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I write only because people tag me in these and I realize I haven't written anything long enough to count. Thank you @runawaydragons!

They stepped in one after the other and Jovus tolerated, only barely, the sensation of being taken apart and recombined. No form of magical travel — no portal, no mirror, no spell — was ever comfortable. The price to pay for crossing hundreds of miles and possibly dimensions.  But they both came through intact to one of the back rooms of the pawn shop, the barely-secret hideout of the Shadow Dragons. One of many, Neve had told him, but where the others were was unclear. This one was where it was to give people a place to run and hide if they needed it. It had been raided before and would be again, and yet Shadow Dragon operations would continue.  The room beyond had people in it who glanced up curiously as they entered and then ignored them. Only Tarquin frowned as he looked up from the fire.  "What are you doing here?" he asked, the tone directing the question at Jovus. "Is Rook coming? Neve?"  "Just us," Inadas said. "Neve sent us. Venatori things."  "You, I get." He jerked his pointed goatee at Jovus. "Why him?"  Inadas glanced over their shoulder at Jovus and also frowned. "Neve asked me to bring him."  "Of course she did. She's got a soft spot for that mutt." The dog sprawled in front of the fire looked up at Tarquin curiously. "Not you." It lowered its head back down with a whine.  Jovus sighed inwardly. They didn't have time to pick a fight with Tarquin. "I'll play you some battle music. Let's get a move on."  "Right. See you," Inadas said to Tarquin, pausing only to give a quick pat on the sleepy dog's head.  "He didn't bring his instrument. Don't let him sing!" Tarquin called after them.

A ROTTMNT Experimental AU Masterpost

Based off the 2003 TMNT episode Same as it Never Was, Liminal Space is a ROTTMNT AU meant to twist the central plot of the original. It asks: what if instead of Donatello traveling to distant dystopian future scarred by his absence, it was his brothers that were sent in his place.

Now twenty plus years into the future, Leo, Mikey and Raph must navigate through a whole new world occupied with familiar yet different faces. They’ll come to learn that during their absence, war broke out between yokai and humans with mutants simply caught in the middle. And though it’s been years since the war has ceased, the world is still working to heal from it’s fallout. 

Peace was established but tensions are high, taking the combined strength of a mysterious power hierarchy to keep it all civil.

Surprisingly, it isn’t the foot clan that’s up to anything foolish, though, why is someone running around in armor that bears distinct similarities to the Kuroi Yoroi? 

And what’s all this talk of multiple universes and bifurcated time branches?

Leo’s worried about getting back to the past. Raph’s focused on “fixing” this dreary future. And Mikey just hopes they’ll make it through all this alive.  

... Except we’re not just following their story ...

Now faced with the reality that his brothers have disappeared with no real method of getting them back, present timeline Donatello must overcome hardships and obstacles that threaten his home, friends and family. 

He’ll have to make new allies amongst faces that have yet to appear in the ROTTMNT universe, if he hopes to survive with his sanity intact. 

At the end of the day, though his brothers are not there to help him, he is not alone.

Additional info:

- This takes place two years after the movie so the brothers are aged 17,18 and 19 respectively.

- As mentioned, this is an experimental AU which means I’m moreso using it to learn and experiment with my art style than to create a cohesive story. Maybe something resembling one will come through with enough time and posts. *shrugs* But my main concern is having fun with worldbuilding and learning about techniques used for comics and maybe animatics. 

- Feel free to ask me questions, I’m gonna be pretty generous on answers. I’ll place a general *SPOILERS* warning on top of my posts should it feel necessary. 

Plot:

The plot is going to be divided in two different story lines respectively called Cause and Effect.

Murphy’s Law (How’d we get here?)

The obligatory set-up to the whole story which can be found here. 

Cause largely goes over how present Donatello had to deal with his brothers being otherwise preoccupied as the relation between humanity and mysticism reach boiling point.

Effect is primarily from Leo, Mikey and Raph’s point of view in the future. I don’t plan to actually post these details in a chronological order so I’m just warning you all this now and hence the Effect Arc is absolutely going to have spoilers from the Cause Arc. 

Honestly, I’m hoping to focus on funny moments for this portion of the story. An overarching plot is in the works but shenanigans is the prime goal. 

Bonus Content:

Effect Arc Wardrobe Concepts-  Mikey Leon Raphie

Toughest Shell

Power UP!

Well, I don’t need a lot of people saying they’re in before I launch something! It’s a bit last minute of course and as per usual, there is absolutely zero obligation to participate. In fact, I don’t know if I can do everything, either.

But as I said before, our little fandom deserves some positive vibes again. So here are a few prompts for the last week of April! You’ll notice that I made both the prompts and the layout for the schedule absolutely sickeningly sweet for maximum fluff.

Writing, art, headcanons--anything goes! Just enjoy yourself with some Entrapdak goodness.

Hope to see some of you then! Though, again, there is no obligation to fill all or any prompts. We’re all busy people, I’m sure, and this is on short notice just to counter folks trying to throw off our groove lately.

You run toddlerstuck now. Post fic, post art, post things only tangentially related to my canon, post things that comply with my canon. I'm just the moderator now.