#12 raph

Like imagine your Donnie right, amazing I know. and you’ve been living your entire life with only your brothers and father. and the first time you go to the surface you meet this girl. And she is, at least to you, amazing. she’s nice,cute,somewhat emotionally intelligent, human, and at least mostly ok with you being a giant mutant turtle.

And you are down bad like clinically heartsick and for whatever reason you genuinely think you have a chance with her.

And then you and your brothers accidentally get her dad mutated . Ok so you know Not a great but you know shit happens and then when your following (stalking) her because she refuses to talk to you due to the aforementioned mutation of dad and you see her interacting with this guy this human guy and you immediately assume their on a date because ??? Reasons presumably but you don’t meet this guy until April starts talking to you again (I think I haven’t watched 12 in a hot minute) and the sole reason you meet him is because he got into a fight with you brother while he was performing illegal vigilantism with hockey sticks and 0 training

And this man is annoying, stupid and rude but he’s human and April seems to at least tolerate him so you kinda have to deal with him. It doesn’t help that he is still flirting with April but there’s not really anything you can do about it

And eventually you come to at least some point of some amiability and even later (I am not summarizing the entirety of the relationship between Donnie and Casey we just do not have the time ) he seems to lose interest in April and you two are pretty much friends

I bet you thought I was done. Nope! More memes 🤩

Are you talking about this? I should really put an image id on that lol I’ll put it in a reblog!

If I may use this as an opportunity to expound though…

Neither is really my favorite Raph (that honor goes to the legendary Rob Paulsen of course), but I do love that these two are more “comic-compliant” shall we say, while still being their own unique versions.

I love that they gave 03 Raph the voice of a 40-year-old Brooklyn cab driver (is it a Brooklyn accent? I don’t know my NY accents that well 🫣) but didn’t give ANY of the other turtles an accent. Like it’s clearly a choice that he made which makes it even funnier. And it really fits his character so well because he’s the gruff, short-tempered turtle with a chip on his shoulder, but underneath it he’s a kind, caring, protective guy.

12 Raph is similar in that he acts like the cool edgy guy that doesn’t let anything bother him, but he’s clearly a softie that cares very deeply for his family and friends. I mean just look at the way he treats his pets— it’s played up for laughs but he really is the nurturing type underneath that hardshell exterior. Also he’s voiced by Sean Astin, which gives him extra points in my book :)

Can you guess my Favorite turtle?