#cloudgremlin art

Referencing this chapter and this chapter because in this house we stan story parallels hjhjjhhjhjhj. I was asking my friends for some advice on this piece’s colours which is always fun because none of them are into tmnt but one of them does really like angst and was very excited about this piece XD

I also did a panel from this chapter as a warmup because Rise/Donnie my favourite crazy blorbo:

ID in alt

Nothing but perfectly normal human beings here, ur honour :3 Definitely not some pwca who are about to take you on the most terrifying cab drive of ur life and then drop you back off exactly where you got on :3

To the left we have Usagi Miyamoto, and to the right is Yuichi Miyamoto! Yes, Yuichi is the older brother in this iteration, mainly bc I enjoy writing Leosagi more than Leoichi lol.

Tmht:London is full of many of the fay; Aos Sí, Tylwyth Teg, Seelie folk, whatever name they take for themselves. They, like many hidden folk groups, can be fairly insular and dislike hidden folk from other places coming to the British isles, though of course as with many generalizations there is much more kindness than what might be assumed. Yuichi and Usagi are both half Tylwyth Teg and half Yokai, with Yuichi especially remembering a lot from when they lived in Japan. Usagi was only seven when they moved to the UK, so he doesn’t have as deep a connection to that half of himself. The Miyamoto family had served the Mifune family- the head of a ninkyō dantai (cough-yakuza-cough) called Mangetsu-gumi- for generations before an unknown clan made a bid for power that ended in the dissolution of Mangetsu-gumi and the hunting down of it’s higher ranks. Yuichi, barely 18 at the time and reeling from how quickly his entire life had fallen to ashes, managed to evade the shadow clan with his younger brother and eventually get to the UK, where he and Usagi now live as wanderers.

Like all hidden folk, Yuichi and Usagi can appear in a mostly human form (just keeping their cowlike tails, which they even retain in rabbit from) and have little problem blending in to the city, unlike some certain turtles and their cat dad. The Miyamotos don’t mind the Splintersons’ oddities though, and have become very close friends of the family.

*Pats Leonardo from the hit turtle ninja tv show* This turtle has such range you wouldn’t believe :3

tmht:London boys ft: cooking :D

Prosthetics are my JAM guys, so of course my Donatello makes prosthetics.

The Dewclaw prosthetic is heavily inspired by Dani Clode’s third thumb project (Ted Talk about it) but much beefier- after all, this finger has to handle the stress of a jō staff when Dona is out crime fighting!

Ol’ Grippy was Dona’s first design back when Don only had a 3D printer to work with, and though the prosthesis itself has been upgraded over the years, the design has stayed pretty much the same. It’s inspired by Ian Davis’ work (missingpartsclub on YouTube).

And of course I’ve taken tons of inspo from other fan creators, especially @tizeline’s seperated AU:

Look every tmnt iteration needs a fun twist on the krang :3c

The only rule of magic I have for Grafted Branches is that magic cannot physically transform a living being. This is Specifically to show how the krang could have secured such a legendary and feared reputation, as the only beings on earth capable of such transformations.

The krang invasion of earth happened over 3,000 years ago, and has been tangled into the world of legend and myth.

Initially, the krang was a biotech power generator made by the Utrom (who I have to draw later bc they are fun) and with no emergency shutdown, the krang did its job of converting everything and anything into power very, very well. It’s a single organism existing in multiple bodies, and shares information through physical contact with other parts of itself. Think of it like a giant, constantly hungry mushroom and that’s a pretty good comparison ^-^

It spreads to new bodies using spores, though it can also spread through physical contact. At earlier stages of infection, a person (folk or human) will gain vitality, strength, and heightened senses. One can keep their mind and exist in this state for quite a while, though there are no cases of it being indefinite. Once the krang body erupts from the skin, the person it has infected is completely obsessed by gathering more power and is considered deceased.

There is no sure fire way to gain immunity to the krang infection, but all around the world groups formed to prevent further infection, fight off the krang, and- eventually- find a way to destroy it completely. In Japan, there were three such groups who worked together to control, fight, and seal away the krang:

Note: when I was making up the symbols I accidentally made the Star Wars Rebels symbol for the Usagi family TwT