#donapatra

I went super nuts with this week's magma jam hosted by @weeklymagmasand just like the fairy tales jam, this one was super fun to join and it really helped me with my art block. My favorite of the individual doodles is the Leo portal one.

Also joined in two mini-collabs in the jam, first one is hosted by @blackstar5078-art, and joining the collab alongside me are @pvtpunsart, @voidwitchboots, @frogandbird, @chil-aglia, and @alexguard. I drew Leopatra at the top center, taking full advantage of my portal position.

And the second mini-collab is hosted by @zeptos1010, and I drew Warren Stone supporting Mikey in his own way.

In this world I pictured my OC as the temple priestess who occasionally does interact with the brothers. She brings life to the plants and grants them the words of the gods, sends off prayers and engages the people of their kingdom in celebrations, songs and dances.

Donapatra, being semi aquatic, enjoys the water and enjoys plants. When he isn't in his mystic lab, he is found perusing the Royal gardens where she is normally found if she's not in the temple.

She loves to tease, and loves making flower crowns.

I genuinely had a fun time with this week’s jam hosted by @weeklymagmas

Aside from maybe Rise Donnie in the TMNT Queer zine I did last year where I see Rise Donnie as nonbinary and bi, I really haven’t thought about what orientations the others would fall into until now.

🌈 Rise Leo would be bi (I love gay Leo as much as the next person does but while I can see Leo flirting and having strong interests in men, I can also kinda see him be interested in women as well)

🌈 Leopatra would be gay (honestly, I can’t see Leopatra being interested in women, and I think having him be gay while Rise Leo is bi seems like a good compromise here)

🌈 Raph… I had a really hard time deciding what orientation he falls into so I just give him a rainbow flag to show that he supports the LGBTQIA+ community.

🌈 I see both Rise Mikey and 2012 Mikey as pan. No other way to explain it.

🌈 Donapatra I imagine would be demisexual

🌈 Rise April would also be bi

So… this week’s theme jam hosted by @weeklymagmas was supposed to be a very fun one like all other jams, and one of themes jams I actually look forward too BUT… my laptop had some issues throughout the entire weekend (some soda got spilt all over it by accident) and I couldn’t get all the ideas I wanted to add into the jam. On the bright side, I love how the drawings I DID turned out, especially the first one with Donnie in a 70s-inspired outfit.

Another fun magma jam hosted by @weeklymagmas, and I hit a new record of 7 drawings this time.

First, Leo and Mikey dressed as Fred and Shaggy respectively because you can’t have a paranormal activity jam without doing at least one Scooby Doo parody. Even if the ghost in question is V. V. Argost from The Secret Saturdays.

Next is a simple but angsty drawing of Leopatra as a ghost sitting on top of his sarcophagus. This is where I end up grabbing the angst ball for this week’s jam.

We finally get some lore and ideas on my new and updated Egyptian Turtles AU with a little help from the chat. Seriously, we went nuts with the Egyptian turtles.

So what happens in this AU is that all four turtle princes die really young and they come back to life years later by April who in this AU is an aspiring archaeologist… and she pretty much adopts them as her little brothers. How they end up dying young is that Leopatra made the mistake of trusting and falling in love with someone named Usagi with all his heart, and that costed him his life, with his brothers dying shortly afterwards. Apparently Usagi is somehow connected to the ancient Krang War that took place even before the Hamato dynasty was formed and was responsible for the downfall of a previous dynasty. Worst part is that Leopatra, Donapatra, Raphesses and Mikankhamun are the last members of the royal Hamato family, and their untimely deaths thanks to Usagi has put an end to the Hamato dynasty for good.

Even though his brothers keep telling him that it’s not his fault, Leopatra can’t help but blame himself for ending the family line. At least Usagi got punished by not being allowed to enter the Afterlife due to being hit with an immortality curse, and forever being remembered as the rabbit who murdered Leopatra and betrayed Egypt to the Krang.

Don’t mind ghost Leo hovering beside ghost Leopatra. He’s not part of the AU, but he’s still bitter about getting himself killed by his own stupidity.

A little something fun to balance out the angst with an arm wrestling match between Raph and Fisk, with Mikey and Zak cheering. No, I don’t consider the Ben 10 x Secret Saturdays crossover canon in my eyes. This is my first time drawing Fisk so he does look off.