself like a really nice tv instead of their shitty old projector 😂
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Because I have nothing better to do on a Monday night I present my guess on the ROTTMNT turtles rankings of each other as their fav brother
Spoilers ahead for seasons 1 & 2
So we have confirmed in the episode Lair Games that Donnie is Mikey’s 2nd favorite brother and Raph’s 3rd favorite. Which by probability would mean Donnie is likely Leo’s 1st favorite brother, however if probability isn’t enough for you I will present more evidence.
In the Battle Nexus New York episode when the crab man insults his brothers Leo only announces to defend Donnie’s honor. In the episode the Hidden City Job Leo is constantly bringing up stories about him and Donnie specifically (along with the reason he’s even at Run of the mill pizza being a fight he had with Donnie). But what really seals the deal for me and hopefully you as well is in the episode Portal Jacked which also gives us the rest of Leo’s ranking list (most likely at least). See Leo famously says:
“I need my brainy guy, and my smashy guy and my eats peanut butter with his fingers guy!”
Now I find it would make sense that Leo would likely list his brother in order of favorite to 3rd favorite (no one is least favorite here just some one has to be 3rd lmao) which would make Leo’s final ranking list as follows
Leo’s favorite brother ranking
Donnie
Raph
Mikey
Whew! Okay one brother down 3 to go! Now for the rest of these I’m going to base them more on character interaction and character personalities rather than actual quotes like with Leo. So now we move on to Raph!
Like I already stated Donnie is canonically 3rd!
Now based on Raph’s excessive protectiveness and fretting I have a feeling that Mikey is his 1st favorite brother. Not to mention with how much the two seem to be in proximity to each other. Which leaves Leo in 2nd and I have a feeling he’s there because Leo’s jokester/ laid back attitude in every situation gets under Raph’s skin not to mention he, like Donnie pulls Middle Child Nonsense™ so this puts him lower than Mikey who is the baby and can do no wrong. Now while I don’t have to reason Donnie being 3rd because it is canon I think it’s likely because of that Middle Child Nonsense™, not to mention Donnie and Raph are pretty opposite. Brain vs. Brawn, Not Touchy vs. Very Touchy (I mean Raph loves teddy bears to cuddle meanwhile Donnie tolerates hugs guys lol) Which means Raph’s final ranking list is!!
Raph’s favorite brother ranking
Mikey
Leo
Donnie (canon)
Next up is Mikey! Little baby boy! Now Mikey also has a canon ranking already as I said above with Donnie in 2nd place!
Now like I said for Raph’s, Mikey and Raph are in close proximity to each other a lot and while this could be just Raph hovering, Mikey also seems to be quite touchy with Raph which leads me to believe that Raph is Mikey’s 1st favorite. Not to mention there is something about the two who wear warm colors who also have really warm cuddly personalities getting along the best seems rather fitting. Which leaves Leo in 3rd! I would like to reiterate here that this doesn’t mean that 3rd place is hated or that 3rd place doesn’t get along/hang out with the ranker! Obviously all the turtles get along and love each other it just means that of their brothers some click a little better than others! I’m getting way too analytical about this lmao
ANYWAY!
Mikey’s final ranking list is finally here!
Mikey’s favorite brother ranking
Raph
Donnie (canon)
Leo
Finally we get to my favorite purple boy! (Can you tell I like Donnie by how completely extra this fucking post is with all it’s ramblings on reasoning for my rankings? lol) So Donnie! My emotionally unavailable bad boy (she said y’know like a liar) Now I am all about symmetry and also I am not willing to have one turtle not get a first place ranking! Which means Leo is going to get Donnie’s first place ranking but this also makes sense to me! I mean they’re the Disaster Twins™ and even putting away that fanon idea. Leo and Donnie are; the same age, both middle children, and spend WAY too much time insulting each other for that not to be mutual favoritism. Plus again I find it satisfying that the two cool color coded characters (try saying that 5 times fast) with the more witty, sarcastic personalities are each other’s favorite. It pleases my brain okay!! Moving on! I feel that the same reasoning applies to Raph as for why Donnie is likely 3rd on Raph’s list. I mean I can’t even think of an episode with just Raph and Donnie? Like I can think of ones with just Donnie and Leo, Donnie and Mikey, Donnie and April, but not Donnie and Raph?? They’re just very different which leaves each of them in 3rd place on each other’s lists.
Which leaves Mikey! He is 2nd on Donnie’s list and my reasoning is well like I just said, I can think of at least one episode with just Donnie and Mikey, ex: Repo Mantis so that gives Mikey a leg up on Raph not to mention Mikey seems to appreciate Donnie’s inventions, gives out praise (I mean Mikey was proud of an empty sewer tunnel when the tank was stolen guys, and we all know how much Donnie craves praise), Mikey also seems to know how to get through to Donnie when he’s maybe being a bit obtuse *cough* parenting SHELLDON *cough* anyway to round off this extremely long and excessive post here is Donnie’s final ranking list
Donnie’s favorite brother ranking
Leo
Mikey
Raph
You made it to the end! Thank you if you read this long lol! Again these are just my opinion (save for the 2 canon rankings) of what seems the most likely in a favoritism listing! I understand if you disagree! These lists could easily be ordered differently if you prefer a certain brother dynamic (e.g. Disaster Twins, etc) I'm just on a ROTTMNT after the movie came out and when rewatching Lair Games I spotted that little sub line and couldn't get it out of my brain so enjoy this long winded post for what it is lmao.
I haven’t checked Leo’s reference in a hot while how many of those { } things does he have on his shell….is it 2 or 3…