Neon Blues Are The Best

Since I’ve gotten polls while I was gone I’ve decided to make a poll of reasons why I was gone for a few months to make things more fun be sure to pick your favorite!

I'm not really back, Tumblr mobile has a weird gesture reblog feature and I accidentally reblogged that lol. I've been very busy with school and the internet has become stressful for me to be on.

I don't know when I'll actually be back with posts on this blog... I don't really know how to explain it but it feels like fandom culture lately has become more hostile. It might just be me feeling it tbh. I'm also burnt-out atm.

I'm as alright as I can be right now, I don't want anyone to worry or wonder where I am. I just tend to take breaks when my real life stuff needs attention. That's all.

I actually HC both Donnie and Mikey as non-binary but I haven’t pinned down what I feel about Raph or Leo yet.

I’m a bit biased toward male presenting Leo bc his character really helped me feel better about my own views on gender. But I’m all for anyone having fun and their own interpretations of characters, I understand transfem Leo means a lot to many people in the fandom. So I try to design the turtles with an even balance between male and female presenting traits. Like giving them all eyelashes for example.

Honestly though it’s kinda hard for me to think of a female turtle that wouldn’t look the same as the TMNT. Venus in my AU just looks like the turtle tots do bc real life turtles just don’t have many differences at a young age. Also I may or may not have implied that the cloak my older Leo design wears is just a split skirt around his shoulders… I haven’t found a way to make skirts look decent on my turtles yet..

Momotaro is a cautious and anxious raccoon kid, Leo and Usagi found him mutated by Kraang mutagen in New York alone. So he’s a bit afraid of everything, especially weapons and blades since Kraang soldiers are made of metal and blades. Which is a bit of a problem in a house with a ronin and a ninja. Momotaro and Venus get along really well, Venus is kinda of a bossy older sister but it’s only out of protectiveness for Momotaro.

While Leo was really excited to train him as a ninja “He was born with a ninja mask!” But for now Momotaro is content to be like his grandpa and be more of an artist.

No, a turtles shell is connected to their spine and rib cage. I know the series is about mutant ninja turtles but a turtle breaking their shell is a bit too much for me to accept… he has the spikes to both attach the cape he has and to prevent enemies from trying to grapple or grab him. They also cover up the scratches an enemy gave him to filled with Donnie’s shell fixing resin.

I’ve gotten designs down for older Raph and Mikey, I still haven’t figure out donnie send help.

Raph’s design is more for direct combat, so I gave him more spikes on his shell and elbows. The knee pads are hinged and turn into blades when he lifts his leg up, he also has an Oni mask now because I like the night watcher but I honestly thought it was too boring and standard sci-fi for the 2012 turtles that were raised traditionally by Splinter. I feel like when Raph gets older his temper properly mellows out and he separates himself from his angry ninja side with the extra mask. When it’s off he’s Raphael but when it’s on he’s a monstrous vengeful ninja.

Mikey’s design is more for being a traditional ninja and suited to moving fast and quietly. After a few missions where Mikey got injured a few too many times for his brothers liking Donnie gives him smoke bombs to use to escape from big fights. Mikey can now use these to create combat opportunities for the rest of his brothers and allies. When he gets older he and Donnie start using toxins and poison for ranged combat as well as close combat. I gave Mikey sleeves and pants because he can hide things like armor Donnie makes for him and poison darts and kunai. Mikey has lethal and non lethal poison by the times he’s in his late 30’s.

Hello and thank you! For the Venus AU I have only been doing sketches for it here and there. I’m not very good at consistently focusing on one story for the turtles so my AU content is all over the place ^^”

I see sonic fans in my notifications and I go :)

Also, does anyone else get the feeling that the whole scenario would UNINTENTIONALLY be a certain tech savvy turtle’s fault?

I made it out to be some freak lab accident involving Kraang tech, but yeah it was all their faults but in Donnie’s lab so Leo was not happy.

He forgave Donnie pretty fast but Usagi was a whole other story lol. I haven’t nailed down a good Donnie design so I will add him later.

(I added a fourth bead onto Leo’s side bc he has another kid named Momotaro.)

I love your art, by the way. Always makes me so happy to see it on my tl. Hope your day/evening is well!

Sure do!

It’s not as lazy as I wanted it to be but I did draw something Mikey probably does in their downtime.